Card Control by Arthur H Buckley

Develop your card-handling skills with Arthur H. Buckley’s Card Control, a practical book for magicians who already have basic card expertise. Its step-by-step instruction covers techniques used in card magic and card play, with detailed photographs to help you study each hand position.

• For experienced card handlers: This book is not intended for beginners; it helps readers with basic card skills pursue greater proficiency.
• Broad technique coverage: Study shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles and cuts, fans, and steals.
• Forty card deceptions: Routines include “Confusion,” “A Brilliant Climax,” “Your Favorite Ace,” and “The Obtrusive Queens.”
• Detailed visual instruction: More than 300 photographs show hand positions during critical moves.
• Physical book: The illustrated softbound edition contains 219 pages.

Buckley drew on his experience performing card magic on 1920s vaudeville circuits and his exposure to professional gamblers. Written in 1946, this reference gives dedicated card magicians a substantial resource to work through and revisit as they refine their practice.