Newmann, C.A. George: Clever Card Conjuring ©1922 C.A. George Newmann, MN Softcover, stapled manuscript, 8.5x11", 11 pages

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Comments: Not illustrated. Full title, "Clever Card Conjuring with Biseaute or Stripper Cards". An early work in the Stripper or Taper Deck, with some good variations. Many are revelations that could be done with a regular deck.

Contents (from ebook):

1 Prefatory Note: don't belittle the Stripper deck
1 The Stripper Pack, It's Arrangement & Technique
2 Important Rules and Suggestions

3 Stripper Tricks and How to Do Them
3 Red & Black Separation
3 Variation
3 Selected Card Selected by Weight
3 Variation
3 Cutting the Chosen Card
3 The Magnetized Card
4 The Turned Card
4 The Handkerchief Discovery
4 Variation
4 The Egyptian Pocket: card at any number from pocket
4 Producing a Card at a Selected Number
4 Naming the Number of Cards Cut
4 Cutting Any Number Called For
5 The Blown Card: selection blown out of deck
5 The Penetrating Card
5 Variation
5 Cards From the Pocket
5 The Poker Trick
5 The Whist Trick
5 The Mystic Reunion: selections come together
6 The Hypnotic Card
6 The Transfixed Card: using wax
6 Variation
6 Cards Caught In Mid Air At the Finger Tips
6 The Surprise Card Trick: selection ends up in spectator's hand as pack dropped
6 Card Catching On Plate: selection caught on a plate
7 Acrobatic Jacks: vanish from deck into pocket
7 The Four Ace Effect: Aces end up in packet selected by spectator
7 A Mind Reading Trick
7 Triple Mind Reading Effect
8 The Divined Card
8 Variation
8 Mind Over Matter: all cards fall except selection
8 The Animated Card: chosen card moves out from deck on its own
8 The Rising Cards
9 Radio-Psychic Card Trick: clever one-ahead principle
9 Mystic Detection: a knife stab routine

10 Summary
10 Some Final Suggestions
11 Errata
11 Ads: books by the author