Scarne on Card Tricks
Scarne on Card Tricks, by John Scarne, is a treasure trove of card magic. This book, while it may appear small compared to some of the other modern books, is actually jam-packed with 155 card tricks!
These tricks come in full detail from start to finish, and most of them are from other well known professional magicians too. The list of performers include Harry Houdini, Dai Vernon, Harry Lorayne, Martin Gardner, Dr. Jacob Daly, Cardini, Bob Hummer, and many, many more!
What makes this book even more interesting is the fact that each trick presented requires no sleight of hand dexterity. They are all, more or less, self-working tricks. John Scarne, an authority on gambling and card tricks, modified and tweaked each and every routine so that the practitioner can perform it without needing to have a word-class Classic Pass, without worrying about Double Lifts splitting, without needing to hold breaks and palming cards and all of the other sleights that need countless hours of practice. Though, practice is still necessary, the effects presented here are tricks to keep in your repertoire and to add into any solid set.
Contents of Scarne on Card Tricks
Introduction
A New Era in Card Tricks
Effects
| Performers | |
| Calling the Cards | |
| Aces from the Pocket | |
| The Upside-Down Deck | Francis Carlyle |
| Traveling Aces | Charlie Nagle |
| Dunninger's Mental Card Trick | Joseph Dunninger |
| Behind the Back Card Trick | Carmine Laino |
| Scarne's Predicto | |
| The Four Royal Flushes | |
| Egg a la Card | Paul Clive |
| The Turn Around Cards | |
| It's a Natural | Martin Gardner, Bill Simon, and Al Altman |
| The Talking Card | Al Altman |
| You Do as I Do | |
| You Do as I Do (Using one pack of cards) | Al Baker and Dr. Ben Braude |
| Heath's Master Speller | Royal Heath |
| Cardini's Mind Reading Card Trick | Cardini |
| Sensitive Fingertips | Bob Hummer |
| Separating Red and Black Cards | |
| Sympathetic Aces | |
| The Four Packs | |
| The Wizard | Steffi Storm |
| Reverso | |
| The Dean's Poker Deal | |
| The Memory Test | Charles Jordon |
| Spectator's Magic Count | |
| Topsy-Turvy Deck | Bob Hummer |
| Finding a Selected Card | |
| Thought Control | Howard Wurst |
| Magic in Your Own Hands | Cliff Green |
| Mathematical Finder | |
| Swimmers | |
| The Weigle Aces | Oscar Weigle |
| The Mathematical Card Trick | Dr. Jacob Daly |
| Nomenclature | Joseph Dunninger |
| Hands-Off Miracle | Joseph Barnett |
| The Photographic Match | Russell Swan |
| Perplexity | George Delaney |
| The Initials Will Tell | Cardini, Dai Vernon, Nate Leipzig, Francis Carlyle, and Martin Gardner |
| Double Duty | |
| The Love Birds | |
| Hit the Deck | |
| The Betting Card Trick | |
| The Card That Tells | Jack Spalding |
| Mind Control | Max Holden |
| The Whispering Card | Landson Butler |
| The Stubborn Card | Bob Hummer |
| Color Scheme | Oscar Weigle |
| Magic Numbers | Clayton Rawson |
| The Acrobatic Card | Larry Klunck |
| Flighty Aces | Lu-Brent |
| Braude's Mental Card Trick | Dr. Ben Braude |
| The Magic Number Trick | Jack Miller |
| Instanto | Cliff Green |
| Switcheroo | Walter Gibson |
| Quadruple Coincidence | George Starke |
| The New Deal Poker Hand | Dr. Al Berndt and Peter Musto |
| Houdini's Double-Talk Card Trick | Harry Houdini, Herman the Great, Dr. Jacob Daly, and Sam Horowitz |
| Locatrix | Ted Anneman |
| Double Prediction | Bill Simon |
| Card Couting Extraordinary | Bob Dunn |
| Double Surprise | Bill Simon |
| The Stapled Card | Joseph Prieto |
| Allerchrist Card Trick | Bert Allerton and Henry Christ |
| The Triple Deal Card Trick | H. C. Cleveland, Carlton King, Sid Margulies, and Ira Zweifack |
| The Spelling Bee | John McArdle, Jack Chanin, John Weiss, and Al Flosso |
| Double Revelation | Herb Rungie, George Pearce, and Ande Furlong |
| Walsh's Long Distance Card Trick | Audley Walsh |
| Scarne's Drunken Poker Deal | |
| Perfect Prediction | Chester Morris |
| The Puzzler | Bob Short |
| Selected Card Vanishes into Pocket | Johnny Albenice |
| Jame's Miracle | Stewart James |
| The Obedient Cards | Nat Bernstein and Morty Zuckert |
| The Traveling Card | Jack Miller |
| Personification | Oscar Weigle |
| My Lucky Card | Bill Simon |
| The Poker-Face Card Trick | Frank Garcia and George Schindler |
| Winning Poker | Louis Zingone |
| Scarne's Follow the Leader | Dr. Alan Barnett |
| The Great Poker Demonstration | Harry Lorayne, Clayton Rawson, and Norman Jenson |
| Up and Down | Dai Vernon |
| The Magic Four-Spot | Paul Morris and P. C. Sorcar |
| Garcia' Card Location | Frank Garcia |
| Breath Control | Larry Arcuri, Bill Pawson, Howard Wurst, Ken Krenzel, and Frank. J. Kelly |
| Vernon's Three-Card Assembly | Dai Vernon and Carmen Da Mico |
| Scarne's Twenty-Two Stop Trick | |
| Jack Goes to Town | Nick Navarino |
| Lyle's Four of a Kind | Art Lyle |
| Cardini's Color Discernment | Cardini |
| Miraskill | Stewart James |
| Lorayne's Mind Reading Card Trick | Harry Lorayne |
| The Quickie Card Trick | Milton Berle |
| Scarne's Birds of a Feather | |
| Five Nine King | Martin Gardner |
| The Eight Ace Routine | Otis Maning, Phil Sevush, Charles W. Nyquist, and Jack McMillen |
| Scarne's Lie Speller | Martin Gardner |
| Scarne's Tappit | |
| The Piano Card Trick | Nate Leipzig, Dai Vernon, John Mulholland, and Francis Carlyle |
| Cross Suits | Martin Gardner, Johnny Albenice, and Bert Feinson |
| The Card on the Wall | Johnny Paul, Howard Thurston, and Richard Du Bois |
| Variation on Card on the Wall | Melbourne Christopher |
| Scarne's Red and Black Speller | Dell O'Dell |
| Scarne, Please Help Me | Joseph Linman |
| Carlyle's Migrating Decks | Francis Carlyle |
| Buckle Up | Le Paul, Zingone, Ed Marlo, Jimmy Herpick, and Al Cohn |
| Double Empathy | Bill Nord and Sol Stone |
| Scarne's Six-Way Baffler | |
| Variation on Six-Way Baffler | George Kaplan |
| Dice Will Tell | Howard Thurston and Oscar Weigle |
| Affinity in Numbers | Harry Houdini, Nate Leipzig, and Harry M. Levine |
| Gardner's Sympathetic Cards | Martin Gardner |
| The Last Two Cards | Harry Houdini and Stewart Judah |
| Three-in-One Card Trick | Warren Wiersbe |
| The Drunk Plays Bridge | Howard P. Albright and "General" U. F. Grant |
| Scarne's Phone Miracle | |
| Scarne's Knockout Card Trick | |
| The Stopper Mind Reading Trick | Charles W. Nyquist and Edward Dart |
| Cardology - or, A Card Trick without Cards | Blackstone |
| Card on the Ceiling | Harry Houdini, Howard Thurston, Blackstone, Max Malini, Mikola, and Carl Rosini |
| Variation on Card on the Ceiling | Frank Garcia, Clayton Rawson, and Paul Fleming |
| Leipzig's Pocket Card Trick | Nate Leipzig |
| Thurston's Card Mystery | Howard Thurston |
| Scarne's Miracle Card-Finder Trick | |
| The Spirit Card Trick | Audley Walsh and Jerry Lukins |
| Double Location | John J. Crimmins Jr. |
| Ribbon Spread | Chet Miller and Rusduck the Magician |
| The Odd Will | Bruce Elliot |
| The Uninvited Joker | George Karger |
| The Impossible Location | Martin Gardner |
| The Complementary Cards | Nate Leipzig |
| Behind My Back | Bert Feinson |
| Si Stebbins' Master Memory Test | Si Stebbins |
| Si Stebbins' Master Tricks | Si Stebbins |
| The Mishap Poker Deal | George Schindler and Bob Condon |
| The Twenty-One Card Spelling Trick | Martin Sunshine |
| The Future Deck | Jack Vosburgh |
| Leipzig's Symphathetic Cards | Nate Leipzig |
| Thought Ablaze | Charle Roe |
| Add Lib | Oscar Weigle |
| Seeing Through the Deck | Dr. Ed Costello and Bill Simon |
| General Arnold's Master Speller | |
| The Psychic Number Seven | Louis Tannen |
| On the Square | Eddie Joseph |
| Scarne's Sympathetic Card Trick | |
| The Second-Guess Card Trick | Paul Rosini and W. F. (Rufus) Steele |
| The Atomic Location | Audley Walsh and Al Baker |
| Scarne's Power of Thought | |
| The Card Through a Handkerchief | Harlan Tarbell and Jimmy Gripo |
| The Card in the Wallet | Bill Pawson and Howard Wurst |
| The Card Clock | Bill Pawson and Howard Wurst |
| Automic Pencil Writing | Frank Garcia |
| The Four Deuces | Franke Garcia and Dr. Jaks |
| Wild Bill Hickock's Hand | Henry Christ |
| Einstein and the Magician | Warner Perry and Edward Dart |
| Scarne's Color Control |
Where to buy?
Last I checked, you should be able to pick up Scarne on Card Tricks at Vanishing Inc. The last price tag I saw for this book was set at $11.36.
This book is written by John Scarne, featuring the work of various others. Mine is a paperback copy published in 1950 by Dover Publications, printed in 2003 with a total of 308 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-486-42735-5
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card magic