Overview

A famous card expert demonstrates sleights-of-hand - shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, steals, and deceptions - that have left theater audiences amazed. Not for beginners. This profusely illustrated book demonstrates step by step the astonishing card magic cultivated by one of the premier sleight-of-hand artists of the 20th century. It presents maneuvers that have left theater audiences amazed and that card-playing professionals have used to great advantage. It is not a book for beginners, but will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance in their art. Among the moves are shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, and steals. You'll learn how to do the false table riffle shuffle, how to deal from the bottom, how to know an opponent's hole card, how to ""warm up a cold deck,"" and much more. In addition, the author presents forty dazzling deceptions guaranteed to amaze your audience: Confusion, Birds of a Feather, The Ambitious Card, A Brilliant Climax, Your Favorite Ace, A Quickie, The Obtrusive Queens, and many more. Over 300 photographs show the practitioner's exact hand positions during each critical move. Australian-born Arthur H. Buckley became well known in America for the magic he worked with cards on the major vaudeville circuits of the 1920s. Schooled by the great sleight-of-hand artists he met in the entertainment business and by professional gamblers he met in his early years touring Australia, his absolute mastery of the most artful and demanding card-handling routines was legendary. In 1946, he wrote this practical guide revealing in detail the secrets of his art. Any magician or card conjurer who aspires to the utmost proficiency in card manipulation will want to have this indispensable reference in his or her library.

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Author:   Arthur H. Buckley
Publisher:   Dover Publications Inc.
Imprint:   Dover Publications Inc.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.265kg
ISBN:  

9780486277578

ISBN 10:   0486277577
Pages:   219
Publication Date:   28 March 2003
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE Sleights The Strip A Blind Riffle Shuffle ""The Force That Couldn't Be"" Domico Double Lift The Exchange Greek Shift Greek Shift?Buckley's Method Hindu Shift Vernon's Multiple Shift Multiple Shift?Buckley's Method Buckley's Slap Shift Buckley's Single Card Shift Shifting a Card from the Bottom of the Pack Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Top Stock Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Bottom Stock Buckley's Out of This World False Shuffle and Cut Buckley's Method of Secretly Placing a Bridge Sighting or Glimpsing the Top Card Sighting the Top Card ? Second Method Sighting the Top Card ? Third Method Sighting the Top Card ? Fourth Method Improved Peek Sighting After the Peek Turnover Sight Location Stepping After the Peek Other Locations After the Peek The Slide The Invisible Location Buckley's Reverse Sighting While Cutting the Pack The Glide The Glide ? Second Method The Glide Location Buckley's Method of Sighting While Fanning the Cards Glimpsing the Bottom Card Buckley's Diagonal Location The Break Shuffle Buckley's Method for Dealing Seconds Domico Location Cardini's Location The Count False Count for More False Count for Less The Side Steal Palm The Side Steal Palm ? Buckley's Method Original Methods of Palming Cards form the Bottom of the Pack Palming form the Bottom After the Riffle Shuffle The Perfect Card Palm The Replacement Buckley's Multiple Card Palm Steal Overhand Shuffle and Multiple Shift Buckley's Double Peek Location Shuffle and Palm Buckley's Top Palm Slide Off Berg's Top Palm The Allerton Top Palm One Hand Top Palm ? Judson Cole Palm Off the Second Top Card While Top Card Is Visibly Drawn Onto the Pack To Palm Off the Top of the Pack an Exact Number of Cards Up to Ten To Palm One or Several Cards The Fan Location The Fan Location Amplified A Novel Palm Changing a Card in the Act of Turning the Card Over The Throw Change Buckley's Method of Double Cutting Cards to the Top of the Pack John Brown Cook's Transfer of a Card Hindu Shuffle and Cut Location ""The ""Pass"" False Shuffle Par Excellence Another Method of Reversing a Card Extraordinary Queens A Different Top Change (mass hypnotism) An Amazing Location One Hand Crimp The Count (Second Method) The Palm Unsurpassed (Original) Bottom Palm of a Single Card (Original) The Top Palm (Improved Method) The Glide Shift CHAPTER TWO Conjuring at the Card Table Foreword False Table Riffle Shuffle False Table Riffle Shuffle and Cut The Push Through Simplified ""Cut, Riffle Shuffle and Retain the Top Stock"" The Shift and Shuffle Bottom Stock Blind Riffle Retaining the Stock The Switch at Draw Poker The Cut and Use of the Bridge Dealing from the Bottom Restoring the Cut Second Method ? The Drop Third Method Bottom Stock Shift Restoring the Cut (My Pet Method) A Cute False Cut Running Up Two Hands The Hold Out and Pick Up Builds Demonstration Build of Four Aces Using the Buckley Double Cuts A Cold Deck Warmed Up The Practical Sharper Knowing Your Opponent's Hole Card The Spread A Strike (Method of Dealing Seconds) Second Dealing (Black Jack Method) Dealing Seconds (Double Push-Off One Hand) An Original Method of Restoring the Cut (Fourth Method) CHAPTER THREE Manipulations A Vanish of a Card from the Top of the Pack The Bent Fingers Back Palm and Recovery A Back Palm with Open Fingers Production from the Palm A Card Vanishes Push Down Vanish A Card Vanishes and Reappears at the Very Tips of the First and Second Fingers The Change Over The Thumb Palm Move The Slide Up Vanish Fan Vanish A Fan of Cards Disappears A Very Pretty and Deceptive Piece of Card Manipulation The Steal Reverse Palming Without Swinging the Arm and Also Without Using the Thumb ""Back Palm"" a Pack of Fifty-Two Cards and Produce Them in a Series of Fans at the Fingertips"" Paul le Paul Reversal Lighting Music CHAPTER FOUR Experiments with Cards 1 Transposition 2 Confusion 3 Do You See Red? 4 Matching Pairs 5 The Lost Aces 6 The Convexed Aces 7 Charlier Location and Speller Effect 8 Card Through the Case 9 Unexpected Ending 10 Birds of a Feather 11 Simplicity 12 Next to Yours 13 Four Chances ? A Novel Card Location 14 Naming the Top Card 15 A Gambler's Aid 16 A Card Gets Out of Hand 17 Difficult Routine 18 Lost and Found 19 Mysterious Marker 20 Black Jacks 21 The Ladies and the Deuces 22 Another Transposition 23 The Ambitious Card 24 The Mix-Up 25 Wishful Thinking 26 Color Memory 27 Think of a Number 28 A Brilliant Climax 29 An Ace Introduction 30 The Aces and the Chosen Card 31 Quintuplets 32 The Slop Over Card Location 33 Card and Pocket Mystery 34 Your Favorite Ace 35 The Double Surprise 36 Chivalrous Kings and the Four Ladies 37 A Quickie 38 Four Aces Par Excellence 39 The Obtrusive Queens 40 The Illusive Transfer

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