Dean Bryden: Fun With Cards
Bryden, Dean: Fun With Cards
©1927 George Sully & Co., NY
Hardcover, no dustjacket, 165 pages
Bryden: Fun With Cards
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Comments: First section is on games of Solitaire, second section is on Card Tricks, third section on Fortune Telling with cards.

Contents (from book, updated Feb 2019):

1 Part I Solitaire Games:
3 Introduction
8 The Garden
11 - Example of the Carden, move by move
15 Poker Patience
16 - Example of Scoring Poker Patience
18 The Right of Kings
19 - Example of the Right of Kings, Move By Move
25 English Patience
26 - Example of English Patience, Move By Move
29 French Solitaire
29 - Example of French Solitaire, Move By Move
34 Scotch Solitaire
35 Spanish Solitaire
36 Russian Patience
38 Persian Solitaire
39 Grandfather Patience
41 The Waltz
42 Blondes and Brunettes
43 La Belle Lucie
44 Canfield
46 The Pyramid
48 Four Seasons
50 St. Helena
53 Golf Patience
54 The Clock
55 Triple Alliance
57 LaFayette
59 Methuselah
60 Double Jump
62 Block Eleven
63 The Labyrinth
66 Stone Wall
66 - Example of Stone Wall, Move by Move
71 Monte Carlo
72 - Example of Monte Carlo, Move by Move
77 The Demon
78 - Example of the Demon, Move by Move
85 Elizabeth's Solitaire
86 - Example of Elizabeth's Solitaire, Move by Move
89 Agnes
91 - Example of Agnes, Move by Move

99 Part II Card Tricks
99 Introduction
102 To Name a Card Without Seeing It First - First Method
102 To Name a Card Without Seeing It First - Second Method
103 To Name a Card Without Seeing It First - Third Method
103 Discovering a Card by Thought Transference
104 Discovering a Card by Reading the Eyes
104 The Push Trick
105 To Tell Whether a Chosen Card is Red or Black
105 To Predict Which of Two Heaps Will Be Chosen
106 Odds and Evens
106 Tell-Tale Sevens
107 Oddsand Evens - Second Method
107 To Tell Which Card Has Been Turned
108 To Make Two Cards Which Have Been Separated Come Back to the Top of the Deck
108 The Date Trick
109 Sixes and Sevens
110 To Call Any Card in the Pack
111 Naming Three Cards Chosen By One of Your Audience
112 Willing Your Audience to Pick Out the Cards You Name

115 Part III Fortune Telling:
115 Introduction
119 Meanings of the Cards in the Pack of 52
127 Meanings of the Cards in the Pack of 32
132 The Incantation
132 - Example of the Incantation
134 The Witch
134 - Examples of the Witch
137 The Egyptian Method
137 - Example of the Egyptian Method
146 The Gypsy Method
146 - Example of the Gypsy Method
150 The Oracle
150 - Example of the Oracle
153 The Romany Method
153 - Example of the Romany Method
159 The Pyramid
159 - Example of the Pyramid
161 The Black Cat
161 - Example of the Black Cat
164 The Fateful Dice
164 - Example of the Fateful Dice


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