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This publication is in my opinion among the best books on cards ever written, but it is rarely mentioned or recommended. I am not sure why this is. Perhaps one reason is that Jack Merlin himself has not left a large footprint in the magic literature besides this one publication. He has a published trick in Expert Card Technique and if you read Card College 1 you will have learned the Jack Merlin's Riffle Shuffle. Farelli mentions in his Farell's Card Magic: "I agree with Mr. Jack Merlin that the custom of continually practicing in front of a glass is the cause of the unfortunate habit many magicians have of blinking at the precise moment of performing...

A flash back to 1987 and a "long lost" manuscript, seen by only ten: Jerry Andrus, David Britland, Jeff Busby, Dave Faulkner, David Harkey, Ed Marlo, Dan McArthy, Harvey Rosenthal, Jay Sankey and Mark Trudinger, made it's brief, and only appearance... then, it was gone!

So what is the 5th Corner? It's a splash of ideas and techniques with a single playing card and it's ripped corners. You are both "one ahead" and "two behind" at the SAME TIME. This charming but annoying attribute is what probably led to the stony silence heard by the author in 1987. Can YOU make head-way with this strange and bizarre single-card oddity? Why...

Ronald Haines, through his business Haines House of Cards, sold a deck of gaffed cards called 'Fa-Ko' cards. This deck is not anymore available but perhaps you can find it second-hand. However, now that it is very easy to make your own playing cards (see DIY Playing Cards) this collection has gained in value.

From the foreword

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Introduction

   Sleight of Hand with Cards

5. The Ordinary Palm
5. A Simple Pass
6. The Force
7. The Waterfall Shuffle
7. Mechanical Forces
7. The Knife Force
8. A Simple Single-Handed Force
9. The Bottom-Slip Force
10. The Double Handed Pass
11. The Single Handed Pass
11. The Turnover
12. The Cards from the Mouth
12. False Counting
13. The False Shuffle

    Tricks with Cards

14. Mind Over Matter
15. A Novel Card Discovery
17. Spelling by Magic

    The History of Magic (part 5)

19. Automatic Figures (continued)

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. Patter
5. Card-Colour Change
7. The Back-And-Front Palm
8. Vanish and Production of Five Cards
9. The Boomerang
9. Springing the Cards
9. The Miraculous Transit
12. The Four Aces
13. The Rising Cards
16. Cards Through the Handkerchief
17. The Painted Handkerchief
19. Spoofed!
20. "My Card"
22. The Cards Up The Sleeve
24. The Card on the Tape

1st edition 1931; 26 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. The Giant Four Aces
7. The Card and the Orange
10. The Same To You
13. The Three Card Trick
14. The Master Diminishing Cards
19. Taking the Count

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

An ebook with stunning routines using ordinary dice and a deck of cards. These effects are ALL DIFFERENT from the routines in Aldo's two DVD volumes produced by Meir Yedid and called Card and Dice Deceptions.

Contributors include: Howard Adams, Charles Brent, Aldo Colombini, Tom Daugherty, Karl Fulves, Thomas Henry, Stewart James, Lewis Jones, Stewart Judah, Marty Kane, Harry Lorayne, Max Maven, Norm Osborn and Robin Robertson. You will love these routines.

1st edition 2006; 54 pages.

Aldo's first ebook on cards and dice called Snake Eyes was a big hit. This is his second ebook on card and dice routines and contains most (if not all) of the routines included in his two DVDs Cards And Die Deceptions with many new ones and all different effects from the Snake Eyes ebook.

You are in possession of an outstanding collection of tricks and routines with dice and cards. Contributors include: Richard Vollmer, Gary Ouellett, Peter Duffie, Karl Fulves, Aldo Colombini, Paul Gordon, John Rule, John Scarne, Max Maven, Stewart James, Ed Andres, Shigeo Futagawa, Jerry Sadowitz, William Miesel, Doug Conn and Bill Simon.

1st edition 2009; 26 pages....

A small ebook but what exciting contents! The routine uses just two regular decks of cards. Lewis Ganson on the pages of Magigram wrote,

“This is a really super 'Do as I do' routine. The routine starts in the classic way and then enlarges on the theme; the spectator and performer continuing to match cards from their respective decks until a whole series of apparent coincidences have occurred. The final display of matched cards is both amazing and spectacular."

This ebook on card magic contains 25 great new routines for close-up, walk-around, or just about anywhere. In this ebook you have a lot of card magic that will make you want to give up some time in front of the TV or some golf or soccer time.

1st edition 2009; 26 pages.

An incredibly direct Card At Number effect!

"Convergence is the best card to number I have ever seen. Its so easy to do yet so deceptive. Great job, Cameron." - Bob Tucker

"Love it! It totally lives up to the description on your site." - Tim Eden

Cameron Francis brings you an amazing card at number effect that plays huge and is extremely practical.

Effect:

The magician proposes an experiment in fate as he introduces two decks of cards; one red and one blue. The blue deck is placed in front of a spectator and the magician never touches it again. The red deck is removed from its...

If bought together with Run Silent Run Deep you will receive an instant $5 bundle discount.

"This is so much more than just an effect. It is a powerful subtlety that is a must have for your mentalist toolbox." - Banachek (USA)

"Crystal clear and absolutely mindblowing!" - Martin Adams (UK)

POSSIBLY THE MOST AMAZING "THINK OF A CARD" METHOD IN YEARS!
You'll use this for the rest of your life. No props, just what appears to be pure mind-reading! A stunningly produced ebook with 3 full routines and amazing bonus contributions!

So, what is Silent Running?

Briefly, it's a "Think Of A Card" concept...

A card is selected and outjogged from a deck which is then put on the table. Now, you bring out a packet of five prediction cards that you show to have all red backs and fronts (all different), saying one of them must be the selection.

You explain that the cards will help you, not to find the right one, but to eliminate the four wrong ones!

After some magical gesture:

• One card gets a cross drawn onto its face.
• The back of a second card turns blue.
• A third card reverses itself.
• A message appears on the back of a fourth card saying: "NOT THIS ONE!".

This ebook is profusely illustrated with many photographs. A compendium of 20 tricks and routines with cards by Aldo Colombini, Jay Francis, Paul Gordon, Jozsef Kovacs, Floyd Shotts, Terwyn Tomos and Nick Trost.

1st edition 2009; 23 pages

After four books on impromptu card magic, Aldo is back with an ebook containing different material with cards, impromptu and not so impromptu but all the routines have the emphasis on strong effects and leave lasting impressions on the audiences. Card Journal is not just 'another card book'...it's something much more special, something different in themes and effects. This is a 'must have' ebook packed with tested material.

• Introduction
• Lone Rider
• Followers
• Dreamers' Choice
• Beat the Rhythm
• Trio Sonata
• Melting Pot
• Little Big Card (requires a miniature deck and a double backed card of...

• written by Bill Simon
• illustrated by Ed Mishell
• edited by Bruce Elliott
• introduction by Dai Vernon

1st edition 1954; PDF 33 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Table Of Contents
6. Foreword
6. Introduction
7. In General
9. Card Effects
9. - The Mathemagician
9. - Eye Doubt It
11. - The Flash Change
17. - The Turnabout
18. - The Impulsive Ladies
19. - The Four Packet Shuffle
21. - Two Up
23. - The Vital Prediction
23. - The London Illusion
28. Miscellaneous Effects
28. - Sponge Surprise
29. - The Ring On Wand
31. - The Coin Transposition And Climax

27 card tricks for stand-up, close-up and walk-around. All of these effects were created while listening to baroque music. Aldo collected twenty-seven tricks and routines mostly unpublished before. Some of them appeared in magazines around the world, some in a couple of lecture notes but most never met ink before writing them down for this tome.

1st edition 2008; 26 pages.

The magic in Controlled Miracles is a composite of both skill and subtlety. Subtlety has been invaded to the maximum; skill has been kept at its minimum point. The majority of the effects are with cards. At the back of the ebook you will find a few tricks with coins and cigarettes.

Edited by Bruce Elliott and illustrated by Frank Garcia.

1st edition 1949; PDF 36 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Contents
5. Foreword
7. A Matter Of Miracles
8. Cut Control
9. The Chinese Cut
10. Simpl—Speller
11. Simon False Table Cut
13. The Stab Force
14. Miller’s Card Change
17. The Card In The Hat
19. Dual Discovery
20. The Grippo...

I am sure that we would all agree that it is the EFFECT THAT IS ALL IMPORTANT and that some of the most astounding effects in card magic can be obtained by setting up the cards in a certain order before the performance commences.

Here are five routines of Aldo which depend on set-ups.

• CRAZY POKER: The wildest Poker demonstration ever.
• KNOCK-OUT SPELL: Spelling procedures reveal incredible coincidences.
• ROYAL CUTS: The four Kings and the four Aces are produced in a surprising manner.
• JUNGLE JAM: A spectator cuts off a portion of a deck. The next two cards are dealt face up and their...

Here's a collection of incredible impromptu card magic compiled by Aldo Colombini. Card magic at it's best performed, anytime, anyplace, anywhere with just a regular deck of cards, no set-up whatsoever and very easy to do. Contributors: Ian Adair, Gene Castillon, Aldo Colombini, Tom Craven, Tom Daugherty, Peter Duffie, Karl Fulves, Stephen D. Gervais, Paul Gordon, J. K. Hartman, Marty Kane, Ryan Matney, Max Maven, Joe Riding, Mike Rogers, John T. Sheets, Nick Trost, Richard Vollmer, Roy Walton, Andrew Wimhurst. 35 tricks in all.

1st edition 2007; 22 pages....

Visual Card Rise was inspired by Martin Lewis's effect called Cardiographics. Like many magicians Ron wanted to find a close up version of this amazing effect. After some searching Ron couldn't find anything like it that had the visual strength of the original effect. He wanted the animation to look as real and magical as the original. VCR is the final result.

EFFECT
A card rises out of a picture of a card drawn on the back of a playing card. Only the black marker ink moves. No part of the printed back design moves as the animation takes place!

Visual Card Rise was released for purchase with pre-made...

Squeeze is a wonderful effect created by Tommy Wonder. A regular deck of cards is 'squeezed' into a miniture case. It is an incredibly visual effect and was published in the first volume of the Books Of Wonder on page 149.

The biggest problem with this effect is to prepare and build the props. In order to remove the time consuming design work Troels Holm has created the necessary drawings. These sheets make it easy for you to produce all the special items needed for this trick. However, keep in mind that even with these PDFs there is still a significant amount of work left to build all props and prepare...

This is Andrew's handling of Roy Walton’s “The Collectors” plot. If you are familiar with his original plot, here, the magic moment takes place in the card case and it has served Andrew well over the years. He developed this handling while he was playing a number of “The Collectors” effects during the afternoon in the year of 2006.

Effect: The performer places three Kings in the card case. The performer then proceeds to have two spectators to freely choose two cards from the deck. The two selections are signed and lost in the deck. The performer waves his hand over the card case...

Spectator Cuts the Aces with a truly different twist. It's very easy to do and highly entertaining...The four kings magically assemble to a single pile only to transform into four separate spectator selections!

"This is an excellent trick! One of your best yet!" - Peter Duffie

"I like 'Divide & Conjure' very much because it is easy and direct to the point; these are the effects that I favor. Keep up the good work!" - Aldo Colombini

"Andrew has another clever e-trick that is very, very good and easy to do." - Cameron Francis