Caveney, Mike: Mike Caveney Wonders & The Conference Illusions ©2013 Mike Caveney's Magic Words Volume 1 Hardcover, 9x11.5", 456 pages Volume 2 Hardcover, 9x11.5", 256 pages

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Comments: Two volumes in a single slipcase. A full collection of Mike's performance history over his career. Over 700 pages in two volumes. Color photographs throughout. 570 photographs volume 1. 330 photographs volume II.

Volume I Mike Caveney Wonders - contains all of the routines that he has performed going back to his days as a teenage magician in the Long Beach Mystics right up to his current act

Volume II covers Mike's recreations of classic illusions he presented during the past 22 years for the Los Angeles Conference on Magic History. Includes the research performed, the mechanics of the illusion, improvements on the originals, and so forth.

Contents (from Mike Caveney's Magic Words website):

Volume I: Mike Caveney Wonders

11 Foreword (Mac King)
15 Introduction
19 Preface
23 The Long Beach Mystics
23 Giant Thimble Production
35 The Substitution Barrel
43 Trade Show Act
44 Amazing Mechanical Merlin
49 Split Deck
50 Crystal Card Catch
53 Anverdi Key Chest
57 Jumping Straw
61 The Nailed Card
67 The Benson Plunger
83 Two, One, None
89 Coin Vanish
94 Our Own Worst Enemy
99 Money Machine
109 Impromptu Linking Coat Hangers
117 Linking Coat Hangers
127 Lubor Die
135 Lie Detector
141 Halloween Card Stab
151 The Phome Book
159 Idiot Rings
171 The Powers of Darkness
187 Impromptu Powers of Darkness
195 Serious Laughter
201 Chinese Pipes
209 Nind Reading
219 Ten Dollar Bill Trick
238 Bill in Cigar
269 3-Arm Juggling
281 Coffee Juggling
297 Magic Paper
345 Bow & Arrow
373 Scissors, Coat, Silverware & Chicken
417 Billy's Chicken Trick
423 The Chicken Chronicles
439 Mastering the Ceremonies

Volume 2: The Conference Illusions:

9 Foreword (Jim Steinmeyer)
13 Introduction
15 Magic's Golden Age
27 1993 Dante's Sawing a Lady in Half
43 1999 Selbit's Bricks
55 1999 Through the Eye of a Needle
69 2001 The Million Dollar Mystery
101 2003 OH! Chair
123 2005 Del Adelphia Egg Bag
165 2007 The Astral Hand
181 2009 The Drum That Can't Be Beaten
193 2009 Well I'm!
221 2011 The Orson Welles Act
247 2013 The Spirit Cabinet