Will Goldston - Magic Tricks & Illusions
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This classic magic tricks book has long been out-of-print, but is now again available to magic enthusiasts and collectors.
Of enormous importance to the field of amateur magic, Magic: Tricks & Illusions feature over 250 feats and tricks. All routines are outlined and illustrated, with a springboard of derivations offered for the ambitious entertainer.
Ranging from simple routines to elaborate maneuvers, these tricks will appeal to the person with a penchant for performing as well as to the individual with a curiosity about how magic works.
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CONTENTS
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| PART II |
| PART III |
Published by the Charles E. Tuttle Co., Inc. of Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-51673
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0980-3 (ebook)
First edition published as Tricks and Illusions by
George Routledge & Sons, Limited: London; E. P. Dutton & Co.: New York.
Reprint of third edition
First Tuttle Edition published 1990
Printed in the United States of America
FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
Too long has this book been out of print and available to only a select few. But now it's back by popular demand. Filled with secrets of conjuration, it demonstrates how anyone can amuse and baffle audiences, large or small, at home or on stage.
The tricks are astounding but harmless, ranging from simple routines to elaborate maneuvers. Old-time favorites include the Rope Trick-a performer bound to a chair with rope, frees himself in a matter of minutes. The Great Levitation-a woman, hypnotized and lying on a couch, slowly rises, her body suspended in mid-air.
A deck of cards, tossed upwards, falls to the floor, except for the Joker, which, as commanded beforehand, lands balanced on a saucer's rim.
A table flies round a room as a lifeless doll cakewalks in perfect cadence.
And there are countless other sleights of hand. A wedding ring passes through a folded handkerchief; a chameleon bandana whimsically changes colors; flowers appear out of nowhere; coins switch denominations right before your eyes.
For finales? "Escape proof" handcuffs snap apart with ease. A lovely woman, enclosed in a flaming casket, emerges unscorched and unharmed.
Is all this wizardry? Is it sorcery?
No. As the title of the book proclaims, it's MAGIC-tricks and illusions!
Over 250 feats of legerdemain are outlined and illustrated, with a springboard of derivations offered for the ambitious entertainer. Each secret is simple... all good secrets are. Likewise, the greater the illusion, the simpler the solution.
"How did you do that?" inquisitive souls will want to know.
You can share your secrets or keep them concealed.
Just say it's magic. It's fun to keep people guessing!
Tom Fagan
MAGIC
Tricks & Illusions
Part I-Tricks
NEW CARD CATCHING ON PLATE
What better effect could a conjurer wish for than to catch a chosen card on the edge of a borrowed and examined plate?
The apparatus for this splendid trick is a length of metal nearly as long as the card used. Attached to same is a rubber sucker the size of a shilling, two fine needle-points should be soldered to the strip of metal to hold card.
The performer forces a card on a spectator in the usual manner; card is replaced, and with the pass same is brought to the top and the pack of cards is placed on table. The borrowed plate is passed for examination. This gives the magician ample time to arrange fke on top of pack. By aid of projecting needle-points the chosen card is secured, plate is returned, performer stacks the pack of cards in the centre of plate; this opportunity gives the conjurer time to fasten the fke on back of plate.
Cards are thrown about three feet in the air; when they are descending the performer thrusts plate among the falling cards, a second later showing plate with chosen card standing upon its edge.
THE FLOATING DISC MYSTERY
Provide yourself with two discs, one aluminium and the other tin; of course, the former will be much lighter than the latter; in appearance they are exactly alike. Mark the floating disc so that you will know it easily; borrow a basin, and have same filled with water. Pick up floating disc from table (the other should be concealed in the folds of your handkerchief), and carefully place it on the surface of the water, when it is seen to float around and across the basin. This movement can be made by gently blowing on the water. Now remove the disc, wipe your fingers on handkerchief-good excuse for changing the disc-and inform the company that it will be impossible for them to float disc without your consent, which you cannot give. Hand the heavy disc to first comer; others will also try, but you have fooled them all.
THE DEVO TORN CARD
IMPROVEMENT BY WILL GOLDSTON. (Rd. No. 524201 )
This novel card apparatus has found immediate favour with best card manipulators. Never a single day passes without I have a call from some well-known magician seeking new ideas.
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