Westbrook, Arthur Co.: Magician's Book of Conjuring ©1909 Arthur Westbook Co. Hardcover, w/dj, 56 pages plus ads

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Comments: Illustrated.

Contents (from book):

1 Introduction
1 The Magic Wand
1 The Magician's Table: and servante
3 The Magician's Dress

5 Chapter I Tricks With Dominoes and Dice
5 To Arrange A Row Of Dominoes Face Downwards On The Table, And On Returning To The Room To Turn Up A Domino Whose Points Shall Indicate How Many Have Been Moved In Your Absence
7 To Allow Any Person In Your Absence To Arrange The Dominoes In A Row, Face Downwards, And On Your Return To Name Blindfold, Or Without Entering The Room, The End Numbers Of The Row
8 To Change, Invisibly, The Numbers Shown On Either Face Of A Pair Of Dice
10 To Name, Without Seeing Them, The Points Of A Pair Of Dice

11 Chapter II The Cups and Balls
11 The Equipment And Setup
12 To Palm The Ball
13 - Second Method
14 - Third Method
14 To Reproduce the Palmed Ball At the End of the Fingers
14 To Secretly Introduce the Palmed Ball Under the Cup
16 To Simulate the Action of Placing a Ball Under a Cup
16 To Produce a Ball From the Wand
17 To Return a Ball Into the Wand
17 To Pass One Cup Through Another
18 Introductory Address
19 Pass I. Having Placed A Ball Under Each Cup, To Draw It Out Again Without Lifting The Cup
22 Pass II. To Make A Ball Travel Invisibly From Cup To Cup
22 Pass III. Having Placed A Ball Under Each Of The End Cups, To Make Them Pass Successively Under The Middle Cup
23 Pass IV. Having Placed Two Balls Under The Middle Cup, To Make Them Pass Under The Two Outer Ones
24 Pass V. To Pass Three Balls In Succession Under One Cup
25 Pass VI. To Place Three Balls One After The Other Upon The Top Of One Of The Cups, And To Make Them Fall Through The Cup On To The Table
25 Pass VII. To Pass Three Balls In Succession Up-Wards Through The Table Into One Of The Cups
26 Pass VIII. To Pass Two Balls In Succession From One Cup To Another Without Touching Them
27 Pass IX. To Make Three Balls In Succession Pass Under The Middle Cup
28 Pass X. The Multiplication Pass
29 Pass XI. To Transform The Small Balls To Larger Ones
30 Pass XII. To Again Transform The Balls To Still Larger Ones
32 Conclusion

33 Chapter III Ball Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus
33 Sleight of Hand:
33 - First Method: false pass
33 - Second Method: another
34 To Vanish A Large Ball With The Aid Of The Table
34 - Second Method
35 - Third Method
35 - Fourth Method
35 The Ball Box: the ball and vase
36 The Red-And-Black Ball Vases
38 Morrison's Pill-Box
40 The Ball Which Changes To A Rose
41 The Obedient Ball: on a string

44 Chapter IV Hat Tricks
44 The Cannon-Balls In The Hat
47 The Hundred Goblets From A Hat
48 A Dozen Babies From A Hat
49 The Magic Reticule
50 The Drums From The Hat
51 The Birdcages From The Hat
52 The Cake or Pudding In The Hat
53 The Welsh Rabbit

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