Magic Made Easy

This is a lovely and unusual publication with more than 200 feats described. Walter B. Gibson had a magic column in the Public Ledger, a newspaper in Philadelphia. The entire run of his columns is collected in this publication.

You will find many simple magic tricks as well as some puzzles, stunts and brain teasers. While many will be familiar to most who have read similar collections of little tricks, there are a few real surprises I have not seen anywhere else.

1st digital edition 2013, 246 pages.

Table of Contents

11. Preface
13. The Balanced Egg
14. The Jumping Card
15. Coin In Handkerchief
16. The Automatic Matchbox
17. The Balanced Match
18. The Multiplying Ball
19. The Rising Card
20. The Magic Slip
21. "Heads I Win"
22. The Penetrating Coin
23. Mysterious Smoke
24. The Knot From Nowhere
25. Mystery Rings
26. Magnetic Matches
27. The Jumping Card
28. The Bending Pencil
29. The Fountain Pencil
30. Self-Rising Matchbox
31. The Mystic Egg
32. The Mystic Banana
33. The Automatic Golf Ball
34. A Cigarette Trick
35. Mysterious Cigar Band
36. The Vanishing Coin
37. Vanishing Goldfish
38. The Marvelous Pencil
39. Doubling Coins
40. The Coin In The Orange
41. The Vanishing Water
43. Coins On Edge
44. Mysterious Eggs
45. Mysterious Liquid
46. Mystic Coins
47. The Animated Hairpin
48. A Broken Stick
49. The Acrobatic Coin
50. The Mystic Orange
51. Three Glasses And A Sheet Of Paper
52. Label Up!
53. The Magic Napkin
54. Mysterious Knife
55. The Glass And The Plate
56. The Torn Paper
57. Balanced Glass
58. Mystic Sugar
59. The Mystic Seed
60. The Long Thread
61. Black And White
62. A Big Blow
63. Balanced Golf Balls
64. Balanced Cigar
65. Breaking The Apple
66. Overbalanced Cigarette
67. The Changing Chip
68. A Stop Watch
69. Drop-Away Spool
70. Bewilderment
71. Acrobatic Ruler
72. The Mysterious Coin
73. Mystic Matches
74. Naming Unseen Cards
75. The Transferred Card
76. Two Cigarettes
77. Card Detection
78. Matches In The Box
79. The Obliging Match
80. Magnetic Sugar
81. Changing Coin
82. The Spinning Egg
83. Mysterious Watch
84. Mystic Writing
85. Traveling Ring
86. Upright Egg
87. Upright Match
88. The Uncanny Ring
89. Mystic Flame
90. Color Cards
92. Tell-Tale Coin
93. Mystic Totals
94. Find The Slip
95. Whirling Cigar
96. Four Kings
97. The Dice And The Cup
98. The Balanced Glass
99. The Amazing Letter Discs
100. Colored Crayons
101. Head Up
102. In The Card Case
105. Cup And Coin
106. Shake Away Coins
107. Stand Up Match
108. The Magic Propeller
109. Moving The Glasses
110. Adhesive Match Box
111. The Mysterious Coins
112. Three Beads
113. Lighting A Match
114. Blue And Red
115. The Coin And The Candle
116. Handkerchief On String
117. Vanishing Card
118. Magic Liquid
119. The Edible Candle
120. Magnetic Cigar
121. The Inverted Glass
122. The Bouncing Handkerchief
123. The Mystic Match Trick
124. Mystic Clock
125. Mystic Pencil
126. Jumping Rubber Band
127. Coin And Hat
128. The Flying Handkerchief
129. Dark And Light
130. The Cloud Of Sugar
131. Sealed Message Reading
132. Balanced Cigarettes
133. Telltale Cigarette
134. Color-Changing Balloon
135. Self-Filling Bottle
136. Three Mystic Dice
137. The Telltale Watch
138. The Multiplying Cube
139. The Four Card Mystery
140. Coin Vanishing From Handkerchief
141. Nonburning Cigarette
142. Coin Through Sleeve
143. Ring On Handkerchief
144. Mystic Addition
145. Magnetic Cards
146. Brush Away Coin
147. Jumping Sticks
148. Turnabout Matches
149. Mystic Number
150. Coffee To Milk
151. The Four Mysterious Aces
152. Rising Cigarette
153. Mystic Figures
154. Coin On Door
155. The Dry Coin
156. The Stretched Finger
157. Loop Through The Coat
158. The Safety Pins And Ribbons
159. The Pack And The Handkerchief
160. The Mysterious Watch
161. The Mysterious Pack Of Cards
162. Ball Balanced On Straw
163. Vanishing Stamp
164. The Magic Number
165. Mystic Vanishing Ace
166. Fly-Away Matches
167. Self-Lighting Match
168. The Self-Reversing Pencil
169. Coin From Paper
170. The Fall Away Ring
171. Mystic Loop
172. Tube, Coin And Paper
173. Mysterious Dominoes
174. Mysterious Corks
175. The Automatic Knot
176. Balanced Pack Of Cards
177. Coin From The Glass
178. The Mystic Vanishing Coin
179. Finding The Handkerchief
180. The Restored Match
181. The Card Clipped In Mid-Air
182. Mysterious Cross Trick
183. Crossing The Matches
184. The Ring On The String
185. Moving The Matches
186. The Diminishing Card
187. Self-Opening Match-Box
188. Finding Four Aces
189. Mysterious Paper Balls
190. Sugar That Burns
191. Color Changing Paper
192. The Penetrating Thimble
193. Vanishing Tobacco
194. Mystic Glass
195. Magic Matches
196. Coin Tell
197. The Transposed Colors
198. Tell-Tale Tags
199. Balanced Golf Balls
200. Adhesive Thimbles
201. The Appearing Coin
202. The Uncut Card
203. Tough Knuckles
204. Hindu Rice Trick
205. Three Color Cards
206. The Spirit Bell
207. Magic Writing
208. The Adhesive Cards
209. Find The Total
210. The Magic Crayons
211. The Mysterious Strainer
212. The Mystic Straw
213. The Contrary Cards
214. The Broken Match
215. The Ten Dominoes
216. The Vanishing Coin
217. The Mystic Q
218. The Missing Match
219. Jumpaway Matches
220. Pencil To Cigarette
221. Mathematical Mystery
222. Long Or Short
223. The Joker Trick
224. Turnabout Cigarette
225. The Mystic Flower
226. Fly Away Coin
227. Ring On Handkerchief
228. The Coin And The Paper
229. The Changing Card
230. On Or Off
231. Four Color Stars
232. The Restored String
233. Changing Color
234. Mystic Matches
235. The Chosen Slip
236. Vanishing Dime
237. Those Very Words!
238. Find The Blank Slip
239. The Anti-Gravity Cylinder
240. Instantaneous Transformation
241. Coin From Roll
242. The Adhesive Glass
243. A Paper Tearing Impossibility
244. Mystic Total
245. The Magic Loop
246. Vanishing Thimble

word count: 18931 which is equivalent to 75 standard pages of text