This is a lovely and unusual publication with more than 200 feats described. Walter B. Gibson had a magic column in the Public Ledger, a newspaper in Philadelphia. The entire run of his columns is collected in this publication.
You will find many simple magic tricks as well as some puzzles, stunts and brain teasers. While many will be familiar to most who have read similar collections of little tricks, there are a few real surprises I have not seen anywhere else.
1st digital edition 2013, 246 pages.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- The Balanced Egg
- The Jumping Card
- Coin In Handkerchief
- The Automatic Matchbox
- The Balanced Match
- The Multiplying Ball
- The Rising Card
- The Magic Slip
- “Heads I Win”
- The Penetrating Coin
- Mysterious Smoke
- The Knot From Nowhere
- Mystery Rings
- Magnetic Matches
- The Jumping Card
- The Bending Pencil
- The Fountain Pencil
- Self-Rising Matchbox
- The Mystic Egg
- The Mystic Banana
- The Automatic Golf Ball
- A Cigarette Trick
- Mysterious Cigar Band
- The Vanishing Coin
- Vanishing Goldfish
- The Marvelous Pencil
- Doubling Coins
- The Coin In The Orange
- The Vanishing Water
- Coins On Edge
- Mysterious Eggs
- Mysterious Liquid
- Mystic Coins
- The Animated Hairpin
- A Broken Stick
- The Acrobatic Coin
- The Mystic Orange
- Three Glasses And A Sheet Of Paper
- Label Up!
- The Magic Napkin
- Mysterious Knife
- The Glass And The Plate
- The Torn Paper
- Balanced Glass
- Mystic Sugar
- The Mystic Seed
- The Long Thread
- Black And White
- A Big Blow
- Balanced Golf Balls
- Balanced Cigar
- Breaking The Apple
- Overbalanced Cigarette
- The Changing Chip
- A Stop Watch
- Drop-Away Spool
- Bewilderment
- Acrobatic Ruler
- The Mysterious Coin
- Mystic Matches
- Naming Unseen Cards
- The Transferred Card
- Two Cigarettes
- Card Detection
- Matches In The Box
- The Obliging Match
- Magnetic Sugar
- Changing Coin
- The Spinning Egg
- Mysterious Watch
- Mystic Writing
- Traveling Ring
- Upright Egg
- Upright Match
- The Uncanny Ring
- Mystic Flame
- Color Cards
- Tell-Tale Coin
- Mystic Totals
- Find The Slip
- Whirling Cigar
- Four Kings
- The Dice And The Cup
- The Balanced Glass
- The Amazing Letter Discs
- Colored Crayons
- Head Up
- In The Card Case
- Cup And Coin
- Shake Away Coins
- Stand Up Match
- The Magic Propeller
- Moving The Glasses
- Adhesive Match Box
- The Mysterious Coins
- Three Beads
- Lighting A Match
- Blue And Red
- The Coin And The Candle
- Handkerchief On String
- Vanishing Card
- Magic Liquid
- The Edible Candle
- Magnetic Cigar
- The Inverted Glass
- The Bouncing Handkerchief
- The Mystic Match Trick
- Mystic Clock
- Mystic Pencil
- Jumping Rubber Band
- Coin And Hat
- The Flying Handkerchief
- Dark And Light
- The Cloud Of Sugar
- Sealed Message Reading
- Balanced Cigarettes
- Telltale Cigarette
- Color-Changing Balloon
- Self-Filling Bottle
- Three Mystic Dice
- The Telltale Watch
- The Multiplying Cube
- The Four Card Mystery
- Coin Vanishing From Handkerchief
- Nonburning Cigarette
- Coin Through Sleeve
- Ring On Handkerchief
- Mystic Addition
- Magnetic Cards
- Brush Away Coin
- Jumping Sticks
- Turnabout Matches
- Mystic Number
- Coffee To Milk
- The Four Mysterious Aces
- Rising Cigarette
- Mystic Figures
- Coin On Door
- The Dry Coin
- The Stretched Finger
- Loop Through The Coat
- The Safety Pins And Ribbons
- The Pack And The Handkerchief
- The Mysterious Watch
- The Mysterious Pack Of Cards
- Ball Balanced On Straw
- Vanishing Stamp
- The Magic Number
- Mystic Vanishing Ace
- Fly-Away Matches
- Self-Lighting Match
- The Self-Reversing Pencil
- Coin From Paper
- The Fall Away Ring
- Mystic Loop
- Tube, Coin And Paper
- Mysterious Dominoes
- Mysterious Corks
- The Automatic Knot
- Balanced Pack Of Cards
- Coin From The Glass
- The Mystic Vanishing Coin
- Finding The Handkerchief
- The Restored Match
- The Card Clipped In Mid-Air
- Mysterious Cross Trick
- Crossing The Matches
- The Ring On The String
- Moving The Matches
- The Diminishing Card
- Self-Opening Match-Box
- Finding Four Aces
- Mysterious Paper Balls
- Sugar That Burns
- Color Changing Paper
- The Penetrating Thimble
- Vanishing Tobacco
- Mystic Glass
- Magic Matches
- Coin Tell
- The Transposed Colors
- Tell-Tale Tags
- Balanced Golf Balls
- Adhesive Thimbles
- The Appearing Coin
- The Uncut Card
- Tough Knuckles
- Hindu Rice Trick
- Three Color Cards
- The Spirit Bell
- Magic Writing
- The Adhesive Cards
- Find The Total
- The Magic Crayons
- The Mysterious Strainer
- The Mystic Straw
- The Contrary Cards
- The Broken Match
- The Ten Dominoes
- The Vanishing Coin
- The Mystic Q
- The Missing Match
- Jumpaway Matches
- Pencil To Cigarette
- Mathematical Mystery
- Long Or Short
- The Joker Trick
- Turnabout Cigarette
- The Mystic Flower
- Fly Away Coin
- Ring On Handkerchief
- The Coin And The Paper
- The Changing Card
- On Or Off
- Four Color Stars
- The Restored String
- Changing Color
- Mystic Matches
- The Chosen Slip
- Vanishing Dime
- Those Very Words!
- Find The Blank Slip
- The Anti-Gravity Cylinder
- Instantaneous Transformation
- Coin From Roll
- The Adhesive Glass
- A Paper Tearing Impossibility
- Mystic Total
- The Magic Loop
- Vanishing Thimble