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   • ... Chanin
672. Magicana - bits of wisdom
673. A New Card Flourish - Jean Valton
673. A Printer's Dream - Gerald Kosky
673. Unrehearsed Incidents
674. The Red-Black Shuffle - Martin Gardner
     • Overhand Red-Black Shuffles
     • Hindu Red-Black Shuffles
674. Magicana - bits of wisdom
675. The "Click" Pass - Arthur Punnar
675. Thimble Magic - Third in a Series - Chester Dobski
     • Simple Vanish
676. The Dancing Handkerchief - A Comedy Version
676. Fable
676. Classified Advertisements

677. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume VIII, Number 2 - July 1950 - 10 pages
677. A Close-Up Novelty - Sid Lorraine
678. Merlini's Magic - Clayton Rawson ...

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   311. The Kellog Gamble-Trophy Trick - Douglass Kelley
   312. Spotted Sticks - R. M. Jamison
   313. The Ring That Stayed At Home - Eddie Clever
   314. The "Perfection" Pull Getter-Outer - Charles N. Smith
   314. Rapid Counting - O. W. Meyer
   315. Hokum Pocus Card - Fritz Braue
   315. Vanish In Tails - Wm. H. McCaffrey
316. Thimble Thimblerig - T. Page Wright
318. Thoughts Are Things - Dariel Fitzkee
     • Maybe This Would Be Funny
     • Orchids to Burling
319. Four Color Prediction - Martin Goodwin
319. Ellis Stanyon's Notable Explanations in Magic - Caryl S. Fleming
     • Latest Precipitation of Cards
320. Diary of a Magician's Wife - Geraldine Conrad ...

Available again at long last is this comprehensive work explaining the brilliant thimble artistry of Jimmy Shannon. Jimmy Shannon was the talk of the magic world in the 1930s and 40s, with his beautifully orchestrated thimble manipulation act. His moves were accepted by experts as the most original, most unusual and altogether fascinating of his day. When the time came for Shannon's moves to be recorded for posterity, the task was given to a young writer who was already making a name for himself: Arthur Leroy. In fact, it was felt that Jimmy Shannon's moves were so entirely different from average...

1. ... E. Cecil
14. Paging Mr. Edward Reese - letter from John Snyder, Jr.
15. Ed Little is Versatile Magician
15. Ted Banks, from the Blackstone Show, on vacation
16. Thoughts That Bloom In The Spring. Tra! La! - Convention News
17. Producers and Magical Shows - Harry R. Hauptmann
18. Cincinnati News
19. The Surprising Thimble - Adolph Ferber
21. A Bit of Hocus Pocus - Eddie Clever
    • On Entertaining Children - Part III
23. A Card Mystery - Edward Novack
24. Vents - G. McAthy
    24. Short Dialogue - Howard Kingley
    25. Ventriloquial Dont's - C. A. Brethen
    26. Article on Edgar Bergen in Collier's
    26. Vent Contest
26. To Cure the Curious
27. Liquids Contest
    27. A Water Combination - Erwin F. Forsythe
    28. New Version of Comedy Bottles - Jack Leick
    30. Whisky...

This is the sequel to Slow Sleights and again includes a variety of moves for billiard balls, cards, thimbles, silks and cigarettes.

• Preface
• A Billiard Ball Flourish
• Third-Finger Vanish
• The Improved Ball Twist-Over
• The Finger-Clip Ball Vanish
• One-Handed Colour Change
• The Improved Drop Vanish
• The Perfect False Count
• The Invisible Card Change
• The Mysterious Twelve
• A Neat Thimble Vanish
• The “Sudden" Thimble Vanish
• A Little-Finger Vanish
• Thimble Through The Hand
• The Elusive Handkerchief Thimble
• A Thimble Vanish From Handkerchief
• A Thimble Constantly Passes From Hand To Hand
• A Twist-Over...

1. ...Puzzles Which Entertain - Peter Rees
18. The Blind Rabbit's Problem - puzzle
19. To Be ... Or Not To Be - business of magic - Ken de Courcy
20. Mailbox - correspondence
21. Gags with the Self-Lighting Bulb - David Taylor (New Zealand)
22. Numbered - a card effect - Joe Riding
23. A Routine for Supersonic Spacemen - Jack Gittings
24. Wow! - testimonial
25. Thimble Change - Subir Kumar Dhar
27. Glug, Glug, Glug - patter routine - Paul Graham
28. Mysterious Writing - W.L. Lawrence
28. Daffy Definitions! - jokes
29. Showcase - Spotlight on Mentalism - Stanton Carlisle
    29. photo of Stanton Carlisle
    30. Tarot Trickery
    30. The Unknown Power
    31. The Brain-Buster Tarot Routine for...

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     • ... Opening Stunt
     • Hat and Glove Opening Gag
     • Ventriloquist Stunt
     • A Good Publicity Stunt
     • Lighted Cigarette Production Idea
     • Slate Stunt
     • Paper Tearing Gag
     • Coin in Ball of Wool
     • New Card Idea
     • New Chair Servante
   • Pocket Tricks
     • Stretching a Thimble
     • Mercury's Thimble
     • The Sucker's Game
17. Merchandising Magic - Tommy Windsor
17. New Jersey Magicians Society - Al Minder
17. re: 12th Annual Night of Magic
17. re: Mercury the Magician
18. The Campbell Caravan - Loring and Kathryne Campbell
19. Vancouver Magic Circle - W. J. Hooper
19. re: G. Ray Terrell ...

1. ... by G.J.
27. Slate Tests - Joseph Ovette
29. From An Old Note-Book - C. Ducarel
    • Flying Basket of Flowers
    • The Demon Draughtsmen
    • A New Idea for the Torn Strip
    • Chosen Card Caught on an Ordinary Sword
    • Red, White, and Blue Transformation
    • Fake for Handkerchiefs and Soup Plate
33. A Novel Thimble Trick - Lavilette
34. Magnetic Trick - Peter Alden
    • The Animated Sketch
    • The Spooky Gate
    • A Magnetic Vanish
    • A Magnetic Production
38. Homing Cards - Roy Cowl
39. A Financial Exchange - Rupert H. Slater
42. The Magical Miscellany - Contributed by the Readers
    • Redressing Old Tricks - Stanley Marelle
    • So Easy - T.W.B.
    • The Dionne Quins...

1. ... - Ned Rutledge
558. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
     • Aubrey
559. Ten Little Negro Boys - Jean Hugard
559. The Magic Cigarette Case - Jean Hugard
559. Max Holden Dies on July 3
560. Milbourne Christopher's Column
     • Devano Rising Cards
     • Eye Flashes
     • Slat Frame Stunt
     • Through the Button Hole
561. Thimble Routine - Harold J. Kelly
561. Magicana - bits of wisdom
562. Merlini's Magic - Clayton Rawson
     • Arithmetic Test
     • The Uncountable Golf Balls
562. Magicana - bits of wisdom
563. The New Vaticination - Eddie Clever
563. Cut and Restored Necktie - Dick Lee
564. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.

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   • ... Meyer Silberstein
51. Easy Come, Easy Go - Everywhere and Nowhere - Arthur Hastings
51. Shadow Magic
52. Out of My Profonde - Arthur Leroy
    • To P. C. Sorcar
    • To Aldo Richiardi, Jr.
    • To Robert Harbin
    • To Kalanag
    • To Frank Joglar
53. Hands Across the Sea - Peter Warlock
    • Pop-Through Thimble
53. Patter - Cliff Green
54. Do Dreams Come True? - Jean Hugard
54. Milbourne Christopher's Column - missing this month
54. The Riffle Shuffle Force - Brian Buzzing
55. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
    • Autotelepathy - Victor Durante
    • Two Card Transposition for Close-Up Television - Wm....

1. ... [Mario Amando Vigna] - E. Leslie Briant
27. Anna H. Tripp Dies

1. The "Tops" - Volume 19, Number 3 - March 1954 - 32 pages
1. With the Editor - Mel
1. Contents
2. Houdini Escapes - A Routine with Rabotine - Julius P. Hopkins
2. Patter for Blendo - Rhyme
3. Sleights Nouveau - Roxy
   • Cigarette Vanish
   • Thimble Vanish
   • Another Cigarette Vanish
   • Selected Card Change
4. Correction - error in sketch for last month's Hanging Straight-Jacket Escape
4. Fifteen Cents a Cup
5. It Happened in Nanking - Percy Abbott
5. One, Two and Three (A Second Version) - Roxy
6. Milk Turnover
7. Sucker Rope Trick - Scotty Lang
8. Mathematix - A Card Discovery...

• ... TRICKS
  471. The Afghan Bands
  473. The Chinese Paper-Tearing Trick
  474. The Original Form of the Trick
  475. Various Methods of Performing it
  478. Ellis Stanyon's Method
  483. Maurice Garland's Method, with Colour-Change
  484. The Melting Coin (Improved)
  490. The Great Dictionary Trick
  497. My Friend in Thibet
  502. The Flying Thimble
  502. The Original Trick
  506. The Thimble and Paper Cone
  506. The Patriotic Thimble
  508. The Multiplying Thimble
  513. The Vanishing Thimbles
  514. The Changing Dice
  515. Improved Methods
  519. Chameleon Water
  522. Rainbow Water
  525. The Magic Organ Pipes (Le Souper du Diable)
  531. New Method
  538. Devant's Jar of Water and Hat
  544. Devant's Bag...

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  • ...John K. Bays / A Comedy Hit - Silk Production
  • Milbourne Christopher / Projecta Card
  • W.J. Stapleton / Milestones of Magic 3, From the Old to the New
• No. 5
  • Rupert. H Slater / Prelude to the Miser's Dream
  • George Armstrong / Col Ling Soo
  • John K. Bays / The Canny Sixpence
  • John K. Bays / Magical Monologue Lexicon
  • Jack Lamonte / Thimble Thumbling
  • Phil Wye / "Pop-Up Tie" Ups, Presentation Idea
• No. 6
  • George Armstrong / Douglas Francis
  • Travers Cooper / Double Crossed
  • John K. Bays / Humpty Dumpty
  • W.A. Drew / Flash Welding Magic
  • W.J. Stapleton / Milestones of Magic 4, Hocus Pocus
• No. 7
  • George Armstrong / Gabrielle...

1. ... by Bruce Hurling
39. Grip - article by a Student
40. A Mystery of Smoke and Flame - effect by Roy Cowl
40. An Addition to the Three-Legged Easel - Harry Exley
41. The Magic Circle - club news
41. Our Letter Box - letters to the editor
42. Order of the Magi - club news
42. Northern Magical Society - club news
43. Another Thimble Effect - W. Melvey
43. Twists and Tips - article
44. The Mystic Work Basket - effect by Stanley Norton
45. A Coin Producing Feke - A. Payne
45. New Books
    • Thirty-Three Rope Ties and Chain Releases - Burling Hull
    • Tricks for the Trenches and Wards - Draklof
46. The Glass of Water through Hat - effect by Kingsley Ronald
47. Mysteries of Olden Days...

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   • card effect with fertilizer
321. Find the Fakes (2) - puzzle - Alan Ward
322. The Floating Ball - Karl-Joseph Strake
323. Ideas on Chemical Magic - Tony Madden
324. The Gospel Column - edited by Henry Smith
     • Gospel Application for Gozinta Boxes - Captain Ron Smith
     • I Am Nothing - P.B. Manohar
325. Four Thimble Vanish - Jack Bridwell
326. Fan-cy That - Ravelle and Andrée
327. Lucky Sign - Someeran (India)
328. Incidentals - jokes - Jasbir Singh Gill
329. The Magic of Floyd Shotts - John Yeager
     • Supreme's Glass Go
330. The Fallacy of the Casting Vote - Paul Flory
332. Colombini's Rope Melange - Aldo Colombini & Will Ayling
     • Scissor Gags
333. The Magic Club - Part 2 - article...

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  • ...Behind His Back
  • Card To Pocket
  • Double Discovery
  • Triple Thought
  • The Invisible Deck
  • "Out Of This World" Followup
  • Cards In Flight
  • Four Ace Routine
• Chapter IV: Bobo System Of Card Control
• Chapter V: The Art Of Sleeving
  • Delayed Action Sleeving
  • The "Pumpkin Seed" Vanish
  • Chameleon Knives
  • Color Changing Thimble
  • Coin To Ring
  • Through The Table
  • Glass Of Liquid Production
  • The Catapault
• Chapter VI: Coin Tricks
  • A New Switch
  • Bobo Vanish
  • Knee-Zy Vanish
  • Sucker Vanish
  • The Penny-Trating Coin
  • The Squirting Nickel
  • Mystery With A Shell Half
  • The Magic Mint
  • The Ghost Of A Coin
  • Peregrinating Quarters ...

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   1. ... Palm
   184. 8. Color Changes
   185. 9. Flourish: Cardini's Climbing Billiard Balls
187. Chapter 9: The Multiplying Billiard Balls
     187. Hay's Routine
192. Chapter 10: Other Hand Magic With Balls
     192. 1. Cups and Balls
     196. 2. Sponge Balls
198. Chapter 11: Hand Magic with Thimbles
     198. 1. The Thumb Palm
     198. 2. The Steal Pass
     199. 3. Thimble Changes
     199. 4. The Multiplying Thimbles
201. Chapter 12: Hand Magic With Cigarettes
     201. 1. The Thumb Palm
     202. 2. Tip Tilt Pass
     202. 3. Poke Through Pass
     203. 4. King Size Pass
     204. 5. Tonguing
     206. 6. Lighted Cigarette Through Handkerchief
     207. 7. Card in Cigarette
209. Part Two: Applied Art: Head Magic
210. Chapter 13: Head...

Mainly billiard balls but also thimbles, cards, coins and silks.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Billiard Balls
  • The Production Drop
  • The Best Change-Over Palm
  • An Easy Transfer Palm
  • Twist-Over Acquitment
  • Vanish from a Full Hand
  • A Colour Change in the Fist
  • The Fadeaway Vanish
  • The Enlarged Ball
  • The Drop Vanish
  • A Ball Passes Continuously From Hand to Hand
  • Color Change on Palm
  • Improvement on Standard Acquitment
  • Four Billiard Balls to a Cannon Ball
• Thimbles
  • A "Steal" Thimble Vanish
  • The "In and Out" Thumb Vanish
  • Vanish of Two Thimbles
• Coins
  • Special Coin Tourniquet
• Cards ...

1. ...A Billiard Ball Vanish
22. AA Colour Changing Twentieth Century Effect - Prof. Edgar
23. A Topical Item: The Travelling Balls and Block of Wood Arranged in a New Dress - effect by Wilford Hutchinson
23. The Order of the Magi - club news
24. The Miser's Dream: A Magical Phantasy - sketch invented by Stanly Witcher
25. A Flag from a Thimble - effect by Christianer
25. The Phoenix, Card and Bottle - effect by Roy Cowl
26. News and Notes
27. A Wooden Wonder - effect
28. Living Marionettes: How to Build a Fit-Up - H. W. Ray
30. Reviews
    • The Sphinx - August 1916 magazine
    • The Magic Bulletin - August 1916 magazine
    • The Magazine of Magic - September 1916 magazine ...

Numbers 193-196

256 pages

1. Vol. 31, Number 193 March-May, 1942 [56 numbered & 8 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Magic Circle
   • Fortunes and Misfortunes
   • Zodiastar
   • A Strange Book
   • Magical News
   • Professional Help
   • To Our Friends
5. A New Clock Dial - with Ratchet and Pawl Control - Tom Sellers
7. Hypnotic Influence - Max Andrews
9. Spots Before Your Eyes - Wilfred H. Tyler
11. Tricks, Notes and Notions - Alfred Frangleton
13. Slightly Different - Alf's Button
14. A New Ball Sleight
15. Levitation Extraordinary - by "One of the Boys"
16. Slow Motion Card Vanish - Allan Lambie
17. Thimble Work - E. Brian...