BOOKS
GREAT CARD TRICKS by BOB LONGE
Stump your family and friends with dozens of the most entertaining card tricks ever devised! Get ready to baffle your audience by reading their minds, mysteriously identifying a chosen card, turning one card into another, moving cards around without touching them, or causing all four aces to present themselves to you. Tell elaborate stories with surprise endings about the kings, queens, and jacks that inhabit a deck, and involve spectators in a way that gives them the illusion that they have magical abilities. More than one-third of the tricks require no sleight of hand, so beginning magicians will find plenty to start their repertoire. With a deck of cards in your pocket and these tricks up your sleeve, you’ll be the life of every party and get-together!
ITEM # BK0992 PRICE $6.00
MIND READING MAGIC TRICKS by BOB LONGE
Even if you’ve never practiced "telepathy" before, these amusing mental magic tricks will make you the life of the party. Use coins, cards, dice, numbers, and other odds and ends as props, or employ the help of a "medium" chosen from your audience. Tell which card is sitting face down on the table by reading your confederate’s signals. The crowd will never know that you are reading her arm position like a clock! Turn mathematical calculations into magic and astound people with your expert memory. Each trick is presented as if being done in front of an actual audience, complete with named "volunteers" to give you a sample of the patter that should accompany it. Banter and body language turn a bunch of tricks into an actual performance. Brainpower bafflers like "It All Adds Up" and "Divide and Conquer" will have your audience in awe. Read a crowd member’s mind with "Uncle Loony’s Clock." Some of these tricks are absolutely mesmerizing, and all are enormously entertaining and will provide you and your friends with hours of mind-boggling fun.
ITEM # BK0998 PRICE $6.00
MYSTIFYING CARD TRICKS by BOB LONGE
Tuck some of these mystifying card tricks up your sleeve and you’re guaranteed to be the hit of the party! Begin by mastering some basic sleight-of-hand techniques, including false shuffles, before working your way up to audience manipulation and even telepathy. Each trick is presented as if it were actually being performed, along with banter and conversation, to help you prepare for an audience of your own. So roll up your sleeves, grab a deck of cards, and get ready to astonish crowds anywhere you go!
ITEM # BK0997 PRICE $6.00
WORLD’S BEST CARD TRICKS by BOB LONGE
You don’t need fancy trick cards, double decks, or any kind of apparatus--only a deck of playing cards and you’re ready! Here a master performer selects more than 40 of the greatest impromptu card tricks ever devised. And, with the enthusiasm of a brilliant showman, he shows you not only how they work, but also how to put them over, with clear step-by-step instructions and illustrations. Plus, a special chapter explains what to do when something goes wrong.
All you need to be able to do is shuffle a deck and you’ll pick up these surprising feats in no time. Great for kids from eight to eighty.
ITEM # BK0996 PRICE $6.00
GLORIOUS DECEPTION by JIM STEINMEYER
In a biography woven from equal parts enchantment and mystery, Jim Steinmeyer unveils the secrets behind the most enigmatic performer in the history of stage magic, Chung Ling Soo, the "Marvelous Chinese Conjurer" - a magician whose daring made his contemporary, Houdini, seem like the boy next door. Soo’s infamous and suspicious onstage death in 1918 mystified his fellow magicians: he was shot during a performance of “Defying the Bullets,” in which he attempted to catch marked bullets on a porcelain plate.
When Soo died, his deceptions began to unravel. It was discovered that he was not Chinese but a fifty-eight-year-old American named William Ellsworth Robinson, a former magicians’ assistant and the husband of Olive Robinson. But even William Robinson was not who he appeared to be, for he had kept a second family with a mistress in a fashionable home near London. Here is a look at the rough-and-tumble world of turn-of-the-century entertainments, the West’s discovery of Oriental culture, and Soo's strange descent into secrecy as he rose to stardom - written by the foremost chronicler of magic’s history and culture. Due to the scandals surrounding Robinson’s death, this is the first time his full story has ever been told.
Pages 455 - Soft Bound
ITEM # BK0195 PRICE $17.00
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