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Another Card Session with Peter Kane is a rare, highly sought-after magic manuscript self-published by the influential British card innovator Peter Kane in 1971.
Running just 21–22 pages in pictorial staples wrappers, it serves as the direct sequel to his 1967 booklet, A Card Session with Peter Kane. The booklet features line drawings by Fred Haywood and focuses on advanced close-up card magic, leaning heavily into clever mathematical principles, gaffs, and technical sleights like the Faro Shuffle.
Key Routines & Contents
While a slim volume, it contains foundational ideas that have been studied, variant-tested, and built upon by prominent card men for decades.
The standout effects include:
The Incredible Shrinking Card Case: A visual, multi-phased routine where a card case physically "shrinks" down, or card packets change size relative to the case. It relies on a specialized card-case gaff and handling that Kane later adapted for his 1975 marketed routine, Cards and Cases.
Jazz Aces: Perhaps the most famous legacy in this specific volume. While Peter Kane is widely credited with inventing the plot Jazz Aces (an ultra-clean, minimalist assembly where Aces transpose with indifferent cards one by one without extra gaffed cards), this booklet solidified the framework that inspired endless variations by Marlo, John Bannon, Darwin Ortiz, and Roberto Giobbi.
Swindle Coincidence: An deceptive mental/coincidence piece where two different spectators freely shuffle two separate decks. They each select a number card, count down in their respective packs, and incredibly arrive at the exact same matching card.
The Faro Five: An intricate multi-card location. An Ace through Five are handed to five separate spectators, who each use them to select or locate a card. After the cards are lost and the deck is given a series of incomplete Faro shuffles, the numbered cards reverse themselves in the pack, perfectly adjacent to each of the five selected cards.
The Faro Card Puzzle: Described by Kane as a "faroation" of Dai Vernon’s famous Card Puzzle plot, utilizing the precise nature of Faro shuffles to systematically track, reveal, or arrange target cards under the guise of a puzzle