Magician's Magic
Magician's Magic, by Paul Curry, is not just a book to learn a routine or two. It's not a book filled with card tricks and sleight of hand, though there are a couple of tricks with a deck of cards, but there are also platform tricks and other close-up routines that involve a variety of tools.
But even then, the majority of the book is not tricks and methods. It's history. It's stories. It's secrets behind the collection of these magical marvels. Including the famous Out of This World routine by Paul Curry himself!
We find information on Houdini and Cardini within these pages, we find out how to saw a woman in half and perform different levitation stunts, and even how to make gaff cards. Magician's Magic provides us with the history of magic from a person who was there, and best yet it's an easy read! Each chapter is self-contained and the illustrations are really well done. This is a book written about magicians, for magicians, by a magician!
Where to buy?
Last I checked, you should be able to pick up Magician's Magic at Vanishing Inc. The last price tag I saw for this book was set at $16.95.
Contents of Magician's Magic
Introduction by Martin Gardner
By Way of Background
The Old, Old Tricks
The Magician's Image
Houdini - and After
The New Conjurers
What Became of Gravity?
- Robert-Houdin's Levitation
- Maskelyne's Levitation
- A Pencil, a Ring, and Gravity
Into Thin Air
- The Sphinx
- Where Do the Ducks Go?
- The Joker Knows
Out of Nowhere
- The Vampire
- Production of a Bowl of Water
- Sawing a Lady in Half
- The Cut and Restored String
Ties That Do Not Bind
- Walking Through a Wall
- String Around the Fingers
- On and Off
The Power of Thought
- Thoughts from Afar
Of Things to Come
- Three Cards in the Future
The Quick and the Dead
- A Simple Spirit Seance
The Mind Reels
- Out of This World
- The Case of the Missing Hat
Bibliography
Index
ISBN: 0-486-43176-2