• 1st Edition Carl Waring Jones, Minneapolis, MN: 1940, 448 pages
• 2nd Edition Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue, Brooklyn, NY: 1944, 448 pages
• 3rd Edition George Starke New York, NY: 1950, 474 pages
  • The 3rd edition includes added chapters:
    • A Lesson In Card Handling, By Dai Vernon
    • The Side Steal And Some Of Its Finer Points, By Dr. Jacob Daley

Book Contents

• Dedication
• Foreword To The Third Edition:
  • by Jean Hugard 1950
• Foreword To The First Edition:
  • By Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue 1940
• Index
• Introduction
• Nomenclature
  • Break
  • Bridge
  • Crimp
  • Cull
  • Jog
  • Injog
  • Outjog
  • Joints and Phalanges
  • Run
  • Stock
  • Shuffle Off
  • Throw
  • Undercut

Part 1. Sleights 


Chapter 1. The Secret Lifts

• Double Lift
• Triple And Quadruple Lifts
• Lift Get-Ready
• Lift
  • Double Lift In Action
  • Triple And Quadruple Lifts In Action
• Double Lift Turnover, a, b
• One Hand Push-Off

Chapter 2. False Deals

• Second Deal
• Push-Off Second Deal
  • a. The Left Hand Grip
  • b. The Deal
  • c. The Push-Off Stud Poker Deal
  • d. As A False Table Count
• Strike Second Deal
• Bottom Deal
  • a. The Left Hand
  • b. The Right Hand
  • c. The Deal
• Middle Deal a, b, c, d, e
• Double Deal
  • Second Method

Chapter 3. The Side Slip

• Two Methods, a, b
• Two Covers For The Side Slip
• Malini’s Side Slip
• Delayed Side Slip
• Bottom Side Slip

Chapter 4. The Pass

• Invisible Turn-Over Pass
• Zingone Perfect Table Pass, Luis Zingone
• Flesh Grip Pass
• Jog Pass
• Braue Pass
• Charlier Pass
  • a. Color Change
  • b. To Control A Card
• Finger Palm Pass Improved

Chapter 5. Palming

• Braue Diagonal Tip-Up Palm
• Swing Palm, Frederick Braue
• Thumb-Count Palm
• Face Card Palm, a, b
• Crosswise Palm
• New Vertical Palm
• Gamblers’ Squaring Palm
• Gamblers’ Flat Palm, a, b
• Hugard Top Palm
• Flip-Over Palm
• Hofzinser Bottom Palm
• Braue Bottom Palm
  • Delaying The Braue Bottom Palm
• Zingone Bottom Palm, a, b, Luis Zingone
• Three Cards Across, Luis Zingone

Chapter 6. False Shuffles

• Perfect Riffle Shuffle, a, b
• Strip-Out False Shuffle, Charles Miller
• Hindu Shuffle Variation
• False Shuffle Retaining Top Stock
• Gamblers’ False Shuffle
  • Retaining Top Stock
• System Of Stock Shuffling
• Off The Table False Riffle Shuffle

Chapter 7. False Cuts

• False Running Cut, a, b
• Gamblers’ False Cut
• Gambler’s False Cut, Bottom Stock

Chapter 8. Changes

• Fadeaway Card Change
• Slide Top Change
• Throw Top Change
• Tip-Over Change
• Push-In Change
• Drop Switch

Chapter 9. Crimps

• Regular Crimp
• Little Finger Crimp
• Gamblers’ Crimp
• Peek Crimp
• Card Marking Crimp

Chapter 10. The Spectator Peek

• Spectator Peek Improved
• Spectator Peek – The Last Word
• After The Spectator Peek

Chapter 11. The Glimpse

• A New Glimpse
• Glimpsing A Card
• Top Card Glimpse
• Gamblers’ Glimpse
• Glimpse After The Peek, a, b
• Cover For The Glimpse
  • a. Gamblers’ Method For A Single Card
  • b. One Card
  • c. Several Cards

Chapter 12. The Jog

• Side Jog
• Jog At The Break
  • An Alternative Method
• Automatic Jog No. I
• Automatic Jog No. II
• Automatic Jog No. III

Chapter 13. The Reverse

• Facing The Deck
• Righting The Faced Deck
• Automatic Reverse
• Righting A Reversed Bottom Card
• Facing The Bottom Card
• Faced Deck Turnover

Chapter 14. Sundry Sleights

• Vesting A Card
• Zingone Thumbnail Gauge, Luis Zingone
• A Cutting Discovery, Luis Zingone
• Separating The Colors
• Setting A Key Card, Jean Hugard
• The Five Card Quibble
• Emergency Card Stabbing
• Drop Control
• The Tap
• Single Card Bridge, Charles Miller
• A New Glide
• Establishing A Break From A Bridge
• Transfer Of Thumb-Count Break To Little Finger
• Ruffle Return
• Bridge Location
  • Bertram’s Method
  • A Variation: Fifty Years Later
• Mexican Turnover
• Spread Cull
• The Double-Face
• Gambler’s Card Marking System

Chapter 15. The Rear Palm

• Nature Of The Palm
• Rear Palming Top Card
• The Bottom Rear Palm
• Rear Palm Side Slip
• Little Finger Push-Out
• Replacement
• Rear Palm Exchange
• In Lieu Of The Double Lift
• Using The Rear Palm

Chapter 16. The Perfect Faro Shuffle

• The Shuffle
• The Endless Belts
• Chart Of Seventeen
• Perfect Shuffle Stock
• The Eighteenth Card
• Braue Poker Deal
• Royal Flush Deal
• Dishonesty At Its Apogee
• A Bridge Deal
• At The Top
• Double Less One

Part 2. Flourishes

• Interlocked Production, Cliff Green
  • The Actual Flourish
• The Color Change
• Impossible Color Change
• Covinous Color Change
• The Pressure Fan
• A Fan Flourish
• Springing The Cards – New Method
• Top And Bottom Changes
• There It Is!

Part 3. Technique

• Secret Addition Of Cards To The Pack, a, b, c
• Replacement Of Palmed Cards, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i
• The Palm In Action
• Covering A Palm
  • I. Top Palm – Right Hand
  • II. Bottom Palm – Left Hand
  • III. Either Hand
• Secret Count
  • I. Side Count
  • II. Top Thumb Count
  • III. Bottom Thumb Count
  • IV. Overhand Count
• Forcing
  • Classic Force
  • Fan Force
  • Table Spread Force
  • Perfect Score Card Force
  • Using A Force
• The Multiple Force
• Four Card Force
• The Lost Card
  • I. The Fan And Riffle
  • II. The Fan, a, b
• A Second Method
• The Prearranged Pack
  • Arranging The Set-Up Pack
  • Assembling The Pack
  • Shuffling The Cards
  • The Spectator Shuffle
  • Using The Pack
  • Locating The Card

Part 4. Tricks With Cards

Chapter 1. The Rising Cards

• Hugard Rising Cards, Jean Hugard
• Mesmerised Cards, Charles Miller
• One-Hand Plunger Rising Cards, Frederick Braue
• Two-Hand Plunger Rising Cards, Frederick Braue
• Witchcraft Card Rise, Jack Mcmillen

Chapter 2. Selected Tricks

• The Zingone Spread, Luis Zingone
• The Gamblers Outwitted, Paul Rosini
• A Rosi-Crucian Mystery, Paul Rosini
• Two-Six-Four, Dai Vernon
• The Mind Mirror, Jack Mcmillen
• Predestined Choice, Charles Miller
• Reading The Cards Of Any Deck, Jean Hugard
• Dexterous Fingers, Charles Miller

Chapter 3. Birds Of A Feather

• Merlin’s Lost Aces, Jack Merlin
• Ace Affinity
• Ace Assembly
  • The Old Method
  • The New Method
• Anent The Bertram Aces
• Streamlining The Sympathetic Aces
• The “Slap” Aces
• Le Temps Four Aces
• Passe-Passe Aces
• Migratory Aces
• Solo Flight Aces, Charles Miller
• Nomad Aces, Charles Miller
• Charles Miller Aces
• Cops And Robbers – A Variation

Chapter 4. Routines

• Five Star Finale
• The Razzle Dazzler
  • An Expert At Figures
  • Mercury’s Card
  • A Card For Pegasus
  • The Card In The Shoe
• Five Card Routine
  • I. Dai Vernon’s Mental Force
  • II. The Princess Card Trick
  • III. Five Card Royale
  • IV. Phantaso

Chapter 5. One Hand Card Magic

• An Automatic Reverse
• A Rapid Reverse
• The Impromptu Magician
• A Second Method
• Three In One
• You See? Harold Lloyd
• One Hand Fan

Chapter 6. The Ambitious Card

• First Phase
• Using Double Lift Turnup, a
• Pop-Up Card
• Ambitious Twins
• Ambitious Card Move
• Cover For The Ambitious Card Double Lift
• Omnipresent Eight

Chapter 7. Using The Double And Triple Lifts

• Invisible Transit, Jean Hugard
• Transposition Extraordinary
• Telepathic Card
• Transposition
• Boy Meets Girl

Chapter 8. Discoveries

• The Card In The Shoe
• Rub-A-Dub-Dub
• The Card Through The Magazine
• Mercury’s Card
• Folding A Card
• Card For Pegasus
• Danbury Deviler, Charles Miller
• Double Discovery
• Everywhere And Nowhere, Frederick Braue
• Lazy Man’s Card To Pocket, Jack Mcmillen
• Vanishing Pack
• Double Leaper
• Dunbury Delusion, Charles Miller
• Obliging Card
• Impromptu Location

Chapter 9. Mental Discoveries

• Think Of A Card, Paul Rosini
• Wheel Location
• Psycho-Intelligence
• Psychic Stop!
• Ultima Thule Location
• Incredible Location
• Crystal Thought
• Mental Selectivity, Charles Miller
• Ponsin On Thought Reading
• The Risk Location

Chapter 10. Reverses

• Cagliostro Cuts The Cards
• A Quick Reversal
• Faced Deck Reverse Location
• Reverse Supreme, Luis Zingone

Chapter 11. Spelling

• Multi-Spelling Trick
• Cards On Parade

Chapter 12. Double-Faced Cards

• Hardin Plus Devant
  • Second Method
• Mechanical Four Aces
• The Radioactive Aces
• The Torn And Restored Card

Chapter 13. The Stranger Card

• Preamble
• Torn And Restored Card
• The Ghost Card, Theo Annemann
• Where Is It?
• Through The Table Top
  • Second Method
• Everywhere And Nowhere
• A Stranger In The House
• The Red-Black Transmigration, Jean Hugard
• Touch And Go, Jean Hugard
• Run Around Aces
• Introducing The Stranger
  • Forcing A Stranger Card
  • Double-Faced Cards
  • Joker-Specimen Card

Chapter 14. Self-Working Tricks

• It Must Be Magic
• Tricky Quickie
• The Numerological Card
• Matching The Packets
• The Seventh Son
• Hocus-Pocus Card
• Do As I Do. New Presentation
• Contrary Do As I Do, Bert Allerton
• Twenty-Sixth Location
• Unwitting Magician
• Magic Of Nine
• Certain Card Trick

Part 5. Miscellany

• Peeling Cards
• Making Double-Faced And Double-Backed Cards
• Shiners
• The Spectator Peek
• One Will Make Six
• Audacity Peek
• Card To Pocket
• Svengali Shuffle
• Charlier Shuffle
• Matchbook Easel
• Kaufman Card Stand, Gerald Kaufman
• Second Deal Aid
• False Counts And Deals
  • To Deal Four As Three
  • A False Count
  • False Table Deal
• Magic Powder V. Rabbit’s Foot
  • The Carbon Card
  • Daub
  • Set-Ups
• The Card At Any Number
  • Moistening A Card
• The Pass
• Left Hand Bottom Replacement

Part 6. Misdirection And Presentation 


Chapter 1. Misdirection

Chapter 2. Presentation

• The Presentation Of Magic
• Patter
• Good Humor
• The First Trick
• The Voice
• Making Friends
• You Yourself
• The Routine
• The Proof Of The Pudding
• Something New
• The Spectator Perspective
• Sleight Of Hand Vs. Self-Working Feats
• Importance Of The Inconsequential
• The Simple Way
• The Audience Committee
• Plots For Tricks
• Confederacy

{Two New Chapters Introduced In The 3rd Edition}
A Lesson In Card Handling, By Dai Vernon

• The De Kolta Change
• Tips On Changes
• Multiple Card Control
• Hand-To-Hand Transfer
• The Peregrinating Pip
• The All Backs
• Details Of Handling
• Insertion Of The Cards

The Side Steal And Some Of Its Finer Points, By Dr. Jacob Daley

• Introductory Remarks
• Right Hand Side Steal
• Left Hand Side Steal
• Double Peek And Bilateral Side Steal
• Longitudinal Side Steal And Transfer
• Applied Misdirection