Todd, Joseph: Tricks Every Boy Can Do ©1948 Joseph Todd, Hart Publishing Co., NY Hardcover, w/dj, 189 pages

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Contents (from book):

11 Tricks With Coins & Bills
11 The Jumping Dime
12 The Bottled Bill
14 A Dollar Bill Breaks a Pencil
17 The Captive Dime
18 The Upside-Down Dollar Bill
20 The Magic Eye
21 A Tough Row to Hoe
22 Pick the Last Coin
26 The Ticklish Nickel
28 Seeing Numbers
30 The Marked Coin

31 Tricks With Checkers
31 Checkerboard Puzzle
32 The Three Checkers
34 The Magic Knockout
36 Check Up!
38 The Last Checker
40 The Magic Q

43 Card Tricks
43 Concentration
44 The Four Robbers
46 Mind Reading
50 Svengali
52 Spelling Bee
54 The Three-Pile Card Trick
58 The Heart-Breaker
61 Seven Up
62 The Magic Formula
65 Photographic Mind
68 Hocus-Pocus
71 One for the Books
74 Queens and Aces
76 Fabulous Memory
78 Bottoms Up
82 Mind Over Matter

85 Tricks With Tableware & Such
85 The Bridge of Knives
86 The Sturdy Straw
87 The Glass Puzzle
88 The Paper Bridge
89 Plate and Glass Balance
90 The Three Glass Trick
92 Carbon Copy
94 The Tricky Bridge
99 Sweet Flames
100 Upside Down Glasses

103 Tricks With Numbers
103 The Magic List
104 Foreign Figures
105 Die Fight 8's
106 The Magic Square
108 Be Your Age
111 Your Favorite Number
112 Lightning Calculator
115 Pencil Magic
116 Clairvoyance

117 Tricks With Matchsticks
117 5 Plus 6 Equals 9
118 Losing Squares
119 Make Ten
120 William Tell
122 Triangles and Squares
123 Half of Eleven Equals Six
124 Lift Ten Matches with One
126 Page the Surveyor
127 Matchstick Equations
128 Defying Gravity
130 Fair and Square
131 Correct the Equation

132 Parlor Stunts
132 I See a Ghost
136 Doing It with Mirrors
137 The Cutting Trick
138 Head Through a Card
141 Be an Eggs-Pert!
144 Enough Rope
146 Hands Up!
148 The Untouchables
150 The Iron Fists

152 Mind Reading Tricks
152 Phone Book Stunt
154 Watch How It Works
156 Cahoots
158 X-Ray Eyes
161 The Temple of Wisdom
162 The Book Trick
164 Reverse Twist
166 The Five Coins
168 The Telephone Gag

171 Scientific Oddities
171 Blowing Through a Wall
172 The Mystery Balance
175 Money Mirage
176 The Bent Card
177 Hypnotized Knee
178 Try and Fold It
179 Five Against One
180 The Glued Ruler
182 The Jumping Candle Flame
183 Hole in Your Hand
184 Finger-Tip Control
185 The Difficult Brush-Off

186 Joke Bets: 17 wagers you can't lose