Vintage Booklet: printed in large format ---about the size of a magazine. 35 pages. Copyright: Jon William Racherbaumer, 1972. Publisher; Louis Tannen.
All these booklets have slight color fading on front and back covers. Normal aging for an item 34 years old. Otherwise in Mint Condition.
This is a complete exposition on the universal card. There are more than fourteen variations on the universal theme.
Contents; The Hypnotic Card, Marlo's Favorite Universal, Universal Solutions, Universal IV, Tout's Universal, The Chameleon Card, Universal Combine, Hypno-Versal Way, Cervon's Universals, More Universals, Not Quite Ambiguous Universal, Full-Circle Universal, Open-Faced Universal, Hamman's Universal Variants
Notes on The Universal Card:
The specific conditions and procedure for this effect were set forth by Karl Fulves in the Winter Folio of the Pallbearers Review (1967) in an effect called, "By Any Other Name". The specific conditions set forth by Fulves are:
1. A single card from a deck is introduced, remains face-down and is called a "universal card". Fulves writes: "... each pack contains a "universal card", one capable of assuming the appearance of any other card.
2. Three cards are chosen from a different colored deck by three spectators. in other words, if the "universal card" is red-backed, the spectators choose cards from a blue deck.
3. The "universal card" sequentially changes into a duplicate of each selection. This constitutes three changes.
4. For a finale, the "universal card" is shown blank, which creates a fourth and final change.
