Klutz (Pat Murphy & Michael Stroud, editors): Card Trickery ©2008 Klutz, CA Hardcover, comb-bound, 65 pages ISBN: 978-1-59174-247-0

Image courtesy Don's Magic and Books

Comments: Cartoon and photo illustrated. Came with a deck of bridge-sized cards and two gimmicked cards. "Throw, fan, flourish, spot cheaters and do magic with cards".

Contents: (from book):

4 Read This First
4 Our Rating System: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
5 About Your Cards
5 Vocabulary: Squaring the deck, cutting the cards

7 Throwing Cards
8 The Ever So Easy Tap & Spin
9 Your First Challenge - Catching It
10 Getting Started - Boomerang Spin
12 Going Further - Boomerang Spin
13 Zen and the Art of Throwing Cards
14 Hat-Toss Game

17 Shuffles, Fans & Flourishes
17 - Mechanics Grip, Biddle Grip
18 Ribbon Spread
20 Fancy Ribbon Work
22 Springing the Cards
25 One-Hand Fan
26 One-Hand Cut
28 Honest Overhand Shuffle
29 Riffling the Cards
30 Dovetail Shuffle
32 Riffle Shuffle With Waterfall Finish

35 How to Spot Cheaters
36 Not-So-Honest Dovetail Shuffle
37 Not-So-Honest Overhand Shuffle
38 Beating the Cut
39 Sneaky Peaking
40 A Field Guide to Card Sharks
40 - Double Dealer
41 - Number-Two
42 - Cellar Dealer
43 - The Cooler
43 - Team Scheme
44 - Paper Worker
45 - Glim Worker
45 - Marked Cards

46 Envelope With Special Cards

47 Magic With Cards
48 Hide & Seek: Two card Monte
50 Mystery Flip: deck put face to face rights itself
51 Which Way Is Up?: selections appear face up in the deck
53 - Oops! I Lost My Trick Card: alternate method
54 Circus Swindle: the next card I turn over...
56 Levitating Card: selection rises from deck
58 Feel the Beat: selection located using spectator's pulse
61 Alex's Double Crisscross (Alex Ramon: spectator cuts to matching cards
62 What's Next?

64 Can't Get Enough?: more books from Klutz
65 Acknowledgements