Giobbi, Roberto: Standup Card Magic ©2016 Roberto Giobbi, Penguin Magic Inc., CA Hardcover, w/dj, 279 pages ISBN: 978-0-945296-83-6

Image and contents courtesy Najee Williams, Hocus Pocus Focus

Comments: Card Magic for Parlor and Stage

Contents (from book ToC):

ix Nothing but a Deck of Cards!
xi Introduction

1 Chapter I: The Standup Card Conjurer
1 Rules Are Guidelines
1 The Standup Card Conjurer
2 Definition
2 Formal Elements
3 The Fascination of Standup Magic
4 History
4 The Parlor
9 Selecting Tricks
10 Performing in the Parlor
12 How to Make the Invisible Visible
18 Going into the Audience
19 Applause
20 The Script

23 Chapter 2: Spectator Management
23 Interaction with Spectators
23 The Spectator Onstage
26 Selection Criteria
28 The First Step
30 Interaction with the Spectator

35 Chapter 3: Card Technique for the Standup Performer
37 False Shuffles
37 The True Shuffle
39 False Shuffles
39 The G. W. Hunter False Shuffle
41 The False Weave Shuffle
43 The Optical False Shuffle
43 In-the-Hands False Riffle Shuffle
44 False Cuts
45 The Jennings False Cut
46 The False Swing Cut
49 The Partial False Cut
50 Card Controls
50 Controlling Single and Multiple Cards
51 The Parallel Shift
53 The Lift-Shuffle Control
55 Control with Dribble and Side Shuffle
59 The Fast Control
60 The Dai Vernon Multiple Shift
65 Forces
65 Classic Force Light
67 The Riffle Force
68 The Hindu-Shuffle Force
71 The Peck Force
72 The Cut Force
75 Palming
75 The Vernon Top Palm
77 The One-handed Palm
78 The Loewy Palm
79 The Bottom Palm
81 The. Color Change
84 The Top Change
84 The Glide
87 The Double Lift and Double Turnover
91 False Dealing
96 The Classic Top Change

103 Chapter 4: Performance Pieces for the Standup Magician
105 Card Call
119 And Yet It Is!
126 The Fools Metamorphosis
137 Vice Versa
144 A Comedy of Errors
156 Prediction at Risk
166 The Three Roses
178 Hofzinser's Triple Prediction
187 The Devils Messenger
195 Swiss Poker
211 Card in Lemon
225 Napoleons Game
242 Stickler

265 Appendices
267 Appendix 1: Déjà vu
273 Appendix 2: Works Cited
279 Envoy