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This book is a collection of five little booklets. Each booklet typically has a section with sleights and a section with tricks using these sleights. The name Hugard guarantees for first rate material and so it is no surprise that Card Manipulations and the follow up More Card Manipulations includes some of the very best tricks and routines one can do with cards.

1st edition, 1934-1936, Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1973, Dover Publications, New York; 163 pages.

• CARD MANIPULATIONS - No. 1
  • The one Hand Top Card Palm
  • The Hindu Shuffle or Running Cut
  • The Hindu Shuffle as a Substitute for the Pass
  • And yet...

This is a routine by Carmen D'Amico. The effect is exactly what the title says. The performer passes a freely selected and ungimmicked card three times right through the table.

runtime: 3min 4s

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• A New Jumping Card Trick
• Steps
• A Card From Pocket Trick
• Card Divination
• On The Top
• A Trick With The Si Stebbins Pack
• The Persistent Joker
• An Excellent Card Change
• The Laughable Rising Card
• Lift A Few
• Unique Card Prediction
• Finding A Selected Card At Any Number Called For
• A Two Person Telepathy Effect
• Named Card And Slates
• The Paired Card
• A Practical Prediction
• Unique Control...

This collection of card tricks is really wonderful with very nice routines and simple effects. It is surprising that this book has not seen more attention and is hardly known. Take a look. You will be surprised. One of those hidden gems. It has been described by others as a "minor classic".

This ebook covers both the first and expanded third edition.

• Introduction to the Third Edition
• Introduction
• Chapter I: Conjurers' Terms And Artifices
  • False Cuts
  • False Shuffles
  • Forcing
  • Locators, And Key Cards
  • Shuffles
• Chapter II: Beginners' Tricks
  • Three Odd Heaps, No. 1
  • You Do As I Do....

The 'card under drink' plot was made famous by Heba Haba Al (Al Andrucci) in the 1960s. Ever since it has been a favorite of bar magicians all over the world. Here Allan teaches a version that uses a misdirective idea by John Bannon. The effect is clear and devastating. A chosen card unexpectedly ends up under a drink (glass, can, etc.).

runtime: 2min 11s

Twenty fine card tricks.

1st edition, 2003.

A Pain in the Ace: You push a selected card into the middle of the deck - it rises to the top. You push it back into the middle and flip over the top card. Unfortunately it's not the selection. It's an Ace. You - or a spectator - give the deck a fair cut to bury the face up Ace in the middle. Upon spreading the deck all four Aces are now face up together in the middle - but there's one face down card caught in the middle. This proves to be the awkward selection.

The ROLEX Gang: You remove the four Aces then place a random card between them....

Stephen Tucker's classic Cardiac series revived as an ebook. This is the second part of the trilogy.

1st edition 1984, 36 pages; PDF 40 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Total Control
6. Henchmen
10. Going Nowhere
14. Cutting Remarks
17. The Alternative
18. Edge Hog II
20. III
21. Chinese Tuckaway
24. To Have And To Hold
26. A Sticky System
28. In The Best Of Taste
30. The Other Side
32. You Only Get Out What You Put In. Or Do You?
34. Pneumatic
35. For Whom The Belle Told
38. Snap And Tickle
40. Bye!

A multiple shift allows you to control several cards inserted at different places in the deck to the bottom or top of the deck.

runtime 12min

"A nice variety of card material here. I'll be using a few of these routines for sure!" - Paul Hallas

"You have the 'knack' to create direct effects with simple methods, which is, in my opinion, the essence of commercial magic." - Aldo Colombini

"In this ebook, Jozsef combines some original thinking with neat construction. I really enjoyed this collection of card magic. I think you will, too." - Peter Duffie

"If you enjoy the eleven excellent routines that you will encounter in CARDOPIA, which I know you will, be sure to check out József's other ebooks, lecture notes and manuscripts... they are all great and I highly...

This is a routine Allan Ackerman developed in the early 1970s where he tried to achieve the cards across effect with as little motion as possible. He also added a visual card vanish. Later Paul Harris took this routine and turned it into his famous Sleeper routine.

A spectator picks a card. A second spectator cuts off a small portion of the deck, counts the cards, and puts the counted cards in a safe place. The performer then attempts to magically add as many cards to the second spectator's pack as the value of the card the first spectator chose.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Twenty-two card tricks by one of the most creative card man alive. This ebook in particular shows Peter's fondness of Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser and his ace problem.

1st edition, 2000.

PSYCHIC MATH: This is a card discovery that appears impossible for two reasons: first, it doesn't seem possible for you to know where the card is in the pack, and second, the card is found using the values of two random cards that were selected before the trick began. The only requirement is a full pack of fifty-two cards.

THE ANTI-GRAVITY SHUFFLE: A sort of mathematically induced multiple sandwich!

ANTI-GRAVITY + THOT: This is...

Excerpt from the foreword:

This false count by Francis Carlyle is as Allan says "a work of art." It provides both a visual and audible illusion.

runtime: 3min 43s

This is a heirophant type card change using the Push Off Center Deal.

runtime: 1min 26s

A clever idea by Bruce Cervon to reverse a card during a cut.

runtime: 2min 10s

Also included in this download are two PDFs. One is a reproduction of the booklet originally included with Martin Breese's MagiCD. It describes two effects, "A Sophisticated Card Trick", and "An Experiment in Concerted Motion." The second PDF is a reproduction of a limited edition booklet Martin Breese published in 2001. It holds two articles on Canasta, one by Graham Jolley and the other by Val Andrews.

This is a licensed reproduction of the famous Magicassette and...

The download DVD is a complete Chan Canasta television broadcast from a 1960's BBC TV Show. You see a professional entertainer perform, how he controls his spectators, and how he builds up the effects.

Chan first performs a few card effects and closes with a book test. In the beginning spectators take a few cards each and Canasta divines which cards each one has. Then two spectators take one card from a full deck each and they magically take the same card. Later a spectator takes two cards from a deck and puts each one in one of his pockets, without Canasta looking, but again Canasta knows...

The download DVD is a complete Chan Canasta television broadcast from a 1960's BBC TV Show. You see a professional entertainer perform, how he controls his spectators, and how he builds up the effects.

Chan first performs a few card effects and closes with a book test. In the beginning spectators take a few cards each and Canasta divines which cards each one has. Then two spectators take one card from a full deck each and they magically take the same card. Later a spectator takes two cards from a deck and puts each one in one of his pockets, without Canasta looking, but again Canasta knows...

Daniel teaches four card changes - so called color changes:

• The Fan Change
• The Wheel Change
• The Swing Change
• Delusion

The Fan Change
This is what Daniel considers to be a signature color-change and it is one of his favorites. A card is turned face up on top of the deck. The deck is fanned and before the fan closes the face up card has changed to another card.

The fan change is impromptu, it can be performed with any deck of cards and isn't hard to achieve. To stub a misconception...the top card is not being taken away from...

Control a card to the top during a waterfall flourish. (Also part of Move Mastery 3.)

runtime: 3min 45s

This trick can be found in Charlie Miller's book An Evening with Charlie Miller. The performer deals cards face-up on the table until a spectator says stop. The deck is ribbon spread face-down and one card has a different colored back. It turns out the only one card with the differently colored back is the one card the spectator stopped at.

runtime: 2min 20s

The Charlier cut is a very easy and good-looking cut. Allan also shows you how to turn it into a card control in combination with a bridge.

runtime: 1min 32s

This is a fun little action to add on to a Charlier Cut.

runtime: 58s