Principles and Deceptions

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Principles and Deceptions by Arthur Buckley

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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
1. Photograph of the Author
2. Dedication
3. Introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito)
4. Foreword by the Author
5. The Principles of Magic
6. Manipulation
7. Substitution
8. Duplication
9. Camouflage
10. Imitation
11. False Partition
12. Concealed Mechanism
13. Falsification
14. Arrangement
15. Preparation
16. Misdirection
17. Concealment
18. The Entertainment Value
19. Showmanship
20. Sleight of Hand
21. Something New
22. Invention
23. Talking Acts Versus Silent Acts, and Pantomine
24. The Practice of Leaving the Stage Unattended
25. Assistants from the Audience
26. Fakes and Accessories
27. Gimacs
28. The Plot
29. Timing, Rhythm and Pace
30. Footwork
31. Presenting the Act in Public
CHAPTER TWO - Magic with Coins
1. Sleeving
2. The Muscle Pass with One Silver Dollar
3. Chinese Coin Mystery
4. A Coin, A Ring and a Handkerchief
5. The Bounce Vanish
6. The Rear of the Thumb Palm
7. The Pencil and the Silver Dollar
8. The Turnover Pass With One Coin
9. The Pinch Pass With a Single Coin
10. A Very Pretty Disappearance
11. Allan Shaw's Vanish of a Coin
12. Front and Back of Hand Transfer of a Coin
13. Three Methods of Producing a Coin
14. Downs' Palm (first method)
15. Downs' Palm (second method)
16. The Vanish of a Coin From the Fold of the Pants Leg
17. Second Method
18. Third Method
19. To Pass Four Coins From Hand to Hand, Through Your Head One At a Time
20. The French Drop and the Eye-glass
21. The "Roll Down" Production for Four Coins (Buckley Method)
22. The Downs "Click Pass" Viewed from a New Angle (improved)
23. An Illusive Pass (original)
24. The Click Pass and the Table
25. The Spread Vanish (Allen Shaw)
26. The Color Changing Discs (original)
27. A Fine Coin Transfer Pass (by Downs)
28. The Throw Away Vanish of Five Coins (original)
29. The Appearance of Five Coins One After Another At the Finger Tips (Allan Shaw)
30. The Surprise Appearance of a Coin (by Ron Leonard)
31. The Magnetic Pass With One Or Several Coins
32. Silken Silver (by Frank Cruse)
33. Borrowed Money
34. John Mulholland's Slide Pass With a Single Coin
35. Another Very Effective Production of Five Coins in the Left Hand (original)
36. The Lynn Pennies (by Terry Lynn)
37. The Steal (my method)
38. Passing Several Coins Through the Table At Which You Are Seated
39. The French Drop (improved)
40. Another Original Five Coin Pass
41. The "Miser's Dream"
42. Finale To "The Miser's Dream" (by W. J. Alkinson)
43. Coin Through Handkerchief (original)
44. A Coin Vanish and Reappearance By That Clever Artiste (Carlyle)
45. The Steal (by Cardini)
46. Twenty-one Cents (by Ross Bertram)
47. Coins Pass One By One From the Left Hand to the Right Hand
48. The Transfer of a Silver Dollar From One Hand to the Other
49. John Platt's Chinese Coin on Pencil Illusion (with permission)
50. Five Silver Dollars and a Handkerchief Routine
51. An Invisible Journey (improved)
52. The Eureka Vanish (by T. Nelson Downs)
53. Production of Five Coins One By One At Fingertips and An Original Change Over
54. The Thumb Pass With a Silver Dollar
55. Split Fans and Coin Production (original)
56. A Production of Twenty-four Coins in a Series of Fans, An Original Routine (by John Brown Cook)
57. "The Multiple Roll Out" (by John Brown Cook)
58. A Phantasy in Silver - A Complete Act with Coins, Fully and Carefully Explained and Illustrated
59. 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
1. Magic With Cards
2. Foreword to Chapter Three
3. Opening For a Card Act
4. A Finish for a Card Act
5. The Buckley False Shuffle
6. Cards to Pocket, With Ten Cards (with improvements)
7. The Count (original)
8. The False Count for More
9. My Card in Cigarette Illusion (with improvements)
10. The Thirty Cards and Two Assistants (with improvements)
11. Ten and Ten
12. The Vanish of the Last Two Cards in Presenting the Ten Cards to Pocket
13. Method of Double Cutting Cards
14. The Triple Climax (original)
15. An Amazing Card Illusion, Just Think of a Card
16. The Crimp (one hand)
17. Exchanging a Card in Passing
18. The Peek Location
19. The Hofzinser Force
20. The Slap Shift
21. Sighting While Fanning the Cards
CHAPTER FOUR - Magic With Billiard Balls
1. My Original Billiard Ball and Card Harness
2. Pointers
3. The Production of a Ball From Behind the Left Hand followed by the Take Away Vanish
4. A Ball Held in the Finger Palm Position by the Left Hand is Secretly Removed by the Right Hand in Passing
5. The Wrist Roll
6. The Production of a Ball on the Fist
7. Moving the Ball Down from the Fist Position to the First and Second Finger
8. The Production of a Ball Between the Middle Fingers from the Palm Without Aid from the Thumb
9. The "De'Biere" Production of a Ball
10. The Ball Roll from Finger to Finger
11. The Ball Roll with Another Ball Concealed in Your Palm
12. The Knee Roll Vanish
13. The Strike Vanish
14. The Wrist Roll and Palm Off Vanish
15. Concealing a Ball Behind the Hand While Both Palms Are Shown
16. Color Changes (first method)
17. (second method)
18. (third method)
19. (fourth method)
20. The Ball and the Handkerchief
21. Production of Eight Solid Balls at the Finger Tips Without a Shell
22. Concluding Remarks

word count: 67205 which is equivalent to 268 standard pages of text