Rensselaer, Alexander Van: Magic ©1952 Alfred A. Knopf, NY Hardcover, no dj, 6.5x8.5", 44 pages Your Book of Magic ©1953 Faber & Faber Ltd Hardcover, 48 pages

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Comments: Illustrated by John N. Barron. I believe these are the same book, with Your Book of Magic being a later republication. However, since I don't have the full contents of either book, I'm not sure if there may have been changes.

Contents (from book ToC, updated Nov 2022):

5 How To Be A Magician
11 Know Your Hands
12 To Palm A Coin
14 To Pass A Coin Through Your Knees
14 The Disappearing Penny
18 The Magic Hole: passing a large coin through a small hole
18 Picking Up Two Corks: challenge
20 Odd Or Even: math magic
22 Picking The Right Name: a center tear effect
24 The Jumping Elastic: band jumps from fingers to fingers
25 Removing Two Dimes From Under A Glass: using tablecloth
27 The Jumping Penny: coin trick
28 Catching Coins: stunt
29 Rubbing Away A Coin
30 The Magic Ring: illusion coin trick
31 Dime In The Ring: follow up
32 Shaking A Knot Into A Handkerchief
34 Knotting A Handkerchief
34 A Good Mind-Reading Trick: using a two person code
36 Calling the Colour: crayon detection
37 Turning Over a Chosen Card
39 The Rope Release
41 The Escaping Polo Peppermints
42 The Obedient Coin: coin rises in glass
44 Finding a Chosen Card
46 The Reappearing Toothpick
47 The Magic Wand