Robson, Stuart: Tips on Thumbs ©1945 Louis Tannen, NY Softcover, saddle-stitched, 3.5x5.25", 36 pages

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Comments: No. 1 of a series of Vest Pocket Books. Available as an eBook from Trickshop.com.

Contents (from Trickshop.com eBook edition, page numbers don't match original)

3 Foreword (Theo Anneman)
4 Thumb Tiplets: quick ideas for retrieving your thumb-tip
6 Match Box Thumb Tip Steal
6 Magic Change of Granulated Sugar to Lumb of Sugar (Scarne)
6 Detached Finger Tips: black art
7 An Ovette Idea: silk and tube
7 Liquid Suspension: water remains in tube with both ends open
8 Al Baker Idea: penetration thru handkerchief
8 Burn and Restored Marked Paper
9 Hank Thru Hat
9 J.F. Herpick Idea: with sponge balls