Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks Volume 2
by Stewart James

This is the second of three parts. From the preface:

• Publisher's Foreward
• We Dedicate
• The Fable Of The Hindu Rope Trick
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Knots
  • One Hand And One Knot
  • Cordini's Double Knot
  • Jack Ketch's Nonsense Knot
  • Satan's "Quicker Than U Think"
  • Tan Hock Chuan's Appearing Knot
  • The Fastest Knot On Record
  • Martin Gardner's Magic Knot
  • Martin Gardner's Chefalo Release
  • Martin Gardner's Impossible Knot
  • Sander's Phantomknot
  • The Illusive Knot
  • Lingley's Swing-A-Way Knot
  • Loe's Chefalo Developments
  • Loe's "Shoelace" Variations
  • The Repeat Knots
  • Joseph Keen's Slip Knot
  • Take It Off
  • The African Knot
  • Phantini Vanishing Knot
  • Kaplan's Cut And Restored Rope Knot
  • Lingley's Omega Square Knot
  • Lingley's Alpha Square Knot
  • Charles Harrison's Perfect False Knot
  • The Invested Knot
  • Steal Of The Red Knot
  • The Climbing Knot
  • The Scobie Knot
  • Knottery
  • Hamilton's Idea
  • Scurti's Jumping Knot
  • U. F. Grant's Spirit Knots
• Chapter Two: Penetrations (Two Ropes)
  • A Rope Hitch
  • Color Wrinkle
  • Rope And Coat Release
  • Coffee And Doughnuts
  • Comedy Doughnut Trick
  • Improved Ropes Through Neck
  • Lucier's Psychological Discovery
  • Abbott's Block-It
  • Eddie Joseph's Lightning Escape
  • Off The Cuff
  • Houdini's Grandma
  • Abbott's Thru And Thru
  • Abbott's Within The Circle
  • Paul Curry's Linked
  • Elizabeth Warlock's Linklater
  • Loops Entwined
  • Peter Warlock's Ringcord
• Chapter Three: Penetrations (One Rope)
  • Thumb Amputation
  • Hindu Ring Mystery
  • Rope, Ring And Rod
  • Rope-It
  • Ringing A Rope
  • Hummering
  • Release-O-Ring
  • Out Of The Loop
  • Eddie Joseph's Remarkable Release
  • Arturo's A Ring Between
  • Abbott's "The Talisman Of Hung Woo"
  • Blok-Kord
  • Houdini Block
  • Post And Ropes Illusion
  • Abbott's Ribbonifty
  • Bisect-U
  • Abbott's Uncanny Rope Mystery
  • Cutting A Lady In Halves
  • Abbott's Whirling Dervish
  • Cyro's Super-Duper Rope Trick
• Chapter Four: Cut And Restored Rope
  • Martin Gardner's Scissor Cut No. One
  • Martin Gardner's Scissor Cut No. Two
  • Dr. Wiener's Not At All
  • Sanoj Cut And Restored Rope
  • Arthur Punnar's Perfected Restored Rope
  • Abbott's Double Circle Rope Mystery
  • Abbott's No-Knot Restored Rope
  • U. F. Grant's Perfect Cut Rope Trick
  • Clean Cut
  • Carlo's Ez2 Do Rope Trick
  • Joseph Fries' A Sailor's Rope
  • Follow-Up Cut And Restored Rope Trick
  • John Giordmaine's Comedy Rope Trick
  • Eddie Joseph's "Chain Of Penitence"
  • R. C. Buff's Together Again
  • Tom Fitzgerald's Cut And Restored Rope To Cigarette
• Chapter Five: Cut And Restored Rope (Continued)
  • Clayton Rawson's Knots Of Flame
  • R. W. Hull's Cut And Restored Rope
  • John Thornton's Shaggy Dog Panama
  • The Rainbow Rope
  • William Boylston's Restored Rope Routine
  • Ken Allen's If You Like It
  • P. C. Sorcar's Restored Again
  • U. F. Grant's Spectator Rope Trick
  • Larry Becker's Cut And Restored Rope
  • Winston Freer's "54" Rope Trick
  • Abbott's Four - To - Two Rope Trick
  • Abbott's Incredible Rope
  • Phoenix Cut And Restored Rope
  • Neff's Miracle Rope
• Chapter Six: Miscellaneous Rope Tricks
  • A Torres Straits Lizard
  • The Idiot Rope Trick
  • U. F. Grant's Comedy Rope Trick
  • Thumb Tie Extraordinary
  • Abbott's Slick Tie
  • Larry Becker's Knot Effect
  • Tan Hock Chuan's Knot Effect
  • Abbott's Handkerchief And Rope Penetration
  • Mystic Craig's Spooky Rope
  • Abbott's Long Smoke
  • Burton Marks Trunk Substitution

1st edition 1968, 307 pages; PDF 156 pages.
word count: 48301 which is equivalent to 193 standard pages of text

Publisher: Abbott Magic