Comments: The My Best to You
series represents some of Scott's best material from his out of
print
books: Great Scott! It's More
Magic
and Magishing My Way. They
have been re-collected and in some cases re-worked. Volume 1 is on
Card
Magic, and Volume 3 is on Close-Up and Stand-Up Magic.
Photo-Illustrated. Available from Lybrary.com
Contents:
4 First Word (Scott Guinn)
5 Sucker Trick (From Great Scott! It's Coin Magic!): a routine with
a
dime and a lollipop
11 Glass Action Suit: a coins to glass routine using four half
dollars
and an Old Fashioned glass
17 Wormhole (from Profiles in Coinage): A coin vanishes and
re-appears
as it is moved through a 5" ring "Wormhole"; with a giant coin
climax.
25 Into the Fourth Dementia (from Profiles in Coinage): a wild coin
routine with an "impossible" ending (and another use for the 5"
ring)
30 Eye-Con: A full coin routine designed for restaurant work.
37 Pouched CSB: A Copper-Silver-Brass routine using a "pouch-style"
coin purse
45 Sheepish Thieves: full routine based on the Thieves and Sheep
plot.
Uses two English Pennies, seven Half Dollars, two C/S coins, and a
coin
purse.
57 North American Jumping Coins: Two silver coins and one copper
travel
cleanly one at a time from one hand to the other. Uses Scotch &
Soda set and expanded shell.
63 UN Coins Thru Table: A Mexican Centavo, English Penny and US
Silver
Dollar go through the table top one at a time
72 Struck, Packed, & Pitched: a coin penetrates a small bottle
and
is removed with tweezers and handed out for examination!
77 Shelled, Folded, & Hooked: Scott's handling of Ramsay's
Hanging
Coins plot.
81 Stacked, Waxed, & Hijacked: Scott's version of the Cap &
Pence
85 Great Scott's Flurry: "a rapid series of magical happenings with
a
coin"
91 Last Word
92 Sleight Index