Baron, Harry: My Best Card Trick ©1953 Ridgmount Books, London Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 32 pages

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Comments: Also available as an e-Book from Lybrary.com. From the editor's note and foreword: "The ideas emanate from the brains of those who are among the top flight of card men to-day, and I earnestly commend them for your serious study, because apart from being original (and never before published (they are all absolutely practical and every one of them has been audience-tested."

Contents (numbers are not page numbers):

1 The Lady Tells All (Jack Avis): Queen reveals four selections
2 Spectator's Choice (Francis Haxton): approach to the open prediction
3 Turnabout (Al Koran): red/black arranged deck re-orders itself as called for
4 Card In Cigarette (Joe Stuthard): torn and restored
5 Casting A Spell (Gus Southall): card spelling effect
6 New Nudist Deck (Edward Victor): using ordinary deck of cards
7 My Name—Your Name (Peter Warlock): a you-do-as-I-do ending with matching cards
8 Glossary and Bibliography
- Forcing
- The Double Lift
- The Second Deal
- The Bottom Deal
- The Mexican Turnover
- The Top Change
- Fanning Powder
- Editor's Note