AL BAKERS * BOOK TWO
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A Glass Vanish GEE ! ! Undercover Another 4-Ace Trick ! Your Pulse Tells A Card and a Number Baker's Bill Switch Unsight and Unseen Sex Appeal Come Seven Lost and Found Something from Nothing Pass the Salt ! Button Button ! The Name is ! Me and the Missus A Novel Escape The Milky Way
"SILKEN SORCERY" Jean Hugtrd
Silken Sorcery covers practically everything on silks, including thirty methods of producing « silk. Eleven methods of producing a number of silks. Seventeen methods of vanishing a silk. Twelve methods of dyeing the silks. Eleven methods of Twentieth Century Silks. A chapter on Knots and Flourishes. Twenty-Uiree tricks with silks. Useful accessories, sleights, etc. Wall Printed and Olastratod, J1.60 Price ... 7/6 MAGIC OF THE HANDS. EDWARD VICTOR. One of the greatest books ever written. Such a noted authority on magic books as Dr. Daley talented New York amateur, states that of all his books, this is the one from which he obtained the most • The greatest collection of original sleight-ofhand effects with cards, coins, silks, billiard balls, thimbles, cigars, cigarettes, ropes, slates and miscellaneous articles ever published. 10 sections—some 50 New Effects—every one a classic. Price 7/6.
• "CLOSE-UP MAGIC" For the Night Club Magician. Jean Hngard Herein Mr. Hugard has compiled • collection of Close-op effects with all information about this new line of magic . Most every magician of prominence at the present day it being featured in the new entertainment SeM. "Night Cluba". Cardini, Leipsig, Zingone, Vernon Jarow, Benjon. Brooks. Swan. Martin, Thompson, Orioff. Larry Gray. Dave Allison. Haskell. Devant, Albenice,*Carlyte and many others. A "book full of ideas for the Close-Up worker. 57 pages well illiu...,. $14* Iraled. A book that the Modern Magician requires.
Price ... 5/6 'AFTER TUB DESSERT" — GARDNER .i
Here is a book with 30 effects using articles that can be carried in your pocket or picked up at the dinner table. All of the material is of real reputation-building nature. With the instructions given for presentation, the result* obtainable could not be" bettered under "after dessert" conditions if you carried a car load of apparatus. In Its original mimeographed form, with only 24 trick, it sold out so last that we have had to Jjve it published as a 24 page printed booklet With SO tricks now, it represents super value at the old price Price ... 4 / -
AL BAKER'S BOOK TWO
ENGLISH EDITION
COPYRIGHT
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Messrs. L. Davenport & Co. have purchased the English publishing rights from Mr. Al Baker, of New York, U.S.A.
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(Incorporating Maskelyne's Mysteries) Manufacturers of High Class Magical Apparatus 204 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W . C . I . ENGLAND
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A Glass Vanish ...
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GEE!! Undercover
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Another 4-Ace Trick !
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Your Pulse Tells
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A Card and a Number
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Baker's Bill Switch
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Unsight and Unseen
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Sex Appeal
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Come Seven
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Me and the Missus
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A Novel Escape
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The Milky Way ...
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Jean Hugard's Series Of Card Manipulations A SERIES OF REAL PROFESSIONAL CARD SECRETS K You Do Card Trieks You Cannot Afford To Be Without This Sene« As They Will Simplify Your Card Magic
"CARD MANIPULATIONS" Nos. 1 and 2 By *<»» The One Hand Top Card Palm Hindu Shuffle Hindu Shuffle as a Substitute for the Pass The Rising Cards Easy Substitute for the Pass Relativity nnd Cards The Burglars—A storv trick The Burglars—A second version Modern Dovetail Shuffle The Aces A New Certain Force The Boomerang Card Novel Reverse Discovery The Double Lift Invisible Transit Hand to Hand Palm Change Homing Belles Baffling Spell
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CAR© MANIPULATIONS HUGARD
COLOR CHANGES Front Hand Production (single cards) from the air (Two methods) ARM SPREAD FLOURISHES Well printed and illustrated in one book • $1.00 Price 5/6 "CARD MANIPULATIONS" Ko. S. Contents: "Tlie Vor-ao(o)iou« Magloian," "Magical Production of a Deck." "Cardini Snap Color Change," "New Top Card Palm." "Ambitious Card." "Rising Card Comedy." "Three Card Routine,1' tleip-hts eoverinsr the push-out false cut, false cut for set-up deck, aerial production of fans of cards, flourishes covering the flourish count, weaving the cards, the riant fan, formation, fanning, closing: and opening; the fan, etc., etc. Vanish of tht leek Uniform with Nos. 1 and 2, illustrated 100
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"OARD MANIPULATIONS" No. 4. Contents: "Oambler's Top Palm," "N«w Top Cnange " "Replacing Palmed Cards." "Notes on the P a s s " "One Hand Sinime." "The Multiple Cut." "Novel Reverse Discovery" of Nate Ijeipsig. ''Torn and Restored Card with Borrowed Pack." ''Card in Pocket," "Expanding »nd Diminishing Cards." etc., etc Neatly printed and illustrated 1.50 Price 7/6 "CARD MANIPULATIONS" No. 5. Contents of this issue are: sleights, one hand palm, spring palm, tricks with spring palm, flesh grip, every known method of the peek or g-limpse (as used by leading card men) where magician is able to jrlimpse the selected card instantly, etc., etc. Also "An Unsolvable Mystery" by Dai Tomon (ereatest card expert cf the present day), and a host of other effects. Printed and illustrated as the others 1.08 Price 5 / 6
Hugard's Series No. 1 - 5. 20/-
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New tricks for the Parlour, Club c Stage. 108 pages, with many illustrations. Very few left. Buy Now !
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SYMPATHETIC ILKS Here fpr the time you have popular trick before you detail.
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VENTRILOQUISM. By M. Hurling. A small practical book. It yoe want to become a ventriloquist you cannot make a better start than with this hook. New C a g s, New Dialogues. Price 2 / 6 . Post 3d.
"LEND ME YOUR PACK." Farelli. A whole series of subtle effects with a borrowed pack. Popular with all card workers. Illustrated.
SH-H-H- ! IT'S A SECRET ! Forty effects and each one a masterpiece. The first edition sold out in 3 months. HigWy recommended.
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THE ODIN RINGS. The last word on the Chinese Rings. An entirely new method of presentation invented x by Claudius Odin. Translated and E d i t e d by Victor Farelli. Price 6 / 6
PROUDLOCK'S EGG BAG & FOUR ACE presentation. This book is well produced. The comedy presentation of the Eggbag i worth the money alone. Very clear explanations. Price 5 / - . Post 3d.
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