Jesse Demaline: Jesse Demaline's DeMagic
Demaline, Jesse: Jesse Demaline's DeMagic
©1990 Jesse Demaline, Modern Mystic League
Hardcover, w/dj, 120 pages

Also in Softcover, perfect-bound
Jesse Demaline: Jess Dealine's DeMagic
Image courtesy eBay seller pxspxs

Comments: Illustrations by Donald Monk; Edited by Brian Lead and Roger Woods. Reviewed in Abra Nov 1990 by Terry Seabrooke, and in The Magic Circular June 1991 by Morley Budden. Available as an eBook from Lybrary.com.

Contents (from book ToC):

1 Foreword (Paul Daniels)
2 Introduction
5 The Editors & Contributors
9 In The Beginning

17 Mentalism And Second Sight
17 The Act
20 Card Mentalism
22 The Handkerchief Test
23 The Jay Dem Book Test
25 Card Transition
26 Psychic Visions
27 Absolutely Silent Card Mentalism
27 Designs
28 One In Fifty-Two
30 Animal Magnetism
30 Jay-Dem Mentalism (Using a Dictionary)
32 Pools Win
34 A Good Party Stunt
34 Lexiletter Power
36 Pegorama Patterns
38 A Clever Young Lady
39 Mother Shipton Says
41 Dead Pins
42 Add ’Em
43 I’ll Match You
44 Lunching With A Celebrity

47 Children’s Magic
48 The Programme
49 The Opener
49 The Ghostly Hand
50 Washday Miracle—My Poor Shirt
51 Ringing The Changes
52 Tommy’s Tie or Freddy’s Tie
54 Arpack And Coloured Silks
55 Vanishing Cream
57 Pedro-A Birthday Routine
58 Uncle Cannot Hear
58 Secret Service or Sherlock Holmes Wins Again
59 Fish and Chips
59 Invisible Silk Dyeing
60 Hoppity Hop
60 Sit Him Down
60 Business for Magic Washing
61 Disguising A Load
61 The O Sing Lee Papers
62 The 5p Teafingers or Coin In Two Oranges In Succession
63 Self-Contained Photo or Picture Frame
65 The Rainbow Chalks Of The Wizard Of Oz
66 Quickfit Jigsaw

69 Close-Up Magic
69 Poor Uncle Joe
72 The Gambler Wins The Pools
73 Curing Gamblers
74 1) The Same To You
75 2) The Four Ace Routine
75 3) Miraculous Transit Of Cards
76 It’s Different or Mentalism With A Difference
77 Two Tumbler Suspension
78 A Bad Egg
78 Where The Money Goes
80 Coin Collector’s Wallet
80 Cut and Restored Ribbon
81 Polo Mints And String
81 My Astral Name
82 Visible Go-Cum Card Rise
83 Shrunken Head Finds The Card
83 Crooked Dice
84 Kunard Coin Updated
84 The War-Dem Prediction
85 Escaped!
86 All’s Fair Envelope Switch!
87 Sharpshooter's Third Bullsye
88 Two Failures One Success
89 Trick For A Wise Guy

91 Miscellaneous Magic
91 Sympathetic Cards From Pocket
92 Jumbo Card Coincidence
93 Grandma’s Tea Pot
94 Jay Dem Gypsy Thread
97 Coin And Coathanger From Purse
97 Just Sauce - A Continuity Gag
98 A Silk Vanishing Gimmick
98 No Fuss, Do As I Do
99 A Rising Card Idea
100 Jay Dem Cigarette Changer For Card Or Note In Cigarette
101 Reversed Card Between Glasses
102 Big Or Large Card And Small One
103 Two Gags To Use With Cards—Slated
103 The Two Clubs
104 Spectator’s Card From Pocket
104 Figure Force
104 Sure Fire Forcing Card Stand
105 ‘Snooper Snooped’ Routine
106 Zombie Die
107 Fairest Aces
108 ‘Is That Worth A Medal’
108 Jes Dem Card In Balloon
109 Milk After ‘Fetsch’
109 Super Spill Preventor
110 Comedy Wine And Water
111 Quickset Table

115 An Interview With Jesse Demaline


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