Eddie Joseph’s First Card Publication

Released in 1942, this seminal work reflects Eddie Joseph’s two decades of experience in card magic. Rather than being a mere collection of tricks, it serves as a personal insight into Joseph’s unique approach and preferences as a card magician. The book includes a detailed chapter on essential sleights and an extensive section on the clever application of daub.

• Introduction

  PART ONE

• Innovative Adjustments to Standard Sleights

• Card Palming Techniques

• Palming Cards Using Your Feet

• Returning a Palmed Card to the Pack

• Palming Cards at a Table

• The Slip Technique

• Bottom Dealing Techniques

• The Side Steal Method

• The Top Change Technique

• Turning a Card Over in the Pack

  PART TWO: Locations

• A Unique Location

• A Double Location Method

• The Jumping Location Technique

• The Riffle Location Method

• The Palm Location Technique

• The Corner Riffling Location

• The “Nick” Location Method

  PART THREE: Tricks for Every Occasion

• The E. J. Color Change with Cards

• Your Thought Read

• Another Card Discovery Trick

• Think of a Number

• A Test of Sobriety

• The Elimination Trick

• Card Resurrection Technique

• Thought Transference Trick

• Stop! Fire!

• Sensitive Touch Trick

• The Die Trick

• A Quick Four-Ace Trick

• Gone Right Through

• Gone Beyond Recognition

• Wandaphone Trick

• Your Age Will Find You Out

• One Out of Five

• What’s in a Name

• The Writing on the Arm

• The Electrified Card Trick

• The Tekka Card Trick

• Esta Kard Mystery

• The Secret Out — Not Quite

• The Final Speller Trick

• Quadruplication Technique

• The Hazelite Mystery

• The Cardiana Roll

• The Hooded Hew Trick

• Sympathetic Bond Technique

  PART FOUR: Daub Deception

• Preparing the Daub

• First Daubing Method

• Second Daubing Method

• Third Daubing Method

• Fourth Daubing Method

• Fifth Daubing Method

• Sixth Daubing Method

• Seventh Daubing Method

• Eighth Daubing Method

• Ninth Daubing Method

• Tenth Daubing Method

• Eleventh Daubing Method

• Twelfth Daubing Method

• Thirteenth Daubing Method

• Fourteenth Daubing Method

• Fifteenth Daubing Method

• Sixteenth Daubing Method

• Seventeenth Daubing Method

• Eighteenth Daubing Method

• Nineteenth Daubing Method

• Twentieth Daubing Method

• Advice for Daubing

  PART FIVE: Exquisite Experiments

• The Somersault Trick

• The Smacker Trick

• The Renegade Trick

• The Prodigious Card Trick

• The Sensational Card Restoration

• Hallucination Trick

• Card in Cigarette Trick

• The Pellet Test Trick

• The Popinjay Trick

• The Writing on the Wall Trick

• A Remarkable Coincidence Trick

• Peculiar Passage Trick

• A Home-Made Cement for Card Work

• Extra-Sensory Detection Trick

• A Kute Kard Konception Trick

• The Raw Recruit Trick

• “A Letter from Satan” Trick

• Rapid Transit Trick

• The Revolution Trick

• The Mental Marvel Trick

• Distant Thought Penetration Trick

• The Sticker Trick

• Two Old Horses in New Harness Trick

• Cards from Pocket to Pocket Trick

  PART SIX: My Card System

• My Picture Table for Memorizing Cards

• Preparing for a Series of Astounding Tricks with “My System”

• Order of Cards After Shuffling from Top to Bottom

• Formula to Locate Any Card in the Pack

• The Card Fiend