Van Rensselaer, Alexander: Fun
With Magic ©1957 Alexander Van Rensselaer, Garden City Books, NY Hardcover, w/dj, 58 pages |
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Comments: A children's book of magic
Contents (from book ToC):
1 Introduction
10 The Bouncing Handkerchief
11 Palming
15 Tearing Up a Half-Dollar
16 Passing a Coin from One Box to Another
18 Dating a Coin
20 Coin through the Flesh
22 The Switching Dime
24 Passing a Coin through a Handkerchief
26 To Pass a Coin into a Ball of Yarn
28 False Shuffles
30 To Discover a Card Someone Has Selected
32 The Third-Card Trick
34 Five-Card Mystery
36 The Telltale Card
38 The Ring on the String
40 The Clock Trick
41 The Double Cross
42 Identifying Colors
43 The Elusive Object
44 Restoring a Torn Piece of Paper
46 Restoring a Cut Length of Tape
48 The Magic Matchboxes
50 The Magic Loops
51 The Magic Thimble
52 Hanging a Loop on a String
53 Passing a Glass and a Marble through a Table-Top
55 The Leaping Egg