Slaight, Allan: The Essential Stewart James ©2007 Allan Slaight, Magicana Hardcover, w/dj, 199 pages

Image courtesy Don's Magic and Books

Comments: Illustrated by Joseph K. Schmidt. Covers 50 of James' best tricks.

Contents (from Book):

ix Introduction (Allan Slaight)
xi Stewart James, an Appreciation (Allan Slaight)
xiv Jamesosophy, Indeed (Phil Goldstein)

1 The Boy’s World
3 The Knot of Enchantment
5 A Match for Gravity
8 Murder by Suggestion
11 Spell of Mystery
13 Balldown
16 Freedom of the Seize
19 Simplicity Four-Ace Trick
22 Miraskill
24 Face-Up Prediction
28 The Book of the Dead
31 Sefalaljia
36 Sefalaljia Jr
38 The Man in Aberystwyth
40 The Love-Sick Tennis Ball
43 Remembering the Future
47 Further Than That
50 Half and Half
53 The Robot Deck
59 Silkscreen
62 Vocalculate
64 The Prophet’s Choice
67 Go Go Vanisher
71 The Clincher
74 The Other Place
78 First Class Passage
81 Jamesway Poker Deal
84 Ten Nights in a Cardroom
93 Pokericulum
96 So-Fair Poker Deal
98 The Gobak Card Mystery
102 The Purloined Letters
105 Pocket of Persistence
108 Essay by SJ
111 Ring Leader
114 Falling Card
116 Micawber
119 Baker’s Dozen System
121 The Doozer
125 Matchimera
127 Lejun
131 The Gofar Ball
134 The Tenth Variation
137 My Father’s House
139 Card V
142 The AAG Principle
144 Split Second
147 Stranger from Two Worlds
159 Double Boomerang
153 Incantations
156 Oraclew
159 Dollars and (6th) Sense
162 Parent-Thesis
167 The Secret Partner
171 TRY aNother FIELD
175 Ontenc Prediction
180 The Dream Goes On
184 A Class by Itself
186 Anger with a “D”
189 Package Deal
192 While at the Talking Table

199 Acknowledgements