Racherbaumer, Jon & Giovanni Livera: The Amazing Cigar ©1977 Livera & Racherbaumer, Magic Marketing Concepts, Inc. Hardcover, w/dj, ISBN: 0-9660567-2-8

Image courtesy ConjuringArts

Comments: "The Cigar Connoisseur's Secrets to Smoke Rings, Mystifications, & Other Cool Things". Tricks and stunts with cigars, cigar bands, smoke, and matches.

Contents (from book ToC):

5 Introduction
6 How To Read This Book
7 Presentation Tips

10 Smoke Sorcery
10 Bert Pichel: An American Original
12 Harry Garrison: Lord of the Rings
15 Ring Mastery
15 The Smoke
15 Mouth Positions
16 Propulsion
17 Practice
17 Air Currents
18 Drafting
19 Ringlets
20 Hole-in-One
21 Figure Eights
21 Off The Wall
22 Nothing To Be Sniffed At
22 Disappearing Ring
23 Merger
23 Hat Trick
24 Pichel's Halo
24 Double Ring
25 Aqua Rings
26 Mood Rings
27 Mistologist
29 Up Your Sleeve
30 Smubbles
31 Finger Smoke
32 Auto-Smoke
33 How Much Does Smoke Weigh?

36 Cigar Chicanery
36 Hang Time
37 Sucker's Hang Time
39 Klingon
40 Prayer Suspension
41 Seven Gets You One
42 Immobile Cigar
44 Bluff Stretch
45 Close But No Cigar
48 Nickel Cigar
49 Old Geller
51 Puncture Juncture
53 Mister Blister
55 Gone!
56 Cigar Fu
58 Pentagar
59 Rising To The Occasion

62 The Band Plays On
62 Band Dance
64 On The Up and Up
65 Band Scape
67 Off Again On Again

70 Head Turners
70 Sparky
70 Flame Thrower
71 Rotation
72 Butt Head

74 Old Black Match-ik
74 Comeback Match
76 Headless
78 Thieves and Sheep
80 Poltergeist Book
81 Snap-Back
83 Quick Turnaround
84 Jumpy
86 Piano Mover
87 Testosterone Level
88 Flea Circus

92 Matchbox Bamboozlers
92 Rattling Monte
93 Upsy Daisy
94 Ghostly Matchbox
97 Forklift U
99 Tunnel
100 Van Deventer's Masterpiece

105 Mind Games
105 Olive Foil
105 Squares Gone
106 Five To Four
106 Mensa Bash
106 Triangulation
107 Triangulation Outdone
107 Make It Equal
107 Starlet
107 Root Of It
108 Ninney
108 Edgy
108 Nim
109 About-Face Fish
109 Flying South
109 Perfect Square

112 Lighter Side
112 Pinocchio Knows
114 Asbestos Handkerchief
115 Countdown Con

118 Cutter Cunning
118 Loopy
119 Gordian Nightmare
120 Follow Chefalo
121 Impossible Knot
122 Not!
124 Hooked Up

128 Ashes to Ashes
128 You Do Voodoo
130 Telltale Ashes
132 Buisiness Card Psychic
133 Nice Ash

136 Cigar Box Juggling
136 Amazing Hints
137 Beginning
137 Take Out
138 End Turning
138 Box Balancing

141 Solutions