Card College Vol. 4

By Robert Giobbi

The Third of Five volumes of a how to do it course in card magic. Profusely illustrated.

Never before has a course in sleight-of-hand card magic been so thoroughly illustrated for ease of learning.

Learn such invaluable sleights as the invisible pass, the turnover and spread passes, the Christ twist, second and bottom deals, the Jinx change, the Green angle separation, the cut force, the dribble force, and much more-including many tricks and routines by Mr. Giobbi himself. Some of the topics covered in Volume Four include:
 

• Forcing Techniques
• Card & Packet Reversals
• Advanced Passes
• Culling & Stacking
• Half Passes
• Tilt
• Sandwich Techniques
• More Flourishes
• Lapping
• Card & Packet Switches
• Estimation
• Deck Switches
• False Deals
• Structural Theory

Contents - numbers are not page numbers.

•   Foreword

  Chapter 39: Force Techniques, Part 3
  3 The Under-the-Table Force
  4 The Ribbon-spread Force
  5 The Toss Force
  6 The Peek Force
  7 The Cut Force
  8 The Credit-card Force
  9 The Curious Count
 10 The Packet Force
 11 The Mishmash Force
 12 Forcing Under a Handkerchief
 13 The Bottom Bluff Force
 14 The Dribble Force
 15 Tricks Using Forces
 16 A Question of Sex
 17 The Card in the Wallet

 Chapter 40: Card Switches
 19 The Curry Turnover Change
 20 The Simple Turnover Switch
 21 The Card-spread Switch
 22 The Allerton Change
 23 The Kaps Switch
 24 The "Hofzinser" Top Change
 25 The Push-in Change
 26 The Glide Change
 27 The Mexican Turnover
 28 Tricks with Card Switches
 29 Everywhere and Nowhere
 30 Underground Twins
 31 Trapped in the Future

 Chapter 41: Packet Switches
 33 The Veeser Concept
 34 The Toss Switch
 35 The Talazac Switch
 36 The Gambler's Packet Switch
 37 The Jinx Change
 38 The Pendulum Switch
 39 Olram's Jinx Switch
 40 The Turnover Palm Switch
 41 The Steamboat Switch
 42 The Count Switch
 43 Tricks with Packet Switches
 44 Flash Transposition
 45 Day Trippers
 46 Three-way Excursion

 Chapter 42: The Deck Switch
 48 The Direct Deck Switch
 49 The Gambler's Deck Switch
 50 The Joker Switch
 51 The Deck Switch in the Contect of a Trick
 52 The Trojan Deck
 53 Through the Table
 54 In a Flash
 55 The Cardsharp
 56 The Vanishing Deck Reconsidered
 57 Final Thoughts on Deck Swithces

 Chapter 43: Estimation
 59 Visual Estimation
 60 An Application
 61 Location Using Outs
 62 Fingernail Estimation
 63 Tricks with Estimation
 64 The Miracle Aces
 65 Impossibility
 66 Miraculous Coincidence

 Chapter 44: Culling
 68 The Grismer Cull
 69 The Lessinout Shuffle
 70 The Downjog Cull
 71 The Above-the-Spread Cull
 72 The Green Angle Separation
 73 Tricks Using Culls
 74 Trimental
 75 The Stop Trick

 Chapter 45: Stacking
 77 The Erdnase Stack Shuffle
 78 The Milk-build Shuffle
 79 The Frank Lane Stack
 80 Riffle Shuffle Stacking
 81 Final Observations
 82 Tricks with Stacking
 83 Moracle
 84 The Pseudo-stack
 85 The Gambler in Person

 Chapter 46: False Dealing
 87 The Cards
 88 The Basic Grip and the True Deal
 89 The Double Deal
 90 The Push-off Second Deal
 91 The Strike Second Deal
 92 The Bottom Deal
 93 The Sail
 94 A Trick Using False Deals
 95 Call Your Hand

 Chapter 47: Sandwich Techniques
 97 The Display Load
 98 The Direct Load
 99 The Kosky Switch
100 The Simple Sandwich Load
101 Tricks with Sandwich Techniques
102 Cheops's Dunbury Sandwich
103 Hold the Mayo

Chapter 48: Lapping
105 General Observations on the Application of Lapping
106 The Bottom-card Lap
107 The All-around Square-up Lap
108 Jean Claude Page's Lapping Method
109 The Lap Control
110 The Trousers-fold Holdout
111 The Knee Holdout

 Chapter 49: Advanced Pass Techniques
113 The Basic Technique
114 The Invisible Pass
115 Cover Suggestions for the Invisible Pass
116 The Turnover Pass
117 The Spread Pass
118 The Dribble Pass
119 The Cover Pass
120 The Display Pass
121 The Spread Half-pass
122 The Christ Twist
123 More Tricks with the Pass
124 Catch 22
125 Super-sensitive Fingertips

Chapter 50: Tilt
127 Tilt
128 One-handed Tilt Get-ready
129 Tilt Finesse I
130 Tilt Finesse II
131 Final Thought
132 Tricks with Tilt
133 Card Collection
134 Ultra-ambitious

Chapter 51: Flourishes, Part 2
136 The Side Shuffle
137 The Wave Cut
138 The Toss Cut
139 The Twin Falls Shuffle
140 The Four-card Turnover Display
141 The Star Turnover Display
142 The Frank Shields Display
143 The Pirouette
144 The Twirl
145 The Ravelli Pop-out

Chapter 52: Reverses, Part 2
147 The Swing-cut Reverse
148 The Future Reverse
149 The Palm Reverse
150 The Larreverse
151 FIRP
152 The Riffle-shuffle Reverse
153 More Tricks Using Reverses
154 Reverse Interlude
155 Surprise Spelling

Chapter 53: Turnovers
157 The All-around Square-up Turnover
158 The Through-the-Fist Flourish
159 The Gambler's Turnover
160 The Wristwatch Turnover
161 The Spectator Turnover
162 The Okito-box Turnover
163 The Transfer Turnover
164 Tricks with Turnovers
165 The Easy Poker Demonstration
166 Ace-capades

Chapter 54: The Structure of Magic
168 The Magic Pyramid
169 The System
170 Effects, Intellectual and Emotional
171 The Magic Iceberg
172 Final Thoughts
173 Bibliographic Notes
174 Cumulative Index

Details: Card College Vol. 4 - A Complete Course in Sleight of Hand Card Magic

315 pages, hard bound with dust-jacket; Size 7" by 10".