Garcia, Frank: The Real Secrets of the Three-Ball Routines ©1978 Frank Garcia Softcover, perfect-bound, 6x9", 92 pages

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Comments: Illustrated by Richard Kaufman

Contents (from book ToC):

1 Lillian, Richard Kaufman
2 From The Man Who Gave You:
3 Dedication (To Lillian)
6 Father Cyprian and Frank Garcia

7 Lou Lancaster Balls and Net
8 Introduction: Silent Mora. Dai Vernon; Dr. Daley; Romaine and Frank Garcia
10 My Preference
10 Requirements
10 Special & Secret Preparation of the Balls
11 How to Make the Net
12 The ‘Secret’ Move
16 The Perfect Illusion
18 The Big Secret
19 Horowitz’s Secret Move
21 Practice Makes Perfect

22 The ‘Frank Garcia’ Routine
23 The Right Way to Drop the Balls
25 The Garcia Perfect Vanish
Three Balls in the Right Hand, Although Only One is Seen
31 A Real ‘Fooler’
33 The ‘Bluff Move
34 The 1945 Secret Move
34 A Closely Guarded Secret, Romaine
36 The Grande Finale
37 Sam Leo Horowitz
The Beginning of 3 Alternate and Disimilar Finishes
38 The ‘Large’ Ball
40 The Twenty Coins Finish
40 The Walnut Climax

41 John Scarne, John Ramsey, Amedeo, George Schindler, Claude Rix, Rezvani, Romaine
41 Introduction to Romaine
42 Picture of Romaine
43 The Routine in Brief
43 Recommended Reading
44 Additional Notes
45 Romaine’s Perplexing Persian Pearls Routine
46 The Production
50 The ‘Split’ to Two
51 The Table Transposition
54 The Pocket Transposition
56 The Split to Three
58 The First Three Ball Transposition
60 The Second Three Ball Transposition
62 Hiding the Pearls in the Sand
63 Finding Them in the Sand
65 The Fourth Dimension
66 Plucking from the Air, the Stroke
66 Long Tack Sam
68 Eyes and Ears
71 The Gambling Game
74 ‘When You’ve Lost All Your Marbles’

75 Introduction to ‘Doc’ Daley
76 Chromo-spheres by Dr. Jacob Daley
82 Phase Two
84 Phase Three
86 Author’s Note
88 Epilogue
89 Frank Garcia’s Secret Recipe
91 Frank Garcia and the Press Around the World
92 Blank Pages for Personal Notes