Goldstein, Phil (Editor): Square One ©1991 Stan Allen, MAGIC Magazine, CA Softcover, perfect-bound, 7x8.25", 55 pages ISBN: 0-915181-23-1

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Comments: Book size is a square! Contributions by several authors; edited by Phil Goldstein; typesetting and layout by Mike Caveney. From the introduction, "The purpose of this unique book is to act as an overture for our new publication, MAGIC - An Independent Magazine for Magicians.

Contents (from book, updated July 2018):

7 Introduction (Stan Allen)
9 Inside Matchic (Michael Weber): a signed matchbook instantly turns inside out
13 Origambit (Kenichi Kuroki): pencil pushed through a bill and a covering paper injures only the paper
17 Serious Laughter (Mike Caveney): essay on comedy and incorporating it into your act
21 Hang-Up (Richard Kaufman): card selection vanishes from deck and is found on coat hanger, which is holding up a spectator's coat
25 Nestuary (Kazuyuki Hase): clever approach for the nest of boxes
29 Are Card Tricks Card Magic? (Eugene Burger): essay on card magic
33 Surrounded Seeing Through (Jim Steinmeyer): a stage illusion
41 Thoughts in Mid-Air (Tommy Wonder): Tommy's approach to the Zombie floating ball
49 O, Wonder (Phil Goldstein): letter cards and a few playing cards are used to predict a word or two found in a dictionary
53 The Angle of the Hypothesis (Tomo Maeda): a line drawn on a business card bends
57 The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Jeff McBride): essay
61 Postscript (Stan Allen)