Leeming Joseph: The New Book of Magic - Professor Paradise
©1927 Doubleday, Page & Co., NY
Hardcover, 189 pages

©1939 Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., NY
The New Book of Magic Professor Paradise with Dust
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New Book of Magic - Professor Paradise
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Leeming, Joseph: The New Book of Magic

Comments: States "by Professor Paradise, with assistance by Joseph Leeming"

Contents (from book ToC, page numbers after 142 are estimated):

1 Handkerchief Tricks
1 The Flying Handkerchief
6 The Magic Dye Tube
11 The Instantaneous Color Change
14 The Flying Handkerchief and Billiard Ball
17 Handkerchiefs and Match Boxes
19 The Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick
22 The Flag and Candle Illusion
25 The Handkerchief and Orange Trick
29 Red, White, and Blue, or the Old Glory Trick
33 The Red and Blue Handkerchief and Glass Change

35 Card Tricks
25 The X-Ray Card Box
38 The Phantom Cards, or Three from Five Leaves Nothing
42 The Mahatma Marvel Card Trick
46 The Mysterious Card Target
51 Mind Reading and Card Transference
54 Card Metempsychosis
57 The Cards of Satan
60 Mind Reading with Cards
63 Catching a Chosen Card on a Wand
66 The Magical Card Melange
69 The Floating Card
73 The Mystic Card Star

79 Coin Tricks
79 A Good Coin Vanisher
80 The Flying Coin
84 The Bewitched Half Dollar
86 Multiplying Money
90 The Winged Coins
93 Cornucopiaed Coins
96 The Coins in the Glass
98 The Coins, Card, and Glass Trick

100 Miscellaneous Tricks
100 Watch Repairing Extraordinary
105 The Hindu Seed Trick
109 Instantaneous Flower Production
112 “If Winter Comes”
114 The Ink and Water Transformation
118 The Perplexing Pitcher, or the Wine and Water Trick
121 The Liquid Color Change
124 The Magic Ring and Wand
127 The Cossack Rope Escape
130 The Thumb Tie Escape
133 The Great Packing Case Mystery
137 The Spirit Picture Frame
142 The Celebrated Dictionary Trick
146 Spirit Mathematics
151 The Spirit Dial
155 Fruitful Divination
159 The Magnetic Hat, Wand and Table
162 The Dissolving Die
168 The Japanese Rice Bowls
171 The Inexhaustible Box
175 The Radio-Active Blocks
177 The Chinese Prayer Rings
179 The Bewitched Candles
181 Rings Caught on the Wand
185 The Ring and Card Trick


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