Robbins, David: Over 264 Instant Magic Tricks © LIB Corporation, Islip, NY Hardcover, no dj, 175 pages

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Comments: 4 Separate Magic Books reprinted under one cover:
- Practical Magic, 1953 David Robbins
- 50 Tricks With a Thumb Tip 1948 Milbourne Christopher
- 102 Startling Tricks You Can Learn Quickly 1944 David Robbins
- 84 Card Tricks 1964 Max Padell
- Extra Bonus Amazing Dorian Favorites

Contents (from second edition book):

6 Practical Magic

6 Foreword
7 The Vanishing Inch (W.H. Radcliffe): paper puzzle
7 Balancing a Class on a Card (Joan Wolf): gimmicked card
8 Boy or Girl (Lennie Elmer): envelope prediction
8 Blowing a Card (Carl Smith): spectator blows card to top
9 The Liquefied Block (Herb Davis): ring penetrates block of wood
10 Face-up Card (Don Beaver): card stab
10 Hindu Thumb Penetration (David Ormsby): pins in thumb through handkerchief
11 A Strong Dollar (Walter Chernoch): breaks a bill
11 The Screwy Match (Jimmy E. Monday): match head instantly changes ends
12 Multiplying Coins (Harold Baron): from plate
12 Magic Light (James Wilton): match lights mysteriously
13 Card and Ribbon Penetration (Allan Lambie): gimmicked card
14 Glass and Coin Mystery (Arnold Benson): coin vanishes under glass
14 Floating Egg (William Duncan): science experiment
15 Twentieth-Century Coin Trick (Lennie Elmer): coin vanished and found in next of boxes
16 The Flying Coin (Nelson Meredith): borrowed coins audibly transposes to pocket
16 Paper Bag Magic (Thomas E. Purdom): silks appear from empty paper bag
17 What's Your Lucky Card?: coin from card
17 Against the Wall: physical stunt
18 Where's the Cow? (Henry Jason): milking a rubber glove
18 Scissors Sorcery (Larry Britenstine): envelope cut but not the ribbon
19 Pencil Magic (John McCann): prediction trick
20 A Penny Puzzler (John Tobin): puzzle
20 A Four-Ace Trick (Bob Klamm): cards
21 Coin through Card (Leslie Ward): a quarter passes through a dime hole
21 Odds & Even (John Evans): card location
22 The Vanishing Cigarette (Nelson Meredith): from the hands
22 Penny Through Plate (Fred Cress, Jr.): penetrates plate into a glass
23 Pronto Card Appear (Allan Lambie): selected card is returned to deck, covered with handkerchief, and instantly produced
24 The Magic Match Boxes (Sam Chiprut): rattle box with surprise
24 Easy Book Test (Lee Henneberry): mental test
25 Color-Changing Milk (Cleve Hanbold): one glass of milk turns green and the other red, using Skrip bottles
25 Domino Magic (W.H. Radcliffe): magician determines end of a domino game
26 Living or Dead (Ralph Emerson): paper tear divination
26 Knifing a Card (Owen Graham): another card stab
27 Where There's Life-There's Hope (Billy McComb): Chosen star's photo appears in frame
28 The Weeping Half Dollar: it cries
28 Coins from a Candle (James Rhodes): coins appear from lit candle
29 Inflated Money (Hubert Lambert): coins from bill
29 Smelling a Card: magician finds card by smell (confederate)
30 Easy Cut and Restored Rope Trick (Charles Green): with elastic
31 Broken and Restored Match: in handkerchief
32 Confetti to Cake (Norman Rosen): in hat
32 Magic Cones: find hidden coin under 1 of 3 cones
33 The Eight-Card Trick: card prediction
33 The Siberian Finger: living finger in box gag
34 'Spirit" Gum (Johnny Balaun): rising gum
34 Class and Match Trick: stunt
35 Hindu String Trick: restored in the mouth
35 Sensitive Fingers (Jimmy Soltis): magician finds 3 matches to selection
36 The Flighty Dollar (J.T. Sydenstricker): stage bill serial number matching
36 Miracle Card Prediction: prediction on a business card
37 An Easy Four-Ace Miracle (Ronald Jamison): Aces removed instantly behind back
38 Fantastic Fishing (Hubert Lambert): card fished out of a hat
39 Envelope Magic (Lennie Elmer): magician finds envelope with Roosevelt dime
39 The Seven Magicians (N.R. Puckett): word puzzle
40 The Mirror Card: magician sees through a card
40 The Surprise Bag: empty bag produces silks
41 Magnetic Chips (George E. Casaubon, M.D.): magician finds red cards with poker chip
41 Match and Water Stunt: light a match under water (stunt)
42 Houdini Speaks (Joan Wolf): recording reveals selection
42 A Trick with Dice: dice number trick
43 Mysterious Egg: egg removed from borrowed purse
43 Coin Penetration: through table
44 Mental Telephony (W.H. Radcliffe): phone mentalism
45 Mind Reading Deluxe (D.C. Luther): magician reads messages from audience
46 Dictionary Mind Reading (Alan Stuart): adding figures
47 Cards through Table (Sydney Marchasin): two card selection found under the table
48 Gone with the Wind (James Collins): handkerchief vanish
48 Silk from Ink Bottle (Curtiss Giese): vanishing and reappearing silk
49 Easy Built Production and Vanishing Box (Raymond Wilenzick): how to make it
50 Eggs to Silks (Marlin Perry): in hat
50 Mystic Ashes (Marilyn Mattsson): magician determines message written by ashes
51 Card and Dice Mystery: dice help find selection
51 Four-Ace Miracle: remove four Aces from deck in pocket
52 Dice Prediction (Jack R. Gradijar): magician predicts numbers on dice
52 The Ghost Whistle (James Faherty): whistle blows by itself (for stage)
53 Egg to Confetti (Fred Cress): egg vanishes in handkerchief and is replaced by confetti
53 Matches to Silk: in match box
54 Cut and Restored Handkerchief (Alan Stuart): borrowed handkerchief
54 Disappearing Glass: during coin through table
55 Color Test (Sam Bauer): crayon color mentalism
55 Red, White & Blue Mental Effect (John Adams): mentalism with an accomplice
56 The X-ray Match Box (Alfred Zorn): mind reading
57 A New Card Gimmick (Allan Lambie): with a card box
58 Mental Music (Al Davids): mentalism with a piano
59 Blackboard Miracles: six mentalism effects
59 - Number Telepathy: addition prediction with confederate
59 - Dividing the Horses: math puzzle
59 - Mind Over Matter: spectator writes numbers that match performer's
60 - Prediction Extraordinary: a number 18 prediction
60 - Get Rich Quick!: fake math
61 Four Aces from a Hat (Norman Rollins): cards
61Easy Tricks with Cigars (Wm. C. Turtle)
61 - The Acrobatic Cigar: balances on the edge of a hat
61 - The Magnetized Cigar: sticks to your hand: acrobatic cigar, magnetized cigar
62 Fu Manchu (Earnest Schwanke): silk appears between two others
62 Balancing an Egg: stunt
63 Magnetic Cards: cards stick to wall
63 Button Mystery: living or dead test
64 Cutting a Woman in Half (Robert Rastord): card and ribbon variation
65 The Magic Banana (Jack Goldin): banana is pre-cut
65 The Magic Box: optical illusion
66 Walking Colors (Junior K. Grotts): cards change places in envelopes
66 Stretching a Rope (Robert Maslon): two feet to six feet
67 The Traveling Silk (Matt W. Leach): to newspaper
68 The Soaring Cigarette (Allan Lambie): cigarette rises from pack into the hand
68 Coin in Orange (Charles Willins): how to use the knife
69 The Red and Black Mystery (Clarence Lee): magnet finds the color red
70 Rabbit from Napkin (Tom Osborne): handkerchief fold
70 An Optical Illusion: two curved cards
54 Smart Coin Vanish (Harold Menson): clever use of tie
54 Cops and Robbers: four Jacks
72 Book Magic: book test
73 Mental Magic
73 - Card Reading: magician names cards sealed in the case and removes them instantly
73 - Another Mental Effect: reading cards facing away from you
73 - Reverse Card Effect: a simple card divination with sucker add-on
74 - An Improved Version: magician determines the selection with deck behind his back
74 - Cards From Pocket: magician withdraws all but the selection from his pocket
75 - Arithmetic Magic (Robert Nelson): with carbon paper
75 Showmanship: article
76 Patter: article
77 Lessons in Sleight of Hand
77 - Lesson 1 Coin Vanishing
79 - Lesson 2 The Miser's Dream
81- Lesson 3 Card Manipulation
81 -- The Hindu Shuffle
81 -- Keeping Card on Bottom
81 -- Bringing Bottom Card to Top
82 How to Be a Ventriloquist (James Rodney)
82 - Lesson 1 Learning to Talk
83 - Lesson 2 Holding a Conversation
84 - Lesson 3

87 Fifty Tricks With a Thumb Tip (Milbourne Christopher)

88 Introduction (Hen Fetsch)
88 Thumb Tip Magic: About the Thumb Tip
89 Burning a Handkerchief: longer explanation
90 Making Money: one bill is produced from finger tips, then multiplies to many
90 Ribbons From Nowhere: variation with ribbons
90 Burning a Napkin: idea
91 Burning a Tablecloth: idea
91 Fire-Proof Thumb: cigarette tip doesn't burn thumb or handkerchief, must be done with a metal TT!
91 Conjuring Up Candy (Fetsch): salt, sugar, paper poured into fist results in a candy poured out
92 Living or Dead: mentalist test with a modified TT
92 Cards Controlled: variation on above
92 Vanishing a Dime: coin vanish
92 Indestructible Match: broken match is restored
93 Spirit Rapping Hand: TT used to enhance mystery tapping
94 Thumb Tie with Rubber Bands: TT used to enable an escapable Thumb Tie
94 Chapman's Taped Thumbs (Frank Chapman): Using adhesive tape
95 Dollar in Banana
95 Bill In Soft Roll: variation of dollar in banana
96 Bill In Hard Crust Roll: another variation
96 Reimer's Ribbon Cut (Rudy Reimer): Pieces of ribbon are strung together, wound on the finger, and signed. When unwound, the string is one piece
96 The Severed String (Rudy Reimer): variation of above
97 Spirit Knots (Hen Fetsch): another variation
97 The Mysterious Cord: string passes from one dollar cone to another
97 Cigarette to String: use to change from cigarette magic to string trick
98 Silken Dollars: pulling thread from bills
98 Inflated Money (Huburt Lambert): dimes poured from dollar
98 Waterproof Greenback: water pours into rolled-up dollar but dollar remains dry
98 Waterproof Variation: improved
99 Burning a Dollar: burnt and restored marked bill
99 Spots That Pass: from thumb to thumb
100 Bill In Nested Envelope: quick tip
100 Solid Sugar: granulated sugar to cube
100 Silk Switch: between envelopes
101 Quick Change: another variation
101 Bank Night (Hen Fetsch): only the magician's envelope contains the bill
101 Annemann Move (Annemann): for mentalist routine
102 The Vanishing Card (Franciscus): vanishing the torn pieces
102 The Vanishing Cigarette (Walter Gibson): lighted!
102 Full Size Cigarette Vanish
102 Flash Tip: with a flash!
103 Silk Production: from empty hand
103 Confetti to Silk
104 Allen's Tie Trick: with lighted cigarette
104 A Tannen Tip (Lou Tannen): on ditching the TT
104 Knots Untied: vanishing string
105 The Cut Restored: quick idea
105 Bill In Purse: with a coin purse
105 Amazing Prediction: sealed in envelope
106 Thumb Stretching: extreme
106 Bill In Shot Glass: vanished bill found in covered shot glass
107 Bill In Egg: bill found in egg
107 Sealed Envelope Reading: messy but effective

109 102 Startling Tricks You Can Learn Quickly (1944, David Robbins)

110 To the Magician's of Tomorrow
110 Practice Each Trick Before You Show It
110 Never Reveal the Secret of a Magic Trick
110 Patter
111 Think of a Card: 21 Card Trick
111 After Dinner Miracle!: tell denomination of a coin under a cup with an accomplice
112 Four Coins Into Five: four coins become five
112 Label Side Up: matchbox always lands label side up
112 You Can't Lose: heads or tails coin vanish
112 Disappearing Matches: with an accomplice
112 It's a Fake: mirror drawing challenge
113 A Heart Breaker: spectators can't find Ace of Diamonds
113 Mysterious Candle: ball balances on a candle
113 Magician's Friend: to aid a coin vanish
113 Real Magic: dropped matchbox stays on end
114 Blindfold Cigarette Test: magician finds selected cigarette in hat
114 A Match Making Puzzle: matchstick puzzle
114 Make a Bridge: with matches between four cups
114 The Flying Handkerchief: vanish for a single spectator
115 Steady Hand Steady Eye: figure tracing challenge
115 Eyes Are Fooled!: Optical illusion
115 Mystic Picture: another optical illusion
115 Add 5 to 6 and Make 9: Matchstick puzzle
115 He Drinks!: optical illusion
116 It Drops Through!: coin penetrates hat
116 Takes Practice...But: coin spins on a glass
116 The Waking Hairpin: stunt
116 Hole In Your Hand: optical illusion
116 Card Tossing: game
117 Houdini's Knife Trick: table knife clings to hand
117 Vanishing Dime: as coins are dropped from one hand to the other
117 Hypnotized Cigar: cigar clings to hand
117 Think of a Number: 1089 math trick
118 Building Magic Squares: how to do it
118 Four Ace Production: while blindfolded
118 Do Your Eyes Lie?: optical illusion
118 Rising Cigarettes: easy version
119 Ghost Writing: using lemon juice
119 Balancing Playing Card: glass balances on a card
119 Checker Jumping: puzzle
119 Goblet Juggling: a goblet rests on its edge
120 Stars and Circle Trick: a sort of "center tear" trick
120 It Strikes: lighting a match on the shoe
120 Phantom Coin: coin is heard dropping in a glass but vanishes
120 One or Two: a physical illusion
121 Coin Vanish Secret: a coin pass
121 Presto! Change-O!: coin vanish using a pull
121 A Physics Mystery: using table salt and a string
121 Mind Reader: your confederate non-verbally transmits a message
122 Your Nose Knows: magician finds card with aid of confederate
122 Dollar Breaks Pencil!: stunt
122 Vanishing Dime: dime vanishes using a match box
122 Army Game: gag with four playing cards
122 Water Under Hat: challenge
123 An Obedient Match Box: rises or lowers on back of hand
123 A Fire Mystery: business card doesn't burn
123 The Magic Dime: challenge for dime to fall into bottle
123 Fire Eater: a dangerous stunt
123 Card Reversal: spectator's selection ends up reversed in deck
124 The Goddess Weeps: coin cries
124 Milk Magic: challenge to remove coin from under milk bottle
124 The Match Stands: wooden match stands on end
124 Tricky Matches: puzzle
125 Up Your Sleeve: sucker trick with a coin
125 Find It: a simple book test
125 Floating Egg: science trick
125 Cigarette from Match Box: cigarette is removed from a match box
126 Card Reading: card is read through the case
126 Your Eye Knows: optical illusion
126 An Experiment in Science: with plate glass
126 Flexible Cigarette: cigarette is bent without breaking
127 Money Rolls In: coin is found in a dinner roll
127 Sex Detection: pendulum stunt
127 Sugar Floats: a lumb of sugar floats in coffee
127 Jumping Egg: blow an egg from one egg cup to another
128 You Can't Brush It Off: coin can't be brushed off palm
128 Any Number Chosen: clock dial trick
128 Selected Cards Found: magician easily finds multiple card selections
128 The Square Puzzle: puzle
128 Buy Your Own: gag with sulfuric acid
129 The Walking Dime: retrieving a dime under a cup on a tablecloth
129 Paper Won't Burn: chemical trick using Alum water
129 Mind Reading: using a confederate
129 Match This One: matches mysteriously move
130 Step Through It: walking through a post card
130 A Balancing Trick: balancing a match-book
130 A Tricky Match: a chemical trick
130 Elusive Watch: magician removes watch from handkerchief
131 Balancing Pennies: coins on elbow stunt
131 It Won't Overflow: pennies added to full glass of water
131 You Can Tell: magician knows which cigarettes were moved
131 Buffalo Stunt: balancing a glass on edge
132 Can You Do This in 3 Moves: glass puzzle
132 Flying Card: rising card in glass
132 It Vanishes: coin vanishes when rubbed into elbow
132 Bewitched Matches: floating matches move in water
133 Rising Seed: seed sinks but then floats to surface
133 The Spinning Egg: science trick
133 Disappearing Cigar Band: band vanishes
133 To Tell A Card: simple locator card
133 It Can't Be Done: physical stunt
134 Red and Blacks: magician easily finds card selection
134 Magic Arithmetic: puzzle
134 Broken Match Trick: match is broken and restored in a handkerchief
134 Jumping Card: out of a hat
134 Vanishing Card: one card vanished from deck to be found in the case

135 84 Card Tricks (Hugh Morris)

136 Foreword (Hugh Morris)
138 The All-Important "Pass"
138 Deceptive Shuffles
139 Forcing A Card
139 The "Long Card"
140 The Divining Card
140 The Bootlegged Card
141 To Place A Card
141 To Slip A Card
141 To Carry Away A Card
141 The Congress Of Court Cards
142 To Discover The Card Which Is Drawn, By The Throw Of A Dice
142 The Guessed Card
142 The Recruit Trick
142 To Tell The Card That May Be Noted
143 To Separate The Two Colors Of A Pack Of Cards By One Cut
143 The "Spelling Bee" Trick
143 The "Alternate Card" Trick
143 The Locomotive Card
144 To Arrange Twelve Cards In Rows, In Such A Manner That They Will Count Four In Every Direction
144 To Name Any Number Of Cards I N Succession Without Seeing Them
145 Card Named Without Being Seen
145 To Find In The Pack, Whatever Card A Person Has Drawn, With A Handkerchief
145 Coppers And Robbers
146 To Guess Several Cards Chosen At Random
146 To Name The Rank Of A Card That A Person Has Drawn From A Piquet Pack
146 How To Make Twenty People Draw The Same Card
146 The Last Roundup
147 Circle Of Fourteen Cards
147 To Find The Number Of Points On Three Unseen Cards
147 To Tell The Numbers On Two Unseen Cards
147 To Make A Card Jump Out Of The Pack And Run On The Table
148 To Tell The Card On Which A Person Has Put The Finger
148 Look At Him!
148 To Tell Through A Wine-Glass What Cards Have Been Turned
148 To Make Picture Cards Always Come Together
149 The Fairy Kings
149 To Guess The Number Of Spots On Any Chosen Card
149 To Tell How Many Cards A Person Takes Out Of A Pack, And To Identify Each Card
150 Pushing A Card Through A Table
150 Around And Around
151 Changing A Card By Order
151 To Discover Any Card In A Pack By Its Weight Or Smell
151 The Right Hand Does Know What The Left Is Doing
152 Through The Looking-Glass
152 The Magical Trio
153 How To Guess The Cards That Three People Have Chosen
153 Mental Telepathy With Cards
154 Pocketing A Card
154 Blind Man's Bluff
154 The Siamese Twins
155 How To Name One Of Twenty-Five Cards
155 How To Tell The Top Cards Of Four Parts Of A Deck
155 Come Seven!
156 Smelling Out Royalty
156 The Stubborn Card
157 Odd And Even
157 The Magic Twelve
157 To Tell A Card Thought Of, And Name Its Position In The Pack
158 To Name A Card Seen By The Spectator
158 To Tell The Numbers Of Any Two Cards Drawn From A Common Pack
159 To Make All The Cards, Except A Chosen One, Fall To The Floor
159 To Tell The Card Which Has Been Drawn From A Bridge Pack
160 To Find A Certain Card After It Has Been Shuffled In The Pack
160 Stuck With A Card
160 To Make Four Eights Change Into Four Twos, And From Black To Red
162 To Catch In The Air With Your Hand, Two Chosen Cards
162 To Tell Whether Any Card In The Pack Is Red Or Black Without Looking At It
162 The Rising Card Trick
163 The Shifting Card
163 How To Pick Out One Card Which Has Been Thought Of From 25 On A Table
164 Flapjack
164 To Name In Succession All The Cards In The Pack
165 To Sort The Pack Without Looking At The Cards
165 To Guess One of Sixteen Cards
165 To Make Several Cards Change From One Person To Another
166 To Find A Chosen Card In A Person's Pocket
166 How To Tell The Amount Of Bottom Cards In A Deck That Has Been Split Into Heaps
166 To Select From Several Cards A Pair Which Has Been Chosen By One Or More People
167 The Magic Triplets
167 To Name A Card Drawn From A Piquet Pack
168 How To Tell Which Card Has Been Touched
168 The Four Inseparable Kings
168 The Jacks And The Constable
169 To Produce Instantly A Card Called For

171 Amazing Dorian Favorites

172 The Vanishing Handkerchief: using a Palmo Ball
173 An Interesting Color Change: cards
173 The Back Palm: for cards
174 Cut and Restore Newspaper: clippo