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Edward Marlo needs no introduction. He was one of the most prolific and influential creators of card magic. This is one of his most ambitious undertakings - a big book that runs the gamut of Marlo card magic. Unusual sleights, miraculous tricks, incomparable routines, material for the student, gems for the expert. Plus an interesting chapter showing how card tricks evolve and giving full credit to all inspirational sources for the entire book.
1st edition 1953, 199 pages; 1st digital edition 2012, 184 pages.
Table of Contents
- A Few Words............
Chapter One
- Sense Of Touch
- The Wishing Card Trick
- One Hand Control
- The Marlo Miracle
- Ten Years Ago
- That Joker!
- Flight Of Time
- Card Thru Table
- Janus
- Push Thru Failure
Chapter Two
- Sense And Nonsense With Cards
- The Stripper Combine
- Double Thought
- Poker Prediction And A Principle
Chapter Three
- Bottop Change
- Reflection
- Platform Aces
- Fifty - Fifty
- Flight Of The Knave And Queen
- Penetration
- Grab It
Chapter Four
- Double Turnover Change
- Ambitious Card Move
- Misdirection Palm
- Repeater Selected Card To Pocket
- Simple Shift
- Drop Switch Addition
- Method For Crimping
- One Hand Throw Cut
- Challenge Cutting Of Aces
- Tabled Second Deal
Chapter Five
- It's A Dilly
- Another Dilly
- Spelling Selected Cards
- The Nail Gauge Spell
- Spin Change Discovery
- Jacks To Aces
- Hit The Aces
- Logical Faced Aces
- In One Shuffle
- The Late Arrival
- Invisible Bottom Deal
- The Follow Up Aces
- Traveling Card
- The False Count
- Impromptu Leipzig
- Pockethereal Minus Pockets
Chapter Six
- The Double And Triple Buckle
- Christine
- No Glide Aces
- No Glide Aces; Second Method
- No Glide Aces; Bluff Method
- Swindle Aces
- Three Card Monte Climax
- Monte Climax Kicker
- Oil And Water
- Quicksands
- Cardician Makes Good
- Visual Transposition
Chapter Seven
- Red And Blue Telepathy
- Double Thoughts-Single Deck
- Mental Reverse
- Mental Reverse 2
- Cardician's Dream
- 21 Card Trick Streamlined
- Touch Retouched-Retouched
- Magic Total
- Eight-Two Locator
- Ace-Three-Five-Locator
- Three-Three-Three-Locator
- Bold Prediction
- The Whispering Queen
- Open Prediction
Chapter Eight
- Follow The Leader
- Four Ace Vanish
- The First Vanish
- The Second Vanish
- The Third Vanish
- The Fourth Vanish
- The Climax
- The Trick Deck
- The Torn Card Trick
- Anytime
- Some Challenging Ideas
- Credits
word count: 81322 which is equivalent to 325 standard pages of text