I hate puzzles.

meridianfan: I have a few mint copies of the Setteducati book if you need a complete one.

I'd like to put in a plug for The Magic Show book as well. It's got some pretty interesting tricks in it (especially if you're a Tenyo geek....and if you're not, you probably won't be reading all of this anyway). I got the book shortly after it came out and I still am amazed with the clever thinking that went into the design of this book.

Dave

I have the Magic Show book and lost one of the pieces. It drove me crazy looking all over trying to find it. Sadly it is still missing. I never connected the book to Mark Setteducati. When I got it as a gift, I liked magic, but was not into magic as much as I am now. Now that I am looking at it I see one of the tricks is very similar to one of the redemption tricks from the Milton Bradley Magic Works line of tricks which I think Mark was very involved with. The redemption trick I am referring to is Half A Dozen Cousins (MBMW) which is called Six Sorcers in the Magic Show Book. I guess Tenyo got the idea of the redemption tricks from MBMW.

Looks like for us Tenyo fans we have a lot of exciting books to look forward to. The Tenyo book, the Lubor Fiedler book and hopefully my book if I ever get it finished 😊

Yes The Magic Show book is highly recommended. I was fooled by the cover trick with the coloured dots changing colour. Also the Zig Zag Lady in the book is based on Tenyo's Sidetrack. I designed the paper engineering for it. I also contributed the Houdini Trunk trick in the book. A great fun book!

Put me on the list for your book Angelo...make that 2. One for reading, one for...oh you know the drill.

Thanks to everyone for offers to help me out. I was able to find a kind person who had an extra copy of the book and will give me the missing pieces.

Cheers!

I would like to add a book to the list: "Magic, Stage Illusions, Special Effects, and Trick Photography" compiled and edited by Albert A Hopkins. There are several sections in this book that may interest some people here including chapters on ancient greek and roman mechanical toys, optical tricks and effects, and automata. It also features detailed illustrations of many mechanical wonders.

Interestingly, Albert A Hopkins was a pen name for Will Robinson aka "Chung Ling Soo."