Robbins, Barry: Everybody's Book of Magic ©1947 PM Productions, Ltd, London & Letchworth Softcover, saddle-stitched, 128 pages

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Comments: Illustrated by James R. Ryan

Contents (from book):

5 Chapter One About Magic
6 Magic's Pedigree
8 You, the Magician
13 Your Audience

16 Chapter Two Magic With Cards Without Skill
17 Predicting the Choice: a simple card prediction
18 The Reversing Card: spectator's card is found face up in the deck
19 Naming Three Cards: magician finds three selections in three piles
20 Moses and The Rock: magician finds selection with the help of salt
21 The Magic Pennies: cards match a penny's date
24 The Neat Deck: a mixed up deck instantly rights itself
25 Magic Spelling: a selected card is spelled to itself
26 The Restless Pair: two cards travel to the bottom of the deck
27 By Sense of Touch: magician pulls out any card named
28 The Disappearing Card: a card vanishes in a glass
29 Vocal Vibrations: magician names selected card as they are named
30 One Way Packs: and how to use

32 Chapter Three Magic With Cards Some Skill Required
33 False Shuffles
33 - Retaining the Bottom Card
33 - Front and Back Shuffle
34 - Three Way Shuffle
35 - Table Cut
35 The Pass
36 THe Bottom Slide
36 The Slip
36 The Palm
39 Forcing a Card: The Classic Force
41 The Pile Method of Forcing
41 Methods of Locating a Chosen Card
42 The Glide
42 Locating by Projecting Cards
43 The Waterfall
45 Revealing the Chosen Card
45 Turned at a Certain Number
45 The Duplicate Card
46 Telltale Eyes
46 The Obedient Reflex
46 The Porous Plate
47 The Prophetic Egg
47 Changing the Spots
48 Out of the Air
48 Prophetic Spelling
49 The Sticky Card
50 The Last Laugh
50 Many More Tricks With a Set-Up Pack: CHaSeD, Eight Kings
51 Simple Mind-Reading
52 Multiple Mind-Reading
52 Odd or Even
52 Accurate Prophecies
53 Dealing a Winner

54 Chapter Four Money Magic
54 Palming
56 Coin Passes
56 The French Drop
56 The Jingle
58 The Back Palm
58 The Golden Touch

60 Coin Tricks Requiring No Skill
60 Coin Up Your Sleeve: a vanish
60 The Added Coin: an additional coin appears
60 The Elbow Trick With a New Twist: a coin vanish and reappearance
61 The Coin and the Handkerchief: coin appears in a handkerchief
61 The Elusive Coin: coin vanish in spectator's hand
62 The Coin Candle: coin produced from lit candle
62 Heads Together: puzzle
63 The Intelligent Coin: coin talks in a glass
63 The Greased Coin: magician finds selected coin in a hat
64 The Hypnotized Coin: another version
64 The Persistent Match Box: match box always lands same side up

65 Chapter Five Ring and String Magic
65 Ring Through String: a bracelet appears on a rope tied to your two wrists
66 Gilding the Lily: ring becomes tied to the rope
68 Freeing a Threaded Ring: a smaller ring is removed from a string; two methods
69 The Hindu Ring Trick: a group of rings are removed from a string
71 A Ring Vanishes: in a handkerchief
71 ...Into an Egg: ring is found in an egg
72 The Chinese Ring Trick: a handful of Chinese coins is caught in the air
72 Sting and Straw: string through a straw is cut, but only the straw is damaged
73 The Handcuffed Slave: a rope and handkerchief escape
74 About Escapes and Houdini: article
77 Hands Tied Behind Back: general approach
77 The Cross-Chest Tie: general description
77 Completely Bound With Rope: general approach
77 Escaping From Hand and Leg Irons: using hidden keys
78 Escape From Containers: discussion of general approaches
80 Escapes From Rooms: conclusion

81 Chapter Six Miscellaneous Magic
81 The Phantom Cigarette: invisible cigarette becomes visible
82 The Revolving Cigarette: stunt
82 The Upright Cigar: another stunt
82 The Rising Cigarette: from the pack
83 The Fireproof Hand: extinguishing a cigarette in the hand
83 The Afghan Bands: magical cut paper loops
85 Out of Your Hat: production
85 The Magnetized Tube: a paper tube rolls by magnetism
86 The Magnetized Cane: using thread
87 Columbus Was a Magician: balancing an egg
87 Ham(mer) and Egg: Hammered egg turns to confetti
88 The Stubborn Initial: Initial transfers from sugar cube to spectator's palm
89 The Empty Pocket: handkerchief from pocket
89 The Remarkable Handkerchief: a borrowed handkerchief dances in the hand
90 The Transparent Glass: silk appears in a glass
92 The Magic Tumbler: object dropped in a tumbler vanishes
92 The Vanishing Glass: while trying to vanish a coin, the glass vanishes
93 The Self-Healing Paper: a ribbon is thrust through a paper in an envelope, yet the paper is unharmed
94 The Dissolving Shilling: a coin vanishes in a glass of water

95 Chapter Seven Mental Magic
96 Telephone Telepathy: a simple two person code
97 Mindreading Without an Assistant
97 - One-Ahead Method
98 - Making Envelopes Transparent
98 Mindreading With an Assistant
99 - Silent Telepathy: using body position
99 - "OAR" Telepathy: a simple code
100 - Sequence Code
101 - Animal, Mineral, Vegetable: challenge audience to figure out the code with a 6x6 grid
103 - Instantaneously Naming Chosen Cards: code ideas for a 3x3 grid
104 - Book Mindreading: assistant can read page where a marker was inserted
105 - Mindreading the Dictionary: a dictionary prediction
106 More Complex Codes
107 - A Memorized Order of Objects
107 - Silent Codes
109 Physical Telepathy

110 Chapter Eight Standard Stage Tricks: general descriptions, not illusions for the beginner
113 The Vanishing Chinese: boy vanishes from one box and is found in another
115 The Enchanted Window: Shadows come to life behind a window
117 Here - There: man and woman change places in boxes
119 Sawing a Woman in Two: descried briefly
120 The Lively Ghosts: a spirit cabinet
123 Through a Brick Wall: how it works
125 Floating Bodies: levitation
127 The Famous Hindu Basket Trick: swords through a basket don't hurt the assistant

128 Conclusion