After the Dessert by Martin Gardner

After the Dessert
by Martin Gardner

One of magic's greatest minds presents 24 carefully chosen impromptu tricks for the dinner table.

Gardner didn't write this book just to release new material. Instead, it was released for the performer who seeks good, well-tested table effects which don't require elaborate practice, preparation or skill.

While some tricks have been in print before, you'll find new features and twists that double the trick's effectiveness.

Here's what's included:

BILLS

The Curious Fold

Naming the Date on a Borrowed Bill

Four Piles and a Dollar Bill

CIGARETTES

The Unreversed Word
Biting the Cigarette
The Magic Inhale

COINS

Coin Through the Plate
Vanishing Coin
Testing the Half Dollar

MATCHES

Lighting a Match Twice
Color Changing Heads
Folder Mathematics
Shooting the Match
Match Folder Wager
The Nazi Cross

MISCELLANEOUS

Tapping Table Objects
Vanishing Coffee Steam
Japanese Paper Bird
Travelling Fountain Pen
Vanishing Salt Shaker

SILVERWARE

Table Knife Through Body
Breaking the Spoon
Bending the Spoon
Swallowing the Knife
Musical Knife
Spoon to Knife
Vanishing Spoon

NAPKIN

Character Reading from the Teeth
Improvised Brassiere
The Invisible Hair

"Thirty tricks, stunts and gags suitable to amuse a dinner-table group. All who want tricks for table work for friends or press should have this book." (John Mulholland)
"Packs plenty of value. Of the twenty-odd close-up, after dinner effects described, I'm already using six. And I'll use others, I assure you." (Bill Larsen)

Magic World Publishers revised print edition contains a new chapter, plus important edits and updates. Illustrated by Nelson Hahne.

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