Stelzel, Christian (Magic Christian): The Top Change ©2017 Hermetic Press Hardcover, w/dj, 173 pages

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Comments: Photos by Helmut Kolo, supplementary photos by Philipp Stelzel. "This volume is the first book dedicated entirely to a study of the Top Change, its variants and their proper execution."

Contents (courtesy Bryan-Keith Taylor):

ix Thanks to...
xi Foreword

1 1. A Sleight History

15 2. The General Concept

23 3. The Basic Changes
25 3.1. The Top Change
35 3.2. The Classic Bottom Change
40 3.3. My Improvement for the Bottom Change
46 3.4. The Packet Top Change
52 3.5. Variation of the Mario Change
57 3.6. Bernard Bilis's Top Change of One of Two Cards
 
63 4. My Top and Bottom Change Variations
65 4. I. Top Change with the Second Card from the Top of the Deck
69 4.2. Top Change with the Third Card from the lop of the Deck...and Further
75 4.3. To Change Two Cards, One after the Other, with the Top Two Cards of the Deck
79 4.4. The Bottom Change and Back
84 4.5. The Continuous Bottom Change
88 4.6. The Bottom-to-Bottom Change
91 4.7. A Face-Down Card Is Exchanged While the Deck Is Held Face Up
96 4.8. A Face-Up Card Is Exchanged While the Deck Is Held Face Down
99 4.9. Face-Up Bottom-to-Bottom Change
103 4.10. Multiple Bottom Change, a Card at a Time
110 4.11. The Packet Bottom Change
118 4.12. Bottom- and Top Change Combinations
122 4.13. To Change Each of the Four Aces with the Top Card of The Deck: A Solution to the Hofzinser Ace Problem
127 4.14. The Face-Up Top Change
130 4.15. Face-Up Top Change with the Face of the Deck in View
134 4.16. Bottom Change with a Card Turned Face Up on the Face-Down Deck

137 5. New Ideas for the Exchange of Four Aces
139 5.1. My Four-Ace Switch
146 5.2. Another New Four-Ace Switch, with the Deck Face Up
151 5.3. A Third New Packet Switch for Ace Assemblies, with the Deck Face Down

157 6. Other Techniques

161 7. The Literature