Allan Slaight: The James File Volume Two
Slaight, Allan: The James File Volume Two
©2000 Jogestja Ltd, Toronto; Hermetic Press Inc., WA
Hardcover, no dj, 854 pages plus intro
Allan Slaight: The James File Volume Two
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Comments: Illustrated by Joseph K. Schmidt. Associate editor Max Maven.
Part of a series:
a. Stewart James - Stewart James in Print: The First Fifty Years
b. Allan Slaight - The James File Volume One
c. Allan Slaight - The James File Volume Two
d. William Goodwin - Index to Stewart James in Print & The James File
The page numbers in the first three books are continuous.

Contents (Courtesy Dietrich Keller, magicbooks.be):

LXVII Table of Contents
LXIX How Now - by Max Maven
LXXI The Air Up There - by Gordon Bean

1753 A Man of Letters
1755 The Spelling Spook
1758 There Is Something About A Soldier
1760 The Gypsy's Warning
1764 Even Further Than That
1768 My Time Is Your Time
1769 The Constant Imp
1770 Do-As-I-Do Speller
1771 Deluria
1774 Poker Pete's Primer
1776 Gobak Again
1778 May Day
1780 22 Calibre
1782 Whim-Borrow
1783 Valentine Card
1785 Fackenborth Speller
1786 Ilojikal Spell
1787 Lucky Speller
1787 Stranger Than That (Allan Slaight)
1789 Muse Cues (Max Maven)

1793 Master Pieces
1795 Mimik
1797 Hull-Aba-lieu
1799 Perverse Reverse
1801 Csuri-alism
1804 Justatic
1807 Kort Right
1810 Tens, Anyone?
1813 Ec-Centre-Ic
1815 The Prior Prechosen Chosen Card
1817 Tongs Twister
1818 James Transistional
1820 Compair

1823 Measure Meant

1827 Mind Set
1829 Joseph Cottoned
1830 Set 'Em Up, Joe
1831 Magician's Waterloo
1833 Telepathy Versus Premonition
1835 Joe Job (Joe Ovette)
1837 Face-Up Predilection
1838 Link It Test
1843 Missing Links (Allan Slaight)
1845 Pushing The Envelope
1847 Freer Peer
1852 Perpetua
1855 Guys Winner (Allan Slaight & Stewart James)
1856 Transcendental Vision (Charles T Jordan)
1858 A Possible Impossibility (Delmas Jenkins)
1861 Guise Winner (Allan Slaight)
1861 The "It" Girl
1864 A Class By Itself
1865 Zenith Poker
1868 Drawing Conclusions (Phil Goldstein)
1870 Station To Station (Phil Goldstein)
1872 Stage Doozer (Richard Osterlind)
1876 Numerological Mentalscope (Richard Osterlind)
1879 Writer Left (Max Maven)

1883 Miraschool
1885 Miraskill
1887 Miracle Miraskill (Peter Warlock.)
1888 Fntstration (Dr Raymond Beebe)
1889 Basket Call (Ed Marlo)
1891 Magnetic Miraskill (Allan Slaight)
1893 Color Prediction With Three Spectators (Vick Trost)
1895 Moraskill
1896 Silent Moraskill (Allan Slaight & Max Maven)
1898 MirasKiller (J.K. Hanman)
1902 Predicting The Ballot (Paul Floty)
1903 Mixed Reaction (Peter Duffle)
1904 Myriadskill (Bob Farmer)
1904 Expanding the Miraskill Principle
1905 No Steal Miraskill
1906 Funda-mentalism
1908 Miraskill Finesses
1908 Oddskill (Robert Iveale)
1911 Mirathrill (Phil Goldstein)
1913 Miraskill Eke (Phil Goldstein)
1915 Miraskull (Phil Goldstein)

1919 Monetary Unit
1919 The Orchestra Will Now Play
1922 Buddha-Ha-Ha
1925 The Knickel of Kanadah (L. Vosburgh Lyons)
1928 Found Money
1931 One-Cent Tale
1932 Harridandy
1935 Cabill, R.D
1938 The Great Bank Robbery
1940 Non Cents (Robert Neale)

1943 Multiple Listings

1949 My Father's House

1953 Mystery Section
1954 Spell Of Mystery
1956 Spiel Of Mystery (Phil Goldstein)
1956 Tutudu
1957 Big Tutudu (Allan Slaight)
1958 Multriple Choice
1959 Twice Versa
1960 The Unwritten Law
1960 Under No Spell (Phil Goldstein)
1961 Under No Spell Again (Phil Goldstein)
1961 Spell No Under (Phil Goldstein)
1962 Rosareveal (Phil Goldstein)
1963 Sweet Sixteen And Never Been Missed
1964 Love's Labor Lost
1965 Take Ten
1967 Unweaver's Tale (Phil Goldstein)
1968 Precise (Phil Goldstein)
1969 Sly Stebbins (Allan Slaight)

1973 No Sleight Intended

1977 The Obstructionist
1978 Blues In The Bight
1980 Ply Of The Needle
1981 Bully For Bagshawe
1982 The Great Penetrate
1984 Betwixt
1987 Second Class Passage
1988 Simian Simile

1993 An Occurrence in Courtright

1997 Of Calendars And Kings
1998 Ups And Downs
2001 King's Row
2005 Neat Sixteen
2006 Anagrambiguous
2008 Harrowing (Phil Goldstein)
2010 Harrying (Allan Slaight)
2011 And So Force (Howard Lyons)
2013 Rainbow Matrix (Phil Goldstein)
2015 A Force of Another Color

2017 On To Toronto
2023 Deluria
2024 The Master Card Location (Walter Gibson)
2025 The Mystic Seven (Victor Farelli)
2027 Simple Four-Ace Routine (Anonymous)
2028 The Alpha Four-Ace Trick (Stanley Collins)
2030 Simplicity Four-Ace Trick
2031 Mystery Of Three (Steve Belchou)
2032 The Poker Deal (Walter Gibson)
2036 Ace Control (Lin Searles)
2037 Nu-Deal Poker Hand (U.F. Grant)
2038 After The Four-Ace Trick (Billy O'Connor)
2040 Jamesway Poker Deal
2043 My Number, Your Card (Jack Vosburgh)
2044 The Ten-Card Deal (Anonymous)
2046 Psychic Bid Spelling
2047 Adamathica (B.E. Adams)
2051 Miraskill
2052 Grand Slam (A.H. "Jake" Stafford)
2054 Cameo Kirby Dice Game
2055 Card To Pocket
2057 Golf Poker
2059 The Honest Gambler (Walter Gibson)
2061 Blindfold Poker Deal

2065 The Other Place

2071 Pair O' Decks
2071 Stigid
2074 Ditto
2075 The Prophet's Choice
2078 The Choice Of The Turtle
2079 Thinkola
2082 Controlled Failure
2083 Tupax, Senior
2084 Curried Nice
2087 Curried Nice Variation #1
2087 Curried Nice Variation #2
2089 Curried Nice - Simplified Procedure
2089 Mark Of Our Leader
2092 Three Choice
2093 Yellow-Back Fever
2096 Nope

2099 Parent-Thesis

2105 The Penrod Cards
2107 The Basic Move
2109 Version One
2112 Version Two
2113 Version Three
2114 Version Four
2114 Version Five
2115 Version Six
2116 Version Seven
2118 Version Eight
2118 Version Nine
2119 Version Ten
2120 Version Eleven
2121 Version Twelve
2122 Version Thirteen
2123 Version Fourteen
2124 Version Fifteen
2124 Version Sixteen
2126 Version Seventeen
2127 The Mystery Of The Umpteenth Card

2131 Premises! Premise!

2143 A Relatively Small Collection

2149 Release Mechanisms
2150 Chain Of Knots
2151 Take Five
2154 Ring Leader
2156 Three-Ring Circuit
2157 Alterknot Way
2159 Tu-be Or Knot Tu-be
2159 Sideology
2160 Tumble Tunnel
2163 Dangle Bangle Wangle
2164 Ends Game
2165 Knot Of Enchantment

2169 Roamin' Numerals
2171 No It Is Opposition
2172 A View From The Other Side
2173 Nothing Is Perfect
2175 Mystery Multiplied
2175 A Dime A Dozen
2177 The Zero Deck
2179 Wordrow
2182 My Boomerang Will Come Back (Charles Hudson)
2185 Big Math Attack
2186 Affinishty
2188 The Permuratem Principle
2189 Extra Centsary Perception
2190 Si For No Cipher
2190 Impromptwo
2191 The Jungle Key
2192 The Dodo
2193 Ban And A Split
2193 A Rows By Any Other Name
2194 Onederful
2195 Ulti-mate
2196 Poormuratem (Phil Goldstein)
2197 Remembering The Future
2198 Dismembering The Future (Allan Slaight)
2199 Fancy Meeting (Tom Ransom)
2201 Octology (Phil Goldstein)
2203 The 50% Solution
2204 The Synchronous Card (Gordon Bean)
2205 Boomer (Phil Goldstein)
2207Card 37 (Mel Bennett)

2209 A Routines Matter
2210 Prophetic Pasteboards
2220 Lucifer's Logic
2220 Sheep-ish (Tom Ransom)
2224 The Blind Abbot (Anonymous)
2224 Flouting Thomas (Anonymous)
2225 The Caliph's Jewels (Anonymous)
2227 The Arab And His Steeds (Anonymous)
2227 Longfellow (Anonymous)
2228 Survey Says (Anonymous)
2230 The Tothill Influence
2234 Totmound (Phil Goldstein)
2235 Mallets Aforethought
2236 Too Many Cards
2237 You Do As I Do (Anonymous)
2238 The Perfect Card Prediction (Warren Wiersbe)
2239 Infallible Prediction (Audley Walsh & Hal Haber)
2240 The Magic Separation (Bob Hummer)
2241 The Double Prediction (Walter Gibson)
2242 Find Your Own (Bob Hummer)
2243 Silk Bilk
2244 Awl's Well
2245 Jamesway Walk-On Act
2259 My Friend In Aberdeen
2261 Bouncing Betty

2265 Shall We Gather By The River
2267 The Crazy Truth

2271 Show Time
2272 Passage Way
2275 Flitterflash
2276 The Passing Show
2278 Propinquity
2280 The McGiveney Card
2280 Double Identity
2281 Uppenbak
2283 A Passing Mark

2285 Silas Deemer And His Incredible Intene Energizer
2287 List And Dimensions Of Properties
2289 Preparation Of Properties
2291 Disposition Of Properties
2292 Routine And Patter
2293 The Ring Thing
2294 Ring-A-Lore
2296 Knotabilia
2298 Paul Curry's Linked
2300 A Big Bender
2301 Ballistrick
2301 Present Under Glass

2305 Society For The Advancement Of Numerated Expressiveness
2307 A Square Meal
2309 Square Not
2311 Combinary
2312 Si-And-Test
2313 The 4x16 Square
2315 The Four-Sided Professor
2317 Kardtu
2320 The Fractured Fraction
2321 Vis-à-Vis
2323 A Hot Number In A Cold Parlor
2324 The Lone Ranger Square
2325 The Odd Skwares
2326 Double Decker
2327 The Circular Stare Case
2329 The Double Cross
2329 The Polychrorne Magic Square
2331 The Equalizers
2331 Rows Of Sharin

2333 Stewart James: Sit-Down Comedian
2336 The Kuku Clock

2337 Sub Rosary
2338 Dud Poker
2341 Acucard
2343 Top Of The Marks
2345 Re-Mark-Able
2345 Marked For Life Addendum
2346 Fulvestige
2347 Vestigeable (Allan Slaight)
2347 The Problem Of The Missing Clue
2349 Top Choice
2351 The First-Of-Four Bridge
2351 The Bifarious Clue
2352 The Crow
2355 One And One Are One
2357 The Spell of P.H.L. (A/kin Sin ight)
2360 Domore Discovery
2362 Scattergood
2362 Bripok
2364 The Four-Inch Prediction
2365 Queenie And The G-String Caper

2367 Sympathetique Techniques
2371 Number One
2373 Number Two
2375 Number Three
2376 Number Four
2377 Number Five
2377 Number Six
2378 Number Seven
2379 Number Eight
2379 Number Nine
2380 Number Ten
2380 Number Eleven
2382 Number Twelve
2383 Number Thirteen
2383 Number Fourteen
2383 Number Fifteen
2384 Number Sixteen
2384 Number Seventeen
2385 Number Eighteen
2385 Number Nineteen
2386 Number Twenty
2388 Number Twenty-One
2388 Number Twenty-Two
2388 Number Twenty-Three
2389 Number Twenty-Four
2389 Number Twenty-Five
2390 Number Twenty-Six
2390 Number Twenty-Seven
2390 Number Twenty-Eight
2391 Number Twenty-Nine
2392 Number Thirty
2392 Number Thirty-One
2392 Number Thirty-Two
2393 Number Thirty-Three
2393 Number Thirty-Four
2394 Number Thirty-Five
2395 Number Thirty-Six
2396 Number Thirty-Seven
2396 Number Thirty-Eight
2396 Number Thirty-Nine
2397 Number Forty
2398 Number Forty-One
2398 Number Forty-Two
2400 Number Forty-Three
2400 Number Forty-Four
2401 Number Forty-Five
2402 Number Forty-Six
2402 Number Forty-Seven

2403 System Analysis

2407 The Tale Of The Tailor's Dummy
2410 Bocca Della yenta
2410 Murder By Suggestion
2413 A Further Suggestion For Murder
2413 Lucky Lady (Max Maven)

2415 Teen Angle
2416 Baker's Dozen System
2417 Fortean Force
2418 His Master's Choice
2419 A Strange Coincidence (Victor Farelli)
2421 Two-Pan Harmony
2424 Lone Journey
2424 The One-Eyed Man
2426 Three Eyes Left (Allan Slaight)
2427 Half-Sight (Phi! Goldstein)
2428 Three Guesses
2429 Unjust Chance

2435 Tell Me A Trick
2437 Balldown
2440 Pullegraphy
2442 The Store-Window Salesman
2446 T.D.H. Aces
2447 Harbinger
2448 International Confusion
2452 Fours Of Habit
2454 Return To Camelot
2459 The Tale Behind Mrs. Astor's Horse
2462 Hall-A-Dozen Ways To Turn
2465 Half-Open Omen
2467 Doublethink
2468 Chronometrical Poker Deal
2469 Charm Bracelet (Allan Slaight)

2473 This Is The Army, Mr. James

2477 To Half And Half Not
2478 Half And Half
2480 ESP-ionage (Allan Slaight)
2486 Code Mode
2490 Spyte (Phil Goldstein)
2493 Heartbreaker (T.A. Waters)
2497 Con-Pound (Phil Goldstein)
2500 Procre (Phil Goldstein)
2501 Rif (Phl Goldstein)

2505 Trading Places
2506 Trading Cards
2506 An Addition
2508 Teaser
2509 The Forty-Niners
2510 Midway Stop Trick
2512 Inverse Duplex Supplement
2513 Prose Duplex (Mike Close)
2517 The Tenth Variation
2519 Jumbo-Split (Nick Trost)
2520 Deadhook Variation (Phil Goldstein)
2522 Parrish: The Thought (Robert Parrish)

2525 Two For The Show
2526 The Devano Rising Cards
2527 The Cups And Balls
2533 Unsolved Mysteries
2533 Piling On Odds
2534 Messages - 2; Flaps - 0
2535 Accurate Miraskill
2535 Havago
2536 By Hook Or By
2536 Captives Of The Brain
2537 Kort Case
2538 Memory-Able
2539 Hull Lotta Fakin' Coin' On
2539 The One-Pile Trick
2540 Initial Prediction
2540 The Plums Of The Book
2541 Values Added

2543 A Way To The Aces
2544 Nonsuch Ace Mystery
2546 Simplicity Two
2547 Simplicity Herself (Gordon Bean)
2549 Little Gem Ace Mystery
2551 Jamesway Four-Ace Speller
2553 The One-Hundred Dollar Challenge Ace Mystery
2555 Tempo
2559 Original Four-Ace Assembly
2560 Look Maw! No Aces!
2565 Sandwhich
2566 Double-Dyed Deception
2568 Triple Intent
2569 When The Spirit Moves Him
2570 The Spirit Mathematician (Charles T. Jordan)
2573 The Returning Spirit
2574 Remarkable Development Of The 1-2-4-8 Principle
2576 Kindred Spirit (Close-Up Version)
2578 Kindred Spirit (Stand-Up Version)
2579 Kindred Spirit (Simplified Arrangement)
2580 Hand Of Fate
2581 Fate Accompli (Phil Goldstein)

2583 While At The Talking Table

2589 The Worst Friend And Enemy


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