BOOKS
CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC by HARRY LORAYNE
Straight from the pen of this Master Card Worker comes a new book, which we feel sure will become a popular reference source for all that is best in CLOSE-UP CARD MAGIC. If you are interested in Card Magic at all, you MUST have this book. Guaranteed to give you more useful, entertaining, audience preferred card effects, than any other book available.
The book contains 272 pages, full of astounding effects, routines, ideas by Harry Lorayne and some of his friends, including some of the best minds in Card Magic: Dai Vernon, Francis Carlyle, Johnny Benzais, Frank Garcia, Herb Zarrow, Alex Elmsley, Al Leech, Jay Ose, Sam Schwartz, Ken Krenzel, Howard Schwarzman, Bill Simon, Walter Cummings, Paul Curry, Oscar Weigle, and others.
Chapter for chapter, page for page, line for line, the most clearly and concisely written, and best magic content of ANY book you've ever possessed. Effective card mysteries you will do immediately, unique card tricks, with which you will bewilder your friends. Novel card mysteries you may have seen the experts do. Everything is revealed in this beautiful 272 page DELUXE EDITION. There are 135 illustrations by Ed Mishell and the book is edited by Lou Tannen.
ITEM # BK0086 PRICE $23.00
MORE MAGIC OF THE HANDS by EDWARD VICTOR
This book is a sequel to "Magic of the Hands." It contains thirty-one sleights, effects and ideas in connection with cards, linking rings, silks, billiard balls, cigars, thimbles, gloves, pens knives, salt, etc. There are no duplications in this work from its predecessor. It is all new magic.
One-hundred thirty-two pages, well illustrated, soft cover book.
ITEM # BK0383 PRICE $5.00
AWARD-WINNING ROPE MAGIC OF FRANCIS TABARY
Master one great rope trick and you will have a piece of magical entertainment that will serve you well for the rest of your life under almost any performing conditions. Rope Magic is the ultimate "packs small, plays big" effect. In The Award-Winning Rope Magic of Francis Tabary, not only will you learn the rope routine that won him the title of World Champion, but you will learn enough high-quality, stunning rope magic to keep you busy for a lifetime!
Tabary`s beautiful rope magic is visual, clean, brilliantly structured and flawlessly executed. He has used his F.I.S.M. act to baffle and confound magicians and laymen alike all over the world. To witness the finale of his act where one rope visibly melts into another is to see magic at its highest level. It is absolutely breathtaking!
The Award-Winning Rope Magic of Francis Tabary contains an incredible collection of mind-boggling original inventions. You will not find minor variations of tired old effects here. Tabary has created beautiful new effects, brilliant new methods, and even ingenious new principles. There is nothing ordinary or standard about this man's thinking!
Every detail of Tabary`s incredible rope magic has been painstakingly written, and is expertly illustrated by renown artist, JEFF. This book is sure to be a crown jewel in your library and will become one of your most treasured resources.
ITEM # BK0068 PRICE $65.00
LIFE OF THE PARTY - A VISUAL HISTORY OF S.S. ADAMS
This all-new book commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the S.S. Adams Company. Within its pages is a treasury of images that spans the company's first one hundred years of business. Each page is loaded with product photos, original art, promotional materials and rare memorabilia, much of which has never been seen before.
"For those of us who believed the Adams catalog gave us a passport into social success for the coming adult world, The Life of the Party is a revelation. The slogan 'fool your friends' was especially inviting to those of us who didn't have friends. I still remember the pain of actually pulling these pranks (sorry about the Rubber Pencil, Grandma Frieda). A wonderfully obsessive compilation. This is as painful and hypnotic as a book of broken promises." - Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil
"This book? This book is a JOKE. When I opened it, it played a trick on me: instead of a breezy light-hearted look at novelties, it buzzed in my head and revealed itself as the heartbreaking secret history of twentieth century America that it actually is. Oh, and it's gorgeous too. Tricked again." - Chip Kidd, book cover designer, author of The Cheese Monkeys, and Batman Collected
Established in 1906, the S.S. Adams Company pioneered the prank and magic industry.
Pages 200
ITEM # BK1230 PRICE $45.00
CARD COLLEGE LIGHT by ROBERTO GIOBBI
This Is Not Your Father's "Self-Working" Card Book! From the author of Card College, the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill.
For whom is this book intended?
It is for beginners, of course—but by no means in total. This book is intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card tricks, but who didn't have the time necessary to learn complex routines, or the years necessary to master difficult techniques. So, yes, this book is certainly meant for beginners.
However, it is also directed at those who are already proficient in the craft. Card College Light is in a class apart from other books that focus on sleightless card tricks. When it comes to artistic considerations—interpretation, staging, communication and psychology—other books seldom even recognize such concepts. Card College Light strives to remain as simple as possible, yet to identify concepts and to open doors that put sleightless tricks into the context of artistic and utterly baffling card magic. Although other books consider the same type of material, their approaches to it are quite different from Giobbi's.
Most of the tricks taught are from Mr. Giobbi's active professional repertoire, with which he baffles the public and magicians, too. Every trick can be done with any deck of cards of average quality, and many can be done under all performance conditions, with a borrowed deck and no preparation. With these sleightless tricks, you can easily acquire a reputation as a magician who can really make magic.
When It Comes to Great Card Magic There Is More to the Secret Than Just the Secret!
Countless books on card magic promise tricks that "require no skill" and are "easy to do" or "self-working". They expose the method behind the tricks, but they fail to explain how the tricks are made genuinely amazing. Card tricks that allow the fingers to remain idle require that their methods be cunningly protected through presentation and psychology, which in turn amplify the feeling of real magic. Without these things, all you are left with are mere puzzles.
Giobbi brings his widely respected talents as both teacher and full-time performer to bear on tricks he has selected from time-tested classics and little-known modern miracles by world masters, taught with a thoroughness that includes psychology, presentations, scripts and invaluable performance tips.
21 Tricks - 7 full routines!
Giobbi has also organized these tricks into powerful routines, which teach the reader how organization and combination can be used to make good tricks even more inextricably baffling. These lessons serve not only the beginner, but also the advanced card-magician who wishes from time to time to include a trick wherein the audience can stare relentlessly at the fingers without discovering a thing.
Pages 170 – Hardcover
ITEM # BK0192 PRICE $35.00
or if your order page is open, just add to it.
