Baron, Harry: Card Tricks for Beginners
©1960 Nicholas Kaye Limited, Great Britain
Pub. 1970 Emerson Books Inc., New York
Hardcover, 136 pages
ISBN-13: 9780875231716
ISBN-10: 0875231713
Comments: Not just for beginners
Contents:
7 Foreword (Joe Stuthard)
9 Introduction
12 Chapter 1 Tricks With A Borrowed Pack
12 The Long-distance Card Trick
13 The Five-finger Exercise
15 Satan Reverse Card Trick
16 Miracle Card Trick
17 Ace Away
19 Time Will Tell
21 Loco Card
22 Odds and Evens
23 Prediction
25 Chapter 2 Useful Sleights
25 About the Pass
27 The Pass
30 The Roly Poly Pass
34 The Double Lift
35 Pull Through Shuffle
37 False Shuffle (1)
38 False Shuffle (2)
41 Cut Force
42 Forcing Pack
43 Chapter 3 Tricks Requiring Sleight-Of-Hand
43 Chameleon Packs
44 The Push Through Card Trick
46 Three Card Monte
51 Card Spread
52 Turnover Reverse
54 One Over the Eight
57 How to Make Double-faced Cards
60 Chapter 4 Tricks Using Apparatus
60 The Card in the Wallet
65 Envelope Switch
66 The Card Plaques
68 Two Ways to Vanish a Card
69 'Your Card, Sir'
72 Chapter 5 Miscellaneous Tricks
72 Miraculous Transposition
74 Photographic Thought
78 The Three Card Trick
83 The Vanishing Lady
86 Jumping Joker
89 Transprint
92 Card Vanishing Case
94 Card Through Handkerchief
99 The Mark of Zorro
100 Cards Across Miracle
104 Flip Flap
107 Chapter 6 Guest Artists
107 Frank Curley
108 - The Atomic Card Trick
109 - Curley's Card Force
111 Len Mason
111 - Card Trick without Cards
113 The Great Masoni
113 - Do as I do
118 Reg Salmon
118 - All Change
121 Joe Stuthard
121 - Up-to-date Cards
124 Phil Wye
124 - Coincidence or Magic?
126 Hubert Caddy
127 - Baker's Dozen
128 - Snap Reverse
130 Glossary
LoC Classification |
GV1549 .B32 |
LoC Control Number |
73466662 |
Dewey |
793.8/5 |
No. of Pages |
156 |
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Read It |
No |
Location |
Magic Library (Home) |
Condition |
Very Fine |
Owner |
Bryan-Keith Taylor |
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Harry Baron
(1919-1991), the stage name of Harry Albert Boughen, was the co-founder with Joe Stuthard of The Kaymar Magic Co. He was the editor of Magic Info (1976-1981).
Books
My Best Card Trick (1953)
My Best Close-up Trick (1954)
Close Up Magic For Beginners
Card Tricks for Beginners
Magic for Beginners (1954)
Magic: How to Entertain and Baffle Your Friends with Magic
References
The Magic Circular, Vol. 85, No. 917, July 1991, THE HARRY BARON STORY, page 147
The Linking Ring, Vol. 71, No. 9, September 1991, Our Side of the Pond BY ELIZABETH WARLOCK, page 107
http://www.lybrary.com/harry-baron-m-60566.html, Harry Baron