Handbook Of Card Sleights

Book
1954
Written by Al Leech
Work of Al Leech
32 pages (Stapled), published by Magic, Inc.
Illustrated with drawings
Language: English
53 entries
Cover photograph
Creators Title Comments & References Page AA Categories
Al Leech Controls General Comments
 		3
The Triple Cut 3
The Simplified Pass 3
Al Leech The Crimp 4
The Spread Crimp 4
Edward Marlo Age Old Card Control
Related to
 4
Al Leech Passes general comments
 		5
The Standard Pass 5
The Hermann or Turnover Pass 6
Al Leech The Palm general comments
 		6
The Top Palm 7
The One Hand Palm 8
The Multiple Palm 8
Jean Hugard, Morris Loewy The Diagonal Palm Loewy/Hugard Top Palm
 		8
S. W. Erdnase The Bottom Palm Erdnase Bottom Palm
 		9
Al Leech, Edward Marlo The Replacement general comments with method by Ed Marlo
 		10
Al Leech Changes 10
The Top Change 10
The Bottom Change 11
The Double Lift 12
The Glide
Related to
 13
Edward Marlo The Drop Switch 14
Al Leech Forcing general comments
 		15
The Classical Force 15
The Hindu Shuffle Force 15
Al Leech False Counts general comments
 		16
Method 1 a fake-take count
 		16
The Buckle Count 17
Al Leech False Shuffles 17
S. W. Erdnase Erdnase Top Stock Shuffle 17
Charlie Miller Strip Out Shuffle
Related to
 18
Al Leech Cuts 19
Charlier The Charlier charlier cut
 		20
The Slip Cut 20
The Double Cut 20
The Simple False Cut 20
Al Leech Reverses general comments
 		21
With The Double Lift 21
Method 2 while showing top cards
 		22
Al Leech Additions general comments
 		22
Edward Marlo Marlo's Secret Card Add 22
Method 2 Braue Addition & Switch
 		23
Al Leech The Color Change general comments, side steal method
 		23
Al Leech From The Center side steal from center for a color change
 		24
Bottom Steal 24
Dai Vernon, Edward Marlo The Multiple Shift 25
Elmer Biddle, Tony Kardyro The Biddle Sleight Marlo mentions Kardyro doing the sleight before it was published by Biddle
 		26
The Peek bubble peek
 		26
The Second Deal strike method
 		26
The Mexican Turnover 28
Frank Kelly The Bottom Placement Kelly-Ovette Bottom Placement
 		28
Al Leech Concluding Observations 29
Al Leech Author's Comment 30
Data entered by Lorenz Schär, May 2013.