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The Card Expert Entertains

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The Card Expert Entertains
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AuthorDariel Fitzkee
PublisherSaint Raphael House
Publication Date1948
LanguageEnglish
Pages172
 

The Card Expert Entertains a reprint of Arthur Buckley's book Improved and Original Card Problems including explanations all of the necessary sleights.

Reviewed in Genii 1948 May

Reprint in 1978 Genii 1978 July

Content

Foreword

Chapter One

  • A Delusion
  • The Card Expert's Secret
  • Good and Bad Tricks
  • Pleasant Ways to Waste Time
  • Magicians As Audiences
  • The Magician's Real Audience
  • Laying Out the Lay Down
  • Something Must Be Added
  • A rule for Selecting Good Tricks
  • What is a Card Expert

Chapter Two

  • Few From So Many
  • The Nineteen Basic Card Tricks
  • And Their Combinations
  • Dressing
  • Six Transpositions
  • Five Cunning Disguises

Chapter Three

  • Many Sleight of Hand Moves
  • Does the Expert Learn Them All?
  • The Expert's Qualifications Vary With the Viewpoint
  • To The Card Expert
  • To the Magician
  • To the Layman
  • Secret Operations
  • Three Classes of Technique
  • The Mystic Sixteen

Chapter Four

  • The Sixteen Accomplishments With Card Moves
  • Identity
  • Whereabouts
  • Substitution
  • Removal
  • Concealment
  • Arrangement
  • Disquise
  • Possession
  • Counting
  • Forcing
  • Searching
  • Miscounting
  • Addiction
  • Reversal
  • Movement
  • Skill
  • Examples

Chapter Five

  • It All Seems So Simple
  • Dated Methods
  • Changes Seem to Simplify
  • Methods Depend Upon Character
  • Easter Substitutes
  • A Subtlety
  • Reasons For Variation in Method
  • How To Do It

Chapter Six

  • Obsessions, Objections and Observations
  • Elsa Maxwell On Card Tricks
  • Slants on Sleights
  • Interest for the Spectator
  • Sleuthing Unvarnished
  • Stage Setting Shamusry
  • What Can Be Done With Cards
  • Changes In Styles
  • Skill Versus Psychology
  • Making the Sleights Part of the Trick
  • A Suggestion for Confidence

Chapter Seven

  • A Different Thirty Card Trick
  • The Two-Handed Pass
  • A Simplified Pass
  • The Shuffle Pass
  • The False Shuffle
  • Envelope Placement Steal
  • Envelope Transfer
  • Blonde, Brunette, Redhead

Chapter Eight

  • Spell It
  • Fan Jog
  • Charts for Spelling
  • The Trained Dog
  • Presentation

Chapter Nine

  • Transposition Extraordinary
  • Transferring the King
  • The Force
  • Tips on Forcing
  • Outs
  • Ideas on Acting
  • Conviction, with and Assist From the Moscow Art Theatre
  • The Top Change
  • The Top Change With Several Cards

Chapter Ten

  • Separation
  • How Experts Become Experts
  • Experts are Normal Humans
  • Trying the Impossible
  • Thumb Count from the Bottom
  • The Erdnase Bottom Palm
  • Returning Palmed Cards to the Bottom of the Pack
  • The Bottom Deal
  • Palming

Chapter Eleven

  • Card and Envelope
  • Card and Cigarette
  • Double Envelope
  • Indetecto
  • Nail Marking
  • Buried Treasure Presentation

Chapter Twelve

  • Cards Mysterio
  • The Crimp
  • Indifferent Card Inserted at Selected Card
  • The Riffle Shift
  • The Second Deal
  • Sympathy in Choice
  • The Mental Fan Force
  • Card Under Foot
  • The Fan Crimp
  • The Thumb Count From Top
  • The Double Lift
  • The Modified Double Change

Chapter Thirteen

  • A Pack of Cards and Four Pockets
  • The Arrangement
  • First Effect
  • The Blind Cut
  • One Hand Riffle
  • Second Effect
  • The Pack Arrangement
  • Counting Cards in the Pocket
  • The Sympathetic Cards
  • The Two Handed Double Pass
  • To Shuffle Three Cards From Top to Bottom
  • The Steal Cut
  • The Milk Build Shift
  • The Flesh Grip
  • The Buckley Bottom Shift
  • The Sid Seek Discussion

Chapter Fourteen

  • Four Aces
  • The Glide
  • Conjurors' Choice
  • Card Under Hat
  • Envelope Card Steal
  • One Card From Ten
  • Atom Bomb Presentation
  • Is the Card You Thought of There?
  • The Index Fan Sight
  • Slap Cards
  • The Side Steal Color Change
  • Alternatives
  • Selected Card at Any Number
  • The Riffle Force
  • The Two Handed Pass Above Bottom Card

Chapter Fifteen

  • Twenty Cards in Transit
  • Hand to Hand Transfer
  • A False Count
  • The Color Change
  • Red or Black
  • Friction
  • A Triple Climax
  • The Slap Shift
  • The Push Up Steal
  • Cards to the Pocket
  • Novelty Legitiamate Count
  • Six Card Palm
  • A False Count
  • The Slilde Vanish

Chapter Sixteen

  • The Burglar
  • Secret Removal Between Two Cards
  • Psychic Photography
  • X-Ray
  • Arrangement
  • Stabbing Between Chosen Cards in Wrapped Pack
  • The Bridge
  • Stabbing Chosen Cards While Blindfolded

Chapter Seventeen

  • The Mystic Paper Slips
  • A Bullet File
  • From the Pocket
  • System
  • Jordon Plus an Old Arrangement

Chapter Eighteen

  • Tricks, Methods and Individuals
  • Substitutions for the Independent
  • Ways and Means
  • Courage and Perseverance

Index

Courtesy of Doug A's Magic Book TOCs

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