Leech, Al: All of Leech ©1980 Magic, Inc. Softcover, comb-bound, 6x9", 375 pages

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Comments: A compilation of 8 of Al Leech's books:
Handbook of Card Sleights
Don't Look Now
For Card men Only
Manipulating With Leech
Card Man Stuff
Cardmanship
Super Card Man Stuff
Al Leech's Legacy

Contents (from book; each book is numbered independently):

Handbook of Card Sleights, 1954
3 Controls
3 - Method 1 The Triple Cut
3 - Method 2 The Simplified Pass
4 The Crimp
4 - Method 1 the Spread Crimp
4 - Method 2 Age Old Card Control
5 Passes
5 - Method 1 The Standard Pass
6 - Method 2 The Hermann or Turnover Pass
6 The Palm
7 - Method 1 The Top Palm
8 - Method 2 The One Hand Palm
8 - Method 3 The Multiple Palm
8 - Method 4 The Diagonal Palm
9 - Method 5 The Bottom Palm
10 The Replacement
10 Changes
10 - Method 1 The Top Change
11 - Method 2 The Bottom Change
12 - Method 3 The Double Lift
13 - Method 4 The Glide
14 - Method 5 The Drop Switch
15 Forcing
15 - Method 1 The Classical Force
15 - Method 2 The Hindu Shuffle Force
16 False Counts
16 - Method 1: Count 7 as 10
17 - Method 2 The Buckle Count
17 False Shuffles
17 - Method 1 The Erdnase Top Stock Shuffle
18 - Method 2 The Stip Out Shuffle
19 Cuts
19 - Method 1 The Charlier
20 - Method 2 The Simple False Cut
20 - Method 3 The Slip Cut
20 - Method 4 The Double Cut
21 Reverses
21 - Method 1 With the Double Lift
22 - Method 2 Selected Card Second From Top
22 Additions
22 - Method 1 Marlo's Secret Card Add
23 - Method 2 Another Ed Marlo Method
23 The Color Change
23 - Method 1 The Side Steal
24 From the Center
25 The Multiple Shift
25 The Biddle Sleight
26 The Peek
26 The Second Deal
28 The Mexican Turnover
28 The Bottom Placement
29 Concluding Observations
30 Author's Comment
32 Ad: For Al Leech Books

Don't Look Now! The Smart Slant on Misdirection, 1948
3 Our Approach: win friends
3 Approach as an Aid to Deception
4 Approach as an Aid to Gaining Confidence
5 Nervousness and Misdirection
6 Mental Misdirection
7 Visual Misdirection
9 Naturalness In Misdirection
9 Cause and Effect
10 Time in Misirection
11 Deception in Time
12 Negative Misdirection
15 Accidental Misdirection
16 Routining
18 Display Sleights
21 Sucker Effects
21 Cover for Sleights
27 About the Author (Frances Ireland Marshall)

For Card Men Only, 1949
3 Preface
5 Ace King Transposition: Aces and kings change places beneath a spectator's hand
7 - Alternate Method
8 Ace King Turnover: terrific eye appeal
10 Aces Up: Ace appearance that gets a laugh
11 Influential Ace: Spectator finds the Aces in the cards he holds
12 Elusive Jacks: Visual effect in which nobody has to take a card or remember anything
16 Ace Elimination: smooth new handling
17 A Transposition: make them gasp
20 Table Method: of above
22 Super Ace Control: Locate the Aces by their sound waves
24 Turnover Divination: One of five cards is mentally selected, all five returned to the deck and facing the wrong way. All but the selection right themselves.
25 An Ambitious Card Climax: can be used in a number of ways
26 Simplified Poker Deal: little skill required
26 Double Deuce: The deuces sandwich the selection
27 Simple Card Control: easy way to bring a chosen card to a certain number from the top
28 Transposition Extraordinary: Card passes from one half of deck to the other while the spectator holds both portions, and appears at a position designated by the spectator
29 Quick Opener: a good start
30 Double Deck Transpo: similar, but with two decks
31 Advertisement: for George Anderson's It Must Be Mindreading.

Manipulating With Leech, 1952
3 Stop Light Thimbles: Red thimble placed in left fist, green in pocket. Green changes to red, fist contains yellow!
4 Multiplying Thimbles: How to make a homemade thimble holder. A thimble vanishes and reappears, is vanished again through the coat, jumps from finger to finger, then eight thimbles appear
6 Copper & Silver: Half dollar held by spectator changes places with English penny held by performer. No fakes used.
9 Coins & Glass: Four coins held in right hand pass into a glass held in the left.
10 An Impromptu: Three coins are shown, one put in pocket, other two placed one in each hand. Left joins right, pocketed coin joins others
11 A Penny's Worth: Silver & Copper in left, Silver passes to right, rubbed in elbow back to right. Put in pocket and pulled through the cloth. Copper is squeezed to a penny.
13 A Quick Opener: A red silk is whipped from a tumbler and shaken to produce a knot. A golf ball from the tumbler is swallowed and reproduced from the coat. Two coins are removed. One is returned, the other is twisted into the ear and goes back to the cup.
14 A Knife Move: Knife is laid on the palm. Right hand appears to steal knife and move it to the armpit, but the knife has actually changed color and the arm pit is empty.
14 Bob Lotz' Color Changing Knives: a good full routine. Uses a small white knife (about 1" long), black stag knife, white knife, and black/white knife.
18 Card Section:
18 Double Count: Spectator and magician select cards. Deck dealt into two piles, both cards are fond the same number down.
18 Flip Over: A selected card is quickly discovered with the Ace of Spades.
19 Upside Down Shuffle: As the deck is riffled, spectator calls stop. The deck is divided, one half face up, and riffle shuffled together to create a mixed up deck, but the half is pulled through. Only one face down card remains, the selected card.
21 A Transposition: A 7 spades put in pocket, Ace hearts put in middle. Cards Switch instantly!
22 Another Method: of the above effect.
23 A Sandwich: Red twos are removed. Two spectators select card, one put between the twos on top of the deck. Deck is cut, and the second card on top. Suddenly the sandwiched card is in the pocket, the other card is between the twos.
24 Count Down: Card is lost in the deck. Is it the Seven? No, so count seven, and there is the card.
25 Ace Location: Four aces are lost. Spelling, two by cutting and as above.
26 An Ambitious Card: Ace rises to the top four times
26 Ace King Ala Marlo: Four aces change to four kings
28 An Unscrupulous Deal: Wrong card is dealt to, suddenly the right card appears.
28 Spot Remover: a three becomes a two, then back to a three.
31 Advertisement for For Card Men Only
32 Advertisement for Don't Look Now: The Smart Slant on Misdirection

Card Man Stuff, 1953
3 Quad Reverse: a selection and its 3 mates reverse
3 8 Card Transposition: Aces turn into Kings, and are found face up in other half of deck
5 Aces Red and Black: black Aces at top and bottom change to red, then red and black Aces change places
6 Alternate Method
6 Ace Sandwich: Ace of Spades changes to Ace of Clubs in a card sandwich
7 Suspicious Move: spectator thinks you did a tricky move, but all is well
8 Spots to Spare: spots are "removed" from a 5 card and then returned
9 Alternate Method
11 Ace, Deuce, Trey: on travels from bottom to top, other top to bottom, 3rd becomes reversed in center
13 Surprise Monte: a quick Monte style trick where the spectator can't lose
14 Peek Reverse: card peeded at becomes reversed in deck
15 The Black Jacks: selection seems to be found multiple times, then turn into the two black Jacks
17 Quick Theft: card one instantly turns into selection, and card one is found in the pocket
18 Card Case Conjuration: selection appears between 2 Jacks, which are placed in the case, and the selection again joins the Jacks
20 A Variation
20 Sandwich Deal: pseudo demo of crooked dealing
21 Reverse Discovery: elaborate effect that requires a setup, but with a good twist
23 Double Coincidence: two decks effect
24 Variation

Cardmanship, 1959
2 Photo: B&W photo of Al Leech performing the Egg Bag for Adlai E. Stevenson
3 A Faulty Cut: selection appears at the bottom of deck
5 Lie Detector: card lie detector using a key card
6 Spectator Does a Trick: spectator determines the magician's card selection
6 Doubly Ambitious: a simple ambitious card, using the Double Lift
8 Name Speller: card found by spelling spectator's name
10 Double Count: two cards are used to count to the selection
11 Sandwich Change: Ace of Spades between two red Aces changes to Joker and then back
13 Casino Trick: card transposition
14 Ace-3-5: three changes to an Ace, then to a Five
15 Subtle Sucker: magician uses the selection to find the selection!
17 Triple Discovery: revelation of three selections by three spectators
18 Routine Royale: a routine with the Kings
20 One Among Four: one of four matching cards held by a spectator changes to his previously selected card
21 Dishonest Mistake: face up card finds the selection, and the Four Aces
22 Again the Elevator: Aces move up and down the deck
24 No Crimp Ace Cutting: easy cutting to the Aces
24 Easy Aces Reversed: easy Ace reversal
27 About the Author

Super Card Man Stuff, 1965
3 Photo: B&W photo of the author
5 Speed Transposition: two cards on the table change places
7 The Snide: a method for the glide
9 The Marked Card: in reading the backs, the selection is revealed face up
10 Doubly Marked: similar to above with two selections
12 Vanishing Card: card rubbed on table changes color then disappears
13 Three Plus One: gag with the Four of Diamonds
15 Flip Flop Floop: card switch with a follow-up effect with a reversed card
20 Top to Bottom Change: top card changes when put on bottom
23 A Divination: two cards reveal the spectator's selection
24 Four Ace Vanish: Aces vanish and reappear in the deck
26 Right Wrong Right: no set up do as I do
28 Chameleon Pair: similar to above with arranged deck and a twist
30 Face Up Coincidence: mate to selection is found face up
33 Triple Coincidence: three pairs produced
37 Pseudo Color Change: after failing to find selection, first card changes to it
39 Two Hands Four Aces: effect based on switches from previous effects
43 Paint Brush: matching effect using the slip pass
45 Five Aces: a straight changes to four Aces and a Joker
47 Back Scratch: change using the glide
48 Cut the Aces: Aces revealed twice, last time with a flourish
50 Double Vanish: Jacks vanish and reappear
52 Pseudo Boomerang: throwing and catching a card
54 Phantom Monte: spectator can't find black Ace among three Aces, because none are Aces
57 Four Aces: with a pre-arranged deck
58 The Better Magician: magician produces three matching cards, fails, but then fixes matters

Al Leech's Legacy
3 B&W Photo of Alfred B. Leech with billiard balls
4 Preface by Al Leech
7 Alfred B. Leech Magician of the Month (John Zweers): a biography of Al Leech
11 Major Surgery: in trying to locate the selection, the magician finds a card double in value. In trying to remedy the situation, he "shrinks" the card, but ends up with a miniature of the selection
18 A Typographical Error: similar to the above, a miniature card appears with a different colored back
21 Platform Wild Card: a version adapted for platform use
26 A Bicycle Built for Profit: quarters appear on the back of Bicycle brand playing cards
30 Too Small: another use for miniature cards
34 Snap Change: a card change made effective by use of rubber bands
38 Crooked Card: a novel effect using a "crooked" deck (commercial item)
44 Three Cards Across: several cards jump from one spectator's pocket to another's
51 The 1971-2 M-U-M Award: Al Leech's announcement
52 A Card Trilogy: a three card effect. Each can stand alone or be sequenced. The 4 Aces keep cropping up as a running gag.
56 Coins and Cards: producing coins from under dealt cards
59 The Coin Star: Al Leech describes Paul Rosini's coin star
61 Ball Manipulation Past, Present and Future: essay on angles an difficulty of finding suitable balls
64 Chicago Balls. The Chicago Ball Trick and a Routine: uses "sponge" multiplying balls, but may also work with Fakini's. A lengthy and practical routine.
74 A Color Change Routine: using standard balls
83 A Rainbow Routine: a multiplying ball routine with color changes. No advanced holders required. Be careful of angles.
90 Thimble Theme: a full thimble routine for standard thimbles
95 Thimbles Unanimous: Intro to thimbles
95 Basic Sleights: The Thumb Palm
96 Thumb Palm Vanish
97 Thumb Palm Color Change
97 The Finger Switch
98 The Finger's Palm
99 The Palm
100 The Multiple Palm
101 Thimble: a vanish of a thimble from the thumb
102 Marksmanship: a thimble on the right thumb is fired like a pistol into the left fist
103 A Surprise: Guess which hand the red thimble is in? Wrong, it has turned to green.
104 Topsy Turvy: a transposition of two colored thimbles
105 Thimble and Thread: a thimble and thread spool transposition
107 Complete Confusion: a color changing thimble routine
109 Rainbow Thimbles: a red thimble changes to white, then three thimbles multiply
110 Thumbs Up: instant appearance of thimbles on the thumbs
111 Finger Switch Color Change: thimble color change move
112 A Penetration: thimble through handkerchief
114 An Easy Production: four thimbles are produced from a silk
116 Four Thimble Vanish and Recovery: four thimbles vanish in the left fist and are found stacked on the right thumb
118 Complete Multiple Vanishes: ideas
119 Multiple Vanish from a Silk: four thimbles vanish from the fingertips under a silk
120 Multiple Production from a Silk: short
120 Come and Go: as above, but vanish one at a time
121 The Multiplying Thimbles: a thimble jumps about and suddenly multiplies to 8. No body loads needed, can be done impromptu.
124 A Deception from Dublin (Billy McComb): four thimbles vanish and appear on the other hand
125 Thanks to Dr. Richard O. Mossey: a brief note about the passing of Al Leech and Dr. Mossey's help in the development of Al's last book