Principles and Deceptions By Arthur Buckley

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CHAPTER ONE Photograph of the Author Dedication Introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito) Foreword by the Author The Principles of Magic Manipulation Substitution Duplication Camouflage Imitation False Partition Concealed Mechanism Falsification Arrangement Preparation Misdirection Concealment The Entertainment Value Showmanship Sleight of Hand Something New Invention Talking Acts Versus Silent Acts, and Pantomine The Practice of Leaving the Stage Unattended Assistants from the Audience Fakes and Accessories Gimacs The Plot Timing, Rhythm and Pace Footwork Presenting the Act in Public CHAPTER TWO – Magic with Coins Sleeving The Muscle Pass with One Silver Dollar Chinese Coin Mystery A Coin, A Ring and a Handkerchief The Bounce Vanish The Rear of the Thumb Palm The Pencil and the Silver Dollar The Turnover Pass With One Coin The Pinch Pass With a Single Coin A Very Pretty Disappearance Allan Shaw’s Vanish of a Coin Front and Back of Hand Transfer of a Coin Three Methods of Producing a Coin Downs’ Palm (first method) Downs’ Palm (second method) The Vanish of a Coin From the Fold of the Pants Leg Second Method Third Method To Pass Four Coins From Hand to Hand, Through Your Head One At a Time The French Drop and the Eye-glass The “Roll Down” Production for Four Coins (Buckley Method) The Downs “Click Pass” Viewed from a New Angle (improved) An Illusive Pass (original) The Click Pass and the Table The Spread Vanish (Allen Shaw) The Color Changing Discs (original) A Fine Coin Transfer Pass (by Downs) The Throw Away Vanish of Five Coins (original) The Appearance of Five Coins One After Another At the Finger Tips (Allan Shaw) The Surprise Appearance of a Coin (by Ron Leonard) The Magnetic Pass With One Or Several Coins Silken Silver (by Frank Cruse) Borrowed Money John Mulholland’s Slide Pass With a Single Coin Another Very Effective Production of Five Coins in the Left Hand (original) The Lynn Pennies (by Terry Lynn)		The Steal (my method) Passing Several Coins Through the Table At Which You Are Seated The French Drop (improved) Another Original Five Coin Pass The “Miser’s Dream” Finale To “The Miser’s Dream” (by W. J. Alkinson) Coin Through Handkerchief (original) A Coin Vanish and Reappearance By That Clever Artiste (Carlyle) The Steal (by Cardini) Twenty-one Cents (by Ross Bertram) Coins Pass One By One From the Left Hand to the Right Hand The Transfer of a Silver Dollar From One Hand to the Other John Platt’s Chinese Coin on Pencil Illusion (with permission) Five Silver Dollars and a Handkerchief Routine An Invisible Journey (improved) The Eureka Vanish (by T. Nelson Downs) Production of Five Coins One By One At Fingertips and An Original Change Over The Thumb Pass With a Silver Dollar Split Fans and Coin Production (original) A Production of Twenty-four Coins in a Series of Fans, An Original Routine (by John Brown Cook) “The Multiple Roll Out” (by John Brown Cook) A Phantasy in Silver – A Complete Act with Coins, Fully and Carefully Explained and Illustrated A Phantasy in Silver – A Complete Act as it was presented by the Author at the I.B.M. Show, Chicago, on Jan. 17, 1948. CHAPTER THREE – Magic with Cards Magic With Cards Foreword to Chapter Three Opening For a Card Act A Finish for a Card Act The Buckley False Shuffle Cards to Pocket, With Ten Cards (with improvements) The Count (original) The False Count for More My Card in Cigarette Illusion (with improvements) The Thirty Cards and Two Assistants (with improvements) Ten and Ten The Vanish of the Last Two Cards in Presenting the Ten Cards to Pocket Method of Double Cutting Cards The Triple Climax (original) An Amazing Card Illusion, Just Think of a Card The Crimp (one hand) Exchanging a Card in Passing The Peek Location The Hofzinser Force The Slap Shift Sighting While Fanning the Cards CHAPTER FOUR – Magic With Billiard Balls My Original Billiard Ball and Card Harness Pointers The Production of a Ball From Behind the Left Hand followed by the Take Away Vanish A Ball Held in the Finger Palm Position by the Left Hand is Secretly Removed by the Right Hand in Passing The Wrist Roll The Production of a Ball on the Fist Moving the Ball Down from the Fist Position to the First and Second Finger The Production of a Ball Between the Middle Fingers from the Palm Without Aid from the Thumb The “De’Biere” Production of a Ball The Ball Roll from Finger to Finger The Ball Roll with Another Ball Concealed in Your Palm The Knee Roll Vanish The Strike Vanish The Wrist Roll and Palm Off Vanish Concealing a Ball Behind the Hand While Both Palms Are Shown Color Changes (first method) (second method) (third method) (fourth method) The Ball and the Handkerchief Production of Eight Solid Bal

Principles and Deceptions By Arthur Buckley

Principles and Deceptions By Arthur Buckley

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