_EF For the magician who has learned the basic sleights of cards and coins, and who wants to make his act both mystifying and entertaining, the undisputed all-time best guide is T. Nelson Downs’ The Art of Magic. Downs was one of the greatest sleight-of-hand performers who ever lived, and his name is associated with …
_EF Latest Magic is the last book in Hoffmann’s series “Modern Magic”, “More Magic” and “Later Magic”. Hoffmann had quite some problem finding a publisher for this book. The reason being the quality of the contents. When “Modern Magic” came out it explained new tricks and tricks which were performed at the time. Thus it …
_EF Not a book of tricks, but Charles’ writing of his many travels around the world as a magician. A marvelous glimpse into history in the early 1900’s. Excerpt from A Magician in Many Lands: ‘O for the touch o a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still!’ The poet’s words …
_EF Houdini was upset that the widow of Robert-Houdin did not want to meet him. As a revenge Harry Houdini wrote “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin”, in which Houdini tries to push Robert-Houdin from his pedestal. He tries to show that most tricks Robert-Houdin claimed as his invention were in fact not his invention and that …
_EF Hoffmann’s Later Magic covers a wide range of topics from the conjurer’s dress and appliances to a variety of tricks, both simple and complex. Among the many tricks explained are tricks with hats, tricks with eggs, gloves, flags, handkerchiefs, rings, watches, the magic wand and color changing tricks. This book is a must for …
_EF In the mid-19th Century, Angelo Lewis, a British lawyer and writer with a passion for sleight of hand, wrote a series of articles on conjuring for several boys’ magazines. In 1876, using the pseudonym “Professor Hoffmann”, Lewis expanded these articles into a book entitled Modern Magic, the first in a series of books penned …
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