SYNOPSIS:
The Second Now You See It, Now You Don’t!: More Lessons in Sleight of Hand continues Bill Tarr’s illustrated course with more advanced techniques for cards, coins, billiard balls, silks, cigarettes, and other small objects. Like the first volume, it relies heavily on Barry Ross’s sequential drawings, with concise text explaining each grip, movement, concealment, and application.
The card section covers false shuffles and cuts, locator cards, crimps, forces, palms, controls, passes, changes, double lifts, second deals, the Elmsley Count, card locations, and manipulative flourishes such as split fans. The coin section teaches a wide range of palms and vanishes, changeover palms, transpositions, Coins Through Table, shell coins, magnetic coins, and Okito Box techniques. A final section introduces ball productions and vanishes, billiard-ball flourishes, silk handling, cigarette vanishes, a matchbook vanish, and the classic vanishing-salt technique.
Unlike a general trick anthology, this is primarily a technical training manual. The material is organized around reusable sleights and manipulative skills, with complete routines included to demonstrate how those techniques can be combined in performance.
Book Details:
Author/Creator: Bill Tarr
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Year: 1978
Subjects: Cards, Coins, Billiard Balls, Close-Up Magic
Pages: 224
Skill Level: Intermediate
Availability: Abebooks
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• introduction (p. 9)
• how to use this book (p. 11)
• cards (p. 22)
• false shuffles (p. 24)
• to keep the bottom card(s) intact (p. 24)
• to keep the top card intact (p. 25)
• to keep the top portion of deck intact (p. 26)
• a more deceptive method (p. 27)
• to keep the whole deck intact (p. 28)
• to keep the whole deck intact II (p. 29)
• to keep the whole deck intact II (the late G. W. Hunter method) (p. 30)
• false riffle shuffle (p. 30)
• slip cut (p. 31)
• false cut (p. 32)
• key or locator cards (p. 34)
• short card (p. 34)
• how to use a short card (p. 35)
• another method (p. 36)
• short corners (p. 37)
• broken corner (p. 37)
• slick ace (p. 38)
• marked cards (p. 39)
• ribbon spread location (p. 40)
• crimps (p. 42)
• basic method (p. 42)
• method two (p. 43)
• dr. elliot’s crimp (p. 43)
• fan crimp (p. 44)
• the bridge (p. 44)
• the peek (p. 45)
• top card peek (p. 45)
• bottom card peek (p. 45)
• riffle force (p. 46)
• bottom force (p. 48)
• a ted annemann force (p. 50)
• bottom slip (p. 51)
• one-hand top palm (p. 52)
• one-hand top palm II (p. 54)
• side steal (p. 55)
• transferring the break (p. 55)
• the herrmann pass (p. 56)
• double cut (p. 58)
• top change (p. 60)
• card change (p. 62)
• thumb count double lift (p. 64)
• corner double lift (p. 65)
• miscellaneous locations (p. 66)
• the turnover card (p. 66)
• card on the ceiling (p. 66)
• sleight of foot (p. 67)
• fan location (p. 68)
• fan return (p. 70)
• tap through (p. 71)
• elmsley count (p. 72)
• second deal (p. 74)
• the easiest version (p. 74)
• one-hand second deal (p. 75)
• blackjack dealer’s one-hand second (p. 76)
• snap seconds (p. 77)
• bottom card reverse (p. 78)
• working behind your back (p. 79)
• four ace location (p. 80)
• card through handkerchief (p. 82)
• the princess trick (p. 84)
• a double divination quickie (p. 86)
• deck flip (p. 87)
• flourishes (p. 88)
• one-hand pivot cut (p. 90)
• multiple version (p. 91)
• one-hand triple cut (p. 92)
• color-change routine (p. 94)
• single card vanish (p. 98)
• modified back-and-front palm (p. 100)
• impromptu fan routine (p. 102)
• split fans (p. 106)
• single card production (p. 111)
• cardini’s single card production (p. 111)
• basic split fan routine (p. 112)
• coins (p. 116)
• palming (p. 118)
• finger palm (p. 118)
• classic palm (p. 118)
• thumb palm (p. 118)
• back thumb palm (p. 119)
• back finger clip (p. 119)
• front finger clip (p. 119)
• finger squeeze (p. 119)
• fake coins (p. 120)
• shell (p. 120)
• expanded shell (p. 120)
• steel shim shell (p. 120)
• half-dollar, English penny set (p. 120)
• magnetic half-dollar, English penny set (p. 120)
• lever set (p. 120)
• bang ring (p. 121)
• nested coins (p. 121)
• magnetic coin (p. 122)
• steel shim coin (p. 122)
• hooked coin (p. 122)
• folding coin (p. 122)
• double-faced coin (p. 122)
• stack of coins (p. 123)
• t. nelson downs gimmicked coin (p. 123)
• classic palm vanish (p. 124)
• a casual vanish (p. 126)
• the slide vanish (p. 128)
• paul le paul’s french drop (p. 130)
• coin vanish with handkerchief (p. 132)
• handkerchief vanish (p. 134)
• improved thumb palm vanish (p. 136)
• bill tarr magic vanish (p. 138)
• tuck vanish (p. 140)
• bill tarr palm surprise (p. 141)
• the click pass (p. 142)
• coin through leg (p. 144)
• coin through hand (p. 146)
• …and back again (p. 147)
• coin through handkerchief (p. 148)
• changeover palm I (p. 150)
• changeover palm II (p. 151)
• changeover palm III (p. 152)
• changeover palm I and II combined (p. 153)
• passe passe coins (p. 155)
• coin roll (p. 156)
• shell coin production (p. 157)
• one-coin impromptu routine (p. 158)
• coin through glass (p. 160)
• coins through table (p. 162)
• multiplying coin pass (p. 166)
• hand-to-hand coins (p. 168)
• the classic copper/silver transposition (p. 172)
• copper/silver transposition II (p. 174)
• coins and magnets (p. 176)
• cuff steal (p. 178)
• close-up magnetic coin routine (p. 180)
• the okito box (p. 186)
• my turnover (p. 188)
• standard turnover (p. 188)
• another method (p. 188)
• tossing the loaded box (p. 188)
• one-hand turnover (p. 190)
• one-hand turnover II (p. 191)
• the pickup (p. 192)
• the flip-over (p. 193)
• coin through box (p. 194)
• simple box penetration (p. 195)
• silver to copper (p. 196)
• balls, silks, cigarettes (p. 198)
• throw vanish (p. 200)
• a buckley production and vanish (p. 202)
• ball through handkerchief (p. 204)
• advanced billiard-ball moves (p. 206)
• to produce the second ball (p. 206)
• to show shell on both sides (p. 207)
• the handkerchief ball (p. 208)
• vanishing silk (p. 208)
• to reproduce silk (p. 209)
• quickie billiard-ball flourishes (p. 210)
• an original cigarette vanish (p. 211)
• a new cigarette vanish (p. 212)
• cigarette bits (p. 214)
• a matchbook move (p. 215)
• vanishing salt trick (p. 216)
• glossary (p. 220)
• a few magical references (p. 222)
