Leeming, Joseph: Fun With Magic ©1943 Joseph Leeming, Spencer Press, Inc., Chicago Hardcover, w/dj, 88 pages

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Comments: Drawings by Jessie Robinson. Joseph Leeming authored several nice books of beginning magic, targeted toward children but suitable for adults as well. "How to make magic equipmet; how to perform many tricks, including some of the best tricks of professional magicians and how to give successful magic shows".

Contents (from book ToC):

1 Chapter 1 Getting Ready for the Show
2 The Magician’s Table
3 The Servante
4 The Magic Wand
5 Gimmicks
6 The Magician’s Costume

7 Chapter 2 Giving the Magic Show
7 The Magician’s Rule No 1
7 Practice Makes Perfect
8 Misdirection
9 Patter
10 Arranging the Program

13 Chapter 3 Tricks with Handkerchiefs
14 Handkerchief from Nowhere
15 Handkerchief from an Empty Pocket
16 The Disappearing Handkerchief
17 The Mystic Dissolving Knot
17 The Magically Released Handkerchief
18 The Demon Handkerchief Boxes
20 The Yogi Handkerchief Tube
21 The Wizard’s Dye Tube
22 The Twentieth-century Silks
24 The Ching Chang Handkerchief Basket

25 Chapter 4 Tricks with Coins
25 A Coin Vanishing Pull
26 The Buddha Coin Vanish
27 The Coin Vanishing Handkerchief
28 The Mephisto Coin Box
29 The Flying Penny
30 Handkerchief, Coin and Match Box
31 Invisible Flight of a Coin
32 Finding the Chosen Penny
33 The Mystic Coin Penetration
34 Passe Passe Coin Transference
36 The Surprise Coin Tube
37 The Phantom Money Box
38 Multiplying Money

40 Chapter 5 Tricks with Cards
40 Making the Pass
41 The False Shuffle
42 The Card at the Chosen Number
43 The Magic Prediction
43 The Tell-tale Voice
44 The Wonder Spelling Trick
45 Miracle Card Location
46 Fun with the Royal Family
46 Magic Subtraction
47 The Incredible Cut
48 Naming a Secretly Chosen Card
48 The Wise Queen
50 You Do as I Do
51 The Phantom Cards
52 The Svengali Seven-card Trick

53 Chapter 6 Tricks with Rings
53 The Liberated Ring
54 The Dissolving Rings
55 The Ring Magically Knotted on a String
56 From Hand to Hand
57 The Ring on the Wand
58 The Bewitched Slave Bangle
59 The Magic Ring of the Mahatmas

60 7 Mind Reading and Spirit Tricks
60 The Odd Number
60 Mental Magic
62 The Spirit Mathematician
64 The Great Book Test
65 Second Sight Book Test
65 The Magician’s Bank
67 Magic Forethought
67 The Dictionary Test
68 Written By the Genii
70 Second Sight Extraordinary

71 Chapter 8 Tricks with String and Rope
71 The Arab Slave’s Escape
72 Cutting a Person in Two with Tapes
74 The Yogi’s Knot
75 The Knot in the Loop
76 The Vanishing Ring of String
76 Self-Tying Knots
77 Grandmother’s Necklace

79 Chapter 9 Miscellaneous Tricks
79 The Afghan Bands
80 Candy from Confetti
81 The Magic Production Tubes
83 The Magic Red, White and Blue Cards
84 The Magically Transferred Colors
85 Paper Ribbons from a Hat
85 Out of the Hat
86 Dealers in Magic and Magic Supplies