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This colossal collection unfolds the secrets of executing over 600 expert card tricks, originally created by the world’s master magicians. Regarded as the finest standalone compendium, the book is crafted in a lucid style that makes the instructions a breeze to understand.
In the early twentieth century, magic journals were brimming with articles on card tricks, offering enhancements on timeless tricks and birthing new ones. Imagine if you could assemble a collection of these periodicals, you’d practically have an all-inclusive course on card tricks, taught by the world’s legendary magicians. But where can you procure these likely collector’s treasures nowadays? And if you could, what would be the cost of such a collection? Surprisingly, not much.
Because this monumental book brings all the best of these tricks under one cover, embodying nearly every conceivable practical card trick birthed, developed, and perfected by magicians over four decades and beyond. A truly awe-inspiring collection, this book elucidates over 600 professional card tricks from impromptu and spelling tricks, to “you do as I do” tricks, diachylon (a paste used for gluing cards together) tricks, and calculation tricks.
It includes tricks using key cards, slick cards, double-backed cards, reversed cards, short cards; tricks based on a one-way pack, prearranged pack, Svengali pack, Mene-Tekel pack, stripper pack; special packs; and an array of miscellaneous tricks like Everywhere and Nowhere, The Case of the Four Kings, Card in the Orange, The Buddha Whispers, and Inseparable Aces. Lastly, there’s a final chapter dedicated to tricks using the renowned Nikola Card System. Additionally, a chapter on technique explicates the most crucial sleights like the overhand shuffle, riffle shuffle, false cut, palm, simple pass, double lift, glide, and force.
Derived from a volume compiled by Dr. Wilhelm Von Deusen