The Magic Shop

Contents Include: The Overhand Shuffle The Riffle Shuffle Flourishes The Glide The Glimpse The Key Card The Palm The Backslip The Overhand Shuffle II False Shuffles and Cuts The Double Lift and Turnover The Pass Miscellaneous Flourishes The Reverses The Hindu Shuffle and Other Controls The Classic Force Top and Bottom Changes Arrangements Routines Platform Tricks

spectacular and entertaining tricks: card locations, coincidence tricks, mental magic with cards, tricks with double endings, tricks with two decks, predictions, tricks with borrowed decks, trick poker deals. Easy-to-learn, clearly illustrated, these tricks produce spectacular effects with a minimum of practice.

Scores of methods—previously known only to card experts—include passes, palming, false shuffles, false cuts, changes, crimps, jogs, reverses, rear palms and more. Altogether, 341 sleights and tricks. 318 illustrations show exact position of fingers and hands.

The secrets of simple magic tricks that will amaze friends and family are revealed in this fun and educational series. Each title explains 13 tricks in easy-to-follow, colorfully illustrated spreads, and profiles of famous magicians and their best tricks offer a sense of the history of magic and its contemporary practitioners. Other titles in this series include: Coin and Rope Tricks, Mind Tricks, and Sleight of Hand. Card Tricks demonstrates such essential skills for the young prestidigitator as card peeking, false shuffling, card forcing and the double lift.

Comes with everything the magician needs--including the deck.

How to perform over 600 card tricks, devised by the world's greatest magicians. 66 illustrations.