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DOUGLAS CRAGGS

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Advanced Conjuring for Practical

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Edited by

DOUGLAS CRAGGS,

M.I.M.C.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE MAGIC CIRCLE, LONDON

10 Plates 30 Illustrations

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No. Contents

Editor's Foreword

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T h e T h r e e Billet T e s t Modern Money Magic A Card Routine .

Liquid Light . .

A Slate Routine .

The Image in the Crystal Liquorice Allsorts .

The Milk Trick .

The Chinese Pagoda .

Eve—An Illusion .

The Writing Tablet .

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L. G. brown Wilfrid Jonson H. Park Shackle ton Peter Waring Trevor H. Hall Peter Warlock John T. Brearley Louis S. Histed Louis S. Histed The Great Lyle Claude Chandler

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Reflections on Nate Leipsig and the Twenty Card Trick T w o Palms for Manipulators . . . .

The Charlier Pass and H o w I Use it . . .

The Cap and Pence . . . . .

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Pages from the Notebook of Graham Adams :