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EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE: Close-Up Table Magic by JEAN HUGARD and FREDERICK BRAUE FABER AND FABER LIMITED 24 Russell Square London 1st edition, 1940, by authors, New York 2nd edition, 1944, by authors, New York reprint of 2 nd edition, 1974, Dover Publications, New York 3rd edition, 1 st printing, 1951, Faber and Faber Limited, London 3rd edition, 2 nd printing, 1961, Faber and Faber Limited, London Versión para MS Word y PDF por FEDE. Santa Fe, Argentina. -2005- DEDICATION THIS BOOK is DEDICATED to all who love the art of conjuring with cards; to the most skilful adept as well as the youth yet to explore the heady mysteries of the art; to the man who comprehends the abracadabraish nomenclature of the craft as well as to those to whom such knowledge offers an open sesame to a new and exciting world; to the experienced in guileful trickery and to the tyro still experiencing the intoxicating excitement of thumbing through the textbooks of the craft; to the rich and poor, wise and foolish, young and old; to all the present generation of card conjurers as well as to the generations to come; in the sincere hope that they may find in its pages a knowledge which will enable them to add to the prestige and the dignity of the art of conjuring with cards. Expert Card Technique 2 Versión para MS Word y PDF por FEDE, Santa Fe Argentina FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION I WAS ELATED to see the Third Edition go to press particularly because of the two additional chapters by Dai Vernon and Dr. Daley to whom I feel greatly indebted. I am deeply grateful to my dear friend, George Starke, for securing very valuable material from these two great card experts. I have a strong feeling that George may have finally persuaded Dai to do a book on cards—something the magic fraternity has been looking forward to for many years. In the case of Mr. Dai Vernon, who is conceded to be the world's greatest exponent of sleight-of-hand with cards, I am happy for this opportunity of now giving him full credit for many of the sleights and effects I know were devised and used by him for many years, which already appeared in the previous editions. Readers can understand how difficult it is in many instances to credit the actual source. In addition, owing to the vast amount of material covered in this book and to the conditions under which it was written—namely, long-distance correspondence between Mr. Braue in California and myself in New York— it was extremely difficult in many cases to give due recognition to the originators. Therefore, I am glad to make this explanation. I should also like to take this opportunity of paying tribute to George Starke, one of the best sleight-of- hand amateurs in the field of close-up work, who is always in the background, always refusing to take credit. To him go my heartfelt thanks for having so generously undertaken the publication of this Third Edition, purely for friendship and love of the Art. JEAN HUGARD New York November 1, 1950 Expert Card Technique 3 Versión para MS Word y PDF por FEDE, Santa Fe Argentina FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION THE AUTHORS WISH TO EXPRESS their appreciation of the friendly spirit in which many of the tricks and sleights printed in this book were contributed by Bert Allerton, Theo Annemann, Cliff Green, Gerald L. Kaufman, Harold Lloyd, Jack McMillen, Jack Merlin, Paul Rosini, Dai Vernon and Luis Zingone. They are particularly indebted to Charles Miller, who generously and freely gave of his favorite methods that this book might be that which the authors can only hope it will be—a comprehensive and lucid source book of expert card technique. It was indeed a happy circumstance that Carl W. Jones of Minneapolis, accepted the manuscript for publication. It is Mr. Jones' prediction and the authors' wish, that Expert Card Technique may become a standard book of card magic. JEAN HUGARD FREDERICK BRAUE New York San Francisco November 14, 1940 Expert Card Technique 4 Versión para MS Word y PDF por FEDE, Santa Fe Argentina INDEX DEDICATION............................................................................................................................................2 FOREWORD TO THE THIRD EDITION..............................................................................................3 FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION ...............................................................................................4 INDEX.........................................................................................................................................................5 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................12 NOMENCLATURE .................................................................................................................................14 ♠PART 1: SLEIGHTS ............................................................................................................................15 CHAPTER 1: THE SECRET LIFTS ....................................................................................................16 THE DOUBLE LIFT .............................................................................................................................16 THE TRIPLE AND QUADRUPLE LIFTS ...........................................................................................16 THE LIFT GET-READY.......................................................................................................................16 THE LIFT ..............................................................................................................................................17 THE DOUBLE LIFT TURNOVER.......................................................................................................19 THE ONE HAND PUSH-OFF...............................................................................................................20 CHAPTER 2: FALSE DEALS...............................................................................................................22 THE SECOND DEAL ...........................................................................................................................22 I. THE PUSH-OFF SECOND DEAL.....................................................................................................22 II. THE STRIKE SECOND DEAL ........................................................................................................25 THE BOTTOM DEAL ..........................................................................................................................27 THE MIDDLE DEAL............................................................................................................................30 THE DOUBLE DEAL...........................................................................................................................33 SECOND METHOD ...................................................................................................................................33 CHAPTER 3: THE SIDE SLIP..............................................................................................................36 TWO COVERS FOR THE SIDE SLIP..................................................................................................37 MALINI'S SIDE SLIP ...........................................................................................................................38 THE DELAYED SIDE SLIP .................................................................................................................38 THE BOTTOM SIDE SLIP ...................................................................................................................39 CHAPTER 4: THE PASS.......................................................................................................................40 THE INVISIBLE TURN-OVER PASS .................................................................................................40 THE ZINGONE PERFECT TABLE