Card Control By Arthur H. Buckley

Arthur Buckley's post graduate course in card magic first published in 1946. This is a must-have resource for every serious card worker. Four Big Chapters! Chapter One covers fifty master sleights, so direct and clean cut that the modus operandi is concealed by natural movements that permit indetectable execution as an automatic function. Chapter Two explains the choicest methods of gambling principles — entertainment at the card table you will revel in. Chapter Three is devoted to modern methods and new principles of back-palming and manipulation with cards, revealing many new and revolutionary principles, all thoroughly practical. Chapter Four is devoted to a complete description of over forty beautiful card effects invented by the author especially for this book. 228 big pages, completely re-typeset with over 200 action photos of the author's hands.

CONTENTS:

Foreword (Harlan Tarbell) 4
Preface 6

CHAPTER ONE — Sleights

The Strip 12
A Blind Riffle Shuffle 12
“The Force That Couldn’t Be” 14
Snap Over Double Lift 15
The Exchange 16
Greek Shift 18
Greek Shift — Buckley’s Method 20
Hindu Shift 20
Vernon’s Multiple Shift 21
Multiple Shift — Buckley’s Method 22
Buckley’s Slap Shift 24
Buckley’s Single Card Shift 25
Shifting a Card from the Bottom of the Pack 27
Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Top Stock 28
Improved Dovetail Stock Shuffle to Keep the Bottom Stock 28
Buckley’s Method of Secretly Placing a Bridge 29
Buckley’s Out of This World False Shuffle and Cut 30
Sighting or Glimpsing the Top Card 32
Sighting the Top Card — Second Method 32
Sighting the Top Card —Third Method 33
Sighting the Top Card — Fourth Method 34
Improved Peek 34
Sighting After the Peek 35
Other Locations After the Peek 35
Turnover Sight Location 36
Stepping After the Peek 37
The Slide 38
The Invisible Location 39
Buckley’s Reverse 40
Sighting While Cutting the Pack 42
The Glide 43
The Glide—Second Method 43
The Glide Location 44
Buckley’s Method of Sighting While Fanning the Cards 44
Glimpsing the Bottom Card 45
Buckley’s Diagonal Location 46
The Break Shuffle 47
Buckley’s Method for Dealing Seconds 48
The D’Amico Location 52
Cardini’s Location 53
The Count 53
False Count for More 55
False Count for Less 56
The Side Steal Palm 57
The Side Steal Palm — Buckley’s Method 58
Original Methods of Palming Cards from the Bottom of the Pack 60
Palming from the Bottom After the Riffle Shuffle 61
The Perfect Card Palm 62
The Replacement 63
Buckley’s Multiple Card Palm Steal 64
Overhand Shuffle and Multiple Shift 66
Buckley’s Double Peek Location Shuffle and Palm 66
Buckley’s Top Palm Slide Off 69
Berg’s Top Palm 70
The Allerton Top Palm 70
One Hand Top Palm — Judson Cole 71
Palm Off the Second Top Card While Top Card Is Visibly Drawn Onto the Pack 72
To Palm Off the Top of the Pack an Exact Number of Cards Up to Ten 72
To Palm One or Several Cards 73
The Fan Location 74
The Fan Location Amplified 75
A Novel Palm 76
Changing a Card in the Act of Turning the Card Over 77
The Throw Change 78
Hindu Shuffle and Cut Location 79
Buckley’s Method of Double Cutting Cards to the Top of the Pack 80
Hofzinser Force 81
John Brown Cook’s Transfer of a Card 82
The “Pass” 84
False Shuffle Par Excellence 85
Another Method of Reversing a Card 86
Extraordinary Queens 87
A Different Top Change (mass hypnotism) 89
An Amazing Location 90
One Hand Crimp 91
The Count (Second Method) 93
The Palm Unsurpassed (Original) 93
Bottom Palm of a Single Card (Original) 94
The Top Palm (Improved Method) 95
The Glide Shift 95


CHAPTER TWO — Conjuring of the Card Table

Foreword 98
False Table Riffle Shuffle 100
False Table Riffle Shuffle and Cut 101
The Shift and Shuffle 102
The Push Through Simplified 103
Cut, Riffle Shuffle and Retain the Top Stock 103
Bottom Stock Blind Riffle 104
Retaining the Stock 105
The Switch at Draw Poker 106
Dealing from the Bottom 107
The Cut and Use of the Bridge 108
Restoring the Cut 109
Second Method — The Drop 110
Third Method 111
Bottom Stock Shift 111
Restoring the Cut (My Pet Method) 112
A Cute False Cut 113
Running Up Two Hands 113
The Hold Out and Pick Up Builds 114
Demonstration Build of Four Aces Using the Buckley Double Cuts 116
A Cold Deck Warmed Up 117
The Practical Sharpers 118
Knowing Your Opponent’s Hole Card 119
The Spread 120
A Strike (Method of Dealing Seconds) 121
Second Dealing (Black Jack Method) 121
Dealing Seconds (Double Push-Off One Hand) 122
An Original Method of Restoring the Cut (Fourth Method) 123


CHAPTER THREE — Manipulations

Foreword 125
Lighting 127
Music 127
A Vanish of a Card from the Top of the Pack 128
A Back Palm with Open Fingers 128
The Bent Fingers Back Palm and Recovery 129
Production from the Palm 130
Another Production 130
A Card Vanishes 130
Push Down Vanish 131
The Thumb Palm Move 132
The Slide Up Vanish 133
A Card Vanishes and Reappears at the Very Tips of the First and Second Fingers 134
Reverse Palming Without Swinging the Arm and Also Without Using the Thumb 135
Fan Vanish 137
A Fan of Cards Disappears 138
Paul le Paul Reversal 139
Color Change (Instantaneous) 139
Color Change (Second Method) 140
The Change Over A Very Pretty and Deceptive Piece of Card Manipulation 140
The Steal 142
Split Fans “Back Palm” a Pack and Produce Them in a Series of Fans 144


CHAPTER FOUR — Experiments with Cards

Experiment No. 1 — Transposition 147
Experiment No. 2 — Confusion 148
Experiment No. 3 — Do You See Red? 151
Experiment No. 4 — Matching Pairs 151
Experiment No. 5 — The Lost Aces 152
Experiment No. 6 — The Convexed Aces 153
Experiment No. 7 — Charlier Location and Speller Effect 155
Experiment No. 8 — Card Through the Case 156
Experiment No. 9 — Unexpected Ending 157
Experiment No. 10 — Birds of a Feather 158
Experiment No. 11 — Simplicity 159
Experiment No. 12 — Next to Yours 160
Experiment No. 13 — Four Chances — A Novel Card Location 161
Experiment No. 14 — Naming the Top Card 163
Experiment No. 15 — A Gambler’s Aid 164
Experiment No. 16 — A Card Gets Out of Hand 165
Experiment No. 17 — Difficult Routine 166
Experiment No. 18 — Lost and Found 169
Experiment No. 19 — Mysterious Marker 170
Experiment No. 20 — Black Jacks 172
Experiment No. 21 — The Ladies and the Deuces 173
Experiment No. 22 — Transition 175
Experiment No. 23 — The Ambitious Card 177
Experiment No. 24 — The Mix-Up 180
Experiment No. 25 — Wishful Thinking 181
Experiment No. 26 — Color Memory 184
Experiment No. 27 — Think of a Number 185
Experiment No. 28 — A Brilliant Climax 187
Experiment No. 29 — An Ace Introduction 191
Experiment No. 30 — The Aces and the Chosen Card 192
Experiment No. 31 — Quintuplets 195
Experiment No. 32 — The Slop Over Card Location 198
Experiment No. 33 — Card and Pocket Mystery 200
Experiment No. 34 — Your Favorite Ace 203
Experiment No. 35 — The Double Surprise 205
Experiment No. 36 — Chivalrous Kings and the Four Ladies 207
Experiment No. 37 — A Quickie 210
Experiment No. 38 — Four Aces Par Excellence 210
Experiment No. 39 — The Obtrusive Queens 211
Experiment No. 40 — The Illusive Transfer 212
Experiment No. 41 — Card in Pocket Book 214
Experiment No. 42 — The Hindu Aces 216
Experiment No. 43 — The Four Bandits 218


Nomenclature 221