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Effective Card Magic by Bill Simon (PDF Download)

Effective Card Magic by Bill Simon (PDF Download)

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"Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths in the card jungle. In this book he has given generously the fruits of his thinking and experience. The result is a book almost certain to become one of the basic texts of modem card conjuring."

This ebook covers many entertaining plots, novel sleights, shuffles and fancy cuts as well as useful information on practice, structuring, presentation, audience participation and patter. Bill Simon writes at great length on the second deal and describes in full detail his excellent routine, Call to the Colors.

    Foreword
    Introduction
    Observations
    Part I Choice Tricks
        Coincidence
        Business Card Prophesy
        The Instant Reverse
        Three Queens Monte
        Sympathetic Control
        Elevator Cards
        The Turnabout Cards
        Card Affinity
        The Gambler Controls The Aces
        A Touching Experiment
        The Ambitious Card
    Part II The Second Deal Tricks With The Second Deal
        The Component Parts Of The Second Deal
        Exercises
        Performing The Deal
        Concluding Thoughts
        Tricks With The Second Deal
        Call To The Colors
        Two Numbers
        Danbury Delusion
        The Middle Deal
        The F.B.I. Card
        Four Card Location
    Part III New Sleights And Tricks Therewith
        The Simon Card Control
        Set-Up Of Four Cards
        The Two Card Peek
        A Piquant Peek
        The Peek Force
        The Simon Fan Steal
        Telepathy
        Automatic Writing
        The Simon Secret Addition
        The Thought-Of Ace
        A Transposition
        Cover For The Side-Slip
        Tricks With The Cover For The Side-Slip
        Predict Switch
    Part IV Interludes (Quick Tricks)
        Discoveries
        The Finger-Stab
        A Trick With A New Twist
        Half And Half (Elimination)
        A Strange Card
        Card In The Mouth
        Four Deep
        Unexpected
    Part V More Choice Tricks
        The Magnetic Cards
        Double Rise
        Reverse Card Effects
        The Ubiquitous Jack Of Spades
        Rapid Transit
        Mind Reading
        "Touch" Retouched
        Similar Twins
        The Locator Three Of Clubs
        The Somersault
        Night Club Card Assembly
        Double Prediction
        Four Deuces And The Ace Of Spades
        Deuces Wild
        Four-Way Coincidence
    Part VI Shuffles And Cuts
        The Basic Cut
        The Simon System Of False Riffle Shuffles
        The Top Stock Control
        The Bottom Stock Control

1st edition 1952