Michalski, Martin: Magic Made Easy ©1968 Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg; Thomas Nelson Publishers, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 126 pages ©1974 English Version, Luttersworth Press ISBM: 978-0718821210

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Comments: Illustrated by Irene Scharwacher. A nice mix of beginner magic with some more advanced effects. Not a lot of detail on performance.

Contents (from English edition book):

9 Conjuring Is Easy (Martin Michalski)
11 The Art of Deception
12 The Ten Golden Rules of Conjuring
13 The Servante
14 The Conjuring Table: made from a chair
15 The Magician's Vocabulary of Spells
16 Palming
18 How to Make an Object Disappear From Your Hand
20 Palming Cards
20 The Pass: with cards
22 Producing Matches Cigarettes and Coins: with a clip device
24 Palming Cigarettes
25 Magnetized Matches: one match moves when approached by another
26 The Magic Wand: appears, floats on hand, use with Servante
28 Magic Palm Fronds: from newspaper
29 The Enchanted Apple: pre-sliced
30 Chinese Scroll Trick: torn and restored
31 The Magic Cone: vanisher
33 Mysterious Card Prediction
34 Magic Pancakes: magician makes real pancakes on a griddle from nothing
36 Vase on a String: vase hangs on a string
37 Red Turns to Blue: silk color change with a Dye tube
39 The Magic Paper Ring: Afghan bands
40 The Wineglass and Bottle Trick: cylinder bottle and glass effect
42 1he Flying Card: selected card lands face up
43 The Fantastic Egg Bag: how to make and routine
45 The Mathematical Genius: 1089 routine
46 The Captive Ring: bracelet on string between the wrists
48 The Mind Reader: performer divines writing on a billet
49 The Vanishing Scarf: silk to ball
51 Mirror Glass Trick: scarf from a glass, and a few other effects
55 The Mysterious Pieces of String: equal unequal strings
56 The Paper-Napkin Trick: torn and restored
58 Cut but Still Whole: cut and restored rope
61 The Exploding Paper Bag: scarves to confetti in a paper bag
63 Red or Black?: Magician names red or black before turning over the cards
64 The Hollow Magic Wand: used to vanish a wand
67 The Magic Tube: for productions
68 Number Detection: predict the total of three numbers provided by the audience
70 The Black Cabinet: vase vanishes using black art principle
72 The Mysterious Colored Disks: disks tied to a rope drop off
74 The Indestructible Dollar Bill: cut through an envelope yet unharmed
75 Egg Magic: the Chinese egg bag
76 The Secret of the Dice: magician knows under which cap to find the white die
77 Incredible Clairvoyance: message reading, one ahead principle
78 The Sensational Magic Cord: vanishing knots
80 Queen and Jack: instant recovery of two cards placed into the middle of the deck
81 The Magic Rings: a Linking Rings rouine with three plastic rings
84 Ring on a String: follow on, ring removed from string
85 The Wandering Egg: an egg transfers magically from one cup to another under cover of paper cylinders
86 Magic with Numbers: arithmetic total prediction
88 Bewitched Paper: spectator can't tear a paper as evenly as the magician
88 64 The Mysterious Number: math trick
89 Release!: borrowed bracelets and rings are freed from a rope
91 Unbelievable: ribbon passes through the magician
93 The Miraculous Flame: magician knows whether the red or the white candle was lit
94 Color-Changing Scarves: in a tube
95 The Snipped Ribbon: cut through an envelope and restored
97 Black and White Magic: magician instantly separates the black balls from the white ones
98 Plain or Fancy: blindfolded magician separates the court cards from the number cards
99 The Blindfold Card Trick: magician reveals values of cards while blindfolded
100 The Four-Jacks Trick: Four Jacks re-appear at the top of the deck
101 Which Card Was Turned Around?: Magician knows which cards were turned 180 degrees
102 The Escape Artist: a simple rope escape
103 The Magnetized Walking Stick: cane balances while magician is seated
104 The Tilting Wineglasses: glass balances on edge on a tablecloth
105 The Mysterious Handkerchief: grows in length
106 The Bewitched Dice: mathematical trick with dice
107 The Extraordinary Cups: beginner's cups and balls effect
110 Telepathy: magician predicts which number will be erased
111 Telpathy with Cards: spectator will pick the 10's pile
112 The Disappearing Coin: in handkerchief
113 The Hypnotized Cigarette: balances on its end
114 The Heavenly Ladder: Jacob's ladder paper fold
115 The Miraculous Top Hat: a variety of items are removed from an unprepared top hat
118 Find Your Way Home: number cards arrange themselves while dealt
120 The Singular Glass: silk pulled through a glass
122 Another Escape Trick: a sack escape
124 Useful Tips for the Young Conjurer: tips on presentation and performance