But not to Play
by Wilfrid Jonson

A practical course of instruction in the fundamentals of conjuring with cards.

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• PART I. PRELIMINARY
  • The Art of Conjuring
  • The Cards
  • Learning and Practising
  • The Illustrations
  • Patter
  • Three Ways of Shuffling
  • The Overhand Shuffle
  • The Waterfall Shuffle
  • The Riffle Shuffle
• PART II. "TAKE A CARD"
  • "Take a Card"
  • The Undercut
  • The Jonson Undercut
  • A Chinese Card Trick
  • "Think Stop"
  • The Bottom Crimp
  • The Covered Pack
  • The Corner Crimp
  • The Royal Finders
  • The End Bridge
  • The Throw Discovery
  • The Riffle Count
  • The Card At Any Number
  • The Double Lift
  • The Double Turnover
  • The Click
  • The Card on the Wall
  • The Jog Shuffle
  • The Top Stock Shuffle
  • The Bottom Stock Shuffle
  • The Shuffle Control
  • The Jonson Shuffle Control
  • The Jumping Card
  • The Count Control
  • An Error Corrected
  • The Pass
  • The Force
  • The Fan Force
  • The Count Down Force
  • Behind the Back
  • The Rising Cards
  • Palming
  • The Jog Palm
  • The Third Finger Palm
  • The Little Finger Palm
  • The Riffle Palm
  • The Side Steal
  • The Erdnase Bottom Palm
  • The Thumb Palm
  • The Centre Palm
  • The Diagonal Palm
  • The Torn Card
  • The Card in the Cigarette
  • The Card in the Orange
  • The Autographed Torn Card
  • With a Borrowed Pack
  • The False Riffle Shuffle
  • "Stop"
  • The Spring
  • The Ruffle and Spring
  • The Charlier Pass
  • Spelling the Cards
  • The Alternative Spell
  • The Riffle Spell
  • The Jog Spell
  • Spelling the Selector
  • The Double Spell
  • Ornamental Fans
  • The Spring Fan
  • The Finger Fan
  • The Blank Fan
  • The Right Hand Fan
  • The Left Hand Fan
  • The Fan Location
  • The Reversed Card
  • Turn Over
  • The Repeated Turn Over
  • The Vernon Turn Over
  • The Card Through the Handkerchief
  • The Egyptian Pocket
  • Card Throwing
  • The Boomerang
  • The Flying Queen
  • Catching Two Cards
  • The Lost Card
• PART III. OTHER THEMES
  • Four Aces
  • "Have You Seen the Four Ace Trick?"
  • The Bertram Four Ace Trick
  • The Glide
  • The Flip
  • The Top Change
  • The Bottom Change
  • Colour Changes
  • The Side Steal Colour Change
  • The Thumb Palm Colour Change
  • The Slide Colour Change
  • The Collins-Jonson Aces
  • The Flourish Count
  • The Jog Four Aces
  • The Run
  • The Spread
  • The Run and Spread
  • A Sharper's Swindle
  • The Half Spread
  • The Salvin Spread
  • The Corner Peep
  • The Spring Break
  • Jack Salvin's Five Card Trick
  • Sympathetic Cards
  • Do as I Do
  • Both Do as I Do
  • Twin Choices
  • Sympathy
  • The Four Heap Cut
  • The Four Heaps
  • The Hindoo Shuffle
  • All Two's
  • The Three Card Trick
  • The Bottom Lift Change
  • The Slip Cut
  • Everywhere and Nowhere
• HOW TO PLAY CARDS OR HOW NOT TO PLAY CARDS
  • Four of a Kind
  • The Bottom Deal
  • Nap
  • Poker
  • The Assistant Conjures
  • Duet with Cards
  • The Flip Flop Cut
  • The Thirty Card Trick
  • False Counting
  • The Cards Up the Sleeve
• PART IV. CONCLUSION
  • Routines
  • Finding the Joker
  • The Rising Joker
  • Hints to Card Players
  • The Climbing Card
  • Stacking the Pack
  • Changing the Pack

1st edition 1946, 116 pages; PDF 108 pages.
word count: 52035 which is equivalent to 208 standard pages of text