Stebbins, Si: Card Tricks And the Way They Are Performed ©1905 (circa) Si Stebbins Softcover, saddle-stitched, 4x6", 12 pages

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Comments: There seems to have been several versions of this book. The original seems to have been a one dollar pamphlet, and only had tricks 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, and "A Mind Reading Trick". This edition included advertisements for Cinco cigars.

Contents:

3 To the Novice
3 The System
4 Rules
4 - Rule 1 Shuffling
4 - Rule 2 Numerical Value
4 - Rule 3 Position
4 - Rule 4 Position as to Suits
5 Trick 1 To Name a Card that a Person May Draw From Behind the Back
5 Trick 2 To To tell how many and what cards a person may draw from behind the back
5 Trick 3 To allow a person to take a handful of cards from behind the back and place them in his pocket; then to make him take out one at a time any card you may call for.
6 Trick 4 To allow a person to draw a card, placing it in his pocket without looking at it, and then to make him tell what it is
7 Trick 5 To let a person think of a card that they see as you run them over; and then to make that person place the card they are thinking of in their pocket without knowing it
8 Trick 6 To run the cards over behind the back and name any card you may be asked to stop on
8 Trick 7 To tell how far from the top any card is that may be called for
9 Trick 8 How in a game of Whist to deal every trump to yourself
9 Trick 9 How in a game of Hearts to deal every Heart to yourself
9 Trick 10 How to deal a pat flush of any suit called for to any person asking it
10 To allow a person to draw a card from the pack, afterwards placing card back in pack and shuffling; then to take pack, throw at wall or ceiling and stick card selected to wall or ceiling with a tack through the center of the card
10 This is my famous Three-Deck Trick. Note In order to do it you must have three decks, stacked according to the system in front of this booklet
11 To allow a person to cut the deck into three parts, then after letting them name a number in either part they may select, make them tell what card is that number from the top in the part they select
12 A MIND READING TRICK (Apparently)