Science & Mechanics: Magic Handbook 1968
Science & Mechanics: Magic Handbook 1968
©1968 Science & Mechanics
Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 112 pages 		Science & Mechanics Magic Handbook 1968
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Comments: The second edition on making your own magic adds some tricks, but someone on TheMagicCafe noted that this edition deletes the section found in the original 1962 edition on Escapes, by Sidney Radner.

Contents (from book ToC, numbers are not page numbers):

1 Cover Feature
2 Thurston's Rising Card Trick

3 General Features
4 Magic "Black Art" Table
5 Mystify Your Friends
6 Magical Appliances
7 Present Your Own Magic Show

8 Table Top Magic
9 Table-Top Tricks
10 Sleight-of-Hand Tricks

11 Famous Stage Illusions
12 Egyptian Torture Cabinet
13 Thurston's Spirit Cabinet
14 Million Dollar Mystery
15 How to Saw a Woman in Half

16 Startling Escape Acts
17 Escape From a Packing Box
18 Wrist Stock Escape

19 Build and Perform Tricks:
20 Crystal Cabinet
21 Close-Up Rising Cards
22 The Mental Pack
23 Appearing Card in Frame
24 Vanishing Glass of Water
25 Vanishing Bowl of Water
26 Vanishing Glass of Milk
27 Magical Way of Evaporating Milk
28 Small Silk to Full Size Egg
29 Breakaway Vanishing Box
30 Matchbox and Ribbon Mystery
31 Handkerchief Production Cabinet
32 Penetration of Solid Through Solid
33 Three Silk Tricks
34 Flying Handkerchief
35 The Cabalistic Cube
36 Baffling Blocks
37 Spirit Slate Trick
38 Slate Spooky Card Trick
39 Candle From Pocket
40 Chinese Rice Canisters
41 Confetti Becomes Candy
42 Traveling Wand
43 Tube and Rope Trick
44 Flash Production Tube
45 Block, Frame and Ribbon Trick
46 Ink Into Water

47 Chemical Magic Tricks
48 Magician's Flash Powder
49 Great Smoke Mystery
50 Magic Flag
51 Magic Pitcher
52 Magic Wand
53 Fire Writing
54 Floating Crystal

55 Miscellaneous Tricks
56 An Alliance of Kings
57 Glass Balanced on a Card
58 Reappearing Ball
59 Card Sharp
60 Floating Straw
61 What Brand?
62 Tug of War
63 Automatic Coin Dryer
64 Chew Two Strings Into One
65 Cutting the Cards
66 Air Lifts Glass
67 Tumbler Through a Table
68 A Fast Buck
69 A Light Matter
70 Hot Money
71 Pocket Mind Reading
72 Where Does the Money Go?
73 Card Stands on End
74 Matches Meet Their Match

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