Home/Salesroom/Al Schneider PDF Books Al Schneider On Coins Description   I received a letter some time after "Al Schneider On Coins" was put on the market for sale. The letter was from a young man that had purchased the book. He stated that he had ordered the book via mail and was very anxious to get it. However, when he received it he was very upset. It was only about a hundred pages long and he felt he had paid a great deal of money for it. He said he threw it across the room and it slid under the radiator in his bedroom. It lay there for some time. One day, during some serious house cleaning, he swept the dust out from under the radiator. The book came out with the dust. Now, his anger dissipated, he sat on the edge of his bed and opened the pages to see what he could see. Long after this he decided to write me the letter. He had long since read all the tricks in the book and pondered over them. However, even after that he would pick up the book and read various parts of it. He said each time he did that he would discover something new. To him it was a book that he would never finish reading. He thanked me for writing it and said it was his favorite book. "Al Schneider On Coins" was published in 1975. It has been out of print for some time. Many people have pressured me to come out with it again. Publishing books is a hard business. The investment in printing and distribution demands both time and money. The age of the Internet somewhat simplifies things so I am reproducing the book electronically. The pictures have been digitally copied from one of my last copies and the text has been reentered into a computer. A few things have been updated to improve grammar and fix mistakes in the material. For the most part it is the way it was back in 1975. The pictures are a bit dark and sometimes confusing. Also, a few things in the book have been improved such as "Cross Cards" and "Coins Across." In spite of this the book is often recommended by others and it continues to sell as well as my other works. The book is about 100 pages long and contains 307 pictures. Here is the table of contents: FORWARD INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: SIX PROPERTIES OF DECEPTION CHAPTER TWO: VANISHES --SCHNEIDER VANISH --SCHNEIDER CLASSIC VANISH --SNAP BACK VANISH --FINGER CLIP VANISH CHAPTER THREE: MISCELLANEOUS MOVES --POP-UP COIN MOVE --TWIRL LOAD --HAND LOAD CHAPTER FOUR: COINS ACROSS --QUICK SILVER --QUICK CENTAVOS --CROSSED CARDS I --CROSSED CARDS II CHAPTER FIVE: COINS THROUGH THE TABLE --THREE HALVES THROUGH --QUICK SHOT CHAPTER SIX: BOX ROUTINES --ONE HALF GONE --SOC II CHAPTER SEVEN: HANK BITS --ONE COIN THROUGH --COIN GROWTH CHAPTER EIGHT: HEAVY MANIPULATION --DYNAMIC COIN --TRI-VANISH