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Customer rank: +11 #1 in Gambling bestsellers
#3 in Gambling top-reviews
#3 in Gambling top-rank Originally entitled Artifice Ruse and Subterfuge at the Card Table, is probably the most cited and referenced book about card gambling moves - a classic in the history of magic literature. A must read for any card magician or aspiring gambling expert and an indespensable reference book. While the authorship of this book is hotly debated we are convinced it was Edward Gallaway. (For a detailed work on the search for Erdnase see Hurt McDermott's Artifice, Ruse & Erdnase.)
[A copy of this book is also included in Michael McDougall's Card Mastery. This ebook is also available in a German translation.]
This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are:
first published 1902; 218 pages; with critical comments by Prof. Hoffmann
- Introduction
- CARD TABLE ARTIFICE
- Professional Secrets
- Hold-outs
- Prepared Cards
- Confederacy
- Two Methods of Shuffling
- Primary Accomplishments
- Possibilities of the Blind
- Uniformity of the Action
- Deportment
- Display of Ability
- Greatest Single Accomplishment
- Effect of Suspicion
- Acquiring the Art
- Importance of Details
- TECHNICAL TERMS, Definition of
- POSITION FOR SHUFFLE
- BLIND SHUFFLES, ERDNASE SYSTEM OF
- I. To Retain Top Stock
- II. To Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
- III. To Retain Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck
- BLIND RIFFLES AND CUTS. ERDNASE SYSTEM OF
- I. To Retain Top Stock
- II. To Retain Bottom Stock
- BLIND CUTS
- I. To Retain Bottom Stock. Top Losing One Card
- II. To Retain Complete Stock
- III. To Retain Top Stock
- IV. To Retain Bottom Stock
- V. Combination Riffle and Cuts
- FANCY BLIND CUTS
- I. To Retain Complete Stock
- II. To Retain Complete Stock
- FANCY TRUE CUT. ONE-HANDED
- TO INDICATE THE LOCATION FOR THE CUT
- I. By Crimp
- II. By Jog
- III. By Crimp
- IV. By Jog
- BOTTOM DEALING
- Top and Bottom Dealing. One Hand
- SECOND DEALING
- ORDINARY METHODS OF STOCKING, LOCATING AND SECURING
- STOCK SHUFFLE
- STOCK SHUFFLING. ERDNASE SYSTEM OF
- Two Card Stock
- Three Card Stock
- Four Card Stock
- Five Card Stock
- Twelve Card Stock
- Euchre Stock
- CULL SHUFFLING. ERDNASE SYSTEM OF
- To Cull Two Cards
- To Cull Three Cards
- To Cull Four Cards
- To Cull Nine Cards
- PALMING. ERDNASE SYSTEM OF
- Top Palm, First Method
- Top Palm, Second Method
- Bottom Palm, First Method
- Bottom Palm, Second Method
- Bottom Palm when Cards are Riffled
- TO MAINTAIN THE BOTTOM PALM WHILE DEALING
- TO HOLD THE LOCATION OF CUT WHILE DEALING
- SHIFTS
- Two-Handed Shift
- Erdnase Shift, One Hand
- Erdnase Shift, Two Hands
- TO ASCERTAIN THE TOP CARDS WHILE RIFFLING AND RESERVE THEM AT BOTTOM
- MODE OF HOLDING THE HAND
- SKINNING THE HAND
- THE PLAYER WITHOUT AN ALLY
- Dealing Without the Cut
- Replacing the Cut as Before
- Holding Out for the Cut
- Shifting the Cut
- Dealing Too Many
- Crimping for the Cut
- Replacing Palm when Cutting
- The Short Deck
- THREE CARD MONTE
- Mexican Monte
- LEGEDERMAIN
- SHIFTS
- Single-Handed Shift
- The Longitudinal Shift
- The Open Shift
- The S. W. E. Shift
- The Diagonal Palm Shift
- THE BLIND SHUFFLE FOR SECURING SELECTED CARD
- FORCING
- PALMING
- The Back Palm
- CHANGES
- The Top Change
- The Bottom Change
- The Palm Change
- The Double Palm Change
- TRANSFORMATIONS, TWO HANDS
- TRANSFORMATIONS, ONE HAND
- BLIND SHUFFLES. RETAINING ENTIRE ORDER
- METHODS FOR DETERMINING A CARD THOUGHT OF
- A. By the Riffle
- B. By Springing Flourish
- C. By the Cut
- D. By the Gaze
- TO GET SIGHT OF SELECTED CARD
- THE SLIDE
- FAVORITE SLEIGHTS FOR TERMINATING TRICKS
- Catching Two Cards at Finger-ends
- Leaving Selected Card in Hand of Spectator
- The Revolution
- Cards Rising from the Hand
- CARD TRICKS
- EXPLANATORY
- THE EXCLUSIVE COTERIE
- THE DIVINING ROD
- THE INVISIBLE FLIGHT
- TRICKS WITH PRE-ARRANGED DECK
- THE TRAVELING CARDS
- THE ROW OF TEN CARDS
- THE ACROBATIC JACKS
- A MIND-READING TRICK
- POWER OF CONCENTRATED THOUGHT
- THE ACME OF CONTROL
- THE CARD AND HANDKERCHIEF
- THE TOP AND BOTTOM PRODUCTION
- THE THREE ACES
- THE CARD AND HAT
- CRITICAL COMMENTS
- EDITORIAL NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- THE ERDNASE SHIFT (ONE HAND)
- THE ERDNASE SHIFT (TWO HANDS)
- THE ERDNASE "LONGITUDINAL" SHIFT
- THE S. W. E. SHIFT
- THE ERDNASE "OPEN" SHIFT
- THE ERDNASE "TOP PALM"
- THE ERDNASE "BOTTOM PALM"
word count: 56503 which is equivalent to 226 standard pages of text
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Voice Review
★★★★★ Date Added: Monday 14 May, 2012
Reviewed by Josh
★★★★★ Date Added: Friday 17 February, 2006This book is a great introduction to the world of card manipulation. Before you purchase this, make sure to realize that it is over 100 years old, and the prose of the writer reflects this. Also, some people have criticized it for how complicated some of the instructions are. This is fairly unavoidable. If you know nothing about card manipulation then yo will not be able to read through an explanation of retaining the top stock while shuffling. Reread the explanations several times and make sure to read the glossary of terms provided. That being said, there are some errors in the book that make doing the manipulations as described impossible. All of these become self explanitory if you keep reading. Overall, this book is a wonderful tool to anyone interested in card tricks (or cheating at a card table...).
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