Magic Made Easy (150 Illustrations)
by Carl March

This book is the British version of Magic Made Easy (200 Photos), except that 159 illustrations have replaced the 201 photos. Also, the text was changed to British spelling, and some other changes have been made to accommodate a British readership, such as changing a trick with a dollar bill to one with a pound note.

I find this illustrated edition better because the illustrations are clearer and easier to understand than photos, particularly for a beginner unfamiliar with most of the movements and methods.

This edition looks like an unauthorized edition of the original because there is no indication of the original author (Carl March, aka Sid Fleischman), the original publisher, or publishing date. On the other hand, the same title and cover illustration are used, with minor modifications. If this were an unauthorized version, one would assume that the pirate publisher would change the title and cover to make it harder to identify the theft. Probably the demise of the original publisher, Croydon Publishing Company, which was primarily active in the comic book space, in 1954, played a role in this situation.

• Introduction
• PART ONE Intimate Tricks
  • The Peculiar Match And Pin
  • Penetration
  • The Broken Match
  • The Object Vanishes
  • The Torn And Restored Paper Napkin
  • The Lifesavers And Cord
  • How To Cash A Cheque
  • The Cut And Restored Pound Note
  • The Homing Paper Ball
  • The Confounding Cocktail Pick
  • The Headless Match
  • Restoring The String
  • The Spools And Ribbons
  • The Wandering Spools
  • The Itinerant Sponge Ball
  • The Indestructible Newspaper
  • The Anti-Scientific Safety Pins
  • The Thumb Tie
  • The Famous Three-Shell Game
• PART TWO Basic Card Sleights
  • To Palm A Card
  • To Draw Off And Palm The Bottom Card
  • To Draw Off And Palm The Top Card
  • To Pass The Bottom Card To The Top Of The Pack
  • To Pass The Top Card To The Bottom Of The Pack
  • The Crimp
  • False Shuffle For One Card
  • False Shuffle For The Entire Deck
  • The False Cut
  • The Double Lift
  • The Top Change
• PART THREE Magic with Cards
  • A Gambler's Trick
  • Quicker Than The Eye
  • With A One-Way Deck
  • The Educated Card
  • A Four-Ace Trick
  • The Card And The Hair
  • Striking The Deck
  • Strange Affair
  • The Shadow
  • Through The Hand
  • The Perplexing Pack
  • Getting The Deck In Order
  • Knife It
  • Beneath The Foot
• PART FOUR Coin Magic
  • The Palm
  • Rotation Vanish
  • The Thumb Palm
  • Vanish From Below
  • The Travelling Coin
  • The Coin In The Lap
  • The Finger Palm
  • Up The Sleeve
  • The Secret Coin Fold
  • The Coin In The Ball Of Wool
  • The Automatic Vanish
  • Again The Sleeve
  • The Coin Roll
• PART FIVE Conjuring with Cigarettes
  • The Magnetised Cigarettes
  • The Cigarette In The Handkerchief
  • The Pivot Vanish
  • The Fist Vanish
  • The Pinch Vanish
  • The Phantom Cigarette
  • The Cigarette Divided
• PART SIX Stage Tricks
  • The Glass Through The Table
  • The Trick Without A Name
  • The Master Memory Act
  • How To Produce A Rabbit From A Hat
  • The Torn And Restored Newspaper
  • The Multiplying Cigars
  • The Cut And Restored Handkerchief
• PART SEVEN Card Tricks
  • The Wandering Card
  • The Force
  • To Get A Peek
  • Prediction
  • The Mental Selection
  • Double Discovery
  • The Gossiping Lady
  • More Adventures With The Gossiping Lady
  • Three-Card Monte
• PART EIGHT Card Fans and Flourishes
  • Springing From Hand To Hand
  • The Vanishing Cards
  • The Card Fan
  • The Blank Fan
  • One-Hand Fanning
  • To Cut The Deck With One Hand
  • The End-To-End Shuffle
  • The Giant Fan
• PART NINE Hints to the Amateur Magician

1st edition mid to late 1950s, 96 pages; PDF 126 pages.
word count: 30249 which is equivalent to 120 standard pages of text