Busby, Jeff: Secret of the Palmettos ©1998 Jeff Busby Magic Inc., ID Softcover, comb-bound, 6x9", 124 pages

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Comments: Photographs by Nathan Phillips. Methods and Effects with the Texan '45 Palmetto Deck; New light on the Phantom of the Card Table

Contents: (from book ToC, updated 5/2021):

vii Introduction

1 Chapter 1 Historical Prelude
3 The Work Circulates
7 The Phantom's Manuscript Resurfaces
8 A Problem Posed

9 Chapter 2 New Light on a Legend
9 What Really Happened That Night
11 Building the Legend
12 Background to Collision
14 The Battle of the Century
15 The Phantom Goes Public
18 A Letter From Charlie Miller

21 Chapter 3 The Work and Its Background
21 End Marking
23 The Evolution of Gambler's Edge Work
24 The Real Work
24 Johnson Tips It
25 Edge Work for Sale

27 Chapter 4 Magicians and Edge Work
28 Cutting Any Card Called
29 Downs' Work
29 One-Way Edge Marking
29 Tarbell's Work
30 Hilliard's Omnibus Exploration
30 Crimp Edge Work
31 Jack McMillen's Work
32 J.G. Thompson Jr.'s Method
33 Walsh's Method
33 Merlini's Method
33 Kosky's Method
34 Marlo's Edge Reader
35 Gene Grant's Method
35 Karroll Priest's Method
36 The "Cordini" Deck
36 Burton's Devil's Deck Variant
36 No Playing Cards — Strictly for the Mcntalist

40 Chapter 5: The Texans And The Secret
42 Discovering the Secret of the Palmettos
44 Understanding the Work
40 A First Exercise
49 Putting In the Work
52 The Advantages of the Texan

53 Chapter 6: Basic Concepts And Handling
53 Tilt Cheek
54 Basic Cut Location
56 What About a Little Finger Break?
57 If You Miss
58 Thousands of Tricks
60 A One-Way Street
62 One-Way Glass
64 Dumping the Work

65 Chapter 7: Controls And Placements
65 As a Substitute for a Top or Bottom Key
66 Bottom Key Placement
68 Top Key Placement
68 Double Control
69 Shuffle Throwoff
70 Mental and Physical

72 Chapter 8: That Freely Selected Card
73 Another Historical Side Trip
75 The Force at Your Fingertips
77 Basic Fingertip Force
79 Using the Texan Key to Force Other Cards

81 Chapter 9: Expanding The Principles
81 On-the-Fly Speller
82 Two Fly Don’t Bother Me
83 Super Fly
86 Strictly Mental
86 More Aspects

89 Chapter 10: The Texan Card Stab
92 Pack Stabber I
94 Pack Stabber II
95 Pack Stabber III

97 Chapter 11 Gambling Demos & Shuffles
98 In Lieu of the Punch
100 On the Miracle Ace Cutting
102 The Texans and Shuffle Work
103 Zarrow Shuffle Controls
105 The Five Card Mental Force
106 Fingerprint Detection
107 Recycling Shuffle
108 Automatic Block Transfer

110 Chapter 12: Shuffles, Subtlety, & Math
110 The Hi-Lo Stack
111 Magnetic Blackjack
113 Riffle Shuffle Convincer
121 About the Tabled Riffle Faro
122 The Gray Code