This was Jerry's first hardbound collection and it contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven't read any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as one of the most creative cardicians.
The book opens with "Fetch", an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. Or what about "A Million to One" in which the spectator shuffles the deck and then cuts it into two piles, one contains all the red cards, the second contains all the black cards! Or if you really want to fry brains, try "The Backward Card Trick" - it looks very weird.
There's a special section on pre-determined estimation - a devastating principle. It allows for genuinely impossible looking card locations, and no matter how well versed you are you'll be unable to reconstruct the method.
Finally, Jerry presents Name a Card Triumph. With this you can produce any card named within seconds.
Cards on the Table contains 25 items in all, top class card magic by Jerry Sadowitz.
1st edition 1989; 2nd edition 2003 (105 pages).
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- DEDICATION
- CHAPTER ONE
- Fetch!
- Side Slip and Turnover
- Jack Hodes
- A Million to One
- Aces in Kings
- The Backward Card Trick
- Slop Shuffle Variation
- The Last Laugh
- CHAPTER TWO
- Consolation
- No Questions Asked
- Thanks to Hofzinser
- The Healers
- Split Marriages
- Broken Hearts
- Ambitious Spots
- Ambitious Spots 11
- The Card that doesn't go to Pocket
- CHAPTER THREE
- Delayed Elias
- Palm Switch
- Shuffle Reverse
- Jog Palm
- CHAPTER FOUR
- Basic Discovery
- Wilder
- Tears in Rain
- CHAPTER FIVE
- Name a Card Triumph
- FINAL NOTES
word count: 22474 which is equivalent to 89 standard pages of text
