Stein, Max: Encyclopedia of Amateur and Professional Magic for Home and Stage ©1941 Max Stein Publishing House, Chicago Softcover, perfect-bound, 6x9", 150 pages

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Comments: B&W drawing illustrated. "Magic for Home and Stage: A Practical Treatise on Coin Tricks, Card Tricks, Sleight-of-Hand, Illusions, Black Art, Mind Reading, Spirit Mediumship, Ventriloquism, Etc. Etc."

Contents (from book, updated July 2024):

5 First Words On Magic: magic rules
8 The Magic Wand
9 The Magician's Table
11 The Magician's Dress
12 The Vanishing Gloves

14 Coin Tricks
14 Palming
15 The Pass
17 To Secretly Change a Coin
19 The Half-Dollar Wand
21 The Shower of Money
23 The Tray of Proteus
24 To Make a Person Find Himself Richer Than He Thought He Was
25 To Fill with Coins a Tumbler Which is Upon the Stage , the Coins Being Collected in the Audience
27 New Coin Catching
28 To Produce Coins From a Lighted Candle
29 The Animated Coin Which Answers Questions
31 To Make a Coin Pass Up Your Sleeve
31 To Make a Coin Pass Up the Right-Arm Coatsleeve, Round the Back, Down the Left Arm and Into the Hand
31 A Lost Coin to Drop From the Ceiling Into a Tumbler
32 The Floating Coin
32 To Rub One Coin Into Three
33 The Davenport Cabinet
35 The Nest of Boxes
36 The Ball of Berlin Wool
37 The Rattle-Box, to Make a Coin Vanish From the Box Though Still Heard to Rattle Within It
39 The Demon Handkerchief
39 Odd or Even, or the Mysterious Addition
40 A Coin Being Spun Upon the Table, to Tell Blindfold Whether It Falls Head or Tail Up-
wards
41 The Magic Quarter
42 The Disappearing Dime

43 Card Tricks
43 To Make the Pass
46 To Force a Card
47 To Slip a Card
48 To Change a Card
49 To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other
51 New Thought Card Sleight
52 To Distinguish the Suit of Any Given Card by Weight
53 To Make All the Cards Except a Chosen One Fall to the Floor
53 To Catch Two Cards Thought of in the Air With the Hand
54 To Tell the Cards Thought of by Four Persons
54 Sixteen Cards Being Placed Upon a Table, to Guess The One Thought Of
55 To Tell Which Pair of Cards Was Selected
56 Twenty-Five Cards Being Placed Upon the Table to Mention Which Has Been Thought Of
58 The Four Kings Being Separated, to Bring Them Together By a Single Cut
58 A Card HAving Been Drawn From and Returned to the Pack, to Find It Under a Handkerchief
59 To Tell Whether Any Card In the Pack is Red or Black Without Looking At It
59 To Name All the Cards In Succession
60 To Make Two Cards Change Places Whilst Held in Separate Hands
61 To Make Two Cards Change Places at the Word of Command
62 The Triple Deal
62 The Card Found at the Second Guess
62 The Card Found Under the Hat
63 The Revolution
63 The Nailed Card
63 To Make a Card Jump Out of the Pack and Run on the Table
64 The Trick of Thirty-One
64 The Changing Ladle

68 Miscellaneous Tricks
68 To Tell the Numbers on a Pair of Dice
68 To Change the Numbers on Dice
69 Houdin's Nut Trick
70 The Magic Bran Glass
70 The Oriental Ball Trick
71 To Produce Eggs From a Person's Mouth
72 The Three Spoons
72 To Take Feathers Out of an Empty Handkerchief
73 The Bran Plate
74 The Vanishing Tumbler of Water
76 To Knock a Tumbler Through a Table
77 To Place Water in a Drinking-Glass Upside Down
77 The Protean Liquid
78 To Bring Colored Ribbons From Your Mouth
78 An Egg Put Into a Phial
79 To Keep the Hand Dry in Water
79 Sympathetic Inks
80 To Make a Ring Pass Through a Table
81 To Pass a Ring Through a Pocket-Handkerchief
82 To Pass a Borrowed Ring Into an Egg
83 To Produce a Cannon Ball From a Hat
84 To Hatch Chickens In a Hat
85 To Restore a Crushed Hat
86 To Tie a Person In a Sack, From Which He Gets Out Without Cutting It Or Breaking The Seal Which Secure the String
87 To Produce Bowls of Water And Goldfish From Beneath a Cloth, And To Make Them Disappear Again
89 The Tube and Ball
90 The Smashed Watch Restored
91 The Butterfly Trick
92 The Mystic Afghan Bands
94 The Inexhaustible Bottle
95 The Chinese Rings
102 The Thinkophone
103 Reading Blindfolded
104 The Spirit Handkerchief
105 The Bewitched Skull
108 The Disappearing Lady
109 The Mystery of the Floating Head
111 The Cabinet of Proteus
112 The Mystic Flight

117 Black Art
117 Act Described
118 How It's Done
121 Presenting Black Art

129 How to Be a Spirit Medium
129 Rules To Be Observed When Forming Spiritual Circles
130 Of Temperature
130 Of the Positions To Be Observed
132 Of Impressions

135 Mind Reading
135 How To Find a Hidden Pin
137 Picking Our Certain Notes on a Piano
137 Write a Name Thought Of
137 Other Feats Are Done on the Same Principle

139 Ventriloquism (Prof. Callahan)
139 How To Acquire the Art
145 Imitations: Bee, Mosquito, Fly
146 Other Sounds
147 Concluding Remarks
148 Callahan And the Skeleton
149 Callahan The Ventriloquist