Behnke, Leo: Impromptu Magic from the Magic Castle ©1980 The Magic Castle, Houghton Mifflin Co. Hardcover, w/dj, 238 pages

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Contents (from book ToC):

10 Foreword (Milt Larsen)
11 Preface

13 Chapter 1 The Magic Castle

18 Chapter 2 The Presentation of Magic

24 Chapter 3 Playing Cards
25 Some Things to Know
25 Definitions of Terms
26 Shuffling
26 Forcing
38 Beginning Tricks
28 - Pocketful of Aces
30 - Tricky Dealing
32 - Catching Threes
34 - A Spelling Mistake (Jack Hurlbut)
36 - The Seventh Card
38 - Clever Spelling
40 - Thirteen Count
42 - How Many Spots?
44 - Mathematician's Delight (Dr. Raymond L. Beebe)
47 Principles and Subtleties
47 - Pair Prediction
49 - More or Less
51 - Estimation Trick (Jack Ose)
53 - Revealed!
55 - The Stop Trick
58 - Which Card Is Mine? (John Fedko)
62 - The Lazy Magician


64 Chapter 4 Table Tricks
65 To Tell the Truth (Gerald Kosky)
67 Napkin/Knife
70 Linking Dice
72 Changing Places
74 How Many?
76 Dice and Dominoes (Sammie McKay)
78 Crossed In the Mail
82 Napkin Folds
82 - The Mouse
84 - Fatima
86 - The Doll
88 - Gunga Din

90 Chapter 5 Stringing Along
91 Take It Off!
92 You Do It!
94 An Easy Impossibility
96 A String Production
98 Quick Knot
100 Finger Trap
103 On Again, Off Again (J.B. Bobo)
106 The Great Coat Escape (Mark Wilson)
109 A Straw Loop
111 Super String
114 Scissors 'Scape
116 Letting Go (Don Stern)
119 Twice as Hard
120 St-Ring
122 Slave Bangle Routine

124 Chapter 6 Paper Hocus
125 With a Pencil
125 - What's Next?
125 - Intriguing
126 - Adding Up Letters
127 - Don't Pronounce It
127 - Fill It In
128 - Mental Addition
128 - Doubling Threes
129 - Seven Times Thirteen
132 Folding It
133 - Flying Bird
134 - Sea Lion
135 - Water Lily
136 - Strap and Buckle
138 - Rabbit Head
140 Magic
140 - Odd and Even
142 - Hello! My Name Is...(Don Lawton)
144 - Torn and Restored
146 - Patriotic Tissue
148 - Ribbon Divination
150 - The Knife Bits

154 Chapter 7 Money Magic
155 - Repeat Coin Count (Eugene E. Gloye)
158 - Pencil or Bill?
161 - Phoney Coin Toss (Steve Martin)
162 - Coin Through Hank
165 - Coming Together
167 - Divinations of a Bill
169 - Your Change!
170 - Hot Money
172 - Cutting a Bill
175 - Pocket to Cuff
176 - Castle Coin Trick (Sammy McKay)

179 Chapter 8: How Gamblers Do It
180 Royal Flush Deal
182 Pinochle Marriages
184 Pick Your Hand
187 Sucker's Flash
189 Ten-Card Deal
191 Simple Poker Stack (Neil Martin Lester)
193 Call Out Any Hand
195 Controlling the Aces (Dai Vernon, Gene Finnell)
202 Poker Push
205 Double Discard

207 Chapter 9: Sleight-of-Hand
208 Two-Card Memory
211 Four-Ace Assembly (Bill Chaudet)
214 The Detective Card
218 Ace and Deuce (Leo Behnke)
222 Elevator Card Routine
227 A Unique Reverse
230 A Unique Vanish (Grippo)

232 Magician's Gallery

236 Bibliography & Sources