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1. ... C. Walter
11. Shmoo-Location - Buddy Rogers
12. 'Round the Round Table - Chic Schoke
12. re: C. Thomas Magrum
12. Wizard Club of Chicago - Clettis V. Musson
12. re: Duke Montague
13. Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
    • Telementation
      • Key to the Working of the Act
      • Cues of Value
14. Thimble Nocturne - Ken de Courcy
15. The Glove Book Test - Ken de Courcy
16. Conjurer's Shop Talk - Ken Allen & Dick Piser
17. Allentown Magicians' Picnic
18. So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
19. Beg Pardon! - re: Walt Cunningham & Mummy Suspension
19. Suggestions and Gags - Jose A. Guerra (Roxy)
    • Silk Production
    • Whereizit
19. For Vents Only - George McAthy
20. Cards on Ribbon - Clettis...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Speaks
     • AIMC Bulletin, July, August & September
     • A.M.C. Bulletin
     • Boston Barnstormer
     • Gospel Maginews, December
     • Hade-E-Gram
     • The New Phoenix
   • Tip of the Month
     • eyelet punch
29. Dragon Reincarnate - Vernon E. Lux
    • Marlo's Pot Pourri
    • Thimble Move
    • Miser's Dream Tip
30. McAthy's Ventopics - George McAthy
31. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
32. Gospel Magic - Rev. Robert E. Olson
    • routine for handkerchief ball - George LaFollette
33. Kid Show Forum - Bruce Posgate
34. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Printed Thought ...

1. ...
   • ... Wringer Idea - Phil Goldstein (Mr. Zero)
   • From the Stuart Cramer Notebook
     • Walking Thru A Ribbon Patter
39. Used Magic - New Lamps For Old
39. Twenty-Five Years Ago in "Tops"
    • Passe-Passe Combination - U. F. Grant
    • Simplex - Diminishing Cigarette Packet - Allan Lambie
    • Thimble Production Wand - Allan Lambie
40. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Kleen Stik Metalizer Mylar"
41. Fox Tales - Karrell Fox
    • folding money bill gag - Jack Sandorse
42. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
43. Magic Nuts I Have Known - by One of Them
    • Rick Rogers
44. London Notes - Wilford Hutchinson, Jr.
45. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
46. The Dragon - Page dedicated to Vernon E. Lux
    • The...

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   • ...
6. Igor Kio in New York City - Milbourne Christopher
10. Magic Under the Sun - Frances Ireland Marshall
14. It's a Mystery to Me - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
17. Tops Picture Museum (See Back Cover) - Milbourne Christopher's Hindu Basket Illusion
18. The Dragon - Page dedicated to Vernon E. Lux
    • A Thimble Act for Parlor - Bob Parrish
    • Yuletide - poem - Harry Opel
19. The Blackstone Memorial Fund - Karrell Fox
20. Just for Us Young Guys - John Sherwood
    • Magician of the Year - Dick Cady
22. Christopher's Quick Change Illusion - Milbourne Christopher
23. The New Tops - Tops 1967 Trick Annual - 24 pages
    23. Contents
    24. Thoughtography - Sid Lorraine
    26. Danger - Men at Work - Bert Douglas
    27. Hangman's-Noose Escape - North Bigbee ...

1. ... - 52 pages
1. Cover - Mark Brandyberry
6. Your Editor's Swan Song - Neil Foster
7. Contents
8. Cover Portrait - Mark Brandyberry - by Neil Foster
10. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Magi - periodical from Denmark
      • Editions, Techniques du Spectacle - circulars
      • Thimble Magic - Girard Majax
      • Supreme Magic - catalog
      • advertising - Tannens, Hank Lee, Micky Hades International & Lee Jacobs
    • A Few Words About the Magazines
      • Magick
      • Genii
      • The Chronicles
      • Interlocutor
      • New Image L'Majik Satirica
      • The Numismatic Newsletter
      • Current Comedy
      • The Blue Print
      • Magigram
      • Hocus Pocus
      • New Pentagram
      • Mystics Quarterly
      • Legerdemain
      • Magic Info
      • The Talon
      • Magic Sounds
      • Boston Barnstormer
      • Magicteen's Minizene
      • Top Hat
      • Yogi-Gram
      • The Wizard's Potpourri
      • Washington Wizards
      • Bat Droppings
      • The Spellbinder ...

1. ... - Phil Goldstein
32. Cover Story - The Amazing Conklins! - Jerry and Shirley
33. [ Invitation to Mystery ] 3rd Series - Stewart James
    • The Unloser!
34. Printout - Barry Govan
35. Special - Harlan Tarbell Ring 43 Annual Magic Show - Clettis Musson
37. Routining Magic For Live Video - Gerald Burns
    • Thimble Routine
40. The Digital Clock - Ed Marlo
42. Men of Magic - Robert E. Olson

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 9 - September 1984 - 52 pages
1. Cover - All Trick Issue
2. [four] Comic Trickartoon - Ed Harris
1. Contents
2. Magic That Perks - Harry E. Cecil
   2. Forword
   3. Introduction
   4. Opening Patter - And Now ... Please Bring Your Chairs Up Close and Learn Something ... The Start
   5. The Fir Tree
   7. Banana Bag
   8. Comedy Egg Bag
   10. Laundry Ticket
   10. Sun and Moon
   13. Slate Prophecy
   15. Card in Cigarette ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ...
   • New Tricks I've Seen
     • Industrial Strength Link - Richard Osterlind
     • Howdini Escape - Stan Lobenstern
     • Ready II - Stan Lobenstern
     • Hellstrom-Card - Stan Lobenstern
     • Rough King Spray - Aldini
     • Noughts and Crosses - Ken de Courcy
     • Symbology - Ken de Courcy
     • Thimble Rig - Steve Dusheck
14. Lost in the Forest - John Sherwood
    • The Secret Grove
      • re: Borley Rectory
16. Forum - Bruce Posgate
18. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
20. This Business of Magic - Thomas Zoss
    • Using Trade Show Magic
21. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
23. The Aldini Connection
    • The Zodiac Deck
    • Out in Space
1. four-page advertising insert
25. Conjuring...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Show Tutorial - audio cassette - Flora & Co.
     • Poly-Gripped - Steve Dusheck
     • Black Plot - Pavel
     • The Pipe Cleaners Thumb Tie - Supreme
     • Deluxe Velvet Change Bag - Supreme
     • coin in nest of brass boxes - Al Cohen
     • Jimmy Rogers' I'll Do It Again - paddle trick - Al Cohen
     • Thimble Rigging - Al Cohen
     • Blade Runner - Al Cohen
     • cotton reel on a stick - Paul Diamond
     • card found printed on shirt sleeve - Paul Diamond
     • lecture notes - Paul Diamond
21. Royal reversal - Phil Goldstein
23. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
24. cartoon strip - Ed Harris
29. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
36. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
38. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
40. Cover Story - re: Harry Blackstone, Jr.
41. For Women Only - Frances Marshall ...

1. ...
   • ...
     • ... Knepper - video
     • Stage Hypnosis Training - McFall Publishing, Inc. - audio course
     • Look Out World! - Andy Leviss - booklet
     • Intercept - Harvey A, Berg - effect booklet
     • Gospell - Harvey A, Berg - effect booklet
     • Bringing Origami to Life - John Montroll - book
     • The Universal Thimble Set - Jeff Scanlon - props
     • Clarification Department - re: The Magic Show [February 2000]
     • It's Not Magic, But - Effortless Mastery - Kenny Warner [sic] - book
44. Magic's Greatest Illusions - John Meohring
46. A Liberal Art? - Rory Johnston
48. Cover - A Little Night Magic - re: Nicholas Night & Kinga - Mike...

• ... Method
• Match-Tip Monte
• Telling the Time
• Chewing Gum Vibration
• The Multiplying Cigarettes
• The Phantom Knots
• The Cards with the Color-Changing Backs
• A Routine with a Double-Back Card
• Lost in the Shuffle
• Sawing a Stick of Gum in Half
• Where Does the Cigarette Go?
• Berg's Color Changing Thimble
• Touch Reading De Luxe
• The Penetrating Match Box Drawer
• Flesh Grip Force
• The Spelling Location
• The Elusive Aces
• Deviating Dime
• Berg's Four Ace Routine
• The Bewitched Poker Chips
• The Card Behind
• A Trained Card
• The Peripatetic Rabbit
• The Production of a Bowl of Flowers
• The Sticks...

• ...
  • ... Trick (new method)
  • Long-distance Second Sight
• CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
  • Flash Paper
  • A New Fire Flash
  • Conjurer’s Ammunition
  • Smoke from Two Empty Pipes
  • A New Fire-eating Trick
  • Exploding Soap-bubbles
  • Walnut Shells and Pea
  • The Garter Trick
  • The Tube and Ball
  • The Ubiquitous Thimble
  • The Multiplying Wand
  • The Restored Cut
  • The Mysterious Tambourine
  • The Bran and Dove Plates
  • The Wandering Stout
  • A Crystal Water Mystery
  • The Wizard’s Breakfast
  • The Hydrostatic Tube
  • The Hydrostatic Tumbler
  • Watch, Glass, and Handkerchief
  • Paper Cone, Watch, Rabbit, and Boxes
• CHAPTER...

Fourteen effects in all are described, including an incredibly effective stage illusion that you can build yourself in an afternoon (pictured on the front cover).

• Foreword
• Onwards and Upwards
• One Hand Thimble Through Silk
• The Indian Rope Trick
• Eureka!
• The Ghost Knots and The Flying Silks
• Jumping Johnny
• The Electric Deck
• The Beech-Nut Move
• Only from Roses
• Ramo’s Snap Cut Rope Restoration
• Productomazia
• Silks from Newspaper
• From Empty Hands
• Instanto Dove Box
• Paper Substitution and Escape ...

• ...
  • ...
  • An Effective Vanish And Recovery
  • A Comedy Ball Move
  • A "Passe-Passe" Billiard Ball Effect
• CHAPTER VII. CIGAR SECTION
  • Production Of Cigars From A Purse
  • Series Of Sleights And Moves For The Production Of Four Cigars
• CHAPTER VIII. MISCELLANEOUS SECTION
  • A Vanishing Glove Effect
  • The "Pop" Thimble Vanish
  • An Original Coin Production
  • The "Rainbow" Penknife
  • A "Matter-Thro'-Matter" Penknife Effect
  • An Impromptu Knife And Salt Trick
  • The Flying Salt
• A WORD ON TABLES

1st edition 1942.

• ...
  • ...Inflation
  • A Soft Rabbit
• Chapter 6: Basket Bitz
  • The "Foxy" Snake Basket
• Chapter 7: Still More Tricks Of The Trades
  • Tricks Of The Trades
  • A "Spot" Announcement
  • For A Change
  • In The News
  • Making It Big
  • Knowing The Ropes
  • A Big Finish
• Chapter 8: Etc
  • Stretch-A-Tie
  • Give-Away Tie Clip
  • "Foxy" Thimble Holders
  • The "Magic Marker"
  • Mickey's Table
• Chapter 9: Parting Thoughts
  • Sid Sez
  • Comedy Magicians I Have Known
  • Be Origginal
  • "Triple Talk"

1st edition 1991, 170 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 143 pages.

• Preface
• The Penny And Box Lids
• Another Coin Trick
• Thought-Reading With Cards
• Sense Of Touch
• Card Changes To A Rose
• The Fountain Of Cards
• The Ribbons And Flag
• One From Fifty-Two
• A Thought-Reading Trick
• Passing A Thimble Through A Borrowed Silk Handkerchief
• The Deceptive Half-Crown

PDF 16 pages

• ...
  • ... Water
  • The "Nifty" Cigarette Rise
  • The Sun And Moon Trick With Apparatus
  • That Extra Ball
  • The Upside Down Glasses
  • A Double Ended Production Tube
  • A Thumb-Tie Notion
  • The Spirit Hand Writes
  • Magic Welding
  • Rising Ring On Wand
  • Kumbak Knots
  • Pepper And Salt
  • Coloured Discs And Cards
  • Handkerchief Thimble Vanish
  • A Torn And Restored Newspaper Notion
  • The Transposing Discs
  • Magic Welding Again
  • A Cigarette Sleight
  • A Candle And Case Routine
  • Choose A Stick
  • Etheric Perfume
  • Threading The Needles
  • "Paper Back" And Ribbon
  • The Transposing Balls
  • Safety Rice Bowls

1st edition 1980, 175 pages;...

• Dunninger Mango Tree Illusion
• The New Shower Of Gold
• The Vanishing Bowl Of Water
• The Dunninger Floating Ball Illusion
• Dunninger's Tri-Card Mystery
• A New Chair Servante
• A New Color Change
• The Wonderful Phonograph Illusion
• The Vanishing Dock Box
• The Dunninger Spirit Frame
• The Dunninger Rabbit Box
• An Effective Thimble Vanish
• The Vanishing Chair
• Quod's "All Change" Card Trick
• Dunninger Spirit Card
• Dunninger's Improved Card Reel
• Egg-Bag, Egg & Bird Trick

18 pages; PDF 28 pages.

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• The Bambergs
• Sleights
  • Thimble Sleights
  • Coin Sleights
  • Billiard Ball Sleights
  • Playing Card Sleights
  • Cigar Manipulation
• Card Tricks
  • Okito's Card Mystery
  • The Envelope...

• Facing An Audience
• The Organ Pipes Trick
• The Bowl And Paper Cone
• The Austin Temple Frame And Handkerchief
• The Ruler And The Handkerchief
• The Penny In The Handkerchief
• The Mysterious Clock Dial
• The Pyramid Flag Production
• The Dyed Handkerchiefs
• The Broken Plate
• The Thought-Reading Penny
• The Best Torn And Restored Paper Trick
• The Simplest Rising Card Trick
• The Magic Rose Bushes
• The Thimble And The Handkerchief
• New Sun And Moon Trick
• The Missing Card
• First You See It
• Teaching A Trick
• The Changing Pack Of Cards
• The Three Predictions
• The Aladdin Production Box
• Bertram's Trick...

1. ... Test - C. T. Jordan
32. "What Would You Do?" - Chas. Morris

35. Magical Bulletin - Volume IV, Number 6 - June, 1916 - 8 pages
35. Mephisto's Coin Cup - Chicago Magic Co. - advertising
35. cover photo/article - S. H. Robinson
37. Editorial
37. The Mathematical Spirit - "Breaunt"
37. a magical note
38. Cone and Thimble Sleight - "De Vega"
38. The Changing Dice - Frederick Furman
39. Chats on Magic - A Review of Old Books and Tricks
    • The Magic Quarter
39. magical notes
39. Japanese Ring and String Trick - C. A. George Newmann
40. Individual Magic - "Schulte"
40. magical notes
40. Literature
    • The Sphinx - May ...

1. ...
   • The Sphinx - October
   • The Eagle Magician - October
   • The Magic Key - October
   • The Magic World - 3 issues
   • Holmes' Magical Notes
85. A Premature Funeral - Maxwell Chamberlin
86. Pages from an Amateur Conjuror's Note Book - Frederick F. Furman
    • Continuous Front and Back Palm with Thimble
    • "Dog Gone" Combination
86. A Brilliant Change - cards - H. A. Canar
86. Newspaper clipping of Howard Thurston's show in Pittsburgh
87. "A Conjuring Pantomine" [sic] - G. C. Bowen
87. The Changing Ribbons - R. H. Merrill
87. A Card Effect
88. A Fine Pocket Trick - matches - Louis F. Christianer
88. A Startling...

1. Magical Bulletin - Volume VII, Number 1 - January, 1919 - 12 pages
1. A Series of Essays on Magic Culture - A Series - Oscar S. Teale
   • Magic - Then and Now
3. Editorial
3. A thimble Move - Geo. W. Catlin
4. Old Tricks in New Clothes - T. J. Crawford
   • The Cigarette Papers
4. Penetrative Coin - Charles C. Arras
4. magic notes
5. Magicians Patter (Contributed)
   • "A Mirror Casket, Die and Flag Combination" _ Frederick F. Furman
5. Patter Tips By De Lawrence
5. Literature
   • The Sphinx - December
   • The Magic World - December
   • The Billboard
   • Holmes' Magical Notes and Comments...

1. ... Balls - Mons. Ducarel
90. note re: Victor D. Barbour
90. note re: Arthur Lloyd
91. Chicago Notes - George DeLawrence

97. The Magical Bulletin - Volume 8, Number 7 - July, 1920 - 16 pages
97. cover photo - George Schulte
99. Editorial
100. cover photo article - Meet Mr. Schulte
100. letter from C. A. George Newmann
100. A Thimble Move - Reuben P. Ginsberg
101. Hon. W. W. Durbin Meets Miss Los Angeles and Other Old Friends - with photo
101. Old Tricks Remade - Herbert M. Richmond
     • parlor act using Thayer's Rising card Tray, The Card in the Egg & the Presto Card Frame
102. Novel Use of Mephisto Coin Cup - Clarence A. Locan ...

1. ... Waves
   167. Sensational Baby Production
   168. Yettmah's Plate and Scoop Trick
170. Stage Sketching - Eric Stone
173. The B. B. Low Section
     • The Penetrating Card and Paper
176. Cartoon - The Van Hoven "At Home"
178. Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Welshneck, E. E. Smith, Woolf-Clyne
     178. A New Thimble Stunt
     178. Billiard Ball Vanish from Back of Hand
     179. Horticulture Extraordinary - Patter
     180. The "Klimax" Paper-Tearing Trick
183. A Match for Anyone - A. S. Cubitt
185. My Tricks and how to Work Them - Stanley Collins
     • The Nonpareil Slate and card Experiment
187. Talks with Celebrities ...