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Summary: Excellent details of how to perform magic tricks
Review: A lavishly illustrated new edition of the classic handbook for conjurers is designed to help magicians of all levels, from beginning to advanced, hone their skills at legerdemain and develop new and exciting illusions to baffle the mind. This book helps you prove that the hand is quicker than the eye, and that the ingenuity of a master magician can defy the most suspicious scrutiny.
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Summary: The first and last step for a complete magician...
Review: Are you one of those who wants to learn how to levitate a woman? or are you one of those who wants to learn how to pass solid steel rings through each other? Are you a beginner in the field of magic, an amateur performer or a professional? No matter what your answer to the above questions... if you are one who is interested knowing the best kept secrets of the World of Magic, here's your chance to be a magician... and a good one at that! To know the intricacies of a magical performance, stage settings, costume, and of course the classic magic
tricks and illusions. Truly an amateur magicians' handbook... for a magician without a copy of this book is but an amateur!
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Summary: A great beginner's guide to learning sleight-of-hand.
Review: I first started reading this book when I was 13. I really liked the photos which were rare for magic books before the 1980's. Even today, The Amateur Magician's Hankbook is still a great teacher of coin sleights, card sleights and billiard balls. Have patience and you will succeed in being a great entertainer.
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Summary: One stop shopping for any magician
Review: If you are interested at all in magic then this is the book to get. It lets you in on the secrets of a whole realm of different magic tricks (coins, cards, stage, close, etc....). Whats great about this book is that if you are new to the "hobby" then you can sample a little of alot and find what really interests you, then you can delve into another more specific book with deeper content.
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Summary: One stop shopping for any magician
Review: If you are interested at all in magic then this is the book to get. It lets you in on the secrets of a whole realm of different magic tricks (coins, cards, stage, close, etc....). Whats great about this book is that if you are new to the "hobby" then you can sample a little of alot and find what really interests you, then you can delve into another more specific book with deeper content.
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Summary: Worth the investment!
Review: If you're even vaguely inerested in performing magic, buy this book. It is truly a primer for those interested in this hobby. The photos are great, the effects and tips will become staples in your shows. Definetely a must-have encyclopedia.
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Summary: COMPLETE!
Review: Mr. Hay infects would be magical "Artists" not only with secrets of the trade, but a wealth of knowledge into the origins of the art, its most famous artists (known as magicians), and its most famous tricks or effects. Whether you are beginning or rediscovering your roots in the magical arts this is a must have book! Whether you perform for a living, for friends, or just for yourself you must have this book! If you collect magic or study magic history you must have this book!
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Summary: Calm, Careful, Circumspect and Practical Teaching
Review: This book is superbly well-written. It is as if a kind, patient, highly gifted uncle comes to visit. The reader is taken step by step, thought by thought, along the way to appreciating the beauty, skill, and effects of the practice of magic. The writer's style takes the simplest observations and gradually builds them until, before you know it, you are quickly doing things of startling sophistication and skill! This handbook not only informs and instructs, it enriches. The author converses with the reader, and this comfort in reading inspires confidence in doing. This book is an invaluable addition to any magician's library...it is one of the three best I have read in thirty-five years of studying magic.
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Summary: desert island reading?
Review: This is an old but great book that teaches the fundamentals of magi
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Summary: desert island reading?
Review: Yep! If I was on a deserted island... This book is ineffably valuable to me. So much so that I even went as far as to order two, not at the same time. The first one was paper back; the second one was, surprisingly, hard back. No, the price difference wasn't a "tip-off." Now I own two. Now I've come to find out it's purportedly out of print; I'm smiling like the Cheshire Cat. I look at this book as a condensed Tarbell series. I collect magic books. I even scored a Discoverie of Witchcraft, and still, the Amateur Magician's Handbook is my favorite.
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