Desmond, Graham: How To Entertain
With A Trick Pack Of Playing Cards ©1970s (circa) Graham Desmond Softcover, saddle-stitched, 16 pages |
Image courtesy eBay seller MrBillyEsq |
Comments: "A Complete Introduction To The Famous Master Pack With Directions For Teaching The Performance Of Twenty-Six Tricks." I believe the Master Pack is the more commonly known as the Svengali Deck of Cards.
Contents (Partial contents only, missing pages):
2 The Assets of Conjuring
2 Easy or Difficult
2 Advice About Practice
3 Personality and Showmanship
3 Getting Over Mistakes
4 Reference Guide to Important Information
6 Introduction to the Master Pack of Specially Processed Playing
Cards
6 How to Determine the Top Front Card on Face of Deck
7 How to Show Master Pack Has a Normal-Looking Deck
7 How to Show Master Pack all looking like One Card
7 A Special Shuffle with the Master Pack
7 How to Learn the Art of Spreading the Cards
7 How to Spread the Cards to Show Them All Different
8 First Series of Suggested Tricks Using the Master Pack
8 - The Force
8 - The Jump
8 - The Cutting Effect
8 - The Vanishing Cards
8 - The Find
8 - The Optical Illusion
9 Second Series of Suggested Tricks Using the Master Pack
9 - The Quick Change Shuffle
9 - The Card in the Middle
9 - The Semi-Vanish
9 - The Travelling Cards
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13 Individual Card Tricks
12 Close Up Trick
13 Comedy Trick
14 The Key Card Through the Pack
14 The Two-Way Choice
15 The Card in the Packet - Stage or Close-Up
15 The Count Down - Stage or Close-Up
15 The Follow-My Leader Effect
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