This Comprehensive, in-depth, easy-to-understand, alphabetized encyclopedia of FALSE COUNTS and DISPLAYS is now available. Award winning author, Jon Racherbaumer, has compiled over 70 techniques-a virtual vade mecum-into a handy, easy-to-access, eye-arresting reference book. This instantly and literally puts them at your fingertips.
With the advent of packet tricks in the 70's, not to mention all of the innovative close-up card tricks devised in the past 30 years, a remarkable number of false-counting and false-spreading techniques were developed-so many, in fact, that it was difficult to find and keep track of them. Enhanced by over 200 digital photographs, you no longer have to search for or wonder what this-or-that count is or does. This book runs the gamut from Ascanio to Vesser, including the esoteric and arcane techniques buried in our literature.
This book was written by Jon Racherbaumer and is 208 pages long and spiral bound. Included in this book are 81 detailed descriptions to perform sleight of hand tricks such as;
*All-Alike Count,
*Biddle Count,
*Broken-Up Elmsley Count,
*Everchange Count,
*Fingertip Rhythm,
*Gemini Display,
*Ghostover Count,
*Hamman Count,
*Jimmy Cricket Count,
*Kosky Count,
*Marfoe Count,
*Neo Jordan Count,
*Omega Count,
*Pinch Grip,
*Razor-Edge Pivot Count,
*Six-Card Repeat Count,
*Smile Count,
*Tokagi Turnover Coun,
*Unlimited Count,
*Vesser Concept and MUCH, MUCH, MORE!!!
208 pages. Spiral bound.
"This daub is great! I examined the cards for quite a while and I didn't see anything unusual or out of place. I was amazed when the red and black cards were instantly separated simply by reading the secret markings on the backs. Now, I'm a believer!"
Daryl - The Magician's Magician
Daub is a card marking material and a closely guarded secret in the gambling world. Used by professional gambling cheats, this method allows the gambler to mark cards "on-the-fly" during play. This is the real deal and is now available for magicians! Imagine, borrowing a deck of cards and creating a key card by placing a daub mark on the back of a card! Virtually invisible to the untrained eye, this marking system allows you to locate a card FROM THE BACK without ever seeing the face of the cards!
This booklet is loaded with brillant ideas on how to best utilize this unique & wonderful addition to your magic act! Included within its pages are tricks you can use in conjuction with Daub such as:
*Free Selection/The Peek Location
*Impromptu out of this world
*The First Miracle
*Spectator Peeks Again
*The Spectator Cuts
*Edge Marked
*Edge Marked II
*Ambitious Edge Marked
*Just Another Miracle
*Key Card
*Stop Trick Daub Style!
*Lie Detective
*Daub as I Daub
*Reverse Edge Marking
*Also Shows examples of Daub Marking
17 Page Booklet tips and ideas with Daub!
An essential title for every magician, The Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks is the only book of its kind.
Magical genius Stewart James, over the course of 40+ years, compiled three volumes of the Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks. Now, for the first time, these classic works have been collected, newly edited, and combined in a single hardbound volume.
Over the course of nearly 450 large-format pages, James describes every nuance of this fascinating branch of conjuring. Hundreds of effects are described. Puzzles share the pages with stage-filling illusions, legendary feats (like the fabled Indian Rope Trick), escapes, spirit effects, cut and restored tricks, penetrations, trick knots, suspensions, and James' famous Sefalaljia, to name but a few.
Rope tricks are the ultimate form of "pack small, play big" magic. And many impromptu feats that can be worked at the drop of a hat - often with borrowed rope - are described in these pages. Mini-miracles for virtually every type of performer are illuminated in these pages. From kid-show worker to close-up magician and parlor prestidigitator, rope tricks to suit nearly every taste, theme, and interest (not to mention skill) level are included.
Many of the greatest magical minds of the last 100 years contributed to the Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks, including Harlan Tarbell, David Devant, Jay Marshall, Martin Gardner, Eddie Joseph, Larry Becker, G.W. Hunter, Sid Lorraine, Bob Hummer, Jean Hugard, Winston Freer, Burling Hull, T. Page Wright, U.F. Grant, William Larsen, Sr., Dunninger, Percy Abbott, P.C. Sorcar, Tenkai Ishida, Will Brema, and many, many more.
The Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks is an invaluable reference work. Hardbound, 7x10". 456 pages, with over 1500 illustrations.
With an introduction by Mac King and new essay on the Indian Rope Trick by Peter Lamont.
Essential for the entertainer!
The Book of Visual Comedy is an invaluable resource for enteratiners of every description: magicians, comedians, clowns, speakers, variety entertainers, M.C.'s; performers of all kinds will find fantastic, time-tested material between these covers.
Not only does the book provide a wealth of laugh-making material, it details the essential reason as to why and how expressive gags are funny and "play" so well.
You'll learn dozens of funny situations, stunts, and expressions that will have them rolling in the aisles. No special props or devices are required. For the most part, these gut-busters can be performed at the drop of a hat, on a moment's notice.
Patrick Page is an entertainer with over 50 years of experience, having worked as a magician, comedian, writer and producer. Over the course of his career, Page has created and collected material of every description for countless performances, on television, for private performances, and stages the world over.
Even if you're an aspiring entertainer, or just want to have fun at an after-dinner or social event, the Book of Visual Comedyh was written for you. The material inside is of a professional caliber, yet suitable for anyone. And best of all, it's easy to learn. Dozens of charming illustrations by Max Morpurgo make every nuance easy to understand.
This book can serve as a source of inspiration for developing your own hilarious act, or as a jumping-off point for creating an amusing, thrilling moment or two of light-hearted fun.
Published by FUN Incorporated. 123 pages, perfect bound. 7x10"
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.
Photographs are included.
