$18.50
ESTATE - Please note - this book is 100 years old and is in fragile condition. Still readable, and would look good framed.
Walter Gibson intended this book for the novice. All the tricks are quite easy to perform. And in the beginning under the heading "The Presentation of Card Tricks" Gibson gives very valuable advice on how to create a program and how to present it.
Nevertheless, the book is so good that even the intermediate and advanced card magician will be able to learn a lot from its pages.
This book was originally written by Walter B. Gibson for Houdini. Houdini's death in 1926 prevented him from putting it out, and Walter issued it under his own name. Ted Annemann considered it one of the best books in its field . . . it had done much to rouse his youthful enthusiasm for card tricks. He had intended to use it as a Jinx Special (he actually allowed pages 831 to 878 for it in the Jinx, and was pasting it up when death intervened. Later Lloyd Jones had reissued it, with a new introduction by Walter, on slick book stock with the illustrations just as it was originally. The cover is the same, but on heavy art paper in three colors. 48 pages, size 8 1/2 x 11 - easy to do card tricks again available; now you can fill that gap in your Jinx file.
Preface
Table Of Contents
The Presentation Of Card Tricks
Know What You Are Doing
Lead Up To Mystery
Progress Rapidly From Trick To Trick
Patter
Do Not Fear Exposure
Chapter 1: Self Working Card Tricks
The Mystic Prediction
The Heap Of Three
Two Groups Of Cards
The Transposed Cards
Two Chosen Numbers
The Mysterious Queen
Jacks And Jokers
The Psychic
The Assembly
The Royal Flushes
Eleven Cards
The Heap Dealing Mystery
The Twenty-One Cards
The Same Number
The Three Heap Trick
The Twenty-Five Card Trick
The Ten Card Circle
Chapter 2: Methods For Locating And Appearing Cards
Method One A Single Card Location
Method Two The “Pointer” Cards
Method Three Single Ends
Method Four The Three Heaps
Method Five Card Counting
Method Six The Double Deal
The Card From The Hat
Cutting The Pack
The Card On The Hand
The Reversed Card
A Surprising Finish
Cards In The Hat
A Spelling Trick
The Turnup Card
The Name From The Ashes
The Card From The Pocket
Seven And Eight
A Striking Discovery
The Card On The Chair
Chapter 3: Mysterious Card Tricks Performed With The Aid Of Special Systems
The Twenty Card Trick
The Thirty-Six Card Trick
Three Heaps And Three Cards
Thought Anticipated
Pocket To Pocket
A Mental Choice
The Card In The Pocket
The Cards In The Case
The Three Heaps
Predicting Cards
The Master Clock Trick
The Ten Card Trick
Kings And Queens
The Card Marvel
An Improved Mental Mystery
Chapter 4: Tricks Requiring Prearrangement
Section One The Prearranged Deck
Telling The Top Cards
From Heap To Heap
The Card In The Envelope
Discovering A Selected Card
Odd Or Even
Detecting Chosen Cards
Cards In The Handkerchief
Cards In The Pocket
To Name The Card At Any Position
To Tell The Position Of Any Card
Naming Cards In Order
The Bridge Trick
Section 2 Other Tricks Requiring Prearrangment
The New Pack Of Cards
The Automatic Deal
A Marvelous Prediction
Another Bridge Trick
Spelling The Cards
Aces And Kings
The Mysterious Rows
The Invisable Passage
Chapter 5: Miscellaneous Card Mysteries
The Ace In The Pocket
The Turnabout Cards
The Devining Card
The Glass On The Card
The Escaping Card
The Balancing Card
The Three Jack Deal
The Automatic Rising Card
The Four Card Trick
The Self Cutting Pack
Cards In The Hat
The Cherry Colored Card
The Mental Divination
The Thirteen Card Deal
The Little Duke Trick
The Color Changing Pack
The Automatic Deal
The Adhesive Cards
Concluding Remarks