Collns Pentz: Card Tricks You Will Like
Pentz, Collins: Card Tricks You Will Like
©1935 Collins Pentz, MN
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.75x7.25", 19 pages plus ads
Pentz: Card Tricks You Will Like
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Comments: From an original advertisement: "17 practical card tricks for only 50c". Available as an ebook from Conjuring Arts.

Contents (from book advertisement in Collins Pentz' Stage Tricks, Illusions and Escapes. Numbers are not page numbers)

i Preface

1 Magic Heaps Card Trick. This trick is clever for the parlor or may be performed over the phone.
2 Practical Card Trick. Very clever for pocket or parlor.
3 Thumb Tacked Card Mystery. Exceptionally clever parlor or stage effect with a full page drawing showing just how to make up.
4 Palming Device for the Amateur. A holder to produce twenty cards in succession. How to make and use with half page drawing.
5 Card on Sword Trick. Tells how to catch a card on an unprepared sword point and is very clever for either parlor or stage.
6 A Good Card Trick. Here is another good pocket or parlor trick that may be performed over your phone.
7 Novel Torn and Restored Card. In which a pack is torn into Small pieces and reproduced on a soup plate, using a card box and forcing deck. Illustrated with over a half page drawing.
8 The Two Turned Cards. A new and clever turned card effect.
9 The Elusive Card. A marked chosen card vanishes from the pack and appears between two previously examined boards. Good for parlor or stage. Easy to make and present. With two inch drawing.
10 Card Rising. A novel method with two pedestals. With drawing.
11 The Simplicity Card Trick. A very practical parlor or stage effect using a card box, goblet and pad. With three inch drawing.
12 The Mystifying Card Trick. Tells how to burn the name of a chosen card in a piece of plain white paper without burning the paper.
13 Dove-Tail False Shuffle. Tells how to keep a pre-arranged deck in order and apparently shuffle it without mixing any cards. One look at the half page drawing shows how easy it is.
14 Rising Card Wrinkle. A clever method that will surprise you.
15 Red or Rlnck Card Trick. Tells you how to reach under a handkerchief and draw a red or black card from shuffled cards.
16 Phantom Cards. How to work this neat trick with a borrowed deck and unprepared cards. Very clever for pocket or parlor.
17 The Card in the Glass. To make a chosen card appear in an ordinary glass that is covered with a piece of paper.


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