The expert at the card table is the most famous, the most carefully studied book ever published on the art of manipulating cards at gaming tables. From the Foreword by Martin Gardner. For almost a century, this book has been considered indispensable to attaining the highest level of card mastery. Erdnase demonstrates his own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and cutting, and such slick moves as palming cards, dealing from the bottom, "skinning the hand" — even three-card monte.

The second section covers legerdemain: the art of forcing a card, one- and two-hand transformations, the devious "slide" and more. In it, S. Erdnase, a supreme master of card manipulation, teaches card enthusiasts how to perform the dazzling tricks and sleights — many of them his own creations — that made him famous.

The first section of the book deals with card table artifice, to put it more bluntly, or, cheating at cards. Card handlers will love erdnase's selection of dazzling card tricks, The Exclusive Coterie, The Divining Rod, The Invisible Flights, including The Acrobatic Jacks, A Mind Reading Trick, and many others.

In an informative foreword to this edition, Martin Gardner relates the unhappy details of the author's personal life, and recounts the history of this famous book, whose methods, Mr. Gardner asserts, "are as useful today by magicians and card hustlers as they were in 1902. This book is still the bible of card 'mechanics, ' and as much a delight to read as it was in the early years of this century.

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Expert Card Technique: Close-Up Table Magic

. Easy-to-learn & FUN to perform. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic. Scores of methods — previously known only to card experts — include passes, crimps, jogs, reverses, false shuffles, palming, false cuts, changes, rear palms and more. Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family.

Includes clear, step-by-step instructions as needed. Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. 318 illustrations show exact position of fingers and hands. Altogether, 341 sleights and tricks.

The Royal Road to Card Magic

Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings? Mastering a few card tricks will allow you to do all that and more. The authors, the glide, the pass, false shuffles and cuts, easy-to-understand explanations of shuffles, the glimpse, present complete, flourishes, both noted authorities on magic, the classic force, and many other techniques.

. Illustrated with more than 120 clear line cuts that make the explanations easy to follow, this exciting introduction to card conjuring will enable even beginners to develop professional-level skill and the ability to perform tricks guaranteed to astound family and friends. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic.

Includes clear, step-by-step instructions as needed. In fact, mastery of just the first chapter will enable you to perform a half-dozen astounding and entertaining sleights of hand. Dover Publications. These will enable card handlers to perform over 100 mind-boggling feats of card magic, Now You See It, including Thought Stealer, A Tipsy Trick, Gray's Spelling Trick, Obliging Aces, Rapid Transit, Do as I Do, Kangaroo Card, and dozens of others.

Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family. With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks. Easy-to-learn & FUN to perform.

Modern Coin Magic: 116 Coin Sleights and 236 Coin Tricks

As tricks with coins are so readily improvised, they are among the most impressive forms of legerdemain. This book is the most complete treatise ever written on sleight-of-hand coin conjuring. For professionals, this volume is a convenient encyclopedic reference that gathers in one place all the best coin magic from antiquity to modern times.

Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family. Includes clear, step-by-step instructions as needed. Hahne's crisp illustrations. Sleight-of-hand magic has consistently earned the respect of professional magicians. If you are yet an amateur, this easy-to-follow manual — together with regular practice — is the surest route to professional-level competence.

Ask for a coin, and perform some of the tricks in this book. B. Because you will not have been aided by special stage apparatus, the results will be all the more astonishing. His clear explanations are splendidly complemented by 510 of Nelson C. Nelson Downs. All the tested, traditional methods of coin magic are here.

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Memento Mori Playing Cards - Trick Original Version

From the philosophical to the artistic, the fascination, fear and appreciation of death has consistently captivated and cultivated our imagination. Dover Publications. Dover Publications. The low-poly design represents a simplistic one. Easy-to-learn & FUN to perform. Each card within a suit was one of the thirteen phases of the moon.

Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Many of these items were often objects watches, necklaces in the shape of skulls. The bare "bones" of 3d creation and graphic art, the first steps of animation can be interpreted as the beginning of 'virtual' life. Memento mori - "remember your mortality" Stemming from the medieval Latin theory and practice of reflection on mortality, it has been a ubiquitous part of human culture for centuries.

This deck is my Memento Mori. Chris perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic. Recommended for ages 12 and above. Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Shipping weight: 035 lbs.

Monarch Playing Cards by theory11

The gold metallic foil is striking, with a vintage, timeless aesthetic. Made in the usa on fsc-certified paper derived from sustainable forests using vegetable based inks. Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Monarch playing Cards look like they belong in a palace. Gold foil surrounds the elegant, navy blue box design.

Easy-to-learn & FUN to perform. The world's finest, playing cards fit for a king. Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic. They're absolutely breathtaking - and they feel as good as they look. Recommended for ages 12 and above.

Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. The most cherished luxury playing cards of our time. Shipping weight: 035 lbs. Dover Publications. Made in the usa on fsc-certified paper derived from sustainable forests using vegetable based inks. Featured #1 in the gq holiday Gift Guide and in the blockbuster movie Now You See Me.

Mnemonica: On The Memorized Deck

Shipping weight: 035 lbs. Over the past two decades, with simon aronson in the United States who contributes an introduction to this book, Tamariz has been the recognized leader in its use and, the most influential. Shipping Weight: 4 lbs. The most cherished luxury playing cards of our time. Recommended for ages 12 and above.

Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Featured #1 in the gq holiday Gift Guide and in the blockbuster movie Now You See Me. Along with arturo de ascanio, tamariz has spearheaded a school of thought in close-up magic that has produced FISM award-winning champions and deeply influenced the craft of magic worldwide.

Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Among those things juan tamariz is most recognized for, among magicians, is his trailblazing work with the memorized deck-a tool with extraordinary potential for creating utterly baffling magic. Accompanying this information are more than a hundred tricks and routines that radically expand the range of effects commonly thought possible with a memorized deck, and an annotated bibliography that leads the reader to an amazing body of additional material on the memorized deck, making Mnemonica the most complete study of its subject ever done.

Made in the usa on fsc-certified paper derived from sustainable forests using vegetable based inks. Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family. Recommended for ages 12 and above.

Ellusionist Red Knights Playing Cards Deck – by Daniel Madison and Chris Ramsay - Make Your Move

Shipping Weight: 4 lbs. Easy-to-learn & FUN to perform. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic. Featured #1 in the gq holiday Gift Guide and in the blockbuster movie Now You See Me. The tuck features a red classic matte finish with sophisticated gold foil chess details. From the knights saga playing card series by Ellusionist, the Red Knights set appeals to magicians, gamblers and chess players alike.

The cards feature a crushed stock, red foil backs and a traditional cut, coupled with a smooth finish, make this deck feel as good as it looks. The most cherished luxury playing cards of our time. A few surprises lie within the simplistic and classic mate red and gold foil tuck. Designed by daniel madison and chris Ramsay for Ellusionist, the Red Knight card set is specifically designed with card players and magicians in mind.

Red knights playing card deck features high quality premium crushed USPCC stock, a traditional cut and have a smooth finish. Stacked in mnemonica out of the box. Inspired by the knight chess piece, this Ellusionist card set is great for slight of hand tricks and techniques - Make your move. Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family.

Made in the usa on fsc-certified paper derived from sustainable forests using vegetable based inks. These features embody the aesthetics and practicality which appeal to magicians, gamblers and chess players alike.

Encyclopedia of Card Tricks

Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. Designed by daniel madison and chris Ramsay for Ellusionist, the Red Knight card set is specifically designed with card players and magicians in mind. Red knights playing card deck features high quality premium crushed USPCC stock, a traditional cut and have a smooth finish.

Because all the best of these tricks are available in this one monumental book, invented, containing nearly every practical card trick produced, and improved by magicians over a span of forty years and more. Featured #1 in the gq holiday Gift Guide and in the blockbuster movie Now You See Me. Shipping weight: 0

35 lbs. If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would have almost a complete course on card tricks, by some of the world's greatest magicians. Perform incredible magic with skillful deception that will AMAZE your friends and family. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic.

Recommended for ages 12 and above. Great gift for the magic hobbyist or professional. A truly staggering collection, slick cards, the buddha whispers, "you do as i do" tricks, stripper pack; special packs; miscellaneous tricks including Everywhere and Nowhere, double-backed cards, reversed cards, short cards; tricks based on a one-way pack, diachylon a paste for gluing cards together tricks, this book explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks: impromptu card tricks, calculation tricks; tricks using key cards, spelling tricks, Mene-Tekel pack, The Case of the Four Kings, prearranged pack, Card in the Orange, Svengali pack, and Inseparable Aces; and a final chapter on tricks using the famous Nikola Card System.

Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

Magic—the romanticism of the inexplicable, the awe and admiration of the unexpected—is an underlying force in how we view the world and its myriad possibilities, ” Ian writes. In the vein of neil strauss’ the game and joshua foer’s moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, and personal journey into the world of magic, mysterious, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from around the world.

Magic is dead is ian frisch’s head-first dive into a hidden world full of extraordinary characters and highly guarded secrets. Easy-to-learn & FUN to perform. Shipping weight: 035 lbs. Dover Publications. Designed by daniel madison and chris Ramsay for Ellusionist, the Red Knight card set is specifically designed with card players and magicians in mind.

Red knights playing card deck features high quality premium crushed USPCC stock, a traditional cut and have a smooth finish. We join them at private gatherings of the most extraordinary magicians working today, follow them to magic conventions in Las Vegas and England, and discover some of the best tricks of the trade.

Featured #1 in the gq holiday Gift Guide and in the blockbuster movie Now You See Me. The tuck features a red classic matte finish with sophisticated gold foil chess details. From the knights saga playing card series by Ellusionist, the Red Knights set appeals to magicians, gamblers and chess players alike.

Self-Working Card Tricks Dover Magic Books

All magicians need a variety of card tricks for their acts, especially the spur-of-the-moment kind that can be performed without any special sleight of hand. In this outstanding collection, an expert magician presents step-by-step, foolproof instructions. 65 impressive card tricks, guaranteed to work flawlessly and to impress and delight audiences.

Softcover. Author karl fulves is one of the best-known writers and editors in the field of magic. Featured #1 in the gq holiday Gift Guide and in the blockbuster movie Now You See Me. Stacked in mnemonica out of the box. Inspired by the knight chess piece, this Ellusionist card set is great for slight of hand tricks and techniques - Make your move.

Advanced and professional magicians will find tricks to add to their acts or informal routines. Shipping Weight: 4 lbs. Dover Publications. Dover Publications. Almost all of these tricks can be worked informally, with a borrowed deck of cards. Learn the secret! customize and create YOUR own magic. The most cherished luxury playing cards of our time.