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Description:

Although “The Amazing Dunninger” has never called himself “the world’s greatest magician,” he has more right to that title than any other man or woman – living or dead. It is only fitting that he – the last of the truly great magicians – should have compiled this monument to magic. As a tribute to men of mysticism, he presents letters, photos, posters, and other memorabilia of the outstanding conjurers, escape artists, mentalists, sleight-of-hand experts, and illusionists who thrilled and amazed the world throughout the decade. Most of this material is being published for the first time. Including:

• Houdini
• Harry Kellar
• Okito
• Ching Ling Soo
•  Al Flosso
• Harry Blackstone

Contents:

009 A DUNNINGER SCRAPBOOK.
011 Introduction
015 Dunninger Biography
018 Dunninger and F. D. Roosevelt
019 A Photograph Album
025 Dunninger, Master Mentalist
030 Dunninger’s Sensational Buzz-Saw Illusion
032 When the Fates Fooled Ching Ling Foo
034 When Fate Fooled The Great Leon
035 When the Fates Fooled Dunninger
037 Simple Parlor Magic
038 The Mystic Eye
039 The Floating Glass
039 Powerful Spirits
039 Mesmerized Pencil
040 Telepathy De Luxe
040 Wand Vanish De Luxe
040 The Phantom Derby
040 Enchanted Goblet
041 Improved Straight-Jacket Release
041 Rapid Transit Dimes
041 Bran to Candy
042 Hindu Burial
042 The Flying Coin
042 The Haunted Cigarette Box
042 The Mystic Envelope
043 Producing the Lighted Candle
043 Bill in Cigarette Trick
043 The Enchanted Cylinder
043 The Magnetic Card
044 Roses from Nowhere
044 Cut and Restored Card
044 The Enchanted Cigar
044 Chameleon Ball
045 The Rising Cards
045 Second Sight With Crayons
045 New Obedient Apple
046 The Enchanted Cane
046 The Demon Reflection
046 Cigarettes and Finger-Ring Trick
046 A New Cylinder Trick
047 Cigar Case Trick
047 New Lemon Trick
047 The Mystic Decanter
047 A Crystal Casket Mystery
048 Card Production
048 Watch It
048 Handkerchief Trick
048 The Penetrating Handkerchief
049 The Bewitched Cigarette
049 New Kerchief Cylinder
049 Hypnotized Straw
049 The Elusive Bottle
050 The Plate Eater
050 Magnetic Control
050 Phantom Cigarettes
050 Mystic Ball
051 The Spirit Voice
051 Solid Through Solid
051 Come and Co Billiard Ball
051 X-Ray Card Trick
052 Mental Marvel
052 Materializations
052 Demon Swordsmanship
052 The Talkative Coin
053 The Answering Light
053 Tue Disappearing Water
053 Enchanted Tape
054 Twentieth Century Monte
054 Simple Thought-Reading Method
055 Elusive Cannon Ball
055 The Jumping Fountain Pen
055 Rapid-Transit Playing Card
056 Cigarette Miracle
056 Indian Cocoanut Trick
057 Enchanted Crayons
057 Vanishing Knife
057 Magical Pistol and Card
058 Mystic Wine Production
058 Magical Marksmanship
058 The Magnetized Knife
059 Vanishing Bird and Cage
059 How Did the Screw Get There?
060 Unstainable Paper
060 Living and Dead Trick
060 The Enchanted Jug
061 Psychomotrized Ashes
061 Indian Snake Materialization
061 The Fishy Fishbowl
062 Rabbit From Hat
062 The Standing Matchbook
062 The Writing Blackboard
063 The Balancing Glass
063 The Severed Thread
063 Bullet Catching
064 Disappearing Cigarette
064 Vanishing Tumbler
064 Fakir Sword Penetration
065 Chinese Coin Divination
065 Indian Horn Blowing Trick
065 Pitcher of Plenty
066 Enchanted Tablecloth
066 Latticework Box
066 Resurrected Thread
067 The Falling Matchbox
067 Spirit Knocks
067 Duck Decapitation
068 Chameleon Card
068 Spirit Candle- Lighting .
068 New Buried Alive Trick
069 Inexhaustible Box for Magicians
070 Music from the Spiritland
070 Changing Card Trick
070 Enchanted Demon
072 No-practice Ventriloquism
072 The Book Miracle
072 The Enchanted Tie
074 Psychic Vision
074 New Rising Card Effect
074 Obedient Ball
076 Rabbit Production Deluxe
076 Resurrected Card
076 Colored Rods
078 Second Sight Deluxe
078 Chinese Coin Release
078 Hypnotism and the Hot Ball
080 Decapitation
081 Magical Dexterity
082 The Enchanted Mirror
082 The Demon Touch
082 The Darting Ping-Pong Ball
084 Memorized Dictionary Feat
084 Touch Identification of Cigarettes
084 Threading the Thumb Trick
086 Balancing Glass
086 Diabolical Smoke
086 Spirit Messages
088 Spirit Clock
088 Spinning Doll
088 Reappearing Card
090 Chinese Lantern and Scarves Trick
090 Disappearing Kerchief
090 Jumping Coin Trick
092 Drum of Mystery
092 Cigarette Magic
092 Match Box Mont
094 The Spiritualist's Box
094 Mesmerized Handkerchief
094 A Mechanical Sleight of Hand
096 Spiritland Messages
096 Mystifying Cigarette Holder
098 Spirit Writing
098 Cigarette Sleight
098 The Card Miracle

100 HISTORICALLY FAMOUS MYSTERIES EXPLAINED

116 AN ALBUM OF LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS OF THE WORLDS GREATEST MAGICIANS:
A MONUMENT TO MAGIC
118 Author’s Note
119 Harry Houdini
119 About the Notebook
128 Houdini -A Biography
130 Houdini Jail Escapes
130 The $31.000 Reward
131 The Eight Chicks and Houdini’s Death
132 Memorabilia
152 Beatrice Houdini
158 Harry Kellar
194 Howard Thurston
201 Will Goldston
202 Maskelyne
203 Franciscus
204 Horace Goldin
206 George Rushling
208 The Flosso Family

209 A PICTORIAL GLOSSARY OF MAGICIANS AND PRESTIDIGITATORS