Roberts, Charles: Tricks With Cards ©1921 (circa) Foulsham & Co. Ltd., London Softcover, perfect-bound, 5x7", 61 pages

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Comments: There have been multiple reprints through the years. Also later published in combination with Charles Crayford's 50 Best Conjuring Tricks as Foulsham's Card and Conjuring Tricks.

Contents (from book)

vii Introduction to Card Tricks (Charles Roberts)

9 Chapter I Effective Tricks Which Require No Sleight-Of-Hand
9 An Elementary Trick
11 Patter
12 Finding a Chosen Card - Various Methods
14 Revealing a Discovered Card - Various Methods
17 To Name a Chosen Card Without Seeing It
17 To Name Any Number of Cards in Succession
18 To Tell Whether a Packet of Cards is Odd or Even in Number
18 To Place Four Kings in Different Parts of the Pack, and Bring Them Together by a Single Cut
19 The Ruffle
19 A Simple False Shuffle
20 To Change Two Cards Whilst They Are Held By Spectators
20 To Vanish a Card From The Pack, And Make It Appear In Someone's Pocket
22 To Name Cards Thought Of By Four Different Porsona
22 To Name Several Groups Of Cards Thought Of By Several Persons
24 Another Systems Of Finding Cards Thought Of
25 To Tell Which Of Four Cards Has Been Turned Round In Your Absence
25 The Inseparable Families Trick
26 To Name Four Cards Cut By A Member Of The Audience
27 To Find A Certain Card By Touch Inside A Person's Pocket
28 To Catch Chosen Cards From A Shower Of Cards

30 Chapter II Tricks That Can Be Performed by a Novice With The Aid of Specially Prepared Cards
30 The Forcing Pack
31 The Biseaute Pack And How To Make Such A Pack: a stripper deck
32 Substituting For Genuine Pack
34 The Torn Card Trick
35 The Attraction Of Money: A Trick With Biseaute Cards
36 Any Number Of Kings A Finale With The Forcing Pack
37 Special Changing Cards, And How To Use Them

41 Chapter III Sleight-Of-Hand
41 The False Shuffle: Five Methods
41 - First Method for Prearranged Pack
42 - Second Method for Prearranged Pack
42 - Third Method for Prearranged Pack
43 - Fourth Method to Keep a Certain Card in View
43 - Fifth Method to Keep a Certain Card or Cards in View
44 The False Cut
44 Palming
45 - First Method
46 - Second Method
47 The Pass
47 - First Method With Both Hands
50 - Second Method With One Hand Only
52 The Bridge
52 Forcing

54 Chapter IV On More Advanced Tricks
54 The Obedient Aces
57 The Walking Card
57 To Deal Yourself all the Trumps
58 The Invisibly Changing Cards

60 Index of Tricks

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