Rice, Harold R.: Rice`s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic Vol.3 ©1962 Harold R. Rice, Silk King Studios, PA Hardcover, w/dj, 5.5x8", 489 pages ©1986 ESM Publishers, Boston

1974 Edition Image courtesy eBay seller Bryan-Keith Taylor

Comments: Illustrator: Francis B. Martineau. Volume 3 of Harold Rice's extensive coverage of silk magic. A volume four was written by Mark Trimble to round out the set.

Contents: (from book, updated Mar 2024):

iii Dedication  III

1055 Chapter Eighteen Sympathetic Silks
1056 Origin
1156 Original Effect (Harlan Tarbell, Edward Victor)
1158 Basic Elements of Effect
1060 The Sympathetic Silks Stand (Joe Berg)
1062 Uniting the Colors (Edward Bagshawe)
1062 Sympathetic Silk Methods (Percy Abbot): idea
1062 Weber's Method (Herman Weber)
1062 Sten's Method (Carl Sten)
1064 A Chair Display (Harlan Tarbell)
1064 False Counts
1064 Hugard's Count (Jean Hugard)
1066 Tarbell's Count (Harlan Tarbell)
1067 Rice's Count (Harold Rice)
1068 Combinations
1068 Upsetting the Knots
1068 The Square Knot
1068 Nu-Way Double Knot (Harlan Tarbell)
1079 Quick Release Double Knot (Harlan Tarbell)
1079 Slydini Knot
1079 Proudlock's Version (Edward Proudlock)
1082 Four Silks Routine (Al Baker)
1086 Two Silk Routines (Al Baker)
1087 Clark's Sympathetic Silks (Keith Clark)
1088 Furst's Sympathetic Silks (Arnold Furst)
1092 Bellman's Method (Dan Bellman)
1096 One Hand Method (Prince Wendes)
1098 Coleman's Routine (Walter Coleman)
1101 Rice's E-Z Method (Harold Rice)
1103 The Phantom Knots (Joe Berg)
1104 Sympathetic Silk Effect (Bob Hanko)
1105 Lopilato's Sympathetic Silks (Tony Lopilato)
1107 Snappy Knotting Silks (Tony Lopilato)
1108 Sympathetic Knots (Louis Tannen)
1110 Grant's Sympathetic Silks (U.F. Grant)
1111 A Graceful Flourish (Eric Lewis)
1112 Sympathetic Rose (Foo Ling Yu)
1114 Bobo's Timely Tips (J.B. Bobo)
1115 Bobo's Pattern (J.B. Bobo)
1117 Bobo's Repeat (J.B. Bobo)
1118 The Mohammedon (Dr. Chang)
1120 Visible Sympathetic Silks (Francis Martineau)
1122 Martineau's Repeat (Fancis Martineau)
1123 Silk Sympathy (Edward Bagshawe)
1124 As U Like It (Stuart Judah)
1126 Silks Do As You Do (Oscar Weigle, Jr.)
1127 Untying Sympathy (James Douglas)
1129 My Silken Princess (Harold Rice)
1132 The Traveling Knots
1134 Passe-Passe Knot (George Johnstone)
1135 20th Century Sympathetic Silks (U.F. Grant)
1135 Comedy Sympathetic Silks (Julian Gresham)
1137 Chameleon Knots (Robert Harbin)
1138 Satan's Silks
1140 20th Century Sympathy (Len Belcher)
1142 The Traveling Knot (L.L. Ireland)
1143 Twin Sympathy (Oscar Weigle, Jr.)
1145 In-A-Bag (Harold Rice)
1148 Birds of Burma (Clifford Lesta)
1150 Switch-Over Silks (Sid Miller and Sol Hirsh)
1151 Magnetic Sympathetic Silks (Rink)
1154 Upset Square Knot (Dick Du Bois)
1154 Du Bois Variation (Harold Rice)
1156 Knotriump (Hen Fetsch)
1160 Knotted Silks (Murphy and Hamilton)

1161 Chapter Nineteen Blendo Effects
1162 Origin
1162 Basic Principle (Harold Rice)
1164 Tarbell's Perfection Flag Trick (Alter Frank Ducrot)
1166 Contemporary Version (Harold Rice)
1166 Rice's Blendo (Rice)
1168 Preknotted Blendo (Harold Rice)
1168 Improved Blendo (Harry Baker)
1171 A Flask Blendo Opener (Arnold Furst)
1172 Another Flash Blendo (Furst)
1174 Blendo-Modus Operandi (R.C. Buff)
1174 Berg's Ribbon Blendo (Joe Berg)
1176 Rice's Silks to Flag (Harold Rice)
1178 Thayer's New Blendo (Floyd Thayer)
1180 Mendes Blendo (Prince Mendes)
1182 Holden's Blendo (Max Holden)
1184 White's Blendo (Ralph White)
1185 Silks to Flags (Richard Lindahl)
1186 Blending of the Colors (Dr. Milton Bridges)
1188 Hanks and Flag (T.J. Peters)
1189 Modern Blendo (Vernon Cook)
1191 Blendo Routine (Joe Hom Check)
1193 Nu-Blent (John Penrose)
1195 Booth Blendo (John Booth)
1197 The Mystic Ribbons (Harlan Tarbell)
1199 Burgette's Blendo (Burgette)
1200 Blendo and Flowers
1201 New Blendo (Darrell Hammer)
1202 Silk Gloves (Hen Fetsch)
1203 Color Blend (Milbourne Christopher)
1204 Color Blending (C.E. Knille)
1205 Greer's Blendo (Greer Marechal)
1206 Blendette (Pat Egans)
1208 Rice Patriotic Blendo (Harold Rice)
1209 Rice's Mismade Blendo (Rice)
1210 Jack Rose (Ed Massey)
1211 Nu Type Silk Blend (Baffini Bill)
1213 A Silken Mixup (Vernon Cook)

1217 Chapter Twenty "Naughty" Silks

1218 Naughty Silks Part One
1218 Introduction
1218 Silks Required
1219 Rolling the Silk
1220 The Snap Knot
1221 The Fastest Knot
1222 The Aerial Knot
1223 Houdini Knot
1224 The Unknottable Silk
1225 Knot Caught In the Air
1226 Hunter's Bow Knot
1227 School Boy Knot
1228 Height of the Quadruple Knot
1230 Close-Up On Blow-Away Knot
1231 The Spirit Knot
1232 Spook Knot
1232 Solid Thru Solid
1234 Silk Thru Wrist
1235 The Double Figure Eight
1236 Four-In-Hand Knot
1238 Knot on Wrist
1238 Knot on Wrist - Second Method
1239 The Hangman's Loop
1241 Another Solid Thru Solid
1242 Knot That Is Knot
1243 - Second Method
1244 - Third Method
1245 - Fourth Method
1245 The Impossible Knot - First Method
1247 - Second Method
1247 - Third Method
1248 - Fourth Method
1248 - Fifth Method
1249 - Sixth Method
1250 - Seventh Method
1251 - Eighth Method
1251 - Ninth Method
1252 The Puzzle Knot
1252 Stretching a Silk - First Method
1253 Stretching a Silk - Second Method
1254 Another One Hand Knot
1256 The Rolling Knot
1256 Another Knot That Is Knot
1256 Another Aerial Knot
1256 Miller's Boy Scout Knot
1258 Jung Pin Soo Knot
1258 Thru The Chair
1260 Thru The Wrist
1260 Thru the Ring
1260 Thru The Neck
1262 Pick It Up
1264 Visible Multiplying Knot
1265 More Multiplying Knots
1267 Threading the Needle
1268 - Second Method
1268 - Third Method
1269 - Fourth Method

1270 Naughty Silks Part Two
1270 The Second Silk: deluxe effects requiring two silks
1270 Fastest Knot In The World
1271 Double Knot in Air
1272 Passe-Passe
1273 Solid Thru Solid
1273 Deluxe Spirit Knot
1274 Loop The Loop
1274 Gilding Lover's Knots
1276 One Hand Knot With Two Silks
1276 One Hand Knot With Two Silks - Second Method
1277 Vanishing Spectators

1278 Naughty Silks Part Three: other knot effects
1279 Unknottable Hank (Will Blyth)
1279 A Knot At Last (Harold Rice)
1281 Knot in Reverse (Harold Rice)
1282 Silks Thru the Legs (Stanley Collins)
1283 Chair Release (Harlan Tarbell)
1284 Hank Thru Wrist (Al Baker)
1285 Double Dissolving Silk Release (Edwin Tabor)
1287 Knot Transposition (S. Leo Horowitz)
1288 Boy to Rabbit (Fetaque Sanders)
1289 Novell Vanishing Knot (Anthony Lopilato)
1290 Another Snap Knot (Mitchell Dyszel)
1291 New Vanishing Knot (John Thornton)
1293 The Phantom Knot
1294 Deluxe Impossible Knot (L.L. Ireland)
1294 Quick Knot Silks (Tony Lopilato)
1296 The Switchover Knot (Sid Miller)
1297 Single Knot Release (Jimmy Herpick)
1299 The Handkerchief Knot (Roger Middleswart)
1301 Triple Hank Release (Harlan Tarbell)
1302 Knot Effect Variation (Tan Hoch Chuan)
1303 Ideal Solid Thru Solid (Glenn Gravatt)
1304 Ring On (Larry Becker)
1306 Rope and Silk Penetration (Henry Holava)
1308 Silk and Ring (John Thornton)
1310 Hank In
1312 Quick-Pint (Larry Becker)

1315 Chapter Twenty-One Silks And Eggs
1316 Introduction
1316 Kling Klang No. 1 (Colonel Stodare)
1318 Kling Klang No. 2 (George De Lawrence)
1319 Kling Klang No. 3 (Al Baker)
1321 Cling Clang 20th Century (Hen Fetsch)
1323 Egg, Glass and Hank (El Barto)
1326 Kling Klang Konfetti (Harold Puff)
1328 Modernized Egg, Glass and Hank (Harlan Tarbell)
1332 Silk to Egg (Harold Rice)
1334 Silk-N-Egg (Harold Rice)
1337 Eggs-Traordinary Eggs-Plantation (Harlan Tarbell)
1341 Egg and Hank Routine (U.F. Grant)
1342 No-Gimmick Silk to Egg (U.F. Grant)
1343 Revamped (Joseph Ovette)
1344 Stodare Egg and Hank (Jack Ledair)
1345 I've Got Your Money (Gordon James Bell)
1347 Thumb Egg Tips (Clarence T. Little)
1348 Hank Spider (Barney Lederman)
1349 ABC 20th Century (A.N. Rossi)
1350 Silk Gone Mad (Gordon M'Kenney)
1351 No Switch Egg (Jim Conley)
1352 The Invisible Hen

1355 Chapter Twenty-Two Soup Plates And Silks
1356 Introduction
1356 Basic Effect
1356 Soup Plate and Hanks (Harlan Tarbell)
1360 Mystic Silks (H.C. Enslow)
1360 Hanks and Soup Plates (M. Patrice)
1362 Plate and Silk (Byron Churchill)
1363 Under a Soup Plate (Len J. Sewell)
1366 Silks and Soup Plates (Jean Hugard)
1369 Vested Silks and Plates (Jean Hugard)
1369 Beneath a Soup Plate (Professor Hoffmann)
1371 Silks Between (Arturu)
1373 Prepared Plates: intro
1373 - Thayer Soup Plate
1374 - Abbott Soup Plate
1374 - Goldstone Soup Plate
1375 - Rice's Soup Plate
1375 - Newspaper Method (Will Goldston)
1376 Magic With Plates (Carlos H. Colombi)
1378 Plate and Flying Silks (Wilfrid Jonson)
1380 Flying Hank and Plates (George De Lawrence)
1381 Color Silk and Plate (William Larsen)
1382 Phoenix Silk (Sid Lorraine)

1385 Chapter Twenty-Three Silks and Candles
1386 Introduction
1386 Flying Hank and Candle (Hatton and Plate)
1388 Knotted Hanks (Collins Pentz)
1390 Silk and Flame (Harlan Tarbell)
1394 Candle, Silk, and Tube (Harlan Tarbell)
1396 The Repeat Candle (Percy Abbott)
1398 Silk From Candle (Jean Hugard)
1399 Silk and Candle Transmigration (George Poulleau)
1401 A Question of Color (George Lorimer)
1404 Candle and Silks Routine (J.C. Walter)
1405 Alchemistry
1409 A New Candle and Hank (Oswald Rae)
1410 Candle Smoke (Ed Massey)
1412 Tricks With Hanks (Ellis Stanyon)
1413 With a Candle (Eddie Clever)
1415 Problems In Silk and Wax (Max Sterling)

1421 Chapter Twenty-Four Openers
1422 Introduction
1422 Air Mail Silk Production (Bill Chaudet)
1423 Double Silk Production (Percy Abbott)
1424 Sappy Barehand Silk Production
1426 Silk Stretch (Harold Beaumont)
1427 Instant Color Change (Ross Bagley)
1429 Mini-Cone Production (Len Sewell)
1431 See-Thru Folder (Ian Adair)
1433 Atomic Silk (Peter Warlock)
1434 Silks on Rope (Scotty Lang)
1437 The Mixture - Not As Before (Len Belcher)
1440 Transposition Extraordinary (Okito)
1442 Turning the Tables (Wm Larsen)
1444 Spectacular Opening (Harold Rice)
1447 Flash Opener (Larry Becker)
1448 Magnetized Hank
1449 Miracle Silks (Francis Martineau)
1454 Glass and Silk Routine (T. Nordnes)
1457 Dual Silk Production (Glenn Gravatt)
1460 An Opening Trick
1464 Spectacular Flask Opening (Jean Hugard)
1468 Show Opener in Silks (Roy Cottee)
1472 Another Opener (Jean Hugard)
1474 Flash Silk Appearance (Karson)
1476 Rainbow Silk Appear (Leon Ardo)
1477 Dove Streamer (Ricki Dunn)
1479 Silken Bombshell (Marconick)
1481 Prisoner Silk (Marconick)
1487 Flying Silks (Marconick)
1490 Fountain of Silks (Marconick)
1493 Fetsch Openers (Hen Fetsch)
1494 Lightning Production (Hen Fetsch)
1496 Curtain to Finale (Hen Fetsch)
1498 Grand Poppers (Hen Fetsch)
1504 Cigarette and Holder to Silk (Sam Berland)

1507 Chapter Twenty-Five Jap Hank Box
1508 Introduction
1508 The New Inexhaustible Box (Ellis Stanyon)
1510 Current Models
1512 Do It Yourself Box (Len Belcher)
1514 Devant's Routine (David Devant)
1517 Holmes Production (Donald Holmes)
1520 Marinos Hank Box Routine (Edward Marino)
1524 Wright's Radio Box (Larsen and Wright)
1528 Medley of Surprises (Glenn Gravatt)
1532 Hanky Panky Routine (Herman Weber)
1539 The Phantom Silk (Edward Fanley)
1541 As A Utility Box (Harold Rice)
1542 Jap Box Disguised