Tanner, Don: Fifty Ways to Use a Card Box ©1960 (circa) Magic, Inc., IL Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 28 pages

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Comments: From the intro: "As described in the first section of this book, you will see that there are many different kinds of card boxes, and they have been produced at many price levels...Don Tanner has arranged fifty trick, routines, ideas, and suggestions here for your reading pleasure and ultimate use of your card box. To this, we have added another dozen effects by Earl Dancereau, who put the Okay Card Box on the market."

Contents (from book, updated Aug 2024):

2 Introduction
3 Word About Card Boxes
4 Comedy Spirit Painting
4 Houdini Card
5 India Rope Trick
5 Tearing a Woman in Half
6 Instantaneous Flowers
6 Spirit Cut Ups
7 Prediction
7 Automatic Check Casher
7 Invisible Seamstress
8 Answering Questions
8 Stamp of Approval
8 Passport to Sing Sing
9 Have Your Change Ready
9 Little Wonder Adding Machine
9 Miniature Photo Lab
10 Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat
10 X Ray
10 Want Ad Test
11 Design Duplication
11 Mental Journey
11 Traveler's Chex
12 Force for the Spirit Paintings
12 Staples
13 For Coin Work
13 For Defense
13 A Trick With A Premium
13 Spook Spoke in Error
14 P. Howard Lyons' Routine
15 Card on the Ribbon
16 Message in Ashes
16 Ghost Card
17 Simple Revelation
17 Pip Pip
18 True Value
18 Card in Orange
18 Clairvoyance
18 Penetrating Card
19 Matter of Addition
19 A Ringer
20 Invisible Transit
20 Two Faced Trick
20 Stabbing in the Dark
21 Visible Flight
21 Under Cover
22 Easy to Please
22 The Big Change
22 Spirit Photography
22 Transpositions
23 Blank
23 The Line Up

24 A Dozen Bonus Tricks With a Card Box (Earl Dancereau): using a loose flap box
24 Effect No. 1 Torn and Restored Card
24 Effect No. 2 Torn Corner
24 Effect No. 3 Double Face Idea
25 Effect No. 4 Vanish and Reappearance
25 Effect No. 5 The Spook Spoke in Error
26 Effect No. 6 Penetrating Card
26 Effect No. 7 Blank
26 Effect No. 8 The Line Up
26 Effect No. 9 A Simple Revelation
27 Effect No. 10 Clairvoyance
27 Effect No. 11 Pip Pip
27 Effect No. 12 True Value

28 Index