Encyclopedia of Card Tricks(Hard Cover)

Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
by Jean Hugard

In the first decades of the twentieth century magicians filled the magic journals with articles on card tricks, giving improvements on classic tricks and inventing new ones. If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would almost have a complete course on card tricks, by some of the world's greatest magicians.

But where could you find these journals now that they are collector's items? And even if you could find them, how much would such a collection cost? As it turns out, not very much, because all the best of these tricks are available in this one monumental book, containing nearly every practical card trick produced, invented and improved by magicians over a span of forty years and more.

A truly staggering collection, this book explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks: impromptu card tricks, spelling tricks, You Do As I Do tricks, diachylon (a paste for gluing cards together) tricks, calculation tricks; tricks using key cards, slick cards, double-backed cards, reversed cards, short cards; tricks based on a one-way pack, prearranged pack, Svengali pack, Mene-Tekel pack, stripper pack, special packs; miscellaneous tricks includng Everywhere and Nowhere, The Case of the Four Kings, Card in the Orange, The Buddhha Whispers, and Inseparable Aces, and a final chapter on tricks using the famous Nikola Card System. In addition, a chapter on techniques explains the most important sleights-the overhand shuffle, riffle shuffle, false cut, palm, simle pass, double lift, glide and force.

Based on a volume compiled by Dr. Wilhelm Von Deusen and Glenn G. Gravatt, this collection was thoroughly revised by Jean Hugard and completely rewritten. It is easily the finest single compendium of classic card tricks, and the clear style makes the instructions easy to follow. An indispensable book for the professional or amateur magician, it is a magnificent source for anyone who wants just the right tricks to mystify friends or delight children.

Hardcover. 407 pages.
ISBN: 0486212521

Table of Contents for Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
INTRODUCTION By Theo. Annemann

CHAPTER I MISCELLANEOUS IMPROMPTU CARD TRICKS
Twin Souls
The Magic Breath
Reversed Court Card
The Sagacious Joker No. 1
" " " " 2"
" " " " 3"
" " " " 4"
The Trio
Cards of Chance
Push
Card Detectives
"The "Easy" Card in Wallet"
Prediction
A Smart Location
The Whispering Queen
The Card Doctor
Stampedo
Color Divination
The Vanishing Pair
The Unknown Leaper
Self Control
In His Pocket
Find the Queen
Super Card Prediction
The Finger Points
The Five Card Mental Force
"Just Think" Mental Mystery"
Matching the Aces
Supasso
New Card Discovery
Thought Card from Pocket
Naming Cards in the Dark
The Magic Thrust
U Find Your Card
The Card and Crystal Ball
The Secret Mathematician
The Card Miracle-Certain
" " " Tucker's Version"
" " " Abbott's Version"
" " " T. Nelson Downe's Version"
Cut in Detection
Sleight of Foot

CHAPTER II SPELLING EFFECTS IN CARD MAGIC
System for arranging card for any spelling combination
Spelling a Card
Duplex Comedy Speller
Farelli's Impromptu Speller
Knock Out Speller
A Single Speller
Superlative Speller
You Selected the ?
Spell It
Impromptu Sp
Wizard Spelling Master
Peculiarities of the Pasteboards
The New Spell
The Automatic Speller
Spellino
Spellino Climax
Howard's Simplex Speller
U Spell Your Card
An Easy Speller
PRE-ARRANGED SET UPS
Thought Spelling
Quadruple Spelling
Another Thought Spelling
Improved Spelling Trick
Think It, Spell It
Improved Chevalier
Spelling Any Card Called For
The Shuffled Spelling Bee
The Double Speller
The Whispering Speller
The Joker Spelling Routine
Variation of Joker Spelling
The Joker Speller
Sure Winner Spelling Bee
Frank Squire's Speller
Gwynne's Speller
Spell It Yourself
Seller's Speller Idea
Incomprehendo Speller
Perfect Spelling Trick
Card Spelling Deluxe
Lazybones
Think of a Card
The Spelling Bee

"CHAPTER III "YOU DO AS I DO"
A Peculiar Coincidence
You Do As I Do
Identical Thought
Two Souls With A Single Thought
Follow Me
A Close Work Discovery
A Follow Up Effect
Coincidence
Loyd's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A Variation of the Above
Another Do As I Do
Do As I Do in the Dark
Domination of Thought
A Strange Coincidence
Coincidence Again
Sympathetic Sympathy
Synthetic Sympathy
Backs Up
Mental Coincidence
Another Marvelous Coincidence
A Card Sym
Paradox of Pairs
Hugard's Follow Me

CHAPTER IV CARD SUBLETIES UTILIZING KEY CARDS
A Couple of Cards Get Together
Mental Vision
Phenomenal Thought Cards
Indetecto
Detected by Fingerprints
The Three Heaps
Double Prediction
Impenetrable Stop Trick
Mephisto's Prediction
The Sequel
A Count Down Mystery
The Card and Number
Tone Control
The Mystic Seven
Master Mental Mystery
Infallible Detection
Face Down Detection
Devilish Cards
Comedy Twin Card Prediction
The Nervous Card
The Nifty Key
Up Your Sleeve
The Quartette
Think of a Card
Demon's Detection

"CHAPTER V "SLICK" PRINCIPLES IN CARD MAGIC"
The Slick Card
The Half Moon Location
Location Plus
Everybody's Card
Stage Location
The Master Card Speller
Counting by Eye
Odd or Even
The Mystic Cut
A Slick Card Routine

CHAPTER VI CARD MYSTERIES EMPLOYING DIACHYLON
Diachylon
The Flying Card
The Missing Card
Mesmerized Cards
Diachylon Force
The Queen Turns Over
Diachylon Book Test
Another Diachylon Force
Twin Aces
Turno
Melrose
Two Viewpoints
Diachylon Stop Trick
Reversed Color Surprise
Diachylon Super Color Change
Flyaway Cards
Ace Transposition
Remote Control Imp
Card in Pocket
The Diachylon Do As I Do
A Real Magical Vanish
The Acme Spirit Test
Number Please
The Sympathetic Pair No. 1
The Sympathetic Pair No. 2
The Sympathetic Pair No. 3

CHAPTER VIII MAGIC UTILIZING DOUBLE FACED CARDS
Double Faced Cards
Hat and Card Change
The Funny Deck
U Can't Do As I Do
The Spotter Cards
Sundry
The Four Aces
Kings and Aces
The Triangle Trick
Double Reverse
New Card Monte
A Book Test
A Changing Card
The Improved Burned Card
A Spirit Message
A Transposition

CHAPTER IX CARD MYSTERIES USING A ONE-WAY BACK DESIGN
One Way Back Design
Subtle Method of Setting the Deck Openly
Devination Supreme
The Phantom Stable
Five Card Stabbing Mystery
A Thought Card Prodigy
The Five Senses
Premo Detection
Thought in Person
Think Stop
The Deck That Isn't
Twentieth Century Sorcery
The Four Pile Location
The Cut Pack Location
A Card is Found Once More
Odd or Even
The Alternate Detection
A New Kink
Eight in a Row
Gardener's Unique Principle
Second Card Location
Long Distance Location
The Super Spread
Simple Triple Location
No Dice
The Vanishing Mirror
The Marked Deck
The Fingerprint Discovery
Living and Dead Trust
A Count Down Disc
Siamese Twins
"Your Card, Your Number"
Elimination Extraordinary
Reading the Cards
Ne Plus Ultra Location
One in Ten Detection
Uni-Mentality
Challenge of the Year
Card Location Supreme
Hummer Detection
Instant Mind Reading
A Counter Location
A Principle in Disguise
The Perfect Guesser
Red or Black
Transcendental Vision
Find the Lady
Call Me Up Sometime
A Miracle
Thought Transference
Say When
The Drunk Plays Bridge
Incomprehendo
The One Way Key
One Way Decks

CHAPTER X REVERSED ORDINARY CARDS
Simplified Reverse
Upside Down
U Bite
The Haley Reversed Vard
Sure Locator
In The Dark
Under Cover
Behind the Back
Coincidence
The Reversed Count Down Trick
French's Extraordinary Aces

CHAPTER XI CALCULATION TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS
Weirdo
A Prediction
Long Distance Mind Reading
Two Card Location
Improved Super Memory
Spectator's Choice
Mentalo
Knock Out Counting Trick
A card an A Number
Projected Thought
No Plus Ultra
Uni-Mental
Knock 'Em Dead
Self Working Mystery
Stop and Think
Novel Card Discovery
Improved Marvelous Prediction
Ready Reckoner
The Pari Detection
Dead Easy Loc
Odd or Even
The Wonder Force
Psychic Prediction
Prophesied Spot Total
Cagliostro's Vision
Quadruple Deck Mystery
Mephistopheles' Touch
Fair and Square
"Your Card, Your Number"
One in Fourteen
The Fifteenth Card
Sensational Card Mystery
New X-Ray Trick
Shark Food
Thought Foretold
Mysterious Detective
Super Count Down
Fate and the Joker
Psycholia
The Wizard's Dream
Diabolica Transposition
Card Memory
Sensitive Thoughts
Red and Blue Back Mix-Up
Two Person Location
Dual Sympathy
Another Sympathetic Mystery
A Quaint Happening
"$1,000 Test Card Location"
Seeing With the Finger Tips
1. Lip Reading Test
2. Here's Your Card
3. The Master's Touch
Perfect Card Divination
Unique Telephone Test
Psychological Discernment
Another Impossibility
A Discard Trick
Count the Cut
Cremo Card Restoration
Strange Coincidence
Premier book Test
Between the Line
Fathomed Thought
Winning the Cut
Wizard's Will
Card Divination
Double Divino
The Missing Pair
Premier Card Discovery
Location
A Simple Location
Out of Sight
Prophesied Discovery
From Another Pack
Divino
Williams' Card
Red or Black
Excello Card Discovery
Naming Chosen Card
Psychic Card Test
A Card and A Number
Mediumistic Stunt No. 1
Mediumistic Stunt No. 2
System
The Knockout
Six Piles
Mephisto's Message
Name O' Card
New Pack Detection Four Fold Sympathy
Telephatic Control
Cards and Pockets
Count Down Detection
The Adventures of Diamond Jack

CHAPTER XIII MAGIC WITH A SVENGALI PACK OF CARDS
The Svengali Deck
Various Methods of Handling the Pack
Simple Effects
Switching Packs
The Three Heaps
Cutting the Pack With a Knife
The Wrapped Pack
Any Heap
Reverse Card
The Unseen Card
Think of a Card
Card Stabbing
Svengali Prediction
The Mystery Problem
The Cards and the Dice
Svengali Clairvoyance
The Prize Winner
The Mirage Principle]
Mirage Deck
The Eye Popper
Svengali Mind Reading
The Siamese Svengali Pack
Svengali Force

CHAPTER XIV MAGIC WITH A MENE-TEKEL PACK OF CARDS
The Mene-Tekel Deck
Controlling Several Cards
Card Into Pocket. A Second Method
From A Hat
Card and Number
One in Four
The Pocket Rising Card
Cards and Slates
Coincidence Mene-Tekel

CHAPTER XV MAGIC WITH A STRIPPER PACK OF CARDS
The Stripper Deck
Tricks with the Stripper Deck
To Separate the Red Cards From the Black
The Four Ace
Finding a Card in Any Position
Selected Cards Pass Through A Handkerchief
The Turned Card
Finding Any Number of Selected Cards At Once or Separately
Finding All But A Chosen Card
Companionable Kings
Passing A card Through a Table
The Animated Card
Cutting At A Chosen Card
The Blown Card
Card From Spectator's Pocket
"The "Cut" Count"
Out of the Room Discovery
The Court Cards'
Naming the Cards
Magnetized Card
At Any Number From Pocket
Card Through Handkerchief
Just the Reverse
The Four Kings
Stripper Stabbing
Card in the Hat
Reunion

CHAPTER XVI MAGICAL MYSTERIES WITH SPECIAL PACKS
Impossible Card Discovery
One Ahead
The Mentalist's Card Staggerer
Coincidentally
Magnetic Mental Control
Movie Color Cards
Transpo Color Change
Invisible Flight
Blind Man's Bluff
Speaking of Pink Elephants
Card Telepathy
CARD X
Sight Unseen
Miracle Code
Telepathic Cards
Toy Telephone Reading
Duo-Mentality
Three in One Card Trick
The Midnight Marvel
The Limit Four Ace Trick
Zen's Card Miracle
A Novel Card Problem
Get it in the dark
Zens' Miracle Pocket to Pocket Trick
Neat Card Detection
New Card Locator
The Fourteen Deck
Telepathy
The Whispering Envelope
Creat Psychic Card Feat
Card Sta
Miracle Card Location
Miracle Location Card Version
Telepathic Selection
Mental Masterpiece
Automatic Second Deal
Magicardo
Stereotyped Reading the Cards
Thought Card Discovery
Impromptu Detection
Nine in Ten Detection
It's Up To You

CHAPTER XVII THE USE OF SHORT CARDS IN MAGICAL EFFECTS
The Short Card
Cards From Nowhere
On the Top
X-Ray Eyes
A Color Change
Cut Card Force
Another Force
To Any Number
Horoscope Card Force
A Spelling Trick
The Locator
Behind the Pack
Double Location
A Reversed Location
Vanishing Card

CHAPTER XVIII MORE MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS
Everywhere and Nowhere
The Original Stop Trick
Say When
A Means To An End
Think Stop
Psychological Stop Trick
Number Please ( Walsh's method)
Number Please (Al Baker's method)
The Case of the Four Kings
The J. M. Rising Card
Miraskill
Master Card Location
Miracle Card Location
Card Detected By Pulse Beat
Imitation Seconds
Psychological Force
Face Up Location
Dream Card
Elimination
A Super-Reverse Problem
Card in the Orange
The Slap Trick
The Conjuror's Touch
The Card Through the Handkerchief
The Penetrating Cards
Get These Behind Me Satan
The Princess Card Trick
The Clock
Paint Brush Card
The Eclipse Vanish
The Card From the Pocket
Card From The Pocket
Banner Card Discovery
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