Kaye, Marvin: Catalog of Magic ©1977 Doubleday & Company, Inc., NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 280 pages ISBN: 0-385-12324-8 |
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Comments: Illustrations by Al Kilgore. Describes many commercial magic tricks and their basic functionality. No routines provided.
Contents (from book):
xiii Acknowledgment
xiv How to Use This Rook
XV Key to Symbols Used in Text
xvii Introduction
1 Things That Appear And Things That Vanish
1 Illusion: The Vanishing Elephant
3 Blow-Van
4 Brassiere Trick
5 Cagey Canister, Square Circle
6 Checkmate
7 Devil's Handkerchief
8 Disappearing Bird Cage
9 Dove Pan
10 Drum Head Tube
11 Dye Box
12 Egyptian Water Box
13 E-Z Hat Loader
14 Foo Cans including Invisible Bovine
16 Glass Casket
16 Keg of Plenty
17 Lota Bowls
18 Mesh Egg Bag
19 Milk Pitcher
20 Phantom Pencil
21 Phantom Tubes also called Ghost Tubes
22 Professor Cheers Rope Trick
24 Silks-A-Go-Go and Rainbow Flash Appear
25 Six-Card and Bill Repeats
26 Soda Pop Production
27 Space Silks
28 Sucker Card Vanish Backstage
30 Supersonic Silk on Sash
31 Swirl-It Box
32 Temple Screen
33 Vanishing Radio
34 Vanishing Wand
35 Wonder Class
36 X-Salted
37 Advanced Tricks
37 Appearing Cane
39 Coin Ladders
40 Devil’s Coin Box
41 Grab-A-Dollar
42 Multiplying Billiard Balls
43 Poof, and Zip
44 Presto Clock
45 Rice Bowls
46 Sponge Balls
47 Thimbles
48 Vanishing Canes and Candles
48 Vanishing Quarter in Water
49 Visible Miser's Dream
50 Wonderful Coin Pail
52 Things That Change Places
52 Illusion - Black Art
52 Card Boxes
54 Clatter Box
55 Egg Bags
58 Forgetful Freddie
58 Hippity-Hop Rabbits
59 Journey Into Space
61 Jumbo Cards to Pocket
62 Rings on Rope
64 Run Rabbit Rim
65 Silkola
68 Silks Between
69 Strat-O-Spheres
70 Sucker Die Box
71 Advanced tricks
71 Ball and Vase
72 Bill Tubes
73 Carnival Cards
74 Chop Cups and Golden Bags
75 Copenetro
76 Magic Coin Box and Nested Boxes
77 Montes
79 Mystic Coins
80 Three-Shell Game
81 Treasury Transpo
82 Zen’s Cards to Envelopes also called Cards Across
84 Restorations And Things That Become Something Else
84 Illusion: Modern Metempsychosis
86 Afghan Bands
88 Balloon Buster
89 Blendo
90 Cake in Hat
91 Candy Factory
91 Change Bags
92 Circle to Square
93 Clip-It
94 Color-Changing Handkerchiefs including Sock Trick
95 Conflictus
96 Crystal Silk Cylinder
97 Dice-Sational
98 Dot’s-A-Dandy
99 Fraidy Cat Rabbit
100 The Giant and the Dwarf
102 Haunted House
102 Ink to Goldfish
103 Instanto Rope
104 Silk Symphony
105 Soft Soap
106 Spooky Spots
107 Squircle
107 Stop Lite also known as Fooled and Stung!
108 Think Ink
110 Advanced Tricks
110 Back Flip
111 Fresh Fish and other torn-and-restored tricks
113 Gene Anderson's Newspaper Trick
114 Mental Photographs Deck
114 Out to Lunch
115 Paddle-Move Effects
116 Pea Can
117 Professor's Nightmare
118 Rainbow Ropes
119 Tom Tissues to Garland
120 Wild Cards
121 Things That Move By Themselves, Defy Gravity, Or Work
Only For The Wizard
121 Illusion: Levitating a Person
123 Acrobatic Silks
124 Aladdin $ Vase (also Chinese Prayer Vase)
126 Cheek to Cheek
126 Chen-Lee Water Suspension
128 Chinese Sticks
129 Comedy Light Bulb
130 Cubio
131 Haunted Pack
132 Imp Bottle
133 Lucky Light
134 Pop-Away Wand
135 Rising Cards
137 Spelling Lesson
138 Spooky Silk
139 Water-Lu
140 Advanced Tricks
140 Airborne Glass
141 Anti-Gravico and Hydracoke
142 Astro-Sphere
143 Bead-Diffusion
144 Blow Tie
145 Clear Anti-Gravity
146 Dancing Cane
147 Rattle Bars
148 Red Snapper
149 Sands of the Desert
150 Sure-Shot Dice Box
151 Zombie and Miracle Ball
153 Magic Of The Mind
153 Illusion Blindfold Drive
156 Add-A-No
157 Book of the Mind
158 Crystal Card Watch
160 Clearly Mental
161 Clear-Voyance and Oracle
162 Color Clairvoyance
163 Color Vision Box
164 Deceptive Transparent Change Bug
165 Dial-X and Wonder Clock
166 ESP Color Rapport
167 Invisible Chip Prediction
168 Isolation
169 Jumbo Out of This World
170 Key-R-Rect
170 Mental Epic
172 Mental Image
173 Mental Miracle
174 Menta-Mateli
175 Perfected Mental Masterpiece
176 Popsy Pegs
177 Randomental
179 Snip-Snip Want Ad Test
179 Split Deck
180 Stranger in Paradise
181 Super Clip Line Plus
182 Supersonic Card Prediction
183 Synonymentul
184 Tel-A-Color
185 Voodoo
186 Advanced Tricks
186 Almost Heal Prediction
187 Bongo Bender
188 Brain Wave Deck
189 Di-Ciphering
190 Dictionary Trick
191 The Four Blacks
192 Jack London’s Prediction Chest Manuscript
194 Lexicon Phenomena
195 Magic Medallion
196 Out of This World
197 Paul Fox Miracle Gimmick
198 Premonition
199 Seance sometimes called Full-Light or One-Man Spirit Seance
200 Triple Card Revelation
201 Will Power
203 Escapes And Things Th At Penetrate Solids
203 Illusion Houdini’s Water Cell Escape
205 Chek-er-X
206 Checkers Through Silk
207 Cups and Balls
208 Enchanted Ring, Anverdis Enchanted Ring
209 Fantastic
210 Flexible Class
211 Girl in Plastic Bag
212 Linking Pins
213 Penetration Frame
214 Phantom Mystery Block
215 Pincushion Coin
216 Ribbon Fantastic pic
217 Siberian Chain Escape, ThumbStrap, Torture Wrist Band
219 Turkish Turmoil
220 Visible Walking Through a Ribbon
221 Wrist Shackle
222 Advanced Tricks
222 Blasted and Blasted Jr.
223 Chinese Linking Rings
225 Coaster Coin Dazzler
225 Derek Dingle’s Double Deception
226 Jardin Ellis Ring
227 Marconick Coin Mystery
228 Osmosis
229 Show Lace
229 Spear-It Knife
230 Straitjacket Escape
231 Super Chain Cuffs
234 Danger And Torture
234 Illusion: Sawing a Person in Half
236 Balls of Fire
237 Candle Through Arm
238 Dagger Chest Illusion
239 Fire Bowl
240 Grant’s Candle-Lite
242 Guillotines
244 Head Cremation
244 Magicpuncture or the Impossible Needle Trick
245 Razor Blade Trick
247 Safari
248 Advanced Trick
248 Vest-Pocket Bullet Catch
250 Miscellaneous Magic
250 Illusion The Indian Rope Trick
282 And So to Bed
254 Card Ducks
258 Card in Balloon
258 Card Swords
257 Chapeaugraphy
258 Comedy Milk in Glass
259 Insurance Policy
261 Light-Heavy Glass
263 Teleflash
264 Trouble Wit
265 Television Frame
266 TV Trick
268 Appendixes
268 I The Magician’s Bookshelf
275 II Miraculous Accessories
280 III Where to Buy Magic