Feinman, Jeffrey: The Catalogue of Magic
©1978 Jeffrey Feinman, Simon and Schuster, NY
Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 159 pages
ISBN 0-671-24650-X

(also in Hardcover)
The Catalogue of Magic
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Jeffrey Feinman: The Catalogue of Magic

Comments: Illustrations by Ivor Parry. From the back cover, "This indispensable book presents the best magic effects available from designers, manufacturers, and dealers, all with names and addresses to which to write, along with the latest prices. Additionally, each trick is described: what it is an how it is performed. Many also have an accompanying photograph of the device or the illusion." Note that no secrets are revealed here - this book provides catalog-type descriptions of the various effects on the market at the time.

Contents (from book, full contents added April 2022):

9 Note to the Reader
9 About Listings
10 About Suppliers
10 About Future Editions

11 Magic - An Ancient Art in a Modern World
12 The Birth of Hocus Pocus
13 Famous Performers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
14 The Birth of Modern Magic
15 The Great Houdini
15 The Twentieth Century Showman

17 Stage Illusions on the Grand Scale
18 Sawing a Lady in Two
18 Buzz Saw
19 Make-It-Yourself Aerial Broom Suspension
19 Shredder
19 Misplaced Lady
20 Make-It-Yourself Mechanical Cut-Off Buzz-Saw Illusion
20 In-Again, Out-Again
20 Candle Through Arm
20 Vota Bathtub Mystery
20 White Cargo Cage
21 Lattice Screen Mystery
21 Tabouret Cabinet Illusion
21 The Asrah Levitation
21 Palanquin
22 Dagger Chest Illusion
22 Princess Flying Carpet
22 Cannon and Crysal Box
22 Belly Buster
23 New French Guillotine
23 French Arm Chopper
23 New Canvas Box Illusion
24 Electric Sawing Through the Neck
24 Zig-Zag Illusion
24 Cane to Lit Candle
25 Arm Chopper Guillotine
25 Triple Floral Cylinders
25 Giant Color-Changing Applause Card
26 Lighter-Than-Air Levitation
27 The Girl Among the Flowers
27 Murder in the Telephone Booth
27 Flash Paper
27 Magic Flowers
28 Chips-N-Sips
28 The Doll House
29 Shackle Escape
29 Lighted Box Mystery
29 Two-Hole Wrist Chopper
30 Wizard Whiz-Bang
30 French Guillotine
31 Wizard Smoke
31 Brite-Lite Floating Skull
32 You-Do Voodoo
32 Finger Chopper
32 The Aerial Broom Suspension

34 Conjuring With Cards
34 Ultra Mental Deck
35 The Brain Wave Deck
35 Svengali Magic Deck
35 Out of This World - Paul Curry
35 Marked Cards
35 Penetration Frame
36 Time Out
36 Chroma Crazy
36 Voodoo Rite
37 Private Eye
37 Split Deck
37 Symbol Force Deck
37 The Dating Game
38 Road Runner Card Trick
38 Triple Metamorphosis
38 Last Game
38 Jumping Jack Card
40 Fan-Kote
40 Pavlov's Bell
40 Astrologic, the Zodiac Card Miracle
42 Card Magic
42 The Curse of Dracula
42 Seventh Sight
43 The Luck of Lucretia
43 Holy Joe
43 Card Crash-Through
43 Six-Card Repeat
44 TV Card Frame
44 Future Foretold
44 Dot's Impossible
44 Ex-It
44 The Haunted House
44 Hole In One
45 Blank and Blue
45 Overdose
45 The Submerged Card Mystery
46 Rising Rope Out of Pocket
46 Berland's Bill-in-Lemon Trick
47 Mathematical Joker
47 Sandwich Surprise
47 Fake Gambling Act
47 Card in Balloon
48 Superior Card Sword
48 Deluxe Card Star
48 Nu-Power Rising Cards
48 Face-Power Poker
48 Full-Color Insurance Policy
49 Unique Card Rise Chest
49 The Dirty Deal
49 Card Castles
50 Dizzy Diamonds
50 Kuss Kastle Klimax
50 Seeing is Believing
50 Miracle Mates
51 Zig-Zag Card
52 Back to Blue
53 Double Take
53 Shell-Game Card Trick
53 Half-Wild Deck
54 Ace In The Hole
54 Tommy Windsor's Pet / Insurance Policy
54 Card Vanish
55 Poker Mystery
55 Card Sword Cane
55 Magic Cards
55 Card Mint
55 Double-Door Card Vanish
56 Card-In-Orange Trick
56 Computer Cards
57 The Kiss Trick
57 Super Balloon Trick
57 Devano Rising Cards

58 Coins and Currency
59 Washout
59 Blink
59 The Topper
59 Stack of Quarters
59 Bill Tube / Salt Shaker
59 Half Back
60 Well I Never!
60 Folding Coins
60 Coin Card
62 Dusheck's Dollar
62 Mystifying Trick Rag
62 Pop
62 Nickels to Dimes
63 Pride
63 Dollar Punch
64 Miracle Vanisher
64 The Vanishing Nickel
64 Super Bill Tube
64 Money Maker
65 Magic Coin Box
65 $1.35 Trick
65 The Invisible Coin
66 Coin Magic
66 By the Handful
66 Delben Quarter Penetration
67 Headliner - Headout
67 Kellar Coin Catcher
67 Visible Miser's Dream
68 Wonderful Coin Pail
68 The Okito Box
68 Okito Coin Box
68 Fantastic No-Name Okito Coin Box
69 Hoo's Koin Box

70 Escape Magic
70 Houdini's Pillory Escape
71 Nite-Club Vanish
71 Red Tape Thumb Tie
71 Siberian Chain Escape
72 Shanghai Shackle
72 The Substitution Trunk
72 Escape Irons
74 Weiner Thumb Tie
74 Girl in the Plastic Bag
74 Triple Escape Mystery
74 Sack Escape
75 Handcuff Escapes and More!
76 Handcuff Escape
76 Houdini Pillory Esape Plans
76 Australian Belt and Muff
76 X-L Spirit Tie
77 Cross Escape

78 Mental Mysteries
79 Predictrola Performed by Dunninger and You
80 Sybolistic
80 Jack London's Billet Reading Act
80 Cheating the Gallows
81 Mental Spots
81 VooDoo Dolls
81 Miracle Memory
81 Almost Real Prediction
82 Sealed Envelope Act
82 Top Secret
82 X-Ray Eyes
83 Modern Times Magazine Test
83 Mail Mentalism
83 Supreme Mind Master
83 Spirit Bell
84 Horoscope Wallet Pads
84 Uttisamo
84 Lite Touch
84 ESP Brainwashed
85 Three Vinyl Sleeves
85 Keybender
85 Spirit Pen
86 Eight-Card Brainwave
86 ESP Chips
86 Miracle Match
86 Fantastic Mental Test
87 Now's Your Chance
87 Calcu-Total
87 Dy-No-Mite Prediction
88 Sightless Vision
88 Celestial Slate
88 Mental Epic
88 Grant's ESP
89 Blitz!
89 Pinnacle Slate
89 ESP Spots
89 Phoney
89 Book of the Mind
90 Spellbound

91 Creating Close-Up Confusion
91 The Vanishing Elephant
92 Bamboo Chest and Glass
92 Fall Out
92 Houdini Vanishes
92 Jardine Ellis Ring
93 A Splash of Color
93 Ultra Balloon Penetration
93 Vanishing Whiskey Glass
93 Chinese Sticks
94 Immo, the Immortal Cigarette
94 Amazering
94 Hansel and Gretel Paper Team
94 Record Mystery
94 Dusheck's Wunderbar
95 Thru-Ball
95 Tommy Windsor's Jumbo Paper Fir Tree
96 Diploma Tearing Trick
96 Kant Tear Paper
96 New Kolorfusing
97 Smash Knife Climax
97 Visible Vampire
97 Penetra
97 Phantom Mystery Block
97 Multiplying Passe-Passe Bottles
98 Black and White Rabbit Puzzle
98 Flexible Glass
98 Music for Magic
99 Convincing Rope Trick
99 Berland's Watch Bag
99 Magic Drawer Box
99 The Great Hindu Turban Mystery
100 Human Hen
100 Double Shot Routine
100 Framed
100 I'll Start Again
100 Flaming Head Chest
101 Ball and Tube
101 Thimble Jumbo
101 Knife Through Coat
101 Linking Ropes
102 No-Burst Balloon
102 Hippety-Hoppety Chips
102 Pull Through
103 The Enchanted Ring
103 Improved Die Tunnel
103 Rota Die
103 Ribbon Penetration
104 Ribbon Fantastique
104 Bllitz Cocktail
104 Mysterious Block Escape
104 Chip Ahoy
105 Fresh Fish

106 Staging Small Stage Illusions With Style
106 The Beer Can Act
107 The Loring Checker Mystery
107 The Sucker Die Box
107 Professional Square Circle
108 Hat Loader
108 The Ultimate Hand Chopper
108 Cabinet of Canton
108 Sands of the Dessert
109 Deluxe Phantom Tube
109 Oriental Rice Bowls
109 Flowers From Fingertips
110 Deluxe Zombie
110 Hippity Hop Rabbits
110 Liquid Appear
111 Temple Screen
111 Candle-Lite
112 Candy Factory
112 Comedy Funnel
112 Chinese Linking Rings
113 Chen Lee Water Suspension
113 Haunted Red Barn
113 Four Cokes In Hand
114 Coke Coke Coke
114 Pass a Coca-Cola
115 Lucky Loops
115 Penta-Block
115 The Tarbell Egg Bag
116 Deluxe Clock Vanish
116 Balance Impossible
116 Aluminum Chink-A-Chink
116 Sponge Balls
117 Sponge Ball to Rabbit
117 The Tightrope Ball
117 Chefalo Box
117 Backstage
118 Disappearing Bottles
118 German Sealed Milk Glass
118 The Flash Die
118 Hand Cremation
118  Jumbo Chain Welding
118 The Devil's Canister
119 Topit
119 Floating Glass
119 Magician's Dream Production
119 Moxahalla
120 Grant's Potato Box
120 The Professor's Nightmare
120 Wonderope
120 Luna Trick
121 Black Hand Gag
121 The Blockbuster
121 Improved Flower in Buttonhole
121 50 Star Mismade Flag
122 Production Items
122 Coffee Vase
122 Tipsy Bag
122 Tipsy-Turvy Bottles
122 Floating Electric Light Bulb
122 Vanishing Bird Cage
123 Deluxe Magic Tea Kettle
123 The Acrobatic Cane
123 Peerless Block Mystery
123 Tricky Shaker
124 Appearing Orange Box
124 Crystal Fire Bowl
124 Multiplying Candles
124 Comedy Egg Trick
124 Double-Load Pagodas
125 Brock's Block
125 Dagger Chest Illusion
125 Vanishing Radio
125 Suitcase to Table
125 Diablo Botttle
126 Grant's Flying Fish
126 Harlequin Cigarette Holder
126 Ciget
126 Crystal Flower Tube
127 Dart Flowers
127 Feather Flower Bouquets
127 Mummy Asrah
127 The Headless Spectator
127 Torch Through Arm
128 Disappearing Knot
128 One Two One Rope
128 Space-Age Ropes
129 Fire Bowl
129 Pop-Up Candle
129 Dragon Wand
129 Confetti Launcher
129 Hand Flasher
130 Cane to Flash Wand
130 Rainbow Water Illusion
130 Flame-O
130 Forgetful Freddie
130 The Magic Carpet
131 Fantasio Cane to Silk
131 Fantasio Dancing Cane
131 Fantasio Vanising Cane to Silks
131 Fantasio Color-Changing Cane to Silks
131 Fantasio Triple Color-Changing Cane to Silks
132 Fantasio Vanishing Candle to Silk
132 Fantasio Vanishing Lit Candle
132 Fantasio Color-Changing Vanishing Candle
132 Fantasio Candle to Bouquet
132 The Fantasio Candelabra
132 Day-Lite Production Tubes
133 Rising, Floating Vanishing Glass
133 Red, White and Blue
133 Confetti Bowls
133 Crystal Cylinder and Chest
134 Brilliant Magic Lamp
134 The Dutch Kids
134 Rope Gimmick
135 I'll Be Switched
135 Hydrostatic Milk Bottle
136 Magic Salt
136 AM Ink
136 Water Suspension
136 The Famous Egg Bag
136 Color Symphony
137 Tumble Down
137 Dehydrated Milk Pitcher
137 Super Needle Balloon
138 No Tickee, No Shirtee
138 Airborne Glass
138 Multi-Color Paper Production - Maximilano Londono

139 Animal Antics
140 Cherry
140 Twin Doves in Balloon
141 Improved Bunny Box
141 Indian Dove Chest
142 Vanishing Aquarium
142 Nite-Club Vanish
142 Dove Classic
143 Dagger Livestock Vanish
143 Flip-Over Box
143 Dove Production Royale
143 Dove Plates
144 Mandarin Cabinet
144 Slinky Snake
144 Dove Pan
144 Double-Load Dove Pan
144 Rabbit Loader
145 Dove-to-Silk Cage
145 Dove of Peace
145 The Bengal Net
146 Instant Dove
146 Final Rabbit Vanish
146 Double-Dove Penetration
146 Flags
147 Double-Parakeet Bag
147 Dove From Poster
147 Rabbit In the Hat
147 Top Hat Surprise
147 Break Apart Vanish
148 Newspaper Take-Apart Vanish
148 Atomic Dove Vanish Plans

149 Silken Sorcery
150 4th Dimension Box Kit
150 Sympathetic Silks
150 Acrobatic Silk
151 Embarrassing Silk
151 Walsh's Cane to Silk  / Silk to Cane
151 Simply 20th Century Silks
151 Silk and Milk Fantasy
152 Cut and Restored Silk
152 Silk to Flag
152 The Unknotting Silk
152 All Balled Up
152 Waltzing Matilda
153 Silk in Balloon
153 Glorpy
154 Rice's Card Silks
154 Snip-Snap Silk
154 Candle to Flowers
155 Bands of Afghan
155 Scarfrope
156 Super Sword Box
156 Kriptal Kube
156 Color-Changing Plumes
157 Silk In The Middle
157 One-Handed Change Bag
157 Visible Silk in Balloon
158 Devil's Scarf-Go
158 Crystal Silk Cylinder
158 You're Seeing Things
159 Blendo


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