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danaruns Special user The City of Angels 808 Posts |
I just received a whole library of historical magic books from a retiring magician. I'm so excited! Can't wait to open the boxes and dive into them! WOW! Magicians, what do you think? Some of the titles:
The Complete Illustrated Book of Card Magic Walter B. Gibson 1st 1969 Card Control Arthur B. Buckly 1st 1946 Professional Card Magic Cliff Green 1st 1961 Reputation Makers Harry Lorayne ? 1971 Deck‐Terity Harry Lorayne 1st 1967 Close‐Up Card Magic Harry Lorayne 1st 1962 Personal Secrets Harry Lorayne ? 1964 My Favorite Card Tricks Harry Lorayne 1st 1965 Estimation Edward Marlo 1st 1962 Encyclopedia Of Card Tricks Jean Hugard 1st 1961 Million Dollar Card Secrets Frank Garcia 1st 1972 More Inner Secrets of Card Magic Dai Vernon 1960 Expert Card Technique Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue 2nd 1961 How to Spot Card Sharps Sidney H. Radner 1957 Scarne on Cards John Scarne 8th 1961 Scarne on Card Tricks John Scarne 5th 1962 The Royal Road to Card Magic Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue 1st 1948 The Royal Road to Card Magic Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue 6th 1968 The Expert at the Card Table S. W. Erdnase & Professor Hoffman 1944 The Expert at the Card Table S. W. Erdnase Card and Conjuring Tricks Charles Roberts & Charles Crayford 400 Hundred Tricks You Can Do Howard Thurston 1948 Modern Card Tricks and Secrets of Magic Harry Blackstone 1941 Modern Magic Professor Hoffman More Magic Professor Hoffman Magic Without Apparatus Camille Gaultier, Translated by Jean Hugard 1945 Illustrated Magic Ottokar Fischer 1931 The Secrets of Mahatma Land Explained Professor Samri S. Baldwin, The White Mahatma 1895 The Complete Book of Magic Peter Warlock Magician's Handbook Herrmann the Great 1942 Memoirs of Robert‐Houdin King of the Conjurers Introduction by Milbourne Christopher 1964 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 1 Harlan Tarbell 5th 1953 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 2 Harlan Tarbell 3rd 1946 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 3 Harlan Tarbell 3rd 1946 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 4 Harlan Tarbell 2nd 1941 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 5 Harlan Tarbell 1st 1948 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 6 Harlan Tarbell 1st 1954 Tarbell Course in Magic Vol 7 Harry Lorayne 1st 1972 Greater Magic John Northern Hilliard 9th 1947 Further Magic of the Hand Edward Victor 1946 My Best J. G. Thompson Jr. 1959 The Modern Conjurer C. Lang Neil 2nd 1947 Modern Magic Manual Jean Hugard 1957 Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks Percy Abbott Encyclopedia Of Cigarette Tricks Keith Clark 1st 1937 The Trick Brain Dariel Fitzkee 2nd 1944 Showmanship for Magicians Dariel Fitzkee 3rd 1945 Magic by Misdirection Dariel Fitzkee 1945 Famous Magic Secrets Will Dexter 1955 Magic Explained Walter B. Gibson 1958 This is Magic Will Dexter 1958 Slydini Encores Leon Nathanson, MD 1966 Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig Lewis Ganson Malini and his Magic Dai Vernon The Ramsey Legend Andrew Galloway 1969 The New Modern COIN MAGIC J. B. Bobo 2nd 1966 Magical Ways and Means Al Baker 1941 Secrets of the Conjureror's Craft Will Dexter The Illustrated History of Magic Milbourne Christopher 1973 The Great Illusionists Edwin A. Dawes 1979 Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic Joseph Dunninger Dunninger's Book of Magic Joseph Dunninger 1964 Panorama of Magic Milbourne Christopher 1962 Magic Digest George B. Anderson 1972 The World's Greatest Magic Hyla M. Clark 1976 Don Alan's Pretty Sneaky Don Alan 2nd 1960 Close‐Up Time Don Alan 2nd 1960 Dai Vernon's Select Secrets Dai Vernon 2nd The Cardician Edward Marlo 1953 Coining Magic Edward Marlo 2nd 1963 Kort is now in Session Milton Kort 1962 Off‐Color Card Tricks Milton Kort 1970 Comedy A La Card Karrell Fox 1960 Kornfidentially Yours Karrell Fox 1961 Magic Tricks and Card Tricks Wilfrid Jonson 1957 100 of Scarne's Magic Tricks John Scarne 1961 100 More of Scarne's Magic Tricks John Scarne 1963 Sneaky Feats Tome Ferrell & Lee Eisenberg 1973 An Evening with Charlie Miller Charlie Miller 1961 Tricks You Can Count On Verne Chesbro & Larry West 2nd ? Drug Store Magic Eli B. Johnson, Pharmacist The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M. Paul LePaul 1958 50 Tricks You Can Do W.F. (Rufus) Steele 1946 Card Magic by Manipulation Lewis Ganson ? 52 Amazing Card Tricks W.F. (Rufus) Steele 1949 After the Dessert Martin Gardner 1941 36 Tricks with FA‐KO Cards Ronald Haines ? One Balloon Zoo Volume 1 Jimmy Davis 1975 One Balloon Zoo Volume 2 Roger Siegel 1974 GENII Magazine The International Conjuror's Magazine August, 1976 Magic, Inc.1969/1970 Yearbook Magic, Inc. Chicago, IL 1970 There are autographs, inscriptions and notes from the likes of Dai Vernon, Frank Garcia, etc. Very cool! Some of this is going to the Magic Castle tonight.
"Dana Douglas is the greatest magician alive. Plus, I'm drunk." -- Foster Brooks
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Wizard of Oz Inner circle Most people wish I didn't have 5150 Posts |
A lot of classics there. Looks like you don't need to go to the bookstore for awhile.
Great acquisition!
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D.Y.Ollan New user New York 15 Posts |
Wow! Talk about a windfall! The Harry Lorayne books alone would give you a lifetime of material to work through--not to mention the Vernon, LePaul, Hilliard, Robert-Houdin(!)... Goodness.
(can you tell I'm a bibliophile?)
"Our player confines himself not at all; nor, because the game is the object, does he reject deductions from things external to the game.... The first two or three rounds having been played, he is in full possession of the contents of each hand, and thenceforward puts down his cards with as absolute a precision of purpose as if the rest of the party had turned outward the faces of their own."
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danaruns Special user The City of Angels 808 Posts |
Yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. I opened the first box, took out the first book (an Ed Marlo book), opened it to the first page, studied the first trick, and wound up with a trick I will be able to use for the rest of my life. If this is indicative of the rest, wow!
"Dana Douglas is the greatest magician alive. Plus, I'm drunk." -- Foster Brooks
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Doug Trouten Elite user Minnesota 471 Posts |
Wow! What a goldmine! That's several lifetimes worth of material right there.
So here's a question for Dana and for the group. Some people wind up with a lot of magic books because of a wonderful windfall like the one you describe. Others wind up with more books than they've read because every now and then they have more money than sense (I put myself in that second category, although most days I have very little of either.) Either way, I'm guessing that it's not unusual for those who have the magic bug to wind up with a library of unread books. What's a good strategy for digging into the material on your bookshelf? I suppose it's like eating a taco, in that you do it one bite at a time -- but how do you decide where to take the first bite? Dana -- how are you going to tackle this?
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danaruns Special user The City of Angels 808 Posts |
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On Aug 9, 2016, Doug Trouten wrote: Great question, Doug. And I've been thinking about it. I doubt I will ever learn every trick in every book. So what's the best use of this windfall? First, I want to identify those that I want to read and study in earnest, and those I'll pick and choose from. Also, I've started to find little gems, like a handwritten note signed by Dai Vernon in one, a David Copperfield autograph in another. Cool. I think the best use is as a reference library. And that requires cataloging. I am beginning the tedious task of listing every trick or technique in every book in a database with various descriptions, adding these to all the other books and DVDs that I already have. That way, if I'm looking for something in particular, I can look it up. Don't know the name of a trick or whose it is, but you can describe it? You can find it in the database by using some key words. It's tedious to do this, and it will probably take me months to enter it all. Finally, I'm suddenly in the business of collecting magic books, since it seems only right that this inheritance should be the beginning of a great library. Seems to me that if you're given a whole bunch of racing car parts, the most logical thing to do is to fill in the gaps and build the car. I guess I'll build a car.
"Dana Douglas is the greatest magician alive. Plus, I'm drunk." -- Foster Brooks
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mantel Special user 922 Posts |
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On Aug 12, 2016, danaruns wrote: You can check out http://magicref.tripod.com/books.htm and http://www.conjuringarchive.com/ as most if not all of the books have been catalogued already. |
Soumyajit Regular user Under Your Bed 130 Posts |
Congratulations is all I can say Dana. The lady of fortune has smiled upon you, big time!
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MrWizard Inner circle Conjured The Illusion Of 1039 Posts |
Dana that is an amazing treasure trove of information you are so lucky to have them. Many classics and many I never seen. You are very fortunate to have all these at your fingertips. So much stuff in there to learn that you otherwise would never know about I wish I could be so lucky.
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