Card Tricks and How to Do Them

A compact card-trick handbook from August Roterberg covering basic sleight of hand and a range of tricks with ordinary cards, written for the amateur.

What’s inside

1. The passes — the Herrmann pass, the Charlier pass
2. The force
3. Changes — top and bottom changes, the Mexican turnover, the colour change
4. Card palming
5. Card sleights — the new glimpse, the bridge, the prearranged pack, the glide, the revolution
6. False shuffles and the cut
7. Mind-reading and prediction — magic versus mnemonics, second sight, thought reading, the conjurer’s prediction, mystic divination
8. Flying cards — the queen of the air, cards shot against a hat, rapid transit
9. Feats of skill — card caught on a plate, gravity defied, the balanced card
10. Transformations and vanishes — penetration of matter, mysterious change, the phoenix, vanishing cards, vice versa
11. Tricks with other objects — handkerchief trick, cards, coins and glass, demon envelope, card frames
12. Card boxes and apparatus — the card box, the new brass card box, the card servante

A. Roterberg, 1902 · Frederick J. Drake & Co. Complete 164-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.