Jonson, Wilfrid: But Not to Play ©1946 George Johnson Magic Publications, London Hardcover, 116 pages plus index

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Comments: A Practical Course of Instruction in the Fundamentals of Conjuring with Cards. From the preface: "The aim of this book is to describe within the bounds of one volume the fundamental sleights and stratagems which are the tools of the modern card conjurer, and to illustrate the use of these tools by a representative selection of tricks with cards."

Contents (courtesy TheMagicFiles.com - no longer active)

i Preface

5 Part I: Preliminary
5 The Art of Conjuring
7 The Cards
7 Learning and Practising
9 The Illustrations
9 Patter
11 Three Ways of Shuffling
11 The Overhand Shuffle
11 The Waterfall Shuffle
14 The Riffle Shuffle

15 Part II: Take a Card
15 Take a Card
15 The Undercut
16 The Jonson Undercut
16 A Chinese Card Trick
18 Think Stop
18 The Bottom Crimp
19 The Covered Pack
20 The Corner Crimp
21 The Royal Finders (Merlin)
22 The End Bridge
22 The Throw Discovery
23 The Riffle Count
23 The Card at Any Number
24 The Double Lift
24 The Double Turnover
25 The Click
25 The Card on the Wall
26 The Jog Shuffle
26 The Top Stock Shuffle
27 The Bottom Stock Shuffle
27 The Shuffle Control
28 The Jonson Shuffle Control
28 The Jumping Card (Sid Lorraine)
30 The Count Control
31 An Error Corrected (Edward Victor)
32 The Pass
34 The Force
34 The Fan Force
35 The Count Down Force
36 Behind The Back
36 The Rising Cards
38 Palming
39 The Jog Palm
39 The Third Finger Palm
39 The Little Finger Palm
40 The Riffle Palm
40 The Side Steal
40 The Erdnase Bottom Palm (SW Erdnase)
41 The Thumb Palm
41 The Centre Palm
41 The Diagonal Palm
42 The Torn Card
43 The Card in the Cigarette
45 The Card in the Orange
47 The Autographed Torn Card (Eugene Laurant)
48 With A Borrowed Pack (H. St. C. Elliott-Jean Hugard)
48 The False Riffle Shuffle
49 Stop
50 The Spring
50 The Ruffle and Spring
50 The Charlier Pass
53 Spelling the Cards
53 The Alternative Spell
54 The Riffle Spell
54 The Jog Spell
54 Spelling the Selector
55 The Double Spell
55 Ornamental Fans
56 The Spring Fan
56 The Finger Fan
56 The Blank Fan
57 The Right Hand Fan
57 The Left Hand Fan
57 The Fan Location
58 The Reversed Card
58 Turn Over (Ralph W. Hull)
58 The Repeated Turn Over
59 The Vernon Turnover (Dai Vernon)
59 The Card Through the Handkerchief
60 The Egyptian Pocket (Alexander Herrmann-Wilfrid Jonson)
62 Card Throwing
63 The Boomerang
64 The Flying Queen (Gene Gordon)
64 Catching Two Cards
65 The Lost Card

67 Part III: Other Themes
67 Four Aces
67 Have You Seen the Four Ace Trick? (GW Hunter)
68 The Bertram Four Ace Trick (Charles Bertram)
70 The Glide
71 The Flip
71 The Top Change
72 The Bottom Change
72 Colour Changes
72 The Side Steal Colour Change
72 The Thumb Palm Colour Change
73 The Slide Colour Change
73 The Collins-Jonson Aces (Stanley Collins-Wilfrid Jonson)
77 The Flourish Count
77 The Jog Four Aces
78 The Run
79 The Spread
80 The Run and Spread
80 A Sharper's Swindle
81 The Half Spread
81 The Salvin Spread (Jack Salvin)
82 The Corner Peep
83 Jack Salvin's Five Card Trick (Jack Salvin)
83 The Spring Break
84 Sympathetic Cards
84 Do As I Do
84 Both Do As I Do
85 Twin Choices
86 Sympathy (Dai Vernon)
86 The Four Heap Cut
88 The Four Heaps
88 The Hindoo Shuffle
89 All Two's
91 The Three Card Trick
92 The Bottom Lift Change
92 The Slip Cut
93 Everywhere and Nowhere

95 How to Play Cards or How Not to Play Cards
95 Four of a Kind
96 The Bottom Deal
97 Nap
98 Poker (Dai Vernon)
99 The Assistant Conjures
100 Duet with Cards
101 The Flip Flop Cut (Billy O'Connor)
101 The Thirty Card Trick
105 False Counting
106 The Cards up The Sleeve

111 Part IV: Conclusion
111 Routines
112 Finding the Joker
112 The Rising Joker
113 Hints to Card Players
113 The Climbing Card
114 Stacking the Pack
115 Changing the Pack