Cards in Magic & Mentalism: page 42

This work by LePaul has become a classic a long time ago. It is a must read for anybody who is seriously interested in card magic. LePaul was one of the 20th century's most admired card technicians. Here he teaches you 31 moves and 21 routines, beautifully explained in word and more than 300 photos showing the master at work.

Paul Fleming wrote:

These are Eddie Joseph's thoughts on jumbo cards from a time when jumbo cards were a real novelty. Note that several of the tricks described require special jumbo cards such as double facers, duplicates, etc., and some require tearing cards and writing on cards.

• L & W reversed card
• A useful force
• The shrinking jumbo
• Turn around card
• To bring the cards to the top without a pass
• Burning a woman alive
• Message from the flames
• A mental test
• A stripper deck trick
• Two card Monte
• Prediction with a special deck
• Mirror box
• Rising card trick
• A change with a double face card
• Reds and blacks ...

From the introduction:

This fantastic classic of card magic is considered by many to be as important as his famous Andrus Card Control. This new digital edition has dozens of Andrus sleights, flourishes and routines, all illustrated by 370 drawings by the author. Jerry's work with the diagonal jog is priceless!

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is number four of the Paul Diamond "Gems of Magic Book" series.

Being a treatise on sleight of hand and including a fabulous "Eye-popping opener".

• Introduction
• The Close-Up Change
• The Flick Change
• The Turn Down Change
• Using The Table Changes The Double And Triple Transposition
• Room At The Top (An Ambitious Card Routine)
• An Eye Popping Opening Routine
• The Revolving Color Change
• Triple You Do As I Do (Impromptu)
• The Dunbury Delusion Outdone
• A Variation In Handling
• The Excedrin Headache
• The Instantaneous Steal
• The 21st Stunner
• The 22nd Stunner
• Impromptu Psychometry
• The Expansion...

This book was edited by Jean Hugard and illustrated by Stanley Jaks.

Martin Gardner had the following to say:

"Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths in the card jungle. In this book he has given generously the fruits of his thinking and experience. The result is a book almost certain to become one of the basic texts of modem card conjuring."

This ebook covers many entertaining plots, novel sleights, shuffles and fancy cuts as well as useful information on practice, structuring, presentation, audience...

Bombay is not just one card trick. It is an entire magic principle. Seven complete routines are given but you will be able to develop many more once you understand the versatile secret of Bombay. This miracle effect has stood the test of actual performance for both laymen and magicians. In case you wonder, the name derives from the place it was conceived.

1st edition 1953; PDF 11 pages

These are all laugh getters, great ideas for zany card effects you will use to pep up your more serious routines. Easy to do, impromptu, and very effective. Devised by U.F. Grant, an expert at this sort of thing.

1st digital edition 2015, PDF 7 pages.

From the forward:

• Introduction
• Chapter One The Psychology Of The Card Expert
• Chapter Two Basic Sleights
  • The Lace-Through False Shuffle
  • The False Cut
  • The Compound False Cut
  • The Simple False Cut
  • The Second Deal
  • The Bottom Deal
• Chapter Three Miscellaneous Sleights And Moves
  • Back Palming A Complete Deck
  • The Riffle Cut
  • The One-Hand Shuffle
  • The Weave-In Shuffle
  • The Multiple Lift
• Chapter Four Tricks And Deceptions
  • A Subtle Card Location
  • Ace Control
  • Jacks And Aces
  • Second Deal Four Aces (No. 1)
  • Second Deal Four Aces (No. 2)
  • A Renovated Trick
  • A Renovated Trick (A Variation)
  • Another Card...

A brilliant card-up-the-sleeve routine wherein you perform the effect first with regular cards and then with JUMBO'S.

Not difficult to do - a pleasure to learn and a delight to perform. Complete with Ken de Courcy's original fully illustrated routine, (based on a concept by R. M. Jamison), and full patter presentation to perform this unusual and entertaining mystery.

The effect is the following:

The magician introduces three playing cards, for example, a Two of Hearts, a Three of Diamonds and a card which is conspicuously different to the other two, an Ace of Spades. The cards are...

Do you want to thrill and impress your spectators? Paul Lelekis provides eight outstanding effects that are easy to do and will make your spectators the center of attention.

Paul's introduction will teach you a very little-known secret of performance and the finer points of making your magic thrilling to your spectators, bringing them into your "magical universe" - not just standing on the outside, looking in. This info is extremely important!

Paul also teaches the power of routining your effects together to produce a thrilling magical experience for your entire audience.

Magic To Thrill...

Michael MacDougall explains new sleights, new methods of culling and stacking, new bottom steal, and more. Of interest to all card men, magicians and demonstrators. The second part of the book is S.W. Erdnase's seminal work on the art of sleight of hand with playing cards, The Expert at the Card Table.

Paul Fleming wrote:

A lovely digital reproduction of a book from England describing a range of card moves. It is profusely illustrated and very clearly describes all basic card moves and many specialties. Twenty chapters deal with subjects such as: The Pass, Location, Palming and Forcing, False Cuts, False Shuffles, False Counts, The Double Lift, Top and Bottom Change, Glide and Slip, Glimpse and Peek, Reversing Cards, Flourishes, Fanning, Front and Back Palm, etc. Learn the right way to do these sleights.

Other chapters deal with Presentation, Card Climaxes, Patter, Color Changes, Mental and Gambling Effects....

• Introduction
• The Mystic Seven
• A Reverse Problem
• Behind The Back
• "Mirable Visu"
• The Four Hands
• Cutting The Cards
• By The Toss Of A Coin
• The Betraying Voice
• The Personality Card Trick
• The Caronia Mystery
• The "Colon" Mystery
• Not Quite Balanced

1st edition 1952; PDF 14 pages

A Thought Well Stolen combines two of magic's great card effects - Any Card At Any Number, and Paul Curry's Out Of This World - into a wicked hybrid; morphing them into a mind-blowing frenzy. Can you even imagine what this resultant offspring would look like?

As in Any Card At Any Number, the performer reveals the identity of a freely though-of card - and its position in a deck - without asking a single question. Seriously, this is solid and gripping mentalism; there is no force, the card is a free mental selection and no questions are asked. Having read his spectator's mind, discerning his card and its position in the deck, the performer...

Including covers, contents page and suchlike, Cards In Here is a 64 page ebook of card stuff. More than two dozen tricks, ideas, thoughts and whatnot to titillate the palate. Nothing complicated, no knucklebusters, no outlandish gimmicks, just simple down-home pasteboardian foolishness.

More than enough to put the anti-card brigade into a serious coma, but good fun for the rest of us.

Contents

• Accelerace
• Abacuts
• Spin Flash Pass
• CoCoCuts
• Card Courting
• Counting Thoughts
• Pick Your Pick
• CatoPresto
• Hocus Cato Presto
• Double Identify
• A Short Spell Of Aces
• Spell To Suit
• SuitAl Spell ...

Three card monte. Almost no skill. The given presentation guarantees lots of laughs.

Why the funniest?

Well, here is what happens: The routine starts with a funny joke about a three-card-monte player. The joke conjures up a crazy image in the minds of the audience that elicits huge laughter. The next laugh comes from the fact that the spectator who is invited to play the betting-game is asked to keep track of the odd card while it is clear that the odd card has grown in size and protrudes from the other cards. With the 1st round of the betting-game there comes a laugh when it is clear...

This was Eddie Joseph's first card publication. As such, coming out in 1942, it represented already at that time 20 years of performing. It's unbalanced contents shows very much that it is not simply a book of card magic, but a summary of Joseph himself as a card man and his particular biases and interests. A chapter on his particular way of doing the fundamental sleights he depended upon and an entire chapter on the intelligent use of daub.

• Introduction...

  PART ONE

• Some Sl(e)ight Changes in Some Standard Sleights
• Card Palming
• Palming Cards on the Feet
• How to Return Palmed Card into...

This is mostly an ebook on card magic but it also has a few effects with coins, dollar bills and cigarettes. By far the best routine in the ebook is the "Ten Card Poker Deal". It is a hugely entertaining, dynamic routine in which ten cards culled from the deck are dealt into two poker hands in a multitude of ways, but somehow, the magician's hand always ends up winning. The effect is virtually self-working and Harry's routining turns it into a real reputation maker.

From the Foreword:

A different take on the usage of the mini-plunger or tiny plunger. When Danny Orleans showed the item to Jon it sparked his creativity. Read about the outcome here.

• About the Mini-Plunger
• How to Make a "Breather"
• Stuck Up
• Suck-Up Sleuth
• Malini Lite
• Pokerratum
• A Plunger Went A'Courting
• Aces Take a Plunge
• In-Depth
• Bonus: Ham-Fisted Find

1st edition 2013, 41 pages.

84 card tricks with an explanation of the general principles of sleight of hand using ordinary cards.

1. The All-Important "Pass"
2. Deceptive Shuffles
3. Forcing A Card
4. The "Long Card"
5. The Divining Card
6. The Bootlegged Card
7. To Place A Card
8. To Slip A Card
9. To Carry Away A Card
10. The Congress Of Court Cards
11. To Discover The Card Which Is Drawn, By The Throw Of A Dice
12. The Guessed Card
13. The Recruit Trick
14. To Tell The Card That May Be Noted
15. To Separate The Two Colors Of A Pack Of Cards By One Cut
16. The "Spelling Bee" Trick
17. The "Alternate Card" Trick
18. To Name Any Number Of Cards In Succession Without...

Make a card appear or change behind a window!

With WindowX you can make a card appear or change a card behind a window. You also can change the card in a sealed plastic bag that is attached and in full view behind the window. The spectator can remove the card or the bag himself (in most situations). The gimmick is very easy to make.

You can use many (but not all) windows. The trick is perfect to present in your living room or at a party with a little set up.

1st edition 2015, length 20 min

This is essentially numerology expressed via a deck of cards. If you have a side for mysticism and or numerology this will be of interest to you.

A deck of 52 playing cards is a mini representation of this Creation itself where Time is ultimate. Hidden deep inside a deck of playing cards are many inner secrets. This ordinary looking deck of playing cards is in fact a representation of forgotten mysteries coded by our ancient mystics. The biggest secret is that each card is 'lucky' for someone at some time.

1st edition 2015, 11 pages.