Miller, Gordon: Anthology of Card Magic ©1989 Abbott Magic Co., Colon, MI Softcover, saddle-stitched, 8.5x11", 263 pages

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Comments: The Anthology of Card Magic was originally published in 1968 in a series of three volumes. This 1989 edition combines all three volumes into a single book.

This anthology contains the complete text of the following:
Advanced Card Magic (Albright)
49 Easy Card Tricks
Deceptions With a Short Card (Casaubon, Dr. George E.)
Hit the Deck (F.V. Schoneck)
How It's Done (Litzau): Roughing Fluid, Slicking Paste, Narrow (short or stripper cards), Marking Cards, Shading Inks, Luminous Work, Fanning Powder, etc.)
Impromptu Card Routine (Herb Rungie)
Jumbo Card Tricks (Grant/Joseph)
Magic Card System (Si Stebbins/Abbott's)
Tricks With a One Way Deck (Abbott's)
Amazing Card Miracles (Mahendra)
Card System Deluxe (H. Adrian Smith)
Klever Kard Kodes (Albright)
As well as many single effects that were previously sold separately:
Abbott's Ten
Astral Diviner (Eddie Joseph)
Blankety-Blank Routine (Albright)
Cardtration
Color I-Do-As-U
Gambler's Expose Act (U.F. Grant)
Ingenio (Yates)
It's a Pip (Caryl S. Fleming & Charles W. Fricke)
Lesson in Card Magic (Jack Shepherd)
Quadruple Poker Deal (M.F. Zens)
Simplex Four Aces (U.F. Grant)
Straight Gambler (Lynn Searles)
Think-It
Tricky Deal
Zens Card Miracle
Zens Fifteen Card Trick

Contents (from book):

Unique Card Magic

1 Miracle Impalement
3 Kwik-Cut (Howard P. Albright)
5 Cardomatic (Stewart James)
5 Climax Three-Card Trick
5 - The Master Move
6 - The Routine
6 - Part One- Find The Lady
6 - Impossible 3-Card Trick
7 - The Queen Disappears
7 - All Queens
8 Slow-Motion Pass
8 Fortune Telling Card Trick
11 Confuso Card Trick (Howard 'Mel' Melson)
11 Think-It
12 - Method No. 2
12 - Method No. 3
12 - Suggested Patter
13 Series Of Mistakes (Lesta)
13 All Do As I Do
15 You're Mistaken
16 Color I-Do-As-U
17 Red And Blue En Rapport (Albright)
18 Red And Blue Sympathetic Flight (Albright)
19 Astounding Coincidence (Albright)
20 Blankety-Blank Routine (Albright)
23 The Persistent Card (Albright)
25 - The Slip Force
25 - The Slip Back
26 The Mind Of Mephistopheles (Albright)
27 Intuition Or What? (Albright)
28 Mental Power (Albright)
30 Surprise Speller (Albright)
31 The Educated Cards (Albright)
32 Peculiarities Of The Pasteboards (Albright)
35 - The Slip Cut
35 - Double Lift

Tricks With Special Cards

37 Tricks With a One Way Deck (Abbott's)
37 The Principle
38 Special Note: set the deck in front of spectators
38 Simple Triple Location
38 No Dice
38 Vanishing Mirror
38 Marked Deck
38 Fingerprint Discovery
38 Living & Dead Test
39 Odd Or Even
39 Color Monte
39 Sure Location
40 Count Down Discovery
40 Siamese Twins
40 Detective Jack
40 Find The Lady
41 Call Me Up Sometime
41 Miracle
41 Thought Transference
42 Say When
42 Nif-Trix
42 Excuse My Back
43 Any Card Thought Of
43 Think Stop

44 Change-It Card Trick
44 Short And Sweet (Percy Abbott)
45 Four Ace Trick
46 Card Capers
47 15 Card Trick - The Miracle Pocket to Pocket Trick (Zens)
50 Passe-Pass
52 Marked Man
53 Shake-Up Card Trick
54 How To Make Narrow, Short And Stripper Cards
55 Sure Card Stabber (George Boston)
 
55 Deceptions With A Short Card (George E. Casaubon)
55 Definitions And Types Of Short Cards
57 Short Tips On The Short Card
57 Positions Of The Hands
57 Manner Of Riffling
57 Types Of Cards
57 Other Tips
58 Short Card Location
58 Friendly Cards
59 Heavy Cards
59 Light Cards
60 Light & Heavy Cards
60 Expert Thumb-Counter
61 Miracle In Reverse
61 Guardians Of The Castle
61 Diamond King
63 Expert Card Stabber
63 Ubiquitous Card
64 Trials In The Dark
65 Orderly Card
66 From Pack To Pack
66 Variation: Sight & Touch
67 Another Variation: Removal Detection
67 Mystic Seven
67 Back To Back
68 Expert Poker Dealer
68 Card Calling
69 Reverso Cavalcade
70 Remarkable Eye
70 Card Spacing
71 Master Mind Reader
71 Card Prediction
72 Cards From Bottom To Top
73 Buried Cards
73 Royal Triangle
75 Finding The Twins
75 Short Card Pot-Pourri

76 Roughing Fluid (Edward A. Litzau)
77 Roughing Fluid Formula (Litzau) 77
77 How To Apply Roughing Fluid (Litzau) 77
77 The Card You Must Think Of 77
77 Dr. Rothbart's Four Ace Trick (Laszlo Rothbart) 77

78 Card Miracle (Zens)
80 Kings And The Queen

81 It's a Pip - The Secret Revealed (Caryl S. Fleming & Charles W. Fricke)
81 Pip Paint (Fleming & Fricke)
81 Pip Paint Formula (Fleming & Fricke)
81 Applying Pip Paint (Fleming & Fricke)
81 Altering The Cards (Fleming & Fricke)
82 Tricky Jack
82 Kavorting Kings
83 Chameleon
83 Pip Card To Wallet (Ed Marlo)
84 - Giant Card Version
84 Pip Sucker Gag (Marlo)
85 Deuces Wild (Stephen Simpson)
85 The Black Pair (William Meyers)
86 Black Maria (William Van Zandt)
87 The Seeing Eye (Don C. Bay)
87 Flight Of The Spots (Van Zandtl)
88 Favorite Uses For Pip Paint (J. Dobrovolski)
88 The Traveling Pips
89 Two More Uses (Phil Smith)
89 Pip Stencil (Alvin R. Plough)
89 Before Your Eyes (Marlo)
90 The Same Difference (Jack Vosburgh)

92 Fanning Powder (Litzau)
92 Applying Zinc Stearate (Litzau)
92 Cleaning The Cards (Litzau)

93 Gambling and Magic

93 Straight Gambler (Lynn Searles)
95 Tricky Deal
96 Quadruple Poker Trick (M.F. Zens)
100 Gambler's Expose Act (U.F. Grant)
102 - Blindfold Deal 102
103 - The Drunk Plays Bridge (Albright) 103
103 Winning At Gin Rummy (F.V. Schoneck)
104 Hole Card Wild (Schoneck)
105 Cards Of Unrest (Schoneck)

106 Card Laboratorium (Litzau)
106 Slicking Paste
106 - Formula 106
106 - Applying 106
106 - Substitute 106

107 Marking Cards With Ink  (Litzau)
107 Blackout Ink
107 Red Blockout Ink Formula
107 Blue Blackout Ink Formula
107 Applying Blackout Ink
108 Block out Ink Blender Formula
108 Polishing The Cards
108 Blockout Work
109 Dot, Dash, Scroll & Line Work
109 Line Shading Work
110 Shading Inks
110 Red Shading Ink Concentrate
110 Blue Shading Ink Concentrate
110 Applying Shading Ink
110 Shading Line Work
111 White Ink
111 Cutout Ink
111 Cutout Ink Formula
111 Applying Cutout Ink
112 Cutout Ink Work
112 Caring For Brushes & Pens
112 Luminous Ink
113 Luminous Ink Formula
113 Crayon Pencil Substitute

113 Daub (Litzau)
113 Red Daub
114 Blue Daub
114 Green Daub
114 Metallic (Removable) Daub
114 Metallic Daub
114 Applying Daub

115 Clever Card Conjuring

115 "Nine" Speller
115 Spelling The Deck
116 X-Ray Eyes (Rothbart)
116 Heartbeat
116 The Card Shark
116 A Sandwich Effect
117 Magic "Q" Trick
117 The Surgeon General
117 Time Change
118 Your Chance (Rothbart)
118 Please Mr. Postman
118 Two-Faced
118 Down On The Corner
119 Automatic Card Trick
119 Odd And Even
119 Mystic Seven
119 Blanko Reverso (Rothbart)
121 Card Force
121 Darn Clever
121 Magic Jacks
122 Sweetheart
122 Rising Cards (Rothbart)
123 A Helping Hand
123 Color Flight
123 It Comes Out Here
124 Up Your Sleeve
124 The Performer Can't Be Wrong!
125 The Banana Man
125 Easy Card Location
125 No-Sleight Force
125 Tearing The Pack Stunt
126 Whispering Queen
126 Ambitious Card (Rothbart)
127 E-Z Card On Ceiling
127 Lemon-Aid
127 Cards From Pocket
127 More Cards From Pocket
127 Fooler
128 The Card You Thought Of (Rothbart)
128 Fingerprints
129 E-Z Telephone Stunt
129 Naming The Top Card
129 Reverse Detector
129 Count Your Card
130 Good For Repeat
130 Wizard's Favorite Trick
131 An Earful
131 Blindfold Mystery (Rothbart)
132 Bottoms Up!
133 Neatness Counts
133 Mental Reversal
133 Reversal Mental
133 Sucker! Sucker!
133 Easy Four-Ace Trick
134 Diamond Cutter
134 Stick It
135 Initially Yours
135 Mene Tekel
136 All Together Now
136 Out Of The Hat
136 The Nose Knows
136 Blank Expression
136 One In Fifty-Two
136 The "Stranger" Card
136 Police Report
137 Card Revelation
137 Tricky Discovery
138 Who's Wrong?
138 Three Card Selection
138 Knock! Knock!
138 Make The Collar
139 Pierce Your Card (Rothbart)
139 Pips Show Where
139 Reversing Card
139 Super Card Sensation
140 Find Your Card (Rothbart)
141 The Invisible Man
141 To Vanish The Selected Card
141 Think Stop
141 The Card Cheat
142 You Are A Conjurer (Rothbart)
142 A Pane In The Glass
142 That's Right!
142 Mathemagic?
142 Magic Five Pile Trick
143 Telepathic Trick
143 Tap-A-Card
143 I'll Tell You (Rothbart)
144 Rising Card Effect
144 Rising Card From Glass
144 Cat's Eyes
145 Another Sucker Trick (Rothbart)
145 Time Delay
145 Switcheroo
145 Chalk It Up!
145 All-Seeing Eye
146 Inn Keeper's Problem
146 Penetration
147 Divination
147 Finding Two Selected Cards
147 Brain Teaser
148 Matchless

149 Tricks With Pre-Arranged Decks

149 The Magic Card System (Si Stebbins)
149 - Rules That Make It Work
149 - Shuffling
149 - Numerical Value of Each Card
149 - The Joker
149 - Position
149 - Position as to Suits
150 - Effect Number One
150 - Effect Number Two
151 - Effect Number Three
151 - Effect Number Four
152 - Effect Number Five
154 - Effect Number Six
154 - Effect Number Seven
154 - Effect Number Eight
154 - Effect Number Nine
155 - A Pseudo Mind Reading Trick

155 Card System Deluxe (H. Adrian Smith)
156 - Personal Requirements
156 - An Outline of the System
157 - The Table of Fixed Ideas
158 - The Table of Fixed Ideas for Playing Cards
159 - Associaton of Ideas
160 - Recalling the Cards
160 - A Typical Example
161 - Some Variations
161 - Strengthening the Association
162 - Some Suggestions
162 - Memorizing a List of Objects
162 - Key Words for Other Systems
163 - A Method for a Set-Up Deck

163 The Evolution Of A Dream (James)

165 A Lesson In Card Magic (Jack Shepherd)
165 - The First Trick
166 - The Second Trick
167 - The Third Trick
168 - The Fourth Trick

169 Spell Of Mystery (James)

169 Amazing Card Miracles (M.S. Mahendra)
169 Design For Wrist Watch Gimmick
170 Using The Calculator For Prearranged Deck
170 The Arrangement
171 Mechanics Of The Arrangement
172 To Openly Arrange A Strange Deck
173 Arrangement Of The Deck
174 Perfect False Shuffle
174 Hugh Johnston False Shuffle
174 Charles T. Jordan False Cut
175 Lightning Card Counter
176 Tables Of Short Cuts
176 When Cards Are Of The Same Suit
176 When Cards Are Of The Same Color But Of Opposite Suits
177 When Cards Are Of Opposite Suit And Color
177 For Cards Of Opposite Color Or Suit
177 Patter For Counting Cards
178 Human Scales
179 Strange Powers Of The Joker
179 Patter Routine Number Two
180 Another Presentation
180 Phantom Card Game
182 Another Patter Routine For The Phantom Poker Game
183 Read My Mind
184 Card Locations
184 Positive Thought Control

187 Novel Card Magic

187 Impromptu Card Routine (Herb Rungie): A sequence of seven card effect with unprepared cards
187 Any Number - Getting Rid of the Joker
188 Undercover Aces - Making Use of the Aces
190 Birthday Card Deductions - Making Use of the Noted Card Second From the Bottm
191 Half And Half - Making Use of the Joker
193 Spelling The Card - Setting the Deck for the Prediction Climax
194 Whispering Queen - Making Use of the Spectator's Spelled Card
195 Prediction Climax - Making Use of the Noted Card Tenth from the Top
196 The False Overhand Shuffle

197 Lack Lite (James)
197 Rapid Flight Cards (Joe Karson)
198 All Fair Card Trick (Frank Shepherd)
199 A Chinaman's Chance (James)
200 Flyto-Card (Albright)
201 Certain Card Trick (Richard Durham)
202 A Day At The Races (Mel Stover)
 
203 Jumbo Card Tricks (Grant)
204 Reversed Card
204 Useful Force
204 Shrinking Jumbo
204 Suggestion
204 Turn Around Card
204 Burning A Woman Alive
205 Message From The Flames
205 Mental Test
205 To Make A Deck Of Strippers
205 Stripper Deck Trick
205 Two Card Monte
206 Premeditation With a Special Deck
206 Rising Card Trick
206 Change With A Double Face Card
207 Up Pops A Card
207 Message From The Dead
207 Coincidence
207 Red And Blues
208 Chinese Card Trick
208 Fly-To Cards
208 Torn & Restored Jumbo
209 Do As I Do
209 Cards In Pocket
209 Three Cards And A Ribbon
210 Another Double Face
210 The Rub Off

210 Dial M For Magic (Jack Yates)
211 Simplex Four Ace Trick (Grant)
212 Torn Card Trick (Grant)
213 Freedom Of The Seize (James)
214 This Is Your Card (George Coon)
214 Cardecto (Billy Hamilton)
215 Latest Card Find (Tom Hamilton)
217 Thirty Cards (Abbott)
219 Passe Passe Cards
220 Cards Do Not Lie (Schoneck)
221 Impromptu Daub (Schoneck)
222 Miracle From Smoke (Schoneck)
222 Miracle From Smoke #2 (Schoneck)
222 Spellino (Grant)
223 Spellino Follow-Up (Grant)
223 Spellino Climax (Grant)
224 The Mid-Nite Marvel (Grant)
225 Out Of The Stack (Grant)
225 Reversed Card Variation (Grant)
226 A New Double Location (Grant)
226 How Far Down? (Grant)
227 Lucky Number (Albright)
227 Triple Stop Disclosure (Albright)
228 The Goofy Card (Albright)
229 Coin Cutter (Albright)

231 Mental Card Magic

231 Thought-Of Card From Pocket (Rothbart): First Method
231 - Second Method
232 Telephone Directory Test (Rothbart)
233 The Medium Knows It (Rothbart)
234 - Second Method
234 Mental Selection (Rothbart)
235 Double Denouement (Schoneck)
236 Mental Reverse (Schoneck)
236 The Incredible Prediction (Schoneck)
237 Four Card Finale (Schoneck)
238 Cardtration
239 - Second Version
239 Cabalistic Chronology (James)
240 Think-A-Card (John Scarne)
241 The Scarne Pellet Switch
242 Miracle Mix-Up (Yates)
244 Abbott's Ten (Abbott)
245 The Astral Diviner (Eddie Joseph)
247 Ingenio (Yates)
248 Impossible (Joseph)

248 Klever Kard Kodes (Albright)
249 The Elimination Code
250 Method No. 1 Sound Transmission System
250 Singals and Responses for the Elimination Code
251 Method No. 2 Sound Transmission System
251 Method No. 3 Sound Transmission System
252 Method No. 4 Silent Transmission System
252 Head Signals Chart No. 3
252 Method No. 5 The Eyes
252 Method No. 6 The Hands
252 Method No. 7 The Body
253 Method No. 8 The Cigarette
253 Method No. 9 The Foot
253 Method No. 10 Touch Transmission
253 Method No. 11
253 Method No. 12 At The Card Table
254 Method No. 13 The Palpitator Or Plate Lifter
254 Method No. 14 A Thread
254 The Combination Code
254 Method No. 15 Eye Signals
255 Method No. 16 Head Signals
255 Method No. 17 The Instantaneous Code
255 Suit Indicators Chart No. 4
256 Method No. 18 The Confederate Code
256 Method No. 19 The Group Code (Silent)
257 Method No. 20 The Group Code (By Sound)
257 Suit By Sound (Riffle Shuffle)
257 Group By Sound (Of Cut)
257 Card In Group (By Sound Of Thumb Riffle)
258 Long Distance Codes
258 Method No. 21 Sequence Systems
259 Method No. 22 The Bent Corner Code
259 Method No. 23 The Fooler For Magicians
259 Suit Code
260 Method No. 24 The Missing Card Code
260 Method No. 25 The Pellet Code
260 Method No. 26 The Nail Mark Code
261 Method No. 27 The Card Case Code
261 Method No. 28 The Mentalist's Secret
261 Card Table Codes
261 Method No. 29 The Placement Code
262 Method No. 30 The Poker Player's Code
262 Manner Of Holding Cigar
263 Method No. 31 The Kibitzer's Code
263 Suggestions
263 - Marked Cards
263 - Learn Several Codes
263 - Other Applications
263 - Build Your Own Code