Fitzkee, Dariel: The Card Expert Entertains
©1948 Dariel Fitzroy
Softcover, 173 pages
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Contents (numbers are not page numbers)

1 Foreword

2 Chapter One
3 A Delusion
4 The Card Expert's Secret
5 Good and Bad Tricks
6 Pleasant Ways to Waste Time
7 Magicians As Audiences
8 The Magician's Real Audience
9 Laying Out the Lay Down
10 Something Must Be Added
11 A rule for Selecting Good Tricks
12 What is a Card Expert

13 Chapter Two
14 Few From So Many
15 The Nineteen Basic Card Tricks
16 And Their Combinations
17 Dressing
18 Six Transpositions
19 Five Cunning Disguises

20 Chapter Three
21 Many Sleight of Hand Moves
22 Does the Expert Learn Them All?
23 The Expert's Qualifications Vary With the Viewpoint
24 To The Card Expert
25 To the Magician
26 To the Layman
27 Secret Operations
28 Three Classes of Technique
29 The Mystic Sixteen

30 Chapter Four
31 The Sixteen Accomplishments With Card Moves
32 Identity
33 Whereabouts
34 Substitution
35 Removal
36 Concealment
37 Arrangement
38 Disquise
39 Possession
40 Counting
41 Forcing
42 Searching
43 Miscounting
44 Addiction
45 Reversal
46 Movement
47 Skill
48 Examples

49 Chapter Five
50 It All Seems So Simple
51 Dated Methods
52 Changes Seem to Simplify
53 Methods Depend Upon Character
54 Easter Substitutes
55 A Subtlety
56 Reasons For Variation in Method
57 How To Do It

58 Chapter Six
59 Obsessions, Objections and Observations
60 Elsa Maxwell On Card Tricks
61 Slants on Sleights
62 Interest for the Spectator
63 Sleuthing Unvarnished
64 Stage Setting Shamusry
65 What Can Be Done With Cards
66 Changes In Styles
67 Skill Versus Psychology
68 Making the Sleights Part of the Trick
69 A Suggestion for Confidence

70 Chapter Seven
71 A Different Thirty Card Trick
72 The Two-Handed Pass
73 A Simplified Pass
74 The Shuffle Pass
75 The False Shuffle
76 Envelope Placement Steal
77 Envelope Transfer
78 Blonde, Brunette, Redhead

79 Chapter Eight
80 Spell It
81 Fan Jog
82 Charts for Spelling
83 The Trained Dog
84 Presentation

85 Chapter Nine
86 Transposition Extraordinary
87 Transferring the King
88 The Force
89 Tips on Forcing
90 Outs
91 Ideas on Acting
92 Conviction, with and Assist From the Moscow Art Theatre
93 The Top Change
94 The Top Change With Several Cards

95 Chapter Ten
96 Separation
97 How Experts Become Experts
98 Experts are Normal Humans
99 Trying the Impossible
100 Thumb Count from the Bottom
101 The Erdnase Bottom Palm
102 Returning Palmed Cards to the Bottom of the Pack
103 The Bottom Deal
104 Palming

105 Chapter Eleven
106 Card and Envelope
107 Card and Cigarette
108 Dobuble Envelope
109 Indetecto
110 Nail Marking
111 Buried Treasure Presentation

112 Chapter Twelve
113 Cards Mysterio
114 The Crimp
115 Indifferent Card Inserted at Selected Card
116 The Riffle Shift
117 The Second Deal
118 Sympathy in Choice
119 The Mental Fan Force
120 Card Under Foot
121 The Fan Crimp
122 The Thumb Count From Top
123 The Double Lift
124 The Modified Double Change

125 Chapter Thirteen
126 A Pack of Cards and Four Pockets
127 The Arrangement
128 First Effect
129 The Blind Cut
130 One Hand Riffle
131 Second Effect
132 The Pack Arrangement
133 Counting Cards in the Pocket
134 The Sympathetic Cards
135 The Two Handed Double Pass
136 To Shuffle Three Cards From Top to Bottom
137 The Steal Cut
138 The Milk Build Shift
139 The Flesh Grip
140 The Buckley Bottom Shift
141 The Sid Seek Discussion

142 Chapter Fourteen
143 Four Aces
144 The Glide
145 Conjurors' Choice
146 Card Under Hat
147 Envelope Card Steal
148 One Card From Ten
149 Atom Bomb Presentation
150 Is the Card You Thought of There?
151 The Index Fan Sight
152 Slap Cards
153 The Side Steal Color Change
154 Alternatives
155 Selected Card at Any Number
156 The Riffle Force
157 The Two Handed Pass Above Bottom Card

158 Chapter Fifteen
159 Twenty Cards in Transit
160 Hand to Hand Transfer
161 A False Count
162 The Color Change
163 Red or Black
164 Friction
165 A Triple Climax
166 The Slap Shift
167 The Push Up Steal
168 Cards to the Pocket
169 Novelty Legitiamate Count
170 Six Card Palm
171 A False Count
172 The Slilde Vanish

173 Chapter Sixteen
174 The Burglar
175 Secret Removal Between Two Cards
176 Psychic Photography
177 X-Ray
178 Arrangement
179 Stabbing Between Chosen Cards in Wrapped Pack
180 The Bridge
181 Stabbing Chosen Cards While Blindfolded

182 Chapter Seventeen
183 The Mystic Paper Slips
184 A Bullet File
185 From the Pocket
186 System
187 Jordon Plus an Old Arrangement

188 Chapter Eighteen
189 Tricks, Methods and Individuals
190 Substitutions for the Independent
191 Ways and Means
192 Courage and Perseverance


193 Index




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