Magic Digest by George B. Anderson

The original ad read:

Secrets for the tricks in this book, if purchased separately from magic supply houses, would cost well over $1000. Here, in non-technical language, are hundreds of tricks that require no special apparatus; tricks that can be performed with simple, common objects to be found anywhere. Tricks with coins, rope, handkerchiefs, cigarettes, rubber bands, pencils, playing cards - objects completely free of trickery. Includes complete routines for a close-up act, a mental act, a children's show, and a catalog of magic and merchandise.

Hundreds of self-working tricks that require no skill
Tricks for anytime, anywhere (at the dinner table, at the card table, at a party)
Ice breakers for business dealings
Easily constructed illusions
Close-up routines with silks, cards, coins
Mental magic
How to buy tricks
A gallery of legendary magicians
Reproduction of the old classic The Black Art Exposed
Neil Foster wrote in the New Tops:

"Puts Magic in the Now! I recommend this book to everyone interested in the Art of Magic, be he amateur or professional. For the first time in decades a book has finally come along that puts Magic in the contemporary scene, all the dusty old myths have past into oblivion."
About The Author
You Can Do Great Magic Tricks
The Ground Rules Of Magic
Any Time, Anywhere
The Impossible Knot
The Instant One-Hand Knot
The Snap Knot
The Phantom Knot
Silk Through The Body
Take Your Choice
The Blow Knot
Triple Choice
Penetration
Instant Off And On
Pin-A-Ribbon
Impossible Penetration
The Indian Rice Mystery
Burned And Restored Borrowed Bill
Dollar Bill In Cigarette
The Great Coat Trick
The Priceless Cups
The Sponge Balls
The Vanishing Coat Hanger
Paradise Dice Routine
With Dessert And Coffee
The Vanishing Spoon
Heads Or Tails
The Coin And Glass Illusion
Silver Through Glass
Borrowed Ring On Pencil
Woofle Dust And Ice
Knife Penetration
The Numerology Trick
The Magic Square
At The Card Table
Mathematical Aces
"Your Choice" Four Aces
Choice Prediction
Miraskill, By Stewart James
Mental Card Sandwich
How To Force A Card
Super-Speller
Safety Check Speller
The Torn Deck Miracle
False Shuffles
Simplex Poker Deal
The Piano Trick
Think Stop
The Twelve-Card Count
The Golden Miracle
You Do As I Do
You, Card Manipulator
In Your Hat
The Card On The Ceiling
Al Baker's Impossible Card Location
Sheer Nerve
Another "Think Of A Card"
Follow-Up Card In Pocket
Countdown
Double Reverse
Stabbing A Card
Another Card Stabbing
Restoring A Torn Card
Simulcast
Dublo-Cation
Want More Card Tricks?
At A Party
The Telephone Card Trick
Swindles
"Gag" Three-Card Monte
The "Glide" Find The Lady
The Australian Belt
The Shell Game
Thirty-One
A Ring, A Quarter And A Hankie
After-Dinner Mints
Find The Body
Ice Breakers
Clipped For A Snappy Buck
Keep It Brief
Matching Pennies
Sympathetic Coins
A Knotty Problem
Print Your Own
The Indestructible Rubber Band
The Jumping Band
The Rubber Pencil
You're A Mindreader!
The Sex Indicator
Think Of A Finger!
Mental Choice
One Chance In Ten
The Hoax "Think Of A Card"
Three-Way Prediction
The Three-Digit Test
Money Talks
Simple Book Test
Intermediary
Stopping The Pulse
Message Reading
Matchbook Mind Reading
The Window Envelope
A Clean Revelation
The Sealed Question Answering Act
"In The Dark" Mindreading
A Message From Zographos
Newmann's Numbers
Dowsing Rods
Pseudo-Psychometry
Par-Optic Vision
Coin Tricks
The Classic Coin Fold
The No-Sleight Coin Vanish
The Han Ping Chien Coin Trick
The Miser's Dream
Coins Across
Coin Con
Mindreading With Coins
Breaking A Bill
The Bending Coin
The Sympathetic Coins
Chips Are Money
Heads Or Tails
The Challenge 100-Foot Rope Escape
A Spectacular Illusion
The Nest Of Boxes
Four Ads
The Gift Of The Magi
A Close-Up Routine
The Silk Routine
Double-Knot Vanish
World's Fastest Knot
World's Fastest Bow-Tie
Bracelet From Silk
Silk Through The Arm
The Silk Routine
Impromptu Close-Up Routine
The Bill Switch
Bracelet Over Rubber Band
The Bracelet On The String
Threading The Needle
On Again, Off Again
The Paddle Trick
The Rapping Pencil
The Telephone Book Test
Routine With Borrowed Cards
Magic Or Mindreading
Card Routine With A Stacked Deck
"Kit" Impromptu Table Routine
Square Knot Cut And Restored Rope
The Afghan Bands
Close-Up Mental Routine
Living And Dead Test
Psychic Drawing
Spectator And Slate
The Rapping Cricket
Matchbook Mindreading
A Routine For A Children's Show
Torn And Restored Paper Napkin
Allah Palooza
Hydrostatic Glass
Bananas
The Educated Snake
The Rabbit Tubes
Popping Corn In A Borrowed Hat
You're On-Stage
Club Act Routine
Rope-Stretching
Ropes Around The Neck
Block And Cord
Bananas
Heavy Water
The Needle Trick
The Card In The Orange
Great Performers
Where Do We Go From Here?
Let's Buy A Trick
The Collector
Robert-Houdin
Harry Houdini
Okito
Alexander Herrmann
Harry Kellar
Maskelyne's Mysteries
Harry Blackstone
John Mulholland
Howard Thurston
The Black Art, Fully Exposed And Laid Bare
Acknowledgements
About The Cover