Blaisdell, Frank, M.D.: Original Magic ©1976 Frank Blaisdell, Lloyd Jones Magic Ltd., Oakland, CA Hardcover, no dj, 5.75x8.75", 251 pages ISBN: 0-915926-19-9

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Contents (from book ToC, updated Jan 2022):

13 Foreword

15 Section One:

15 Table
15 A Convertible Roll On Table

18 Special Card Decks
18 Murder Deck
25 Control Deck
26 Force and Control Deck
28 Hangman
31 Card Escape
32 Card Rise

35 Effects Based on Card Rise
35 Reversed Penetration
37 Broadside Penetration
40 Dial It
43 Selective Card Stab

46 Other Penetrations
46 Card Penetration
48 Sew and Sew

51 Productions
51 From Milk Carton
53 Variations of Square Circle
58 Silk-N-Ball Routine
61 Two Wands In a Box
72 An Aid for Folding Silks

74 Miscellaneous

74 Involving Cards
74 Stabs and Restoration
78 Fluro-X
82 Pop-Up
87 Slip-N-Lift
90 Ladies' Lib
93 Lady Magi
95 The Iron Curtain
96 Glum Cluck
99 Boy Meets Girl
100 Seventeen Camels
101 Wheels of Chance
104 Peter Rabbit

110 Not Involving Cards
110 Daddy Dog
114 Chopper

117 Rings
117 Linking of Two Rings
120 Ring and Rope Release
123 Naughty Not Knots

137 Section Two

137 Data for Patter
137 Parapsychology - a Discussion

139 Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)

139 Divination
139 ESP Demonstration Deck
141 The Fibonacci Series
144 Nasal Sense
145 Color Sense
147 Mental Towers
149 Divination Belt
152 Triple Divination
154 Vibro Blocks
156 Motel
159 Gambler’s Delight
161 Via-Brations
164 Numerical Cubes
169 Sum-It
172 Add-Em
174 Brain Wave Camera
176 An ESP Effect

179 Prediction
179 Premonition, #1
181 Premonition, #2
183 Super-card Transposition, #1, #2
186 Prediction Slate
189 Prediction Deck
195 Fortune-Telling Effect
197 Punch Board
201 Why For???
206 Perplexing
211 Miraculous Creation
218 Magic Square Revelation

222 Psychokinesis
222 Koncentration - Card Fall
226 Bottle Fall
230 Hexed
232 Power of Thought
235 A Psychokinetic Routine

240 Memory
240 Observation Test
244 Memory Demonstration

246 Spirits
246 Siamese Slates

250 Finale: a Discussion

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