LeDair, Jack: Tricks of a Trouper ©1946, a Goodliffe Publication, England Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 68 pages

Image courtesy eBay seller Mad-Collector

Comments: Illustrations by Dennis. From the end-notes, "Tricks of a Trouper ran serially in the first seventeen issues of Abracadabra, the only Magical Weekly in the World."

Contents:

7 Introduction (Capt. Trevor H. Hall)
7 Introduction
9 Foreword
13 Chapter One: Cigarette Making
19 Chapter Two: Oscar The Duck
18 Chapter Three: The Colour Handkerchief Change
20 Chaper Four: The (Stodare) Egg And Handkerchief Trick
23 Chapter Five: The Three Cards And Celebrity Trick
25 Chapter Six: Two Proven Winners
25 - Another Way of Finding a Missing Watch
26 - The Vanishing Violin Bow
28 Chapter Seven: Topical Torn And Restored Trick
30 Chapter Eight: Three Mental Mysteries
30 - Scalbert's Mystery of the Seventh Card
30 - A Publicity Telephone Trick (J.E. Hammond)
32 - A Prediction (James A. Revill)
34 Chapter Nine: A Variation For The Missing Ring: Rings and Boxes
35 Chapter Ten: The Ledair Colour-Change For Thimbles
35 - More About Thimbles
37 Chapter Eleven: Another Flare-Up
39 Chapter Twelve: The Miser's Dream
40 - Patter for the Miser's Dream
42 Chapter Thirteen: The Giant Matches
42 - The Bottle of Wine
43 - Sheep Sharing
43 - Match Subtraction
44 - Match Geography
44 - Match Spelling
46 - Match Marionettes
46 Chapter Fourteen: The Rice And Fountain Trick
49 Chapter Fifteen: The Rising Cards
50 - Preparation 54 Chapter Sixteen: The Card And Cigarette Trick
60 Chapter Seventeen: The £1 Note And Three Candle Trick
64 Chapter Eighteen: Mad Conjuring
65 Chapter Nineteen: New Fields
65 - Broadcasting Magic
66 - Television
68 A Trouper Sums Up