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• ... pin routine, a burnt and restored handkerchief, and a cigarette and liquid-filled glass production.
• Ken Brooke, channeling Tony Slydini, performs the paper balls and hat routine and finishes with a four paper ball assembly using two hats.
• Fred Lowe performs a four ace production, magic with dice, and finishes with a dice stacking routine. (original #4)
• Ken Brooke performs with coins and the Okito box. (original #11)
• Lewis Ganson with playing card manipulation, diminishing cards, and card fanning. (This partly overlaps with what one can see in Lewis Ganson Manipulation.)
• Kenneth Pratt...

Shows you how to do a fortune telling act incorporating magic tricks.

• Fortune Telling By Cards (Three Methods)
• The Triple Turnover
• Out Of The Hat
• The Mental Wonder
• Simplified Interpretation Of The Cards
• The Suits (Indicate The Spheres Of Action)
• The Values (Indicate Events Of Importance)
• How To Memorize
• The Mystic Circle
• How To Give An Interesting Reading
• Pseudo-Palmistry
• A Sample Reading (From Observation And Information)
• Pseudo-Graphology
• Pseudo-Astrology
• The World Of Dreams
• Fortune Telling With Coins
• Fortune Telling With Dice
• Pseudo-Numerology
• Scribble-Ology (An Original...

1. ...
   1. ... Table
   75. 20. Heads or Tails
   76. 21. The Coin in the Knot
   77. 22. "Vanishing" Coin from Handkerchiefs
   78. 23. The Missing Coin
   78. 24. Coin, Glass, and Plate
   79. 25. A Coin Joke
   80. 26. A Quick Coin Vanish
   80. 27. The Talking Coin
   81. 28. Box and Coin Trick
   82. 29. The Coin Through the Sleeve
   82. 30. The Coin at the Elbow
84. V. DICE AND DOMINO TRICKS
    84. 1. The Magnetic Dice
    84. 2. Naming the Total
    85. 3. The End Numbers
    86. 4. The Incomplete Game
    87. 5. Sixteen Dominoes
    87. 6. Totalling Three Dice
89. VI. EGG TRICKS
    89. 1. The Balanced Egg
    90. 2. Spinning an Egg
    90. 3. The Floating Egg
    91. 4. Eggs, Spools, and Glasses
    92. 5. Egg to Confetti
93. VII....

This is a great book on the secrets of how to cheat with cards and dice at many popular games - a guide to dishonest gambling. It offers a good overview of the various methods from mechanical cheating methods to sleight of hand.

1st edition 1970, original 128 pages; PDF 82 pages.

Table of Contents

7. Introduction
13. Cheating at cards
13. Mechanical Methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks
33. Strippers: types of strippers, Vernon's "Bathroom Strippers"
36. Locaters: short, corner shorts, thick cards, long cards, ridge/breather crimps
40. Holdouts: Kepplinger...

84 card tricks with an explanation of the general principles of sleight of hand using ordinary cards.

1. The All-Important "Pass"
2. Deceptive Shuffles
3. Forcing A Card
4. The "Long Card"
5. The Divining Card
6. The Bootlegged Card
7. To Place A Card
8. To Slip A Card
9. To Carry Away A Card
10. The Congress Of Court Cards
11. To Discover The Card Which Is Drawn, By The Throw Of A Dice
12. The Guessed Card
13. The Recruit Trick
14. To Tell The Card That May Be Noted
15. To Separate The Two Colors Of A Pack Of Cards By One Cut
16. The "Spelling Bee" Trick
17. The "Alternate Card" Trick
18. To Name Any Number Of Cards In Succession Without...

1. ... Smith
12. The $10,000 Challenge that was never met!
13. Fake Mediums Exposed - Guy Deforest
17. Magnetic Cards
17. Disappearing Glass
17. Matches to Silk
18. Mad Man of Magic [Ballantine] - Robert Orben
19. Coin Penetration
19. Mysterious Egg
19. Living and Dead
20. The Lock Houdini Couldn't Open
21. Four Ace Miracle
21. Card and Dice Mystery
21. Glass and Match Trick
22. 3 cartoons - Art Ross
23. Mental Magic - Robert A. Nelson
24. Doings of Magicians

30 pages

May-August 1946
Irv Feldman and David Robbins, editors

Un-numbered cover pages are indicated with i, ii, iii, iv.

1. Magic Is Fun, Number 2 – May-August, 1946 – 28 pages
1. cartoon – Art Ross
2. The Editor Says:
2. Contents
2. Our Readers Say:
1. photo – Dell O’Dell
2. Dell O’Dell, Queen of Magic – Robert Orben
3. Mind Reading DeLuxe – D. C. Luther
5. Mental Telephony – W. H. Radcliffe
5. cartoon – Art Ross
6. Wartime Wizardry – by Aden
7. Magic Cones
7. Hindu String Trick
7. The Mirror Card
9. Houdini Speaks – Joan Wolf
9. Broken and Restored Match
11. A Trick with Dice
11. Smelling a Card
11. The Siberian...

1. ...
7. The Soaring Cigarette - Allan Lambie
7. Egg to Confetti - Fred Cress
8. Clever Advertising Ideas ... Used by Successful Magicians
   • Willy Everts, Holland
   • Arthur Dowler, The Wizard of Cod
   • Fred C. Wood, Magic That's Different
   • Milbourne Christopher
9. Thurston "The Man Who Fooled Hermann"
12. Dice Prediction - Jack R. Gradijan
12. Pronto Card Appear - Allan Lambie
13. Showmanship - Milbourne Christopher
14. Ovette's Novel Opening Number - The Late Joe Ovette
15. The Great Ovette Performing as a Chinese Magician
16. A Smile - poem
16. What Happened to the Other Dollar - Roy Hall
16. cartoon - Art Ross
17. Mental Magic - Robert A. Nelson ...

Wrote Dabbling with Daub (1951, 7pp). Invented over 200 original effects published as "Manu-Secrets", including Soft Dice (1952), Flabbergasting! (1952), Red Tape Thumb Tie (1953), No Nest Cups & Balls (1953), Soft Dice (1954), The Travelling Salesman (1954), Just Imagination (1954), Alphabet Soup Card Trick (1955), Beyond Belief (1955), Red Tape (1955), Guillo Card (1956), and The Prophet’s Beard (1957, with Ray Hyman). Tricks in Genii, New Jinx, MUM, Linking Ring, etc.

This is the book that tells the truth about cards, dice, punch boards, gambling wheels, races, and all other kinds of gambling.

Don't be a sucker! The Open Book reveals how crooked gamblers, cheats, and con artists fleece the innocent and unwary public out of thousands of dollars daily. Even that carnival game at the local fairgrounds may not be as innocent as it looks. Get the inside scoop.

Valuable secrets of marked cards, gaffed dice, ink formulas, holdouts and other cheating devices -- all clearly explained. Also included are scams and cons used by the unscrupulous to bilk the unwary....

Seemingly just following their intuition, your volunteers will mysteriously separate not just playing cards, but also words, dice, business cards, drawings, crime scene reports, poker hands, terrorism suspect lists, toy objects, gift boxes, astrology charts, wallets, ESP symbols, lottery forms, card decks, poems, eggs, and even other spectators.

The text offers much more than just routines where a volunteer appears to...

1. ... That Isn't
145. Twentieth Century Sorcery
146. The Four Pile Location
146. The Cut Pack Location
147. A Card is Found Once More
148. Odd or Even
148. The Alternate Detection
149. A New Kink
149. Eight in a Row
149. Gardener's Unique Principle
150. Second Card Location
150. Long Distance Location
151. The Super Spread
151. Simple Triple Location
151. No Dice
152. The Vanishing Mirror
152. The Marked Deck
152. The Fingerprint Discovery
153. Living and Dead Test
153. A Count Down Discovery
154. Siamese Twins
154. Your Card, Your Number
155. Elimination Extraordinary
155. Reading the Cards
156. Ne Plus Ultra Location
156. One in Ten Detection
157. Uni-Mentality
157. Challenge of the Year
158. Card Location Supreme
159. Hummer Detection
159. Instant Mind Reading
160. A Counter Location
160. A Principle...

1. ... Four Ace Routine
59. Thumb Writer Telepathy
60. Double Back Card Force
60. Classified Advertisements

61. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 3 - August 1944 - 6 pages
61. Three in One - Routine and Improvement - Paul Morris
62. Coin Magic
62. The Melting Coin
63. The Hindu Wands and Cords - R.M. Jamison
64. Dice Production and Tricks
64. A Diminishing Card - Phil J. Flad, Jr.
64. Foiling the Iron Grip - tip
65. The Heller Speller - A. Heller, The Cardboard Lover
65. Transmutation of Metal - A Profitable Experiment - Sgt. Harry Bernstein
66. The Balanced Deck
66. Classified Advertisements

67. Hugard's Magic Monthly...

1. ... - Frederick A. Thomson
499. Milbourne Christopher's Column
     • Aces to Dollars
500. Shame on You! - Telepathy or?? - Paul Morris
500. Thumb Amputation - Jean Hugard
500. The "Always Winning" Poker Deal - Jean Hugard
501. Roundabout with Fred Braue - column
     • Tips on Tricks
502. The Problem of the Stacked Dice - Bob Stull
503. Horace Goldin's "Buzz"-Saw Illusion - Jean Hugard
503. "Impossible" Knot - Tom Monroe
503. Magicana - bits of wisdom
504. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Dice Manipulation for Magicians Only - Audley V. Walsh
     • Geo-metric Verse - Gerald Lynton Kaufman
504. Hu-gardenias - kudos...

1. ...
   • ...
   • Seen or Heard
   • Bits from Britain
   • Delage and Shirley
   • TV Topics
   • The Magazines
   • Congress Magique
   • P.C.A.M.
   • Jottings
   • The Thomas Plan
835. Wow! - Pvt. Richard Bruce
     • The Biddle Vanish
835. Schmidt Thumb Palm
836. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Diversions with Dice - Treborix
     • Recommended List of the Better Magic Books! - General Magic
836. Magicana - bits of wisdom
837. Milbourne Christopher's Column
     • Sponge Ball Routine
     • Two and One
     • One, Two, Three
     • Go
     • The Fourth
     • Climax
     • Variations
839. Farelli's London Letter - Victor Farelli
     • The...

1. ...
   • ...
   • Working
   • Origin
   • Variations
948. "Cold" Hands - Dr. Joseph H. Fries
     • Acme Poker Deal
948. Magicana - bits of wisdom
949. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
     • Herman Hanson
951. Encyclopedia of Impromptu Tricks - Martin Gardner
     • Cracker
     • Crayon
     • Cup (Coffee)
     • Cup (Paper)
     • Dice
952. Magicana - bits of wisdom
952. Classified Advertisements

953. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume X, Number 2 - July 1952 - 12 pages
953. "Effective Card Magic - Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Effective Card Magic - Bill Simon
     • Hugard's Magic Monthly Book Edition Bo. 5 (Vol. VIII) ...

1. ...
   • ... Routine
   • Rough Outline of the Effect
   • An Additional Effect
   • Warning!
   • Leipzig's "Steamboat" Location - Mystic Craig's Testimony
63. Ballyhoo! - Victor Farelli
64. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
    • Royal Monte - Dai Vernon
    • The Art of Using the Lap as a Servante - Slydini
    • Soft Dice - Irv Weiner
    • The First Book of Magic - Edward Stoddard
    • Marginalia
65. Milbourne Christopher's Column
    • The Bill and the Box
    • Stage Version
    • Mental Magic
66. The Odin Cards - Little-Known Methods of Using the "Stripper" Deck - Claudius Odin - translated by Victor Farelli - continued ...

Hugard's Magic Monthly consists of almost 2500 pages in 21 volumes and is packed with contributions from the finest artists and thinkers magic has to offer. People like Victor Farelli, Ted Annemann, Martin Gardner, Harry Lorayne, Milbourne Christopher, Ross Bertram, George Kaplan, Cliff Green, Fred...

Hugard's Magic Monthly consists of almost 2500 pages in 21 volumes and is packed with contributions from the finest artists and thinkers magic has to offer. People like Victor Farelli, Ted Annemann, Martin Gardner, Harry Lorayne, Milbourne Christopher, Ross Bertram, George Kaplan, Cliff Green, Fred...

[Note that this is not a full translation of the original work. Some parts have been left out. It has also been said that Sam Sharpe wasn't a particular good translator from French to English and consequently there are errors in his translation. Nevertheless, for those who do not speak French this is currently the best we have. Anybody interested to create a completely new translation please contact Lybrary.com.]

Second printed edition 1987, 177 pages. Digital edition 2014, 77 pages (newly formatted).

This is Jerry Andrus' most important publication.

This ebook includes volume 1 and 2 of the printed version. The more than 1000 illustrations from volume 2 have been inserted close to where they are referenced in the text, making this ebook a lot easier to study than the original printed version...

"Fantastic book. It will influence a new generation of artists." - Jeff McBride, Las Vegas Headliner