Customer rank: +8 This is not a book for beginners. But it is a book that will lift up the devoted student by two or three levels of proviciency in card handling. Buckley, born in Australia, was one of the masters and innovators of card magic. He studied the card gamblers as well as the top magic performers. This book with over 300 photos, of which most have been enhanced by drawing lines over them to increase contrast, and 40 outstanding routines, is a gold mine and challenge for any card worker.
1st edition, 1946, Arthur Buckley; reprint, 1993, Dover Publications, New York; 219 pages.
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 Method of Secretly Placing a Bridge
- Buckley's Out of This World False Shuffle and Cut
- 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
- Other Locations AFter the Peek
- Turnover Sight Location
- Stepping 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 from the Bottom of the Pack
- Palming from 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
- Hindu Shuffle and Cut Location
- Buckley's Method of Double Cutting Cards to the Top of the Pack
- John Brown Cook's Transfer of a Card
- 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
Conjuring at the Card Table
- Foreword
- False Table Riffle Shuffle
- False Table Riffle Shuffle and Cut
- The Shift and Shuffle
- The Push Through Simplified
- Cut, Riffle Shuffle and Retain the Top Stock
- Bottom Stock Blind Riffle
- Retaining the Stock
- The Switch at Draw Poker
- Dealing from the Bottom
- The Cut and Use of the Bridge
- 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 Sharpers
- 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)
Manipulations
- Lighting
- Music
- A Vanish of a Card from the Top of the Pack
- A Back Palm with Open Fingers
- The Bent Fingers Back Palm and Recovery
- Production from the Palm
- A Card Vanishes
- Push Down Vanish
- The Thumb Palm Move
- The Slide Up Vanish
- A Card Vanishes and Reappears at the Very Tips of the First and Second Fingers
- Reverse Palming Without Swinging the Arm and Also Without Using the Thumb
- Fan Vanish
- A Fan of Cards Disappears
- Paul le Paul Reversal
- The Change Over
- A Very Pretty and Deceptive Piece of Card Manipulation
- The Steal
- "Back Palm" a Pack of Fifty-Two Cards and Produce Them in a Series of Fans at the Fingertips
Experiments with Cards
- Experiment No. 1 Transposition
- Experiment No. 2 Confusion
- Experiment No. 3 Do You See Red?
- Experiment No. 4 Matching Pairs
- Experiment No. 5 The Lost Aces
- Experiment No. 6 The Convexed Aces
- Experiment No. 7 Charlier Location and Speller Effect
- Experiment No. 8 Card Through the Case
- Experiment No. 9 Unexpected Ending
- Experiment No. 10 Birds of a Feather
- Experiment No. 11 Simplicity
- Experiment No. 12 Next to Yours
- Experiment No. 13 Four Chances - A Novel Card Location
- Experiment No. 14 Naming the Top Card
- Experiment No. 15 A Gambler's Aid
- Experiment No. 16 A Card Gets Out of Hand
- Experiment No. 17 Difficult Routine
- Experiment No. 18 Lost and Found
- Experiment No. 19 Mysterious Marker
- Experiment No. 20 Black Jacks
- Experiment No. 21 The Ladies and the Deuces
- Experiment No. 22 Another Transposition
- Experiment No. 23 The Ambitious Card
- Experiment No. 24 The Mix-Up
- Experiment No. 25 Wishful Thinking
- Experiment No. 26 Color Memory
- Experiment No. 27 Think of a Number
- Experiment No. 28 A Brilliant Climax
- Experiment No. 29 An Ace Introduction
- Experiment No. 30 The Aces and the Chosen Card
- Experiment No. 31 Quintuplets
- Experiment No. 32 The Slop Over Card Location
- Experiment No. 33 Card and Pocket Mystery
- Experiment No. 34 Your Favorit Ace
- Experiment No. 35 The Double Surprise
- Experiment No. 36 Chivalrous Kings and the Four Ladies
- Experiment No. 37 A Quickie
- Experiment No. 38 Four Aces Par Excellence
- Experiment No. 39 The Obtrusive Queens
- Experiment No. 40 The Illusive Transfer
- Experiment No. 41 Card in Pocket Book
- Experiment No. 42 The Hindu Aces
- Experiment No. 43 The Four Bandits
word count: 79668 which is equivalent to 318 standard pages of text
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Reviewed by Feras A. Alkharboush (confirmed purchase) ★★★★★ Date Added: Monday 02 October, 2006The book is PURE GOLD. You know when they say: old gems? you got them all in here. These are the controls you will use! Very advanced moves in here though. You got to have to experiance with a deck of cards. I finished Royal Road, and I can uderstand Arthur's explinations easily! I didn'n think I'm a book learner! Altough explinations are good, some moves are hard, REALLY hard. Needs a practice. For 5 Bucks? You cant beat that. Highly recommended
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