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Gardner, Martin:
After the Dessert Second Edition was 29 pages plus ads Published in England by L. Davenport & Co., London Available as an e-Book from Lybrary.com |
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Comments: From the
introduction, "I have chosen only tricks which make use of objects
found any dinner table. All are performed while seated, with
spectators on both right and left." Note, I did see offered for
sale an original manuscript edition from 1940 with typed pages,
drawings in the margins, and less content, with only 11 pages.
Contents (from 2nd
Edition book, updated July 2022):
5 Introduction (Martin Gardner)
7 Bills
7 The Curious Fold: bill turns upside down during folding
7 Naming the Date on a Borrowed Bill: would not work today
8 Four Piles and a Dollar Bill: dealt cards reveal date of dollar
bill
9 Cigarettes
9 The Unreversed Word: ideas for older Camel Cigarette packs
10 Biting the Cigarette: literally biting a lit cigarette in half
10 The Magic Inhale: magician inhales on a cigarette, but when he
exhales, no smoke appears
10 Coins
10 Coin Through the Plate: paper around marked coin is lit, and
coin passes through plate into a glass
11 Vanishing Coin (Joe Berg): coin vanish while seated
12 Testing the Half Dollar: a gag with a glass and a coin
13 Matches
13 Lighting a Match Twice: a few methods suggested
14 Color Changing Heads: in pulling the heads off wooden matches,
the change color instead
15 Folder Mathematics: a math trick using matches removed from a
book of matches
16 Shooting the Match: a stunt
16 Match Folder Wager: a challenge, or betcha
17 The Nazi Cross: gag
17 Miscellaneous
17 Tapping Table Objects: magician taps table objects and
discovers the one thought of
18 Vanishing Coffee Steam: with a confederate
18 Japanese Paper Bird: ideas for using this Origami paper fold,
fold not describe
19 Travelling Fountain Pen: with a confederate
20 Silverware
20 Table Knife Through Body: while hidden in a handkerchief
21 Breaking the Spoon: the spoon vanishes
22 Bending the Spoon: gag
23 Swallowing the Knife: by appearances
23 Musical Knife: using a fork like a tuning fork
24 Spoon to Knife: transformation in a napkin
25 The Vanishing Spoon: using sleeving
25 Napkin
25 Character Reading from the Teeth: gag
26 Improvised Brassiere: napkin fold
27 The Invisible Hair: moves the napkin
27 Salt Shaker
27 Vanishing Salt Shaker: in trying to make a dime vanish, the
salt shaker vanishes
29 Selected Bibliography of Books Containing Valuable Material on
Dinner Table Magic and Diversions
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