Severn, Bill: Amazing Magic ©1992 Bill Severn, Stackpole Books, PA Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 186 pages ISBN 0-8117-2530-8

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Comments: Illustrated by Timothy Wenk

Contents (from book):

v Introduction

1 Chapter One - Strike up the Bands
1 The Tidnab: money appears in your palm
5 - With a Business Card
6 Snip Snap: cut and restored rubber band
9 - Combined Two Trick Routine
10 The Hothouse Effect: rubber band grows
14 Quicker Than a Needle’s Eye: plastic needle jumps from one side of a band to the other

17 Chapter Two - Coins to Go
17 The Go-and-Stop Quarter: quarter and nickel transpose in envelopes
20 The Topsy-Turvy Penny: penny penetrates a quarter in the palm
23 - With a card and Poker Chips
23 The Throwaway Money Match: spectator and magician each end up with the same coin
26 Dimes to Dollar: five dimes change to a dollar bill in a small cup
26 The Penny Hanger: pennies suspend, vanish, and reappear in a tube
33 - With Table Tennis Balls

35 Chapter Three - Deceitful Dollars
35 The Flying Buckaroo: dollar bill appears in a string loop
40 - Other Ways to Do It
40 The Tear-a-Bill Dollar: torn play dollar restored to a real one
45 Treasure Hunt: borrowed bill vanishes to be found in a paper fold
49 - Other Ways to Use the Sticky Thumbtip
50 Magic Money Guess: spectator predicts how many bills the magician has
53 The Most: comedy production from a dollar bill
57 Cashing in Your Coupons: store coupons turn into real cash

62 Chapter Four - Cards on the Table
62 The Card Bunnies: paper bunnies predict the cards they are inserted next to
65 - With a Borrowed and Shuffled Deck
65 - To Force a Card or Group of Cards
65 Cards in the News: cards placed face-to-face by the spectator were predicted
69 The Upside-Down Cards: Six of hearts and nine of spades transpose with their counterparts
72 The Ghost Card: a "ghost" marks the back of the selected card, and the ghost vanishes
75 The Card That Wasn’t There: with red and blue backed decks
78 Joker among the Aces: spectator cuts to an Ace and ends up with five of a kind
80 The Match-a-Magic Cards: named card and named number result in three piles, each with the mates of the named card on top
83 - Switching Packs
83 But Aces Are Better: a Four Kings and Four Aces trick

87 Chapter Five - Acrobatic Cards
87 The Balancing Jack: a card balances on the finger
90 Card Spreads and Turnovers: a series of flourishes
93 90 The New Spring-across Pack: variation of strung deck
97 The Jump It: three cards removed, two jump away, leaving the selection

101 Six Magic Colors
101 Rainbow ’Round a Finger: chosen color card with a hole vanishes to appear amongst cards secured on spectator's finger
105 Checker Mates: red and black checkers mixed in two bags separate
108 The Houdini Ribbon: one of two selected ribbons frees itself from a card
111 Twisting the Colors: staked spools of thread change places under a cylinder
116 Color-Changing Balls and Tube: a sort-of one cup an ball routine with wadded tissue papers and a tube

121 Chapter Seven - Psychic Make-Believe
121 Fingers That Remember Color: inside of a bag matches chosen color tag
124 - Other Ways to Use the Tipover Tag Force
124 Bag Tag Magic: magician discovers the thought of baggage tag
127 The Year of the Quarters: date of a quarter matches selected cards
130 Henry the Library Ghost: an approach to a book text
135 Shopping by Magic: a bag contains the article randomly selected by the spectator
138 Picture This: spectator chooses number 1-6, and selected card matches prediction
141 Seeing through Metal: dollar bill serial number reading through foil

144 Chapter Eight - Jest for Fun
144 The Mind-Reading Rabbit: paper-cut-out trick
148 The Wonderful Wizard of Cards: comedy reveal card by advertising jingle
151 The Five-Straw Trick: magician throws straws away but always has five
154 Sleight of Foot: a tag with spectator's initials on it vanishes and is found under your foot
156 Why I Can’t Spell Four: sucker ending trick with four number cards
158 The Joker’s Trick: one card shown to two spectator's gets a different response, and ends up being the Joker
161 The Magic Finger Counter: comedy production from a paper napkin

166 Chapter Nine - Show Pieces
166 Getting Your Palm Red: comedy bit with a folding card
169 Swing a Ring: a large plastic ring swings free of a knot, and then then string
172 The Invisible Cup of Water: cup of water vanishes from one paper bag to be found in another
176 Fusion: torn paper in a glass rises out of the glass restored
180 Fly Away Home Again: paper streamer vanishes to be found back in a glass
183 Have a Happy Magic Day: empty party horn is blown and money appears