Rowe, Dr. Richard: Thirty Pocket Tricks That Anyone Can Do ©1929 The Play Shop, Melbourne, Australia Softcover, saddle-stitched, 4.75x7.25", 26 pages

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Comments: "With simple every-day common objects". Dr. Richard Rowe as the Dean of Australian Magic. An early beginner's book of magic.

Contents: (from book):

4 Introduction (P. Laidler, The Play Shop)
5 Foreword

7 Smoke Versus Air: smoke poured from glass to glass
7 Black or White: cut and restored thread in mouth
8 The Latest Cut String: restored string can't be examined
8 The Name Inside of an Egg: chemical trick
9 Coined (Lampini): coin vanishes in the trouser's cloth
9 The Magnetized Cigarette: one cigarette repels another on a table
10 Marked Coin Trick: coin vanishes when folded in a paper
10 Magic Life Savers: selected, numbered Life Saver candy is removed from a string
11 To Tell Numbers on Borrowed Banknotes: uses a confederate and the one-ahead principle
11 Egg Trick: stand an egg on end
12 The Upside Down Match (Billy O'Connor): wooden matches reverses when dropped through tube
12 Dice Deceptions:
12 (A): to throw any number with 1, 2, or three dice; and to
12 (B): to cause lower dice to be lifted by another
13 Baldin's Blood Test: message appears in blood under the arm skin
13 Balancing Match: lit match balances on thumb
13 Beans and Bunk: two beans in the ear and one in the mouth all end up in the mouth
14 Heavy Weight Cards: magician removes all face cards from deck behind his back
14 Resistance: a body lifting challenge
15 Thought Reading: magician can determine who wrote each message
15 Fountain Pen and Visiting Card: card flipping stunt
16 Dr. Rowe's Crystal Card: determine selected cards by looking in a crystal, but destroys the card in the process!
17 A Sure Winner: magician always wins this counting game
17 The Vanishing Cigarette: cigarette vanishes while striking the spectator's palm
18 Tearing a Pack of Cards in Four or Eight Pieces: preparing the deck
18 A Cigarette Paper That Obeys Orders: a paper jumps off your foot without your foot moving
19 Profitable Cigars: performer's cigar doesn't drop into a bottle, but anyone else trying loses their cigar
19 The Fakir's Number: charcoal number transfers to spectator's palm
20 Pancil and Banknote: breaking a pencil with a banknote
20 Diving Cork: an experiment with mercury - don't try this at home!
21 Ink or Water: water falls from lead pencil and ink from indellible pencil
21 The Match Box and Coin: a coin penetrates a match box
22 Conclusion

24 Recommended Pocket Tricks With Apparatus: advertising
26 Index