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28. Gospel Magic - Rev. Robert E. Olson
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39. The World Has Lost its Greatest Magician...

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42. In His Words: David Sandy - Interview by Rory Johnston
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    • Magic, Magic, Magic
64. Phantoms of the Card Table - David Britland ...

This is the 3rd edition which includes an additional chapter by Dai Vernon and another one by Dr. Daley. (The popular Dover version is a reprint of the 2nd edition and is lacking these two interesting chapters.) This book describes serious stuff. Card moves and tricks for the advanced card man. (For an excellent introduction to card magic see The Royal Road to Card Magic or the Card College series.) Expert Card Technique lists and explains in detail a large quantity of card moves. Card moves are abundant and any good card man will come up with his own variations and twists due to his constant use of cards and tireless perfection of...

... masters of card magic as Dai Vernon, Dr. Daley, Jean Hugard, Al Baker, Audley Walsh, Stewart Judah, and many others.

This material was collected from JINX magazine after Annemann's suicide. Ted Annemann's Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks 1st edition, 1943, Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1977, Dover Publications, New York; Annemann's Miracles of Card Magic 1st edition, 1948, Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1977, Dover Publications, New York; original 188 pages in total; PDF 177 pages.

Ted Annemann's Full Deck of Impromptu Card Tricks

EXTEMPORANEOUS MAGIC

1. The Card on the Ceiling
2. The Undercover...

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- Supreme
• Quazy Quick Change - Supreme
• Shag and Charlie's Comedy Card Thru Ear - The Property Masters
• Multum in Parvo - Karrell Priest
• Cards as Weapons Poster - Lee Jacobs Productions
54. Light from the Lamp - A Review of Magical Literature - Lloyd E. Jones
    • The Magic Mirror - Dover
    • Self-Working Mental Magic - Karl Fulves
    • Troublewit Simplified - Morrissey Magic
    • A Ray of Magic - Jimmy Ray
    • The Demonstrator's Dream, Number 3 - Lex Zaleta
    • The Art of Stage Hypnotism - Ormond McGill - reprint
    • Ascano [sic] Spread - Jon Racherbaumer
    • Legerdemain - periodical
    • Calliope...

... was originally published in the 40s, Hugard and Braue wrote The Royal Road to Card Magic to provide a stepping stone to the much harder and less accessible Expert Card Technique.

(You might also be interested in the Annotated Royal Road to Card Magic.)

1st edition 1949, several reprints, ex. Dover 1999; 292 pages

11. Introduction by Paul Fleming
12. Preface

    Part One
    

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3. I. The Overhand Shuffle, I
3. Position of the Pack in the Hands
4. Execution of the Overhand Shuffle
5. Using the Overhand Shuffle
5. Controlling the Top Card
6. Controlling the Bottom Card
6. Retaining the Top and Bottom Cards in Position ...

... and invented many great pieces of deception. Anybody who wants to call himself a serious card man must study Hofzinser's material.

Translated by Sam Sharpe.

Translation of Kartenkünste by Ottokar Fischer; 1st edition, 1931, George Johnson, London; reprint, 1973, Karl Fulves; reprint, 1986, Dover Publications, New York; 188 pages.

3. Foreword
8. Editor's Preface
11. Preface
14. Biography of J. N. Hofzinser
19. Guide to Performance
    

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    Experiments with Unprepared Cards
23. The Sympathetic Numbers
25. Synonymous Thoughts (First Method)
29. Association of Thoughts
33. The Four Eights
    

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    Experiments with Duplicate...

... by Deusen and Gravatt. These items are bolded in the table of contents below. He also left out some of the material that was in the original volumes.

[Note that the hardcover edition has a different cover than the one shown here.]

1st edition, 1937, Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1974, Dover Publications, New York; reprint, D. Robbins & Co., New York; 403 pages. PDF 379 pages.

Table of Contents (items in bold were added by Hugard and are not found in the prior volumes by Deusen and Gravatt)

5. INTRODUCTION by Theo. Annemann

CHAPTER I: MISCELLANEOUS IMPROMPTU CARD TRICKS

17. Twin Souls
17. The Magic Breath
18. Reversed Court Card
19. The Sagacious Joker No. 1 ...

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.

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

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.

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No. 1.
Part I. - TRICKS
7. The Three Musketeers and D'Artagnan
8. The Sheep and the Goats
11. Snap - A Quick Trick
13. Crime Club Detection - Dr. H. Walter Grote
15. Infallible Prediction - Audley V. Walsh and Hal Haber
16. The Continuous Spelling Trick - Jack McMillen
17. The Burglars - Orville W. Meyer
18. The Magic Thrust - Orville W. Meyer
19. The Two Jokers - P. W. Miller
20. The Ladies'...

... with apparatus for amateur and professional conjurers, and for both parlor and stage performance.

Sachs' articles on sleights were first serialized in the Exchange & Mart magazine and later reprinted as the book Sleight of Hand.

2nd edition, 1885, L. Upcott Gill, London; reprint, 1980, Dover Publications, New York; 399 pages.

5. Preface to the Second Edition
1. Introduction
5. Chapter I - Palming
9. Chapter II - Tricks with Coins
39. Chapter III - Tricks with Common Objects
54. Chapter IV - Tricks with Cups and Balls
62. Chapter V - Tricks with Handkerchiefs
70. Chapter VI - Chinese Tricks
77. Chapter...

This book packs almost 200 mental miracles, many of which are creations of one of the masters of mental magic - Ted Annemann. You will find the best book tests, psychic codes, tricks with slates, blindfold reading, publicity effects, and much more. This book together with Annemann's Card Magic covers a good part of the famous Jinx magazine, of which Annemann was editor.

[Note that the softcover version is the D. Robbins reprint which has a different cover than shown here.]

1st edition, 1944, Holden's Magic Shop, New York; reprinted 1983 with new title "Practical Mental Magic", by Dover Publications, New York; 310 pages.

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CHAPTER I: EFFECTS WITH BILLETS AND PELLETS
7. Bert Reese Secrets
11. Billet Switching
13. A Question...

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by Prof. Hoffmann
• More Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
• Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
• Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

1st edition, 1909, Downs-Edwards Company, New York; 2nd edition, 1921; 1980 reprinted by Dover Publications, New York; 348 pages.

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CHAPTER I.
FLOURISHES AND FANCY SLEIGHTS WITH CARDS.
19. The Card Fan
23. Card Balancing
24. To Tear a Pack of Cards
26. The Fan and Ruffle
27. The Downs Fan
28. Springing the Cards
30. Second Method
32. Third Method
32. The One-Hand Drop
33. Second Method
34. The Cards on the Arm
35. A Series...

Learn coin magic from the best coin manipulator ever - the "King of Koins". T. Nelson Downs' original "Miser's Dream" is still unsurpassed. He invented many other new and innovative moves. The unique feature of this book is that it includes many photos of the hands of Downs detailing every important sequence in a move. He also offers helpful tips on presentation, patter, and other techniques. Another excellent book by T. Nelson Downs is The Art of Magic.

1st edition, 1900?, Hamley Brothers, London?; 1999 reprinted under the title "Classic Coin Tricks" by Dover Publishing, New York; 244 pages.

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CHAPTER...

Some regard this book as the bible of coin magic. And it is indeed packed with moves and tricks. To be precise, there are 116 coin sleights and 236 coin tricks. If you consider adding a coin trick to your program look no further. This is the book for you. Any other book about coins references this one.

The revised and greatly expanded edition of this book is The New Modern Coin Magic.

1st. edition, 1952, Carl W. Jones, Minneapolis; reprint, 1982, Dover Publications, New York; 353 pages.

5. Dedication
7. Preface
11. J. B. Bobo
12. Acknowledgments
13. Prologue-Of Coins and Conjuring
14. Scot On Monie, 1584

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    I: Coin Concealments ...

This is not a book for beginners. But it is a book that will lift up the devoted student by two or three levels of proviciency in card handling. Buckley, born in Australia, was one of the masters and innovators of card magic. He studied the card gamblers as well as the top magic performers. This book with over 300 photos, of which most have been enhanced by drawing lines over them to increase contrast, and 40 outstanding routines, is a gold mine and challenge for any card worker.

1st edition, 1946, Arthur Buckley; reprint, 1993, Dover Publications, New York; 219 pages.

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Sleights
12. The Strip ...

You will find 143 magnificent and entertaining uses of silks and handkerchiefs. Sleights, tricks and the famous Stillwell Silk Act are explained in detail with 90 illustrations. Jean Hugard details vanishing methods, production techniques, color changes, knots, and flourishes. He also describes how to care for your silks to keep them in great shape for a long time.

1st edition, 1937 Max Holden, New York; reprint, 1974, Dover Publications, New York; 85 pages.

5. Introduction
5. Chapter I. Methods of Folding Silks for Production
10. Chapter II. Sleights for Manipulating Silks Without Accessories ...

... Prestidigiteur. The translation was done by Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie.

1st UK edition, 1859, Chapman & Hall, London; 1st edition US edition, 1859, Geo. G. Evans, Philadelphia; reprint, circa 1880, Porter & Coates, Philadelphia; reprint, 1942, Laurie, London; reprint, 1944, Jones; reprint, 1964, Dover; 436 pages.

3. Editor's Preface
13. The Author's Overture
    
17. CHAPTER I
    My Birth and Parentage
    My Home
    The Lessons of Colonel Bernard
    Paternal Ambition
    My first Mechanical Attempts
    Had I but a Rat!
    A Prisoner's Industry
    The Abbé Larivière
    My Word of Honor
    Farewell to my darling Tools. ...

Twenty card tricks from the inventive Scotsman.

1st edition, 1992.

THOSE ENIGMATIC ROYALS: A simple idea based on the Vernon 'Card Puzzle' and inspired by Peter Kane's 'Royal Families' from his booklet A Further Card Session, plus Roy Walton's "Split Up" from The Complete Walton, Vol.1.

A SENSE OF FREEDOM: This is based on a number prediction by Shigeo Futagawa using four pieces of cardboard (See "Stunumbers" in Karl Fulves' Self-Working Number Magic, Dover). The only weak point was that the prediction couldn't be written until an advanced stage in the proceedings. The following effect uses playing cards and there is no need to worry about the prediction because...

... But figuring out the exact finger positioning is not a simple matter; some shapes are quite difficult to obtain. The author of this delightful picture book of hand shadows spent long hours working out the figures in this book. By following his clear visual instruction (each of the 18 figures in the book is explained by a full-page illustration that shows you the precise positioning for fingers and hands), you can create a boy, camel, goose, deer, grandpa, bunny, bird in flight, ... After you have mastered these, it will be a simple matter to invent shadows of your own.

Parents can use this book to amuse their youngsters, or to teach them to recognize the various animals and other objects pictured here. A distinctly Victorian flavor adds considerable period charm to this collection of original designs.

1st edition, 1859, Griffith and Farran; reprint, 1967, Dover Publications, New York; 18 pages.

1. Camel
2. The Goose a Prisoner
3. Deer
4. Grandpapa
5. Bunny
6. A Bird in Flight
7. Goat
8. Dog Toby
9. An Elephant
10. Greyhound
11. Pig
12. Bruin
13. A Portrait
14. Old Growler
15. Fright
16. A Tortoise
17. Boy
18. Head of a Camel