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The Amateur Magicians Handbook by Henry Hay
The Amateur Magicians Handbook by Henry Hay
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Henry Hay – The Amateur Magicians Handbook

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For more than a generation The Amateur Magician's Handbook has been the acknowledged classic text for conjurers, both beginners and advanced. Even David Copperfield recommended it during one of his TV specials. Literally thousands of magicians found their love for magic through this book. Several of these magicians are today recognized performers. This fourth edition, expanded as well as thoroughly revised, and introduced by Milbourne Christopher, includes a section where the Amazing Randi contributes his experience using video for self-coaching. 

This new edition teaches, briskly yet carefully, with hundreds of illustrations, all the skills and secrets of the wizard's repertoire: reading minds, pulling rabbits from hats, turning red handkerchiefs green, dissolving konts, pouring drinks from empty jars, dealing yourself all the aces, finding silver dollars in the air, to name a few. 

The Amateur Magician's Handbook stands alone in showing how and why magic works as entertainment: how spectators think and how you must think, and feel, to make puzzling tricks pleasing. 

A comprehensive new section covers the difficult but rewarding (and potentially profitable) art of entertaining children. 

The final sections tell you what you need to know about conjuring beyond the tricks: comedy; pantomime; music. An extensive bio-bibliography includes not only the great conjurers of the past but also the up-and-coming conjurers of today. 

Lastly, author Henry Hay offers guidance on making magic make money for you. "If I hear of someone's studying The Amateur Magician's Handbook and then climbing out of the amateur class by getting paid for a show," says Henry Hay, "I shall be satisfied." 

Table of Contents

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  1. Introduction

  2. A Few Words Before Curtain Time

  3. 1. The Magic State of Mind

  4. 2. Hard Easy Tricks and Easy Hard Tricks

  5. 3. Hand Magic with Cards

  6. 4. Give Them a Rest – Tricks Where No Cards Are Chosen

  7. 5. Please Take a Card – Standard Card Tricks

  8. 6. Hand Magic with Coins

  9. 7. The Miser's Dream, and Other Great Coin Tricks

  10. 8. Hand Magic with Billiard Balls

  11. 9. The Multiplying Billiard Balls

  12. 10. Other Hand Magic with Balls

  13. 11. Hand Magic with Thimbles

  14. 12. Hand Magic with Cigarettes

  15. 13. Head Magic with Cards

  16. 14. Varied Head Magic

  17. 15. Silks

  18. 16. Small Gimmicks and Fakes

  19. 17. Standard Stuff

  20. 18. Mental Magic

  21. 19. Close-Up Performance

  22. 20. Performing for Children

  23. 21. Platform Magic

  24. 22. How to Stage a Magic Show – Some Professional Advice

  25. Further Tricks and Illusions

  26. Biography and Bibliography

  27. Index

1st edition 1950; 4th edition 1982; 424 pages

PLEASE NOTE: This item is a digital download ,Gimmick not included