The Collected Works Of Alex Elmsley Vol. 1 by Stephen Minch

Written by Stephen Minch and illustrated by Amado Narvaez.

Contents:

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE:
Alex Elmsley on the Theory and Practice of Magic
The Automatic Producer
On Misdirection

CHAPTER TWO: Spirited Counts and Revenant Tricks
The Four-card Trick (featuring the Elrnsley count)
Flight to Witch Mountain
Shale Fellow Well Met
A Rebours
Elmsley's Ghost
Hoftwister
Mini-Milton (featuring the five-as-five ghost count)
Mixed Mamages
Serendipity
One Poor Lion
The Great Pretender (featuring the everchange Count)
Twister's Flush
Thoughts in Transit (featuring the neverchange count)

CHAPTER THREE: Sundry Sleights
Break Time
Battling the Bulge
A Bluff Hand-to-hand Transfer
Taking a Break in a Spread
Preparing for the Double Lift
Fan Shuffle Strategies
The Hook-strip Shift
Top and Bottom Card Interchanges
The Tabled Cover Reverse
The Tabled Top Change
Two Novel Slipcuts
The Swivel Slip Cut
The Undercut Slip
The Tipsy Turnover Pass
A Polished Push-off
A Biddle Displacement
The Thumb Palm Addition
A Card Fan Production
New Techniques for the Rear Palm
The Top-card Rear Palm
The Misdirection Rear Palm
The Tap Replacement
The Center-card Rear Palm
A One-handed Center Steal
Trouser-pocket Loading Technique
Variations on Erdnase's First Transformation
Transformation with Outjog
Erdnase's First Transformation as a Vanish
Flying Squad
The Misdirection Slide Palm
Two Pocket Deck Switches
The Climax Puck Switch
The Empty- handed Pack Switch

CHAPTER FOUR: Minus Fifty-two
Puncture!
The Nodding Skull
The Visual Tom and Restored Newspaper
Ring and Paper Clip
The Twister: A Puzzle
Two Thimble Changes
The Elmsley Color-changing Knife Routine
The Perpetual Cigarette
A Cigarette Vanish
A Production of Cigarettes in Holders
Magnetic Monte
Ring on Silk
Physical Medium
Sleeve Loading for the Cups and Balls
The Elmsley Cups and Balls Routine

CHAPTER FTVE: Twisted Classics
1002nd Aces
The Atomic Aces
Repulsive Aces
Double Finders
Apprentice Aces
Pick of the Litter
The Four Blanks
Five-card Sam
Bare-aced Hofzinser
A Minor Triumph
All Backs with Aces
A Triple Reverse
Infinity: Round Trip
Chosen Cards Across
Invisible Card in Cigarette
New Pieces to an Old Puzzle
Liar's Club
One at a Time Collectors
Snap Swap
Double Swap
Ambitious to the End
Ambitious Stranger

CHAPTER SIX: Down and Dirty Deals
7-16
A Double Prediction
Melbourne
Australian Self-help
Chance and Choice

CHAPTER SEVEN: Welcome Correspondences
Returned to the Nest
Arith-mate-ic
Pother
Brownwaves I
Shadowed
Buried Treasure I
The Memphis Matchmaker
The Right Place, the Right Time
The Book of Fortunes

CHAPTER EIGHT: Where It's At
Buried Treasure I1
Hair Cut
Calcolate X 2
Cross-25
Weight
Choosey
Rough Tracker
Card Hopper
Penny Plain
The Clock Runs Down
Mathematics and Mentalism

CHAPTER NINE: No Gamble
Misogynist's Monte
The Bridge Builder
Just Lucky
Aces Up
Pierce Arrow
Four Flusher
A Strange Story