Waller, Charles: Magic From Below ©1929 George Johnson, London Hardcover, 4x6.5", 176 pages

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Comments: Mostly stage or parlor effects. Illustrated.

Contents:

3 Introduction
5 Contents
6 Dedication

7 Part I
7 The Magic Pop-Gun: with a pop-gun, a handkerchief vanishes and appears on the cork
12 The Versatile Tube: variation of the Ghost Tube or Drum-Head tube
16 Some Effects With the Tube:
16 - Production of Silks
16 - The Drum Head Tube
16 - Billiard Ball Production
17 - Billiard Ball Vanish
17 - Ball Color Change
17 - The Crystal Tear
19 Eat More Fruit: card in orange
23 Hell's Bells!: Effect with a Jack-In-The-Box and a hat
39 Pickled Pieces: coins penetrate into a bottle
41 And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon: plate and spoon vanish from paper bag
46 Cones Within Cones: flowers appear from cones
54 These Little Pigs: guinea pig vanishes from newspaper bundle
63 Just On And Off!: handkerchief penetrates a walking stick
67 The Beetle Crawls: a variation of card to pocket
71 The Productive Flower Pots: production ideas
76 The Great Packing-Case Escape: a burlesque

88 Part II
88 The Tell-Tale Cigarette: mentalism through smoke rings
94 The Dunce's Cap ; Or "Beware Of The Joker!": a card box routine
101 Tea And Sugar: transposition under cups
106 The Rival Imps: a small imp bottle and a large one compete
113 No Place Like Home: billiard balls and tubes
125 The Sorcerer's Scissors: string passes through fingers
127 A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing: Card trick
133 The Curse Of Scotland: shooting a card into a bottle - almost
137 A Message From The Sea: a mentalism routine
144 The Chinese Porter: a production routine
152 Pistol And Golliwog: a pistol and a doll in newspaper transpose
163 The Balls That Rebounded: a sucker trick where balls almost transpose into a hat
168 A Box Of Sweets: the appearance of a girl