This book came from the library of a magic collector who took pride in his books.This preowned book was professionally sealed in protective padding when the previous owner shipped it to us.We did not open the sealed protective padded wrapping.You will receive it in the exact condition it was shipped to us from the collector.
This out-of-print book is HIGHLY COLLECTIBLE and EXTREMELY HARD TO FIND.The few other copies currently available are priced from $275 and up! And they don't give you free shipping like we do!
This is VOLUME TWO of the two-part series.The second volume is much more rare than the first, and is nearly impossible to find sold separately from the first volume.
Volume Two contains the pageant of scintillating Elmsley magic. A remarkable collection of more than 103 exquisitely conceived, entertaining and unfathomable tricks, ranging from baffling predictions and feats of mind-reading to glittering coin magic and bewildering card mysteries. Many Elmsley classics are included, plus original flourishes, a chapter on tricks with the faro shuffle, and a detailed description of Elmsley’s “Cardworks,” a brilliant act that was one of Elmsley’s crowning achievements.
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER ONE: Flourishes Little-Finger Spinner The Multiplying Aces The Rosette Two-Ball Roll
CHAPTER TWO: Hidden Thoughts and Future Deeds The Fan Prediction Hidebound Forecast The Mexican Prediction Face Your Brothers A Delicate Balance It’s a Small World Halfway To Heaven Verbum Sapienti Open Intruder Brownwaves I Brownwaves II Multiple Mind Reading Double-cross Like a Rolling Bone Failure Auto-prediction Divina-Sign A Card from Cagliostro Aussi-Mental Animal, Vegetable and Mineral The Octal Pencil Verbum Veritas Pack of Lies
CHAPTER THREE: Exotica Still Taking Three Point of Departure Economy Class Departure The Fiddle with the Biddle in the Middle The Red and the Blue The Shy Chameleon Turn-about Card A Small Revelation Fool’s Mate Jubilee Separating the Men from the Boys A Problem with Duplicate Identities The Imp of the Inverse Sum Talk of Alexander Switchy-coo Half Packed Second Link Diamond Cut Diamond Signing Off Signature Piece Shakedown
CHAPTER FOUR: Marsupial Favorites Pocketpick Pockets Full of Miracles Reluctant Cards to Pocket Duplicitous Cards to Pocket Flight Plan En Voyage Processional Daley Double Between Your Palms Only Child Incommunicado
CHAPTER FIVE: Coinages Devaluation Revaluation Boston Two-step The Astral Coin Rides Again Milling a Coin Sucker Silver The Spider’s Treasury
CHAPTER SIX: Faro Tapestries Indulgences Deck Preparation for Faro Shufles Weave Corrections for Miscuts Placing a Key at Twenty-sixth Position The Mathematics of the Weave Shuffle Out- and In-Weaves The Odd Pack and Weave Equivalent Odd Pack Returning a Pack To the Same Order Solving the Shufle Equation Stack Transformations Royal Flush Deal The Constant Stack The Restacking Pack Binary Translocations Double Control Penelope’s Principle Penny Wise Prediction by Proxy Tuppence Meet Me On the Road A Woven and Cut Case Autopilot Direct Link (Featuring Bill Reid’s “Automatic Discovery”) The Custodial Card The Fan and Weave Control The Fan and Weave Double Control Brainweave The Obedient Faro Spell By the Numbers Paraspell Collinspell Arab Roto-Pack What a Party! Late Night Location Auto-Discovery The Elmsley Rising Card
Chapter Seven: Stray Stacks Computer Dating Empty and Full Wedded Ambitions Topsy-turvy Stay-stack Parity Failure Tell Me Three Times Future Stock Through Darkest Pierce Blind Stud Mental Boxer Kingfisher Pursuit of Thought
Chapter Eight: The Dazzle Act The Dazzle Act The Properties Fate’s Datebook Cold Steel The Tale of the Old Timer Dazzle Tour de Force Notes on Structure
This is a 1994 FIRST EDITION of this book.
Condition: excellent. Viewed through the protective sealed shipping wrapping applied by the previous owner, the book shows minimal shelf wear. AUTHOR: Stephen MinchPUBLISHED: 1994 by L & L PublishingHardbound book. 512 pages.
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