A Comprehensive Collection of the Best Mental Tricks pf Recent Years. Edited by John J. Crimmins, Jr.; illustrations by Nelson Hahne. This is the first edition of this classic book on mental effects intended for the professional magician. "In offering this book of practical mental effects to the magical fraternity, we are paying tribute to the one man who probably did more to popularize this branch of entertainment than any other. To Ted Annemann, then, we bow in grateful appreciation for the many brilliant creations he left as his legacy to the world of magic. Each of the effects to follow were either performed by him, or were products of his editorship, for he attracted to his Jinx Magazine contributions from all the leading performers in recent years.The popularity of his magazine bore out the truth of his convictions. In that bible for mentalists and magicians live effects that will be performed for many years to come. We have taken a fair share of these remarkable effects, edited them, arranged them for ready reference in separate chapters, and offer them to you for your pleasure.We have endeavored.to segregate the effects using the dominant feature of the trick as our yardstick. Tricks of every type are included.those requiring a serious presentation or a humorous one; some are weird, such as 'Voodoo', others spooky, such as 'Sefalaljia', but all are solid entertainment and, as the title implies, practical."