Astound Your Audience

Volume One Cards

Plot

Wass, Verrall: Astound Your Audience Volume One Cards
©1936 Verrall Wass Publications
Hardcover, 95 pages

Comments (lybrary.com): "This is the first volume in a five volume series from which only two have been published. Verrall Wass takes us through his card tricks from manipulation to mechanical stage/platform effects. The ebook is split into two sections, one describing effects with regular sized cards, the other with giant cards – a total of 22 Amazing Effects in total. The last chapter espouses some of his personal ideas as to magical presentation and psychic phenomenon. Robert Harbin even donated an effect to this collection - "The Card in a Lemon." Many of the ideas in this ebook have been hibernating since 1936 and need to be performed for the public."

Contents (numbers are not page numbers):

i Differences of Opinion

1 I - Force It - Spell It - Count It
2 II - Verrall's Card Sensation
3 III - Challenge Book Test
4 IV - Dual Reverse
5 V - One From Six
6 VI - A Card Curiosity
7 VII - Message In Nicotine
8 VIII - Cigarette Sympathy
9 IX - Harbin's Note In Lemon
10 X - The Crawling Clip
11 XI - Prediction In Red
12 XII - Numerology
13 XIII - Triple Thought Control
14 XVI - Catching Ten Thousand Cards
15 XV - The Naughty Knave
16 XVI - One Destiny
17 XVII - Polychromatic Pasteboards
18 XVIII - Dissected Giant
19 XIX - An Accomplished Impossibility
20 XX - Rifle Range
21 XXI - Telepathy Proved
22 XXII - Slicing Card Conjuring In Two




A Work Containing One Hundred Tricks

This was the first of a projected five volume set, but I believe only two volumes were ever published. This volume deals exclusively with card magic