Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks: with 265 Illustrations: With 265 Illustrations

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Karl Fulves

Charles Jordan's Best Card Tricks

with 265 Illustrations: With 265 Illustrations

Karl Fulves

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Dover Publications Inc.
02 November 2011

Conjuring & magic; Hobbies, quizzes & games; Card games

Series: Dover Magic Books

Dazzling feats of conjuring created by legendary figure. Over 190 mind-boggling feats, newly revised and updated, including ""Long-Distance Mind-Reading,"" ""Satan's Touch,"" many more.

One of the legendary figures in the history of card magic, Charles T. Jordan (18881944) is known for the astonishing range of his inventive ability, the subtlety of his thinking, and the fact that so many of his creations have become magic classics. Although he did not perform in public, he profoundly influenced later generations of magicians and his writings embody many of the fundamental principles used in card magic today.

In this volume, one of today's best-known writers on magic has compiled a wealth of Jordan's most impressive card tricks - impromptu tricks, banded-deck tricks, stacked-deck tricks, sleight-of-hand tricks, prepared-card tricks, shuffle systems, four-ace tricks, tricks using stripper decks and one-way decks, and many more. Now you can learn amazing feats of card manipulation that not only baffle amateurs but fool professional magicians as well. To aid the amateur performer, Karl Fulves has completely rewritten each trick, added explanatory details where necessary, and suggested simpler alternative techniques to complicated or advanced methods.

By following the carefully written and illustrated instructions in this book you can add these mystifying manipulations to your card conjuring repertoire: The Incomprehensible Destroyed Card, The Triple Escape, Psychic Prediction, Quadruple Concentration, Bewildero, An Impromptu Detection, Satan's Prophecy, The Demon Color Change, Long-Distance Mind Reading, The Bewitched Aces, The Master Riddle, The Electrified Strippers, The Stabbed Pair, and scores of others. Over 260 illustrations by Joseph Schmidt augment the text and demonstrate the techniques needed to master each trick.

By: Karl Fulves
Imprint: Dover Publications Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780486269313
ISBN 10: 0486269310
Series: Dover Magic Books
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 November 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Impromptu Card Tricks 1 The Hourglass Card Trick 2 A New Card Discovery 3 The Infallible Detection 4 ""Infallible Detection"" Notes"" 5 Forty-Nine 6 ""Forty-Nine"" Notes"" 7 The Keystone Card Trick 8 Double Prediction 9 Mephisto's Prediction 10 The Sequel 11 Master Stop Trick 12 The Spirit Mathematician 13 The Five Guesses 14 ""Five Guesses"" Notes"" 15 The Incomprehensible Destroyed Card 16 ""Incomprehensible Destroyed Card"" Notes"" 17 Card Tearing The Banded Deck 18 The Straitjacket Reversed Card 19 Elasticity 20 The Escape 21 ""Escape"" Notes"" 22 The Triple Escape 23 The Impossibility Journey 24 Transposition Extraordinary 25 The Downs Hinge Shift 26 The Downs Slip Cut 27 ""Downs Slip Cut"" Notes"" Stacked-Deck Tricks 28 Psycholia 29 Divino 30 ""Divino"" Notes"" 31 Psychic Prediction 32 Mephistopheles' Touch 33 The Dream 34 C.T.J. Detection 35 Ex-Cello Card Discovery 36 Strange Coincidence 37 The Wizard's Will 38 ""Wizard's Will"" Notes"" 39 Discard Trick 40 The Missing Pair 41 ""Missing Pair"" Notes"" Gambling Secrets 42 Quadruple Concentration 43 The Magi's Detection 44 ""Magi's Detection"" Notes"" 45 The Impenetrable Stop Trick 46 It's Up to You 47 Punched Card Notes 48 The Sagacious Joker 49 ""Sagacious Joker"" Notes"" 50 Impromptu Card Reader 51 Henry Gavin's False Cut Sleight-of-Hand Tricks 52 Bewildero 53 Bewildero II 54 The Barefaced Detection 55 Color Divination 56 ""Color Divination"" Notes"" 57 Reversed Cards 58 Improved Pocket to Pocket 59 The Single-Card Reverse 60 The Half-Pack Reverse 61 ""Half-Pack Reverse"" Notes"" 62 The Alternate Reverse More Impromptu Card Tricks 63 The Unknown Leaper 64 ""Unknown Leaper"" Notes"" 65 With the Mind's Eye 66 The Twentieth-Century Puzzle 67 Weirdo 68 The Fade-Out Vanish 69 An Impromptu Detection 70 ""Impromptu Detection"" Notes"" 71 Satan's Prophecy 72 Satan's Prophecy Improved 73 The Simplicity Speller 74 ""Simplicity Speller"" Notes"" 75 The Climax 76 ""Climax"" Notes"" Prepared Card Tricks 77 1923 Card and Handkerchief 78 The Spirit Aces 79 The Brain Twister 80 Diabolical Reversed Card 81 Joker Monte 82 ""Joker Monte"" Notes"" 83 Pedro Monte 84 The Demon Color Change 85 ""Demon Color Change"" Notes"" 86 The Bisected Queen 87 The Monarch-Card-and-Pocket Mystery 88 The Contrary Clock 89 ""Contrary Clock"" Notes"" Shuffle Systems 90 A Shuffle Secret 91 Close-Range Mind Reading 92 Long-Distance Mind Reading 93 The Premo 94 The Dealing Dovetail Detection 95 ""Dealing Dovetail Detection"" Notes"" 96 The Rolling-Off-a-Log Detection 97 ""Rolling-Off-a-Log Detection"" Notes"" 98 The Full Hand 99 ""Full Hand"" Notes"" 100 The Wonder Force 101 Improved Chevalier Card Trick 102 Thought Foretold 103 Premier Card Discovery 104 The Simplissimo Detection Four-Ace Tricks 105 The Perennial Aces 106 ""Perennial Aces"" Notes"" 107 The Amazing Aces 108 The Bewitched Aces 109 ""Bewitched Aces"" Notes"" 110 The Pinochle Ace Trick 111 Leave It to the Aces 112 ""Leave It to the Aces"" Notes"" 113 Mystery Aces 114 ""Mystery Aces"" Notes"" Subtle Secrets 115 New Card Reading 116 ""New Card Reading"" Notes"" 117 Stampedo 118 The New-Pack Detection 119 The Lifesaver 120 Coincidentally 121 ""Coincidentally"" Notes"" 122 Transfero 123 ""Transfero"" Notes"" 124 The Master Riddle 125 Satan's Trance 126 ""Satan's Trance"" Notes"" 127 Telepathic Control More Stacked-Deck Tricks 128 Diabolical Transposition 129 ""Diabolical Transposition"" Notes"" 130 Fate and the Joker 131 An Odd-Even Experiment 132 The Mysterious Detective 133 Take-a-Peek Card Trick 134 The Flush Trick 135 Poker Player's Dream 136 The Poker Shark 137 The Vanished Card 138 ""Vanished Card"" Notes"" 139 Prophesied Spot Total 140 ""Prophesied Spot Total"" Notes"" 141 Cremo Card Restoration 142 Demon's Divination 143 ""Demon's Divination"" Notes"" 144 The Card-and-Number Mystery 145 Extraordinary Clairvoyance Strippers and One-Way Decks 146 Stripper Secrets 147 Just the Reverse 148 The Four Flusher 149 Perfection Method for Strippers 150 ""Perfection Method for Strippers"" Notes"" 151 The Electrified Strippers 152 ""Electrified Strippers"" Notes"" 153 One-Way Secrets 154 The Wizard Reader 155 ""Wizard Reader"" Notes"" 156 The Hummer Detection 157 ""Hummer Detection"" Notes"" 158 Incomprendo Speller 159 ""Incomprendo Speller"" Notes"" 160 Mephistopheles' Own 161 Faces or Backs-Which? 162 Premo Detection 163 ""Premo Detection"" Notes"" 164 The Trio 165 Twentieth-Century Sorcery 166 Change Your Mind? Further Impromptu Card Tricks 167 Etad-ot-Pu 168 The O.K. X-Ray 169 The Banner Card Discovery 170 The Haunted Deck 171 Sympathetic Sympathy 172 The 52-Card Trick 173 Presto Pass 174 ""Presto Pass"" Notes"" 175 A Novel Force 176 The Stabbed Pair 177 The Suits Unscrambled 178 Demon's Detection 179 ""Demon's Detection"" Notes"" 180 Satan's Touch More Prepared-Card Tricks 181 The Nine-in-Ten Detection 182 The Utility Pack 183 ""Utility Pack"" Notes"" 184 The Latest Forcing Deck 185 ""Latest Forcing Deck"" Notes"" 186 The Mystery Problem 187 The Latest Haunted Ace 188 One Ahead 189 Poker Shark II 190 The Idol's Vision 191 Reverse English on the X-Ray 192 Spelling Any Card Called For A Jordan Card Routine 193 The Inseparable Aces 194 The Ready Reckoner 195 The Pair Detection 196 The Dead-Easy Location 197 The Nifty Key The Ever Ready Principle 198 Spook Card 199 Ultimo 200 The Reversed Card 201 Wholesale Reversals 202 Mind Reading 203 The Spelling Trick 204 A Unique Reverse 205 ""Unique Reverse"" Notes"" 206 Speaking of Pink Elephants The Jordan Count 207 The Phantom Aces 208 Jordan Count Notes 209 Red-Black Mix-Up 210 Indetecto 211 The Haxton Count

Karl Fulves is one of the most respected authorities in the field of magic. For over 40 years, he has written hundreds of books on the subject and taught the art of illusion to thousands of people of all ages. This legendary figure also edited and published such magazines as Epilogue and The Pallbearers Review.