Card News

by Christian Scherer

Outstanding Card Magic!! 117 photos and illustrations show you how to do such unusual maneuvers as the Scherer Spread, the Multiple Card Throw, etc.

One hundred sixteen beautiful black & white photographs illustrate this marvelous book and make it a memorable book to read. The name, Christian Scherer, may not be well known to you, boy he is well known throughout much of Europe. This book was his first major book published in English. Page after page of outstanding card magic! Stuff you'll want to read and use! 

One hundred thirty-two pages of typeset text coupled with the beautiful photos will make it easy for you to learn the 45 tricks described. A sampling of trick titles includes The Scherer Count, The Scherer Spread, Watch the King, The Traveling Signature, The Homecomers, The Flying Card, Oil and Water Encore, Caught, Visual Change, Is It A Trick?, Complex, The Multiple Card Throw, and many many more!!!

​This book is typeset, photo-illustrated, and spiral bound. Page size is 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. 

Contents Include:

1 Introduction By Richard Vollmer

Chapter I, The Scherer Count
5 1. The Development Of The Scherer Count
5 2. Basic Position And Basic Move
8 3. The Scherer Count
9 4. The Scherer Count Variation I
9 5. The Scherer Count Variation II
10 The Attention Test
12 Somersault Aces

Chapter II, The Scherer Spread
21 1. The Development Of The Scherer Spread
21 2. Basic Position And Basic Move
21 3. The Scherer Spread
27 4. The Scherer Spread Variation I
28 5. The Scherer Spread Variation Ii
29 6. The Scherer Spread Variation 11 As A False Count 
30 7. The Scherer Spread Variation Iii
33 8. The Scherer Spread Of 6 Cards As 4
33 9. The Put Down Of The Cards From The Scherer Spread
34 10. An Important Note Concerning The Handling Of Spreads And Counts
35 Watch The King
40 The Homecomers
42 Dream Transposition
46 The Flying Card
48 The Jack Quartet
53 Do You Know Why?
56 Oil And Water
61 Oil And Water Encore
65 Eye Witnesses
67 The Traveling Signature
72 Free Choice
77 Impossible

Chapter III, The Multiple Card Throw 
85 1. Antecedents
85 2. The Multiple Card Throw From The Deck
88 3. The Multiple Card Throw From The Hand
88 3.1 First Method
89 3.2 Second Method
89 3.3 Third Method
91 3.4 Fourth Method
93 Manipulated Coincidence
95 Error
99 Scherer Thumb Hold Out
101 More Than An Amazing Transposition 

Chapter IV, Novel Tricks And Variations
107 That's How I Do It
113 Caught
114 Complex
118 Visual Change
122 Surprising Discovery
124 Is It A Trick?
127 Royal Transposition

131 Last Word
133 Bibliography

Details:  Card News by Christian Scherer

©1984 by Jerry Mentzer

Size; 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches, Spiral Bound, Soft covers, 132 pages, copyright 1984, First Edition

NOTE: This is an English language reprint of the German 1984 edition by written agreement with Christian Scherer.

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