Sujets :
Magie - Étude et enseignement
Cartomagie

Dépouillement du document :
Chapter One: Dark Side of the Hand
Subway Gambler's Palm
The Contortion Palm
Dr . Daley's Face-Lift Addition
The Lilliput Palm
An Historical Note on the Dr. Elliott Top Palm
The Revolving Palm-Replacement
The Finley Diagonal Palm Shift Revisited
Flat Top

Chapter Two: Sundry Sleights
Flat Top Switch
The Spring-Loaded Tip-Over Change
The Zarrow Block Addition
A Note on Zarrow's Revolving Aces
Back Breaker
The Hair's-Breadth Stall
Vernon on the "Endfield" Slip Cut
On the Hay False Dovetail Shuffle
A Table Pass

Chapter Three: Motley
Spellatron
Cut and Spell
Caught in the Stretch
If the Suit Fits
Bruce Cervon's Trans Mitt
Given the Slip
Will-o'-the-wisp
The Vernon Deck Vanish and Recovery
Chapter Four: Cheats
Joker Monte
Three in the Hand, One in the Bush
A Straight Deal
The David and Goliath Deal
Black's Stack
Stacked to Formula

Chapter Five: Inflationary Effects
On Your Metal
All Sound and Fabric
Right Where?
Two Techniques with the Purse Palm
Pastiche on Ramsay, with Variations
On the Origins of the Steeplechase
Folding Money
Cashing a Check

Chapter Six: Notes on Cherished Ghosts
"Vester" Adam's Flight of Fabric
Arthur Finley's Remote Control
S . Leo Horowitz's Look Homeward. Angel
Henry Christ's Obstinate Pasteboards
Faucett Ross' Twice Turned
Mac MacDonald's Lost Chord
Dr. Daley's Vis-A-vis
Dr. Daley's Select Transposition
Dr. Daley's Interlocking Setup
Tenkai's Phoenix Bill Vanish
Larry Grey's Cut to Perfection
Jay Ose's Presentation for The Glass Through Table
John Scarne's Doppelganger Location
John Scarne's Western Union Trick 208
Chapter Seven: Solitary Amusements
What's-the-Value Solitaire
Think-of-a-Card Solitaire

Résumé :
This book contains an essay, which surveys a cross section of the close-up magic being done by New York City during the 1920s and 1930s by Bill Miesel. Prominent there were Dai Vernon and his friends; people like Sam Horowitz, Ted Annemann and Luis Zingone.

Mr. Miesel picked some of their more intriguing effects and, in collaboration with Dai Vernon, Max Maven, Bruce Cervon and Stephen Minch, the methods were reconstructed as accurately as is possible. This study is an important historical document, and revealing in the life of Dai Vernon.

It explains of the legendary "Joker Monte" trick that Mr. Vernon used to baffle fellow magicians.

Also magic from Dai Vernon's friends including Arthur Finley, Sam Horowitz, Henry Christ, Dr. Daley, Faucett Ross, Herb Zarrow, Mike Skinner and Bruce Cervon.

Remerciement au donateur : Cirque du Soleil

Collection : Collection documentaire du Cirque du Soleil

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 793.807 1 M6636v 1989