Magician Magic - Paul Curry - Mitchell Estate
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"For some thirty years, Paul Curry has been inventing tricks and sleights of such beautiful simplicity that they have become standard items in the repertoire of close-up performers of magic throughout the world."
The performing of magic draws practitioners from every field - doctors, lawyers, actors, writers; Orson Welles, Edmund Lowe, Johnny Carson, Jerry Lewis, Chester Morris, and Edgar Bergen, among others.
Mr. Curry shows how through the years, from ancient Egyptian times to the present, certain types of magic tricking have mystified the beholder.
He writes of objects made to disappear, of things summoned from nowhere, of transformations, levitations, spirit calling, mind reading, and escapes. All the great names of magic are here: Robert-Houdin, Houdini, Hermann, Kellar, Blackstone, Cardini, and Scarne.
The author explains the principles of legended "effects" - and gives the reader directions for performing a trick in the same category. Most of these tricks are of Curry's own devising and have not appeared in any other book.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE BY WAY OF BACKGROUND
CHAPTER TWO THE OLD, OLD TRICKS
CHAPTER THREE THE MAGICIAN’S IMAGE
CHAPTER FOUR HOUDINI— AND AFTER
CHAPTER FIVE THE NEW CONJURERS
CHAPTER SIX WHAT BECAME OF GRAVITY?
Robert-Houdin’s Levitation
Maskelyne’s Levitation
A Pencil - a Ring - and Gravity
CHAPTER SEVEN INTO THIN AIR
The Sphinx
Where Do the Ducks Go?
The Joker Knows
CHAPTER EIGHT OUT OF NOWHERE
The Vampire
Production of a Bowl of Water
Made Whole Again
Sawing a Lady in Half
The Cut and Restored String
CHAPTER NINE TIES THAT DO NOT BIND
Walking Through a Wall
String Around the Fingers
On and Off
CHAPTER TEN THE POWER OF THOUGHT
Thoughts from Afar
CHAPTER ELEVEN OF THINGS TO COME
Three Cards in the Future
CHAPTER TWELVE THE QUICK AND THE DEAD
A Simple Spirit Séance
CHAPTER THIRTEEN THE MIND REELS
Out of this World
The Case of the Missing Hat
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1st edition 1965, 269 pages; 1965, DJ HAS A COUPLE TEARS, PINKM STAIN ON BACK, BOOK IS MARKS ON FRONT COVER, NF COND
