Dunninger, Joseph: Monument to
Magic ©1974 Joseph Dunninger, Lyle Stuart, NJ Hardcover, w/dj, 222 pages |
Image courtesy QuickerThanTheEye |
Comments: The first part of this book has been published separately as "Dunninger's Book of Magic"
Contents (From book ToC; the Monument to Magic section courtesy Dietrich Keller at Magicbooks.be):
9 A Dunninger Scrapbook
11 Introduction
15 Dunninger Biography
18 Dunninger and F.D. Roosevelt
19 A Photograph Album
25 Dunninger, Master Mentalist
30 Dunninger's Sensational Buzz-Saw Illusion
32 When the Fates Fooled Ching Ling Foo
34 When Fate Fooled the Great Leon
35 When the Fates Fooled Dunninger
37 Simple Parlor Magic
38 The Mystic Eye
39 The Floating Glass
39 Powerful Spirits
39 Mesmerized Pencil
40 Telepathy De Luxe
40 Wand Vanish De Luxe
40 The Phantom Derby
40 Enchanted Goblet
41 Improved Straight-Jacket Release
41 Rapid Transit Dimes
41 Bran to Candy
42 Hindu Burial
42 The Flying Coin
42 The Haunted Cigarette Box
42 The Mystic Envelope
43 Producing the Lighted Candle
43 Bill in Cigarette Trick
43 The Enchanted Cylinder
43 The Magnetic Card
44 Roses from Nowhere
44 Cut and Restored Card
44 The Enchanted Cigar
44 Chameleon Ball
45 The Rising Cards
45 Second Sight With Crayons
45 New Obedient Apple
46 The Enchanted Cane
46 The Demon Reflection
46 Cigarettes and Finger-Ring Trick
46 A New Cylinder Trick
47 Cigar Case Trick
47 New Lemon Trick
47 The Mystic Decanter
47 A Crystal Casket Mystery
48 Card Production
48 Watch It
48 Handkerchief Trick
48 The Penetrating Handkerchief
49 The Bewitched Cigarette
49 New Kerchief Cylinder
49 Hypnotized Straw
49 The Elusive Bottle
50 The Plate Eater
50 Magnetized Control
50 Phantom Cigarettes
50 Mystic Ball
51 The Spirit Voice
51 Solid Through Solid
51 Come and Go Billiard Ball
51 X-Ray Card Trick
52 Mental Marvel
52 Materializations
52 Demon Swordsmanship
52 The Talkative Coin
53 The Amazing Light
53 The Disappearing Water
53 Enchanted Tape
54 Twentieth Century Monte
54 Simple Thought Reading Method
55 Ellusive Cannon Ball
55 The Jumping Fountain Pen
55 Rapid Transit Playing Card
56 Cigarette Miracle
56 Indian Cocoanut Trick
57 Enchanted Crayons
57 Vanishing Knife
57 Magical Pistol and Card
58 Mystic Wine Production
58 Magical Marksmanship
58 The Magnetized Knife
59 Vanishing Bird and Cage
59 How Did the Screw Get There?
60 Unstainable Paper
60 Living And Dead Trick
60 The Enchanted Jug
61 Psychomotrized Ashes
61 Indian Snake Materialization
61 The Fisby Fishbowl
62 Rabbit From Hat
62 The Standing Matchbook
62 The Writing Blackboard
63 The Balancing Glass
63 The Severed Thread
63 Bullet Catching
64 Disappearing Cigarettes
64 Vanishing Tumbler
64 Fakir Sword Penetration
65 Chinese Coin Divination
65 Indian Horn Blowing Trick
65 Pitcher of Plenty
66 Enchanted Tablecloth
66 Latticework Box
66 Resurrected Thread
67 The Falling Matchbox
67 Spirit Knocks
67 Duck Decapitation
68 Chameleon Card
68 Spirit Candle-Lighting
68 New Buried Alive Trick
69 Inexhaustible Box for Magicians
70 Music from the Spiritland
70 Changing Card Trick
70 Enchanted Demon
72 No-practice Ventriloquism
72 The Book Miracle
72 The Enchanted Tie
74 Psychic Vision
74 New Rising Card Effect
74 Obedient Ball
76 Rabbit Production Deluxe
76 Resurrected Card
76 Colored Rods
78 Second Sight Deluxe
78 Chinese Coin Release
78 Hypnotism and the Hot Ball
80 Decapitation
81 Magical Dexterity
82 The Enchanted Mirror
82 The Demon Touch
82 The Darting Ping-Pong Ball
84 Memorized Dictionary Feat
84 Touch Identification of Cigarettes
84 Threading the Thumb Trick
86 Balancing Glass
86 Diabolical Smoke
86 Spirit Messages
88 Spirit Clock
88 Spinning Doll
88 Reappearing Card
90 Chines Lantern and Scarves Trick
90 Disappearing Kerchief
90 Jumping Coin Trick
92 Drum of Mystery
92 Cigarette Magic
92 Match Box Monte
94 The Spiritualist's Box
94 Mesmerized Handkerchief
94 A Mechanical Sleight of Hand
96 Spiritland Messages
96 Mystifying Cigarette Holder
98 Spirit Writing
98 Cigarette Sleight
98 The Card Miracle
100 Historically Famous Mysteries Explained
116 An Album Of Letters And Documents Of The Worlds Greatest
Magicians: A Monument To Magic
118 Author’s Note
119 Harry Houdini
119 About the Notebook
128 Houdini?A Biography
130 Houdini Jail Escapes
130 The $31.000 Reward
131 The Eight Chicks and Houdini’s Death
132 Memorabilia
152 Beatrice Houdini
158 Harry Kellar
194 Howard Thurston
201 Will Goldston
202 Maskelyne
203 Franciscus
204 Horace Goldin
206 George Rushling
208 The Flosso Family
209 A Pictorial Glossary Of Magicians And Prestidigitators