50 New Card Secrets by Frank La Fontaine & Dai Vernon

This was part of the ‘Sealed Book’ series. It includes a few ads in the back.

Few know that the first edition of this booklet, containing 25 tricks, was compiled by Dai Vernon. Later editions added Si Stebbins effects and a couple of other card tricks. The original 25 tricks Vernon compiled are tricks 11-23 and 25-36.

1. To The Reader
2. Non-Mechanical Four Ace Trick
3. Naming Card Held Behind Back
4. Naming Card Chosen During Your Absence
5. Producing Chosen Card From Pocket
6. Enchanted Card
7. Magnetic Card Locater
8. Invisible Transference
9. Eighth Wonder Card Trick
10. Ideal Card Divination
11. The Vanishing Ace
12. The Three Pile Selection
13. The Reversing Card
14. The Vanishing And Reappearing Card
15. The Five To Ten Trick
16. The Mysterious Change
17. The Hotel Trick
18. Divination Of A Number Of Cards Selected Behind Performer’s Back
19. The Whispering Queen
20. Cards From Pocket – Effect No. 1
21. Cards From Pocket – Effect No. 2
22. Spectator Finds A Card Called For By The Magician
23. The Magic Jacks
24. “Socko”
    • The Master System
    • To Name A Card That A Spectator Draws From The Pack
    • To Tell How Many – And What Cards Have Been Drawn From The Pack
    • To Run The Cards – Behind The Back – And Name Any Card Stopped At
    • To Tell How Far From The Top – Any Card Is
    • To Deal Yourself Every Trump – In A Whist Or 4 Hand Game
    • To Deal A Pat Flush Of Any Suit – Called For To The Person Asking For Same
25. Instructions For Tearing A Pack Of Cards Into Halves And Quarters
26. The Mystic Seven Trick
27. The X Ray Trick
28. Card And Coin Trick
29. The Mysterious Egg And Card Mystery
30. The Marvelous “Q” Trick
31. The Twenty Five Card Trick
32. Finding The Selected Cards
33. Non Mechanical Rising Card Trick
34. Another Way Of Finding The Selected Card
35. The Mental Telepathy Trick
36. The Selected Card Is Caused To Vanish
37. You Do As I Do
38. Mind Reading
39. Any Number From Top
40. The Card Through The Handkerchief
41. The Clock Trick
42. Knockout Counting Trick
43. Divining Pack Of Cards
44. Mystical Divination Of Cards By The Five Senses
45. The Thousand To One Card Trick

1st edition ~1930, 36 pages; PDF 38 pages.
word count: 11798 which is equivalent to 47 standard pages of text