Vermes, Hal G.: The Collier Quick and Easy Guide to Magic ©1963 Collier Books Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 92 pages

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Comments: Beginner's book of magic tricks and stunts

Contents (from book, updated July 2019)

5 Foreword

11 Chapter One How to Become a Magician
11 The Magic Seven
12 Presentation
12 Performance

15 Chapter Two Money Magic
15 How to Make Money
16 The Grab Bag
16 Here Today - Gone Tomorrow
16 Coin Concentration
17 Devaluating the Dollar
17 The Automatic Penny Bank
18 The Lucky Coin
18 The Crawling Dime
18 Double Your Money
19 Money Clips
19 Gravity Defied
20 Who Stole the Money?
20 The X-Ray Eye
21 The All-Seeing Eye
21 Heads or Tails
22 The Dissolving Coin
23 How to Lose Money

25 Chapter Three Match Magic
25 The Military Match
25 Magic Match Lifts
25 Thirteen With One
26 The Magic Square
26 A Match Through Steel
27 The Trapeze
27 Vanishing Glue
27 The Match Mender
28 The Upside-Down Match
28 The Jumping Match
29 The Automatic Lighter
29 The Million-Dollar Robbery
30 The Traveling Ball

31 Chapter Four Paper Magic
31 Jumping Cigar Band
31 Who's a Hercules?
32 Lucky Money
32 The Magic Introduction
33 The Magic Bottle
33 The Mysterious Wedding Bands
34 The Magic Cornucopia
34 The Magic Scissors
35 Headlines

37 Chapter Five Handkerchief Magic
37 Color Change
37 A Knotty Problem
37 Vanishing Knots
38 Tied and Untied
38 Instant Knots
39 The Magic Knot
39 The Traveling Handkerchiefs
40 The Invisible Handkerchief

41 Chapter Six String Magic
41 The Knot That's Not
41 The String Elevator
41 String Through a Straw
42 The Indestructable String
42 The Vanishing Knot
43 Two Into One
43 String Along
44 The Restored Twine
44 Rings On a String
45 Locked Ring