The Modern Conjurer

This is my favorite magic book. The reason for this is that it was a ground breaking book at the time it appeared and its contents is excellent. It was the first magic book which had photos instead of drawings or engravings throughout. And the contents is fantastic. It is one of the few books with a large chapter on chapeaugraphy. Add to this great chapters on shadowgraphy, plate spinning and paper folding. A large part is devoted to card magic, magic with coins, balls, and handkerchiefs, and much much more. If I would have to select one book this would be it. It is a book not many people know about. But you will not be disappointed. This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are

The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
Magicians' Tricks by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate
Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
More Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

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SLEIGHTS USED IN CARD TRICKS Two-handed Pass One-handed Pass To Palm Cards To Palm Cards from Bottom of Pack Continuous Back and Front Palm False Shuffle To Force Cards The Change Dealing Seconds Dealing Seconds from Bottom of Pack To Change Front Card SIMPLE CARD TRICKS Telling Cards Cut by Audience Catching a Chosen Card from Pack in the Air Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card To Shake a Card through a Handkerchief ADVANCED CARD TRICKS Manipulations with Cards Passing Twelve Cards up Sleeve The Diminishing Cards Back Palming and Recovery of Four Cards Discovering a Chosen Card Blindfolded The Three Card Trick (a new method) The Rising Cards The "Thurston" Rising Cards The Four-Ace Trick Passing Cards from Pocket to Pocket SLEIGHTS USED IN COIN TRICKS To Palm To Pass The Continuous Back and Front Palm The French Drop To Change a Coin TRICKS WITH COINS To Extract a Coin from a Pocket-handkerchief The Cap and Pence Disappearance of a Coin Wrapped in Paper Ten Coins Passed from Left Hand to Glass in Right The Aerial Mint TRICKS WITH BALLS The Cups and Balls The Billiard-ball Trick HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS Production of Hen's Eggs from a Handkerchief The Sun and Moon Trick The Handkerchiefs and Soup Plate Handkerchief, Watch, and Glass The Changing Handkerchiefs The Mysteriously Joined Handkerchiefs MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS The Chinese Rings Coin, Card, and Paper The Mutilated Parasol The Flag Trick The Ring on Stick The Flower Trick The Tambourine Trick		PARLOUR TRICKS Two Corks Suspended Knife Safety Reading Lamp To Balance Plate on Needle Bottle Cannon Shark in Fish-pond Novel Soup Tureen Stand Simple Handkerchief Trick Dodge with a Sixpence Experiment with Corks Pins into Glass Full of Water Magnetised Paper A Simple Coin Trick To Pick up Floating Ball Home-made Cinematograph Egg and Bottle Trick Wineglass Puzzle To Pass Yourself through a Playing Card Perpetual Motion Housekeeper's Weighing Machine A Dangerous Trick Atmospheric Pressure To Lift Three Matches with One Cup of Tea on Knife To Balance a Pencil Brute Force Useless New Umbrella Stand Electricity on the Spot "Try-your-Lung Power" A Cheap Sprayer Cardboard Figure Blows Out and Lights Candle Superior to Spirit-level Objects Suspended without Support To Lift Four Straws with a Fifth A Ludicrous Experiment A Similar Feat Burnt Thread Dancing Bubbles Boring Hole through Halfpenny How Water Deceives Novel Way to Slice a Pear Japanese Ball Trick Magnetised Marionettes Bridge of Matches To Empty Glass of Water with Bottle Boring Hole through a Pin Egg Spinning Suspending Glass of Water A Scissors Puzzle The Travelling Egg Plate Spinning Chapeaugraphy Paper Folding Shadowgraphy

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