Scarne, John: 100 of Scarne's
Magic Tricks ©1951 John Scarne; Cornerstone Library Publications Softcover, perfect-bound, 6x9", 118 pages ©1961 ©1965 |
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Comments: "This new Cornerstone Library edition is published by arrangement with Crown Publishers, Inc., and contains the first half of the contents of the original hardcover edition entitled "Scarne's Magic Tricks". Some of the illustrations have been revised in order to bring them up to date.
Contents:
ii Publisher's Note
iii Foreword
9 The Talking Mirror
9 Coin Through Handkerchief
11 Smoking Sleeve
12 Predicto
13 Ring on the String
14 The Magical Shirt
15 Chalk Penetration
17 The Magic Calendar
19 Name, Please!
20 Cigarette From Nowhere
21 Find the Pellet
23 Is He Alive?
23 The Rope and Bracelet
24 Key on a String
25 The Magic Toothpick
27 Releaso
28 Color By Sense of Touch
30 Swallowing a Goldfish
31 Extrasensory Perception
32 The Magnetized Knife
33 Houdini Escape Trick
35 Solid Through Solid
36 The Rising Cigarette
37 The Flame Prediction
39 The Disappearing Coin
39 Initial In Fire
40 Sensitive Fingers
41 The Liquid Tells
42 Drinking Smoke
43 Lightning Addition
44 The Spiritual Glass
45 Crossed Digit
46 The Tricky Spoon
47 The Talking Cards
48 Scarne's Bank Night
52 The Knotted Coin
53 It's In the Ashes
54 The United Shreds
55 Three to One
56 The Dollar that Wouldn't Burn
58 Divination of Age
58 Tricks With Sugar
60 The Reappearing Match Heads
62 Magic Dates and Days
63 The Six-Cent Trick
64 The Famous Penny
66 Mathematics Plus
66 Cut and Tied
67 Two Minus Two Equals Two
69 Up In Flames
70 The Knife That Doesn't Cut
72 Stringing a Ring
73 Change for a Five-Dollar Bill
74 Ghost Match
76 A Life-Saving Dollar
77 Mind Over Matter
78 The Coin Vanishes
79 The Cut Up Tie
80 In Your Hat
82 The Animated Match Box
83 Magnetic Hands
84 Scarne's Cellophane Tear
85 Dry Water
85 Multiplying Dimes
86 Scarne's Coin Vanish
87 Time Machine
88 Through Stick and Pin
88 Cross Your Palm
89 Telepathic Coins
90 Breaking a Pencil With a Dollar Bill
91 Replacing a Button Without a Needle
92 Spots Before the Eyes
93 The Match Box Coin Vanish
94 Scarne's Think of a Number
95 When a Break is Not a Break
96 Disobeying Gravity
97 A Cigarette Production
97 The Famous Belt Trick
98 Houdini's Coin Vanish
99 Strip Tease
100 Ring Levitation
101 A Drink on the House
102 A Cigarette Changes to a Dollar Bill
103 Stick Through Hat
104 Classical Rope Trick
105 Spin the Coin
106 Roll Your Own
107 Vest Through Coat
108 Animated Cigar Band
109 Salivary Repair
110 The Unstickable Pin
111 Flexible Pencil
111 The Non-Burning Shoelace
112 The Match From Nowhere
113 Fourth-Dimensional Knot
114 Rope Through The Neck
115 Cut-Up
116 He Knows Your Number
117 Color-Changing Shoelace
118 Changing Checkers