The Crowning Miracles by Eric C. Lewis

At last, the Grand Finale to one of magic’s greatest literary achievements. Eric Lewis, the author of 17 books on magic, two-time Magic Castle Stage Magician of the Year, inventor and builder of museum quality apparatus, illustrator, and master story-teller, has just completed what has already been called “the largest and finest collection of original magic ever published.”‘

Within the pages of Volume III you will find children’s magic, mentalism, close-up and platform magic, as well as dozens of first-hand stories about the great stars and lesser-knowns in magic. Beautifully bound with a two-color dustjacket. Measuring 8×10 inches, gold stamped on cover and spine. Hundreds of detailed illustrations. Many historical photographs.

Contents:

PUBLISHER’S NOTE – 11

INTRODUCTION by John Booth – 12

FOREWORD – 13

I PEACE-IMPERFECT PEACE – 15

II SOME “MAGIKRAFT” MAGIC – 18
Suprinso – 18
The Pin-Up Girl – 21
A Color-Forcing Paddle – 23
Repeat Coin Trays – 24
Come-Back Card Comedy – 27
A “Slate” Mistake – 29
The Carl Fleming Pip Fluid – 30
The Harbin-Lewis Trick – 30
The Mystery of the Crystal Ring – 31

III THE “MODERN ENTERTAINMENT” SERIES – 35
Who Done It? – 35
A Lesson in Card Magic – 39
Lexicography – 42
A “Sloppy” Shuffle – 43
The Data Prompter – 43

IV MAGIKRAFT MAGIC FOR CHILDREN – 45
School or Circus? – 46
Pieces of Eight – 49
The Pirate’s Chest – 51
Solid Chuff-Chuff – 54
Eric Wilson and “Brer Rabbit” – 58
Consequences – 60

V MASTERPIECES OF NATURE 65
Michael Chick – 66
The Die Table – 67
Edward Pearce – 68
The Beatles Forever – 69
Wilfred Tyler – 71
Abdul’s Fez – 74
Eric (Nitwit) Williams – 78
Burnt Just Chance – 79
Jack Woodward – 82
The Mystery of the Dancing Clogs – 85
Ivan Fowler – 87
The Weird Cylinders of Wung and Wong – 88
Goodliffe the Magician – 90

VI WHAT’S IN A NAME? – 95
The Wonderful Name of Lewis – 97
The Tumbling Name Blocks – 97
The Name Grabber – 100
Loopy-Loo – 103
Red or Black? – 104

VII THE GREAT ZONZO – 109
The Termination of Magikraft – 109
A Return to Photography – 110
Leicester – 110
“Devero” and a Lightning Calculator – Ill
A Magical Revue – 112
Holiday Camps – 113
Fogel – 114
The Great Zonzo (The Act) – 115

VIII I GO MENTAL – 119
Premonition – 120
My Newspaper Headline Prediction – 121
Contact Mind Reading – 124
Killing ’em with Science – 128
The Knight’s Tour – 129
Doodles – 131
A Divination with Discs – 133
Die-Vination – 135
Finger-tip Vision – 138
Triplico – 138
Olfactory – 142
Dial-a-Number – 145

IX SMALLER STUFF – 149
The Affair of the “Invisible Pass” – 149
S.H. Sharpe – 151
The John Kenyon Version – 152
The Imaginary Pipe – 153
A Perverse Paper Balls and Hat Routine – 155
The Irrepressible Ball – 158
A Whole-Sheet Tissue Restoration – 162
A Non-Sleight Card to Wallet – 164
The Red Card – 166
Buried Treasure – 168

X “SHOULD AULDE ACQUAINTANCE – 173
Louis Histed – 173
The Self-Priming Syphon of Louis Histed – 176
“It’s a Gas!” – 177
The Multiple Jiffy Slate – 179
Grote – 181
The Chaotic Candle – 183
Mudaliyar A.C.G.S. Amarasekara – 187
Judge (Ernest) Wethered – 190
Helmut Schreiber – 192
David Lemmy – 192
Tommy Cooper – 193
The Great Norman – 194
The Man Who is Wiser – 195

XI AND MIRACLES KEEP COMING! – 197
Xenomania (1) – 199
Xenomania (2) – 200
Whosgotwot, 1 – 202
Whosgotwot Plus One – 203
Whosgotwot Mark Four – 205
My Sword Stab – 207
The Die Everlasting – 209
The Midas Touch – 212
An Inexactitude – 214
Odds On – 218
Painting by Numbers – 221
A Street in Old Pekin – 224

XII NEW LIVES FOR OLD – 231
Northampton Magician Emigrating – 231

APPENDIX – 233

INDEX – 235