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The 25 lessons are:

1. Easy Magic
2. Presentation and Paper Magic
3. Showmanship & Impromptu Magic
4. String and Rope Tricks
5. Sleight-of-Hand with Cards
6. More Tricks with Cards
7. Advanced Card Magic
8. Sleight-of-Hand with Coins
9. Handkerchief Magic
10. Cigarette Magic
11. Billiard Ball Manipulation
12. Thimble Magic and Watch Tricks
13. Egg Tricks
14. Productions and Opening Effects
15. Liquid and Chemical Magic, Tricks with Live Stock
16. Comedy Magic
17. Mental Phenomena
18. Spiritualistic Tricks
19. Miscellaneous Magic
20. Oriental Magic
21. Stage Illusions
22. Publicity Feats and Escape Tricks
23. Sensational Illusions
24. The...

• ... Idea / Ed Bagshawe
• Tricks and Tips &c.
• Here and There

Volume 1, Number 7, April 1924

• Monthly Chat
• A Borrowed Ring and Nest of Envelopes / C.H. Tickell
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: The Japanese Handkerchief Box / S.H. Sharpe
• Correspondence
• The Paper Ball Trick
• A Novel Finish to Thimble Production / Harry Kaye
• Improvements and Suggestions
• With Our Contemporaries
• A New Vanishing Tumbler
• Here and There

Volume 1, Number 8, May 1924

• Monthly Chat
• Silent Hand Reading / C.H. Tickell
• A Liquid Vanish / Harry Kaye
• Some Ancient Magic Made Modern: Angling Extraordinary...

• Copy Cat / Kevin Davie
• Eyes Down / Vic Allen
• The Page boy speaks ...
• Handywork / Richard Chiswell
• Signachange / Kevin Davie
• Behavioural Bluff and Beyond / Doug Alker
• Oasis / Fred Robinson
• Rip It Up / Archie McIntyre

• Whodunnit? / Arthur Setterington
• Thimble-O / Fred Robinson
• Oasis / Fred Robinson
• Twisting, Turning, Extending and otherwise molesting the Aces / Bob Farmer
• A Pound with a Bottle / Eric Mason
• Peter's Presto Pop-In / Peter Crush
• Where there's smoke / Fred Robinson
• Handy Aces / Simon Lovell
• Tea Totaller / Vic Allen
• The Page...

This is a compilation of all 17 Lewis Ganson Teach-In booklets. And as a bonus you will also get the 7 Know-How booklets which was the Series that was supposed to continue the Teach-In Series.

• Card Fans Teach-In
• Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic Teach-In
• Mark Weston's Continuous Cigarette Production...

• ... Master Magicians. Twin City Magicians
• Howard Thurston Stories

Volume 1, Number 15 (February 8th, 1911)

• Much Ado About Nothing
• New York Magical Notes
• What Others Are Doing - Ionia
• Practical Magic - A Coin-Producing Fan
• Cards - Variation of Cards in Pocket
• For Beginners - Useful Thimble Moves. An Easy Coin Reproduction
• In Open Council - Levitation of a Card. Card Specialising
• Whereabouts This Week
• Magical Societies: Order of the Magi
• Current Literature

Volume 1, Number 16 (February 15th, 1911)

• What the Year Holds
• New York Magical Notes
• What Others Are Doing...

This is the one work on pure sleight-of-hand to which the term "encyclopedic" is applicable. It presents written and visual instructions on how to perform the choicest specialties of the outstanding experts in card, coin, ball, and thimble manipulation. The sleights are not only explained with admirable clarity but they are analyzed critically and their points of strength (and weakness, if any) are emphasized. The thoroughness with which the author has performed his task is indicated by the fact that he explains five methods...

• A Victory for Originality
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Henri Bekker
• Practical Magic - "Ceeanbee" Matchbox
• Impromptu - The Paper Balls
• Honest Swindles - A New Style for Patter
• Whereabouts this Week
• Those Exclusive (!) Secrets
• In Open Council
• A Simple Thimble Holder
• Magical Societies

Number 5 (July 2nd, 1913)

• A Talk on Showmanship
• Between Ourselves
• What Others are Doing - Bernard
• Practical Magic - The World in a Nutshell
• Impromptu - The Evanescent Coin, by Chung Ling Soo
• Cards - The "Brush" Change
• Professional Movements this Week ...

• ...No. 9: June 1957
  • The Prisoners / Peter Warlock
  • Simplex Coin Transpo / Ravelli
  • Heduz / Stewart James
  • Three In Council / Francis Haxton, Jack Avis, Peter Warlock
  • Mathematics Of The Weave Shuffle / Alex Elmsley
• No. 10: July 1957
  • Holiday From Reason / Stewart James
  • Synchromagic / Stewart James
  • Thimblekin Thimble Effects Bob Driebeek
  • Finish For Four Ace Routine / A. W. Roots
  • The Taped Slate / Peter Warlock
  • Mathematics Of The Weave Shuffle (cont.) / Alex Elmsley
• No. 11: August 1957
  • The Handcuffed Cardician / Hans Trixer
  • Double Surprise / Jack Avis
  • Simplicity Two Person Prediction / Peter...

1. ... MOVE NUMBER ONE
328. - MOVE NUMBER TWO
329. - MOVE NUMBER THREE
330. - MOVE NUMBER FOUR
331. - MOVE NUMBER FIVE
331. - MOVE NUMBER SIX
333. - MOVE NUMBER SEVEN
334. - MOVE NUMBER EIGHT
335. - MOVE NUMBER NINE
335. - MOVE NUMBER TEN
336. - MOVE NUMBER ELEVEN
339. - A SURPRISING CIGARETTE IMPROMPTU
340. - THE L.W. CARD IN CIGARETTE

     CHAPTER 15: THIMBLE MAGIC

344. Aunt Martha's Thimble
344. - MOVE NUMBER ONE
345. - MOVE NUMBER TWO
347. - MOVE NUMBER THREE
347. - MOVE NUMBER FOUR
349. - MOVE NUMBER FIVE
351. - MOVE NUMBER SIX
353. - MOVE NUMBER SEVEN
354. - MOVE NUMBER EIGHT

355. The Penetrative Thimble
356. - MOVE NUMBER NINE
357. - MOVE NUMBER TEN
358. - MOVE NUMBER ELEVEN

358. Thimble Thimblerig ...

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  • ... Matchboxes
  • Ink - Paper to Money
  • Instant Photography
  • Match & Cup
  • Matrix Monte
  • Mental Photography
  • This One, That One - George Hill
  • Scrabble Prediction
  • The Ultimate Scrabble Prediction
  • Step by Step Golf Ball Vanish
  • Tea to Tee
  • The Hole That's Not
  • The Oyster Shell
  • The Perfect Gambler
  • Thimble Color Change
  • Thimble Color Change in Tube
  • Tipp-Ex Magic
  • Water to Ice
  • Water to Tea
• CLOSE-UP PATTER
  • Acrobatic Matchbox
  • Card in Orange
  • Finding a Card
  • Card One-Liners
  • Video Links For Close-Up Teach-In's & Videos
• KIDS PARTY MAGIC
  • A Terrific Opener
  • Balloon Modeling Gems (Bow...

This ebook - compiled and edited by Martin Breese - gathers together all of Al Koran's magazine articles from The Magic Wand, The Gen, The Wizard and Pentagram. It also features virtually all of the commercial effects that Al released via the Unique magic Studio in London. Included as well are the...

• ... Rope Release / A. E. Bloom
• One Hundred Tricks Without Sleight of Hand. II
• What Every Conjurer Should Know. II
• Second Sight Card Divination / M. Michel
• A Month of Magic
  • Horace Goldin's New Magical Play
  • S.A.M. Magical Carnival
  • Thurston's Complete Programme

• A Pretty Thimble Vanish / Ernest Evangeline
• A Master of Magic / Henry Ridgely Evans
• Comedy Picture Building / Chilton
• A Deceptive Coin Pass / T. C. Bonney
• The Ghostly Silk / R. W. Read
• The Severed Apple / W. H. H. Pugh
• What Every Conjurer Should Know. III
• One Hundred Good Tricks Without Sleight of Hand....

• ...Vice-Versa
• Up Your Sleeve!
• The One In The Middle
• Bubbles
• That Professor Is A Nightmare!
• Blowing In The Wind
• Gong
• Computer Prediction
• Catching The Wind
• Stabbed Revelation
• Get Off My Spread
• Hofzinser's Again
• Somersault
• Flippant Prediction
• Pin-Acle Prediction
• The Torn And Restored Card
• Quartet
• A Thimble On Your Finger
• Easy False Shuffle
• Fontana Di Trevi
• Rendezvous
• All At Home
• Mismatched Quarters
• Too Simple, Too Good!
• First Thought
• Second Thought
• Alter Ego
• Square
• Manila Coin
• Match The Corner
• Red Baron
• It's About Time
• Submarine Card
• Surprising Demonstration
• Wild Crosses
• Underground...

• From the Pen of Leipzig (Nate Leipzig) - 73
• Surprise Sponge Climax (Dr. L. Rothbart) - 74
• A Penny "Sucker" (Joe Ovette) - 75
• Bad-egg-bag (Frank Chapman) - 75
• Utility Card Stealing Apparatus (Howard Warringer) - 76
• Performance Counts - 76

• Visible Thimble Penetration (John B. Ward) - 77
• Comedy of Errors (George Pearace) - 78
• Beats the Band! (Dr. L. Rothbart) - 79
• Match-ic Manipulation (Joe Ovette) - 79
• Silk-'n-coin Production (Howard Warringer) - 80
• Making Modern Magic Catalogs Modern - 80

• The...

1. ...
   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...

• ...
  • ...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...

• ...
  • ... of a Master Magician
  • Verrall Wass / The Phantom Knots
  • Allan Peterson / Hanky Panky King
  • Allan Peterson / Publicity Pencil Stunt
  • Allan Peterson / Peterson Palm Off
  • John K. Bays / Just Genius, Torn and Restored Routine
  • Johnny Geddes / Singing it with Flowers
  • Anon / Tricks of the Trade, Thimble Pull
  • Jack Lamonte / Practical Publicity for Magicians, Advertising Novelties
• No. 78
  • Jack Lamonte / Albert Chambers
  • Jack Yates / After Marlo
  • Albert Chambers / The Alcham Ring on Wand
  • Tedq Murray / The Card's The Same
  • Jessy Demaline / Puncture Proof
  • Ken Green / Fourth Rosini
  • Maurice...

1. ... - Jack Ganson
103. Bolted - Fred Lowe
106. With The Brema Nut - Arnold Deseiver

     Chapter Seven: Weird Ones

108. The Thing
112. Dual Control
118. Voodoo - Albert Spackman
120. Patter For Voodoo - Syd Bergson
120. A Telling Beat - Wizard Beal
121. Spiritune - Frederica

     Chapter Eight: Four Gems

125. The Ringer - Horace Bennett
128. Thimble Box - Bob Ostin
130. Peep-O - Dennis Patten
131. Colour Magnets - Norman Gilbreath

     Chapter Nine: Coins Alone

133. Coins From Hand To Hand - Horace Bennett
135. Coins For Connoisseurs - Roger Klause
138. Chinese Coins - Dai Vernon
139. The Duplex Coin - Ken De Courcy
141. Four Coins And A Tumbler - Niberco
143. Will-O'-The-Wisp...

1. ...
   1. ...
   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 ...

1. ...
   • ... John Booth
   • Annual of Magic for 1938-39 - Jean Hugard
   • Club Deceptions Number 2 - Dr. Ervin
   • Convincing Rope Trick - Percy Abbott
   • Cut and Restored Tie - Abbott's
   • Funny Talk - Frank Lane
   • Psychiatelegy Mindreading - published by Eastman
   • Blue Phantom - Thayer
   • Beer Mug - Grant
   • Thimble Act Supreme - Berland
   • Slow Motion Bill Switch - Grant
   • The Tops, March
   • The Jinx, 54
   • The Linking Ring, March
   • The Sphinx
   • The Magic Wand, March-May
   • Chap's Scrapbook
269. Correction

277. Genii - Volume 3, Number 9 - May 1939 - 40 pages
277. Cover - Harry Baker
281. Harry Baker - biographical notes
281. Genii Advertising Pays - Tess Holden
281. In This Issue - Contents
282. Genii Speaks - editorial...

1. ... caption
228. Los Magicos Legerdemain - Rudy Miller

237. Genii - Volume 4, Number 8 - April 1940 - 32 pages
237. Cover - R. Anderson
241. Robert C. Anderson - biographical notes
241. We Hope You Are Like One of These - testimonials
241. In This Issue - Contents
242. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
243. Aunt Martha's Thimble - Page Wright and William W. Larsen
     • Addenda
246. UI.B.M. Election
247. Card Thru Silk - Grant Stuart
247. An Amazing 'Interlude' - Dr. Ervin
247. Anent Clippo - Richard N. Lee
247. 10 Questions - Frank Stratton
247. Just Paragraphs - Herman L. Weber
247. Did You Know That [re: Gerald Kaufman]
248. Numerology - Victor Conrad
249. Genii Juniors - A Page For Junior Magicians (Under Sixteen Years Of Age) - Billy Larsen, Jr., editor ...

1. ... - editorial comments
223. The Eight in the Side Pocket - Dai Vernon
223. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
224. Gammatration - Frederick Kolb
224. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
224. Jamisonian Kinks - R. W. Jamison
225. The Proskauer Prediction - Julien J. Proskauer
225. Did You Know That - Maury Kains
226. The "New Century" Thimble Routine - Winston H. Freer
227. The Problem of the Five Coins - Orville Meyer
227. Houdini Said - quotation
227. Blossom Time
228. Sugar Routine - Bill McCaffrey
228. Any Gum Called For - Dr. R. V. Stone
228. An Impromptu Quicky - Dr. R. V. Stone (Ramo)
229. Genii Juniors - A Page For Junior Magicians (Under Eighteen Years Of Age) - Billy Larsen, Jr., editor
     • Editorial ...

September 1942 - August 1943
Including S.A.M. and M-U-M pages - and Magigals
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Larsen, Editors

432 pages

1. Genii - Volume 7, Number 1 - September 1942 - 32 pages
1. Cover - Floyd and Jennie Thayer
5. Floyd and Jennie Thayer - biographical notes
6. Genii Speaks - editorial comments ...