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Illusionist (pseudonym): Popular Magic for the
Amateur Conjurer Also titled as: Also ©1953 |
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Comments: From Foulsham's money-saving & popular
manuals series, no. 3. "amuse yourself and entertain your
friends." I'm not positive about the copyright dates, as the pages
I've seen don't list a date, but the 1937 and 1950 dates I've seen
in several sources.
Contents: (from book ToC, updated with descriptions Dec
2022):
5 Preface
9 I. The Amateur Conjurer
9 Practice Makes Perfect
10 Hand Control
10 Palming
11 Patter
12 Addressing the Audience
12 Apparatus
13 Magnetic Wand
14 The Conjurer’s Hat: and how to load it
17 The Table
18 II. Simple Feats of Conjuring
18 Simple Tricks are Most Effective
19 The Colour Test: magician can pull the correct color papers
from the hat
21 Magic Jig-Saw Puzzle: another version of the above
24 A Quick Trick: determining cigarette brands while blindfolded
25 Extinguishing a Candle with an Empty Bottle: stunt
27 III. Coin Tricks
27 The Soft Half-Crown: illusion of a coin bending
28 Coin Becomes Crumpled Metal: using an exchange
29 Change, Please!: making a coin load to change one coin to many
30 Showers of Coins: another approach
31 Lost in the Hat: after coins are dropped in a hat, they vanish
32 The Reappearing Coin: coin moves between three mouth-down cups
33 The Vanishing Coin: when dropped in water
35 A Three Coin Trick: one coin changes to three
36 Changing a Penny into a Shilling: using sleeving
37 The Penny in the Pane: paper fold vanish
39 Changing Buttons: another coin change using sleeving
40 IV. Tricks with Matchboxes and Strings
40 Balancing the Matchboxes: physical stunt
41 The Greedy Matchbox: object vanishes and appears in a matchbox
42 The Gordian Knot: untying knot in handkerchief
45 The Rubber Band Trick: jump between the fingers
46 Thumbs and Cord Trick: thumb tie release
48 Buttonhole Trick: puzzle with pencil & string through
buttonhole
50 V. A Few Card Tricks
50 Rouge-au-Noir: making a tapered deck
52 The Diminishing Cards: a single card diminishes
53 The Four Aces Trick: Four Aces on the table are put into the
deck, and only three can be found
55 The Rising Card: with special gimmick
56 Producing a Chosen Card: with another tapered deck
58 VI. Tricks with Simple Apparatus
58 The Fakir’s Flowers: small flowers grow from out of a jar
63 Destroying a Handkerchief: and restored
64 The Magic Tube: silk produced from previously empty tube
67 The Finger Trap Trick: how to construct
68 Ring and Egg Trick: borrowed ring found in an egg
70 Water into Wine: chemical trick
73 VII. Tricks with Mysterious Effects
73 Magic Paper Rings: commonly known as the Afghan bands
74 The Spirit Hand: raps out answers
76 Your Fate in the Sand: papers with questions inserted in magic
sand have the answers spelled out in sand
78 VIII Escapes and Disappearances
78 The Escape from the Sack
80 Padlocked Box Escape
83 Disappearing Lady Trick
