PRACTICAL MAGIC By David Robbins Vintage Book, Copyright 1981 MINT Condition For Sale

80 pages of over 100 easy to do tricks for parlor and stage, that anyone can perform with simple inexpensive props. There are tricks with cards, ropes, cigarettes, coins, as well as clever mind reading effects, and more. This book contains a complete course of instruction in ventriloquism and an important chapter on showmanship. Truly the greatest value ever offered.

The tricks in this book represent a selection of the best tricks from each issue ofMagic Is Fun. Magic is Fun was a bi-monthly "Independent Magazine for the Amateur Magician", published byD. Robbins & Companyin New York, that published only 7 issues between March 1946 and December 1947. The first issue (of 100,000 copies) paid tribute toHoudiniand had contributions by Paul Benov, Al Davids, Alan Stuart, Jerry Smith, Guy Deforest, Robert Orben and Robert A. Nelson. It also contained a piece on Al Flosso.

Some of the tricks taught are:

• The Vanishing Inch
• The Liquefied Block
• Hindu Thumb Penetration
• A Strong Dollar
• The Screwy Match
• Multiplying Coins
• Magic Light
• Card and Ribbon Penetration
• Glass and Coin Mystery
• Floating Egg
• The Flying Coin
• Paper Bag Magic
• Coin Through Card
• A 4-ACE Trick
• The Vanishing Cigarette
• Odds and Even
• Penny Through Plate
• Color-Changing Milk
• The Weeping Half Dollar
• Coins From A Candle
• Confetti to Cake!
• Magnetic Chips
• Match And Water Stunt
• Houdini Speaks
• A Trick with Dice
• Mysterious Egg
• Coin Penetration
• Mental Telephony
• Mind Reading Deluxe
• Dictionary Mind Reading
• Cards Through Table
• Balancing An Egg
• Magnetic Cards
• Button Mystery
• Eggs to Silks!
• Mystic Ashes
• Card and Dice Mystery
• Four-Ace Miracle
• Cut and Restored Handkerchief
• The Ghost Whistle
• Egg to Confetti
• Dice Prediction
• Disappearing Glass
• and many, many more!