Ireland, L.L.: Card Annual Volume One ©1956 Ireland Magic Co., Chicago, IL Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x.8.5", 24 pages

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 Comments: From the intro: "Each, year in our gathering together of material for the Yearbook, we find many card tricks are submitted - far more than we can use in the Yearbook if we are to keep it the book of wide variety it has always been. It occurred to us that our readers might enjoy an all-card annual as well as the regular Yearbook, and we hereby begin such a series." Magic Inc. combined the 1956 and 1957 Annuals into a single volume "Card Tricks for Cardicians" in 1972 (listed separately).

Contents: (from book ToC, updated with descriptions 6/2023):

3 Slow Motion Nudist Pack (John Derris): a blank deck develops faces and then backs
7 Ten Knights in a Card Room (Bill Hendricks): comedy poker routine
7 - Second Presentation
8 Color Change Illusion with Cards (Everett Lyda): chosen card turns blue backed and then back to red
9 New Three Card Monte Move (Victor Comello): to incorporate into your routine
10 All Fair Card Transposition (Jack Avis): card in pocket transposes with a second selection
12 Cardlepathy (Theo Dore): an ESP-type revelation using regular cards and a special mat
13 All Fair Hallucination (Jack Avis): two spectators choose the same card
15 Switchless Switch (Edward Marlo): an approach to E.G. Brown's Mental Card Transposition
19 - Second Effect: applied to a Four Ace trick
20 - Third Effect: applied to a color transposition
21 - Additional Technique for the Switchless Switch
22 Utility Prediction (Victor Comello): versatile card move, here applied to a prediction
23 Sympathetic Card Miracle (Roy E. Smith): magician's and spectator's selection appear at same location in two parts of the deck