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October 1908 - September 1909

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume IX, Number 1 - October 1908 - 8 pages
1. The Magical Master - Magical Sketch - St. George's Hall - Ellis Stanyon
   • Indian Rope Trick
     • Neckties Change Places, &c.
     • Sleights with Cards
     • Tricks with Ordinary Objects
     • Handkerchief Appears in Bottle
     • Changing Fruit
     • Handkerchief Changes Colour at the Finger Tips
     • Apple Changes to an Egg
     • Handkerchief Changes to an Apple
     • Handkerchief Changes Colour in the Bottle
     • Egg Changes to Ball of Wool
     • Egg Caught in Wine Glass
     • Magic Embroidery ...

October 1911 - September 1912

96 pages

1. Magic - Volume XII, Number 1 - October 1911 - 8 pages
1. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
   • The Transposed Cards
2. Correspondence - G. Bower Bryce
3. Advertisements
3. Correspondence
3. Magic - announcements and offers
3. The International Society of Conjurers
4. A Dictionary of Magical Effects - with some explanations in the vernacular - Ellis Stanyon - continued
6. Advertisement
6. Queries - questions from readers
6. Replies to Queries
7. Advertisements & Personal Cards

9. Magic - Volume XII, Number 2 - November 1911 - 8 pages
9. C. E. Jenkins...

1. ... behalf of Mr. Charles Trickey
118. Our Down-to-Date New Trick Competition - Series 2
     • 1. The Giant's Silken Thread
     • 1a. Improvement on "Burt paper, silk ribbons and flag" trick
     • 2. A new Billiard Ball Ladder
     • 2a. A New Method of Working the "Mosher Ball Illusion"
     • 3. Precipitation of Cards
120. Shadow-graphy - column by Shadow
     • A Combination Shadow Fake - E. Victor
121. Our Letter Box - letters to the editor
122. Some Useful Card Sleights - column by Professor Hoffmann
123. The Magic Circle - club news
124. The Northern Magical Society - club news
124. The Order of the Magi - club news
125. North of England Notes and Notions - news and comments by C. F. Waite
126. Obituary - Mrs. Jennie Wetton ...

Numbers 149-152

272 pages

1. Vol. 20, Number 149 March-May, 1931 [52 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • In the Fog
   • Mr. Tom Sellers
   • The I.B.M. British Convention
   • Swindling in Excelcis
4. page 4 is missing [Obituary: T. Page Wright]
5. page 5 is missing [Reflected Thoughts by S. H. Sharpe]
6. The Turkish Bath Murder Mystery - J. F. Orrin
9. Tripoint Again - Wilf Huggins
   • The Rising Cards
10. The Sympathetic Cards - E. Albert Gillett
11. Entre Nous - miscellaneous comments by Wilfrid Jonson
12. Another Display Stand - W. H. Eyles
13. Telepathy! - Eric C. Lewis
14. Programme
    • The Gate Theatre Studio and Mr. Peter Godfrey
15. The Silks and the Lemon...

Numbers 173-176

244 pages

1. Vol. 26, Number 173 March-May, 1937 [56 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • All The Jokes
   • On the Side of Sanity
   • A Little While Ago
   • Conjuring Books for Boys
3. Obituary
   • Will Blyth
4. Miscellaneous Magic - Tom Sellers
   • Cards on Ribbon
   • Cut and Restored Ribbon Box
   • Ring Through the Finger
   • The Novelty Prediction
9. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
12. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
    • A Novel Penetration
    • A Cigarette Sleight
    • A Good Production
    • Passing a Coin Through the Hand
    • Passe Passe Silks
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The effect as Curry describes it:

1. ... Mystery - Garth Davies
47. Arthur Carter Column - The Mysteries of Arthur Carter
    • Lazy Man's Ambitious Card
48. Another Routine for Light and Heavy Glass - Harry Carnegie
49. Double Dose! - article by George Johnstone
51. The Kellini File - Kellini of Norway
    51. You Must be a Square
    52. The Seal Cards
    53. Melting Snowman
    55. Flags of All Nations Cards
    56. The Spider Cards
    57. Bird Cage Cards
58. Some Ideas for Supreme Effects - Harry Carnegie
    • Silken Butterfly
    • The Light and Heavy Glass
59. Mug Shot - Len Belcher
60. Another Coded Card Prediction - Herb Runge
61. The Ten Card Mystery - S.D....

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1. ...The Dwarf's Bowling Trophy
45. Ball & Vase Routine
47. Vanglass
51. A "Spoonerism"
53. Pencil-Tration
55. Imp-Ossible

    Section Two: Karrell's Kard Koncepts

61. "Rip-Off"
63. The Barbershop Shuffle
66. Butterfly Shuffle
68. "Foxy" Double
71. About Face
72. The "Plastrick" Bag
74. Quite A Mouthful
75. "Clippity-Slip"
77. "Sup-Rising" Card

    Section Three: Show-Cards

81. The Persistent Bunny
83. Almost, Complete Coverage
83. The "Same To You" Card Trick
85. "Mouseket-Ear" Magic
87. Foxy "Cardenballoon"
89. Before Your Eyes

    Section Four: The "Sly-Cology" Of Mentalism

93. A Switch On Dave Hoy's Switch
95. "Blotch-Splotch"
97. Psuedo Psychomitrix
98. Musimentalism
100. Lipology
101. The Shifting...

1. ...
   • ... to Bouquet - Norman Lee
10. Solid State Sorcery presenting The Art of Electronic Magic - series by David A.S. Howarth
    • The Electronic Vanishing Car
    • Lightning Thoughts
    • The Spirits Communicate
    • The Vanishing Radio with Sound
    • The Magic Mouse
    • Self-Contained Electronic Jumbo Rising Cards
    • Electronic Time Delay Switch
14. Two Ways to Make 'em Laugh - Roy Roth
15. Agent's Directory
16. Reader's Letters - correspondence
18. Book Review
    • The Tarot Reader - Will Dexter
    • The Astrological Reader - Will Dexter
    • The Art of Escape, Volume 5 - The Bohemian Torture Escape - John Novak ...

Cards, coins, ropes, and rings.

From Lothar Malmberg's introduction:

• Introduction
• Turn Over Revelation: Two selected cards are revealed in a spectacular way!
• Boom-Boomer!
• Twice Cato: Two cards are...

The Magical World is one of the few weekly periodicals in magic. This periodical ran from November 1910 until May 1911 and was edited by Max Sterling. Volume one contained 26 issues and volume two ended the series with No. 3 - a total of more than 470 pages.

For the continuation of this periodical see the second series.

Volume 1, Number 1 (November 2nd, 1910)

• Announcements
• Between Ourselves
• What Others Are Doing - Oswald Williams
• Practical Magic - Levitation of a Card
• For Beginners - A Japanese Floral Fan-cy
• Impromptu Tricks - The Impossible Die
• Cards - Simple Effect
• Whereabouts This Week ...

After 70 years in the magic business Glenn Gravatt compiled this wealth of effects and tricks, all are provided with presentation. They are generally speaking easy to do and do not require exotic gimmicks or apparatus.

• Introduction
• Chapter One: Some Unique And Unusual Wonders
  • Chameleon Spots
  • Gravatt's Instantaneous Triple Penetration
  • Crazy Colors
  • Color Spots Get Together
  • Punctured Poker Chip
  • Crystal Tube And Patriotic Blocks
  • Block And Cord Escape
  • The Wonderful Thingamajig
  • Stab-A-Ring
  • String Loops Entwined
  • Color Changing Cards
  • New Floating Ball
  • Visible Penetration
• Chapter...

1. ...
   • ... November 1914 magazine
   • The Sphinx - October 1914 magazine
   • The Magazine of Magic - November 1914 magazine
   • Magic - July 1914 magazine
   • The Magi - November 1914 magazine
44. Magic and Mechanism - Professor Edgar
    • New Tambourine and Ribbon Effect
44. Sale and Exchange
45. The Homesick Cards - V. P. Sacletti - effect
46. Our Monthly Telephone - R. U. There - For the Exchange of Ideas
47. Order of the Magi - club news

49. Cover, Vol. 5, No. 4, December, 1914 [24 pages incl. covers]
49. Mr. Ernest E. Noakes- profile
50. Our Monthly Chat - little bits of news
51. A Card Subtlety - C. H. Shortt
51. The Phantom Greeting - Professor Edgar - effect
52. New Books
    • The Wizard's...

1. ...
   • ...
   • The World's Best Book of Magic - Walter B. Gibson
   • Merlin's Master Manipulations - Parts I, II & III - Jack Merlin
   • Shadows in Moonlight - T. Page Wright
   • Leichte Zauberei [Easy Conjuring Tricks] - Fritz Hugli
   • Hôhere Kartenkunst [Higher Card Magic] - Leopold Figner
   • Telepathy with Cards - Ernest Ward
   • Tales of Magic and Mystery - Personal Arts Co.
   • catalogue from The Chicago Magic Co.
49. New Apparatus
    • The Trakea Punch Squeeker
    • The Reel Mystery
    • The Demon Note Mystery
    • The "Matter thro' Matter" Coin Frame
    • Optica
    • A Vanishing and Producing Thimble Stand
50. Correspondence
51. The "Super" Educated Die Effect
52. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

53. Vol. 17, Number 138 June-September,...

1. ...
   • ... Paper
   • The Surprise Pocket Die-Box
   • A Wonderful Card Discovery
   • A Novel Smoke Effect
33. The Magical Miscellany - Contributed by the Readers
    • An Easter Egg Adaption - Wilfred Huggins
    • Note in Candle - Arnold De Brett
    • Match Tricks - Stanley Norton
    • A Card Trick Without A Pack of Cards - Prof. Cyro
36. A Card Trick that is Different - Arnold De Brett
37. Reductio ad Absurdum - W. G. Craigen
39. A Floating Flame and Candle Vanish - F. Jackson
    • The Lighted Candle Vanish
40. A "Utility" Tray - Vincent Dalban
41. Programmes
    • Maskelyne's - At the Little Theatre
    • The Royal Indian Entertainers - Pavilion, Torquay
    • Tomio and Val...

1. ...
   1. ...
   24. Acme Telephone Mentality - Arthur F. G. Carter
   25. Simplisissimus - T. Ellrock
   30. Perfection Living and Dead Test - J. A. Esler
   31. Mental Mendacity - Robert Fairthorne
       • Sympathy
       • The Malkin [entry #1]
       • A Billet Switcher [entry #2]
       • Divination
   34. A Giant Memory Test with Cards - Robert A. Ingle
       • The Card System
   37. A Hand of Cards - Robert A. Ingle
   38. Calling Long Distance - George Joyce
   41. Basic English Mental Test - M. Thesscroft
44. Melange - notes and comments from George Johnson
    • Size and Scale
    • Publishing Troubles
    • Predictions
    • Illuminating
    • Inspiration
45. Competition - The Best Effect for Entertaining...

• ...
• Jadoo (E. B. Surty)
  • Bed of Nails
• The Spectator Cuts to Locate Aces (Ed Marlo)

  Issue 14

• One Rap for Yes; Two Raps for No! (Will Dexter)
• "Well I Never" Again (Gautam Guha)
• The Backyard (Sam Dalal)

  Issue 15 - Tony Chaudhuri Issue

• Chung Foo
• Phantom Card
• Marlo Quick 3-Way Using 4 Cards (J. K. Hartman)
• Elmsley Count
• Monte Carlo Monte
• Colorincidentally
• Houdini's Shoe (Tom Fitzgerald)

  Issue 16

• E. S. Pairing (Leslie May)
• Tile Deal (Doc Maxam)
• Calculatrix (Martin Gardner)
• Editorial Note: Electronic Add-A-Number Device (Sam Dalal)

  Issue 17

• Lie Detector (Robert Schwarz) ...

Eighty-five tricks and routines from the pages of Spell-Binder Magazine. Everything from card and coin magic to the bizarre and the weird.

Effects explained are:

• Sandwich Box by Stephen Tucker -- Signed selected card appears between 2 previously selected cards within closed card case.
• Mark by Stephen Tucker -- Alternate version of previous effect.
• Demonology by Bob Ostin -- Spectator signs card. Flames cause occult symbol to change to slip of paper with name of signed card. Signed card then revealed to have singed corner & occult symbol on back.
• Esti-Mate-Ion by Joe Dignam -- Spectator looks through deck...

1. ... Magi-Crostics No. 1
52. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
    • Novel Concepts in Magic, Volume 1 - Lynn Covey
    • Close-Up Presentation - John Mendoza
    • Fleming Book Reviews - bound volume - Magic Limited
    • Elastrix - Dr. Abe Hurwitza
    • How They Cheat You at Cards, or Mr. Rake-Off in the Provinces - Gambler's Book Club
    • Gambling and Gambling Devices - Gambler's Book Club
    • Body Magic - John Fisher
54. Free Genii Classified Ads

65. Genii - Volume 44, Number 2 - February 1980 - 80 pages
65. Cover - The Magical Jeweler - Marvyn Roy and Carol
69. In This...

1. ... Fox
   • Potted - Posies
20. Patter & Presentation - Gene Gordon
    • Ten and Ten - routine
22. Johnstone's Column - George Johnstone
23. photo - Clarke 'Senator' Crandall
25. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • What's New with the Dealers and Publishers
      • Further Thought On Cards - J. Stewart Smith
      • The Wave of the Hands - J. Stewart Smith
      • A.I.M.C. Bulletin
      • Edgar Heyl - book catalogue No. 53
      • The New Phoenix, No. 353
      • The Word Association Test Expanded - Stephen A. Applebaum, PhD. - in September Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
      • Abracadabra,...

1. ... - E. V. Klein
28. Two Jacks - E. M. Lipka
28. Harry Kellar Stricken
29. A Series of Essays on Magic Culture - A Series - Oscar S. Teale
    • Higher Magic
30. A Magical Slip - poem - Glover from Syracuse
30. Master-Stroke in Magic - Ladies' Night in Los Angeles - T. W. McGrath
31. "New Production of a Deck of Cards" - A Very Good Opening for Card Performance - Reuben P. Ginsberg
31. Magicians Patter (Contributed)
    • Dyeing Handkerchiefs Through Tube - Dr. C. W. Talbot
32. Bulletin Liners - For Sale, Wanted and Exchange Column

37. Magical Bulletin - Volume VII, Number 4 - April, 1919 - 16 pages
37. photos/article...