Lewis Ganson

Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic (1-3)

The Supreme Magic Company (1958)

Hardcover

344 pages | Great Britain | English

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Dewey 793.8

Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks

Plot

Ganson, Lewis: Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic (1-3)
©1958 Supreme Magic, Inc., London
Hardcover, w/dj,

The Entertaining Card Magic of Cy Endfield
©2009 Martin Breese & Paul Gordon
eBook 224 Pages

Lewis Ganson: Entertaining Card Magic
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Lewis Ganson: Cy
Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic
Martin Breese Edition
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Comments: Originally published by Harry Stanley in three separate parts (1955, 1956, 1958), Supreme magic put out a combined edition. In 2009, Martin Breese and Paul Gordon did a complete remake of all three parts in one volume with new photos taken by Martin Breese and posed by Paul Gordon. This latter edition is available as an e-Book from Lybrary.com

Contents (From Supreme Magic Edition ToC, each book page numbered separately):
1 Part 1
4 Foreword
7 Chapter 1 - To Lighten the Burden
10 Chapter 2 - Two to Divine
15 Chapter 3 - Two Useful Sleights
21 Chapter 4 - Conjure Bones
24 Chapter 5 - ‘Blackie Is With Us!’
28 Chapter 6 - Cards to Pocket
40 Chapter 7 - The Biddle Move
42 Chapter 8 - The Escape of the Musketeers
46 Chapter 9 - The Famous Magazine Test
51 Appendix - Basic Card Sleights
51 - Second Deal, Single Handed
53 - Endfield Slip Cut
55 - Best Overhand False Shuffle
58 - Buckle Count
60 - False Count
62 - Jog Control

1 Part 2
5 Chapter 1 - The Three Card Monte
20 Chapter 2 - Card Selection and Control
30 Chapter 3 - Glimpse of Thought
35 Chapter 4 - Sub Aqua
37 Chapter 5 - Card Penetration and Change
41 Chapter 6 - The ‘Hofzinser’ Top Change
44 Chapter 7 - There’s Five Aces!
46 Chapter 8 - Aces for Connoisseurs

1 Part 3
5 Chapter 1 - The Ambitious Card
13 Chapter 2 - Potpourri
20 Chapter 3 - Signed Card to Pocket
25 Chapter 4 - Time Must Tell
28 Chapter 5 - The Single Flight of the Aces
38 Chapter 6 - Gambler Out-Gambled
44 Appendix - Basic Card Slights
44 - Slip Cut Force
46 - The Slip (or Blind) Cut
48 - The Endfield Bottom Palm
51 - The ‘Milk Build’ Shuffle
53 - The Double Lift
59 - Riffle Shuffle

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Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	4365
Added Date	Sep 17, 2019 21:47:19
Modified Date	Apr 06, 2026 14:22:06

Value

Book Condition	Fine

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Lewis Ganson

Cover of Genii (1974)
Born Lewis Jack Ganson
April 15, 1913
Burford Arms, Startford Market, London, England
Died December 22, 1980 (age 67)
Hampshire, England
Categories Books by Lewis Ganson
Lewis Ganson (b.1913-d.1980) was one of the most prolific writers in magic with over sixty books to his credit.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Awards and Honors
3 Books
4 References
Biography
He was a professional close-up magician, except for his time in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939-1958.

For years, Ganson was editor of Harry Stanley's magazine The Gen and contributor to the Magigram magazine. He was a vice president of the British Ring of the IBM and a founding member of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle.

Awards and Honors
Academy of Magical Arts' first Literary Fellowship in 1968.
Books
Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards (1948)
How Right You Are (1948)
Routined Manipulation, Vol. 1 (1950)
Routined Manipulation, Vol. 2 (1952)
Routined Manipulation Finale (1954)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic (1955)
A Magician Explains (1955)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic II (1956)
Dai Vernon Book of Magic (1957)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic III (1958)
Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1959)
Magic from the Mind (1959)
Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1960)
The Magic of Slydini (1960)
Dai Vernon's Further Secrets of Card Magic (1961)
Malini and His Magic (1962)
Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig (1963)
Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic (1967)
The Art of Close-up, Vol. 1 (1967)
The Art of Close-up, Vol. 2 (1969)
Ganson Teach-In Series (1977-1987)
The Ganson Book (1983)
The Complete Ganson Magic Teach-In Series (2010)
References
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Magic Circular, Vol. 75, No. 812, January 1981, Obituaries, LEWIS GANSON, page 27
Obit Genii 1981 January
The Linking Ring, Vol.61, No. 3, March 1981, Our Side of the Pond by PETER WARLOCK, page 93, LEWIS GANSON, page 117
M-U-M, Vol. 70, No.10, MARCH 1981, Broken Wands, LEWIS GANSON, page 39
Goodliffe's Abracadabra, Vol. 73, No. 1896, May 1982, Tribute to Lewis Ganson, page 676
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Magicana, Vol. 30, No. 176, July-August 1982, TRIBUTE TO LEWIS GANSON EVENING – 17 MAY 1982 by EDWIN HOOPER
The Magic Circular, Vol. 100, No. 1075, February 2006, A Tribute to Lewis Ganson – Alexander Crawford by Peter Altman, page 63
Lewis Ganson - Dai Vernon book of Magic bibliography