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This is the sequel to Card Manipulations. It is a collection of four booklets. Emphasis is put on practical methods without any apparatus.
1st edition, 1938-1941, Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1974, Dover Publications, New York; 205 pages.
- No. 1.
- Part I. - TRICKS
- The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan
- The Sheep and the Goats
- Snap - A Quick Trick
- Crime Club Detection - Dr. H. Walter Grote
- Infallible Prediction - Audley V. Walsh and Hal Haber
- The Continuous Spelling Trick - Jack McMillen
- The Burglars - Orville W. Meyer
- The Magic Thrust - Orville W. Meyer
- The Two Jokers - P. W. Miller
- The Ladies' Lookingglass - A New Version
- The Conus Aces - A New Version
- Part II. - FLOURISHES
- Visible Color Change
- Roll Down Color Change
- Color Change With Fingers Wide Apart
- Part III.
- The Riffle Pass. I.
- The Riffle Pass. II. - P. W. Miller
- The Herrmann Pass
- The Spring Force
- New Light on the Glide
- New Finger Clip Palm
- Fan Production From Finger Clip Palm
- New Throw Change for a Packet of Cards
- Replacing a Palmed Card on Top of Deck - Braue
- The Changes: I. The Top Change
- II. The Bottom Change
- The Delayed Location - Frederick Braue
- I. On the Table
- II. The Spring
- a. Onto the Table
- b. Into the Hand
- Card Control
- I. Jog and One Hand Fan
- II. Fan Control
- b. Riffle Control
- No. 2.
- Part I. - SLEIGHTS
- Curry Turn Over Change
- Carlyle "Snap" Double Lift
- Jamison Double Lift
- Riffle Shuffle Control
- Riffle Location
- Easy Bottom Deal
- Never Fail Force
- Replacement of Palmed Cards
- Vertical Palm
- New Packet Change
- Part II. - POKER
- Setting up Poker Hand (Two Set ups with Riffle Shuffle)
- The Barnyard Shuffle
- Part III. - TRICKS
- New Top Card Production
- Silas and the Slicker
- Another Spell
- To Flourish or not to Flourish
- Poker Hand Repeat
- Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
- Lost and Found
- Two Pile Mystery
- Name Your Number
- Simultaneous Magic
- Last Word Location
- Again the Infallible Prediction
- Part IV. - MANIPULATIONS
- The "Cottone" Squeeze Production
- The "Cottone" Snap Production
- No. 3.
- Part I. - SLEIGHTS
- The Faced Deck
- The Gambler's Table Change
- The Spread Pass
- The Thumb Slide
- New Method of Picking up an Arranged Pack
- An Easy Force
- Reversing the Bottom Card
- The Carlyle False Count
- The Miller Card Case
- The "Cottone" Spider-Grip False Cut
- 1. A Stubborn Card
- 2. Gambler's Sense of Touch
- 3. The Penetrating Eye
- 4. The Four Aces Are Tops
- 5. Poker Heaps
- 6. Digging For Diamonds
- Part II. - TRICKS
- Picking A Pocket
- Married Couples and Bachelors
- Springing the Trap
- The Two Pile Mystery
- Mene, Tekel, Upharsin (The Thirty Cards)
- The Multiplication of Cards while in Someone's Hands
- Reverse Transfer
- Optical Illusion
- Think-A-Card
- Ziska Improved
- Three Cards and a Bank Note
- The Score Card Scores
- The Curry Turn Over Change
- A Cur(r)i-ous Prediction
- The Question is -
- Psycho-Carditis
- No. 4.
- Part I. - SLEIGHTS
- Hugard Card Control
- Bottom Palm Simplified
- To Shuffle or Not to Shuffle
- The Riffle Force
- The Count Force
- The Lyons Force - L. Vosburgh Lyons, M.D.
- Double Lift Substitute - Deane Moore
- Card Control No. ??? - Deane Moore
- The Cut Pass - Frederick Braue
- The Grote Instantaneous Palm - H. Walter Grote
- Part II. - FLOURISHES
- The Dip Color Change - Joseph Cottone
- The Snap Color Change - Joseph Cottone
- Visible Color Change - Joseph Cottone
- Part III. - TRICKS
- The Marriage Meter - Frederick Braue
- Diogenes' Card
- The Triple Discovery - Charles Miller-Jack McMillen
- Card Instinct - Frederick Braue
- The Challenger - Frederick Braue
- Aces Up - Bert Allerton
- Birds of a Feather - R. W. Jamison
- The Cards Rise Again - R. W. Jamison
- Triple Prediction
- Auto-Location - Joseph Cottone
- The Aerial Count - Joseph Cottone
- The Jumping Joker - Joseph Cottone
- Magnetic Thought - Bert Allerton
- A Double-Dyed Swindle
- The Diminishing Cards I
- The Diminishing Cards II - Charles Miller
word count: 70226 which is equivalent to 280 standard pages of text