Hansford, Alexander

Book

2025
Written by Alexander Hansford
Work of Alexander Hansford

48 pages (Stapled), published by The Neat Review
Illustrated with photographs
Language: English

7 entries

Starting Fires 3: Gestural (written by Alexander Hansford, work of Alexander Hansford, 2025)
Creators	Title	Comments & References		Page	Categories
Alexander Hansford	About		Also published here About (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 2: Searching, 2025) also in: About (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 1: Real, 2025)	4	Articles / Theory & Essays
Alexander Hansford	About Magic		Also published here About Magic (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 2: Searching, 2025) also in: About Magic (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 1: Real, 2025)	7	Articles / Theory & Essays
Alexander Hansford	Commitment		Also published here Commitment (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 2: Searching, 2025) also in: Commitment (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 1: Real, 2025)	13	Articles / Articles
Alexander Hansford	"The cards are in order"		Also published here "The cards are in order" (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 2: Searching, 2025) also in: "The cards are in order" (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 1: Real, 2025)	13	Cards / Principles / Stacked Deck Stuff / General Comments
Alexander Hansford	Lastly, before we begin		Also published here Lastly, before we begin (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 2: Searching, 2025) also in: Lastly, before we begin (Alexander Hansford, Starting Fires 1: Real, 2025)	17	Articles / Intros & Epilogues
Alexander Hansford	One Gestural Thought Reading	packet cut off and counted, card at same position in rest of deck remembered, performer finds selection behind back plus some cards that give clues about the color and value of selection	Inspired by Impossible Divination No. 2 (Larry Jennings, Jennings '67, 1997)	18	Cards / Principles / Placement Principles / Automatic Placement Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Challenge Locations / Challenge Single Card Location / Miscellaneous
Jay Ose	A false cut	triple cut to table	Also published here Ose's Cut (Jay Ose, Close-up Card Magic, 1962) also in: Falschabheben - 1. (Jay Ose, Handbuch der Magie, 1978) Ose Cut (Jay Ose, Subtle Card Creations — Volume 8, 2020) … and 1 more Related to False Cutting and Shuffling (Ken De Courcy, Jay Ose, Super Spell, 1980) Expertalk: Jim Swain on the Jay Ose False Cut (James Swain, MAGIC, 2002) also in: Expertalk: Jim Swain on the Jay Ose False Cut (Talk About Tricks, 2022) Variations Spectator's Ose False Cut (Paul Harris, Jay Ose, The Art of Astonishment — Book 3, 1996) also in: Spectator's Jay Ose Cut (Knytkalas, 2026) Ose False Cut variation (Jerry K. Hartman, James Swain, Jay Ose, Card Dupery, 2007) … and 7 more	31	Cards / Sleights / Cuts / False Cut / Complete / Hands & Table

Data entered by Denis Behr, June 2026.

Starting Fires 3: Gestural