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Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards : Tricks, Shuffles, Stunts and Hustles Plus Bets You Can't Lose by Joshua Jay (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherWorkman Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-100761158421
ISBN-139780761158424
eBay Product ID (ePID)77167455

Product Key Features

Book TitleJoshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards : Tricks, Shuffles, Stunts and Hustles Plus Bets You Can't Lose
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicCard Games / General, Magic
IllustratorYes
GenreGames & Activities
AuthorJoshua Jay
FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight19.2 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal793.85
SynopsisCard tricks, fancy shuffles and flourishes, stunts, cheats, games, and other exploits: 52 ways to amaze your friends with a deck of cards., At last, learn how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes - including step-by-step instruction and downloadable video! Send a deck of cards cascading from one hand to the other. Throw a card across the room. Predict the card even before your spectator chooses it! Morph a "prince" card into a frog - that really hops. Using concise, easy-to-follow directions and step-by-step photographs, award-winning magician Joshua Jay shows how to do 58 truly amazing things with a deck of cards. As you read through the lessons in the book, refer to the online series of lively videos that demonstrate and teach 29 featured tricks and stunts, plus one bonus effect! Tricks include Ribbon Spread and Flip, One-Handed Cut, Catch-a-Deck, Faro Shuffle, The Double Bridge, False Cut, Tearing a Deck in Half, Memorizing a Deck, Fortune Telling, and Stepping Through a Card., Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room. The clearest, easiest-to-follow book of step-by-step directions, The Amazing Book of Cards will show anyone how to do 52 amazing things with a deck of cards. Written by Joshua Jay, the award-winning close-up magician and card-obsessed author of Magic: The Complete Course , The Amazing Book of Cards combines friendly, concise text and full-color photos with a full-length DVD that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Here are simple, killer tricks, like "Presto Prediction," which performs the impossible task of knowing someone's choice before she even makes it. Nine different shuffles, including the Faro Shuffle, the one most often used by pros, which helps you perfectly weave a split deck together in seconds. How to perform fans, flips, and flourishes, including Ribbon Spread & Flip and Catch-a-Deck. Tricks you can't lose--go ahead, take the bet to throw a card in a hat. How to memorize a deck in less than ten seconds, how to put a deck of cards into a glass bottle, build a card castle, and more. Filling out this labor of love is a whole world of card trivia, including the origins of Kings: King of Spades is modeled after King David, the King of Diamonds is Julius Caesar, Hearts is Charlemagne, and Clubs, Alexander the Great., With step-by-step instructions, "The Amazing Book of Cards" will show anyone how to do 52 amazing things with a deck of cards. Includes a downloadable video that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Full color.
LC Classification NumberGV1549

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  • Fantastic magic with cards

    This is an excellent book & DVD on magic card tricks. I've already learned several amazing tricks and I'm still not finished. If you like doing magic card tricks get this immediately because it's a great book at a great price.

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  • Joshua Jay's Tricks

    Outstanding Book

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  • Good Card Magic Book

    Has tricks, shuffles, games, and hustles. Would buy again.

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  • great book

    great book

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