"In 1946, Dr. George Casaubon had published an entertaining booklet entitled Deceptions With A Short Card. John Mulholland listed it in the Sphinx as one of the ten books which contributed most to magic in that year. Dr. Casaubon contributed a few tricks to Genii, Sphinx, and a few other magic magazines and then disappeared as suddenly as he had appeared. The author's identity remained a mystery to most magicians for the next twenty years. The present magnuscript was written in the early fifties. While visiting me, he brought out some dog-eared pages which had been tucked away in a file. They were his manuscript for Card Sorcery With Salt. He mentioned throwing it out, but on looking over a few pages I knew it would be a loss to the literature of magic and I prevailed upon him to let me have it. (The author) never claimed to be a great manipulator but had the ability to take a simple principle and twist it around until he came up with some interesting and off-beat bits of chicanery. I am certain you will find the following imaginative application to be of considerable interest."--from the introduction by Ross Bertram. One hundred pages; 8 1/2 by 11 inches.