{"product_id":"bb18-4","title":"More Magic by Professor Hoffman - Published by David McKay","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis is from a Private Estate in \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePoor Condition\u003c\/strong\u003e. This is a hardcover book with no dust jacket.  The front cover has several white marks located all over and unidentified spot marks.  The spine is severely faded and patchy in color.  The back cover has more of the unidentified spot marks all over as well.  The pages are yellow from age and inside the front cover has a sticker from R.E. Swanson Magic \u0026amp; Novelty Co. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch1 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished by David McKay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 Introductory\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2 Chapter I The Magician’s Wand, the Magician’s Table, and the Magician’s Dress\u003cbr\u003e2 The Firing Wand\u003cbr\u003e4 The Electric Wand\u003cbr\u003e6 New forms of “Servante”\u003cbr\u003e6 Substitute for the “Table”\u003cbr\u003e7 A Mechanical Hat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9 Chapter II Principles of Sleight of Hand Applicable to Card Tricks\u003cbr\u003e9 The “Charlier” Pass\u003cbr\u003e11 To Force a Card (New Methods)\u003cbr\u003e13 To Force Three Cards together\u003cbr\u003e14 False Shuffles (New Methods)\u003cbr\u003e17 To Change a Card – The Revolution\u003cbr\u003e19 To Spring the Cards from the one Hand to the Other (with Mechanical Pack)\u003cbr\u003e20 The Bridge (Additional Methods)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e22 Chapter III Card Tricks With Ordinary Cards and Not Requiring Sleight of Hand\u003cbr\u003e22 Methods of Identifying a Chosen Card\u003cbr\u003e23 Any number of Packets of Cards having been formed face downwards on the Table, to discover the Total Value of the Undermost Cards (New Method)\u003cbr\u003e25 New Numerical Trick with Cards\u003cbr\u003e27 The Capital Q\u003cbr\u003e30 To name Cards without seeing them\u003cbr\u003e31 The “Alternate Card” Trick\u003cbr\u003e31 The “Spelling” Trick\u003cbr\u003e32 The “Twenty-seven Card” Trick – To cause a Card selected by one Spectator to appear at such number in the Pack as another Spectator may indicate\u003cbr\u003e35 A Row of Cards being placed face downwards on the Table, to discover how many have during your absence been transferred from one end to the other. (Improved Method)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e38 Chapter IV Tricks Involving Sleight of Hand or the Use of Specially Prepared Cards\u003cbr\u003e38 To produce Three Cards at any position in the Pack thought of by another person\u003cbr\u003e40 A Card being freely chosen from the Pack, replaced, and the Pack shuffled, to make any given Card change to the one chosen\u003cbr\u003e42 The “Alternate Card” Trick with a Complete Pack\u003cbr\u003e46 To pass a Chosen Card through the Crown of a Borrowed Hat\u003cbr\u003e48 To change Three Cards, placed in the Pocket of a Spectator into three others previously chosen\u003cbr\u003e49 To make a Card freely drawn, and replaced in the Pack, change places with another Card on the Table\u003cbr\u003e50 To distinguish the Suit of a given Card by Weight\u003cbr\u003e51 The “Three-Card” Trick\u003cbr\u003e55 “Changing” Cards\u003cbr\u003e56 “Walking Pip” Cards\u003cbr\u003e57 The Cards passing up the Sleeve, and the Diminishing and Increasing Cards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e67 Chapter V The “Charlier” System of Card-Marking, and Tricks Performed by Its Aid\u003cbr\u003e67 The method of Marking\u003cbr\u003e68 Reading the Cards\u003cbr\u003e69 The Charlier “Dial”\u003cbr\u003e72 Method of Calculation\u003cbr\u003e75 Practical Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e84 The Mysterious Pairs\u003cbr\u003e87 To name the Article taken by each of Four Persons\u003cbr\u003e88 To name the Bottom Card of each of Three Heaps of Cards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e91 Chapter VI Card Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e91 The Rising Cards (La Houlette) (Improved Methods)\u003cbr\u003e95 To Catch a Selected Card on the End of a Walking Stick\u003cbr\u003e98 Frames of various kinds for producing Cards\u003cbr\u003e99 Field’s Card-Frame\u003cbr\u003e101 The French Card-Frame\u003cbr\u003e102 The Sand Frame\u003cbr\u003e103 The Velvet Frame and Artist’s Easel\u003cbr\u003e104 The Crystal Frame\u003cbr\u003e107 The Cabalistic Star, for the production of Cards\u003cbr\u003e109 The Velvet Cloth, for the production of Cards\u003cbr\u003e111 The Black Cloth Target\u003cbr\u003e115 The Magic Card Case\u003cbr\u003e118 The Card Drawer. (Improved)\u003cbr\u003e121 A New Changing Card-box and Tricks therewith\u003cbr\u003e124 The Magnetic Wand and Walking Card\u003cbr\u003e128 The Enchanted Hand-Mirror\u003cbr\u003e131 The Multiplying and Vanishing Cards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e139 Chapter VII Methods of Sleight of Hand Applicable to Coin Tricks\u003cbr\u003e139 The “Jerk-back” Palm\u003cbr\u003e142 Coin Changes\u003cbr\u003e143 To Extract a Coin from a Folded Paper\u003cbr\u003e144 To Wrap a Coin apparently in a Handkerchief\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e145 Chapter VIII Coin Tricks Without Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e145 To make a Coin vanish from and return to the Left Hand\u003cbr\u003e146 To rub a Coin into the Elbow\u003cbr\u003e146 To vanish Coins and reproduce them from the Elbow\u003cbr\u003e147 The Penetrative Coins\u003cbr\u003e149 Another Method\u003cbr\u003e154 A New “Multiplication” Trick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e157 Chapter IX Coin Tricks Requiring Special Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e157 To produce Coins from a lighted Candle\u003cbr\u003e158 To pass Coins into a Bottle\u003cbr\u003e161 Multiplying Coins and Tricks therewith\u003cbr\u003e165 The eight Coins and two Brass Covers\u003cbr\u003e171 Head or Tail\u003cbr\u003e172 The Mysterious Tumbler – To pass a coin from a Glass of Water into the Centre of an Orange\u003cbr\u003e181 The Climbing Coin – A Florin made to climb up the face of a small Wooden Pillar, into a Box at top\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e185 Chapter X Tricks With Watches and Rings\u003cbr\u003e185 A Smashed Watch (New Methods)\u003cbr\u003e188 The Improved Watch Mortar\u003cbr\u003e190 A Watch found at the root of a Flower\u003cbr\u003e192 Taylor’s Watch Trick\u003cbr\u003e193 Devono’s Watch-bag\u003cbr\u003e195 The “Lady’s Stocking”\u003cbr\u003e196 The Wandering Ring\u003cbr\u003e199 Verbeck’s Wedding-ring Trick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e203 Chapter XI Tricks With Handkerchiefs\u003cbr\u003e203 A Handkerchief Puzzle\u003cbr\u003e203 The Instantaneous Knot\u003cbr\u003e206 The Stretched Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e207 To “Vanish” a Handkerchief (Sundry Methods)\u003cbr\u003e209 The Buatier “Pull”\u003cbr\u003e211 The “Bare-armed Vanish”\u003cbr\u003e214 The Dissolving Handkerchiefs\u003cbr\u003e216 The Two Decanters and the Flying Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e218 Multiplication of Handkerchiefs\u003cbr\u003e220 Red, White, and Blue\u003cbr\u003e221 The Vanishing Pockethandkerchief found in a Candle. (New Method)\u003cbr\u003e227 “Flash” Handkerchiefs\u003cbr\u003e230 The Revolving Candle for Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e231 A Pack of Cards transformed into a Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e233 A Saucepan to cook a Handkerchief\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e237 Chapter XII Feats of Divination\u003cbr\u003e237 The Expunged Numeral\u003cbr\u003e241 To Predict the Sum of Five Rows of Figures\u003cbr\u003e242 The Magic Circle (To discover a Card or other Object touched during the Performer’s Absence)\u003cbr\u003e243 “Second Sight” Tricks\u003cbr\u003e250 Reading Blindfold\u003cbr\u003e251 Dr. Lynn’s “Second Sight” Trick\u003cbr\u003e255 The Thinkophone\u003cbr\u003e257 The Box of Numbers\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e261 Chapter XII Ball Tricks\u003cbr\u003e261 The Billiard-ball Trick\u003cbr\u003e265 Another Method\u003cbr\u003e274 The Chameleon Ball\u003cbr\u003e279 The Obedient Ball (Improved)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e285 Chapter XIV Tricks With Hats\u003cbr\u003e285 Hartz and his “Hat” Trick\u003cbr\u003e287 The Bundle of Firewood\u003cbr\u003e289 A Flower-garden from a Hat\u003cbr\u003e290 A New Folding Bouquet\u003cbr\u003e291 The Cannon-ball Trick (Improved)\u003cbr\u003e295 The Cannon-ball Globe\u003cbr\u003e300 The Paper Ribbon and the Barber’s Pole\u003cbr\u003e303 The Animated Cigar\u003cbr\u003e306 A Hat with a Hole in it\u003cbr\u003e307 The Finger through the Hat\u003cbr\u003e308 The Cork through the Hat\u003cbr\u003e309 The Coin through the Hat\u003cbr\u003e311 The Cigar through the Hat\u003cbr\u003e312 The Wand passed through the Hat\u003cbr\u003e315 The Magnetized Hat\u003cbr\u003e317 Another Method\u003cbr\u003e318 The Smashed Hat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e323 Chapter XV Tricks With Eggs\u003cbr\u003e323 The Egg made to Sink or Swim at Command\u003cbr\u003e325 To Balance an Egg on a Table\u003cbr\u003e325 To Balance an Egg on the End of a Straw\u003cbr\u003e327 To Spin an Egg on End\u003cbr\u003e327 To Produce Eggs from an Empty Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e330 Another Method\u003cbr\u003e332 “Patter” for this and a “Cake” Trick\u003cbr\u003e339 Prepared Eggs – Paper from an Egg\u003cbr\u003e340 A Barber’s Pole from an Egg\u003cbr\u003e340 To Produce Eggs from the Flame of a Candle\u003cbr\u003e342 Egg Swallowing\u003cbr\u003e344 To Pass an Egg through a Hat\u003cbr\u003e345 The Climbing Egg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e348 Chapter XVI Miscellaneous Tricks\u003cbr\u003e348 The Mysterious Release\u003cbr\u003e350 The Bottle Imp. (Improved)\u003cbr\u003e351 Conjurer’s Cress\u003cbr\u003e355 Candle-lighting Extraordinary\u003cbr\u003e358 The Obedient Candle\u003cbr\u003e359 Newspaper Cuttings turned into Pale Ale\u003cbr\u003e361 The Bran Plate\u003cbr\u003e362 Bran Disappearing from a Glass, and Re-appearing under a Plate\u003cbr\u003e364 The Flying Glass, Watch, and Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e368 The Inexhaustible Punch-bowl\u003cbr\u003e371 The Coffee Trick. (Improved Method)\u003cbr\u003e375 The Wine and Water Trick. (Improved Methods)\u003cbr\u003e380 Wine or Water. (Another Method)\u003cbr\u003e383 The Wine Proof\u003cbr\u003e385 The Inexhaustible Portfolio\u003cbr\u003e386 The Horn of Plenty\u003cbr\u003e388 The Bewitched Fan\u003cbr\u003e390 A Shower of Flowers\u003cbr\u003e395 The Spiritualistic Ball, Ring and Card\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e403 Chapter XVII Stage Tricks\u003cbr\u003e403 The New Target, for Watch and Card\u003cbr\u003e416 The Broken Mirror\u003cbr\u003e421 The Card in the Candle\u003cbr\u003e424 The Bewitched Skull\u003cbr\u003e427 The Talking Hand\u003cbr\u003e428 The Shower of Gold\u003cbr\u003e437 The Demon Marksman\u003cbr\u003e448 The Vanishing Lady\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e457 L’Envoi\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Magic Shop San Diego","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40425017409629,"sku":"BB18 MMPH","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1120\/5962\/files\/LDK_8754.jpg?v=1711127081","url":"https:\/\/magicshopsandiego.com\/products\/bb18-4","provider":"Magic Shop San Diego","version":"1.0","type":"link"}