21st Century Card Magic
James Swain's book - 21st Century Card Magic - has stunningly effective simple card routines.
Improve your sleight-of-hand card skills immediately and with ease.
Thorough instructions with photo illustrated explanations to learn.
From Introduction by Bill Malone
"This book is a perfect way to start off the new century. I have tried many of these routines in front of real people and can attest to their greatness. This book has something for everyone, whether you are a beginner oran accomplished sleight of hand magician...There are so many routines in this book worth performing that I do not have time to mention them all...It is a well known saying, if you can find one trick in a book that you can actually use than you've gotten your money's worth. Well, with this book, you will get your money's worth over and over again."
Contents: Includes Sleights taught for each routine
- ix Preface
- xi Introduction by Bill Malone
- 3 Departure: Invisible Shulien Revelation
- 7 Tongue in Cheek: Ascanio's Faro Shuffle idea
- 11 Metamorphosis: Frank Garcia's Pirouette Double Lift; J.K. Hartman's Covered Cop Transfer
- 17 Ice Breaker: Paul LePaul Flourish
- 20 A Tribute to Dunninger
- 23 The 21 Card Trick: Gene Finnell's Free Cut Principle; Jay Ose's False Cut;Marlo's Flash Speller
- 26 Tale of Titanic Thompson
- 29 Psychic Poker: Phil Goldstein's Binary Cut Sorting Process
- 33 Bill Malone's "Cut Em High and Tie"
- 35 Birds of a Feather: Brother Hamman's Swivel Switch; Larry Jenning's Modification of Daryl's Display Sequence
- 43 Diving Rod: Marlo's Cut and Shuffle Sequence
- 46 Miraculous: Frank Thompson's Four Card Revelation
- 50 Equivocally Triumphant
- 53 The Miracle Deck: Peeking a Card During the Pass
- 57 The Last Good Trick: Gene Maze's Card Box Load
- 60 The Four Robbers
- 64 21st Century Assembly
- 68 Del Ray's Handling of LePaul's Gymnastic Aces
- 71 Too Many Jokers
- Weapons
- 75 Look Away Force
- 78 Steve Bedwell Control Variation
- 80 Card Warp Display
- 83 Unloading a Card
- 85 Peek, Stop, Touch
- 87 2 Full-Deck Controls
- 91 The Dummy Force
- 93 The Dummy Pass
- 95 The Dummy Fan Force
- Tricks of The Masters
- 99 Mike Skinner's Placement Principle: Marlo's Faro Check
- 102 Count on It (Paul Cummins)
- 105 Persi's Collectors (Persi Diaconis): Marlo's Mechanical Second Revelation
- 108 I Am In Debt (Fred Kaps): Marlo's Book Break
- 111 Instant Aces (Larry Jennings): Ken Krenzel's Mechanical Reverse
- 114 Shipwrecked (Daryl, Bill Malone)
- 117 Quick D-Way
- 123 Royal Aces (Ron Ferris): Benzais Cut with two cards; Walter Scott'stechnique for Dealing Seconds
- 127 1002nd Aces (Alex Elmsley)
- 131 Sympathetic Thirteen (Nate Leipsig): Paul Curry's Swindle Switch
- Gambling Routines
- 137 Poker Interchange Redux
- 140 Center Deal Demo/The Muck: Alex Elmsley's Just Lucky Shuffle; The Drop Switch (Original)
- 144 Just Lucky Eight Card Stack
- 147 21st Century Magician vs. Gambler
Larry Jennings
149 Famous Chop Cup Routine
Pages: 156 - Hardbound, Photo-Illustrated
