Collins, Stanley: A Conjuring Melange
©1947 Published by Fleming Book Company of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.
146 Illustrations by Alba
Hardbound, 245 pages
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
LoC Classification |
GV1547.C628 |
No. of Pages |
244 |
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Read It |
No |
Location |
Magic Library (Home) Shelf E |
Condition |
Fine |
Owner |
Bryan-Keith Taylor |
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Collins, Stanley
(1881-1966 )
Collins was born in London. Affected by the magic performances of Chung Ling Soo , in 1905 he began to perform as "Loo Sing." Collins invented many magic effects, largely based on mechanical and hydraulic principles. Credited with inventing the Jumping Rubber Bands in 1911. He wrote various books: Original Magical Creations (1915), Deceptive Conceptions in Magic (1920), Collin's Card Conceits (1925), A Conjuring Mélange. He also wrote numerous articles in The Sphinx, The Jinx, Hugard's Magic Monthly, Pentagram, and The Linking Ring.