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More and more people are talking about their bad bets, their great hands, and their prowess for play. Popular on college campuses, fraternal clubs, and even retirement homes, poker has become our new game of chance, and our new game of choice.

What has led to the rise of this game? Most likely, it has been television and the media. On any given evening, the average person can flip on the TV set and find a...

1. Introduction
2. On Mountains & Under Buildings
3. Disappearing Ink
4. Introduction to Smelling Pennies
5. Smelling Pennies
6. Study Notes and Background
7. Dan S.
8. GHOST
9. A Funny Thing Happened in the Theatre
10. Connecticut College Goes to Atlanta
11. Kennedy & Lincoln
12. The Hawaiian Postcards
13. Swing Street Synchronicity
14. Victor Brauner's Eye
15. The Cat's Cufflink
16. Stubby Goes to LaGuardia
17. It's All Happening at the Zoo
18. Ganesha - Remover of Obstacles
19. Isleford in New York
20. Howle's Buffalo Fur Houdini Card
21. Asian Synchronicity ...

One day, while attending graduate school in Washington D.C., Cameron stumbled into a...

This ebook teaches the basic elements of contract bridge in a fun, safe, and easy way. It is designed for play in college student unions, coffee shops, bars, kitchens, dens, break rooms, and any other place where folks gather and have a half hour or so to get in a rubber. It is best played for money, even if very low stakes like a tenth of a cent a point. Playing with money at stake (yours and a partner’s!)...

One contract bridge teacher's notion of how to present a written tutorial on filling out a "Fat Free" ACBL convention card. Drawn from his series of bridge lessons for today's college students who've never played cards, let alone bridge.

1st edition 2016, 9 pages.

The College Bridge Series is a multi-semester college bridge course designed around the requirements to successfully compete in the American Contract Bridge League "College Bowl" of tournament bridge. Participants should be between the ages of 17 and 26, and compete as teams in online trials with the top four teams eligible to compete for scholarships at the summer North American Bridge Championships (NABC).

The course, designed, compiled and mostly written by Arizona bridge teacher and author Chris Hasney covers several semesters of classwork to introduce college students, faculty, and staff...

2nd semester contains only 11 prepared lessons, several of which can be assigned as homework reading. This allows instructors time to complete any unfinished work from 1st semester and still have extra time for integrating new members into the club, final prep for online College Bowl competition, etc. It should be noted that the rules for the competition have changed. You now have two chances (one each semester) to qualify, but they occur much earlier in the calendar year in fall and winter. Adapt and overcome.

Originally I had planned to integrate match point play and full 2/1 Game Force...

The College Bridge Series is a multi-semester college bridge course lesson plans designed around the requirements to successfully compete in the American Contract Bridge League "College Bowl" of tournament bridge. Participants must be between the ages of 17 and 25, and compete as teams in online trials with the top four teams eligible to compete for scholarships at the summer North American Bridge Championships (NABC).

This third course deconstructs and blends author Max Hardy's final two books on the 2/1 Game Force bidding system, helping transition bridge students from advanced Standard...

The College Bridge Series is a multi-semester college bridge course designed around the requirements to successfully compete in the American Contract Bridge League "College Bowl" of tournament bridge. Participants must be between the ages of 17 and 25, and compete as teams in online trials with the top four teams eligible to compete for scholarships at the summer North American Bridge Championships (NABC). Semester 1 assumes no experience with card play, let alone bridge. Semester 2 brings students to modern team-based contract bridge competition using modern Standard American (SAYC+) techniques....

Billed as "Master of Mystery". Semi-pro card, mental, and thimble magic for clubs, colleges, and hotels. A teacher by profession was a magician from Morristown, New Jersey. Served 41 months in the US Army Signal Corps.

Wrote Exciting Experiments in E.S.P. (1970, 76pp). Tricks in Genii, Magick, and Jinx.

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     • ... released] - Abbott's
     • The Bobo Magic Show - Magic, Inc.
     • The Master Illusionists - Mark Walker
     • Spirit Cloth Book - Rhett Bryson, Jr., Dexter Cleveland & Algonquin McDuff
     • A Fragment of the Imagination - Stephen Tucker
     • Cardiac Stimulation - Stephen Tucker
     • How to Force a Card - Merlyn T. Shute
     • Six Columns - Al Mann
     • The Magic Blotter - Delben Company
     • Necklace Prediction - El Duco
     • Knot Knots - Supreme
     • two nesting chop cups - La Galleria
     • There's One Born Every Minute - Harry Blackstone, Jr. - reprint
     • Max Maven's Mindgames - video tape - MCA Home Video ...

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   • Instant Flowers
   • Double Bouquet Production from Bare Hands
   • "I See You Are a Vegetarian"
   • My Sock Trick!
   • The Bride's Band
   • Flower Wand
   • Bouquet from Paper
   • Gone to Seed!
   • Flower Shower
   • Tipsy Tulip Bouquet
   • Self-Raising Flour (Flower)
22. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • Card to Wallet - The Book - Jerry Mentzer
    • Cavorting Ladies - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Synergistic Sandwiches - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Swipe - new periodical - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Flora & Co. - mailings
    • Clown Skits for Everyone - Happy Jack Feder
    • Mark's Mental Miracle - Mark Tripp
    • Abracadabra - weekly
    • Solari's Lock...

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   • The Magic of Moscow - poster - Lee Jacobs Productions
   • Nailed! - Bob Solari
   • The Magic Menu - periodical - first six issues bound
   • Perplexing Pencil - Nick DePalma
   • The Life and Times of the Great Lafayette - Arthur Setterington
   • Let's Get Flurious - videotape - Gary Kurtz
   • Card Craft - J.K. Hartman
12. Personality Parade - Geoffrey Hansen
    • Carter The Great
18. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
19. Sticks & Stones - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Down The Elevator and Up The Ladder - Don England
20. cartoon - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady ...

On the covers are

• Peter Oran
• Larry Jennings
• Milton Kort
• Rev. Stephen Blood
• Dai Vernon, Bruce Cervon, Steve Young
• John Shearer
• Rink
• Jacques Dugour
• Tom Johnston
• Fugi Fuchs
• Bob Batey (Navette)
• Richard and Mary Suey

1. Volume 23, Number 1, May, 1967, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Peter Oran - Magic from Holland Issue
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Money Magic
   • "Do It Yourself" Bank Notes - Peter Oran
7. Coin Through the Table - Alvara
8. Close Up Magic
   • The Mouse Paddle - Eddie Taytelbaum
10. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Blank Card...

An informal history of gambling in America from the colonies to Canfield.

Inside flap:

When Hideo was thirteen years old, he purchased a book of card magic for beginners but he didn't have a deck of cards. He went to a department store to buy one and asked a saleslady, 'Where can I buy a deck of cards?' She asked, 'What are you going to use it for?' he answered, 'To perform magic.' She pointed to a corner of the store where there was a Tenyo Magic Counter. He had never known that magic apparatus was sold to the general public. He bought a set of Multiplying Billiard Balls and both marked and stripper decks. This was the beginning of his magic career.

He went to work part-time as a magic demonstrator for Tenyo when he was nineteen years old while attending...

The ingenious Paul Curry, creator of 'Out Of This World' was also responsible for a number of other timely favourites - 'Open Prediction' being a standout and attracting variations a-plenty from card experts everywhere.

Ian Baxter has fashioned a particularly appealing version of this classic, written in his inimitable style and now available in an easy-to-read manuscript - totally impromptu, simple to perform, no fakes, stranger cards, or hidden accessories. Skills need are minimal. A delight indeed!

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages.

Wrote Dabbling with Daub (1951, 7pp). Invented over 200 original effects published as "Manu-Secrets", including Soft Dice (1952), Flabbergasting! (1952), Red Tape Thumb Tie (1953), No Nest Cups & Balls (1953), Soft Dice (1954), The Travelling Salesman (1954), Just Imagination (1954), Alphabet Soup Card Trick (1955), Beyond...

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...

You also want to check out Michael Close In Review, another review collection which gives you a second opinion.

• 13 PROPHETS, Karl Fulves
• 21ST CENTURY CARD MAGIC, James Swain
• 101 MOST ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT LAS VEGAS & CASINO GAMBLING, George Joseph

• A CANDID VIEW OF THE MASKELYNES, 1916-17, Anne Davenport and John Salisse
• A CANDLE IN THE DARK, Thomas Ady
• A PRICE GUIDE TO MAGIC BOOKS: 1639-1990, Michael Canick
• ABRACADABRA KID, Sid Fleischman ...

Volume X (June 1952 - May 1953), Jean Hugard, editor

144 pages

941. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume X, Number 1 - June 1952 - 12 pages
941. S.A.M. Convention in Boston - Backstage with Frank Joglar
     • Night Before Party
     • Conjuring College
     • Friday Night Show
     • Saturday Show
     • Closeup Session
     • Banquet Show
     • Gripes
     • Cheers
     • Sidelights
     • New Notes
941. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
     • Long Tack Sam
942. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Mohammed Bey's Routines for the Jardine Ellis Ring on Stick and Ring on Rope
     • Multiball - Dr. Jaks
     • Fast Ones - Ovette ...

The younger generation of card magicians probably knows or has heard of Card College by Roberto Giobbi. The Royal Road to Card Magic is very similar but of older vintage and doesn't cover as much ground. It introduces the novice into the art of card magic one move and principle at a time, always with tricks accompanying the moves. It is therefore not a mindless list of moves but a well prepared and thought out textbook. It will take the beginner to an intermediate level. Once The Royal Road to Card Magic has been mastered one can move on to Expert Card Technique which requires a higher skill level.

Actually because Expert Card Technique did not sell well...