Expert Card Mysteries By Alton Sharpe SIGNED & Numbered /Limited Deluxe Edition

Description

This is a beautiful rare hardbound first edition copy with signatures from the author. Not once but twice! He actually signed this book at two different times to two different owners of the book. Very rare!
This is a signed and numbered copy as well!!!
number 129 of a deluxe Limited edition version
From the introduction by Robert Parrish:
Although much of the material in this book comes from advanced current contributors to card magic, Al has included some fascinating lore from the past. There is, for example, the first printed information on Eddie Fay's glimmer technique. I recall that the late Rufus Steele, an informed man of gamblers' dodges, simply refused to believe that Fay was using a reflector. He thought it was a put-on and that Fay was probably using a stack or a pack of marked cards. Then there is Paul LePaul's wonderful transportation of cards into a sealed envelope. Although he explained the trick in his own book, Paul could not bring himself to include the wallet subtlety, which adds an extra dimension to the mystery.
Preface
Introduction
Acknowledgment
Part One
Bottom Reverse
Multiple Glide
Take Me
Ultima
Fay's Gambling Methods
Omega
Omega, Sr.
Chango-Chango
Perfect False Riffle Shuffle - Addition
Reacting Riffle
Super Stop Stunner
Impossible Card Vanish
Part Two
Jennings' Open Travellers
The Turncoat
Homing Card
Refigured Pre-Figuration
Larry's One To Five
Jennings' Visitor
Part Three
Four Of A Mind
Hidden Countdown
Part Four
Quadruple Transmigrationalism
Favorite Color Changing Pack
Turn Me Over
Mirabile Dictu
Royal Aces
Black Magic
Lane's Blue Card In Red Pack
Lane's Winning Hand Deal
Knockout Card In Aces
Borrowed You Find It
The Flying Queens
Koran's Double Out Prediction
Sequence
Pira
Numbero
Can You
Think And It's Trapped
Reverso
Triple Reverse
Two - Four - Six - Eight - Find
Gathering Of The Clan
Sock It To Me
Any Time Aces
The Ultimate Transfer
Question
Prelude
Combination
Blank Surprise
Cavorting Aces
Jumping Jacks
Ken's Separation
Ken's Immediate Spell
Part Five
Signature Torn And Restored
The Great Stabbing Trick
Cards And Wallet
Card In Orange
Part Six
Marlo Re-Stacking Pack
Multiple Mental Spell
X-Ray Deck Handling
Blank Thought
L'envoi
1st edition 1969