Jonson, Wilfrid & Chesley V. Barnes (ed): Conjuring ©1950 W&G Foyle, Ltd. Hardcover, w/dj Wilfrid Jonson's Magic Tricks ©1954 Dover Publications, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 100 pages

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Comments: Dover publications later combined Conjuring and Card Conjuring into a single volume titled Magic Tricks & Card Tricks, but did not include the "American Magic Album" section of photographs. This book provides lots of performance advice, not just how the effects work.

Contents (From the 1952 Dover-Foyle edition, descriptions added Feb 2024):

7 Preface

10 Part I Impromptu

10 The Coin Through The Hand
22 The Wandering Coins: four coins travel to appear under a single card
15 Palming: finger palm and variation
18 The Surprising Tumbler: a crumbled bill transfers to a paper glass, then
20 The Three Pellets: two in the hand and one in the pocket with a climax
22 Patter
23 The Bewildering Coin: coin penetrates hand, reappears from pocket, and changes to a bill
25 The Flying Farthing: coin vanish
26 The Coin and the Hat: coin vanishes several times to appear under a hat, with a climax
28 The Knife and the Papers: paddle trick
31 The Jumping Rubber Band: band jumps from fingers to fingers
32 The Animated Match-box: almost impromptu box rises on the hand
32 Down Your Sleeve: match blown out through the sleeve
33 Magnetic Match: one match causes another to jump

34 Part II Studied Mysteries

35 A Problem in Suspension: first a knife and then a bottle suspend in the air
40 Paper Napkins: torn and restored
42 A Study in Black and White: another torn and restored
44 The Counting Chalk: total of a dice roll is found written on black paper
45 The Note and the Cigarette: borrowed bill to cigarette
49 The Note in the Egg: similar effect, using a TT
52 The Lighted Match From the Pocket
53 The Smoke Trick: smoke appears in an inverted tumbler
55 The Ring on the Stick: borrowed ring
57 The Patriotic Balls: red, white, and blue balls put into three cones transfer to have one red, white and blue ball in each cone

58b An American Magic Album: B&W photo section with brief biographies, this section not numbered)
58c Adelaide Hermann
58c Houdini
58d Howard Thurston
58e Chin Sun Loo (Jean Hugard)
58f C.A. George Newmann
58g Harry Blackstone
58h Joseph Dunninger
58i Okito (Theodore Bamberg)
58j Al Flosso
58k Jack Gwynne
58l Walter Gibson
58m Sir Felix Korim
58n Harlan Tarbell
58o Dr. Jaks
58p Keith Clark
58q Litzka Raymond
58r George Jason
58s Milbourne Christopher
58t Jay Palmer
58u Dell O'Dell
58v Chop Chop (Arthur H. Wheatley)
58w Clint Reidel
58x Gerrie Larsen
58y J.B. Bobo
58z John Giordmaine

59 The Celebrity Trick: the chosen celebrity photo appears in a frame
62 The Nest of Envelopes: photo appears in nest of three envelopes
63 Kling Klang: egg, cup and handkerchief effect
66 The Lost Ring: a borrowed ring is lost, and a lot of imitation rings found, and finally the real one
69 The Afghan Bands: paper loop effect
71 The Mysterious Addition: total of numbers added is predicted
73 The Slate Trick: some approaches using the flap slate
76 The Invisible Scribe: total number appears written between two cardboard squares
78 The Billet Reading Trick: message reading
80 Automatic Writing: drawing duplication
82 The Transposed Handkerchief: silk vanishes to be found in a matchbox previously emptied of matches
85 The Indestructible Handkerchief: burnt and restored
86 The Cups and Balls: with three large object climax
93 Bringing It All Together

97 Bibliography
98 Representative Dealers In Magic
99 Index