Fitzkee, Dariel: The Card Expert Entertains ©1948 Dariel Fitzroy Softcover, perfect-bound, 173 pages Also in Hardcover

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Contents (Updated Jan 2017 - Only main Chapter page numbers are accurate)

9 Foreword

11 Chapter One
11 A Delusion
12 The Card Expert's Secret
12 Good and Bad Tricks
13 Pleasant Ways to Waste Time
13 Magicians As Audiences
14 The Magician's Real Audience
14 Laying Out the Lay Down
15 Something Must Be Added
16 A rule for Selecting Good Tricks
17 What is a Card Expert

18 Chapter Two
18 Few From So Many
20 The Nineteen Basic Card Tricks
21 And Their Combinations
22 Dressing
23 Six Transpositions
24 Five Cunning Disguises

26 Chapter Three
26 Many Sleight of Hand Moves
26 Does the Expert Learn Them All?
27 The Expert's Qualifications Vary With the Viewpoint
27 To The Card Expert
28 To the Magician
28 To the Layman
28 Secret Operations
29 Three Classes of Technique
29 The Mystic Sixteen

30 Chapter Four
30 The Sixteen Accomplishments With Card Moves
30 Identity
31 Whereabouts
31 Substitution
31 Removal
32 Concealment
32 Arrangement
32 Disquise
33 Possession
33 Counting
33 Forcing
34 Searching
34 Miscounting
34 Addiction
35 Reversal
35 Movement
36 Skill
36 Examples

37 Chapter Five
37 It All Seems So Simple
37 Dated Methods
38 Changes Seem to Simplify
38 Methods Depend Upon Character
39 Easter Substitutes
39 A Subtlety
40 Reasons For Variation in Method
41 How To Do It

42 Chapter Six
42 Obsessions, Objections and Observations
43 Elsa Maxwell On Card Tricks
44 Slants on Sleights
44 Interest for the Spectator
45 Sleuthing Unvarnished
45 Stage Setting Shamusry
46 What Can Be Done With Cards
46 Changes In Styles
47 Skill Versus Psychology
47 Making the Sleights Part of the Trick
48 A Suggestion for Confidence

49 Chapter Seven
49 A Different Thirty Card Trick
51The Two-Handed Pass
53 A Simplified Pass
55 The Shuffle Pass
56 The False Shuffle
56 Envelope Placement Steal
57 Envelope Transfer
59 Blonde, Brunette, Redhead

61 Chapter Eight
61 Spell It
63 Fan Jog
64 Charts for Spelling
64 The Trained Dog
65 Presentation

66 Chapter Nine
66 Transposition Extraordinary
67 Transferring the King
68 The Force
69 Tips on Forcing
70 Outs
71 Ideas on Acting
72 Conviction, with and Assist From the Moscow Art Theatre
73 The Top Change
74 The Top Change With Several Cards

75 Chapter Ten
75 Separation
76 How Experts Become Experts
77 Experts are Normal Humans
78 Trying the Impossible
79 Thumb Count from the Bottom
80 The Erdnase Bottom Palm
80 Returning Palmed Cards to the Bottom of the Pack
81 The Bottom Deal
82 Palming

83 Chapter Eleven
83 Card and Envelope
85 Card and Cigarette
86 Double Envelope
87 Indetecto
88 Nail Marking
89 Buried Treasure Presentation

91 Chapter Twelve
91 Cards Mysterio
92 The Crimp
93 Indifferent Card Inserted at Selected Card
94 The Riffle Shift
95 The Second Deal
96 Sympathy in Choice
97 The Mental Fan Force
98 Card Under Foot
99 The Fan Crimp
100 The Thumb Count From Top
101 The Double Lift
102 The Modified Double Change

104 Chapter Thirteen
104 A Pack of Cards and Four Pockets
105 The Arrangement
106 First Effect
106 The Blind Cut
107 One Hand Riffle
108 Second Effect
109 The Pack Arrangement
110 Counting Cards in the Pocket
111 The Sympathetic Cards
112 The Two Handed Double Pass
113 To Shuffle Three Cards From Top to Bottom
114 The Steal Cut
115 The Milk Build Shift
116 The Flesh Grip
117 The Buckley Bottom Shift
118 The Sid Seek Discussion

119 Chapter Fourteen
119 Four Aces
120 The Glide
121 Conjurors' Choice
122 Card Under Hat
123 Envelope Card Steal
124 One Card From Ten
124 Atom Bomb Presentation
125 Is the Card You Thought of There?
125 The Index Fan Sight
126 Slap Cards
126 The Side Steal Color Change
127 Alternatives
127 Selected Card at Any Number
129 The Riffle Force
130 The Two Handed Pass Above Bottom Card

132 Chapter Fifteen
132 Twenty Cards in Transit
133 Hand to Hand Transfer
134 A False Count
135 The Color Change
136 Red or Black
137 Friction
138 A Triple Climax
139 The Slap Shift
140 The Push Up Steal
141 Cards to the Pocket
142 Novelty Legitiamate Count
143 Six Card Palm
144 A False Count
145 The Slilde Vanish

146 Chapter Sixteen
146 The Burglar
148 Secret Removal Between Two Cards
150 Psychic Photography
151 X-Ray
152 Arrangement
153 Stabbing Between Chosen Cards in Wrapped Pack
155 The Bridge
156 Stabbing Chosen Cards While Blindfolded

157 Chapter Seventeen
157 The Mystic Paper Slips
158 A Bullet File
159 From the Pocket
161 System
163 Jordon Plus an Old Arrangement

164 Chapter Eighteen
164 Tricks, Methods and Individuals
166 Substitutions for the Independent
167 Ways and Means
168 Courage and Perseverance

169 Index