Further Magic of the Hands

By Edward Victor

The Final book of the Edward Victor Series, Continuing the sleights of hand effects of the author with coins, cards, ropes, balls, cigarettes, etc.

8 chapters, one of which is devoted to G.W. Hunter's Card Miracles, all previously unpublished material.

Contents Include:

Chapter I "Sleights" & "Aids" In Card Work

• An Invisible Palm
• The "Diagonal-Palm Shift" As an Aid to the "Rising Card Trick": selected cards rise from a fan
• A Useful Envelope for the "Card in Cigarette Effect": a card is torn and the remains except for one corner are placed in an envelope. The card is found in a borrowed cigarette and the card, with matching missing piece, is found inside. The envelope is found to contain only the missing tobacco. Describes the construction of a special envelope
• Switching a Pack: a deck switch described using a table and a handkerchief

Chapter II: Some Fresh Card Effects

• The Haunted Pack: three selected cards push themselves out of the deck while held still in the magician's hand. A version that can be used with any deck
• A Miracle Burnt and Restored Card: two boards are examined. A card is signed, and a corner torn and handed to the spectator. The rest of the card is burned, the initial being seen. The ashes are placed on one board, with the other board placed on top. The card is found restored, with initials, and the missing corner matches
• The Awkward Ace: impromptu. an ambitious card type routine, at the climax the Ace disappears and ends up in the pocket
• Another "Do As I Do" Effect: magician and spectator each select the same card from two packs
• A New Pocket to Pocket Effect: two initialed cards transpose in the magician's pockets
• Veneri's Card Trick: a mathematical card trick requiring a bit of memorization

Chapter III: On Coins

•  New Single-Handed Coin Production: using a back finger clip
• A Further Changing Coin Effect: a borrowed a half dollar (not too likely today) is stroked and changes into an English Penny, then back. Uses sleeving
• An Impromptu Coin Transposition: two borrowed and marked coins transpose under a handkerchief

Chapter IV On Ropes

• The "E.V." Stretching Rope: good intro to "cut and restored rope". a short length of rope is stretched

 Chapter V On Billiard Balls

• A New Billiard Ball Holder and Its Uses: for use with a tailcoat
• A "Drop-Vanish" Sequence: two balls are held in one hand and one is taken. One ball vanishes
• A Production Routine for Seven Solid Billiard Balls: references some of the moves in the earlier Magic of the Hands volumes
• A "Quick" Colour Change

Chapter VI On Cigars and Cigarettes

• A Useful Cigarette Vanish and Recovery: a close-quarters, slow move
• The Rising and Falling Cigarette: a cigarette rises in a test tube, similar to Dushek's Wunderbar
• A Novel Cigar Production: a cigar production using cardboard cigars

Chapter VII G.W. Hunter's Card Tricks

• No. 1 "Four of a Kind": four of a kind appear after several dealings
•  No. 2 "The Sense of Weight": the number of pips on a card equal the number of cards secretly dealt by a spectator (stack)
• No. 3 "The Three Prophecies": Spectator 1 selects a number 1-12, spectator 2 writes a card, the magician writes a third prediction. All come true.
• No. 4 "A Mental Impression": four cards "impressed" on the minds of spectators are dealt from the deck
• No. 5 "A Nap Hand": a problem in the "Nap" card game
• No. 6 "Spelling Bee": "one of Hunter's best"; thirteen cards are dealt, the value of one is selected and dealt, and that card appears
• No. 7 "Think of a Card": magician determines how many cards down a selection is

 Chapter VIII Miscellaneous Effects

• An Impromptu Handkerchief and Thimble Routine: a thimble penetrates the handkerchief and jumps finger to finger
• "Spiritualistic" Visiting Card Mystery: two business cards are shown bland and banded together. When opened, they reveal the names of selected cards. Includes a good move for showing both sides of a card blank, a force for one of six cards, and a force for a series of names
• "Multiple Palming": to be "presented as a feat of palming"; a billiard ball is vanished, then a handkerchief, then a thimble, and then a card taken. The card turns into a billiard ball, which changes into a thimble, which changes into a handkerchief. From the folds of the handkerchief are produced the thimble, ball, and card. No extra apparatus is needed 
• A "Mental" Dice Effect: a demonstration of memory. A Die is thrown by several audience members, the magician remembering theroll of each
• The "Ghost" Mail (Albert Verity): spectator takes six slips of paper, selects a card, write the card on one slip, writes his name on the next, then writes 4 random cards to the remaining slips. These are "mailed" to the magician, who off-stage sends a letter back, naming the selected card

Details: Further Magic of the Hands  By Edward Victor

112 pages, softcover, perfect bound, size 5 1/2" by 8 1/2".

Copyright 1946