Card Magic by Richard Kaufman - Book
Lying in a dark undisturbed drawer for decades lay Harry Houdini's copy of THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT, a book written by Reginald Scot in 1584. It is the first book in the English language to describe sleight of hand tricks, and Houdini's copy was very special because it held the key to a mystery which fascinated magicians for centuries. Just who did Reginald Scot obtain all his information from - who was the magician who gave away some of the greatest and most closely guarded secrets of conjuring? The answer lay in the barely legible notes Houdini had scribbled in the margins. 'Shakespeare's copy, see in rear cover,' read Houdini's less than cryptic message. Inside the back of the book were William Shakespeare's handwritten notes of about fifty tricks and sleights, some of which appeared in THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT.
The secret is now fully revealed for the very first time: the young Will Shakespeare, while having just fathered a child, needed money, so he took the job.
In a story as exciting as any detective novel, author Richard Kaufman deciphered Shakespeare's ridiculous scribbling...and has written this book, which includes forty-five effects by Shakespeare (some lousy ones, too - he wasn't always clever), and another twenty contributions from some of the world's greatest cardmen, including: Derek Dingle, Edward Marlo, Jon Racherbaumer, Harry Lorayne, Gene Maze, Darwin Ortiz, Ken Krenzel, Bill Simon, Phil Goldstein, and Russell Barnhart....
Even while Shakespeare is spinning in his grave, over seven-hundred animated illustrations that seem to move combined with Richard Kaufman's superb text will clearly teach you many fine card routines you will be proud to add to your repertoire.
Approximatley: 184 pages with 727 black and white illustrations
Contents:
Ham and Cheese
Karate Card
Strange Harmony
Triumph Handling
Number Nine Blue
Make Mine Dunbury Well
A Maze ing
A Card in Bill Switch: Standing
Another Card in Bill Switch: Still Standing
One More: This Time Sitting
A Dream Deck Switch, too
Swivelleroo Plus
Fantasy Cull
The World's Fastest Reverse
The W.S. Card Switch
Packet Switch
Cover Switch
Flourish False Cut
A Double and Triple Lift
The Semi-Circular Switch
The S.D.L. Change
Taps
Shooting Star
Fifty One Below
The Sideswipe Shift
One-Hand Mechanical Change
How to deliver out four aces, and convert them into four knaves.
Another way to do the same, having yourself indeed never seen the card.
How to tell what card he sees on the bottom, when the same card is shuffled into the stock.
How to make one draw the same or any card you like
How to tell what card any man thinks of, how to convey it into the kernel of a nut or cherrystone, and the same again into another's pocket
To tell one without confederacy what card he thinks of.
Of private confederacy.
Look Ma, Just One Hand!
4-5-6 Aces
Progress Report
Inertial Load
The Real Gone Aces Take Cover
HaLo Changes Color Again
A Radical Change
The Arcadio Collectors
The SecondFromTheTop Change
Pickin' Up The Pieces
Mass Transit
S.P.L.I.T.
Turnover Coverpass
Predicted Collectors
Hofzinser Predicts the Collectors
Mackintosh
On The BMT - An Advanced Packet Handling
Quick: Which Way?
Monte for the Maladjusted
Cassette (Side A)
Cassette (Side B)
Flotation Stab
Through Thick And Thin
Palms For The Poor
Envelope
Cutting Remarks
In Case You're Passing Through
Snapshot
A Vanishing Deck
Phoenix Reborn
A Phoenix of a Different Color
Blues Caught on a Windy Day
"It Shrinks!"
Travel
The Proverbial Hole
Slot Machine
The Polaroid Change
The Crystal Ball
Fantastamazing Aces
Salamander
