Harlan TarbellContents
About These Card Lessons
Card lessons selected from Harlan Tarbell’s original correspondence course of the 1920s. The original lesson numbers are retained, so gaps in the numbering are intentional.
Begin with Lesson 9 for the basic principles. Lessons 12–19 explore classic effects, palming, shifts, productions and rising cards. Lessons 34–36 develop impromptu card magic and sleight of hand. Additional selections bring together card effects from mixed-topic lessons.
The illustrations are preserved from the source transcription. Lesson 13 includes its original review of earlier material. These extracts are from the original correspondence course; the later revised hardcover course uses different lesson numbers.
Book contents
Introduction
Core card lessons
- Lesson 9 — The Principles of Card Effects
- Lesson 12 — Cards That Pass in the Night and Cards Up the Sleeve
- Lesson 13 — Review, the Regular Pass and Card Stabs
- Lesson 14 — The Force, Card and Orange, and Banana Effects
- Lesson 15 — Card Positions, Palms, Shifts and Discoveries
- Lesson 16 — Card Penetrations Through Boards and Handkerchiefs
- Lesson 17 — Snap It, Flash Production and the Glass House
- Lesson 18 — Rising Cards
- Lesson 19 — More Rising Card Effects
- Lesson 34 — Twelve Impromptu Effects with Cards
- Lesson 35 — Sleight of Hand with Cards
- Lesson 36 — More Card Magic
Additional card effects
- Lesson 26 — A Card and Ribbon Mystery
- Lesson 29 — The X-Ray Cards
- Lesson 31 — Blindfold Card Reading and A Mystic Discovery
- Lesson 45 — Spirit Photography
- Lesson 54 — The Card Slot