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Eric Lewis is one of the great minds in magic who came up with many great effects during his lifetime.  These 3 books represent the documentation of his inventions and incorporate many of his earlier writings which have been edited and rewritten and new illustrations drawn.  These books incorporate much of the history behind the tricks which makes for interesting reading. This was conceived as trilogy and that was what was delivered, exactly 3 volumes.  Lewis was also an expert craftsman and began building tricks at a young age.  Many of Lewis' effects have also been commercially produced including many by Milson Worth.

 

A Choice of Miracles was published in 1980 and contains 213 pages.  It describes his magic up until 1939 and here are some of the highlights:

• Alarm Clock Production
• Broken and Restored Wand
• Merely a Mistake
• Playing with Fire
• The Book of Spells
• Off and On the Ribbon
• The Strange Letter
• Walking-Cane Suspension
• Locked Books Release
• Case of the Curious Cubes
• Curiouser and Curiouser
• Improved "Zen's" Switch
• Penetrating Flower-Pot
• Comedy Flower Growth
• Chinese Hat
• Dual Lantern Production
• Mystery of the Triple Temple
• Convocational Jacks
• Living and Dead Test
• Cups and Balls for the Stage
• Convincing Color-Change Wand
• Vanishing tube
• Golden Arrow
• Electric Bulb Penetration

The second book in the series, A Continuation of Miracles, published in 1981, has a total of 254 pages. Lewis continues on his magical journey. Here are some of the effects described:

• One Man Nest of Boxes
• Crazy Imaginary Four-Ace Trick
• Black Magic
• Lighted Bulbs from Mouth
• Fantastic Frame
• Penelease
• Die in Box
• Clock Dial
• Cups and Balls
• Billiard Balls
• Mass Production
• 'Orrible Murder
• Fig-Leaf Chest
• Peacock Fantasy
• Hypnotizing a Rabbit
• Card Guillotine
• "Slam-Through" Glass Vanish
• "Elevated" Magic Welding
• Sympathetic Silks
• Tricolor
• Acrobatic Balls
• Casket of Boxes
• Chronicle of the Sympathetic Cubes
• Perplexing Puzzle
• Yellow Art Tubes
• Torn, Restored, and Rising Card

The Crowning Miracles is the last of the volumes and has 234 pages and was published in 1983. This volume has over 20 years of children's magic, close-up, stage, and platform magic.  Here are some of the highlights:

• Suprinso
• Pin-Up Girl
• Color Forcing Paddle
• "Slate" Mistake
• Harbin-Lewis Trick
• Mystery of the Crystal Ring
• Who Done It?
• A Lesson in Card Magic
• School or Circus?
• Pirate's CHest
• Solid Chuff-Chuff
• Eric Wilson and "Brer Rabbit"
• Michael Chick
• Die Table
• Edward Pierce
• Abdul's Fez
• Weird Cylinders of Wung and Wong
• Tumbling Name Blocks
• The Great Zonzo
• Newspaper Headline Prediction
• Die-Vination
• Dial-a-Number
• Imaginary Pipe
• The Red Card
• Self-Priming Syphon of Louis Histed
• Multiple Jiffy Slate
• Sword Stab
• Die Everlasting
• Midas Touch
• Painting by Numbers

 Related:

• Magic Stencil Techniques - Magic Builder Series
• Kid's Show Tips, Tricks, Secrets and Apparatus (3 Books in One)
• Ingenious Magic Apparatus & Illusion Patents

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