A Conjuring Melange by Stanley Collins

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Details: Having spent more than forty-five years as a professional entertainer, Mr. Collins presents more than fifty tricks which he either originated or improved so extensively as to convert them into virtually new feats.

Tricks with cards, coins,  and handkerchiefs, pocket tricks, mental tricks, miscellaneous tricks, tricks for children, a stage illusion and ever several conjuring puzzles go to make up this magical feast.

Two features of the book are worthy of special mention: the tricks are genuinely workable and the explanations are clearly details and illustrated.

Contents:

v Introduction: Paul Fleming

ix Foreword

1 Part I: Tricks With Cards

3 Mystification Follows Explanation

6 Attack

8 The Magnetic Aces

14 The Royal Reunion

16 The Nomadic Numbered Discs

20 The Esscee Prearranged Pack

25 Courting Cards

27 The Multiple Spelling-Bee (First Method)

30 The Multiple Spelling-Bee (Second Method)

32 Extremes Meet

39 The Forthright Four-Ace Trick

43 The Anti-Gravity Cards

46 The Comedy of Errors

51 Sympathetic Coincidence (First Version)

55 Sympathetic Coincidence (Second Version)

57 An Arithmetical Trick

61 The Conjureer as Card-Sharper

64 Wizard’s Whist

66 Two-Card Penetration

71 Jumbo Card Penetration

73 The Mystery from Domdaniel

79 The Spider

86 The Tables Turned

90 The Tables Turned Again

94 The Esscee Double-Lift

98 Four-Card Monte

101 The Triple Flight of Cards

103 All Fours

107 Part II: Pocket Tricks

109 Penny-Tration

113 The Double Crossed Bat

115 Acrobatic Elastics

118 The Lunatic’s Thumb

122 The Double Coin-Roll

125 Part III: Tricks for Children

127 Signs of the Rhyme

132 Signs of the Rhyme (Revised Version)

134 Box and Chocs

145 Part IV: Tricks with Handkerchiefs

147 Aerial Handkerchief Knotting

150 The Umteenth-Century Handkerchief Trick

153 The Knee-Plus-Ultra Handkerchief Trick

158 The Esscee Handkerchief Pull

161 Part V: Mental Tricks

163 The Quick and the Dead Again

166 Whisper Word

170 Chiffrenom

175 Part VI: Miscellaneous Tricks

177 Necromancy with Numbers

182 The Flying Sum and Divining Cards

188 The Self-Effacing Servante

191 The Transposing Die and Handkerchief

197 The Crystal Casket and Flying Die

203 The Hindu Bead Mystery

206 The Wand-ering Peg

210 The Wand as Comestible

213 Part VII: Stage Illusion

215 Le Mystere Electrique

223 Part VIII: Conjuring Puzzles

225 Four Conjuring Double-Acrostics

229 Three Conjuring Rebuses

230 A Conjuring Cross-Word Puzzle

233 A Skeleton Conjuring Cross-Word Puzzle

234 Solutions to Double-Acrostics

237 Soulutions to Rebuses

238 Solution to Cross-Word Puzzle

239 Solution to Skeleton Cross-Word Puzzle

240 A Page of Conjuring Word-Squares

242 Index

• Publisher: Fleming Book Company
• Pages: 244
• Location: New Jersey, USA
• Dimensions: 6″x8″
• Date: 1947
• Binding: hardbound