BOOKS
THREE COLLECTED WORKS OF JERRY HARTMAN
I: Informal Formulations
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Four Sleights |
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| Push-off Riffle Force |
Push-off Riffle Peek Force |
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| R..S.. Injog | New Price Cut |
Center of Attention |
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Forgatherers |
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| Transcollectors |
Faro-Fetched |
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Foreshortenings |
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| Flinging Fingers |
A Spelluva Trick |
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Foursomes |
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| Hocus Pokey |
Mate in Four |
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To Each His Own |
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Fortuities |
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| Random Tandem |
Huesome Twosome |
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Forethoughts |
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| Exception Selection | Compulsive Thinker II |
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Irresistible Force |
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Fore-and-afts |
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| Over-reaction | Every Which Way |
| Multiple Turnovers | |
II: Guiles & Deals
| All Hands on Deck |
| A Dishonest Lecture on Dishonesty |
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Cheats' Feats |
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| Monkey Business' Uncle | Monte Foolery |
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Cull-de-Stack |
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| Mixed Tricks | |
| Short Change | No Way |
| Near Mix | Double Crosstrick |
| Guess Hue 2 | Irresistible Prediction |
III Odd Lifts
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| Bottom Double Lift | Center Double Lift |
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Pull Up Double Lift |
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Applications |
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| Glide Substitute |
Tri-rise |
| Positransition | |
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Push Back Lifts |
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| Applications | |
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Active Aces |
On the Up & Up |
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The Green Lift |
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Second from Top Double Lift |
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Applications |
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Top Swap |
| Undercover Lift | |
| Center Double Lift | Undercover Reverse |
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Applications |
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| Transpower |
Dominance |
| Thrice Over Lightly | |
| Artificial Double Lift | |
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Applications |
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| Artificial Double Lift | Beswitched |
| Over the Top | Fast Draw |
| Twain Attraction | Four-gone Delusion |
| Ahead of the Pack | |
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Miscellaneous |
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Uncoupler |
The book is 8 1/2 " x 11", 56 pages and soft bound.
ITEM # BK1171 PRICE $7.00
CARD FINESSE by JON RACHERBAUMER
This is a technical book of card finesse. A well-known publisher and writer, who should know better, recently wrote: "I don't care for 'refinements,' especially microscopic details that are supposed to be the real work." This remark was undoubtedly aimed at books like CARD FINESSE or other Marlovian works. Yet this same author has written some complicated and technical books of his own. Some of them, in fact, have little or no bearing on the subject of practical magic. If you share this view, don't buy this book. This book is not for you. It is filled with microscopic details, refinements, and other bits and pieces--all the iota's magicians tend to minimize, overlook, or omit.
You may ask, "Who wants to read long, complicated algorithms? Who enjoys atomic analysis? Why does magic have to be so technical?" The answer to these questions is implicit in this book. Almost everyone has heard of the Vernon Touch. It has been lauded by countless respected names in magic. What is the Vernon Touch? In brief, it is nothing more than fastidious attention _to details. Great magicians like Vernon and Marlo are detailists; they are artists who strive for perfection. This is why Vernon has frequently quoted Michelangelo's aphorism: "Perfection consists of trifles, but perfection itself is no trifle."
Great magicians realize that perfection consists of countless small elements; that it demands a certain calculated specificity. The delicacy and subtlety of a card expert's performance is due to little things, and the sum total of these tiny bits and pieces constitute what I call "card finesse". This book is divided into seven sections: Bluff Stuff, Change-Ups, Trifles, Technical Touches, Control-Craft, Faro Finesse, and Affects. This is meant to give the book some scope. The last section, of course, is a necessary concession--a last-minute reprieve from all the explanations of technique ...technique ...technique ...
There are over sixty items in this book. Jon hopes that each reader finds something to his liking. Jon has tried to follow the example of magicians that he admires. His emulation may be flawed (almost to the point of parody), but this book attempts to add a few more refinements and trifles to the existing literature.
ITEM #BK1185 PRICE $25.00
SELL YOUR ACT WITH POSTERS by SAMUEL P. SMITH
This book is a demonstration of posters and promotion. 24 actual, original posters by successful, professional performers are bound into the book with 40 pages of explanations and insights by Samuel Patrick Smith. This one-of-a-kind book provides examples of ways you can sell yourself and promote your act through posters. You also receive the wisdom and comments of David Ginn, Fetaque Sanders (who inspired the book), Dave Mayer, Tom Sikorski, John Pooley, Flip Richards, J. B. Bobo, and others.
There are even chapters on how to get your posters printed, how to mail them out, and how to stay within budget. Get this great, spiral bound book while you can--fewer than 100 copies remain at this time!
ITEM # BK0132 PRICE $15.00
ALL YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SECRETS OF MAGIC by SAM DALAL
This book will teach you how to be a magician. Some of the lessons cover the techniques of performing magic, while others cover magic tricks for you to perform at a magic show - at a party or at any informal gathering.
Wouldn't you love to have a trick up your sleeve? Pull a rabbit out of a hat? Pluck bank notes out of the air? Change one pigeon into three?
Well here's your chance. Revealed to you in this book are the secrets of magic - a variety of techniques that will deceive the mind and eye. So use that sleight of hand and part those curtains to find the secrets - and, abracadabra, it's magic!
The book contains 184 pages and is paperback.
ITEM # BK1174 PRICE $6.00
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT by KIRK CHARLES AND BORIS WILD
Hidden in Plain Sight is the most complete manual for marked cards ever published. Author Kirk Charles, a long-time professional magician, has written a book that explores this most powerful of all magical tools in great detail. From the history of marked cards to more modern developments in "reader" technology, Charles breaks down the advantages, disadvantages and nuances you'll need to know. You'll learn about commercially available decks as well as how to prepare your own custom-marked pack.
Additionally, Charles delves into the psychology involved in performing with a marked deck. From strategies for misdirection to key cards, stacked decks, and mnemonics, Charles explores every angle of the tips and tactics that can enhance tricks with any marked deck.
For the beginning card conjurer, an entire chapter of easy-to-do miracle material has been included. These tricks require little if any sleight of hand, yet pack a wallop when performed. Even amateurs, armed with a marked deck and these "Instant Miracles" will be amazing spectators in no time!
Best of all, Hidden in Plain Sight details the workings of the finest marked cards on the market, the Boris Wild Marked Deck. A lengthy chapter, written by Boris Wild himself, details the nuts and bolts of his stellar system, and includes two blockbuster tricks that will fool not only laymen but magicians as well!
For the serious student, a lengthy bibliography has been included, leading the reader to further information and uses for marked cards.
ITEM # BK1195 PRICE $12.00
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