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magicbern Inner circle Hong Kong, China 1220 Posts |
Mine would be the George B Anderson 1972 classic 'Magic Digest'. It covered so many branches of magic, gave many interesting details on the history of magic, included whole routines acts and even had several reproduced pages from magic catalogue. It was really great and I still do many tricks from there including Card In Orange, Impossible Knot routine done with a scarf or tie and a Sucker Torn and Restored Napkin! There were also classics including Miraskill, Do as I Do etc. I would still recommend this book to beginners today - if it were still available!
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Leo H Inner circle 1331 Posts |
A no-brainer: The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. The second chapter on the Vernon Touch is nothing less than scripture on Vernon's principles of misdirection, using one's head, and naturalness. A well-known book reviewer for Genii Magazine noted that, "This book is both a primer and an advanced guide to sleight of hand magic. A devoted long-term study of this text will go far toward making you a magician of merit. It may well help to make you an artist. It might even make a better human being."
But if you're not interested in being a better person or artist, just a better magician, there's more: Vernon's seminal Cups and Balls routine is in these pages, his devious Challenge effect with just two cards, several linking ring moves, the original write-up of Dr. Daley's Last Trick, Rosini's Impromptu Thimble Routine, Mental Spell--a nice divination of a mentally selected card, and of course, an explication of the Charlie Miller move for the cups and balls. This abbreviated list is only a small sample of the riches contained in this book. This Genii book reviewer also mentioned that, "Vernon once said to Johnny Thompson that he'd pay a thousand dollars to find another Erdnase--meaning another book on conjuring that was as invaluable as "The Expert." Thompson replied that he already owned such a book, and that he did not have to pay so dearly for it--he had a copy of the Vernon Book of Magic." |
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Ray Haining Inner circle Hot Springs, AR 1907 Posts |
I second the "Dai Vernon Book of Magic."
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NateReeves New user 97 Posts |
The Art of Restaurant Gigs is the best book on the business side of restaurant magic out there. His business philosophy is second to none.
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Chamberlain Special user 629 Posts |
Harry Lorayne - Classic Collection Vol 1 or Frank Garcia - Million Dollar Card Secrets are the two books I've worn the most out of reading
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greig ewen Elite user 473 Posts |
Expert card technique. A wealth of information. Greig
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Harry Murphy Inner circle Maryland 5444 Posts |
Classic Secrets of Magic - Bruce Elliott.
The artist formally known as Mumblepeas!
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algebraic Inner circle 1008 Posts |
Modern Coin Magic is my favorite book. It's an amazing book that contains many life times of material to use.
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gary31525 Regular user Building a fence with 158 Posts |
I have two categories of favorites, one for knowledge and the other for rarity (I'm a bibliophile):
For knowledge, my favorite as of today is: 'The Complete Cups and Balls' by Michael Ammar because I'm really obsesssed with the cups and balls at this time. For rarity, my favorite is defintely 'Sonata' by Juan Tamariz. I looked and looked for along time to get this hardback english version and it's not easy or cheap to find these days. |
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Erdnase27 Inner circle 2505 Posts |
Maybe I get shot for this , and maybe it is TOO cliche to be believable, but for me , The Expert at the Card Table always was my bible. Only recently I bought the reprint of the Annotated Erdnase by Darwin Ortiz, but the original was the book that I read, read and reread for the past 10 years (yellow marked, dog ear crimped pages etc).
For the people who found this to be too difficult to understand or read, please give it another try. I am dutch, english isn't even my first language and I think I now know the book by heart (after 10 years of reading and rereading..), once touched by Erdnase's philosophy, your view on magic and how it should be executed is changed. At least it has for me. |
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galerius Loyal user Piemontese Alps ( Northwestern Italy ) 245 Posts |
I could say Patrick Page's The Big Book of Magic, that I own in its italian translation. But the very first book that I considered a kind of 'bible' was a book by Tony Binarelli, Occhio al Baro ( 'Mind the Hustler', literally ; I don't know if there's an english translation but I don't think so ). It was focused on gambling, three card monte, three shell etc. and thirty years ago it opened my eyes...it was the first 'adult' treatise on cards ( not only on cards, but mostly ) I ever read.
Nowadays I'm aware of many other 'bibles' but I still feel special affection for that text. |
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