Severn, Bill: Magic In Your Pockets ©1964 David McKay Company, Inc., NY Hardcover, w/dj, 5.5x8", 147 pages ©1974 David McKay Co., Inc., NY Softcover, perfect-bound

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Comments: Illustrations by Katherine Wood.

Contents (page numbers are only accurate for main chapters)

vii Introduction

3 What's In Your Pockets?
3 The Haunted Handkerchief
6 The Floating Pencil
8 The Magic Pencil Sharpener
12 The Open Door
16 Clickety Clips
       
18 Money Magic:
18 Eyes In The Back Of Your Head
23 How Much Is A Nickel Worth?
27 Bank By Magic
31 Let's Pretend We're Millionaires
       
35 Strings And Such:
35 Grandma's Magic
38 The Not Cut Trick
42 The Chinese Prisoner
45 The Chameleon Shoelace
       
49 Postal Puzzlers:
49 Magic stamp Collector
52 Stamp Swap
55 Sorting The Mail
60 Deliver Yesterday
       
64 Candy Conjuring:
64 Which hand?
67 Half & Half
69 Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Tootsie Roll trick)
72 Into The Candy Jar
75 Right Through The Middle
       
78 Nuts and Bolts:
78 Nutty Nuts
81 Reducing By Magic
84 Prize Loser
87 The Tax Collector
90 The Lie Detector
       
92 Dime Store Magic:
92 The Sheriff Of Hocus Pocus
95 Oriental Fan-See
98 The Balloon That Won't Pop
102 The Belwildering Bandage
       
108 Miniature Magic:
108 Prize Winner
110 Houdini's Elephant
115 Shoe Fly
118 The Magic Milkman
       
123 Make-Believe Mind Reading
123 Magic Guess
126 I Predict
129 Mental Speller
131 Faces In The News

135 Making The Most Of Your Magic

146 A List of Tricks