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Buckley explains 75 card sleights, some of them quite difficult and others very easy, using 170 illustrations to make clear every detail of position and action. Chapter 1, entitled Sleights, runs 83 pages Chapter 2, Conjuring at the Card Table, 27 pages Chapter 3, Manipulation, 27 pages and Chapter 4, Forty Experiments with a Pack of Cards, 63 pages. The 200 pages of explanatory material have been divided into chapters of varying length, with about two-thirds of the space being devoted to principles of card conjuring and the other third to their application in the form of complete tricks.
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In another respect, however, the author-publisher has given exceedingly good measure for he has provided 297 photographic halftones in place of the 247 illustrations that were announced.Ĭard Control consists of four chapters of substantial size and a six-page glossary, in addition to the table of contents, a short preface, and Harlan Tarbell's two-page biographical sketch of the author. It turns out to be a somewhat smaller book than was expected, with 219 instead of the promised 256 pages - a discrepancy which doubtless resulted from undertaking to estimate the size of the book before the type had been made up into pages. Arthur Buckley's "post-graduate course on practical methods" of card magic, which has been eagerly awaited by card conjurers ever since its coming publication was advertised several months ago, is now a reality.