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. In 1946, he wrote this practical guide revealing in detail the secrets of his art. 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. Buckley became well known in America for the magic he worked with cards on the major vaudeville circuits of the 1920s. Over 300 photographs show the practitioner's exact hand positions during each critical move.Īustralian-born Arthur H.

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. 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. It is not a book for beginners, but will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance in their art.Īmong the moves are shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, and steals. Card Control: Practical Methods and Forty Original Card Experiments 224.

Read an excerpt of this book Add to Wishlist. Significantly, though, Ethernet cards routinely read in all packets and then. Card Control: Practical Methods and Forty Original Card Experiments 224. It presents maneuvers that have left theater audiences amazed and that card-playing professionals have used to great advantage. Control and freedom : power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics / by. 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.

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