The Expert at the Card Table: The Classic Treatise on Card Manipulation (Dover Magic Books)

Considered by numerous magicians and also card sharps to be the one important guidebook to attaining the highest level of card proficiency. Consists of author's own systems of false shuffling, false riffling and also cutting, dealing from all-time low, palming cards, "skinning the hand"-- also three-card monte, plus 14 stunning card tricks.