Revolutionary Card Technique by Ed Marlo

Details: Here it is-the legendary Ed Marlo’s entire “Revolutionary Card Technique” series all together in one volume! With over 500 pages, more than 1000 illustrations and 14 chapters covering all aspects of advanced manipulation, this is the most complete single reference book on card magic available. 

It was a classic in its time and is still an essential volume for any serious card worker’s library. Newly edited and illustrated for clarity and ease-of-use, the wealth of information contained can elevate your card work to new heights.

Contents:

CHAPTER ONE: MIRACLE CARD CHANGES

002 Miracle Change No. 1
004 Method No. 1
004 Method No. 2
006 Method No. 3
006 Method No. 4
007 Variation With Effect
008 Miracle Change No.2
010 Miracle Change No. 3
013 A Mulitple Effect
015 Follow the Ace (The Sleeve Change)
016 Climax Sleeving

CHAPTER TWO: ACTION PALM

020 The Shuffle Palm
021 Delayed Action Palm
024 The Count Cop
024 Vanishing Card
025 Count Cop For A Number of Cards
025 Count Cop For Small Packets
026 A Variation
026 Count Cop and Transfer
027 Ace Assembly Variation
028 Count Cop Exchange
028 Count Cop for the Left Hand
029 Effect with the Count Cop for the Left Hand
030 The One Hand Action Palm
031 The Clip Steal
031 Turn Up Palm
032 Turnover Palm Card to Pocket
032 Turn Down Palm with Packets
033 Misdirection Palm
034 Effect with Misdirection Palm
035 Misdirection Packet Palm
035 The Cull Palm
036 D’Amico’s Cull Palm Effect
036 Cull Palm Replacement
036 An Effect with the Cull Palm Replacement
037 Pressure Fan Palm
038 Effects with the Pressure Fan Palm
038 One Hand Palm as Action Palm
039 Riffle Shuffle Palm
040 Take Techniques for the Action Palm
041 Square Up Drop Palm
041 Square Drop Palm Cards to Pocket
041 Drop Cut Palm
042 Double Aciton Palms
043 The Table Edge Palm
043 Pivot Bottom Steal
044 Brush Palm
045 Bits of Misdirection
047 The Drop Cover
047 The Wrist Turn
048 Delayed One Hand Palm
048 Palm Replacements
049 The Turn Over
050 The Rise and Riffle
050 The Turn and Gesture
050 The Square Up
050 The Top Card Return
051 After the Cut
052 The Delayed Replacement
052 The Shuffle Replacement
052 Revolving Replacement
053 Holding Out
054 Easy Palm Transfer
054 The Fake Transfer
054 Card From Pocket Ideas
055 With Two Cards

CHAPTER THREE: FINGERTIP CONTROL

055 With Two Cards
056 Basic Position
058 Pressure Fan Palm
059 Time Riffle Force
059 Forced Estimation
059 First Method
059 Forced Estimation for Two Cards
060 Second Method
061 Third Method
062 Two Short Corner Cards
062 Cut and Riffle Shuffle
063 Fourth Method
064 A Peek Force
064 A Double Peek Force
065 Multiple Control
065 Fifth Method
066 Double Peek Force
066 Step Control
067 Double Step for Unknown Cards
068 Commercial Double Peek Force
068 Square Up Glimpse
070 Marlo’s Definitive Fingertip Control

CHAPTER FOUR: THE SIDE STEAL

074 The Technical Steal
077 The Deliberate Side Steal
078 The Curled Forefinger
080 The Bold Steal
082 The Bottom Bold Steal
082 The Bold Stop Effect
083 A Slight Difference
083 Standard Side Steal
084 On the Left Side
084 Multiple Holdout
085 Left Hand Steal
086 Color Steal
088 Almost Standard
088 The Finger Flutter
090 The Clip Steal
092 Clip Steal to Bottom
092 Clip Steal Color Change
094 Palm Positions
096 Side Steal to Bottom
101 Multiple Rear Palm Steal
102 To the Top
103 Card from Case
104 Stop Effect
105 The Insertion Steals
106 Full Left Hand Steal
107 Direct Insertion Steal
107 Right Hand Steal
109 The Diagonal Steal
111 Side Steal Cover Ups
111 First Cover Up
112 Another Handling
113 Clip Steal Cover Up
115 Dribble Stop Effect
117 Card Stab Effect
117 For the Purists
119 Concluding Observations
120 The Dribble Replacement

CHAPTER FIVE: THE TABLED PALM

124 One Hand Table Palm
125 Tabled Riffle Palm
126 Flat Palm Steal
127 Angle Palm Steal
129 Adjustment Misdirection
130 Table Riffle Angle Palm
131 Longitudinal Angle Palm
131 Ribbon Spread Palm
132 raveling Double
134 Ten and Ten
135 Tabled Stop Effect
135 Out of Your Hands
136 As A Control
137 Card To Top
138 Sell Or Delusion
139 Face Up Elimination
140 Rise-Rise-Rise
142 Second Method
143 Angle Palm Transfer
143 Tip Up Angle Palm
144 Full Buckle Palm
146 Center Block Palm
147 Direct Rear Palm
149 Direct Full Palm
149 The Card Transfer
151 The Lost Card

CHAPTER SIX: THE FARO SHUFFLE

153 In and Out Faro Shuffles
154 The First Technique
158 Faro Aids
158 Rock and Reweave
159 Fan Spread and Weave
159 Resquaring the Packets
160 Second Method
160 Third Method
160 Cutting At 26
161 26th Card Faro Check
162 The 4th Finger Table
162 Faro Riffle Shuffle
165 Variations in Technique
165 First Variation
166 Second Variation
166 Fourth Variation
167 Fifth Variation
167 In The Hands
168 The Butt Faro
169 Partial Faro Check
170 Throw-Off Faro-Top
171 Throw-Off Faro-Bottom
172 Off Center Faro
172 Above Crimp Faro
174 Half and Half Principle
175 Half Plus One
176 Combining Riffle Shuffles & Faros
177 Reverse or Backward Faro
178 On Discrepancies

CHAPTER SEVEN: FARO NOTES

182 Faro as a Control
184 Less Than 52
185 With Two Cards
185 For Two Cards At Undertermined Positions
187 A Correction
188 The Faro Calculator
190 The Cain Calculator
191 The Left Over Faro Shuffle
192 Shuffling The Aces
193 Placement Shuffle
194 Control of the Aces
195 An Out Shuffle Effect
196 Progressive Miracle
199 New Deck P. M.
201 76-76-67-67
202 The Memorized Stack
203 Fingertip Miracle
204 Full Deck-Five Faros
205 The Reverse Or Backward Faro
206 A False Shuffle Combination
207 The Wrong Hand
208 It’s Mathematical
210 Alternative Procedures
211 Two Disclosures
212 Automatic Placement
213 Variants On Automatic Placement
214 Faro Foolers
225 Instant 26th Location
226 The 17th Location
227 The 13th Location
228 Wrong To Right

CHAPTER EIGHT: SECONDS, CENTERS AND BOTTOMS (PART ONE)

235 The Master Grip and Deal
236 The Bottom Deal
236 New Push Out Bottom Deal
237 Double Deal
238 The Over Count
239 The Bottom Deal Count
240 Strike Bottom Deal
240 Strike Bottom Deal Count
241 The Second Deal
241 The Take Second Deal
242 The Push Off Second
244 The Stud Deal
244 The Havana Deal
245 The New Bottom Stud
246 The Stud Second
247 The Push-Off Stud
247 The Sail
248 One Hand Bottom Deal
249 One Hand Count Down
249 Shifting The Grip
253 Two Strike Methods
255 Special Push-Off Techniques
258 Small Packet Second Deal
261 The Side Push-Off Second
264 The Related Bottom Deal
266 The Throw Bottom Deal
266 The Outward Deal
268 The Inward Deal
269 My Favorite Stop Effect
269 The Deep Bottom Deal
270 The Moveable Thumb
271 The Clip Bottom Deal
271 Second Clip Method
275 The Movie Second

CHAPTER NINE: SECONDS, CENTERS AND BOTTOMS (PART TWO)

276 The Deep Second
278 One Hand Stud Second
280 The Hit Deals
283 D`Amico One Hand Second
287 From Out of Nowhere
287 A D `Amico Variation
288 Stanley James Stud Second
289 Variations of D `Amico’s Deal
289 The Top Card Deal
290 One Hand Bottom Deal
291 One Hand Center Deal
292 Marlo One Hand Second
294 D ‘Amico’s Variation
297 The S. F. Grip
297 The S. F. Bottom Deal
298 The S. F. Second Deals
300 S. F. Natural Second Deal
300 Wiersbie’s Double Deal
301 Marlo’s D. D. Stop
301 M. S. F. One Hand Bottom
302 Added Technique For Wiersbie Double Deal
302 Missing Finger Deals
302 Streamlined Dunbury Delusion
305 Off the Face Seconds
307 Mechanical Seconds
308 Technical Variations
308 Tabled Bottom Deal
310 Tabled Seconds

CHAPTER TEN: SECONDS, CENTERS AND BOTTOMS (PART THREE)

313 The Center Deal
313 Exhibition Center Deal
315 Step Center Deal
316 Weakling’s Center Deal
318 The Strike Center
319 Side Steal Center Deal
319 On The Cut
319 The End Jog
320 The Side Jog
320 My Favorite Center Deal Effect: The Expert’s Dunbury
321 The Tabled Center Deal
323 Marlo Center Deal
324 Variations of Marlo C. D.
325 One Hand Center Deal
326 Marlo’s Push Off Unit Control
328 Face Up Assembly
329 Order Of Aces
329 The Jack Deal
330 Let’s Start Over
330 “He’s My Partner”
331 Exhibitionism
331 Invisible Aces
333 Easy Unit Control
335 The Fan Deal
336 The No Touch Theory
339 No Touch Stud Deal
341 Marlo’s Strike Unit Control
342 Cover Ups
342 The Downward Deal
343 The Upward Deal
343 The Backward Deal
343 Principle of the Wrist Turn
345 About Noise
345 Concluding Observatons

CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MULTIPLE SHIFT

352 The Spade Multiple Shift
358 For One Card
358 Side Jog Multiple Shift-Neal Elias
360 Double Undercut Multiple Shift-Neal Elias
362 Marlo’s All Around Square Up, The Movable Jog
366 Marlo’s Single Cut Shift
366 Single Cut Side Shift
367 Technical Variation Single Cut Swivel Shift
370 The Movable Block Shift
372 Strip-Out and Push-Thru Multiple Shifts
372 The Strip-Out Shift
374 The Push-Thru Shift
376 The Shuffle Shift
378 Shuffle Shift and Palm Off
379 The Faro Shuffle Shift
381 D’Amico’s Multiple Shift
382 Veeser’s Bluff Multiple Shift
383 Tom Wright’s Multiple Shift
383 Marlo’s Subtle Shift
384 Alternatives
384 The Most Flexible Shift
384 The Simple Shift
386 Notes
386 The Crimped Ace
387 Aces and Numbers
389 Simple Shift-Undercut Variation
390 The Immovable Multiple Shift
390 To The Bottom-Delayed Type
392 To The Top-Deck Face Down
395 Marlo Sleeve Technique
396 The Block Shift To The Top
400 Block Shift Variations
402 Concluding Observations
403 Added Notes
404 Marlo’s Turnaround Glimpse
404 Marlo’s Side Squaring Glimpse
404 Marlo’s Acrobatic Aces

CHAPTER TWELVE: CARD SWITCHES

408 Rear Flat Palm
408 Rear Angle Palm
409 Thumb Clip Palm
409 Latest Thumb Clip Palm
409 Changing Palm Positions
410 Flat Card Pickup
411 Rear Angle Palm to Flat Rear Palm
411 Flat Rear Palm to Rear Angle Palm
411 Getting Into the Palm Position
415 Methods of Unloading the X Card After the Switch
415 The Flexible Unload
416 Suggestions
417 The Card Switch Transfer
417 Single Card Switches
418 An Impressive Sequence
421 A Simpler Sequence
422 A Third Sequence
424 Further Alignment Move Switches
426 Variations of the First Switch
429 Marlo’s Card Switch
431 Additional Methods for Getting Into the Basic Position
432 Methods of Disclosure
433 Effects Using the Marlo Card Switch
435 Marlo’s Push Switch
436 Push Switch Variation
437 The Circular Change (Marlo and D’Amico)
439 Rub-a-Dub Change (Marlo)
439 In and Out Switches
442 Unloading Switches
446 Without the Deck
446 Pseudo Card Cheat’s Switches
448 Simplest Push Switch
449 Angle Palm Switch
451 Four and Four Transposition
452 Additional Rear Palm Switches
453 Top Palm Switch
453 The Throw Switch
455 One Hand Switch
455 Another Rear Palm Switch
457 The Spread Switch
458 Switcheroo
461 Monte Swindle
462 Marlo’s Regulation Palm Switches
465 Added Notes

CHAPTER THIRTEEN: ESTIMATION (PART ONE)

468 Machanical Estimation
468 The Comparison Method
469 The Automatic Gauge Method
470 Variation of Automatic Gauge
471 The Nail Gauge
472 Nail Gauge Variation
473 Marlo’s Favorite
474 The Faro Check
475 Mechanical Estimation Effects
475 The Magic Card
477 “I Think I’ll Stop Here”
476 Chosen Card Count Down
477 The Tip-off
478 Reversed Card Out

CHAPTER FOURTEEN: ESTIMATION (PART TWO)

479 Side Riffle Estimation
480 Pull Down Estimation
481 Back End Estimation
482 The Cut Estimate
483 Visual Retention Estimate
483 Fingertip Riffle Estimation
484 The Sudden Stop
485 The Fan Spread Estimate
485 Estimation Demonstration or Practice
486 Packet Estimation
486 Key Card Plus Estimation
499 Fingertip Location
499 Triple Estimation Peek
500 Method Two
500 Miracle Estimation Peek
502 A Three Locator
503 15 -K-11 Speller
504 Mental Spell
505 37383
505 X-Ray Spelling
505 Fingertip Face Up Locator
506 Double Peek Face Up Locators
506 Spin Cut Stunner
508 Sudden Stop Effect
508 Mental Stab
510 Super Mental Stab
512 Miracle Card Stab Location
512 Marlo’s Favorite Out
514 Sensitive Fingers
515 A Marlo Miracle
516 Marlo Miracle “Stop” Stab
519 Miracle Coincidence Toss
520 The Magic Throw # 1-3
522 Face Up Finder
524 Sure Throw # 1
525 D’Amico’s Latest Method
526 Marlo’s Suggestion
526 The Dribble Stop
527 The Dribbling Spectator

sbcc

• Publisher: Magic Inc.
• Pages: 538
• Location: Chicago, IL, USA
• Edited by: Elliot Cutler
• Dimensions: 7″x10″
• Date: 1954, 2003
• Binding: hardbound

Contents: magiccafe.be – click for details

Found something wrong? Help us improve things by clicking here!