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SPECTACLE by STEPHEN MINCH
Spectacle offers a stellar selection of new magic for every taste and ability. Magicians in search of astonishing, new, performance tested magic will find nothing less, from first page to last in this book. Each item is thoroughly explained in both words and drawings.
Twenty-nine tricks and routines are explained in easy to read type set pages with 139 clear line illustrations by Sandra Kort. The book is hardbound with a film-laminated dust wrapper. Spectacle is a handsome production, befitting its quality contents.
ITEM # BK0514 PRICE $30.00
HOW TO BECOME A VENTRILOQUIST by EDGAR BERGEN
From the 1930s to the 1950s, the internationally renowned performer Edgar Bergen entertained millions with his skills as, a ventriloquist, chatting" with his even better-known wooden dummy, Charlie McCarthy. In this easy-to-follow guide, designed especially for aspiring amateur ventriloquists, Bergen shares the secrets of a craft that continues to amuse and delight audiences around the world.
After an informative and inspiring introduction, Bergen discusses "near" ventriloquism, the technique performers use to create the illusion of life in a moving, speaking puppet. Successive chapters focus on uses of the doll-dummy, hand puppets, Shadowgraphy, and cardboard dummies. Bergen also offers valuable tips on staging, execution of "distant" ventriloquism, and much more.
Forty-eight illustrations enhance this practical compilation of helpful hints and expert advice from one of the great masters of the art. With the help of this simple guide, even beginners can develop mesmerizing ventriloquism routines that will amaze family and friends.
There are 48 black-and-white illustrations in this 128-page 5 x 8 paperbound book.
ITEM # BK0369 PRICE $5.00
MAGIC OF THINKING CREATIVELY by BARRY MITCHELL
A Professional Magician's Path In The Pursuit Of Creativity.
It's here! Barry's greatest assembly of ideas in one location. It is an 81/2 X 11 hardbound, gold foil stamped edition and only 1500 have been printed. Each book is signed and numbered by the author. 236 pages with dozens of drawings and filled with ideas, performance stories, marketing tips, performance encouragement, creativity boosters, and magic tricks never before revealed to the magic community.
The book includes letters from creative thinkers like Andre Kole, Marshall Brodien, Duane Laflin, Bev Bergeron, Max Howard, David Ginn, Jeff Hobson, Glenn Strange, and many, many others. Also included are the foundations of creativity, the process of creativity for the creative story-teller, creative marketing and advertising, the creative inventor, creative encouragement, creative Gospel communications examples, and never before seen magic principles. If you want more out of your magic then you need this book!
ITEM # BK1109 PRICE $45.00
SECRET WAYS OF AL BAKER by TODD KARR
This fantastic 912-page hard bound book contains the following...
| CREDITS | |
| DEDICATION | |
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A TEACHER I NEVER MET by EUGENE BURGER |
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| AL BAKER AND THE MAGICAL IDEAL by JOHN CARNEY | |
| THE RECIPE by TELLER | |
| EDITOR'S NOTE by TODD KARR | |
| THE CAT KEPT WALKING by JAY MARSHALL | |
| CONVERSATIONS WITH JAY MARSHALL | |
| AL BAKER AND DENNIS by JAY MARSHALL | |
| SKETCH OF MY LIFE by AL BAKER | |
| AL BAKER'S BOOK (1933) | |
| To My Friends, Magic Lovers | The Pack that Cuts Itself |
| The One Man "Lights Up" Séance | A Card and a Number |
| Al Baker's Pet Hat Trick | Al Baker's Rising Cards |
| Feel My Pulse! | The Al Baker Wrist Tie |
| The Impossible Card Discovery | Cards of Thought |
| Al Baker's Addition Trick | Another Rope is Cut and Restored! |
| The Finger Points | The Matchmakers |
| "Say When!" | Al Baker's Billet Mystery |
| The Self-Unknotting Handkerchief | |
| AL BAKER'S SECOND BOOK (1935) | |
| To My Friends, Professional and Amateur | A Glass Vanish |
| Gee!! | Undercover |
| Another 4-Ace Trick! | Your Pulse Tells |
| A Card and a Number | Baker's Bill Switch |
| Unsight and Unseen | Sex Appeal |
| Come Seven | Lost and Found |
| Something from Nothing | Pass the Salt! |
| Button Button! | The Name Is - ! |
| Me and the Missus | A Novel Escape |
| The Milky Way | |
| MAGICAL WAYS AND MEANS (1941) | |
| Foreword Elmer P. Ransom | Introduction |
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Chapter 1: Cards |
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| A Lesson in Magic | The Magician at Home |
| Red-Black Transposition | One Deck Do As I Do |
| The Half Card and Cigarette Trick | The Ambitious Card |
| Herrmann's Vanish of a Fan of Cards | "Roughing" It |
| Outguessing the Spectator | Improved Card Code for Two Persons |
| The Walking and Jumping Card | The Flapless Envelope Switch |
| The Knife Dial | Slipping the Cut |
| The Swinging Rising Cards | Poker Face |
| Miniature Card in Balloon | |
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Chapter 2: Coins and Bills |
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| The Magical Filtration of Four Half Dollars | The Stack of Quarters |
| The Rising Coin | A Dinner Table Trick |
| Bending a Half Dollar | A Knotty Problem |
| Dollar Bill and Cigarette | The Erectile Dollar Bill |
| The Dollar Bill Switch | Envelopes and Coin |
| Chapter 3: Silks | |
| The Twentieth Century Silk Trick | Phantom Tube |
| Spirits at Work | A Silk Force |
| The Knot That Just Won't | The Sympathetic Silks |
| Chapter 4: Ropes | |
| Give a Magician Enough Rope | A Rope Interlude |
| Chapter 5: Mindreading | |
| Cooperative Conjuring | Acme Mindreading Effect |
| Seeing Through Solid Matter | A Super-Super prediction |
| Concentration | Al Baker Number Force |
| The Baker Slate Easel | Any Telephone Book Test |
| The Number and Book Test | |
| Chapter 6: Mnemonics | |
| The Saturday Evening Post Feat | Phenomenal Memory |
| An Impossible Count | The Celebrity Feat |
| The Polish Psychic | Living and Dead Test Plus |
| A Miracle of Memory | The Pairs Repaired |
| Nikola Card System | |
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Chapter 7: The Linking Rings |
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| Linking Rings Opening | The Linking Rings |
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Chapter 8: Specialties |
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| The Levitation of a Glass of Liquid | The Naomi Goldfish Bowl Production |
| Ink Filtration | Welded Flash Paper |
| Glass Penetration | The Flying Match Head |
| Kiddie Party Slate | The Torn and Restored Paper Napkin |
| The Quick and the Dead | The Cut and Restored Necktie |
| Appendix: Manuscript Materials | |
| A Lesson in Magic | The Knife Dial |
| The Linking Rings | |
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MENTAL MAGIC (1949) |
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| Foreword | |
| Chapter 1 | |
| First Lesson in Mind Reading Technique | The Baker Switch |
| Bill-epathy | |
| Chapter 2 | |
| New Light on the Center Tear | The New Baker Method |
| Co-Incidentally | |
| Chapter 3 | |
| Telephone Mysteries | A Telemirakel |
| Over the Phone | Telephony |
| Chapter 4 | |
| Mental Magic Effects | No-Nomonics |
| Baker's Eight Card Trick | Thought Transmission |
| Al Baker's Envelope Switch | Envelope as an Accessory |
| Chicken-Feed | Parlor Telepathy |
| Impossible! An Experiment in Clairvoyance | Pellet Reading |
| Out of the Air | Baker Switch Number 2 |
| Secret Reading of Billets | Pseudo-Fortune Telling Séance |
| The Dead Man's Name | Mental Card Tricks |
| The Pulse of the People | The Stethoscope |
| Telepathy for Two | Unconscious Clairvoyance |
| The Magic Bell | |
| Appendices | |
| Adrian Plate's System of Mnemonics | Recapitulation of Al Baker's Rules |
| Cartomancy, or the Meaning of the Cards in a Deck | |
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PET SECRETS (1951) |
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| Foreword Dai Vernon | Introduction Jean Hugard |
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Chapter 1: Hair Magic |
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| Hair Secrets | The Baker General Utility Hook-up |
| The Double-Ended Hook-up | Double-Breasted Hook-up |
| The Balancing Card | The Card From the Hat |
| The Deck That Cuts Itself | The Simplex Rising Cards |
| The Rising Ring | The Grandfather Clock Trick |
| Miscellaneous Hair Tricks | Chapter 2: Thread Magic |
| The Al Baker Arabian Beads | The Al Baker Arabian Beads Repeat Method |
| Floating Glass of Milk | The Hindu Thread Trick |
| Coin Production | |
| Chapter 3: Rope Magic | |
| The Instantaneous Visible Restoration | The Al Baker Lightning Pull |
| The Doctor Cuts a Rope | Ring and Tape Penetration |
| Variation on Stretching a Rope | |
| Chapter 4: Card Magic | |
| The Jet-Propelled Card | Double Impossibility |
| Color Flight | The Spectator Does the Trick |
| The Impossible Force | The Baker "Readers:" |
| Mental Discernment | The Lie Detector |
| Long-Distance Telepathy | The Clairvoyant Spectator |
| How to Force a Card | The Card Between Glass Plates |
| Jumbo Switch | Giant Gambling |
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Chapter 5: Mental Magic |
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| Double Thought | One-Man Billet Reading |
| The Baker Billet Switch | Center Tear Tip |
| Mental Masterpiece | The Telepathic Miracle |
| Chapter 6: Money Magic | |
| The Baker Bill Tear | The Stack of Quarters |
| The Vanishing Quarter | Fun with the Money-Making Machine |
| Dime and Penny Gag | The Bill in the Borrowed Lemon |
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Chapter 7: Magic from Another World |
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| The Baker Spirit Photo | Magnetisn't |
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Chapter 8: Various Magic |
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| The Baker Chewing Gum Trick | Finesse with the Dye Tube |
| The Vanishing Glass of Water | Salt Flight |
| Silk Transportation | Sugar Cube Vanish |
| Goldfish Production | Bar Trick Fooler |
| Egg Finale | Rabbit Production |
| The Obedient Snake | The Short Highball |
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MANUSCRIPTS |
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THE TWENTY-FIVE DOLLAR MANUSCRIPT (Ca. 1929) |
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| Billet Reading Extraordinary | Two-Person Slate Test |
| My Method of Getting Rid of Flap While in Audience | How to Exchange a Pack of Cards for a Prearranged Pack |
| The Billet Test | The Pack That Cuts Itself |
| Living and Dead Test | Al Baker's Deck of Cards |
| Mind Reading Card Trick | Two Souls with but a Single Thought |
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AL BAKER'S PACK (1932) |
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| The Card Counting Mystery | The Two Card Location |
| Mind Reading Trick | Al Baker's Wonderful Prediction |
| Al Baker's Famous Two Souls Trick | Poker Face |
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CARDIALLY YOURS (1934) |
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| Color Flight | Out On Location |
| Eyes All Around | The Fall of the Wise |
| A Dirty Trick | Al Baker's Stacked Deck |
| The One I Like | |
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EFFECTS 1, 2, AND 3 (Ca. 1939) |
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CARD TRIO (1948) |
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Prediction Trick |
Cards Across |
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The Pack That Cuts Itself |
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BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS |
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| A Prediction | Cherchez La Femme |
| Eye Witnesses | The Finger Knows and Tells |
| The Magic Thrust | The Migrating Cards |
| Mysterious Divination | A Problem in Plumbago |
| Red-Black Detection | Snappy Number |
| Switching the Deck | Think "Stop" |
| Twin Souls | |
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INSTRUCTIONS |
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| Al - N - Dai | Albaka | "Al" Producto |
| Albakerdabra | Alnate | Bakerise |
| Bakerscope | Ball and Glass Trick | Bead Trick |
| Cards and Coins | Copper or Silver: Which? | Cut and Restrung Bead |
| Bak-Had Bead Trick | Best Card Trick | A Borrowed Cig. Remade |
| Card and Envelope | Card in Pocketbook | Checking the Dead Name |
| Cutting a Card | Dictionary Trick | Diminishing Cards |
| Dyeing Tube Method | The Great Purse Game | Improved Swami |
| Jo-Baka | L. Maguire Magazine Test | Living and Dead Problem |
| Magnetisn't | Mindreading Trick | Monte Surprise |
| My Pet Card Trick | Newspaper Trick | Number, Please |
| Oh Bunk | Photographic Coins | Plate-Biting Stunt |
| Ribbon Trick | Rice Bowls | Ring Around Rosie |
| Rope Routine | Salt Trick | Spirit Slates |
| Master Addition Slate | Lock Spirit Slate | Tea Table Telepathy |
| Telepathic Selection | Thought Transmission | Torn & Rest. Paper Strip |
| Tri-Coin | Vanishing lead Pencil | Vanishing Wand |
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Vocalepathy |
With Any Telephone Book Test |
Leon Maguire Magazine Test |
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MAGAZINES |
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| Brotherhood Secrets | A Letter |
| Genii | Strip Tease |
| Two Ideas of Al Baker | Hugard's Magical Monthly |
| Change for a Dollar | The Jinx |
| Nufind | Numero! |
| The Phoenix | Climax |
| The Sphinx | Card Rising Wand |
| Some Useful Hints for Young Magicians | More Hints |
| Limerick | If the Editor Printed the Things He Would Like to Say |
| Al Baker Says | Burlesques |
| Al Baker's Reflections | Al Baker's Philosophy |
| Al Baker's Phantasies | Wisdom and Wizardry |
| More Tricks and Wisdom | More Wisdom and Tricks |
| More Tricks and Wisdom | More Tricks and Wisdom |
| Al Baker Goes Visiting | My Way of Doing Two Tricks |
| Tricks and Likes and Dislikes | Another Trick and Letter |
| Those Were the Happy Days | Presto! Blooey! |
| Magic Around Times Square | Al Baker's Magic News (October 1932) |
| Al Baker's Magic News (November 1932) | A Letter to Harold (December 1932) |
| A Letter to Harold (February 1933) | A Letter to Harold (March 1933) |
| A Letter to Harold (April 1933) | A Letter to Harold (May 1933) |
| Cards from Hat | Another Luncheon Conversation |
| Message from Beyond | Al Baker's Method |
| A Vanishing Glass of Milk | Dematerializing Coins |
| Trilby, Jr. | The Weigh of All Flesh |
| What Makes a Trick | Catching Coins |
| Magician's Nightmare | Those Were the Happy Days: The Boy, Bottle, & Guinea Pig |
| A New Letter | "Here's Another One Here, Doctor" |
| Dollar 'n' Blitzen | A Letter to Harold (January 1948) |
| A Letter to Harold (March 1948) | Tricks I Like |
| A Letter to Harold (December 1949) | A Letter to Harold (October 1950) |
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Bottoms Down |
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| NOTEBOOKS | |
| Another Card-Finding Stunt | Another Subtle Mystery |
| Attaching Hairs | Best Card Trick |
| Second Method | For Two Persons |
| Bill Trick | Burned Ribbon Trick |
| Card and Safety Match Trick | Card Change |
| Card Discovery | Card Force |
| Card Force Using Short Card | Card Found at Chosen Number |
| Card from the Hat | Finger Tip Method |
| Clockwork Method | New Improved Rising Card from Hat |
| Card in Wallet | New Method |
| Cards and Dice Trick | Cards Up the Sleeve |
| Cigar Band Trick | Cigarette Paper Trick |
| Cigarette Trick | Coin in Envelope |
| Coin in the Ball of Wool | Color-Changing Handkerchief Through Fist |
| Cornucopia | Crimp |
| Cups and Balls | Cutting a Card in Half |
| Cutting the Same Number of Cards Counted | Deck and Envelopes |
| Developing Messages Before the Audience | Dice Trick |
| Dictionary and Postal Card | Dollar Bill Trick |
| Dollar Bill Vanish | Dyeing Handkerchief Trick |
| Eyesight Trick | Five Nickels |
| Four Ace Tricks Using Envelopes | Giant Memory Card Trick |
| Glass of Water and Coin | Harmonica Trick |
| Hooked Coins | Knockout |
| Latest Rope Effect: The Sliding Knots | Living and Dead Trick |
| Impromptu Living and Dead Trick | Improved Living and Dead Trick |
| Mathematical Number Trick | Mental Force |
| Mental Trick | Mind-Reading Card Trick |
| Mind Reading with a Pack of Cards | Improved Version |
| Miracle Man's Penny Trick | Name and Calling Card Trick |
| Old Coin Game | Pack That Cuts Itself |
| Pellets and Cards Trick | Penetrating Coins |
| Pretty Paper Trick | Psychic Ball and Card Trick |
| Psychic Photography | Psychic Photography Improved |
| Latest Psychic Photography | Ribbon Laundry |
| Ring Trick | Roterberg Card Box Trick |
| Simplified Roterberg Card Box Trick | Selected Card Found |
| Sense of Touch Card Trick | Slate Trick |
| Spelling Trick | To Spell Chosen Card |
| Spirit Dollar Bill Trick | Stabbing Card Trick |
| Improved Stabbing Card Trick | Stack of Coins Through the Hand |
| Stop Trick | Strange Coincidence |
| Stretched Bill | Super Cut and Restored Rope |
| Sympathetic Cards | Sympathetic Coins |
| Ten Cards and Envelope Trick | Thirty Card Trick |
| Latest Thirty Card Trick | Method 2 |
| Method 3 | Method 4 |
| Method 5 | Thought Foretold |
| Thread Trick | Three Card Trick |
| Thumb Tip Preparation | To Name Any Card Drawn |
| To Perform with a Borrowed, Shuffled Pack | To Tell the Name of Any Card |
| To Tell the Number of Cards | Torn and Restored Strip of Paper |
| Tube and Rings Trick | Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick |
| Two-Person Mental Card Trick | Two-Person Mind-Reading |
| Ubiquitous Card | Vanishing Coin from Handkerchief |
| Weight Trick | Wonderful Four Card and Pellets Mystery |
| Yale Lock Key Trick | You Do As I Do With One Pack |
| THE ART OF VENTRILOQUISM | |
| LETTERS | |
| December 6, 1923 To Bernard M. L. Ernst | May 13, 1929 To T. Nelson Downs |
| September 13, 1936 To Tom Bowyer | July 20, 1938 To Eugene Laurant |
| August 22, 1938 To Stanley Collins | Undated 1 To Gordon Peck |
| Undated 2 To Gordon Peck | |
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CHAUTAUQUA, 1927 |
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| ANNEMANN AND BAKER | |
| Introduction to The Book Without a Name | Greta Annemann |
| Al Baker's Torn and Restored Magazine Page | Editrivia: Baker in The Jinx |
| The Accidental Mentor: Introduction by Max Maven | The Accidental Mentor: Letters from Annemann |
| PROFILES | |
| Mr. Al Baker | Sphinx (1925) by A. M. Wilson |
| A Visit with Al Baker by John Braun | Al Baker, Comedian by C. T. (Cliff) Green |
| Sphinx (1929) by A. M. Wilson | Al Baker's Psychology by Harlan Tarbell |
| Al Baker Programme Max Holden | Sphinx(1937) by John Mulholland |
| Al Baker: A Great Guy by Dorny | Sphinx (1944) by John Mulholland |
| The Al Baker Playgrounds By Wm. W. Larsen Sr. | Hunches by Howard Melson |
| Fiftieth Anniversary Testimonial by Bruce Reynolds | Recollections of Al Baker by Walter B. Gibson |
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Obituaries |
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APPENDICES |
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| THE CARD FROM THE HAT by Eugene Burger | BILLETS DEUX by Phil Goldstein |
| Baker's Doesn't | Revers-Al |
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AL BAKER'S HUMOR |
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| The Magic Funnel | Egg Bag |
| Wrist Tie | Jokes |
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Magic Shop Gags |
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| Baker's Catalog | Index |
ITEM # BK1110 PRICE $150.00
ANYTIME, ANYPLACE, ANYWHERE by ALDO COLOMBINI
Here's a collection of incredible impromptu card magic compiled by Aldo Colombini. Card magic at it’s best performed, anytime, anyplace, anywhere with just a regular deck of cards, no set-up whatsoever and very easy to do.
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Contributors |
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| * Ian Adair | * Gene Castillon |
| * Aldo Colombini | * Tom Craven |
| * Tom Daugherty | * Peter Duffie |
| * Karl Fulves | * Stephen D. Gervais |
| * Paul Gordon | * J. K. Hartman |
| * Marty Kane | * Ryan Matney |
| * Max Maven | * Joe Riding |
| * Mike Rogers | * John T. Sheets |
| * Nick Trost | * Richard Vollmer |
| * Roy Walton | * Andrew Wimhurst |
| 35 tricks in all | |
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ITEM # BK1297 PRICE $10.00
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