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Card Tricks: a practical treatise on conjuring with cards
Ellis Stanyon
This is a classic on card magic covering sleights, routines, special cards, and apparatus. It is very likely that already S.W. Erdnase read this book.
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I: PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND
- The Pass
- To Force a Card
- The Change
- To Palm a Card
- The False Shuffle
- To Slip a Card
- The Ruffle
- To Throw a Card
- To Spring the Cards from One Hand to the Other
- CHAPTER II: SLEIGHT OF HAND TRICKS
- The Cards Passing up the Sleeve
- The Card and Cigarette
- To Pass a Card Through a Handkerchief
- To Pass any Number of Cards along the Sleeve, and Produce them from the Breast Pocket ...
Effects with Cards 2
Arthur Buckley
This is the second of Arthur Buckley's problems: The Burglar
- Effect, Brief Presentation and Patter
- Sleights Necessary to Perform the Burglar (crimp, two-handed pass, Down's change, a secret removal, riffle shift)
- Details for Learning Sleights
- Rehearse Problem
1st edition 1921, 10 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 9 pages.
Packet Racket II
David Devlin
Every now and then a sequel is made that out does the original such as The Godfather part II, Superman II, The Empire Strikes Back, The Terminator II, The Dark Knight, and Aliens to name a few. Well, such is the case here with David Devlin's Packet Racket II. If you like packet tricks (David loves them) then you will love this eBook! All six of the tricks use standard packet sleights, and only one of them uses gaffed cards. (You can find the first volume here Packet Racket).
Triumphant Travelers: What do you get when you combine Open Travelers with Triumph? You get Triumphant Travels. This one is impromptu. ...
Stealth Working Card Tricks
Al E. Smith
A stealthy count-up uncovers the not-at-all secret fact that, including covers, contents page and similar paraphernalia, Stealth Working Card Tricks is a 71 page ebook twinkling with bit-size chunks of card-flavoured conjuriana, dripping with dollops of amiable waffle to cheer them on.
Nothing complicated, general card handling ability is the main requirement. Roughly translated, Stealth Working Card Tricks is a gentle confection of ideas, envelope nudging principles and deceptions, suppositions and similar. An ebook of card tricks, really.
- Introdecktion
- Oddment-ality
- Why Stealth
- Stealth...
Inner Secrets of Crooked Card Players
S. Victor Innis
This very rare, and highly sought after, gambling book from 1915 is finally available. This book was the first to publish the fact that eight out-faro shuffles brings the deck back in its original order.
- Preface
- Stacking Or Running Up Cards
- Controlling Four Aces And Four Kings By Stacking And Bottom Dealing
- Stacking Cards With The Faro Riffle
- Combination Cold Deck And Faro Riffle
- False Cuts
- Marked Cards
- Controlling Cards In The Draw
- The Tip
- Telling Hole Cards In Stud Poker
- The Draw Out In Stud Poker
- Edge Work For The Draw Out In Stud
- The Spread
- Second Dealing
- Cold Decking ...
Estimation: Revolutionary Card Technique No. 13
Edward Marlo
Revolutionary Card Technique No. 13. An ebook on an intriguing aspect of card magic. Both mechanical and natural estimation.
Table of Contents
- Estimation
- Mechanical Estimation
- First Method: The Comparison Method
- Second Method: The Automatic Gauge Method
- Third Method: The Nail Gauge
- Fourth Method: Marlo's Favorite
- Fifth Method: The Faro Check
- Mechanical Estimation Effects
- The Magic Card
- "Think I'll Stop Here"
- "Chosen Card Count Down"
- The Tipoff
- Reversed Card Out
- Natural Estimation
- Side Riffle Estimation
- Pull Down Estimation
- Back End Riffle Estimation
- The Cut Estimate ...
My Favorite Easy Mental Card Magic
George B. Anderson
- Subliminal Parapsychology
- Mental Elimination
- The Great Lottery
- Mental Count Formula
- A Quickie
- Fortune Telling By Cards
- A Human Lie Detector
- Hi, There, Princess!
- No Carbon Impression
- The Unaware Confederates
- Reading Cards Behind Your Back
- Think Of A Card
- A Playing Card Book Test
- Enough Of A Good Thing
1st edition 1980, 24 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 20 pages.
A Few Principles and Deceptions for Card Magic
Erivan Vazquez
After more than one year and a half of planning, programming and thinking over and over about details, my third release is here. For this occasion, I'm sharing with you three effects along with some really cool phone applications. These are the effects found in the ebook:
THE PERFECT LOCATION: You place a red card as a prediction in a blue deck. A spectator selects a freely chosen card from the same blue deck and replaces it in a random position of his choice. The deck is divided into two and you take cards simultaneously from each packet. When you get to your prediction card (the red card),...
Fortune Telling Card Trick
Devin Knight
After working a few card tricks, how many times have you been asked "Can you tell fortunes with cards?" Fortune telling with cards has always been interesting; but, how many of us have wanted to spend the time to learn and memorize the meanings of all the playing cards? I would dare say, very few of us. Besides, there is no trick to it.
Now you can say, "Yes." Not only that, but you can actually tell people how many brothers and sisters they have, how many children they have including their gender, number of pets and the month of their birthday, including their current age (without doing...
You Won't Believe Your Eyes
Dave Campbell
Dave Campbell may be a new name to you but in Scotland he is a highly respected card worker whose creations are both numerous and commercial. You Won't Believe Your Eyes is one of the finest card printing effects we have seen. Five cards, blank on both sides, instantly become duplicates of the spectator's selected card. The routine is visually stunning yet is quite easy to do. The instructions are detailed step by step and are fully illustrated.
One of the strongest points about Dave Campbell's routine is that it can be adapted to so many different themes. Using his handling you needn't restrict...
Commercial Card Tricks Volume 2
Ulysses Frederick Grant
This is a rare collection of card secrets that U. F. Grant sold separately. These were listed in his catalogs as single items or special props using cards. These were not part of his other card books. The complete directions for the prop tricks are included in this ebook. Many of these items can be made up from cards you may have around your home. If you have seen some of the effects in his early catalogs and wondered how they were done, then this PDF may satisfy your curiosity. A wealth of information that is hard to find elsewhere. This is volume 2 of a two volume set. You get all the following...
Routines for the Bendix Bombshell Wallet
Martin Breese
This is a compilation of routines for the Bendix Bombshell Wallet contributed by some of the most recognized performers. The printed version of this booklet comes with every Bendix Bombshell Wallet produce by Martin Breese. A good place to get the wallet is directly from the manufacturer on the Martin Breese website.
- Card to Wallet by David Bendix
- A Roy Roth Alternative
- Marlo Variation of Bendix Presentation
- Two Selections and a Wallet by David Solomon
- The Wallet Game by David Solomon
- The Roy Roth Bombshell Routine
- The Enigma Bombshell Routine by Bob Driebeek
- Marlo's Wallet Combination...
Challenge Cards Across
Ulysses Frederick Grant
This is by far one of the best methods ever conceived for the classic cards across trick. It is also one of U. F. Grant's best card effects for stage. The method is completely different from Zen's Fifteen Card trick in that no duplicate cards are used.
One regular deck is used and only two unprepared personal size envelopes. There are no stacks of any kind. Finally, there is no palming of cards as in other methods. The method is very easy to do and a feature for stage that is a real fooler. Just one regular deck and two envelopes, along with a pencil to sign the cards will give you a real...
Five Easy Pieces
Jon Racherbaumer
The five easy "pieces" in this manuscript are relatively easy to do. The important aspect, however, is how they are combined. The tricks are not the tricky part. They can be broken down into basic, understandable action steps. Or, to put it another way, tricks are to magic books as recipes are to cook books. One should not then equate plans, schemes, or sets of instructions with hale and hearty presentations. This is the reason the extended presentation in this manuscript surpasses mere exposition. Besides explaining the action steps of five otherwise grab-bag tricks, it reveals how they have...
Copwaked
Paul Gordon
You start out with four red backed Aces of Clubs, shown individually from the back and front. One of the Aces changes to a Queen of Hearts. The Queen of Hearts jumps to various places in the pack. For the climax all four cards change to the Queen of Hearts and also the backs change to blue backs. Does not use any gimmicked or gaffed cards. Can be done with jumbo cards as Paul demonstrates in the video.
1st edition 2017, length 3 min 20 s
Commercial Card Tricks Volume 1
Ulysses Frederick Grant
This is a rare collection of card secrets that U. F. Grant sold separately. These were listed in his catalog as single items or special props using cards. These were not part of his other card books. The complete directions for the prop tricks are included in this ebook. Many of these items can be made up from cards you may have around your home. If you have seen some of the effects in his early catalogs and wondered how they were done, then this PDF may satisfy your curiosity. A wealth of information that is hard to find elsewhere. This is volume 1 of a planned two volume set. You get all the...
Corner of Piccadilly
Paul Gordon
A "find the lady" type of routine with four cards with several phases.
"Paul Gordon's Corner of Piccadilly is a very strong monte routine that uses un-gaffed cards. Its kicker is truly astounding, and all can be examined. If ever there was a "worker," this is it." - David Regal
[Note: Standard moves such as the Elmsley Count or Block Push Off are not explained.]
1st edition 2017, length 4 min 34 s
Tricks with Prepared Cards
Donald Holmes
Here are 19 clever and entertaining card magic miracles that can be performed with prepared cards. Explained are several amazing principles involving prepared cards, with ingenious ideas for their use. Also included, with special permission, are several creations by Ford B. Rogers, which were published in this book for the first time.
Here's what's included:
- Foreword
- "Incomprehensibility" (Rogers)
- The Key Card (Two Methods)
- Forcing a Card (with the Key Card) A Feat of Apparent Mindreading
- The "Reversed Card" Principle
- The Prediction
- The "Self-Shifting" Pack (Two Methods)
- The Card...
The Tournament
David Devlin
This is a card act rather than a single trick. It is a full-deck effect, tells a story, has audience participation as spectators become the characters, is full of magic, and has an ending that no one will see coming that will fry the audience. It is called, The Tournament, and it will convince your audiences that you are the greatest card cheat of all-time. There is no false dealing, which means that the dealing portions of this routine are all self-working. The finale of the act is a mind-blower and brings everything to a logical conclusion.
Two methods are provided, one which utilizes the...
13 Ways to Three-Way
Jon Racherbaumer
This ebook explores the classic "Quick Three Way" plot. How can the faces of three playing cards be shown to be the same?
- Foreword
- Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
- New Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
- Freeway Three-Way (John Bannon)
- Another Quick 3-Way (Ed Marlo)
- Slide Three-Way (Phil Goldstein)
- Cervon’s Quick Three-Way
- Revised Quick D-Way (Derek Dingle)
- Tweaked Three-Way (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Okal's 3-Way (Bill Okal)
- Kay-Kay Tri-Way (Kevin Kelly)
- Flustrating Three-Way (Brother John Hamman)
- Rhumba Three-Way (Vallarino)
- Montesque Three-Way (Ed Marlo)
- Bonus: Least-Likely Find
1st edition 2017, 42 pages....



