Rae, Oswald: Sub Rosa Another Book of Exclusive Magic ©1928 Oswald Rae, Great Britain Hardcover, no dj, 108 pages

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Contents (from book ToC):

vii Foreword

1 Chapter I Card Tricks
1 Rae’s Ten-Card Trick
4 Slap It: card colour change
7 Cutting a Pack of Cards
11 A Visible Servante: using a hat
13 Card Location
14 A Remarkable Coincidence: with two spectators

18 Chapter II Cigarette Tricks
18 Selected Smokes: magician removes cigarettes by brand
22 Cigarette Balancing
24 Here and There: cigarette travels from hand to hand
26 “Gentlemen, You may Smoke”: loose tobacco and papers form into cigarettes

30 Chapter III Miscellaneous Tricks
30 Improved “Penetra”: glass of water penetrates hat and vanishes
34 A Waterproof Servante: behind a chair
35 Glass of Water and Hat: glass vanishes and appears in a hat
36 Something from Nothing: liquid and more produced from sealed tube
41 Call for Your Drinks: similar to above
42 Milady’s Dorothy Bag: objects transpose in small bag
48 The Vanishing Rifle: rifle vanishes and reappears

54 Chapter IV More Miscellaneous Tricks
54 Bending a Piece of Glass: glass frame
57 A New Dye Tube
60 Vanishing Handkerchief
60 Passe Passe Silks
62 The Elusive Ring: on named finger
64 Novelty Paper Tearing: torn paper forms word
66 A Neat Colour Force: using a 4x4 square
68 The Spirit Slate: using a flapped slate

77 Chapter V Mental Magic
77 Psycho-Analysis: magician determines card and thought of name
82 Clairvoyance: answering sealed questions
91 Miracles of Memory: mental math

102 Chapter VI An Illusion
102 The Life Ray: performer appears