Tricks with Cards

Hoffmann's dedicated card book: the principles of sleight of hand applied to cards, then tricks without apparatus and tricks with prepared cards. This scan is an 1893 American printing with the original illustrated cover.

What’s inside

1. General principles of sleight of hand applicable to card tricks — the pass, palming, forcing, false shuffles, changing a card, the bridge
2. Card tricks with ordinary cards, not requiring sleight of hand — discovering a card, the four kings, the whist trick, the congress of court cards
3. Tricks with the long card and tapering cards — producing a chosen card, catching it from the air
4. Tricks involving sleight of hand or prepared cards — the three sevens, the inseparable aces, nailing a card to the wall, the shower of aces
5. Card tricks requiring special apparatus — the magic sword, rising and jumping cards, card boxes, the torn card

Professor Hoffmann, 1889 · Excelsior Publishing House. Complete 148-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.