This is an original booklet that teaches shuffling, run-up systems that control cards during shuffles for various card games. It is described as, “Complete Treatise containing full information on run-ups, blind-shuffling, stacking and culling. Both new and old styles of run-up shuffling. New methods of card locating and selecting described.” Discussions include in-the-hands and tabled riffle shuffles.

Sections include: Foreword, Shuffling, Blind Shuffling, Terms-Definitions, Blind Shuffles Position For Shuffle, Stocking, To Retain Top Stock, Retain Top Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck, Retain the Bottom Stock and Shuffle Whole Deck, Stacking Locating And Securing, Bottom Run-Up Shuffle, Improved Stacking Shuffle, Two-Card Stack, Three-Card Stock, Four-Card Stock, Five Card Stock, Twelve-Card Stock, Euchre Stock, Cull Shuffling, To Cull Two Cards, To Cull Three Cards, To Cull Four Cards, To Cull Nine Cards, and A Last Word.

Published by Hunt & Company (not dated but likely from the first half of the 1900s). Approximately 3.5” x 6.25”, saddle-stitched, soft cover, 24-pages. Although the pages have yellowed from age, our copies are in like-new condition. These were originally purchased from the inventory of the Hunt & Company gambling supply house in Chicago. This is a collectible and available in a limited supply.

I have been told that most of the content in this booklet also appears in Erdnase' Expert At The Card Table.