BOOKS
COMPLETE JUGGLER by DAVE FINNIGAN
This is the foremost book on juggling. It has everything including juggling with scarves, beanbags, balls, rings, clubs, hats, Diablos, devil sticks, and other objects. It teaches you how to balance up to seven objects, while sharing and passing them with another performer. It discusses performing, juggling games, teaching juggling, and making money with juggling.
The book visits a juggler's convention and has resources, addresses and more! There are over 600 pages including more than 1200 illustrations! If you only buy one book on juggling the Complete Juggler is the book for you.
ITEM # BK0621 PRICE $16.50
COME A LITTLE CLOSER by JOHN DERRIS
This is a book that spans forty years of a unique friendship and shared love of magic that takes you from the halcyon days when eight young London magicians haunted the Magic Dealers, the Variety Theatres and street corner cafes every Saturday, right up to the present day (1997).
This youthful coterie of Cagliostros was the spawning ground of a style of magic that in those days was called "pocket tricks," which led to enthusiasm for and development of some of the finest contemporary magic that is now deemed classic.
It's hard nowadays to visualize Jack Avis, Alex Elmsley, Roy Walton, Bobby Bernard, Ted Danson and John Derris sitting in cafes, making two cups of coffee last for hours while they demonstrated, argued and theorized on the pros and cons of close-up magic, having just read the latest magazines from the USA and meeting the parade of overseas magicians visiting London.
But from such youthful zeal emerged a thinking and style of magic that was to withstand the years and make some of these men world-famous.
Who in magic does not use the Elmsley Count? Is there anyone who has not read and used one of Jack Avis's five hundred published items and surly there is no self-respecting card magician who today would not include Roy Walton's "The Collectors" or "Card Warp" in his repertoire?
This book includes all the effects that were first described in 1953 in a small publication called Come a Little Closer, effects that have stood the test of time and are still being presented today. But the contributors have also includes many more routines that have been developed in the last forty years, a considerable number being published for the first time, and others that are currently in use by their originators such as John Derris's "Staggering" and Ted Danson's "Diary Trick."
If you love close-up magic you will find material in this book that you will use. Some requires basic skill used by any practicing close-up worker, but all requiring presentation, the very essence of good magic.
This book is a tribute to the deep fellowship that often comes with the practice of magic, a fellowship that has lasted in this case since the 1950's. It is in this environment of a shared passion that fine magic is often evolved, and I am certain that you will sense this as you read the thinking, inventiveness and comments of a group of magicians who early on found their own serendipity.
The above was written by John Derris in 1997. The book is published by L & L and contains ninety-three pages. It is a beautiful hardbound book with a very appealing dust-jacket.
ITEM # BK0986 PRICE $35.00
WORLD'S BEST MAGIC TRICKS by CHARLES TOWNSEND
Make a knife levitate! Make a glass disappear through a table! Amaze your friends with a magic memory! See everything with your X-ray vision! Pull a rope right through someone's body!
These and a host of other amazing magic tricks - the world's best - show that the impossible is possible, if you know the secrets behind them. Dozens of how-to illustrations and step-by-step directions from Master Magician Townsend, will make you a master magician, too. He'll teach you the tricks and how to present them smoothly. He'll also help you work out the running jokes and stories that will give your magic that flair of professionalism you want.
All you need is practice and a few household items. You'll soon be performing more than 50 truly confounding feats of magic that your audience of friends will applaud. There's plenty here for putting on your own shows, entertaining at parties, or pulling an impromptu trick out of your sleeve.
ITEM # BK0995 PRICE $6.00
FIFTY TRICKS WITH SCOTCH AND SODA by COSMO
This great little book is for both amateur and professional alike. It is fully illustrated and easy to understand. It contains step-by-step diagrams. It teaches you the classic routine plus many others both compiled by the author and originated by himself. Contains twenty-one pages.
ITEM # BK614 PRICE $3.00
This fantastic manuscript details "the Cold Deck, " an incredible effect performed by the late great Frank Thompson. The performer starts out by producing 4 ACES which are revealed from four different parts of the deck in a startling array. The aces are openly put onto the deck, then with a convincing shuffle and cut the performer deals 5 hands of poker and He/She ends up with the 4 ACES in his/her hand! At this point the performer and the spectator shuffle the cards which are then cut and immediately dealt in another 5 handed poker deal in which the performer receives poker's best hand, A ROYAL FLUSH.
In the concluding effect of this routine the deck is cut into four piles where face up and face down cards are openly shuffled into one another and with one simplified move the deck is ribbon spread and the cards are shown to be FACING ONE WAY! This effect is a stunner! Easy to perform.
ITEM # BK1152 PRICE $7.50
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