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CARD COLLEGE by ROBERTO GIOBBI
This acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic has received the highest praise from amateur and professional magicians alike, throughout Germany, France, and Spain. Now it is available to readers in English. The idea of producing a thorough course in card magic has seldom been attempted, and those few rare efforts are dated and often difficult to obtain. What Roberto Giobbi has done far surpasses his predecessors in a number of ways:
Never before has a course in card magic been so thoroughly illustrated for clarity and ease of learning. Clear, engaging, detailed writing is coupled with over twelve hundred professional drawings to aid the student in attaining mastery over a deck in the shortest possible time.
Card College contains up-to-date developments in the craft, giving the reader the best methods for creating amazement with an ordinary deck of playing cards, ranging from classic sleights and ruses to the most sophisticated modern techniques. Card College is the first course of its kind, written by a full-time professional magician, who offers his readers hard-won knowledge obtainable only through long experience. The book contains the best sleights, methods and tricks, along with the psychology, misdirection and theoretical structures essential for successful card magic. Giobbi has selected only the best sleights and handling from thousands of books on the subject, saving his readers countless hours of research and wasted effort spent on inferior approaches and ideas. Card College is written as both a course for the beginning student and a retraining course for the experienced card magician, who has likely picked up bad habits and inferior techniques during previous study.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN VOLUME 1
THE TOOLS OF CARD MAGIC, FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUES, AUXILIARY SLEIGHTS, THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, THE RIFFLE SHUFFLE, THE KEY CARD, FALSE CUTS, TRANSFER CUTS, FLOURISHES, CARD CONTROLS, CARD FORCES, THE HINDU SHUFFLE, THE GLIDE AND THE DOUBLE LIFT.
ITEM # BK0897 PRICE $32.00
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN VOLUME 2
THE GLIMPSE, CARD REVERSES, THE CRIMP, PALMING, FALSE CUTS, FALSE COUNTS, THE PASS, THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, FLOURISHES, THE DOUBLE TURNOVER, MISDIRECTION, PSYCHOLOGY, ROUTINING AND PRESENTATION.
ITEM # BK0631 PRICE $37.00
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN VOLUME 3
THE BIDDLE STEAL, THE K. M. MOVE, BREAKS - STEPS & IN JOGS, ADVANCED PALMING, CARD CONTROLS, THE ZARROW SHUFFLE, ADVANCED DOUBLE LIFTS, MULTIPLE SHIFTS, THE PULL-THROUGH SHUFFLE, THE FARO SHUFFLE, COLOR CHANGES, THE SIDE STEAL, THE DIAGONAL PALM SHIFT, FALSE COUNTS & DISPLAYS.
ITEM # BK0006 PRICE $37.00
HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED IN VOLUME 4
FORCING TECHNIQUES, CARD AND PACKET REVERSALS, ADVANCED PASSES, CULLING AND STACKING, HALF PASSES, TILT, SANDWICH TECHNIQUES, MORE FLOURISHES, LAPPING, CARD AND PACKET SWITCHES, ESTIMATION, DECK SWITCHES, FALSE DEALS AND STRUCTURAL THEORY.
ITEM # BK0162 PRICE $37.00
It's finally here! In the fifth volume of the acclaimed Card College series, Roberto Giobbi has prepared a graduation party! In previous volumes the reader has been given a remarkable collection of tools for creating astonishing card magic. In the same vein, Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of new techniques and strategies, which include methods for covertly arranging stacks during performance, obtaining a duplicate of a spectator's signature with his knowledge, and secretly conveying cards to and from the deck-powerful tools indeed.
But then Volume 5 diverges from the established Card College formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number of tools in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with tricks and routines that illustrate how various techniques are applied to create world-class card magic. These effects, however, are not mere constructions meant for teaching. Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's professional repertoire-and because of this; even the classics of card magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds refinements won from years of performing experience.
His choice of material is impeccable, featuring not only original effects and handlings of his own, but also tricks and routines by world-masters as well. One finds such gems as Fred Kaps' presentation for The Signed Card in Box, along with Giobbi's cunning treatment of this modern classic, Henry Christ's fabulous Ace routine and a superb handling of a forgotten masterpiece by Charlie Miller. And everything is taught with the clarity and attention to detail for which the Card College series has become known. Open this book and welcome to the party-prepare to graduate! Some of the topics covered in Volume Five include:
All in all, Volume Five features 34 professional-caliber routines that have astounded audiences the world over.
ITEM # BK0099 PRICE $37.00
ENCOUNTERS OF THE CLOSE-UP KIND by DAN FLESHMAN
If you own anything of Dan Fleshman like coin miracles, puzzling pasteboards, magic on video, or any of the other numerous items he has out on the market, you know that he is one in a million when it comes to magicians. He has come out with a mostly card book, which consists of 61 well-illustrated pages written with his own personal flair. It includes a great idea for Ring Flight and routines called Switch-er-oo, Flushed Out, A Twist on a Twist, Oil Slick, Splitting a Deuce, Jumping Jacks - two routines in one, 3 in 1 Revelation, A Little Ambitious, Crayon Thru Quarter, One Ahead, Coins to Purse, You Gotta be Kidding! Quick Change Artist, and Four Ace Revelation.
We know you will just love this new Fleshman book, and the price is right! All Dan's books will ultimately become collector's items. Start a Fleshman library and you will have hours upon hours of magical reading.
ITEM # BK0915 PRICE $15.00
M.I.N.T. VOLUME II by EDWARD MARLO
From the foreword by John Racherbaumer: "Genius is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble." Thomas Carlyle--"For almost a half-century, Edward Marlo has taken considerable trouble to record his personal notes on card magic. For the most part, he has done this freely by giving material to magazine publishers. When I started HIEROPHANT and KABBALA, Marlo gave me reams of material. It was thrilling to issue this original material--an output, when combined with stuff from The New Tops and Ibidem. It made an impressive archive. Who wouldn't be enthusiastic? This is dream stuff ideas and effects that look like real magic and strongly influence thinking card men as they determine the historical course of modern card magic. It should be emphasized that when publishers like Neil Foster, P. Howard Lyons, Jay Marshall and me presented Marlo's creations, we provided factual material. That is, the Work had form and substance, representing something that exists in the world. It was not hearsay. It was not a sycophant's far cry. It was not the stuff of legend."
"It was, however, detailed explanations and factual accounts, making such work an inversion of the old newspaper slogan, 'When a legend becomes fact, print the legend.' In Marlo's case, the facts (of the Work) were translated into articles and books--facts that authorize and make plausible fictions that may arise. So be it. As we stated in volume one, the M.I.N.T. trilogy consolidates material from The New Tops--all the ideas, bits of finesse, effects, sleights, and ideas. Taken in one full swoop its depth and breadth will chasten you. Its possibilities will excite you. Its difficulties will challenge you. Like the French poet, Mallarme, Mario believes that 'everything in the world (of his card magic) exists to end up in books.' As you read and study this second volume, think about the trouble Marlo has taken to translate this belief into reality. Think about his passion and dedication to card magic. In a way, his notes are unsentimental billets-doux to card men of the world. They deserve our attention and homage."
ITEM # BK0902 PRICE $40.00
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