Devereux, Eve & Peter Eldin: Card & Magic Tricks ©2004 Quantum Publishing, Ltd, Gramercy Books, NY Hardcover, w/dj, 96 pages ISBN 0-517-22309-0

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Comments: Color photographs and illustrations, nicely produced beginning book written for adults. "Over 30 easy-to-perform stunts to amaze and confound." Eve's portion was originally published in 1996 under the "Start-a-Craft Card Tricks" title (listed here separately).

Contents (from book):

6 Card Tricks (Eve Devereux)

6 Introduction
6 - Patter
7 - You
7 - Props, Gimmicks and Accomplices
8 - The Cards Themselves
8 -Practice!
9 Basic Techniques
9 - Straight Shuffle
10 - Straight Shuffle Deceptions
12 - Riffle Shuffle
12 - Palming
13 - Hindoo Shuffle
14 - The Pass
16 - Forcing a Card
16 -- The Bridge
16 -- Cut It Yourself
17 -- Deal It Yourself
17 -- The Riffle Force
17 -- Shuffle-Stop
18 Flying Cards: throwing cards, several techniques
20 Cards that Spell
20 - Trick 1: spelling to the card fails, then works
20 - Trick 2: expansion, done blindfolded
21 - Trick 3: the Spades spell themselves
22 - Trick 4: spectator spells to the selection
23 Not in the Club: blindfolded magician locates the only non-club in the packet
24 Cards that Count
24 - Trick 1: magician counts to card using number given by spectator
25 - Trick 2: magician determines card selected from three rows of cards
26 - Trick 3: prediction of the total value of 10 cards dealt
27 The White Rabbit’s Card Trick: selection found with aid of the current time
28 Holey Handkerchief: card penetrates handkerchief
30 Topsy-turvy Gamble: selection found in a mixed up deck
32 The Vain Card: rising card
33 - Trick 2: card appears face up
34 The Scurvy Knaves: Jacks dispersed in the deck jump to the top
34 - Trick 2: another version
36 Mutus Nomen Cods Dedit: magician finds a pair of cards chosen using Latin
38 Reciting the Deck: magician names the cards from a shuffled deck
39 - Trick 2: variation using a gimmicked card
40 Conformist Jack: a Jack flips over as pushed through the deck
42 Joker’s Delight: a Joker vanishes amongst three cards
44 Swap: card transposition using gimmicked cards
45 - Trick 2: variation using a card box
46 Hopscotch from the Deck: rising card from card fan using a gimmick
48 Twisting Card: even though a ribbon runs through the deck, chosen card reverses itself

51 Magic Tricks (Peter Eldin)
52 Introduction
54 Magic through the Ages
56 Coin in Ball of Wool
58 Card Control: magician reveals selected card
61 Card through Handkerchief
63 Ring off Rope: finger ring
66 Ring on Pencil: finger ring
69 The Coin Fold: for vanishing
72 A Capital Prediction: city prediction using a change bag
74 Drink from Nowhere: opener to produce a drink from a handkerchief
77 The Rising Cards: in glass
79 On the Tip of my Tongue: a failed card prediction is made right
82 Sun and Moon: paper tear where the first restoration goes wrong
85 Solid through Solid: one handkerchief penetrates another
88 Cut and Restored Rope
91 Bank Night: only the magician gets the envelope with the money
95 See-through Production: building and using a square circle production box