Harlan TarbellContents
Source and Edition Notes
Original text and illustrations: Harlan Tarbell’s 1920s correspondence course. The selections use a later electronic transcription credited to José Antonio González Campos (2002–2003), rather than scans of the original correspondence sheets.
Editorial changes in this reading edition are limited to selecting the card material, organizing the lessons, and adapting the text and illustrations to the website. Original lesson numbers are retained. The modern cover and consolidated contents were excluded.
Source electronic transcription (PDF) · U.S. Copyright Office: duration of copyright. The original 1920s U.S. material is within the pre-1931 public-domain cutoff; this does not establish the status of additions in later revised editions.
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