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HOW TO LEARN
101 MAGIC TRICKS
STEP BY STEP ILLUSIONS ON 52 CARDS
BY NICHOLAS EINHORN
HOW TO MASTER AMAZING CLOSE UP ILLUSIONS WITH AT A GLANCE PHOTOGRAPHS
EASY TO FOLLOW TABLE TOP TRICKS USING COINS, CARDS, BANKNOTES AND STRING
SPECIAL STAND UP DESIGN FOR HANDS FREE PRACTICE
NEW / NIB
ISBN 9781846812262
PUBLISHED BY HERMES HOUSE
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TRICKS WITH CARDS
FOULSHAM BOOKS
LONDON
20 & 21 RED LION COURT
FLEET STREET
E.C.4
BY CHARLES ROBERTS
AUTHOR OF "HOW TO WIN AT CARDS"
NEW POPULAR HANDBOOKS
BOOK PRODUCTION WAR ECONOMY STANDARD
"THE PAPER AND BINDING OF THIS BOOK CONFORM TO THE AUTHORIZED ECONOMY STANDARD"
MADE IN GREAT BRITAIN
AT WINDMILL PRESS
KINGSWOOD SURREY
63 PAGE
SOFT RAG COVER
NO COPYRIGHT
CIRCA 1942
USED
REFERENCED
SEPIA TONE ILLUSTRATIONS DEPICT LESSONS
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STUBBY THE CLOWN DROPPED EVERYTHING TO PRESENT: CLOWN, MAGIC, JUGGLING, SIGHT BITS
WRITTEN BY W.C. STUBBLEFIELD
PUBLISHED BY MONTANDON MAGIC
COPYRIGHT 1969
TULSA OKLAHOMA
DEDICATED: "IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY WIFE FLO"
63 PAGE PAPER BACK BOOKLET ON THE WAYS OF THE TRAMP CLOWN AND MAGIC.
SOME CONTENT INCLUDES:
KNOTS
SILKS
ROPES
CARD TRICKS
JUGGLING ONE MEAT BALL
KIDNEY SWING
A CORKER
CIGAR BOX FAKERY
BEHIND THE 8 BALL
GOOFY GOLF
COLOR CHANGING RINGS
COLD DRINK
WHITE IS BLACK
NIAGRA FALLS
AUTOMATION
WALL STREET JOURNAL
PARTY QUICKIES
SOME OVER 75 TRICKS AND GAGS
THE AUTHOR IS AN ACCOMPLISHED
ACTOR / ENTERTAINER.
WRITTEN UP IN OODLES OF NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
BY THE FORT WORTH STAR, DALLAS MORNING NEWS.
VOTED BEST MAGICIAN ACT OF THE TEXAS ASSOCIATION OF MAGICIANS IN SAN ANTONIO.
GREAT REFERENCE GUIDE.
SOME WEAR AND PENCIL MARKS THROUGHOUT.
ORIGINAL STAPLED BINDING IN FAIR CONDITION.
THIS BOOK IS OBSCURE - HARD TO FIND - RARE!!!
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FYI
Magic is a performing art that entertains an audience by creating illusions of impossible or supernatural feats, using purely natural means. These feats are called magic tricks, effects or illusions.
An artist who performs illusions is called a magician. Some performers may also be referred to by names reflecting the type of magical effects they present, such as prestidigitators, conjurors, illusionists, mentalists, escape artists, and ventriloquists.
A group of magicians, is referred to as a misdirection of magicians. This is according to Charles Harrington Elster's book There's a Word for it, published by Scribner.
The term "Magic" is etymologically derived from the Old Persian word Magi. Performances we would now recognize as conjuring have probably been practiced throughout history. The same level of ingenuity that was used to produce famous ancient deceptions such as the Trojan Horse would also have been used for entertainment, or at least for cheating in gambling games, since time immemorial. However, the profession of the illusionist gained strength only in eighteenth century, and has enjoyed several popular vogues.
From 1756 to 1781, Jacob Philadelphia performed feats of magic, sometimes under the guise of scientific exhibitions, throughout Europe and in Russia. Modern entertainment magic owes much of its origins to Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871), originally a clockmaker, who opened a magic theatre in Paris in the 1840s. His speciality was the construction of mechanical automata which appeared to move and act as if they were alive. The British performer J N Maskelyne and his partner Cooke established their own theatre, the Egyptian Hall in London's Piccadilly, in 1873. They presented stage magic, exploiti |