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Tarbell CourseHarlan Tarbell... - ... Coin
- Humpty Dumpty Outdone; The Egg Bag
- I Am Saving You Money; Effects With Rabbits
- Simplicity Is The Key-Note Of The Tarbell System Of Magic; The Cut And Restored Ribbon; A Card And Ribbon Mystery; The Ghostly Ribbon; A Spirit Communication; A Wandering Ribbon
- The Famous Needle Trick; A Thimble Act
- Silks; The Egg, The Glass, And The Handkerchief; The Wandering Handkerchief; The Silk And The Flame; The Candle, The Silk, And The Paper Tube; The Educated Knot
- Divisions Of Modern Magic; Unlimited Opportunities In Magic; Specialization; Presentation; Creating Of Effects; Experiments Of Super Mentality; The Chess Knight's Tour; A Mind Reading Act; The Yogi's...
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Magic of the Depots 1924Harry Leat... - ...Multiplying Watch.
- The Acrobatic Bottle.
- Vanishing Glass of Water.
- Wines from the Wood-en Box.
- "The" Card Board.
WILFORD HUTCHINSON.
- Separated Liquids and Silk Combination.
- The Ashlyn Display Stand.
- The Dolls House Changing Box.
THE MAGICAL APPARATUS CO.
- "Eggs-it." The Lightning Transposition.
- The Paragon Thimble Act.
- The Four Mysterious Plugs.
- The New Die and Flowers Trick.
- Improved Die Through Hat.
THE MIDLAND MAGIC CO.
- The "Elmo" Master Card.
- The "Elmo" Card Change.
- The "Elmo" Forcing Pack.
EDMUND YOUNGER.
- Bewitched Coffee Cup.
- The Natty Handkerchief Wand.
- New Style Back Palm Flower Clip.
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The Gen Volume 4 (1948)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ... Moon - Jimmy Bates
- More Gags from Voltaire - Bobby Voltaire
- Volume 4, Number 4, March, 1949, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Fred & Beatrice Mills
- Front Page Personality - Fred Mills
- Thanks to Dai Vernon: Another Brain-Wave - Douglas Francis
- By-Play No. 9 - Wilfred H. Tyler
- Flash Thimble - J. K. Bays
- Memorising Football Scores - Devano
- The Back-Room Box - Len Belcher
- More Gags from Voltaire - Bobby Voltaire
- Volume 4, Number 5, April, 1949, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Billy McComb & June Cochrane
- Front Page Personality - Billy McComb & June Cochrane
- By-Play No. 10 - Wilfred H. Tyler
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The Gen Volume 6 (1950)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ... Corner - series by Wilfred H. Tyler
- Pattern for a Paper Tear - Len Belcher
- An Aid for the Miser's Dream - Tom Sellers
- Pineapple Painting - Johnny Geddes
- U.N.O. - Alyn Jones
- The Byford--de Courcy 4-Ace Trick
- Rising and Falling Match - James Gadsby
- House that Jack Built - Len Belcher
- A Thimble Colour Change - Jimmie Green
- Routined Manipulation - series by Lewis Ganson
- Section Nine: Modern Billiard Ball Manipulation [continued]
- The Use of Misdirection
- Acquitments with Billiard Balls
- Lesson in Latex - Ken de Courcy
- Unique Magicians' Club - news and comments by James Noolon
- Comedy Gags - series by James Noolon
- Volume...
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The Gen Volume 7 (1951)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson On the covers are
- Ted Elliott
- George Braund
- Carl Rosini
- Jimmy Rogers
- Dr. Jaks
- John Forrest
- Tornedo
- Louis Tannen
- Hen Fetsch
- Gerrie Larsen
- Kinson
- Arthur Dowler
382 pages
- Volume 7, Number 1, May, 1951, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Ted Elliott
- Front Page Personalities - Ted Elliott
- Suspension - Harry Stanley
- The Hypogastric Hen or "An Egg a Day Keeps the Axe Away!" - Ken de Courcy
- A Novel Thimble-Holder
- Tricolour - Len Belcher
- The Second Seer - Jack Shepherd
- Pre-cognition - Rupert Gilbert
- If I Were Presenting - series by George Blake
- A Sure Bet ... Card in Wallet...
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The Gen Volume 8 (1952)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson On the covers are
- Milbourne Christopher
- Harold Taylor
- John Scarne
- Robert Nelson
- William Stickland
- Lewis Ganson
- Jack Kodell
- Al Koran
- Jerry Bergmann
- Ken Brooke
- Geoffrey Buckingham
- Richard Du Bois
373 pages
- Volume 8, Number 1, May, 1952, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Milbourne...
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The Gen Volume 11 (1955)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ... 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Len Vintus
- The "Okito" Coin Box - Edward J. McLaughlin
- "All Backs" Thanks to Dai Vernon - Hans Trixer
- Len Belcher Presents - On A Plate
- A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
- Frederica's Close-Up Thimble Routine
- Silent Thought Reading - Tom Sellers
- Front Page Personality - Len Vintus, who talks about the I.B.M. and its Beginnings
- Serl Taunt - Taunts
- Notice to Quip - series by Richard Merry
- Volume 11, Number 3, July, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Herbert J. Collings
- Review - comments from...
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The Gen Volume 12 (1956)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ...
- Hole-In-One - Frederica
- The Magic Square - Phil Burns
- Patter in Rhyme for Thimbles - Arnold Furst
- Volume 12, Number 3, July, 1956, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: The Stuthards
- Front Page Personality - The Stuthards
- by Joe Stuthard
- Penetrating Silk
- Strike-A-Light
- A Novel Thimble Holder
- A Simple Paper Tearing Effect
- Mass Hypnosis - Arnold Furst - conclusion
- A Good Card Gag - Gerald Kosky (Los Angeles)
- Snowstorm in China - Graham Ainslie (Oregon)
- A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson
- A Clear Case of Chance - Frederica
- Len Belcher Presents...
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The Gen Volume 15 (1959)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ... 15, Number 10, February, 1960, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Chan Canasta
- From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
- New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
- Lewis Ganson Explains - series
- Colour-Changing Ball - Marconick
- Handkerchief Thimble Vanish - Tom Sellers
- Magic with Apparatus
- Model Illusion - Len Belcher
- Card Magic
- Aces in Agony - Hubert Lambert
- Jumbo Jinks - Norman Rhodes
- Visible Flight
- The Flying Joker
- A Four Ace Routine
- A Thumb-Tie Notion - Tom Sellers
- Mental and Spirit...
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The Gen Volume 18 (1962)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson On the covers are
- Albert Verity
- John Ramsay
- Tom Morley
- Chris Woodward
- Ralph Chart
- Eddie Taytelbaum
- Evelyn Rose
- Leslie May
- Kovari
- Andrew Dalziel
- Ludow
- David Hemingway
- Volume 18, Number 1, May, 1962, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Albert Verity
- From The Gen Desk - comments...
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The Gen Volume 21 (1965)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ...
- Volume 21, Number 3, July, 1965, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Billy Day
- From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
- Mainly Manipulative
- Thimbles - Frank Monaghan
- Advanced Thimbles for the Under-Privileged
- Rim Control for the Dancing Thimble
- A New Single Handed Colour Change
- The Four in Hand
- Tom Sellers' Mental Magic
- Oracle Revelation
- The Divination Rods
- A Number in Space
- New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
- Another Oldie in a New Dress
- Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
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The Gen Volume 22 (1966)Harry Stanley & Lewis Ganson ... - ...
- ...
- Diners Club ... Barclaycard
- Volume 22, Number 11, March, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Ricky Lester
- From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
- New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
- Mainly Manipulative
- An Opening Thimble Routine - John Alborough
- Close Up Magic
- Three Phases of Okito - Horace Bennett
- Lewis Ganson's Fotomagic - series
- Card Magic
- A View of the Future - Al (Brema) Spackman
- Magic with Apparatus
- Billiard Ball Routine - Ian Hindle
- Silk Magic
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The Amateur Magician's HandbookHenry Hay... - ...
- ... Palm
- 8. Color Changes
- 9. Flourish: Cardini's Climbing Billiard Balls
- Chapter 9: The Multiplying Billiard Balls
- Hay's Routine
- Chapter 10: Other Hand Magic With Balls
- 1. Cups and Balls
- 2. Sponge Balls
- Chapter 11: Hand Magic with Thimbles
- 1. The Thumb Palm
- 2. The Steal Pass
- 3. Thimble Changes
- 4. The Multiplying Thimbles
- Chapter 12: Hand Magic With Cigarettes
- 1. The Thumb Palm
- 2. Tip Tilt Pass
- 3. Poke Through Pass
- 4. King Size Pass
- 5. Tonguing
- 6. Lighted Cigarette Through Handkerchief
- 7. Card in Cigarette
- Part Two: Applied Art: Head Magic
- Chapter 13: Head...
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Learn MagicHenry Hay... Trick, The Sack Escape, The Egg Bag, "One Ahead" Mind Reading, The Rising Cards (three methods), The Torn and Restored Paper Strip, Handkerchief Production and Color-change, The Sympathetic Silks, The Miser's Dream, The Cards Up the Sleeve, The Sponge Balls, the Multiplying Billiard Balls, A Thimble Routine, and a host of other feats. There are, in addition, explanations of dozens of sleights with cards, coins, balls, and thimbles; of "codes" used in apparent thought-transference; of black-art tables, bottomless glasses, mirror glasses, and other kinds of conjuring equipment.
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Cyclopedia of MagicHenry Hay... - ... Snare, etc.
- Sucker Gag: defined
- Sun and Moon Trick: handkerchief trick described in detail
- Switch: Defined
- Sympathetic Coins: A Coin Matrix type effect described
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- Table Tricks: defined
- Talk: defined
- Tambourine: production utility described
- Telephone Trick: briefly described
- Thimble Tricks: Decent article describes production, multiplying thimbles, and thimble passes
- Thirty Card Trick: Cards transfer from one pile to another
- Thread, Black: defined
- Three-Card Tricks: Three Card Monte describe in fair detail; Mexican Three Card Monte; Slow Motion Method
- Thumb Tie: release...
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Sucker's ProgressHerbert Asbury... concerned with the picturesque and spectacular features of gambling, and only incidentally with its morals.
The author commences with a survey of the origin and development of the principal gambling games played in America. Chief among the were Faro, Poker, Craps, Monte, Three-Card Monte, and Thimble-Rig, otherwise known as the Three Shell Game. All of these games including Poker and Craps, are of foreign origin, and most of them were introduced into the United States by way of New Orleans, which for more than half a century was the great gambling center of America. Particular attention... | $19.50 to wish listPDF |
Conjuring Up To DateHercatFrom the preface:
Card Tricks and Conjuring Up to Date, by reason of recent additions, having become too large for one volume, I have decided to divide it into two, and now present Conjuring Up to Date by itself, in which I give a description of the very latest tricks, thus making it realize its... | $5 to wish listPDF |
Magic is Fun / Magic for EveryoneHereward Carrington... glass, and the drawer box; and gives several uses for "the conjurer's best friend" - black silk thread. Chapter 7 (22 pages) consists of sixteen miscellaneous tricks, which include The Multiplying Wand, The Wand and Envelope Trick, The Tambourine Trick, two versions of The Torn and Restored Paper, Thimble Sleights, and three or four methods of producing flowers. Chapter 8 is a five-page discussion of the arrangement and presentation of a magical program, with helpful hints about lighting, nervousness, and speech.
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200 Tricks You Can DoHoward Thurston... - ...
- ...
- 1. The Taped Slates
- 2. The Three Spirit Slates
- 3. The Spirit Name
- 4. The Spirit Hand
- 5. Contact Telepathy
- 6. Reading Sealed Message
- 7. Improved Envelope Test
- 8. The Great Rope Tie
- XV. SUGAR TRICKS
- 1. Floating Sugar
- 2. Burning Sugar
- 3. The Cloud of Sugar
- 4. The Mystic Letter
- XVI. THIMBLE TRICKS
- 1. A "Vanishing" Thimble
- 2. Color-changing Thimble
- 3. The Jumping Thimble
- 4. Thimble From Paper
- 5. Thimble Through Handkerchief
- 6. Complete Penetration
- XVII. WATCH TRICKS
- 1. The Stop Watch
- 2. Number Six
- 3. Telling the Time
- 4. The Mystic Alarm Clock
- 5. The Watch from...
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200 More Tricks You Can DoHoward Thurston... - ...
- ... Vanishing Salt Shaker
- 2. Traveling Lumps of Sugar
- 3. The Magnetic Knife
- 4. The Obedient Spoon
- 5. The Jumping Candle Flame
- 6. Vanishing Salt
- 7. The Enchanted Seed
- 8. The Orange to the Apple
- 9. The Vanishing Knife
- 10. Swallowing a Knife
- 11. Five Knife Trick
- 12. The Bridge of Knives
- XV. THIMBLE TRICKS
- 1. The Floating Thimble
- 2. Handkerchief Through Thimble
- 3. Magnetic Thimbles
- 4. The Tell-tale Thimbles
- 5. Red, White and Blue
- XVI. TUMBLER TRICKS
- 1. The Over-full Tumbler
- 2. A Two Tumbler Trick
- 3. Pouring Smoke
- 4. Non-breakable Glass
- 5. A Surprising Detection
- 6. Lifting...
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The Sphinx Volume 2 (Mar 1903 - Feb 1904)Inez Vernelo
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VOLUME 2 |
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NO. 1: MARCH 1903 | 1 |
Chicago, Mar. 15, 1903 | 2 |
The Magician of the Month Ching Ling Soo | 3 |
Why It Was by Xavier | 3 |
An Interesting Letter T. Nelson Downs | 3 |
Novel Sleights | 4 |
- Modern Thimble Manipulation By Lee Stewart | 4 |
- An Original Cigarette Trick Merle F. Willis | 4 |
- New Vanishing Canary Mora | 4 |
- Rice and Handkerchief Trick Prof. McIntosh | 4 |
- An Old Kite With A New Tail Louis N. Miller | 4 |
- Novel Egg Sleight Lawrence Stone | 4 |
Stories Retold A Magician Among Aborigines | 5 |
Ninty On The Dollar | 5 |
Magic and Magicians Ellison Library | 5 |
Our Letter Box | 6 |
Magicians Doings | 7 |
- Chicago | 7 |
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Watch This One!J. B. Bobo... - ...
- ...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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The 100 Best TricksJ. C. Cannell... - ...
- ... String Restored
- The Watch and the Loaf
- Broken Cotton
- The Ring on the Cord
- The Mysterious Coins
- Ring and String
- The Magic Knot
- POCKET TRICKS
- The Magnetic Penny
- The Magical Match-box
- The Dissolving Penny
- The Broken Match
- The Floating Disc
- A Die that Changes Colour
- The Penetrating Thimble
- A Ring and a Loop of String
- The Homing Ball
- Lighting a Lump of Sugar
- Three Thimbles and a Pea
- The Torn Cigarette Paper
- A Feat of Memory
- The Hypnotized Cigar
- Burning a Hole in a Handkerchief
- Passing a Piece of Ribbon Through a Handkerchief
- The Magnetized Knife
- A Passing Musical Note
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Close-up Magic of the MastersJack Flosso... - ...
- The Fist Coin Routine by Arthur Punnar
- A New Card Change by Tommy Dowd
- The Kaplan Coin Transposition by George G. Kaplan
- Wandering Walnuts by Joseph Keen
- Name Your Number by Bert Allerton
- Coins Through the Table by Dai Vernon
- A Knotty Interlude
- A Rope Cutting Tie-Up by Francis J. Rigney
- New Thimble Vanish by Frank J. Rigney
- Novel Card and Cigarette Trick by Lu Brent
- Ballantine Color Change by Amazing Ballantine
- Table Magic
1st edition ~1980; PDF 35 pages.
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