Fleischman, Sid: Mr. Mysterious's Secrets of Magic ©1975 Albert S. Fleischman, Little, Brown and Company, Boston/Toronto Hardcover, w/dj, 82 pages ISBN: 0-316-28584-6

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Comments: Illustrations ©1975 Eric von Schmidt. A children's book of magic.

Contents (from book descriptions added April 2022):

xi Introduction or How to Vanish an Elephant

1 Penny on the Nose: hands shown empty yet produce a penny from someone's nose
4 The I-Don’t-Believe-It Trick: match penetrates a safety pin
8 The Vanishing Ghost, Almost: a tissue ghost vanishes, with a sucker ending
15 The Jumping Joker: A joker visibly jumps out of the middle of the deck
16 Frankenstein's Toothache: ring escapes from rubber band-bound fingers
20 The Rattle. Rattle Coin: coin vanishes from a matchbox
25 The Witch's Foot: a ruler clings and levitates below the hand
29 You and the Great Swami: assistant finds the selected cards
33 The Hanky-Panky Handkerchiefs: silks produced from an examined sheet of newspaper
37 Houdini in Your Pocket: one match penetrates another
40 The Fool Me, Fool You Trick: magician and spectator choose the same card from two decks
43 The Creepy. Crawly Thing: a visual effect with a rubber band
47 Watch the Penny!: penny in one hand joins nickel in the other
50 Dial-a-Trick: telephone card trick
55 The Toy Acrobat: matchbook turns over by itself
59 The Devil’s Knucklebone: dots on a die change
63 Your Own Trick Deck: making a comedy spring deck
65 Rubber Band Bamboozle: two color rubber bands change places on the fingers
69 The Lie Detector: card trick
72 The Alaska Fan: two strings become one
78 The Invisible Man’s Money: coin tossed becomes invisible and appears under you shoe