Si Stebbins' Card Tricks and the Way They Are Performed

The little booklet that made the Si Stebbins stack famous. The vaudeville card man explains his set-up deck and the tricks he did with it, in his own plain words.

What’s inside

1. The system and its rules — shuffling, numerical value, position, and position as to suits
2. To name a card drawn from behind the back
3. To tell how many and what cards are drawn from behind the back
4. A handful of cards in the pocket, taken out one at a time as called for
5. To make a person name the card in his pocket without looking at it
6. The thought-of card that ends up in the spectator’s pocket
7. To name any card you are asked to stop on, behind the back
8. To tell how far from the top any card called for lies
9. Dealing every trump to yourself at whist
10. Dealing every heart to yourself at hearts
11. Dealing a pat flush of any suit called for
12. The card tacked to the wall or ceiling
13. The three-deck trick — Si Stebbins’s famous trick
14. Naming the card at any number in a cut pile
15. A mind-reading trick (apparently)

Si Stebbins, c. 1900 · Otto Eisenlohr & Bros. Complete 15-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.