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Basic Card Technique

Norman, Anthony

Ed Meredith

(Based on 1 review)
Thinking about brushing up on your card technique? Want to improve your magic? This wonderfully illustrated book has twenty chapters filled with card moves, forcing, palming, false cuts, etc. Here are just some of the sleights taught: The Pass, False Cuts, False Counts, The Double Lift, Top Change, Forcing, Bottom Change, Glimpses, Flourishing, Palming, etc. Learn the right way to do these sleights. Anthony Norman also covers subjects such as color changes, mentalism effects, presentation and how to get the most out of your magic. There are literally hundreds of moves, tricks, sleights, flourishes, and methods of forcing within the pages of this book.

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Stuart Philip

Official Reviewer

Dec 29, 2022

Overview

This is a beginner's card magic lesson that is an amazing tool for anyone that wants to learn it all in one place. An experienced magician will have no use for this book. A beginner, who wants the keys to the kingdom will get no better bang for their $10 bucks than Anthony Norman's Basic Card Technique.

The book contains 77 pages, originally published in the 1960's and is an oversized paperback book from the old world. It read like its old-school and in fact that adds a bit of charm to the dozens of lessons contained in this very inexpensive book.

Some of the moves may require some additional context for beginners, but this will keep a motivated student busy for a long time.

Effect

This book teaches many different sleights and moves and all about cards. There is no one trick per se, but this book contains a treasury full of basic card handling knowledge.

Method

In this book you will basics on passes, different ways to locate a card with different methods, forcing, palming, false shuffling, double lift, special decks, certain stacks, fanning, flourishing and how to [present magic.

Product Quality

The quality of the information is great. The book is paperback and the pictures look really old-school. It is oversized and wont fit on a standard bookshelf.

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Thinking about brushing up on your card technique? Want to improve your magic? This wonderfully illustrated book has twenty chapters filled with card moves, forcing, palming, false cuts, etc. Here are just some of the sleights taught: The Pass, False Cuts, False Counts, The Double Lift, Top Change, Forcing, Bottom Change, Glimpses, Flourishing, Palming, etc. Learn the right way to do these sleights. Anthony Norman also covers subjects such as color changes, mentalism effects, presentation and how to get the most out of your magic. There are literally hundreds of moves, tricks, sleights, flourishes, and methods of forcing within the pages of this book.

Final Thoughts

A wonderful volume for an incredible price. It would have been 5 stars if it was a hardcopy book and the dimensions were more standard. The information contained in between the covers is top notch.
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