Harbin, Robert: Early Harbin - Harbin x2 Part I ©2005 Magico, NY Hardcover, no dj, 305 pages

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Comments: Compiled and edited by William L. Broecker. Part of a two volume set, the other volume being an edited reprint of Harbincadabra. Below is just the contents for "Early Harbin". The two volume set is over 600 pages total.

Contents (from Early Harbin book ToC):

viii Preface
xiv Ned and Fred

12 Card Materialisation
15 My First—My Twelfth
19 Matchbox-Card “Sawing” and Penetration
20 Rising Cigarettes
22 A Mystical Matchbox
24 A Gathering of Aces
26 Card, Ink, Wand, and Silks
30 Sentry Box Sensation
34 Two Match “Miracles”
35 Confetti Bowls
38 Ainslie’s Ribbon-Change Solved
42 The King and the Gallows
45 Tips: Shuffle, “Blowout,” Blown Egg
46 Sausage Ribons
48 All Gone Ball
50 In a Wandery
51 Four Very Big Ones
53 Flowers of Chocolate
55 Magic by the Book
56 He Bought Some Tricks
60 The Enchanted Whistle

62 Psychic Vision

70 Something New in Magic
77 Novel Silk Changes
80 The “Silko” Table Change
83 A New “Sun and Moon”
86 The Penetrating Tumbler
90 A Card Restored
92 Four-Ace Supreme
95 The “Zomah” Force
98 A Colour-Changing Wand
100 The Penetrating Ball
103 Ink Transposition
106 The Psychic Cigarettes
108 "Will O' the Wisp"
111 The Clothes-Line Mystery
116 The Wandering Fan
118 Ropes Thro' The Body
121 Telepathic Paper-Tearing
123 A Mistake, But
126 A Castle Conundrum
128 “Castles in the Air”
132 The Expanding Watch
135 The Transparent Man
138 A Wand Vanishes
140 Deceptive Photography
142 One Bottle—Two Bouquets
144 The Super Soup Server
146 The Petrol-Lighter
148 Jottings from My Notebook
152 Ten New Paper-tearing Figures

154 Six Card Creations
157 A New Master Pack
161 New Reversing Cards
163 An Ace and King Deception
165 A Card Production Stand
166 Williams's Novel “Giant Card Monte"

172 Strolling Along

178 Demon Magic
185 Walking Through a Rope
189 The Blue Ray
192 Two of The Best
194 The Stocks of Har-Bin
196 Most Unusual
198 The Vanishing Glass and Contents
202 The Knives of Opah
205 Two “Demons”
208 The “Demon” Pins
211 The “Demon” Lamp
216 The Superb Change
218 Some Table Designs
220 Novelties
224 If You Want a Wife
228 My Floating Glass
232 The “Demon” Shadow Trick
236 There and Back
239 Some Paper Magic
242 The “Demon” Torn Newspaper
245 Have Some More!
246 If You Want a Production Box
248 The Packing Case Escape
251 Har-Bin’s “Demon” Paddle
254 Crockery

258 “Initialled” Secrets
260 R Stands for Ribbons
262 0 Stands for Eggs
264 B Stands for Bowls
266 E Stands for Escape
269 R Stands for Release
272 T Stands for Thought-Reading
275 H Stands for Help!
278 A Stands for Anything You Like
280 R Stands for Rise
282 B Stands for Bouquets
284 I Stands for Impossible
288 N Stands for Nine

291 Robert Harbin in New York

301 Index