Eldin, Peter: The Most Excellent Book of How to Do Card Tricks ©1996 Aladdin Books Ltd. Hardcover, no dj, 8.5x8.5" 32 pages ISBN: 978-1596041264 New Edition ©2007 Stargazer Books, MN

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Comments: Illustrated by Rob Shown. Colorful art and photographs. Other titles in the series include How to be a Clown, How to be a Magician, How to be a Juggler, How to be a Puppeteer, and How to be a Cheerleader.

Contents  (from New Edition book):

3 Introduction
4 Tricks Of The Trade: caring for your cards
6 Fancy Work
6 - Swivel Cut
7 - Forefinger Cut
7 - Quick Turnover
8 May The Force Be With You
8 - Any Number
9 - Mathematical Force
10 Quick Change: with a gimmicked card
11 Turn Around: using an inherent one way feature
12 Spots Before Your Eyes: the number of spots on a jumbo card change
14 The Mischievous Joker: changes to another card, using a gimmick
16 Jump!: chosen card jumps from the deck
18 Word Power: card spelling
19 Top Dog: the Ace returns to the top of the deck
20 Sticky Fingers: a bunch of cards adhere to the hand
22 Through The Middle: one card penetrates another
23 Seeing With Your Fingers: using the peek
24 The Balancing Card: glass balances on a card
25 The Card Vanishes: chosen card vanishes from deck
26 Manuscript Magic: ancient text reveals a selection
28 Boxing Clever: card to matchbox
29 One Way To Do It: one way deck principle
30 The Disappearing Queen: card vanish using gimmicked cards
32 Card Trick Words & Index