Bertram, Ross: Ross Bertram On Sleight Of Hand by Ross Bertram
©1983 Lee Jacobs Productions
Photography by Helen and Ross Bertram
Hardbound; 255pg
ISBN-13: 9780915926534
ISBN-10: 0915926539

Table Of Contents:

xvii Anecdotes
2 The Eavesdropping Coin
2 Roll Vanish
3 Inflation
4 Toss from Left Fingers to Right Sleeve
6 The Waisted Coin
8 Unflation
11 Parvum in Multo
14 The Coin Fold
16 Another Coin Fold
19 Atomized Coin
22 A Note on Optics
24 The Bertram Addition
25 Back Clip Handling
29 Coin Clipping
30 A "Clip" Holder
31 Clip Trip
33 (4-2-4)
36 The "Drop" (Vanish and Variations)
36 B.U.D.
37 Voodoo Coin
39 Purse Palm
41 Terminal Coins
44 The Texas Toppit
45 Can You Toppit?
46 The Penny Pincher
50 Inky Pinky
51 Small Change
54 The Elusive Coin in Handkerchief
58 Flesh Through Metal
61 A Penny for your Thoughts
65 Bertram's Open, Slow Motion Coin Vanish
66 Coin Alchemy
68 Two-Faced
70 Chameleon Coin
72 Bertram Butterfly Transfer
72 Minus Equals Plus
73 Fake Pick-Up from Hand
76 The Martreb Change
78 Money Goes East
81 T. Nelson Downs
81 Real Secret of the Miser's Dream
82 Meet the Experts
82 Unconventional
82 The Magic Bug
83 The Coin Star
83 Shell Coins
83 Downs' Favorite Coin Vanish
84 Downs' Coin Vanish (without a gimmick)
85 The Visitor
86 The Miser's Dream as I Do It
90 Another Top Change
92 A Pet Martreb Double Lift
93 Subtle Thumb Count
94 Push-Offs and Push-Overs
97 The Haunted Deck
100 An Imperceptible Color Change
102 Far Out Double Lift
104 Close-Up Double Lift
106 Card Cannonade
107 The Shoot-Out
109 With a Silencer
110 Bertram's Descending Card
110 A Push-Through Card Control
112 Up and Up
113 Tabled Second Deal
114 A Vernon False Cut
114 Up Front Utility Move
117 The Revolutionary Card angly
119 Squeeze
120 Squeeze Production
122 Aces in Transit
122 Scoop-Up Addition/Switch
124 Silver Aces
126 Bertram Shade Move
128 Palming
129 A Top Palm (method #1
130 A Top Palm (method #2)
132 A Bottom Palm
133 To Palm a Card from the Middle of the Deck
135 The Touch Palm
137 A Ribbon-Spread Palm tabled
138 To Palm a Card by its Edge
140 A Commentary on Tenkai
141 Tenkai Ishida
141 The Tenkai Palm Placement
143 To Palm the Top Card
144 With a Card in the Tenkai Position
146 To Replace the Tenkai-Palmed Card
147 From the Classic Palm to the Tenkai Palm
148 To Palm the Top Card and Transfer it to the Tenkai Palm
148 The Side Steal into Tenkai
148 Exercise
150 TeBe Color Change
151 Pushing Double through Hand
153 TeBe Two, Color Change
156 The Flasher
157 Tabled Tenkai Palm Replacemen
158 An Uplifting Application
160 Bertram's Ascending Card
161 Tabled Double Lift
162 Tabled Tenkai Palm Pivot Replacement
163 A Tenkai Switch
164 As A Free Force
165 Top Card Switch While Holding Out
166 Another Holdout Change
167 A suggested application
168 An Unusual Change
170 "Stop"
171 Angle
172 A Double Color Change one-handed
175 And Vice-Versa
178 Five Zero Five
179 Tenkai Palm Throw Vanish
182 Transfer Palm with Packet
182 Tenkai Palm against Body
184 Production from Tenkai Palm
186 Summary
188 An Interlude with a Craftsman and Pioneer
191 Bertram's Card in Walle
192 The Hindu Yarn
194 The Wandering Ring
196 B.U.D.
199 Hole-y Smoke
202 Eerie Feller
204 Hooked Again
206 A Hooked Again Sampler
206 Bertram's Bounty
211 The "Welcome" Ma
213 Cut and Restored Rope using "Welcome" Mat
218 Of One-Hand Cuts and Shuffles
221 The Bertram Cut
222 The Casaubon One-Handed Shuffle
224 The Pincer Grip Cut
226 Pincer Grip Possibilities
227 One-Hand Table Cuts
228 A Triple Fancy Table Cut
228 A Stand-Up One-Hand Table Cut or Shuffle
229 One-Hand Throw Cuts
231 A Selected Bibliography on one-handed cuts
232 Ace to Case
232 Leaving Top Card in Case
233 Three Cards Across
233 Think of a Card - Blank Deck Method
234 A Bill Offering
236 The Fate of a Borrowed Coi
237 Detex
238 Charlier Cut Card Production
240 The Horowitz Reversal Card Trick
240 Double Troubl
241 Bottom Slip Cut
243 A Questionable Miracle
243 Brainstorm
243 Red-Black Shuffle
246 Demain's Deception
248 The Way of All Flesh
248 Dry Hands
248 Saliva
249 Reflections
249 Don't Kill the Audience, or Yoursel
249 Who are we Fooling?
249 Little Things Mark the Professiona
250 The Rhythm Count
250 A Tip on Card Handling
250 It Pays Off
252 Coin Handling
253 Cups and Balls
254 Food for Thought