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A celebrity of television and stage in Spain and South America, JUAN TAMARIZ is known internationally among magicians as a true master of his art, and one who generously shares his time and knowledge, both in print and in person, with the magic community. He is the author of three critically acclaimed best-selling books in English: The Five Points of Magic, The Magic Way and Sonata. Along with Arturo de Ascanio, Tamariz has spearheaded a school of thought in close-up magic that has produced FISM award-winning champions and deeply influenced the craft of magic worldwide.
Among those things Juan Tamariz is most recognized for, among magicians, is his trailblazing work with the memorized deck—a tool with extraordinary potential for creating utterly baffling magic. Over the past two decades, Tamariz has been the recognized leader in its use and, with Simon Aronson in the United States (who contributes an introduction to this book), the most influential.
Tamariz's memorized deck stack, "Mnemonica", has become a legend with card magicians throughout the world, and within this book he reveals at last its complete workings, as well as teaching the reader how to memorize the stack-forever—in as little as three hours. Accompanying this information are more than a hundred tricks and routines that radically expand the range of effects commonly thought possible with a memorized deck, and an annotated bibliography that leads the reader to an amazing body of additional material on the memorized deck, making Mnemonica the most complete study of its subject ever done.
Mnemonica is a virtual encyclopedia on the subject of memorized-deck magic, by the world's leading exponent and one of magic's acknowledged masters. It is a book crammed with magic from the working repertoire of Juan Tamariz, magic that leaves everyone, public and magicians, utterly astounded. It is a book capable of changing the reader's entire approach to card magic, and a work that supports Juan Tamariz's reputation as one of the most important and creative thinkers in magic today.
432 pages, over 400 photos, hardcover
ITEM # BK0160 PRICE $65.00
STEWART JAMES IN PRINT by STEWART JAMES
This is one of the largest magic books ever published. It is a testament to the genius of one man. Stewart James In Print features more than 400 tricks and routines Mr. James has published or marketed over a fifty year span of incredible creativity.
In addition to scores of intriguing special chapters, each trick is prefaced by a fascinating introduction. It is here we learn much about the history of magic in this century, the evolution of these ground-breaking original mysteries and, indeed, Mr. James' own unique techniques to ignite the creative process.
When this book first appeared, it shocked the magic community. It was as large as the New York phonebook, 1025 pages filled with 412 exceedingly clever tricks, and all by one man! And this was only the first volume, beginning a chronicle of unparalleled inventiveness that would be completed years later by THE JAMES FILE. When word of the quality of magic presented in STEWART JAMES IN PRINT began to circulate, two printings of the book sold out quickly and it has been out of print and eagerly sought after for years. The breadth of material is amazing, the ingenuity unique in all of magic. STEWART JAMES IN PRINT is available again—but not for long. Make sure you don't miss having a copy this time. This is definitely a bookshelf centerpiece.
Illustrated, 1,000 pages
ITEM # BK0166 PRICE $100.00
TRICKS OF THE IMAGINATION by ROBERT E NEALE
Tricks of the Imagination contains twenty-five fully realized routines, using a cast of gods and dyslexic sign painters, gypsies and con men, gamblers and nuns, computers and haunted rooms. With these presentations the reader is shown that Real Magic lies not in the tricks, but in how they are told.
Robert E. Neale's material offers drama and humor, elements that involve an audience emotionally while building an atmosphere of genuine magic.
This volume is at the same time an important work on close-up presentation, a collection of diabolically clever secrets and one of the most entertaining magic books you will ever read.
Hardbound, 198 Pages and Fully Illustrated
ITEM # BK0170 PRICE $30.00
METALBLAST by RICHARD OSTERLIND
This is the book that Richard Osterlind has been writing in his head for five years...and it's available at last.
Metalblast contains not the methods, but the real secrets of metal bending. In this exciting new work, Richard Osterlind discusses the mindset of the metal bender and the key ingredients necessary to make an audience believe that they're seeing miracles. What's more, these theatrical and psychological techniques are totally transferable and able to be easily adapted to just about any mentalism or magic you perform.
If you're an aspiring metal bender, or simply want to make the effects you already perform stronger and more impact, you need to read Metalblast!
Pages 20 - Saddle-stitched
ITEM # BK0178 PRICE $10.00
CLOSE-UP AND PERSONAL by DAVID REGAL
"This stuff's so clever it's criminal!" These words were uttered by Max Maven shortly after reading David Regal's Close-Up & Personal. Fortunately, Regal has managed to escape prosecution, due not only to his inventiveness, wit and originality in magic, but also to his success as a comedy performer and television writer. David's magic twelve years ago so impressed Harry Lorayne, he wrote and published David's first book-Star Quality: The Magic of David Regal. Lorayne's title proved prophetic, and after seeing the contents of Close-Up & Personal, his comment was, "He'll fool the hell out of you."
David Regal is a popular performer at The Magic Castle, just one of the locations where he audience-honed the material presented in this volume. Close-Up & Personal contains, in the words of Ken Krenzel, "An abundance of novel, offbeat gems."
Close-Up & Personal contains seventy-two of David's best performance pieces, described with care and in detail, accompanied by hundreds of photographs. If you seek close-up trickery that surprises, entertains and amazes both the public and jaded peers alike, you must read Close-Up & Personal!
ITEM # BK0214 PRICE $45.00
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