Joshua Jays Amazing Book of Card
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Joshua Jays Amazing Book of Card
By (Author) Joshua Jay
Workman Publishing
Workman Adult
1st July 2010
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
793.85
Physical Properties
Paperback
Contains 1 Paperback / softback and 1 Digital (on physical carrier)
208
Width 190mm, Height 232mm, Spine 14mm
554g
Description
Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room. The clearest, easiest to follow book of step by step directions, THE AMAZING BOOK OF CARDS will show anyone how to do 52 amazing things with a deck of cards. Written by Joshua Jay, the award winning close-up magician and card obsessed author of MAGIC: THE COMPLETE COURSE. THE AMAZING BOOK OF CARDS combines friendly concise text and full colour photos with a full length DVD that teaches the lessons and shows the subtleties of performance. Here are simple, killer tricks, likeA" presto prediction,A" which perform the impossible task of knowing someone's choice before she even makes it. Nine different shuffles, including the Faro Shuffle, the one often used by pros, which helps you perfectly weave a split deck together in seconds. How to perform fans, flip, flourishes, including Ribbon Spread & Flip and Catch-a-Deck. Tricks you can't lose go ahead, take the bet to throw a card in a hat. How to memorise a deck in less than ten seconds, how to put a deck of cards into a glass bottle, build a card castle, and more.
Author Bio
Joshua Jay has performed on stages in more than 100 countries. He is a headliner at Hollywood's Magic Castle and a former World Champion in Sleight-of-Hand. He is the author of MAGIC: The Complete Course and, for children, Big Magic for Little Hands. He consulted on illusions for Game of Thrones and helped the US Postal Service with their "Art of Magic" postage stamps. Joshua has performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with James Corden, and he fooled Penn & Teller on their hit show, Fool Us, and he starred in his own off-Broadway magic show, Six Impossible Things.
