BOOKS
SWITCH - UNFOLDING THE $100 BILL CHANGE by JOHN LOVICK
Few objects that magicians conjure with stir the imagination the way proper currency does. Money never goes out of style. Imagine being able to increase a dollar's value a hundred-fold. In the 1970s, a handful of American magicians encountered an Eastern European circus performer named Vlado, who stunned them all by doing just that! Vlado never published his revolutionary bill change, but variations quickly spread throughout the world of magic. Today it is a close-up standard, known as the $100 Bill Switch.
For three decades, magicians have been exploring new and different applications of this versatile technique. Changing $1 into $100 is only one of countless possibilities. The switch can be combined with items like the mis-made bill, used for transpositions, torn and restored routines, bill to impossible location effects, and much, much more. SWITCH collects the best work on this subject from magicians around the world. In addition to a thorough description of the original handling, more than twenty variations are meticulously taught using hundreds of crystal-clear line drawings. Some variations use a thumbtip and others don't, some use fewer folds, and one uses no folds at all! There are instantaneous and visual transformations, multiple switches, a one-handed change, palm-up handlings, and more.
In addition, SWITCH contains over 60 complete routines as well as sleights, subtleties, utility moves (such as bill productions and vanishes), a definitive history of the bill switch, performance theory, presentation ideas, and several routines that don't even involve money. Plus, for the very first time, Vlado, the inventor of the $100 Bill Switch, emerges from the shadows to tell his own story in a revealing interview.
SWITCH is not just a book of close-up magic - a majority of these items can be performed in a cabaret or stage setting. This is probably the largest single volume in magic literature devoted to one principle. Thirty years after its remarkable arrival, SWITCH brings the bill change up to date and into the future!
MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING!
SWITCH includes
| CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE | ||
| David Acer | Jon Allen | Michael Ammar |
| Danny Archer | Gaetan Bloom | Marc DeSouza |
| Dan Garrett | Bill Goldman | Dave Gripenwaldt |
| David Harkey | Richard Hatch | Roger Klause |
| Mike Kozlowski | Gary Kurtz | Bill Malone |
| Jay Marshall | Max Maven | Steve Mayhew |
| Robert E. Neale | Andrew J. Pinard | David Regal |
| Marvyn Roy | Richard Sanders | Jay Sankey |
| Jim Sisti | Jamy Ian Swiss | Vladimir Vladimirov |
| Michael Weber | Gregory Wilson | Scotty York |
| Pages 346 | ||
ITEM # BK0074 PRICE $50.00
MY MAGIC HUSBAND - HOWARD THURSTON UNMASKED by GRACE THURSTON
A rare, behind-the-scenes look at a magical legend!
Based on the diary of his 15 year old wife Grace, this book presents the factual and heretofore unknown side of one of America's greatest magicians - HOWARD THURSTON
The early years that shaped THURSTON THE GREAT are recounted in vivid detail as Grace Thurston (the first of Howard's four wives) writes about their poverty, Howard's bouts with the law and subsequent jailing, the origin and story of Thurston's famous "Rising Cards," the Herrmann encounter, their covered wagon tour of the early West, the sleazy saloons and honky-tonks, their trip to Europe, success on the Continent, the building of the "big show," and the mental and physical abuse that spanned their years of marriage.
Now, 20 years after its original paperback publication as the "Thurston Scrapbook - Grace Thurston Manuscript," a new, hard bound, 190 page edited edition of the fascinating, revealing and human story of Howard Thurston's early years has been typeset and photo enhanced - with an additional 20 pages of the 1953 transcribed taped interviews with Charles Holzmueller, Thurston's mechanic from his 1905-07 World Tour.
This is a limited edition of 500 copies.
Pages 190
ITEM # BK0088 PRICE $50.00
PRESTIDIGITATORS ALMANAC VOLUME 1 by KEITH ARLEN LACK
A Publication Dedicated To Exploring How Modern Technology Can Be Applied To The Art Of Magic.
This is the very first volume of a ground braking publication in magic. Eighteen pages of magic and mayhem. It contains four original effects straight out of Keith's personal repertoire.
In this Volume
If you are a serious performer looking for information on making up your own props and effects, this is the publication for you. Future volumes will include information on card splitting and card gaffs, mold making and casting and the creative process behind some of the most popular effects in magic today.
Pages 18
ITEM # BK0095 PRICE $25.00
HOUDINI PERIODICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY by ARTHUR MOSES
Covering a time period from 1898 to 2005, this bibliography includes 541 individual title listings which chronicle all significant articles by or about Houdini in magazines, periodicals, journals, etc.
A must for any collector and historian.
Pages 96
The book contains B/W and Full Color images.
ITEM # BK0100 PRICE $40.00
MAGIC TRICKS FOR GROWN-UPS by JON TREMAINE
Learn the tricks in this book and you can impress your family, friends, and colleagues with a little impromptu magic wherever you happen to be. Each trick is clearly explained using step-by-step illustrations, and accompanied by advice from a master magician on preparation, presentation, and performance.
Amaze your audience with a display of slick tricks such as The Flying Paper Clip, Psychic Coins, The Napkin Kidnap, and The Rip-Roaring Rip-Off. You won't need a shiny costume or special props, just ordinary, everyday objects and the right occasion.
Everyone loves a good magic trick. It offers a surefire way to spark conversation in a bar, brighten up a dull dinner party, or break the monotony of a long afternoon in the office. This book is a compilation of the best and most sophisticated illusions--all simple to learn, but guaranteed to impress. Each one is explained with clear illustrations and uses only the props that you're likely to have at hand, such as coins, matchbooks, pens, and, of course, a deck of cards.
Written by experienced magician and entertainer Jon Tremaine, this book will instruct and inspire everyone who wishes to make magic the grown-up way.
Pages 128
ITEM BK0103 PRICE $15.00
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