Hay, Henry: Learn Magic The Magician's Basic Tricks Explained Step by Step in 20 Simple Lessons ©1947, 1975. 2nd Edition. Dover Publications Illustrated by Hans Jelinek 281 pages, paper

Comments: Learn Magic is another classic magic book that provides excellent beginning instruction. While the Amateur Magician's Handbook provides a broad overview of Magic, Learn Magic provides detailed instruction in 20 different lessons. Recommended.

Contents: (missing a few page numbers for some reason...)

V Foreword
VII Introduction to the Dover Edition (1974 essay)
XIII Contents

1 Part I
1 Chapter 1: How to Watch a Magician: The Greatest Magician, Different Kinds of Magic
9 Chapter 2: How to Be a Magician: Rehersal before practice, How to get applauses, Your personality and your patter, planning, learning a trick, enlarging your repertory, book list

21 Part II

21 Lesson 1: The Flying Coin: One coin across with detailed lesson
29 Lesson 2: Handling a Deck of Cards. Teaches dealing position, overhand shuffle, riffle shuffle, waterfall finish, second split, fanning, and The Card at the Number and Mind Control
45 Lesson 3: The Lariat King: Rope is tossed, creating the same number of knots in it as found on the bottom of tossed dice
51 Lesson 4: The Afghan Bands and the Cut Turban: A large loop of cloth is cut into two loops. Each loop is again cut, but one results in linked bands, the other into one large band. Followed by a Cut and Restored Turban (length of cheesecloth) routine.
59 Lesson 5: Finding a Selected Card: Forcing and forcing decks, Svengali pack, forcing sleights (the fan, the slip), another knife force, The Telephone Trick.
71 Lesson 6: Finding a Selected Card II: Locations, False Shuffles, Tap Location, Glimpse, The Spelling Master, The Stripper Deck, The Long Card, Double Card, Short Card, Pass or Shift, The Red and Black Aces.
93 Lesson 7: Escapes: The Kellar Tie, Drawstring Bag escape with hands tied, the Chair Tie Escape
103 Lesson 8: The Egg Bag: Two routines, the "standard" routine and an Egg Production routine. Also teaches palming an Egg.
117 Lesson 9: Mind Reading. The Billet Test. All Alike, One Ahead, Envelope Test, Getting Impressions, Torn Billet Reading, Stage Clairvoyance: Codes (pointer, number, talking, silent).
132 Lesson 10: Reavealing a Selected Card: The turned card, victim's choice, card nailed to the ceiling, jumping cards, transferred pack, the rising cards (3 methods), Mental Selection Spelling Master
146 Lesson 11: The Thumb-Tip: Cigarette Vanish, Torn and Restored Paper Ribbon, Handkerchief Vanish
Lesson 12: A Silk Routine Part I: Hankerchief production (elbow), Dissolving Knot, Shaking a Knot, Silk From Candle, Flying Knot, Handkerchief production (thread), Sympathetic Silks
Lesson 13: A Silk Routine Part II: Hand Silk Dyeing, Silk Dyeing (Paper Tube), Lamp Chimney Vanish
Lesson 14: The Miser's Dream: Finger palm, thumb palm, regular palm, edge palm, palming several coins, back palm, The Miser's Dream
Lesson 15: Card Palming: Top palm, palming several cards, Williams' Card In Pocket, Color Changes, Clip Color Change, Erasing the Spot, Side Steal Color Change, Reversing the Color Change, Double Lift, back palm, 5 Card Vanish and Recovery
212 Lesson 16: Two Great Tricks of Card Palming: Leipzig's Lightning Locations, The Cards Up the Sleeve, the False Count
Lesson 17: The Sponge Balls: The Basic Sponge Ball Move, The Routine using 4 sponge balls, two tea cups, and ending in the spectator's hand
225 Lesson 18: The Multiplying Billiard Balls: The Conjurer's Clothes, Trap Pass, Change Over Palm, Multiplying Ball Routine
235 Lesson 19: Thimble Magic: Silent and Talking Acts, Quieting a Noisy Crowd, Thimble Thumb Palm, Deliberate Vanish, Thimble Routine (appear, vanish, color change, multiply)
243 Lesson 20: Your Magical Outfit: Magician's Table, Black Art Table Top, Servante, Bottomless Glass, Flying Silk, Mirror Glass, Candy Production, Wands, Programs, Stage Management

256 Part 3: How Stage Illusions Work
256 The Floating Lady
259 The Vanishing Performer
260 The Trunk Trick
261 The Mirror Principle
263 Lost In the Crowd
263 Bullet Catching
265 De Kolta's Cocoon
266 The Oyster Shell
266 De Biere's Costume Trunk
267 Goldfish Bowl
270 The Rapping Hand
271 Talking Skull
271 Merry Widow
272 Spirit Cabinet
273 Milk Can Trick
275 Basket Trick
277 Sword Cabinet
278 Sawing A Woman in Two

281 Index