This Is Magic

Nicely illustrated routines of a full time performer.

From the introduction:

"Why don’t you write a book on Magic?" I have been asked this question hundreds of times in the past several years, and my answer has been that I am too busy, or that I wanted to be the only Magician who did not write a Magic Book!

However, I have taken the time from my hundreds of shows en route each season to conduct a monthly column in TOPS Magazine and to write many articles and tricks for the Sphinx, Genii and Linking Ring. So when I was requested to compile all the tricks I had formerly written for these magazines into one book, with the addition of several more good practical tricks that had never been in print before, I decided that it was a good idea.

• Author's Note
• Introduction
• Card-in-Egg Routine
• Comedy Block Trick
• Cut and Restored Rope
• The Guillotine Illusion
• Passe Card and Silk
• Multiplying Golf Balls
• Girl Through Needle's Eye
• A Ring and Half-Dollar Routine
• Sun and Moon Trick
• Spirit Slate Test for Club Shows
• Multiplying Thimbles
• Houdini Card Trick
• A Production Box
• Three "Can" Monte
• A Hat Load
• The Magic Beads
• Watch Restoration
• Printing by Magic
• A Giant Card Stabbing Trick
• A Timely Trick
• Shooting Handkerchief Through Girl
• Comedy Card, Silk, and Snake Combination
• A Spirit Trick
• Drawer Box Pistol Tube
• The Traveling Stamps
• An Easy Snake Trick
• Spirit Photography
• A Patriotic Trick
• The Mindreading Pencils
• The Magic Guinea Pig
• The Spirit Mirror
• Cards in Carrots
• A Closing Trick
• Some Ideas

1st edition 1945, 64 pages; PDF 58 pages.
word count: 17962 which is equivalent to 71 standard pages of text