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Fulves, Karl: The Magical World of Slydini ©1979 D. Robbins & Co., Inc. |
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Comments: Illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt. Photographs
by Arthur Manfredi. In two volumes; one with the text and the
other with photographs to you can view the photos while reading
the corresponding text.
Contents: (from book ToC with some details added courtesy
ConjuringArchive.com)
Book One: Text
v Foreword
vii Tributes
vii - Terry Cambro
viii - John Lucich
ix - Bill Wisch
x - Scalzo
xi - Abel Pabon
xii - J.P. Laramee
xiii - Dennis Barlotta
xiv - Jim Cellini
xv - Fred Gray
xvi - Philip T. Varricchio
xvii - Johnny Ace Palmer
1 Introduction (Karl Fulves)
5 Chapter One Close Up Miracles
5 Sweet Salt: salt vanishes, reappears and changes to sugar in
spectator's hand
8 Sugar Express: quantity of sugar vanishes and reappears back
inside a sugar packet
10 Encore Sponge Balls: four balls vanish and appear one at a time
11 Reincarnation: instant restoration of a cigarette torn into
three pieces
15 Chapter Two Slydini On Rope Magic
15 Slydini Cut Rope: and restored
18 Equal-Unqual Ropes
22 Slydini's Rope Knots: Close-Up Knot Routine
25 Chapter Three Cards In Close-Up
25 Slydini's Wild Card
27 The Slydini Aces
28 Slydini's Table Shift
29 The Slydini Invisible Pass
31 The Slydini Switch II
33 Chapter Four The Torn and Restored Newspaper
42 Chapter Five More Slydini Coin Classics
43 Encore Coins
44 Wrong Way Coins
46 Gemini Coins: coins across
48 A Coin Gag: instant vanish and reappearance of a stack of coins
48 Sliding Silver
49 Remote Lapping
51 Chapter Six The Coin Clip
51 The Coin Clip
54 The Repeat Version
56 Chapter Seven Slydini's Silk Knots
57 The Granny Knot
58 The Square Knot
59 Notes On the Square Knot
59 Slydini's Two Silk Routine
64 Houdini's Silks
67 Splitting the Knot
70 Slydini's Sympathetic Silks
76 The Ring on the String
70 Chapter Eight Slydini's Sympathetic Silks
76 Chapter Nine Slydini's Close-Up Classics:
76 The Ring on the String
78 The Torn and Restored Napkin Corner
82 Chapter Ten Slydini's Linking Rings
101 Addenda
Book Two: Photographs
1 Chapter One Close Up Miracles
17 Chapter Two Slydini On Rope Magic
36 Chapter Three Cards In Close-Up
50 Chapter Four The Torn and Restored Newspaper
65 Chapter Five More Slydini Coin Classics
76 Chapter Six The Coin Clip
81 Chapter Seven Slydini's Silk Knots
109 Chapter Eight Slydini's Sympathetic Silks
127 Chapter Nine Slydini's Close-Up Classics
139 Chapter Ten Slydini's Linking Rings
