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50 New Card Secrets
by Frank La Fontaine & Dai Vernon

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(1 review, 1 customer rating) ★★★★★

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50 New Card Secrets by Frank La Fontaine & Dai Vernon

50 simple card tricks that anyone can do with any deck of playing cards, without sleight-of-hand.

From the Introduction:

The idea that long practice and exceptional skill are necessary in the performance of card tricks is erroneous. Some of the cleverest and most bewildering tricks are made possible by the use of subtle principles of unique methods that are easily learned, yet which are capable of deceiving the keenest and most intelligent spectator.

Such are the methods explained in this booklet. These tricks have been devised by experienced performers of card tricks, men who understand the psychology of deception and who know that a clever, well-developed principle can be used to create an amazing mystery.

This was part of the 'Sealed Book' series. It includes a few ads in the back.

Few know that the first edition of this booklet, containing 25 tricks, was compiled by Dai Vernon. Later editions added Si Stebbins effects and a couple of other card tricks. The original 25 tricks Vernon compiled are tricks 11-23 and 25-36.

  1. To The Reader
  2. Non-Mechanical Four Ace Trick
  3. Naming Card Held Behind Back
  4. Naming Card Chosen During Your Absence
  5. Producing Chosen Card From Pocket
  6. Enchanted Card
  7. Magnetic Card Locater
  8. Invisible Transference
  9. Eighth Wonder Card Trick
  10. Ideal Card Divination
  11. The Vanishing Ace
  12. The Three Pile Selection
  13. The Reversing Card
  14. The Vanishing And Reappearing Card
  15. The Five To Ten Trick
  16. The Mysterious Change
  17. The Hotel Trick
  18. Divination Of A Number Of Cards Selected Behind Performer's Back
  19. The Whispering Queen
  20. Cards From Pocket - Effect No. 1
  21. Cards From Pocket - Effect No. 2
  22. Spectator Finds A Card Called For By The Magician
  23. The Magic Jacks
  24. "Socko"
    • The Master System
    • To Name A Card That A Spectator Draws From The Pack
    • To Tell How Many - And What Cards Have Been Drawn From The Pack
    • To Run The Cards - Behind The Back - And Name Any Card Stopped At
    • To Tell How Far From The Top - Any Card Is
    • To Deal Yourself Every Trump - In A Whist Or 4 Hand Game
    • To Deal A Pat Flush Of Any Suit - Called For To The Person Asking For Same
  25. Instructions For Tearing A Pack Of Cards Into Halves And Quarters
  26. The Mystic Seven Trick
  27. The X Ray Trick
  28. Card And Coin Trick
  29. The Mysterious Egg And Card Mystery
  30. The Marvelous "Q" Trick
  31. The Twenty Five Card Trick
  32. Finding The Selected Cards
  33. Non Mechanical Rising Card Trick
  34. Another Way Of Finding The Selected Card
  35. The Mental Telepathy Trick
  36. The Selected Card Is Caused To Vanish
  37. You Do As I Do
  38. Mind Reading
  39. Any Number From Top
  40. The Card Through The Handkerchief
  41. The Clock Trick
  42. Knockout Counting Trick
  43. Divining Pack Of Cards
  44. Mystical Divination Of Cards By The Five Senses
  45. The Thousand To One Card Trick
1st edition ~1930, 36 pages; PDF 38 pages.
word count: 11798 which is equivalent to 47 standard pages of text


Reviewed by Michael Lyth
★★★★★   Date Added: Monday 25 May, 2020

If you are lucky to own a physical copy you know the content is still adaptable for today's audiences but just need slight alteration to your own style of presentation. I have put this into my wishlist as I get older my eyesight not as good from reading the many great works of magic so when time comes I will enlarge on screen the pdf to suit my eyes and relive some of my old favourite effects. And you never know I might be inspired to create new ideas from them. Just like you can...

Keep safe everyone .......