Bill Severn: Magic Money

Severn, Bill: Magic With Coins and Bills
©1977 David McKay Co., Inc., NY
Hardcover, 147 pages

Magic Money - Tricks With Coins and Bills
©1993 Stackpole Books
Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 147 pages

Bill Servern: Magic With Coins and Bill
Hardcover edition, Original Title
Image courtesy Bryan-Keith Taylor
Severn: Magic Money
Paperback edition
Image courtesy Bryan-Keith Taylor

Comments: Illustrated by Katherine Wood. Renamed to Magic Money in 1993. Also included a part of the 1995 compilation Bill Severn's Complete Book of Magic.

Contents (based on edition in the combination book "Complete Book of Magic", page numbers may not correspond)

1 Introduction

3 Chapter 1 Hand Magic With Coins
3 What Is Sleight of Hand
5 Practice and Rehearsal
6 What Coins to Use
6 The Finger-Palm
8 Pick-up Vanish
10 Drop Vanish
11 The Thumb-Palm
13 Simple Thumb-Palm Vanish
14 Thumb-Palm Throw
15 Fingertip Vanish
17 Fingertip Production
17 Thumb-Palm Drop
18 Pushes, Pivots and Drops
20 Fingertip Push
21 The Push Vanish
23 The Pivot Vanish
24 Fingertip Drop
26 Switches and False Counts
26 Finger-Palm Switch
29 Thumb-Palm Switch
30 The Glass Switch
32 Visible Fingertip Switch
33 Thumb-Palm False Count
36 Finger-Palm False Count

37 Chapter 2 Do-Anywhere Tricks With Coins And Bills
37 Up One Sleeve and Down the Other
41 Cash Offer
43 Breaking a Half into Quarters
46 The Flip Side
51 One Hundred and Two
53 The Straphanger
56 Money in Mind
61 One and One Make Three
66 Winner Take All

72 Chapter 3 Novel Money Magic
72 Topsy-Turvy
78 Comedy Cut Bill
82 In the Red
86 The Traveling Millionaire
83 The Money Spell
88 How to Stretch a Dollar

94 Chapter 4 Showtime Tricks With Money
94 Penetrating Coins and Purse
99 The Contrary Coins
104 The Unborrowed Coin in the Ball of Wool
111 Catching Coins from the Air
120 Hush Money
125 Rainbow Repeat Bills


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