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LAST CARD STANDING - A simple trick using three glasses.

FIRST CRUSH - A pair of swimming goggles act as X-Ray specs to reveal the chosen card....

This collection includes more effects and a fun balloon item to get some laughs. Remember, these are all self-working and if you have a Svengali deck, a few duplicates etc, you'll be able to do most of these straight away. Good fun, and great value at just ten bucks!

1st edition 2023, PDF 21 pages.

1. ... Number
44. Mind Control

    LESSON 3. THE LARIAT KING

44. Inventing Magic
45. The Lariat King
45. How the Trick Is Done

    LESSON 4. THE AFGHAN BANDS AND THE CUT TURBAN

50. How to Make the Afghan Bands
50. How to Work the Turban Trick

    LESSON 5. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, 1: FORCING

56. Forcing and Forcing Decks
57. The Svengali Pack
57. Forcing Sleights: The Fan
59. Forcing Sleights: The Slip
60. Another Knife Force
61. The Telephone Trick

    LESSON 6. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, II: LOCATIONS

63. False Shuffles
64. The Tap Location
66. The Glimpse
68. The Spelling Master
70. The Stripper Deck
71. The Long Card
71. The Double Card
71. The Short Card ...

• ... a full routine is described
• Literature of Magic: article on historical writings
• Load: defined
• Lota: described

M

• Magical Effects: general description of magical effect types
• Makeup: described
• Maskelynes, The: family bio
• Mechanical Decks: Describes Strippers, Cornered, Forcing Decks, Svengali, Mene Tekel, etc.
• Merry Widow: described
• Mind-Reading: general high-level discussion, with an example two-person code
• Mirror Principle: described
• Miser's Dream: routine described
• Mulholland, John: born 1898, bio
• Multiplying Billiard Balls: briefly described
• Muscle Reading: article...

• ... Wildwestmanieren
  • Magie erfinden
  • Wie's gemacht wird
• 4. Lektion: Die afghanischen Ringe und der durchschnittene Turban
  • Wie man die afghanischen Ringe herstellt
  • Wie man den Turbantrick vorführt
• 5. Lektion: Eine gezogene Karte entdecken
  • I: FORCIEREN
  • Forcieren und Forcierspiele
  • Das Svengali-Spiel
  • Forciergriffe: Der Fächer
  • Forciergriffe: Das Abziehen
  • Forcieren nach Stanley Collins
  • Der Telefontrick
• 6. Lektion: Eine gezogene Karte entdecken
  • II: FESTSTELLUNGSMETHODEN
  • Falschmischen
  • Der Durchstoß
  • Das Spähen
  • Der Buchstabiertrick
  • Das konische Spiel
  • Die lange Karte ...

From the introduction:

1. ... Stunt No. 2
234. System
234. The Knockout
235. A Prearranged Pack That Can Be Shuffled
235. Amazing Memory
236. Six Piles
236. Mephisto's Message
237. Name O' Card
239. New Pack Detection
239. Four Fold Sympathy
239. Telepathic Control
241. Cards and Pockets
242. Count Down Detection
242. The Adventures of Diamond Jack

245. The Svengali Deck
245. Various Methods of Handling the Pack
246. Simple Effects
248. Switching Packs (7 methods)
248. The Three Heaps
249. Cutting the Pack With a Knife
249. The Wrapped Pack
249. Any Heap
249. Reversed Card
250. The Unseen Card
250. Think of A Card
250. Card Stabbing
250. Svengali Prediction
251. The Mystery Problem
252. The Cards and the Dice
252. Svengali Clairvoyance
252. The Prize Winner
253. The...

Volume II (June 1944 - May 1945), Jean Hugard, editor

70 pages

53. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 1 - June 1944 - 4 pages
53. The Lamarque Rabbit Vanish
54. Routine with a Svengali Deck - Tom Bowyer
54. The Rice Bowls - Roger Barkann
54. Impromptu Daub - Gerald L. Kaufman
55. Magnetic Fisherman - A. Heller, The Card Board Lover
55. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
55. Silks - tip
55. Producing a Rope - George Engel
55. 3-2-1 - A di-abolical Deception - George G. Kaplan
56. Classified Advertisements

57. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume II, Number 2 - July 1944 - 4 pages - The R.M. Jamison Special Number
57. The Oracle Speaks ...

1. ... Spoof - Paul V. Mullen
571. "Jerk-Back" Palm Improved - Harry Lorayne
571. Thimble Transpo - Charles S. Ames
572. Drinks from the Air - Jean Hugard
572. Magicana - bits of wisdom
572. The Linking Rings - Jean Hugard
573. News and Views on TV Magic - Norman Jensen
574. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • Stuthard's Svengali Subtleties - Joe Stuthard
     • Kalman's Novel Passe Coin Routine and Climax - Bill Kalman
     • Sharp Magic - Val Don
     • Puppetrix - William Larsen
575. Bert Allerton's Crazy Cards - Martin Gardner
576. Allerton's Wrist Watch Trick (see page 555)
576. Classified Advertisements

577. Hugard's Magic Monthly...

• ...
  • ...
    • ... New presentation
    • Contrary do as I do, Bert Allerton
    • Twenty-sixth location
    • Unwitting magician
    • Magic of nine
    • Certain card trick
• PART 5. MISCELLANY
  • Peeling cards
  • Making double-faced and double-backed cards
  • Shiners
  • The spectator peek
  • One will make six
  • Audacity peek
  • Card to pocket
  • Svengali shuffle
  • Charlier shuffle
  • Matchbook easel
  • Kaufman card stand, Gerald Kaufman
  • Second deal aid
  • False counts and deals
  • - To deal four as three
  • - A false count
  • - False table deal
  • Magic powder v. rabbit's foot
  • - The carbon card
  • - Daub
  • - Set-ups
  • The card at any number
  • - Moistening...

This exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations.

Contents

• Handling the Svengali Deck
• Pitching the Svengali Deck
• About the Tricks
• Impromptu
• Almost Impromptu
• Multi-Method Classics
• Novelty Revelations
• Things going wrong, and sucker effects
• Apparatus Required
• Special Decks
• Publicity, Promotion, Spectacle
• Using sleights and moves
• Miscellaneous
• The Last Word

1st edition 1999, 181 pages.

Aka "The Canadian Funatic". Learned in the 1930s from books (including Erdnase) and working carnivals, fairs, and streets. Invented Trilby Deck (1949) and Stinger Kliptrik monte trick (1950). Wrote Svengali Subtleties (1948, 19pp) and Stooging Around (1949, 34pp). Moved to Britain.

In 1953 co-founded (with Harry Baron) The Kaymar Magic Company in Billericay, Essex County, England, where he worked briefly. Moved back to Canada and then around 1956 on to Australia where he ran a travelling magic pitch stand in Sydney for several years until retired, leaving the business to Rod Junor.

An excellent work on the Svengali Deck, including drawings and photos.

• Mechanics Of Svengali Deck
• Handling The Svengali Deck
• Main Points To Remember
• Running The Cards
• Double Lift
• The Riffle Shuffle
• The Overhand Shuffle
• The Fan
• The Spread
• The Drop
• Effects With Svengali Deck
• Stabbing Trick No. 1
• Stabbing Trick No. 2
• Stuthard’s Svengali Subtlety
• Methods Of Switching Deck To Ordinary Cards
• Suggested Routine With The Svengali Deck
• Finally

1st edition 1948, 15 pages; PDF 13 pages.

International award-winning Australian magician Joel Howlett was a very close friend to the late Jim McKeague. Jim was not only a magician but also a magic historian and author of The Best 200 Tricks With A Svengali Deck.

Joel has taken the time to describe three of the routines ('Jack And His Dog', 'Ten Card Poker' and 'The Three Card Trick') that he and Jim worked on together. Joel has also attempted to include some of the advice and tips Jim lovingly shared with him. The result was this PDF book.

PLEASE NOTE - The ebook is aimed at the intermediate magician as some of the more basic card moves are not described in detail.

1st edition...

Learned by working in a San Antonio magic shop. Pro. Worked as "Corny the Clown" c1964 as magic-clown assistant for travelling magician Daniel "Little Red Riley" Combest. In 1968 pitched Svengalis for S. David Walker at the Texas Hemisfair. 1979 FISM 1st prize in close-up; 1985 FISM 1st prize in card magic.

Invented FISM Flash (1973), Cornelius Card System (by 1980), etc, and popularized Terge Nordnes's effect as Fickle Nickel (c1972). Wrote Cornelius Card System (1980) and Magician's Datebook (1981). See Pallbears Review and Mad Magic #42 (1982) for all-Cornelius issues. Other tricks in Epilogue, Magic Manuscript, and MUM. Audio (1986)....

Here's a look at what's included:

• Preface
• The Magician's Mistake
• Astonishing Prediction
• Color Perception
• Kings and Queens
• Billfold Mystery
• Reds and Blacks
• Three Trick Routine with a Svengali Deck
• Houdini Card Climax
• Telepathic Revelation
• Balanced Cards
• Black Hand
• The Hopkins Drop
• Coin Thru Hand
• Coin to Quarter
• Coin Vanish from Hank
• Two Coins to One
• Coin Vanish from Paper Square
• My Double-Headed Quarter
• Ring on Shoelace
• Ring through Rope
• Ring through Rubber Band ...

• ...
  1. ...
  2. Non plus ultra
  3. Jede berührte Karte sofort zu nennen
  4. Die verschwundenen Damen
  5. Die wandernden Karten
  6. Ein guter Fang
  7. Der Helfer aus der vierten Dimension
  8. Eine Liebestragödie
  9. Vorherige Bestimmung einer gewählten Karte
  10. Das unergründliche Rätsel
  11. Die Karte auf Reisen
  12. Eine Überraschung
  13. Die Svengali-Wunderkarten
  14. Die Brautschau
  15. Kolorieren en gros
  16. Die wandernden Points
  17. Die gehorsame Karte
  18. Von Tasche zu Tasche
  19. Cagliostros Vermächtnis

Erstausgabe 1921, 80 Seiten; PDF 59 Seiten.

• ... mit einer Hand
• 27. Die guterzogene Karte
• 28. Die überflüssige Karte
• 29. Non plus ultra
• 30. Die Planeten als Nothelfer
• 31. Der findige Dritte
• 32. Magische Zahlen
• 33. Karten-Changement
• 34. Grenzwächter und Schmuggler
• 35. Überall und nirgends
• 36. Magische Probe
• 37. Das Svengali-Wunder
• 38. Das Joghi-Wunder
• 39. Das Wunderspiel
• 40. Merkwürdiges Zusammentreffen
• 41. Verbesserte Kinematographie
• 42. Die Glückszahl
• 43. Der ausgeprägte Farbensinn
• 44. Überraschende Art, eine ins Spiel gemischte Karte zum Vorschein zu bringen
• 45. Neue Anwendung magischer Zahlen ...

An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."

From the introduction:

1. ... and appreciated from a distance.
63. CHAPTER SIX. -- APPLICATION OF THE TENKAI PALM.
    The clever magician, Tenkai, has evolved a unique method for palming a card. By employing this method of palming, Dai Vernon has originated two new sleights. One is a startling colour-change which he has called "SVENGALI" because the card seems to change through an hypnotic gesture, and the other is a subtle method for secretly exchanging one card for another. By utilizing the latter sleight, he has built a routine, the basic effect of which is the transposition of two cards. Only two cards are seen the whole...