The amazing book of magic & card tricks / Jon Tremaine

Part One -- Basic Handling Skills -- The Language Of The Card Magician --Overhand Shuffle -- Cutting -- Card Spread -- Overhand False Shuffle --Overhand Shuffle Practice Routine – Palming -- The Glide -- The Double Lift --
Forcing -- Force 1: X-Ing The Pack -- Force 2: Slip Cut Force -- Force 3: Hanky Panky Force -- Force 4: Cross Hand Force -- Part Two Selected Card Tricks
Acrobatic Aces -- Ambitious Card Trick -- Here Today - Gone Tomorrow! --Cards Across -- The Pimpernel Queen -- Change Of Identity -- The Phoenix Card Trick -- The Ghostly Card! -- Cleopatra's Needle -- The Gobsmacker Card Trick -- The See-Through Card Trick -- Times Four -- Part Three
Self-Working Card Tricks -- The Dream Card -- Out Of This World -- Time Gentlemen Please -- The Impossible Card Trick -- The Circus Card Trick -- The Fabulous Four -- A Mathematical Certainty 112 7-Up! -- Too Hot To Handle --
Do As I Do -- Part Four -- Money Magic -- Voodoo Vanish And Palming -- The Coin Fold -- The Sitting-Down Coin Vanish -- Brass Neck And Elbow -- How Could You Stoop So Low? -- The Cheeky Coin Vanish – Penetration -- Heads You Lose! -- In Pocket -- The Magic Pen -- The Snappy Coin Trick -- "Gone!" -- Money To Burn -- Part Five -- Safety Pin Magic -- Spooky Pins -- Hanky Panky -- A Ripping Yarn! -- Drop-Out -- Pin In A Spin -- Part Six -- Matchbox Magic -- Sounds Easy -- The Acrobatic Matchbox -- The Walking Dead -- Part Seven -- Rope Magic
The Knot That Is Not! -- The Snip -- How Long Is A Piece Of Rope? -- Ring Off -- Mint Off -- Part Eight -- Magic Miscellany -- The Haunted Key -- Short And Sweet! -- Over The Top -- Pencil Pusher -- Superman! -- The Fade-Away Pen -- Mightier Than The Sword -- Final Afterthoughts.

Shows how to perform tricks using simple props such as coins, safety pins, matches, rope and string, keys, or even sugar cubes, that, with the mastery of a few straightforward handling techniques, can keep an audience spellbound.