Lewis, Eric: The Crowning Miracles ©1983 Eric Lewis, Magical Publications, Pasadena, CA Hardcover, w/dj, 8x10", 237 pages

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Comments: The third and final volume of the Miracles Trilogy. The trilogy includes:  1) A Choice of Miracles (magic up to 1939); 2) A Continuation of Miracles; and 3) The Crowning Miracles.

Contents (courtesy Martin's Magic)

11 Publisher’s Note
12 Introduction (John Booth)
13 Foreword

15 I Peace-Imperfect Peace

18 II Some “Magikraft” Magic
18 Suprinso
21 The Pin-Up Girl
23 A Color-Forcing Paddle
24 Repeat Coin Trays
27 Come-Back Card Comedy
29 A “Slate” Mistake
30 The Carl Fleming Pip Fluid
30 The Harbin-Lewis Trick
31 The Mystery of the Crystal Ring

35 III The “Modern Entertainment” Series
35 Who Done It?
39 A Lesson in Card Magic
42 Lexicography
43 A “Sloppy” Shuffle
43 The Data Prompter

45 IV Magikraft Magic For Children
46 School or Circus?
49 Pieces of Eight
51 The Pirate’s Chest
54 Solid Chuff-Chuff
58 Eric Wilson and “Brer Rabbit”
60 Consequences

65 V Masterpieces Of Nature
66 Michael Chick
67 The Die Table
68 Edward Pearce
69 The Beatles Forever
71 Wilfred Tyler
74 Abdul’s Fez
78 Eric (Nitwit) Williams
79 Burnt Just Chance
82 Jack Woodward
85 The Mystery of the Dancing Clogs
87 Ivan Fowler
88 The Weird Cylinders of Wung and Wong
90 Goodliffe the Magician

95 VI What’s In A Name?
The Wonderful Name of Lewis
The Tumbling Name Blocks
The Name Grabber
Loopy-Loo
Red or Black?

109 VII The Great Zonzo
109 The Termination of Magikraft
110 A Return to Photography
110 Leicester
111 “Devero” and a Lightning Calculator
112 A Magical Revue
113 Holiday Camps
114 Fogel
115 The Great Zonzo - The Act

119 VIII I Go Mental
120 Premonition
121 My Newspaper Headline Prediction
124 Contact Mind Reading
128 Killing ’em with Science
129 The Knight’s Tour
131 Doodles
133 A Divination with Discs
135 Die-Vination
138 Finger-tip Vision
138 Triplico
142 Olfactory
145 Dial-a-Number

149 IX Smaller Stuff
149 The Affair of the “Invisible Pass”
151 S.H. Sharpe
152 The John Kenyon Version
153 The Imaginary Pipe
155 A Perverse Paper Balls and Hat Routine
158 The Irrepressible Ball
162 A Whole-Sheet Tissue Restoration
164 A Non-Sleight Card to Wallet
166 The Red Card
168 Buried Treasure

173 X Should Aulde Acquaintance
173 Louis Histed
176 The Self-Priming Syphon of Louis Histed
177 “It’s a Gas!”
179 The Multiple Jiffy Slate
181 Grote
183 The Chaotic Candle
187 Mudaliyar A.C.G.S. Amarasekara
190 Judge (Ernest) Wethered
192 Helmut Schreiber
192 David Lemmy
193 Tommy Cooper
194 The Great Norman
195 The Man Who is Wiser

197 XI And Miracles Keep Coming!
199 Xenomania 1
200 Xenomania 2
202 Whosgotwot, 1
203 Whosgotwot Plus One
205 Whosgotwot Mark Four
207 My Sword Stab
209 The Die Everlasting
212 The Midas Touch
214 An Inexactitude
218 Odds On
221 Painting by Numbers
224 A Street in Old Pekin

231 XII New Lives For Old
231 Northampton Magician Emigrating

233 Appendix

235 Index