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Another great book from Arthur Buckley. He discusses some theoretical aspects of magic and then goes into detailed instructions of moves and routines with coins, cards, and billiard balls. I can highly recommend this book.
1st edition, 1948, Arthur Buckley; original 222 pages; PDF 185 pages.
- CHAPTER ONE
- Photograph of the Author
- Dedication
- Introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito)
- Foreword by the Author
- The Principles of Magic
- Manipulation
- Substitution
- Duplication
- Camouflage
- Imitation
- False Partition
- Concealed Mechanism
- Falsification
- Arrangement
- Preparation
- Misdirection
- Concealment
- The Entertainment Value
- Showmanship
- Sleight of Hand
- Something New
- Invention
- Talking Acts Versus Silent Acts, and Pantomine
- The Practice of Leaving the Stage Unattended
- Assistants from the Audience
- Fakes and Accessories
- Gimacs
- The Plot
- Timing, Rhythm and Pace
- Footwork
- Presenting the Act in Public
- CHAPTER TWO - Magic with Coins
- Sleeving
- The Muscle Pass with One Silver Dollar
- Chinese Coin Mystery
- A Coin, A Ring and a Handkerchief
- The Bounce Vanish
- The Rear of the Thumb Palm
- The Pencil and the Silver Dollar
- The Turnover Pass With One Coin
- The Pinch Pass With a Single Coin
- A Very Pretty Disappearance
- Allan Shaw's Vanish of a Coin
- Front and Back of Hand Transfer of a Coin
- Three Methods of Producing a Coin
- Downs' Palm (first method)
- Downs' Palm (second method)
- The Vanish of a Coin From the Fold of the Pants Leg
- Second Method
- Third Method
- To Pass Four Coins From Hand to Hand, Through Your Head One At a Time
- The French Drop and the Eye-glass
- The "Roll Down" Production for Four Coins (Buckley Method)
- The Downs "Click Pass" Viewed from a New Angle (improved)
- An Illusive Pass (original)
- The Click Pass and the Table
- The Spread Vanish (Allen Shaw)
- The Color Changing Discs (original)
- A Fine Coin Transfer Pass (by Downs)
- The Throw Away Vanish of Five Coins (original)
- The Appearance of Five Coins One After Another At the Finger Tips (Allan Shaw)
- The Surprise Appearance of a Coin (by Ron Leonard)
- The Magnetic Pass With One Or Several Coins
- Silken Silver (by Frank Cruse)
- Borrowed Money
- John Mulholland's Slide Pass With a Single Coin
- Another Very Effective Production of Five Coins in the Left Hand (original)
- The Lynn Pennies (by Terry Lynn)
- The Steal (my method)
- Passing Several Coins Through the Table At Which You Are Seated
- The French Drop (improved)
- Another Original Five Coin Pass
- The "Miser's Dream"
- Finale To "The Miser's Dream" (by W. J. Alkinson)
- Coin Through Handkerchief (original)
- A Coin Vanish and Reappearance By That Clever Artiste (Carlyle)
- The Steal (by Cardini)
- Twenty-one Cents (by Ross Bertram)
- Coins Pass One By One From the Left Hand to the Right Hand
- The Transfer of a Silver Dollar From One Hand to the Other
- John Platt's Chinese Coin on Pencil Illusion (with permission)
- Five Silver Dollars and a Handkerchief Routine
- An Invisible Journey (improved)
- The Eureka Vanish (by T. Nelson Downs)
- Production of Five Coins One By One At Fingertips and An Original Change Over
- The Thumb Pass With a Silver Dollar
- Split Fans and Coin Production (original)
- A Production of Twenty-four Coins in a Series of Fans, An Original Routine (by John Brown Cook)
- "The Multiple Roll Out" (by John Brown Cook)
- A Phantasy in Silver - A Complete Act with Coins, Fully and Carefully Explained and Illustrated
- A Phantasy in Silver - A Complete Act as it was presented by the Author at the I.B.M. Show, Chicago, on Jan. 17, 1948.
- CHAPTER THREE - Magic with Cards
- Magic With Cards
- Foreword to Chapter Three
- Opening For a Card Act
- A Finish for a Card Act
- The Buckley False Shuffle
- Cards to Pocket, With Ten Cards (with improvements)
- The Count (original)
- The False Count for More
- My Card in Cigarette Illusion (with improvements)
- The Thirty Cards and Two Assistants (with improvements)
- Ten and Ten
- The Vanish of the Last Two Cards in Presenting the Ten Cards to Pocket
- Method of Double Cutting Cards
- The Triple Climax (original)
- An Amazing Card Illusion, Just Think of a Card
- The Crimp (one hand)
- Exchanging a Card in Passing
- The Peek Location
- The Hofzinser Force
- The Slap Shift
- Sighting While Fanning the Cards
- CHAPTER FOUR - Magic With Billiard Balls
- My Original Billiard Ball and Card Harness
- Pointers
- The Production of a Ball From Behind the Left Hand followed by the Take Away Vanish
- A Ball Held in the Finger Palm Position by the Left Hand is Secretly Removed by the Right Hand in Passing
- The Wrist Roll
- The Production of a Ball on the Fist
- Moving the Ball Down from the Fist Position to the First and Second Finger
- The Production of a Ball Between the Middle Fingers from the Palm Without Aid from the Thumb
- The "De'Biere" Production of a Ball
- The Ball Roll from Finger to Finger
- The Ball Roll with Another Ball Concealed in Your Palm
- The Knee Roll Vanish
- The Strike Vanish
- The Wrist Roll and Palm Off Vanish
- Concealing a Ball Behind the Hand While Both Palms Are Shown
- Color Changes (first method)
- (second method)
- (third method)
- (fourth method)
- The Ball and the Handkerchief
- Production of Eight Solid Balls at the Finger Tips Without a Shell
- Concluding Remarks
word count: 67205 which is equivalent to 268 standard pages of text