Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards

Lewis Ganson, mostly known as author of magic books, was also himself an expert stage card manipulator. This ebook is a complete course in the art of manipulating playing cards, from back palms, to catching cards, card fans, flourishes, gimmicks and holders, and how to put it all together into a routine.

Contents:

Manipulation of Playing Cards
• The type of cards to use
• Preparation of the cards
• The back and front palm
• Showing the hands empty when cards are palmed
• To show the backs of the hands with fingers apart
• To steal the cards from one hand to the other
• Combination of "steal" and back and front palm
• Continuous production of single cards
• Cards vanished singly from the hands
• Continuous production of fans of cards
• The silk through the fingers
• Manipulation in gloves
• The type of gloves to wear
• To "steal" the load from the glove
• The load outside the glove
• To remove the gloves and still produce cards
• Obtaining a load by putting on gloves

  The Art of Card Fanning

• The type of cards to use
• Quality
• Design
• Preparation and care of cards
• Requirements
• Arrangement
• Methods of Fanning
• Thumb Fans
• To close the Thumb Fan
• The Fan Separation
• The Visible Changing Fan
• The Fan "steal" and production
• The Giant Fan
• Endings for the Giant Fan
• The Second Fan
• The "Rip"
• The single-handed Waterfall Shuffle
• The two-handed Waterfall shuffle
• The"Spring" Fan (blank)
• The "Spring" Fan (to show the indices)
• The single-handed Fan
• The Fan False Shuffle
• The "Ace" Diminishing Cards

  Flourishes

• The "Spring"
• The Arm Spreads
• The Single Spread
• Endings for the Arm Spreads
• The two-handed Catch
• The Hat Catch
• To change the pack by the Hat Catch
• The "Turnover"
• The "Turnover" Catch
• The Back Arm Throw and Catch
• The Double Arm Throw and Catch
• The Upper Arm Catch
• The "Mulholland" Catch
• The Upright Spread
• The Walking Stick Catch
• The Handkerchief Balance and Catch
• Two Catches
• The Drop Catch
• The "Ribbon" Catch

  Suggestions for Routines

1st digital edition 2015, 90 pages.
word count: 22693 which is equivalent to 90 standard pages of text