Abacus Volume 1 (September 1992 - August 1993)
by Al E. Smith

Number 1 (September 1992)

• Tread Thou In My Footsteps...
• Join the Club
• Siftas
• A Case for Dealing
• DDC Selection
• Spread Force
• Play It Again Sam / Stephen Tucker
• Final Cut
• Thinking it Over
• Current Matters

Number 2 (October 1992)

• Still Treading
• Riffs
• Insider Dealing
• Downtown Stories
• Current Matters
• Triple Cross Cut / John Wright
• Push Off Undercut / Al Smith
• Swing False Cut / Al Smith
• Yawn
• Two Keys to Baldpate / Stephen Tucker
• Vernon
• Paradox
• The Lady Prefers
• Viewpoint
• Club Night

Number 3 (November 1992)

• Walking in the Sand
• Riffs
• Acorns and Tall Oaks
• Mac the Life / Mac McDonald
• Match-Mate
• You Must Be Jokering
• Justin Case
• Elemental Force
• The China Syndrome
• Photat / Paul Hallas On This And That
• Into The Distance
• Point of Departure?
• Current Matters

Number 4 (December 1992)

• Myths and Magic Footsteps
• Riffs
• Mac's Mix / Mac McDonald
• Still Bragging / Al Smith
• Pairfect Prediction / Al Smith
• Apples and Plums
• Triple Twitch / Ed Ward
• The Lady Prefers
• Viewpoint
• Errors and Omissions
• Photat

Number 5 (January 1993)

• Just a Shadow You're Seeing
• Riffs
• You'll Never Be Twenty One Again
• From the Ashes
• Mac's Stacks / Mac McDonald
• On the Face Of It
• SpellAway
• A Kind of Magic Review
• Tucker's Torment
• Current Matters
• Polygraph Pasteboards
• On the Duck and Deal
• Photat
• Hastings at Eastbourne

Number 6 (February 1993)

• Five Foot Two - Six Feet Four
• Riffs
• As Easy As ... / Bernard Rasmussen
• Effect File
• Tucker's Torment II
• Photat
• Infallible Prediction Mark 3
• Q - The Winged Servant
• Givan Take
• Thanks Roy
• Preamble
• Turn Off The Sleight / Walt Lees

Number 7 (March 1993)

• All of Thirty One and Only Seventeen
• Riffs
• Cased Coincidence / Ed Ward
• The Elevator Rides Again / Brian Glover
• Rambling Roads
• Downtown Stories
• Under the Influence
• Forward to Yesterday
• Deck the Halls
• Photat
• Great or Magic?
• Current Matters

Number 8 (April 1993)

• Not Fade Away
• Riffs: Jazz Asses
• Pretty Polygraph / Stephen Tucker
• Effect File
• All Our Yesterhaze
• On the 21 Card Trick / Jon Racherbaumer
• Photat
• Needles and Pins
• Ortiz At the Card Table
• Who's This at the Card Table
• Current Matters
• Over the Jordan
• Hover-Craft / Bob Driebeck
• Same Old Song

Number 9 (May 1993)

• Say Those Magic Words
• Riffs: The Unseen
• Transpo Ma Non Impromptu / Alan Francis
• Curzon Cardzone / Roger Curzon
• Photat: Punch Drunk
• Entrapment Revisited / Al Smith
• Full Circle / Walt Lees
• Half Circle / Al Smith

Number 10 (June 1993)

• Pack Up Your Troubles
• Riffs
• Evodorodev / Ed Ward
• Swing Low Sweet Carry-Cut
• Undue Influence / Alan Francis
• The Magician Now Arriving ... / Shaun McCree
• A Tip in Passing
• Blakes Even
• Mac's Stacks / Mac McDonald
• Tuck Box / Stephen Tucker
• A Day at the Cubs
• Downtown Stories
• Loose Change

Number 11 (July 1993)

• Edliners
• Riffs
• At the Hop
• Siftas
• Countdown to Purgatory / Rod Ethtie
• Current Matters
• Four King Trap / Neil Sorsby
• Curzon's Cardzone / Roger Curzon
• Lucifer Strikes / Al Smith
• Old Friends/Bookends
• Photat

Number 12 (August 1993)

• Usedliners
• Riffs: Direct Hit
• C-S Baby / Craig Frith
• Sandbox / Bill Terry
• Poly Filler / Bob Driebeek
• Mac's Stacks / Mac McDonald
• Errata-ta-ta-ta
• The Return / Stephen Tucker
• Rocky Mountain Kings / Alan Francis
• Olram's Repeat Signed Card to Envelope / Edward Marlo
• Vernon My Angel, You're Home / Melvin LeHaire
• One Picture = A Thousand Words Dept
• Field of Screams / John Field
• YedSpeak
• Not Quite the End
• Ruminations
• Blake's Avon
• Colourful Sandwich / Neil Sorsby
• Trico II / Roger Curzon

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