Robbins, David: 102 Startling Tricks You Can Learn Quickly ©1944 David Robbins, D. Robbins & Co., NY Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 17 pages ©1972 David Robbins

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Comments: This book seems to have been reprinted several times with slightly different covers. The reprints may be in different order, and I wonder if later editions might omit the "eating fire" trick, which is a bit dangerous!

Contents:(taken from edition printed in the compilation Over 264 Instant Magic Tricks)

1 To the Magician's of Tomorrow
1 Practice Each Trick Before You Show It
1 Never Reveal the Secret of a Magic Trick
1 Patter

2 Think of a Card: 21 Card Trick
2 After Dinner Miracle!: tell denomination of a coin under a cup with an accomplice
3 Four Coins Into Five: four coins become five
3 Label Side Up: matchbox always lands label side up
3 You Can't Lose: heads or tails coin vanish
3 Disappearing Matches: with an accomplice
3 It's a Fake: mirror drawing challenge
4 A Heart Breaker: spectators can't find Ace of Diamonds
4 Mysterious Candle: ball balances on a candle
4 Magician's Friend: to aid a coin vanish
4 Real Magic: dropped matchbox stays on end
5 Blindfold Cigarette Test: magician finds selected cigarette in hat
5 A Match Making Puzzle: matchstick puzzle
5 Make a Bridge: with matches between four cups
5 The Flying Handkerchief: vanish for a single spectator
6 Steady Hand Steady Eye: figure tracing challenge
6 Eyes Are Fooled!: Optical illusion
6 Mystic Picture: another optical illusion
6 Add 5 to 6 and Make 9: Matchstick puzzle
6 He Drinks!: optical illusion
7 It Drops Through!: coin penetrates hat
7 Takes Practice...But: coin spins on a glass
7 The Waking Hairpin: stunt
7 Hole In Your Hand: optical illusion
7 Card Tossing: game
8 Houdini's Knife Trick: table knife clings to hand
8 Vanishing Dime: as coins are dropped from one hand to the other
8 Hypnotized Cigar: cigar clings to hand
8 Think of a Number: 1089 math trick
9 Building Magic Squares: how to do it
9 Four Ace Production: while blindfolded
9 Do Your Eyes Lie?: optical illusion
9 Rising Cigarettes: easy version
10 Ghost Writing: using lemon juice
10 Balancing Playing Card: glass balances on a card
10 Checker Jumping: puzzle
10 Goblet Juggling: a goblet rests on its edge
11 Stars and Circle Trick: a sort of "center tear" trick
11 It Strikes: lighting a match on the shoe
11 Phantom Coin: coin is heard dropping in a glass but vanishes
11 One or Two: a physical illusion
12 Coin Vanish Secret: a coin pass
12 Presto! Change-O!: coin vanish using a pull
12 A Physics Mystery: using table salt and a string
12 Mind Reader: your confederate non-verbally transmits a message
13 Your Nose Knows: magician finds card with aid of confederate
13 Dollar Breaks Pencil!: stunt
13 Vanishing Dime: dime vanishes using a match box
13 Army Game: gag with four playing cards
13 Water Under Hat: challenge
14 An Obedient Match Box: rises or lowers on back of hand
14 A Fire Mystery: business card doesn't burn
14 The Magic Dime: challenge for dime to fall into bottle
14 Fire Eater: a dangerous stunt
14 Card Reversal: spectator's selection ends up reversed in deck
15 The Goddess Weeps: coin cries
15 Milk Magic: challenge to remove coin from under milk bottle
15 The Match Stands: wooden match stands on end
15 Tricky Matches: puzzle
16 Up Your Sleeve: sucker trick with a coin
16 Find It: a simple book test
16 Floating Egg: science trick
16 Cigarette from Match Box: cigarette is removed from a match box
17 Card Reading: card is read through the case
17 Your Eye Knows: optical illusion
17 An Experiment in Science: with plate glass
17 Flexible Cigarette: cigarette is bent without breaking
18 Money Rolls In: coin is found in a dinner roll
18 Sex Detection: pendulum stunt
18 Sugar Floats: a lumb of sugar floats in coffee
18 Jumping Egg: blow an egg from one egg cup to another
19 You Can't Brush It Off: coin can't be brushed off palm
19 Any Number Chosen: clock dial trick
19 Selected Cards Found: magician easily finds multiple card selections
19 The Square Puzzle: puzle
19 Buy Your Own: gag with sulfuric acid
20 The Walking Dime: retrieving a dime under a cup on a tablecloth
20 Paper Won't Burn: chemical trick using Alum water
20 Mind Reading: using a confederate
20 Match This One: matches mysteriously move
21 Step Through It: walking through a post card
21 A Balancing Trick: balancing a match-book
21 A Tricky Match: a chemical trick
21 Elusive Watch: magician removes watch from handkerchief
22 Balancing Pennies: coins on elbow stunt
22 It Won't Overflow: pennies added to full glass of water
22 You Can Tell: magician knows which cigarettes were moved
22 Buffalo Stunt: balancing a glass on edge
23 Can You Do This in 3 Moves: glass puzzle
23 Flying Card: rising card in glass
23 It Vanishes: coin vanishes when rubbed into elbow
23 Bewitched Matches: floating matches move in water
24 Rising Seed: seed sinks but then floats to surface
24 The Spinning Egg: science trick
24 Disappearing Cigar Band: band vanishes
24 To Tell A Card: simple locator card
24 It Can't Be Done: physical stunt
25 Red and Blacks: magician easily finds card selection
25 Magic Arithmetic: puzzle
25 Broken Match Trick: match is broken and restored in a handkerchief
25 Jumping Card: out of a hat
25 Vanishing Card: one card vanished from deck to be found in the case