Card College, Volume 3: A Complete Course in Sleight of Hand Card Magic

by Roberto Giobbi

Volume Three contains instruction on such invaluable sleights as the push-off double turnover, one-handed top palm, the Ascanio spread, gamblers cop, the Vernon addition, false displays and riffle shuffles, the convincing control, the Olram subtlety, and much more-including many powerful card tricks and routines. Mr. Giobbi includes original ideas and refinements, guaranteeing every reader fresh techniques and insights. Some of the topics covered in Volume Three The Biddle Steal The K.M. Move Breaks, Steps and Injogs Advanced Palming Card Controls The Zarrow Shuffle Advanced Double Lifts Multiple Shifts The Pull-Through Shuffle The Faro Shuffle Color Changes The Side Steal The Diagonal Palm Shift False Counts and Displays

Genres: Magic, Nonfiction

283 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1998

About the author

Roberto Giobbi is a full-time professional magician and one of Europe's finest and most successful exponents of sleight-of-hand with cards. In 1988 and 1991 he was recognized by his peers with awards for excellence in card magic from the prestigious FISM World Congress of Magicians, and in 1990 he received from the Swiss International Congress of Magicians their highest award, the Grand Prix. He also is one of the thirty members of the exclusive Escuela Magica de Madrid, and the author of numerous works on magic in German. In 1988 he was named Author of the Year by the Magischer Zirkel von Deutschland.