The Dime And Penny by Lloyd E. Jones (1st Edition, 1945)

Description Fair to good pre-owned condition. Covers and a few of the interior pages have toned from age; front cover and a couple of the first interior pages have an angled crease about seven inches in length starting from four inches down on the right edge up to the upper left hand corner. The previous owners name and address are in pencil on the upper right hand corner of the first page. Rear cover has a corner crease and some scuff marks. No pen or pencil marks other than mentioned above. Still makes for a very good reading copy. Soft covers; staple bound; 20 pages. Copyright June 1945 by Lloyd E. Jones, Oakland, California. Twenty-five excellent tricks are concisely explained by Lloyd E. Jones for this excellent piece of mechanical coin magic. Nicely illustrated, too. The Dime and Penny ebook makes an old trick modern and definitely establishes it as one of the classics of magic. No difficult sleights are required, no bulky apparatus, every move is described. You’ll deceive your friends for days on end with the excellent magic effects possible with this one piece of mechanical magic. It’s doubtful that any book devoted to a single pocket trick has ever featured such good magic as is given in this book. Many of you have a Dime and Penny effect in your magic tricks stash, yet you’ve either lost the instructions for it, or perhaps bought it at auction and didn’t receive any directions in the first place. Now you can put this effect to work for you to entertain a new generation of audiences. Contents Include: Introduction How to Take it Apart Taking Care of the Coin(s) Snugness, Looseness Appearance The Basic Vanish Matter Through Matter Matter Through Spectator The Sixteen Cent Trick Forty-One Cent Trick A Quick Vanish The Eleven Cent Trick Fadeaway Coin Fadeaway Follow-up Penny-Tration Glass-Go Thank You, Friend! Data on Dates Street Car Misadventure Black Market Mint-Flavored To Market to Market I Don’t Believe It! Reverse English Believe It or Not Passe-Passe Coins Harum-Scarum The Teetotaler Coin The Traveling Coin Allez Oop! A Final Word of Advice About the Author “Valuable information for the close-up or table worker.” – John Braun “Very valuable … may be used by amateurs as well as professionals. Worth the price and more.” – Julian J. Proskauer “All the effects are superb for close-up work and none are difficult. Well illustrated and clearly written, this book will add excellent effects to any magician’s close-up reputation.” – John Mulholland “Good reading.” – George Johnson