Starke, George, and Dr. Jacob Daley (editors): Stars of Magic ©1975 Louis Tannen 168pg HB; B&W photos by George Karger and Dr. Jacob Daley

Comments: A book full of classic magic from Dai Vernon, John Scarne, Ross Bertram, and others. Triumph, Cutting the Aces, Spellbound, Travelers, and more! Each effect was originally introduced as separate manuscripts by Tannen's Magic and have been compiled here. Edited by George Starke and Dr. Jacob Daley. While the photos look dated, the magic is still strong today. Highly recommended.

Contents:

7 Introduction
9 Series 1, No. 1: John Scarne's Classic Ball Routine: small ball routine
15 Series 1, No. 2: Triple Coincidence by John Scarne: Three cards are exchanged with performer from two decks. All the pairs match.
18 Series 1, No. 3: John Scarne's Silver and Copper Trick: C/S Tranposition and coin through the pocket using normal coins
23 Series 2, No. 1: Dai Vernon's Triumph: Cards are mixed face up and face down, yet magician rights the deck except for one card: the selection
27 Series 2, No. 2: Dai Vernon's Cutting the Aces: magician cuts the deck four times, each time to an Ace.
31 Series 2, No. 3: Dai Vernon's Spellbound: Visual color changing coins
35 Series 2, No. 4: Dai Vernon's Kangaroo Coins: Coins to Glass routine
39 Series 3, No. 1: Bert Allerton's Pump Room Phantasy: Red Aces placed in the center of the deck repeatedly jump to the top or the bottom of deck, turn into Black Aces, and more.
43 Series 3, No. 2: Bert Allerton's Bamboozle: A short-change money routine
46 Series 3, No. 3: Malini-Bey Chink A Chink by Mohammed Bey (S. Leo Horowitz): With sugar cubes and the hands for covers.
50 Series 3, No. 4: The Egyptian Ball Mystery by Mohammed Bey: Red ball is wrapped in a silk and placed in a glass. It tranposes with a white ball in the hands.
54 Series 3, No. 5: Jarrow's Hanky Panky: Cigarette burns through a newspaper, leaving the handkerchief unharmed.
57 Series 4, No. 1: Francis Carlyle's Decapitation: Match head is scraped off on both sides, but it still lights. This is repeated.
61 Series 4, No. 2: Fancis Carlyle's Homing Card: Marked Card to pocket, twice!
65 Francis Carlyle's Wrist Watch Steal: A copper coin joins a silver held in a handkerchief by a spectator. During a repeat, the spectator's wristwatch is cleverly stolen
69 Series 5, No. 1: Dai Vernon's Impromptu Cups and Balls: performed with glasses wrapped in paper, paper balls, and incorporates final loads. Four phase routine can be performed standing or sitting.
76 Series 5, No. 2: Dai Vernon's Ambitious Card: Card repeatedly jumps to the top or bottom of the deck (teaches Double Lift)
80 Series 5, No. 3: Dai Vernon's Mental Card Miracle: Spectator mentally thinks of one out of 5 cards shown. Magician puts one card away, and is found to be correct. This is repeated two more times. Teaches False Count, Gambler's Palm, and Snapping Two Cards as One.
84 Series 6, No. 1: The Ring on the Wand by Dai Vernon: 3 methods. Ring is removed from a wand even though the ends of the wand are held
90 Series 6, No. 2: Dai Vernon's Slow Motion Four Aces: 3 Aces join the other Ace one at a time. 2 methods are provided.
97 Series 6, No. 3: The Travelers by Dai Vernon: Four cards are distributed in the deck but vanish and appear in the magician's pockets.
101 Series 7, No. 1: Dr. Jacob Daley's Cards Up the Sleeve: Cards vanish one at a time "up the sleeve"
107 Series 7, No. 2: The Itinerant Pasteboards by Dr. Jacob Daley: Selected card is placed in the pocket, another placed between the Deuces. The selected cards transpose. Next one card is placed in pocket and the other face up in the deck. They transpose again. Teaches Instantaneous Double Lift.
111 Series 7, No. 3: The Cavorting Aces by Dr. Jacob Daley: Aces move through the deck, transpose, vanish, and are found in the pockets.
115 Series 8, No. 1: Slydini's Cigarette Miracle: Torn and restored cigarette, twice
121 Series 8, No. 2: Slydini's Flight of the Paper Balls: Paper balls vanish directly before a spectator's eyes, to the delight of the audience.
125 Series 8, No. 3: Slydini's Flyaway Coin Routine: coin vanishes and appears repeatedly in the spectator's pocket
129 Series 9: Ross Bertram on Coins: Rubdown: Half dollar is rubbed through the hand. On the seond try, it turns into a dime, and the rest of the change is found under the hand.
131 Double Cross: Coin transposition. When repeated, becomes a coin across.
132 Passing the Half Bucks: Three coins across, fourth fails, then all go back to the start.
135 The Porous Paws: Coin through the hand
136 Coin Assembly: A coin matrix routine
141 Series 10: Vernon on Leipzig: History
142 Leipzig's Opener: Selected card appears on the bottom of the deck when placed on the spectator's palm. This is repeated, but the performer places his hand beteen the spectator's hand. The card penetrates the hand.
144 Leipzig's Acrobats: Bottom cards of two halves of the deck transpose
145 Leipzig's Pride: Cap and Pence routine using a pivoting stack. The coins penetrate the spectator's hand.
146 Leipzig's Tear Up With a Twist: torn and restored cigarette paper
150 Series 11: Vernon on Malini: history
152: Malini's Card Stabbing: while blindfolded
154 Malini's Own Color Change: card color change
155 Malilni's Favorite! Coin is tossed from hand to hand, flipping head or tails. Spectator is asked to guess heads or tails, but finds the coin has vanished.
158 Lesson1: Royal Monte by Dai Vernon: A four card Monte effect. From a "straight" Poker hand, the 10, J, Q, and K are shown. The spectator needs only to find a picture card out of the four, but fail as they all turn into 10's and can be examined. (requires a palm)
162 Lesson 1 (yes, 1!): The Art of Using the Lap as a Servante by Tony Slydini