Leeming, Joseph: Tricks Any Boy Can Do ©1938 Joseph Leeming, Appleton-Century, NY Hardcover, w/dj, 237 pages

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Contents:

vii Foreword (Joseph Leeming)

1 Tricks With Cards
3 Making the Pass
4 Forcing a Card
5 The Five-Pile Force
6 Another Method of Forcing a Card
7 The False Shuffle
8 Locating a Chosen Card
9 The Telltale Cards
10 The Turned-Over Card
11 Revealing a Thought-of Card
12 The Changeable Ace
13 The Secret Card
14 Instant Color Change
15 Finding the Aces
16 The Card-In-The-Glass Vanish
17 The Adhesive Card
18 All Together
19 The Face-Up Card
20 Cutting the Chosen Card
21 Counting to the Chosen Card
22 The Chosen Suit
22 Face to Face
23 The Upturned Card
24 The Traveling Two
25 Card Subtraction
26 The Inseperable Suits
28 The Twenty Cards
29 The Card in the Pocket
30 Picking the Court-Cards
30 Separating the Colors
31 The Cards in the Pocket
32 The Telephone Trick
34 The Card in the Bowl
35 Telling a Card Dealt by a Spectator
37 Odd and Even
37 Naming the Cards
39 The Card on the Wall
39 The Card Clock
40 The Transferred Cards
41 Duplicating the Count
42 The Stop Trick
43 The Lightning Change

45 Tricks With Coins
47 The Folded Paper Coin Vanish
48 The Handkerchief Coin Vanish
49 The Coin Pull
50 A Good Coin Vanishing Box
50 The Coin Box
51 The Coin Pass (Le Tourniquet)
52 The Disappearing Dime
54 The Coin in the Glass
55 Melting Money
56 The Coin Through the Table
57 Multiplying Coins
58 The Penetrating Coins
59 The Magnetic Coin
60 The Coin in the Handkerchief
61 Flying Money
62 The Shrinking Half-Dollar
63 The Coin Under the Cards
64 The Coin in the Hat
65 The Coin in the Saucer
66 The Coin in the Sleeve
67 Catching a Coin Out of the Air
67 The Rolling Coin Box
69 The Coin, Cards, and Glass Trick
72 Pennies and Dimes
73 The Glass of Water Coin Vanish

77 Tricks With Matches & Matchboxes
77 The Penetrating Matches
78 Match Mind-Reading
79 The Reducing Match Box
81 Passing Two Matches Through Each Other
82 The Balanced Match
83 The Penetrating Mark
84 The Pencil from the Match Box
85 The Color-Changing Match Tips
85 Matches From Nowhere
86 The Transferred Colors
88 The Obedient Matches
88 Match-Box Eiffel Tower
89 The Bewitched Matches
90 A Striking Effect
91 The Magnetic Match-Box Drawer

95 Tricks With Balls
95 Ball From the Air
96 The Disappearing Ball
97 Mysterious Ball Tube
98 The Ball in the Glass
100 The Balanced Ball
100 The Ball Beneath the Handkerchief
101 Mysterious Rolling Ball

103 Tricks With Handkerchiefs
105 Appearing and Disappearing Handkerchief
106 The Handkerchief "Pull"
108 Tying a Handkerchief with One Hand
109 The Dissolving Knot
110 The Mystic Knot
111 The Drinking-glass Handkerchief Vanish
113 The Handkerchief Pyramid
114 The Flying Handkerchief
114 The Hat and Handkerchief Trick
116 The Fireproof Handkerchief
116 The Dissolving Knot
117 The Handkerchief and the Four Boxes
119 The Handkerchief Vases
120 The Handkerchief on the String
122 The Color Changing Handkerchief
123 Another Handkerchief Color Change

127 Tricks With Rings
129 Vanishing a Ring Wrapped in Paper
130 Instantaneous Ring Release
131 The Disappearing Ring
132 The Ring in the Lemon
133 The Ring-and-Egg Trick
135 The Ring on the String
135 The Climbing Ring

137 Tricks with String
139 Tub Disappearing Knot
140 The Interwoven String
141 Passing a String through a Finger
142 The Mysterious Knot
143 The String and Straw Trick (1)
144 The String and Straw Trick (2)

147 Tricks With Cigarettes and Cigars
149 Cigarette from Match
150 The Suspended Cigarette
150 The Magician as Salamander
151 The Lengthened Cigarette
152 Cigarette Magnetism
153 Mysterious Cigar Band
154 The Balancing Cigar

155 Mind-Reading and Spirit Tricks
157 The Sealed Message
158 Alarm-clock mind-reading
159 Mind-reading with Cards
160 Book Mind-reading
161 Who Took the Coin?
162 Second-sight Time Telling
163 The Spirits' Match Box
164 Spirit Messages
166 The Mystic Ashes
167 Red Magic
168 Naming a Chosen Number
168 Which Card?
169 Parlor Mind-reading
171 Dollar-bill Mind-reading

173 Tricks With Numbers
175 Magic Addition
176 To Tell a Number Thought of by a Spectator
177 The Magic Square
180 Picking the Chosen Digit
181 Important Dates
182 Telling the Number Thought of
183 The Chosen Figure
184 The Number in the Envelop
185 Counting to One Hundred

187 Miscellaneous Tricks
189 The Appearing Flower
189 Burned and Restored Paper
190 Changing an Egg to Confetti
191 The Odd Number
192 The Pillars of Solomon
195 The Reversing Pencil
196 The Magnetized Pencil
197 Pencil and Paper
198 The Chinese Blocks
200 The Bewitched Paper Bands
201 The Confetti Glass
203 The Die in the Handkerchief
205 The Magic Production Tubes
207 The Thimble Palm
209 The Multiplying Thimble
210 Producing a Thimble from a Paper Cone
210 The Disappearing Thimble
211 The Thimble Color Chance
211 The Thimble on the Finger
213 The Multiplying Corks
214 Black and Red
215 The Five Kings
215 Locating the Black Checker
216 The Traveling Checker Piles
218 A Checker Puzzle
219 The Untearable Paper
220 Red, White, and Blub
222 The Red, White, and Blue Beads
223 The Disappearing Spots
224 Changing Die Spots
225 The Obedient Watch
225 Counting the Hours
226 The Bending Watch
227 The Spools-and-String Trick
228 The Eggs in the Hat
230 Appearing Chinese Coins
231 Color Changing Spools
323 The Non-wettable Hand
233 Producing a Glass of Water from a Pocket
234 The Inverted Glass of Water
235 Ruler and Newspaper
235 Changing Ink to Water
237 Changing Water to Ink