Victor, Edward: Classic Card Tricks ©2004 Dover Publications Softcover, perfect-bound, 5.5x8.5", 98 Pages

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Comments (Andrew Loh): Original Dover (2004) publication, containing all the card tricks from The Magic of the Hands, originally published by Waddilove & Co., London, [n.d.]; More Magic of the Hands, published by Max Holden, New York, 1942; and Further Magic of the Hands, Max Holden, New York, 1946. 105 black-and-white figures.

Contents: (from book ToC, only the page numbers for main chapters)

ix Preface
xi Author's Foreword

1 PART ONE - From The Magic of the Hands

1 1. Some Useful Card Sleights I Have Proved Effective
The "Pass"
E.V. Colour Change
"E.V." Invisible Double Lift
A New Glide
A One-Handed Force
The "Book" Return
Sighting the Top Card
A Substitute for the "In-Jog"

12 2. Card Problems
Supreme Control
The Expert Deal
A Royal Exchange
"Sign, Please!"
The "Deo-Ace" Trick
The Thirty Card Trick

33 PART TWO - From More Magic of the Hands

33 3. Further Card Sleights And Their Uses
The "Pass" Again!
Kings and Tens Effect
The "E.V." semi-circular Colour Change
A New Colour Change Card Trick
A Move for the "Rising Cards": sleight-of-hand method
"Face-to-Face" Pack Effects: two methods
A "Fan" Card Change
A "Quick" Reversed Card Trick
A False Riffle Shuffle

54 4. More Card Problems
The Cards and Handkerchief Effect
The Four Mental Cards
The Sense of Touch
The Magnetized Cards: sleight-of-hand method

71 PART THREE - From Further Magic of the Hands

71 5. Sleights and Aids in Card Work
An Invisible Palm
The Diagonal-Palm Shift as an Aid to the Rising Card Trick
A Useful Envelope for the Card in Cigarette Effect
Switching a Pack

81 6. Some Fresh Card Effects
The Haunted Pack
A Miracle Burnt and Restored Card
The Awkward Ace
"Do As I Do"
New Pocket-to-Pocket Effect
Veneri's Card Trick

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