One of the most famous books on card manipulation, for card handlers to attain the highest level of mastery. Why call it “cheating at cards” when you can say it’s card mastery! S.W. 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. Step by step demonstrations of his own system of false shuffling, riffling and cutting, dealing from the bottom and such slick moves as palming, “skinning the hand” and even three card monte. This book also covers in the second section, the art of forces, transformations, the devious “slide” and more. Dazzling card tricks like The Acrobatic Jacks, The Exclusive Coterie, The Divining Rod, The Invisible Flight, A Mind Reading Trick and many others. The methods of manipulation in this book are so useful to magicians as well as card hustlers, that it has been referred to as the “bible of card mechanics”. |