Card Mastery by Michael MacDougall

Michael MacDougall explains new sleights, new methods of culling and stacking, new bottom steal, and more. Of interest to all card men, magicians and demonstrators. The second part of the book is S.W. Erdnase's seminal work on the art of sleight of hand with playing cards, The Expert at the Card Table. Paul Fleming wrote: To call this book Card Mastery is to adopt the attitude that it is fitting and proper for the tail to wag the dog. For nearly three-fourths of the book consists of a reprint of S. W. Erdnase's great work, The Expert at the Card Table, and only a trifle more than one-fourth is the contribution of Mr. MacDougall. An actual count of pages of the explanatory text shows that there are 196 pages of Erdnase as against 72 pages of MacDougall. The MacDougall section is divided into eight short chapters, which deal with the sleights employed by card gamblers and also at times by card conjurers. Second- and bottom-dealing, glimpsing, culling and stacking, shifting and cutting,