In the H&R Magic Books site:

Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Volume 1

Author(s): Trost, Nick
Media: Books
Format: Hardbound with Dust Jacket
Publication Summary: 2008, 300+ pages

Nick Trost is well known for his simple, easy-to-do card magic. He uses subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand to produce entertaining card effects. The entire set of volumes contain his best card effects, plus variations by his fellow magicians. Many of these card creations came from his series of notebooks and most have not been published previously. This volume alone contains 11 chapters describing over 100 tricks. Here are a few of the areas covered: • Coincidences • Transpositions • Court Cards • Special Decks • Gambling Tricks • Packet Tricks • Poker Tricks • ESP Cards Also included is an appendix of useful sleights and subtleties. Hard cover with dust jacket, 300+ pages.

This product will be in stock on Monday 03 March, 2008.

Thanks for the info.

By the way, I am wondering, is Card Magic of Nick Trost available in the near future?

I am looking forward Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations, Volume 1.

Andrew

Hi, Andrew, greetings from Spain. H&R Magic books mailed me a few minutes ago: this book is similar in format to Card Magic of Nick Trost but DIFFERENT CONTENTS. Waiting for more detailed info anxiously...

This sounds like a compilation of his smaller booklets he released throughout the years.

This book is a DEFINITE must buy! Hurry up March!!!!

The book is not a compilation of his earlier booklets. Some of the items have been previously published as contributions to periodicals, but those have all been updated. Here is the Table of Contents:
Foreword ................................................................................................ xiii

Introduction to Volume 1........................................................................ xv



1 Unique Card Effects



Everywhere and Nowhere........................................................... 1

Jacks Are Wild with an Elevator Finish....................................... 3

Trost on Hamman’s “Multiplying Kings”.................................... 6

Trost on Hamman’s “Magic Cards”............................................. 8

Another “Oil and Queens”........................................................... 10

Following Suit.............................................................................. 11

Ultimate “Even Money”—Improved .......................................... 14

A Compatibility Test.................................................................... 16

Two Compatibility Tests.............................................................. 18

Four Grand Slams........................................................................ 21

Do As I Do Suit Separation......................................................... 25

Omega Suits................................................................................. 28



2 Coincidences



A Simple Coincidence................................................................. 33

The “One-Two-Three” Trick........................................................ 35

Ned Rutledge’s “Cards Concordant”.......................................... 38

ESP Card Version............................................................ 41

The Mystic Threes........................................................................ 42

Psychic Coincidence.................................................................... 43

The Telephone Number Trick...................................................... 45

The Couple’s Lucky Number....................................................... 46

Paradoxical Pairs.......................................................................... 47

ESP Card Version............................................................ 49

Sympathetic Suits........................................................................ 50

Trost on Hudson’s “Sorcerer’s Sevens”....................................... 51

Four Times Nine.......................................................................... 55

Cards of Coincidence.................................................................. 58

Another Version.............................................................. 60



3 Court Card Capers



The Royal Pair Puzzler................................................................. 63

The Burglar Trick......................................................................... 64

Trost on Hamman’s “Twins”....................................................... 66

The Restless Court Cards............................................................ 69

Court Card Conclave................................................................... 70

The Court Card Swindle.............................................................. 73

The Reunited Families................................................................. 74

A Puzzling Assembly................................................................... 75

The Married Hearts and Four Cupids.......................................... 77

The Queen of Hearts and Her Suitors......................................... 79



4 Gambling Tricks



Optical Three-Card Monte........................................................... 85

Pinochle, Blackjack and Poker Puzzler........................................ 88

Duck or Deal Blackjack............................................................... 89

Classic Euchre Deal..................................................................... 91

Gilbreath Plays Euchre................................................................ 92

The Contrary Euchre Deal I......................................................... 93

The Contrary Euchre Deal II....................................................... 95

Exchange Euchre......................................................................... 96

Six-Handed Exchange Rummy................................................... 98

Five-Handed Version...................................................... 100



5 Poker Tricks



Wild Bill Revisited...................................................................... 101

Wild Bill’s Poker Hand I............................................................. 102

Wild Bill’s Poker Hand II........................................................... 104

Spectator’s Royal Flush............................................................... 105

The Lucky Royal Flush................................................................ 106

The Insurance Card I................................................................... 108

The Insurance Card II.................................................................. 109

Another Version.............................................................. 110

The Spectator’s Straight Flush I.................................................. 111

Another Handling............................................................ 112

The Spectator’s Straight Flush II................................................. 113

The Gambler’s Luck.................................................................... 114

Lucky at Poker............................................................................. 116

Strictly Straight Poker................................................................. 117



6 Predictions



Bob Longe on “A Premonition”.................................................. 121

The Prophetic Phone Number...................................................... 123

Prophecy in Color........................................................................ 124

Numerology in Color................................................................... 126

Trost on Al Koran’s “Prediction Supreme”................................. 127

The 20/20 Prediction.................................................................... 128

Color Prediction with Three Spectators....................................... 131

Three-Way Miracle Prediction..................................................... 133

Predicting Red, Black and Courts............................................... 134

Climax Prediction........................................................................ 137



7 Transpositions



Five in a Row............................................................................... 139

Ace to Five—The Easy Method.................................................. 140

Ambitious Ace to Five................................................................. 143

Jazz 1-2-3-4 Revisited................................................................. 145

Ambitious Deuce Sandwich........................................................ 146

Fifteen-Card Mystery.................................................................. 150



8 Fake-Card Foolers



Trost’s Open Prediction............................................................... 153

Revolving Aces—A Clean Version............................................. 154

Double-Back Effect..................................................................... 156

The Hotel Mystery—Updated..................................................... 158

Trost on “The Muleshoe Gambler”.............................................. 160

Super Showdown........................................................................ 164

The Card Puzzle—Gaffed Version............................................. 170



9 Special Decks - Part 1



Destiny Deck............................................................................... 173

Matrix Miracle............................................................................. 176

Incredible!.................................................................................... 179

Half Wild..................................................................................... 181

Rich Bloch’s Presentation................................................ 184



10 Packet Tricks - Part 1



Hokey-Poker................................................................................ 187

Mexican Monte............................................................................ 190

A Packet of Backs....................................................................... 194

Twisto Blanko.............................................................................. 195

Wacky Packet.............................................................................. 198

Un-Cards..................................................................................... 200

Bill Miesel’s “Red Card Prediction”........................................... 202

Australian Aces............................................................................ 204

Sixth-Thot.................................................................................... 208

Bigfoot......................................................................................... 211

Al Thatcher’s Version...................................................... 216

Tom Hubbard’s Version.................................................. 218



11 ESP Cards - Part 1



Una-Minds................................................................................... 222

The Power of Three..................................................................... 223

Design by Accident..................................................................... 225

ESP Do As I Do.......................................................................... 226

Dr. Jaks’ Symbol Mystery........................................................... 227

Extrasensory Deception............................................................... 228

ESP 7-Card Draw........................................................................ 230

Double Deck Version...................................................... 231

Dual ESP Test Location............................................................... 231

Triple ESP Miracle....................................................................... 233

Pair-a-normal Perception.............................................................. 235

The Almost Perfect ESP Test...................................................... 239

Four-told...................................................................................... 240

The Symbol Separation Test........................................................ 242



Appendix: Sleights and Subtleties

Aronson Mark-a-Place Move....................................................... 245

Ascanio Spread............................................................................ 247

Biddle Move.................................................................... 249

Bottom Stock Control.................................................................. 250

Braue Addition............................................................................ 251

Braue Reversal............................................................................. 252

Breather Crimp............................................................................ 253

Buckle Count............................................................................... 254

Carlyle False Turnover................................................................. 255

Charlier Shuffle............................................................................ 257

Criss-Cross Force......................................................................... 259

Curry Swindle Switch................................................................. 260

Cut-Deeper Force........................................................................ 261

Diminishing Count....................................................................... 262

Double Undercut......................................................................... 264

Elmsley Count............................................................................. 265

False Charlier Shuffle.................................................................. 266

False Riffle Shuffle..................................................................... 268

Flushtration Count....................................................................... 269

G. W. Hunter Shuffle.................................................................. 271

Gilbreath Principle....................................................................... 272

Hamman Count............................................................................ 273

Hamman Flip-Flop Force and Control......................................... 274

Hamman Small-Packet False Shuffle.......................................... 275

Jordan Count............................................................................... 276

LaGerould Countdown Force..................................................... 276

Olram Subtlety............................................................................. 277

Ose Cut........................................................................................ 279

Reverse Double Undercut........................................................... 280

Riffle Force.................................................................................. 280

Rumba Count............................................................................... 281

Si Stebbins System...................................................................... 283

Simon Prophecy Force................................................................. 285

Slop Shuffle................................................................................. 286

“So Simple” Force....................................................................... 287

Svengali Shuffle........................................................................... 288

Swing Cut..................................................................................... 289

Takagi Turnover Count................................................................. 290

Ten-Twenty Force......................................................................... 292

Tenkai Move................................................................................. 292

Through-the-Fist Flourish............................................................. 294

Up-the-Ladder Cut 295

This is at the top of my "must buy" list. I find it interesting that, while the material is all different, many of the chapter headings are the same as what is used in The Card Magic of Nick Trost. Put these two volumes together and you've got one incredibly comprehensive collection of magic from one of my favorite creators. Very exciting, indeed!

Looking forward to March 3rd
Regards

Huge news for Trost fans........or anybody into card magic for that matter. It's only AFTER you've got a hold of a selection of Trost material that you realize just how amazing the guy really is.

What is MOST interesting though is the sub-heading......"Volume 1"

Richard, are there plans for a Volume 2, 3, ?

Also Richard, if you can, who published this edition?

Silverking, H & R Magic Books is publishing. Our first major publication since The Magic of Paul Potassy, now almost out of print (we have less than a dozen copies in stock). The Nick Trost is the first of a projected multi-volume series from him.

Is there a possibility of a pre-order?

This is definitely a March-Must-Buy-Book item aka the MMBB item.

Thanks Manos. Really appreciate the info.

Best,
Andrew Loh

Sounds great

In the tricket packets section I think appear some marketed effects years ago, such as Bigfoot or Australian Aces.
Mr. Hatch, the waiting until march is going to be hard.

The release date is the day after my wedding anniversary, and two days before my birthday, so if anyone is thinking of sending me a present...

Mexican Monte is a marketed effect. And a good one at that!

Andre

Richard,

I echo Zing's question. Is there any possibility of pre-ordering? I have a sneaking suspicion that this puppy is going to fly off the shelves.

Best,
Vlad

You just go the the H&R Books website and order it as you would any other book.

There's a clear note as to when the book will ACTUALLY ship (March), but you can order it right now if you want to.

I did a couple of days ago, and it all worked fine.

Thank you Silverking!!!

Best,
Vlad

I can't wait for this one. I still remember I traded my 5x5 Japan for The Card Magic of Nick Trost.

I LOVE NICK TROST!