Gibson, Walter: The Complete Illustrated Book of Card Magic ©1969 Walter B. Gibson, Doubleday, Garden City, NY Hardcover, w/dj, 7x10", 454 pages Printed in the U.K. by Kaye and Ward, London, 1970

Image courtesy Bryan-Keith Taylor

Comments: Photo illustrated

Contents (courtesy Jacky Kahan at Magicbooks.be):

1 Simplified Card Tricks

1 Triumphant Threes
2 As Many As You
3 Royal Roundup
5 Add-a-Card
6 Predicted Heap
8 Thieves and Sheep
9 Improved Piano Mystery
10 Mental Mastery
11 Double Choice
11 Super Mental Mastery
13 Kings and Queens
14 Royal Marriages
16 Red-Card Prediction
17 Super-Red Prediction
19 Twenty-Seven Trick
20 Fifth Card
21 One Choice in Five
21 One Out of Many
22 Transposed Cards
23 Color Sense
24 Three Color Packets
25 Forty-Nine Cards

29 False Shuffles, Cuts, And Dealing Sleights

29 Ways of Dealing Cards
29 Simple or Reverse Deal
30 Turnup Deal
31 Group Deal
32 End Deals
32 Bottom Draw
32 Cutting the Pack
33 Single Cut
33 Multiple Cut
33 Undercut
34 One-Hand Table Cut
35 Turnover Move
37 Shuffling the Pack
38 Standard Overhand
39 Reverse Overhand
39 Front-and-Back Overhand Shuffle
40 Dovetail Shuffle
41 Outer-Corner Shuffle
41 False Cuts
41 Double Pickup
41 Double Laydown
42 Top-Card Blind
43 Simulated Cut
43 False Three-Heap Cut
44 False Running Cut
45 False Triple Cut
47 False Shuffle Cut
48 False Shuffles
48 False Dovetail
49 Small-Group Dovetail
50 Push-Through Shuffle
51 V Twist
52 Inverted V Twist
52 False Overhand Shuffles
53 Top-to-Bottom Shuffle
53 Double Pullaway
53 Cut Shuffle
54 False Front-and-Back Shuffle
54 False Shuffle Devices
54 In Jog
56 Out Jog
56 Break
58 Second Deal
60 Turnover Second Deal
62 Bottom Deal

64 Basic Sleights

64 Methods of Presenting the Pass
66 Standard Pass
69 Slow-Motion Pass
71 End-over-End Pass
73 Slow-Motion End-over-End Pass
76 Turnover (Herrmann) Pass
79 Delayed Turnover Pass
80 Modified Turnover Pass
82 Charlier Pass
85 Screening the Charlier Pass
85 Turnaway
85 Behind the Back
85 Behind the Arm
86 Right-Hand Screen
86 Full-Front Pass
87 Charlier Turnover
87 How to Palm Cards
87 Top Palm
88 Simple Side Palm
88 Palm Holds
90 Improved Side Palm
91 Side Count
91 Spread Count
91 End Count
92 Spring Palm (Spring Count)
93 Thumb Count
93 End Palm
94 Corner Palm
96 Turnover Palm
96 Second Palm
97 Swivel Palm
98 Bottom Palm
98 Standard Bottom Palm
99 Bottom Count
100 Push-Out
100 Thumb Steal
101 Replacing Palmed Cards
101 Simple Replacement
102 Turnover Replacement
102 Riffle Replacement
102 Drop-On
103 Bulge
104 Pickup
104 Cut Pickup
105 Spread Replacement
105 Ways of Changing a Card
105 Bottom Change
108 From Right to Left
108 Sleeve Change
109 Top Change
111 From Right to Left
111 Top-Change Deal
112 Take-Away Change
114 Concealed Top and Bottom Changes
119 Palm Change
120 Throw Change
122 Spring Change

124 Card Controls

124 Alternatives for the Pass
124 Alternatives for the Standard Pass
124 Sleeve to Sleeve
125 Sleeve Switch
125 Top-Middle-Bottom
126 Revolving Pass
127 Riffle Pass
128 Throw Pass
128 Alternatives for End-over-End
128 Crosswise Bridge
130 Longitudinal Bridge
131 Single Card
132 Double End-Over
133 Forward Drop
134 Push-Back
136 Fan Grip
137 Shuffle Pass
137 Simple Shuffle Pass
138 Reverse Shuffle Pass
139 Special Shuffle Pass
139 Corner Crimp
140 Upward Crimp
141 Downward Crimp
142 Random Card
143 Various Sleights I
143 Half Pass
143 With the Standard Pass
143 With the Turnover Pass
143 With the Modified Turnover Pass
143 With the Charlier Pass
144 Half Flip
144 Turning the Pack
144 Turnover
145 Layover
145 Glimpsing a Card
145 Dovetail Glimpse
146 Shuffle Glimpse
146 Squeeze Glimpse
147 Quick Top Glimpse
148 Expert Glimpse
148 Gambler’s Glimpse
150 Various Sleights II
150 Glide
151 Slip (Slip Cut)
152 Slide
153 Flipover
154 Double Lift
154 Outward Lift
156 Inward Lift
156 Side Lift
157 Remarks on Lifts
157 Triple Lift
158 Thumb-Off
158 Drop
159 Buckle
160 Buckle Count
160 False Count
161 Forcing a Card
162 Standard Force
163 Behind the Back
164 Alternative Procedure
164 Joker Force
165 Variant
165 Face-Front Force
167 Charlier Force
167 Glide Force
168 Cards in the Case
169 Turnover Force
169 Riffle Force
169 With a Short Card
170 Double Deal
171 Double Turnover Force
171 Special Controls
171 Peek
172 Tilt-Back
173 Side-Drop
173 Corner Grip
174 Side Steal
176 Riffle to Pocket
177 Multiple Push-Through
179 Palm Steal
180 How to Switch Packs
180 Simple Pocket Switch
181 Duplex Pocket Switch
181 Two-Pack-Trick Switch
181 Single-Trick Switch
181 Pocket-Handkerchief Switch
182 Handkerchief on Table
182 End Shuffle
182 Basic Shuffle
183 Simple Card Location
185 Flash Force
185 Bottom Glimpse
186 End Shuffle Card Control
187 False End Shuffle
187 End Shuffle Force
188 Top Glimpse

189 Card Discoveries

189 Hit the Deck
189 Knockout
190 Countdown
190 Name the Card
191 Card in Wallet
191 Double Detection
191 Cards Caught in Midair
192 Card Through Handkerchief
192 Handkerchief Repeat
192 Magnetized Card
193 Jumping Card
193 Any Number Down
193 Double Count
193 Turnup Count
194 Calling All Cards
194 Chosen Card Up Sleeve
194 Follow-Up Sleeve
195 Any Number Up
195 Card Finds Card
195 Your Card Is Next
195 Best Card in Pocket
196 Pocket Prediction
197 Baffling Queen
197 Like Seeks Like
198 Three-Card Climax
199 One Chance in Four
200 Third Card
201 Double-Dealer
202 A Neat Card Location
202 Three in a Row
203 Find Five Cards
203 Klip-Kard
204 Card, Clip, and Ribbon
204 Sit-Down Strike

205 Special Tricks

205 Six-Card Repeat
209 Six-Card Repeat Without Extra Cards
211 Twelve Cards Up Sleeve
215 Slap Vanish
215 Packet-to-Packet
219 Reversed Passage
220 Red and Blue Packets
221 Between Ten and. Twenty
223 Thirty-third Card
225 Quick Prediction
226 Do As I Do
227 Shuffle Do As I Do
228 Triple Do As I Do
229 Card Through Handkerchief and Case
230 Phonepathic Card (Super Telephone Telepathy)
233 Twenty-Card Memory
235 Ten-Card Memory

237 Flourishes

237 Spring
239 Spring Location
239 With Additional Cards
240 Another Spring Location
241 Spring Pass
242 Arm Spread
243 Slide-Down
243 Turnover
244 Slide Toss
244 Somersault
245 Turnover Catch
246 Inward Catch
246 Backhand Catch
247 One-Hand Catch
247 Double Catch
247 Shuffled Spread
248 Halfway Turnover Catch
249 Waterfall
250 Electric Pack
250 Fan Sleights
250 One-Hand Fan
251 Fan Production at Elbow
252 Face-Front Fan Production
254 Repeat Fan Production
254 Vanishing Pack
256 Reappearing Fan
258 Card-Fan Pack Switch
259 Fan Force
262 One-Hand Fan Force
263 Fan-Force Location
263 Reverse Fan Sweep
265 Fan-Sweep Location
267 Fan-Sweep Palm
269 Pressure Fan
270 Ornamental Fans
271 Finger Fan
272 Closing the Fan
272 Blank Fan
273 Split Fans
274 Special Fanning Packs
274 Giant Fan
275 Double Fan
275 Wedge (Faro) Shuffle
276 Card Vanishes and Productions
276 Back-and-Front Palm
279 Showing the Back of the Hand
281 Alternative Mode of Transfer
281 Vanish and Reproduction of Additional Cards
285 Six-Card Vanish and Production
286 Continuous Card Production
287 Continuous Fan Production
290 Cards at Finger Tips
291 Snap Production
293 Perfection Card Production

295 Color Changes

295 Perfect Color-Change Routine
295 Thumb Steal Color Change
297 Palm Color Change
298 Color-Change Routine
301 Erdnase Color Change
304 Vertical Color Change
307 Transposed Spot
308 Visible Change
311 Visible Change Routine

316 Full-Pack Tricks

316 With a New Pack
316 Multiple Mentality
317 Three-in-a-Row
318 Cards Foretold
318 Double Detection
319 Seven-Handed Poker
321 Special Setups
321 Pack-to-Pack
322 Suit-for-Suit
324 Alternative Method
325 Red-and-Blue Coincidence
326 Climax Card Change
327 Three-Card Climax
328 Two Minds in Tune
330 Card Foretold
331 Simplex Coincidence
332 Multiple Surprise
333 Divided Packs
333 Red and Black
334 Pairing the Suits
334 Odds and Evens
334 Suits and Values
335 Shuffling and Cutting the Divided Pack
335 With the Dovetail Shuffle
335 With the Overhand Shuffle
335 Cutting the Pack
336 Double Choice
336 One-Way Packs
338 Handling the One-Way Pack
338 Sweep Replacement
338 Turnover Turnabout
339 Dividing the Pack
339 Shuffling the Pack
339 Bringing Turned Cards to Top
340 Setting Up the One-Way Pack
340 Natural Affinity
341 Red-and-Black Baffler
342 Pointer Cards
343 Prearranged Packs
344 Naming a Chosen Card
344 Multiple Detection
345 Suit and Value
345 Three Heaps
346 Concentration
346 Lucky Thirteen
347 Card at Any Number
348 Where Is My Card?
348 Perfect Bridge Deal
349 Faked Packs
349 Peek Deck
350 Naming Chosen Cards
350 Vanished Cards from Pockets
350 Two-Pack Climax
350 Special Speller
351 Notes on Peek Decks
351 Brain Wave Deck
353 Impromptu Brain Wave
354 Follow-Up to Impromptu Brain Wave
355 Alternative Brain Wave
356 Alternative Brain Wave (with Spread-Out)
357 Svengali Pack
358 In the Force
358 When the Pack is Shuffled
358 Display Riffle
359 Fan Discovery
359 Count to Chosen Card
359 Think of a Card
360 Wrapped Pack
360 Unseen Card
360 Reversed Card
360 Card on Chosen Heap
360 Ascending Card
361 Card-Stabbing Climax
361 Svengali Outdone
361 Mene-Tekel Pack
363 Mental Detection
363 Card in Pocket
363 Face-Up Card
364 Face-Up Repeat
364 Red and Blue
365 Two Packets
366 Remote Control
367 Wizard Pack (Strippers)
368 Controlling a Chosen Card
369 Tricks with the Wizard Pack
369 Dropaway Cards
369 Cards Under Handkerchief
369 Four-Ace Deal
369 Cut to Any Number
370 Red-and-Black Fantasy
370 Prediction Pack

372 Special Types Of Tricks

372 Spelling Tricks
372 Triple Mental Speller
373 Alternating Speller
374 Multiple-Speller Mystery
376 Spell It Yourself
377 The Card You Took
378 Shuffled Speller
379 Spelling Bee
380 Joker Speller
381 Countdown Speller
382 Reversed-Card Tricks
382 Single Reversed Card
382 Card-Finder
383 Wrong Is Right
383 Double Turnup
384 Double Reversal
385 Half and Half
386 Ace Tricks
386 Four Aces
387 Standard Four-Ace Trick
389 Sucker Aces
390 Riffled Aces
392 Four-Ace Countdown
393 Four-Ace Quickie
393 De Land’s Four-Ace Trick
394 Turnover Aces
395 Four Aces-Four Jacks
398 Face-Up Four-Ace Trick
402 Red Aces-Black Aces
402 Two-Ace Roundup
405 Returnable Ace
406 Rising Cards
406 Simple Rising Card
407 Rising Card from Case
407 Fan Rise
409 Center Rise
409 Rising Card Through Handkerchief

411 Dealing Tricks

411 Gambling Tricks
411 Three-Jack Deal
411 Original Version
412 Improved Version
412 Terrific Jack Trick
413 Super-Terrific Jacks
413 The Wise Old Gambler
415 The Smart Young Gambler
417 Perfect Poker Deal
417 Special Deals
417 All Cards Alike
421 Assembly of Aces
422 Corner on Kings
427 Methods of Gamblers
428 Gambler’s Overdeal
429 Switching the Hand
430 Running Up the Hand
432 Culling and Stocking
434 Slide-Under Cut
436 Slide-Over Cut

438 Prepared-Card Tricks

438 Any Card Called For
439 Flight to Pocket
440 It Couldn’t Happen
441 Called Choices
441 Corner Card Locator
442 Any Number Down
443 Reversed Corner Locator
444 Naming Front Cards
445 Any Number Up
446 Gold-Seal Mystery
447 Naming the Card
448 Transposed Cards
449 Mysterious Queen
449 Triple Pinochle
450 Thieves and Sheep (with Prepared Cards)
451 Six-Card Repeat (with Prepared Cards)
452 Short Card
453 Mystic Countdown
453 Seventeenth Card
454 Flyaway Card

455 Illustrated Glossary-Index