Cohen, Steve: Max Malini, King of Magicians, Magician of Kings ©2021 Steve Cohen, Squash Publishing Hardcover, no dj, 8x10", 523 pages

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Comments: Includes detailed descriptions of 95 Malini tricks & methods, as well as photos from David Copperfield’s private museum, recollections, biography, and more.

Contents (from book ToC):

i Preface
v Introduction

1 Part One Malini's Life

3 Chapter One Yinglish

7 Chapter Two The Four Hundred
 
23 Chapter Three Managing Without Managers
 
29 Chapter Four Chutzpah - Tales of Boldness
30 Tell Them Malini Did It
31 Miser’s Dream at Sunday Mass
32 A Royal Challenge
33 No Hook No Problem
33 Cubans
34 Roast Pig Head
35 “My” National Anthem
36 An Eye for Art
37 Fisher Brothers Gala Show
38 Cancel My Appointments
39 Two Gun Cohen
39 Never Too Late
40 Free Passage to Manila
42 I Knew Max Malini—Eddie Joseph
47 Malini in Siam—Theodore Bamberg
51 Quotes from Notable Magicians

53 Chapter Five Early Media Conquests
53 Washington D.C.
60 London England-"How I Mystified King Edward”
62 Peking China

69 Chapter Six Only Malini
69 Impressive in Bed
70 A Droll Trick Played with a Fowl
72 Kimura Malini
75 Suspected Spy
76 1700 Convicts Mystified
77 Four-Power Treaty Framed in a Hotel Room
78 Six Martinis and a Bowl of Soup
78 An Inventive Mind
79 On the House
79 Cane Sawing
80 Caruso as Conjuror

80 Chapter Seven Family Man
96 A Letter from Charlie Miller

99 Part Two: Malini’s Magic

99 Chapter Eight Maximum Malini
103 Something from Nothing

105 Chapter Nine Impromptu Magic
106 Vesting
110 Cross-Body Pocket Ditch
112 Slide Vanish
113 Lady or Eagle
116 Post-Vanish Dodges
118 Coin Fold Vanish
120 Spittoon Coin Vanish
122 Spectator Pocket Loads
123 Three from One
127 Cigar Production and Split
129 Copper-Silver Transposition
132 Banknote-Newspaper Transposition
135 Bill in Cigarette
140 Ring on Stick
144 Sugar Cube Assembly
148 Lump Sugar
150 Cups and Balls
158 Brick from Hat
165 - The Block of Ice
171 Button Biting
178 The Mesmerized Watch
182 Cigarette Tobacco and Saucer
184 Torn and Restored Straw Wrapper
188 Cut and Restored String
193 Pants Leg Coin Vanish
196 Magnetic Cigarette Paper
197 Stretching a Handkerchief
199 Weeping Coin Weeping Cane
202 Magnetic Cane
205 Broken and Restored Mirror
206 Mentalism Stunts
206 - Billet Reading
207 - Book Test
208 Matching Matches
209 Animation Effects
209 The Obedient Matchbox
211 The Rising Coin
212 The Dancing Handkerchief
215 Table Tricks
215 - Coin in Bread Roll
216 - Cutting the Menu
217 - Paper Knife
220 - The Dissolving Coin
221 - Whisky Stunts
223 - Billiard Ball Stunt
223 The Vanishing Glass Under Newspaper
225 Improvised Productions
228 Toss Vanish

233 Chapter Ten Card Magic
235 Daub Hide-Out
237 The Missing Link
241 Card Sewn in Jacket Lining
243 Challenge Card Calling
246 Hotel Clerk Revelation
247 Step Delay
248 The Malini Force
249 Table Spread Force
251 No Don't Look At It
252 Hypnotic Gaze Divination
254 Malini Side Steal
257 One-Phase Ambitious Card
257 Top Bottom or Number
259 Malini’s Own Color Change
261 Rear Palm
264 Psychological Riffle Force
266 Think-a-Card Secret
268 Peek and Glimpse
271 Malini’s Location
274 Thumb Riffle Open Index
276 One-Handed Top Change
278 Malini’s Invitation
279 Card to Mouth
281 Siamese Aces
284 General Card
239 Multiple-Selection Routine
295 Card on Ceiling/Card on Wall
300 Card-Scaling Stunt
301 Gutter Magic
303 Rising Cards
303 The Deck Vanishes

307 Chapter Eleven Platform Magic
339 Sample Programs
317 Malini’s Methods - The Stage Show
319 Lamp Chimney Silk Vanish
323 Color-Changing Silk
327 Magnetic Fingertips Cigar & Knives
335 Tumbler Penetration and Vanish
338 Card Magic Sequence
343 Blindfolded Card Stab
358 - Card Stab Commandments (Bob Sheets)
363 Malini Egg Bag
367 - Malini’s Egg Bag Routine (David Alexander)
374 Cut and Restored Rope
379 - Malini’s Rope Cut (Bob Stencel)
382 The Coin Game
385 Bills in Lemon and Egg
393 Button Biting
393 - Pocket Stitching a la Malini
395 Chinese Water Bowl Production
402 Chinese Linking Rings
404 Stage Coins Across
406 The Eggs in Glasses

411 Chapter Twelve Malini The Storyteller

417 Chapter Thirteen Five Malini Lessons

423 Chapter Fourteen You’ll Wonder When I’m Coming You’ll Wonder More When I’m Gone
428 Yiddish and Japanese Obituaries

429 Appendix I: Oziar Malini Speech Transcript
451 Appendix II: Selected Newspaper Articles — 1902 To 1942
503 Appendix III: Malini Timeline

523 Acknowledgements