Gibson, Walter B.: Advanced Magic, Fell's Know-it-All Guide ©2000 Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc., FL Softcover, perfect-bound, 7.5x10", 169 pages ISBN: 0-88391-017-9

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Contents:

xi Forward
xiii Contributing Editor Biography: Elia Ilan Chesnoff

xv Introduction
xv Section 1 It's All About the Audience
xvii Section 2 The Element of Surprise
xix Section 3 Practicing Though Hassling Makes the Magic Fascinating
xxi Section 4 Master Magicians Master Misdirection

1 Part 1 Close-Up Magic

1 Section 1 Magic Puzzles & Games
2 Coin & Saucer: a challenge
3 Toothpick Field-goal: puzzle
5 Tom Cruise Match Trick: flick a lit match stunt
5 Match in Mid-air: floating match
6 Drop the Matchbox: only magician can drop matchbox on its end
6 Card and Glass: balance a glass on a card
8 Power of Thought: magician determines if penny or nickel held
8 Slapping Coins: the Han Pieng Chien move
9 What Does A One Handed Knot And A Cherry Stem Have In Common?: knot in rope
10 Coin and Bottle: another challenge
10 Knives and Glass Art: balancing stunt
11 Catch the Sugar: challenge stunt
11 The Puzzling Label: finding a label inside the bottle

12 Section 2 Pocket Magic
12 Penetrating Match: through safety pin
13 Self-Opening Match Boxes
14 Self-Closing Match Boxes
14 The Rattling Match Boxes: spectator can't find the box that rattles
17 Four Coins and a Magic Mouth: the magician's force
18 Turning A Penny Into Two Quarters
19 Stack the Chips: a colored chip stacking prediction
20 Shrinking Pen
21 Bottle and Pills: magician mysteriously removes pills from a bottle
22 Magnetized Glasses: two glasses cling to the underside of a book
23 Three Divining Rods: magician determines which color rod is in the cylinder

25 PART 2 Card Tricks
25 Card Introduction

26 Section 1 Card Sleights
26 Using The Key Card
28 Forcing A Card
29 - The Hindu Shuffle Force
31 - Bottom Card Slide Force
32 Controlling A Card

34 Section 2 Using Card Sleights
34 Name That Card: using a key card and magician's force
37 Look What Popped Up!: selection turns face up when deck dropped
37 Card On Wall: two methods
40 The Nested Card Boxes: sealed card prediction
40 Card Thru Curtain and Window: cousin to card on wall
43 Having Fun With Forces
43 Final Note With Sleights

44 Section 3 Cards Sans Sleights
44 Fastest Hands In Magic: two selections removed instantly from deck
45 The Four Jacks: Jacks assemble to top of deck
46 Upside Down Card: selection reverses itself in the deck

48 Section 4 Tricks That Will Impress Everyone But Mathematicians
48 Three Deal Prediction: three selections determine predicted number
50 Color Sense: predict how many reds vs. blacks dealt
51 Faces Up: two face up face down packets have same number of face up cards

52 Section 5 Trick Decks That Are Guaranteed To Drive Mathematicians Crazy
53 Svengali Deck
54 Stripper Deck
54 Rough/Smooth Deck

57 PART 3 Stage Magic
57 Introduction

58 Stage Effects That Can Be Made
58 The Dye Box Cereal Box
60 Vanishing Coffee Cup: under handkerchief
62 Cut And Restored String Thru Straw
63 Bottle And Rope: bottle hangs off a rope
64 Red Ribbon Pack: selected card is pulled from a deck with a ribbon through it
66 Patriotic Liquids: chemical effect
68 Card Seal and Ribbon: Jack changes into signed selection

69 Stage Effects That Can Be Purchased In Most Magic Shops
70 Thumb Tip
71 Adhesive Milk: doesn't pour out of the bottle
72 Disecto: arm chopper
74 Penetrating Liquids: liquid penetrates a glass
75 Vanishing Candle
76 Sands of Sahara: sand to flower
88 Eggs from the Hat
79 Fade-Away Glass
82 The Great Sack Escape
83 Duck or Rabbit Box Production
87 Pop Thru Frame: silk appears through a frame
87 Twentieth Century Silks

89 Part 4: Mysticism and Mentalism

89 Setting the Mood
89 Keeping Magic in the Mind
94 Effects
94 The Spirit Answer: carbon reveals answer instead of a copy
95 Hyrum the Friendly Ghost: dancing hank
96 Talking Key: key bounces in glass to answer questions
97 Spookey Weights: pendulum effect
98 Floating Table
99 The Spirit Post: though his wrists are tied, instruments play, etc.
101 Seance in the Lights: behind a sceance cloth
102 The Hand of Cagliastro: The rapping hand
103 Cassadaga Propaganda: miniature spirit cabinet
106 The Knotty Spooks: knots appear in a rope
108 Message Reading: one ahead principle
109 Single Message: reading a sealed message
112 The Untouched Card: magician chooses the same card as spectator
113 Duplicated Thought: slate effect
114 Color Vision: magician know which color of a cube is face up
116 Magazine Prediction: test
117 The Marked Name: names and a slate
120 The Random Mind: mental effect with a stranger
121 In the Crystal: card revelation through a glass ball
122 Calling all Cards: comedy stunt
123 Nailed Thoughts: performer names cards nailed to a board
125 Nine out of Ten: impromptu effect
126 Relayed Thought: or thought projection

129 Part 5 Grand Illusion
129 Grand Illusion

134 Film to Life: events in a film come to life
136 The Girl of Iron: woman supports men standing on her outstretched arms
138 The Drop Away Cabinet: vanish from suspended cabinet
140 The Escape from Sing Sing: prison escape
142 Spiked Alive: without harm
145 The Glass Sheet Mystery: assistant vanishes on a sheet of glass
146 Crushing a Girl: in a box
148 The Cane Cabinet: sword cabinet type effect
150 Catching a Bullet: one man version

153 Part 6 Historical Magic
153 Historical Magic Effects

153 Penetrable Card: pencil penetrates card in frame
155 The Flowing Coconut: water flows from oa coconut
158 Imaginary Keg: picture of a Keg delivers liquid
160 Fish from Air: using a fishing pole
161 Houdini's Giant Bowl Mystery: silks from a bowl of black liquid
163 Canary and Lightbulb: canary tossed toward light bulb replaces the bulb
163 Fish and Globe: production of a fishbowl
166 Aquarium Production: on a table

167 Appendix
167 Magic Shops
168 Publications
169 Summer Camps
169 Good Places to Visit
169 Museums