50 New Card Secrets by Frank La Fontaine & Dai Vernon

50 simple card tricks that anyone can do with any deck of playing cards, without sleight-of-hand.

From the Introduction:

The idea that long practice and exceptional skill are necessary in the performance of card tricks is erroneous. Some of the cleverest and most bewildering tricks are made possible by the use of subtle principles of unique methods that are easily learned, yet which are capable of deceiving the keenest and most intelligent spectator.

Such are the methods explained in this booklet. These tricks have been devised by experienced performers of card tricks, men who understand the psychology of deception and who know that a clever, well-developed principle can be used to create an amazing mystery.

This was part of the 'Sealed Book' series. It includes a few ads in the back.

Few know that the first edition of this booklet, containing 25 tricks, was compiled by Dai Vernon. Later editions added Si Stebbins effects and a couple of other card tricks. The original 25 tricks Vernon compiled are tricks 11-23 and 25-36.

1. To The Reader

2. Non-Mechanical Four Ace Trick

3. Naming Card Held Behind Back

4. Naming Card Chosen During Your Absence

5. Producing Chosen Card From Pocket

6. Enchanted Card

7. Magnetic Card Locater

8. Invisible Transference

9. Eighth Wonder Card Trick

10. Ideal Card Divination

11. The Vanishing Ace

12. The Three Pile Selection

13. The Reversing Card

14. The Vanishing And Reappearing Card

15. The Five To Ten Trick

16. The Mysterious Change

17. The Hotel Trick

18. Divination Of A Number Of Cards Selected Behind Performer's Back

19. The Whispering Queen

20. Cards From Pocket – Effect No. 1

21. Cards From Pocket – Effect No. 2

22. Spectator Finds A Card Called For By The Magician

23. The Magic Jacks

24. "Socko"

• The Master System

• To Name A Card That A Spectator Draws From The Pack

• To Tell How Many – And What Cards Have Been Drawn From The Pack

• To Run The Cards – Behind The Back – And Name Any Card Stopped At

• To Tell How Far From The Top – Any Card Is

• To Deal Yourself Every Trump – In A Whist Or 4 Hand Game

• To Deal A Pat Flush Of Any Suit – Called For To The Person Asking For Same

25. Instructions For Tearing A Pack Of Cards Into Halves And Quarters

26. The Mystic Seven Trick

27. The X Ray Trick

28. Card And Coin Trick

29. The Mysterious Egg And Card Mystery

30. The Marvelous "Q" Trick

31. The Twenty Five Card Trick

32. Finding The Selected Cards

33. Non Mechanical Rising Card Trick

34. Another Way Of Finding The Selected Card

35. The Mental Telepathy Trick

36. The Selected Card Is Caused To Vanish

37. You Do As I Do

38. Mind Reading

39. Any Number From Top

40. The Card Through The Handkerchief

41. The Clock Trick

42. Knockout Counting Trick

43. Divining Pack Of Cards

44. Mystical Divination Of Cards By The Five Senses

45. The Thousand To One Card Trick