Card tricks for beginners

Wilfrid Jonson

Book - 2004

Here's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing. Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques -- among them The False Shuffle, The Corner Crimp, Sensitive Finger Tips, Palming, The Glide, The Slip Force, and Reading the Pack. No special dexterity is needed to successfully complete any of these methods.

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Published
Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications 2004.
Language
English
Main Author
Wilfrid Jonson (-)
Other Authors
Chesley V. Barnes (-)
Item Description
Revised edition of: Card tricks. c1954.
Physical Description
94 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 92) and index.
ISBN
9780486434650
  • Preface
  • Part I.
  • "That's it"
  • A Mathematical Certainty
  • False Shuffling I
  • The Seven Heaps
  • False Shuffling II
  • The Changing Card
  • False Shuffling III
  • The Sense of Touch
  • The Matching Cards
  • The Pick up Control
  • The Card and the Number
  • The Corner Crimp
  • The Reversed Card
  • Sensitive Finger Tips
  • Thought Divined
  • Palming
  • Hypnotism!
  • The Card in the Pocket
  • Think of a Number
  • Educated Fingers
  • False Shuffling IV
  • Spell it Out
  • The Marked Card
  • From the Fan
  • The Spectator Does it
  • Turn Over
  • The Forecast
  • A Card Puzzle
  • Part II.
  • The Glide
  • The Inseparable Aces
  • The Inseparable Aces II
  • The Four Aces I
  • The Glide Force
  • The Four Aces II
  • The Thirteen Principle
  • The Slip Force
  • With a Forced Card
  • The Card Under the Carpet
  • The One Way Pack
  • One Way Elimination
  • The Transposed Card
  • In Your Hands
  • The Five Card Trick
  • The Pack Reveals it
  • Odd and Even
  • With Two Packs
  • Eight Kings
  • Three Card Divination
  • Si Stebbins' Arrangement
  • One in Five
  • Reading the Pack
  • Prepared Cards
  • In Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index