Stewart James in Print: The First 50 Years

Stewart James in Print: The First 50 Years
Author	Stewart James
Publisher	Hermetic Press
Illustrator	Joseph Schmidt
Publication Date	1989
Language	English
Pages	1,000

Stewart James in Print: The First 50 Years is one of the largest magic books ever published. It was edited by P. Howard Lyons and Allan Slaight, and is a testament to the tricks and routines of Stewart James, as published or marketed over a fifty year span. The book was published in 1989 by Hermetic Press, and is now out of print.

See also: Allan Slaight's The James File, which has a 130 page index by William Goodwin that includes this book..

Contents

• XXV How To Read This Book
• XXVII Jamesosophy, Indeed
• XXVIII The Experience
• XXIX Interlude On Creation

• 1 The Boy’s World and The Knot of Enchantment
• 3 A Match For Gravity
• 5 See The Point?
• 7 Jack-Knife Acrobat
• 8 Surprising Suspension
• 10 Penciltration

• 13 The Tarbell Course
• 15 Hooda Thunkit
• 16 Jogestja Living And Dead Test

• 19 Assumptive Trinities
• 21 The Captive Ring
• 24 How To Do It
• 24 Man Driving An Auto
• 25 Aywun Key Addition
• 26 The Radical Ring

• 27 Testimonial For Stan Hall
• 28 The Case Without A Clue
• 28 Match ´Em
• 29 Famous Folk Test
• 31 Spell Of Mystery

• 35 Contests
• 36 Passing Of Professor Prodenpoke
• 38 An Interesting Coincidence No. Two
• 39 Psycho-Dyne
• 40 Ghostly Graphology
• 42 Three Cheers
• 43 Phenomenal Phantasm
• 44 The Perfect Prediction
• 46 Modernized Slade Needle Test
• 47 Dazzling Darkness
• 49 Not Expected
• 51 A. Spirit, Secretary
• 53 Radio Mindreading
• 55 A Passing Problem
• 57 Say It With Flowers
• 58 Success And Flowers
• 60 Pretty Posy Poser

• 63 Keeping Track
• 64 Jogestja Magazine Test
• 65 A Kiss In The Dark
• 66 Crayola Conundrum

• 67 Evolution Of Evolution Of A Dream
• 69 Evolution Of A Dream
• 73 Gnikool
• 74 Mental Concentration
• 76 The Marble Divination
• 78 Unique Slate Test

• 81 Charles T. Jordan
• 84 Mystifying Five-Card Problem
• 85 Lack Lite
• 87 Check And Double Check
• 88 Cardomatic
• 90 Rolova
• 91 The Backward Magician
• 92 Jogestja’s Radio Ribbons
• 94 Simplicity Four-Ace Trick

• 99 A Lull, Then Miraskill
• 102 Miraskill
• 105 The Candy King
• 106 Numismatigic
• 108 Death Teller
• 110 Scoop ‘Em
• 113 New Model Milko
• 117 A Chinaman´s Chance
• 118 Positive Valve Funnel
• 120 Freedom Of The Seize
• 121 Cabalistic Chronology
• 123 Tip-See

• 129 Anagrams
• 131 Television Mindreading
• 132 Fantastic Facsimile
• 135 Simple Simon Speller
• 142 Fourtold
• 144 Pick A Star
• 148 Queer Quest
• 151 Deck Digit Dial and Devil

• 155 The Best Impromptu Tricks
• 157 Crystal Clear
• 159 Doctoring A Pane
• 161 Drop, Stop And Plop
• 163 The Gift Of Throughth
• 166 Wedding Accessories
• 168 A Magical Mixture
• 170 Audio-Hypnosis
• 172 Cut-And-Restored Thought
• 175 Pyroplexity
• 178 Token Of Chieh Lin
• 180 Peripatetic Pencil
• 182 Took Rest Book Test
• 185 Paging A Snappy Number

• 187 Sefalaljia: The Source And The Name
• 189 Sefalaljia
• 197 The Book Of The Dead

• 201 The Dunninger Show
• 204 Quarter-Deck Quandary
• 206 The Whistle-Wetter
• 207 The Anubis Problem
• 209 Crystallized Psychometry

• 211 The Newspaper Headline Prediction
• 214 Headline Sensation
• 219 Cryptic Cards
• 220 Copy Cuts

• 223 On Originality
• 225 The Cup Of Tantalus
• 228 The Parade Of Coffin Nails

• 231 Si Stebbins
• 233 Verisimilitude
• 234 Pick And Shove All
• 236 Pseudoplebsis
• 237 The Ball Of Fortune
• 240 Prophetic Tissue
• 242 Hands off
• 244 Two Minutes Never Were

• 247 Milton Kort
• 249 A Citizen Of Two Worlds
• 250 The Turn Of The Tied
• 253 Things That Are Evil
• 255 Knowledge In Reverse
• 258 Foreign Exchange Control
• 260 Tupax
• 261 The Love-Sick Tennis Ball

• 265 Encyclopedia Of Rope Tricks
• 267 Deckograph
• 268 Footnote On A Headline
• 270 Echoing Vision
• 272 Rabbit Mirror

• 275 Furthermore
• 278 Further Than That
• 280 Half And Half
• 282 Sleightly Off
• 284 The Waiting Place For Unborn Thoughts

• 287 Approach
• 292 Four Whom The Belle Told
• 294 The Drop-See Ring Mystery
• 296 The Word Net
• 297 He Cuts Another Rope
• 299 Vanishing Proof

• 303 An Independent Dealer
• 305 All At Sea
• 307 The Juggler Who Came To Dinner
• 308 Spin-O-Dyne
• 309 Dominotions
• 310 The Dominant Domino
• 311 Just The Same Difference
• 311 The Old Order Changeth
• 312 The Free Thinker
• 313 Doubled In Interest
• 314 Wholesale Telepathy
• 314 Triple Trickery
• 315 All Is Well
• 315 Reverse English
• 316 The Double Feature
• 317 Dove Of Peace
• 320 Figureheads
• 321 Hitler And The “Deuce”
• 323 Hypnotisn’t
• 324 Subject Loses The Power To Control His Arm
• 325 Subject Loses The Power to Walk
• 325 Subject Loses The Power to Stand
• 326 Subject Loses The Power o Get Out Of Chair: Short-Range Method
• 326 Remote-Control Method
• 327 Subject Loses The Power To Get Up From The Floor: Short-Range Method
• 327 Remote-Control Method
• 328 Subject Loses The Power To Open His Eyes

• 328 Subject Loses The Power To Speak Without Stammering
• 329 The Marble And The Mirror Test
• 330 The Turning Wheel Test
• 330 The Pivoting Spectator
• 331 The Mango Tree Trick Of India
• 335 Moslem Oracle
• 336 Ration Card Mystery

• 339 Remembering Remembering The Future
• 341 Remembering The Future
• 344 Secret Weapon
• 346 The Stretch-i—n-—g Shoe Lace
• 348 Tin Sang´s Simplified Severance
• 351 Twenty-One Straight
• 352 Uneek Shoe Lace Trick
• 356 Victory Bill Trick

• 359 The Army And Francis
• 362 Tb-Li-Ma
• 362 Biblical Prophecy

• 367 Jarnesosophy
• 368 Swastricka
• 369 Quaduplicate
• 375 Memo-Graphia
• 378 The All-clear card Transformation
• 379 Variation On Rusduck’s Stack It

• 383 The Haversacks
• 386 First Class Passage
• 388 Go Go Vanisher
• 391 Monte Zooma

• 395 The Master Move
• 398 Mark Of The Reader

• 401 Five Best Poll
• 404 The New Look
• 406 Predictionary

• 409 Variable Condensers And The Jamesway Shuffle
• 412 Jamesway Poker Deal
• 414 Up The Ladder Deal
• 415 The Five-Ace Deal
• 416 Dealing Any Hand Named
• 416 Everybody Think
• 417 One-Feathered Birds

• 419 On Routining, Dreaming, and Ten Nights
• 423 Ten Nights In A Cardroom
• 432 Mentalscope
• 434 Pockethereal

• 437 A Progressive Table For Five-Hand Poker
• 439 Pokericulum
• 440 Pink Ladies

• 445 JaMessages
• 447 JaMessage One
• 448 JaMessage Two
• 450 JaMessage Three
• 451 JaMessage Four
• 452 Spot Cash
• 454 So-Fair Poker Deal
• 455 Gobak Card Mystery
• 459 The Loop Knocker
• 463 Eleventeen-Story Leaper

• 467 Twelve Keys to All From The Pyramids
• 469 Cupid’s Cards
• 473 Magic Of The Famous
• 474 Mice In Numberland
• 475 The Saint Has A Date
• 477 The Purloined Letters

• 481 No Bottoms

• 483 Impressing The Vicarious Audience
• 485 Triple-Threat Poker Deal

• 489 People’s Choice
• 491 Jamesway Dice Test
• 493 Kilroy Was Here!

• 497 Magical Magazines
• 499 James’s Miracle
• 501 On The Ball
• 503 Share The Wealth

• 505 ThanksToChrists 203rd Force
• 506 The Nullifactc,r
• 509 Spelling Location
• 510 Coincidence Upon Coincidence
• 510 The Ace Assembly
• 510 Card And Number Prediction
• 511 Nullifactor Slate Mystery
• 511 To Force Two Cards
• 512 The Square Deal Location
• 513 Miracle Location
• 513 Unchecked Artist
• 517 Futuristic Art
• 520 The Changing Change
• 526 Almost A Transposition
• 527 Almost A Transposition (with Kort)
• 530 Thieves And Sheep (with Kort)
• 533 Squeeze Play
• 535 Jimmy Valentine Picks A Lock
• 536 Money Paper
• 539 Cubestrick

• 543 The 1952 Annemann Jinx Parade
• 545 The Oddway Pass
• 546 Rhapsodicker
• 548 Chinese Golf
• 552 The Anjo Discovery
• 555 New Departure Rope Mystery
• 556 lsochronism
• 559 Micawber
• 561 New-Angle Sixteen-Digit Test
• 564 The Ringer
• 567 Shape Of Things To Come
• 569 Worditto
• 570 Astro Domination
• 572 Mental Masterpiece Word Test
• 574 Webster Had A Word For It
• 578 In The Money
• 580 Fagin Touch
• 582 The Sharper’s Purse
• 585 Snaretainer

• 589 Jogestja Tells On Stewart James
• 594 Angle On Angle On Mario

• 597 The Lima Puzzle
• 599 The Doozer
• 602 Never Missing Link

• 605 First Call To Cards
• 607 Mike And Ike
• 610 Seven Wonders
• 612 The Name Is The Same
• 614 Matchimera

• 617 The Transposed Cards
• 619 The Deckspert
• 620 The Flight Of The Spelling Bee
• 622 A Girl´s Best Friend
• 625 Dateaser
• 627 Double Time In Spiritland
• 628 The Square Deal
• 631 Coloracle
• 633 Improsonic
• 635 Touchosen

• 639 S-J-Ettes
• 640 Maple Leaf Rag
• 641 Not Yet I Print
• 642 Thumb References
• 642 Snappy Card In Wallet
• 644 Not Mine Alone
• 644 Lejun
• 648 Vernon Variation
• 650 Your Mind Is My Own
• 653 Clipped Again
• 654 Corsican Silks

• 657 The Birth Of Ibidem Magazine
• 661 Parlay
• 662 Progressive Cards To Pocket
• 664 Atlantic Avenue

• 667 The Open Prediction
• 669 Twenty-Five Method For Open Prediction the Effect
• 692 51 Faces North
• 692 Polychromosphere
• 696 Mathematricker
• 698 An Addition And A Teaser

• 701 Winston Freer And The First Finger Of Fate
• 704 So Nero
• 705 Alpha Betting

• 709 Magic Mine No. 1
• 710 Silversion
• 712 Cheerio Glass
• 714 Squaring The Square
• 716 The Count of Monte Carlo
• 718 Double-Ring Ceremony
• 721 Indian Giver
• 722 The Gofar Ball
• 726 Astral Dagger
• 729 Let The Chips Fall
• 731 Unwritten Predictions
• 733 Slatest
• 737 Hotelepathy

• 741 Case For Cards
• 743 Eight Dice And A Card

• 745 The Vision Of Ezekiel
• 748 Thoughts In Motion
• 749 Third Sight
• 751 Dealing With The Unknown
• 753 The World’s Greatest
• 754 Vida Pack
• 755 Alias
• 756 Predestinacetion
• 758 The Hoodoo Cards
• 759 Heeduz
• 760 Holiday From Reason
• 762 Synchromagic
• 763 Person To Person

• 767 Fred Braue’s Three AM. Poker Deal
• 768 Wordmonger
• 770 Quiz Biz
• 772 Party Line
• 774 Skip Tracer
• 776 The Message Of Didah

• 779 Seventeen from One
• 782 Thoughts In Orbit
• 785 Trisi
• 786 Card V

• 789 The Great Kolar And Betty Jane -
• 791 Keyrect
• 793 Inverse Duplex
• 794 X — The Unknown Quantity
• 796 Stringaringado
• 798 Secret Document
• 800 Reunion In Tarots
• 806 The Last Drink
• 809 Marked For Life
• 811 Fare Enough
• 814 The Hope Diamond

• 817 On Numbers And The AAG Principle
• 819 The AAG Principle
• 820 Bestop
• 822 The State Of The Union
• 824 Split Second
• 827 The Strangest Law
• 829 The Thought Bender
• 831 Strangers From Two Worlds
• 834 The Square With Thirty Sides
• 835 Adacard Abacus
• 837 Throne For A Touchdown
• 839 The Strayed Gambler
• 840 Third Eye Of Nimroud

• 843 The Family Tree System
• 845 Double Acrosstrick
• 847 Image Maker
• 849 F For Found
• 851 Mississippi Challenge
• 853 The Overcomer
• 856 The Ultra Urge
• 857 ABC Mystery
• 858 Inverted Error
• 861 Card With A Memory
• 863 Tryangle
• 865 Stop Topper
• 867 The Unopac
• 868 Overflight
• 870 Jacks Or Better

• 873 Sundry Peculiar Gyrations
• 874 Double Boomerang
• 876 Letters Patent
• 878 Cam-O-Neyrd
• 881 Gypsychology
• 882 As Educated Guess
• 884 The Spinner Winner
• 886 jamesway Junction
• 888 One-Ace Trick
• 890 1riplenary
• 892 A Card To Remember
• 895 Problem In Prophecy Solutions

• 899 The Magic Square Principle
• 901 Real Gone Book Test
• 903 Eventual Aces
• 905 Place and Show
• 907 Broad Choice
• 911 Substitute Face
• 913 B4

• 917 Jabberwocky
• 918 A Strange Twist
• 920 In The Red
• 922 Transient Aces
• 924 Downside Up
• 926 Skipper Tipper
• 928 Oraclew
• 930 Smart Alexis
• 932 Trik Trek

• 935 Aberystwyth
• 937 Reverse Monte
• 939 Authentic
• 941 The Passing Of The New Hoodoo
• 942 Sneaky Will
• 944 The Cat Burglar
• 946 Korador
• 947 Symphoney
• 949 Backing The Winner
• 952 Letters For A Stranger

• 955 The Mail Contractor
• 957 Chronothot
• 959 Return Of Satan
• 963 Instant Replay
• 965 Figgerow
• 967 Aces To The Fore
• 968 Seeing Red
• 970 Heart Transplant
• 972 Dollars And (6th) Sense

• 977 To Keep The Record Straight
• 979 Phantom Prediction
• 982 Toggoda
• 984 My Uncle’s Ante
• 985 Just Four Fun

• 989 Pick Rick Capers

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