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Informationen zum Autor By Richard Kaufman - Photographs by Elizabeth Kaufman - Foreword by David Copperfield Klappentext There's nothing like performing magic-and there's nothing like plodding through a text-heavy book on the subject whose illustrations don't quite "do the trick." Enter Knack Magic Tricks. With instructions distilled to the most essential information you need, combined with 450 full-color photographs that lead you step by step through each action (many from the magician's point of view), this book makes learning magic easier than you ever thought possible. Written by a noted authority, and using household and inexpensive props, it also offers plenty of advice on how to entertain an audience while performing mind-blowing deceptions, illusions, and sleight of hand. 450 full-color photos showing:Card Tricks * Coin TricksMental Mysteries String Tricks * Rope TricksBill Tricks * Fruit TricksHandkerchief TricksCup Tricks * Magic for Kids Zusammenfassung From simple to advanced! and using household and inexpensive props! Knack Magic Tricks includes tricks using cards! coins! handkerchiefs! and fruit! as well as mental tricks! anytime tricks! standup tricks! and tricks especially for kids (to be performed both for them and by them). Inhaltsverzeichnis Knack Magic Tricks Contents Foreword by David Copperfield Introduction Chapter 1: Self Working Card Tricks Four Kings Found Nine Cards (Jim Steinmeyer) (Part One) Nine Cards (Part Two) Numerology (Larry Jennings) (Part One) Numerology (Part Two) Numerology (Part Three) Chapter 2: More Self Working Card Tricks Mix It Up! (Paul Curry) (Part One) Mix It Up! (Part Two) Don't Touch the Cards (Jack Miller) (Part One) Don't Touch the Cards (Part Two) My Uncle Cheated at Cards (Marlo-Gardner-Lorayne) (Part One) My Uncle Cheated at Cards (Part Two) Chapter 3: Simple Card Tricks Do As I Do (Part One) Do As I Do (Part Two) X Force (Max Holden) Hindu Shuffle Force Color-Changing Deck (Wayne Dobson) (Part One) Color-Changing Deck (Part Two) Chapter 4: Intermediate Card Tricks The Double Lift The Changing Card The Trick that Fooled Houdini (Dai Vernon) Chicago Opener (Frank Everhart, Frank Garcia) (Part One) Chicago Opener (Part Two) Chicago Opener (Part Three) Chapter 5: Advanced Card Tricks Four Ace Reverso (Shigeo Takagi) (Part One) Four Ace Reverso (Part Two) Quadruple Coincidence (Mike Shelley) (Part One) Quadruple Coincidence (Part Two) Quadruple Coincidence (Part Three) Quadruple Coincidence (Part Four) Chapter 6: Simple Coin Tricks Five Little Piggies (Part One) Five Little Piggies (Part Two) A Coin Vanish Quarter to Tea (Part One) Quarter to Tea (Part Two) Quarter to Tea (Part Three) Chapter 7: Advanced Coin Tricks Matrix (Al Schneider) (Part One) Matrix (Part Two) Matrix (Part Two) Atomic Coins (Part One) Atomic Coins (Part Two) Atomic Coins (Part Three) Chapter 8: Simple Anytime Tricks There's Money in Baked Goods! Meet Uri Geller (Part One) Meet Uri Geller (Part Two) Jumping Rubber Band (Stanley Collins) Voodoo Burn (Jack Kent Tillar) Let's Float! (Edmund Balducci) Chapter 9: String Tricks Fantastic String Trick (Part One) Fantastic String Trick (Part Two) Ring, String, Zing! (Stewart James) (Part One) Ring, String, Zing! (Part Two) Straw 'N String (Part One) Straw 'N String (Part Two) Chapter 10: Simple Mental Mysteries Impromptu Mindreading (Roy Baker) (Part One) Impromptu Mindreading (Part Two) 51 Faces North (P. Howard Lyons) (Part One) 51 Faces North (Part Two) Thought Speller (Max Maven) (Part One) Thought Speller (Part Two) Chapter 11: Intermediate Mental Mysteries When Planets Align (Part One) When Planets Align (Part Two) Cellphone Divination (John Northern Hilliard) (Part One) Cellphone Divination (Part Two) Precursor to Destiny (Albert Spackman) (Part One) Precursor to Destiny (Part Two) Chapter 12: Advanced Mental Mysteries Professional Spoon Bending 1 Professional Spoon Bending 2 Telekinetic Disintegra...
