Okal, Bill: Card Magic ©1982 Bill Okal, Paragon-Reiss, NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 6x9", 175 pages ISBN: 0-91099-00-0

Image courtesy Bryan-Keith Taylor

Comments: "Complete with illustrated instructions and suggested patter to transform the novide into an expert"

Contents (from book ToC):

xiii Preface

1 Ethics For A Magician

3 The Presentation Of Magic

5 The Basics
5 Spreading the Cards for a Selection
6 Spreading the Cards Faceup
6 Spreading the Cards on the Table
7 Straight Cut
7 Straight-Out Principle
8 False Shuffle
9 False Cut
10 Squaring the Deck
10 Index or Index Comer
11 Pip or Spot
11 Spot Card
11 Face Card
11 Court Card
12 Faceup and Facedown
12 Reversing a Card
12 Overhand Shuffle
13 Riffle Shuffle
15 The KEY CARD
16 The Magic of 7
17 Fingerprint Test
18 Stop Anywhere
18 That’s It—1
20 The Revolution

23 Key-Card Variations
23 The Spectator Does It—1
24 Magnetic Attraction
26 I Use My Sleeves
26 The Queen of Spies
27 Cards of Affinity
27 Expression Test—1
28 Expression Test—2
30 Turn Over
30 Devilish Cards
31 Chinese Prophet
32 The Circus Trick

35 Advanced Key-Card Mysteries
35 With a Blindfold
39 Finding Three Cards
39 Do as I Do
40 Do as I Do Plus
41 Key-Card Prediction
42 Finding Four Cards
42 Triplicate Mystery
43 A Novel Key - What to Do If
44 What to Do If It Happens Again

45 Mental Mysteries
45 Psychic Spectators
46 Three of a Mind
47 Think of Any Card
48 Predetermination
49 Two More
50 Guesstimation
50 The Four 5s
52 Which Hand?
53 An Impossibility

55 Gags And Stunts
55 Most Magicians - Gag or Miracle?
56 Walk through a Card
58 Levitation of Playing Cards

61 Gambling Tricks
61 Fast-Fingered Fran
62 You Can’t Win
63 Swindle Deal
65 Poker Power
66 Royal Flush

69 Two-Person Telepathy
69 The Psychic Assistant
71 Ace Telepathy
72 Supreme Telepathy Test

75 Novel Card Mysteries
75 My First Card Trick
77 Twenty-One Cards
78 A Sense of Touch
79 Birds of a Feather
80 Sympathetic Cards
81 Reversed
82 Oops!
83 Bottom Deal
83 Look Ma, No Hands
85 Variation
86 In My Pocket—1
86 In My Pocket—2
87 The Lie Detector
88 Acrobatic Jacks
90 Reading a Pack of Cards
90 New-Era Card Reading
91 Telephone Trickery—1
93 Telephone Trickery—2
94 Mail-Order Magic

97 Spelling Tricks
97 Spell Your Name
98 Spell It
99 Double Speller
100 Telepathy Spell

103 Swindles
103 Three-Ace Swindle
105 The World’s Fastest Trick
105 The Piano Trick
107 Down-and-Under Swindle
108 Fingers that See in the Dark

111 Tricks With Prearranged Cards
111 Within the Hearts
112 Preordination
114 Sensitive Fingertips
115 Red-and-Black Supermystery
115 Color Clairvoyance
118 It’s the Only One
119 The Cards Know
120 Keep Dealing
121 No-Arrangement Arrangement
121 Simplicity

123 The Prearranged Pack
124 Any Number Named
125 Do as I Do—Variation
125 Five to One
126 X-Ray Vision

127 Tricks With A One-Way Deck
128 Elimination
129 Instant Mind Reading
129 A Card Thought of
131 Quintessential
132 Calling the Colors
132 Draw to Win
132 Dealing Aces
133 Card Stab
135 Calculation Tricks
135 Can You Do a Trick?
136 The Magic Of
137 The Spectator's Trick
138 Countdown Mystery
139 Over and Over
140 Mathematical Certainty
140 Coincidentally
142 A Card At Any Number
142 Astounding Prediction
143 The Spectator Does It-2
144 At Twenty
144 Your Move
147 The Whole-Deck Trick
151 Pocket Magic

153 Unique Revelations
153 the Spectator Finds the Card
154 The Divining Cards
155 In Your Hand
156 The Spectator’s Choice
157 Penetration
159 That’s It—2
160 The Rising Card
161 A Message from the Flames

165 International Brotherhood of Magicians Pledge
167 Bibliography
169 About the Author
171 Index