Hobbs, Stephen: The Essential Sol Stone ©2012 David Alexander (?) Hardcover, w/dj, 6x9", 264 pages

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Comments: "Intimate Magic with the Sol Stone Touch". Illustrations by Cassidy J. Alexander.

Contents (from book ToC):

iv Foreword (Richard Kaufman)
vi Preface (Cassidy J Alexander)
1 Introduction
4 Childhood Memories- 1922-1936
6 Pre-World War II - 1936-1942
7 War Years - 1942-1947
9 Brooklyn College - 1947-1957
10 Private Practice - 1957-Present

12 Theories

17 Card Routines
18 Hold My Hand
21 The Power of ESP
24 What it Takes to Make it to the Top
26 Another Man’s Game
32 SS Cards to Pocket

44 Basic Coin Sleights: The Sol Stone Way
45 Fingertip Pinch Grip
46 Finger Palm and Ramsay Subtlety
49 The Basic Pivot Vanish
53 Pivot Transformation
53 “No Table” Pivot Vanish
56 Pivot Click Pass
57 The Simplified Spider Vanish
59 The Townsend Acquitment Sequence
62 One-Hand Thumb Palm Turnover Switch
64 Hot Potato Shuttle Pass
66 Sol’s Spellbound Sequence
72 The Brush Change (aka Tumble Switch/Change)

78 Amazing Penetrations
79 The Jarred Coin
83 Baby Jarred Coin
86 Sweet And Low
89 Cointemplate

93 Strange Transpositions
94 Two-Timing Transpo
97 The Direct Transposition (Three Handlings)
100 “I’d Rather Be Rich”

103 Fifty-One Cents And Counting
104 Fifty-One Cent Routine - Original Handling
109 Another Fifty-One Cent Routine

112 Psychological Splits
113 Coin Fusion
115 Pulling Silver

120 Soft Sleeving
121 Basic Soft Sleeve Technique
122 Soft Sleeve Cover
124 Soft Sleeve Turnover Vanish/Change
126 One-Hand Spectator Sleeve Change
128 Soft Sleeve Short Routine

130 Back Finger Clip: Step-By-Step
131 The Sol Stone Back Finger Clip
135 Second And Third Finger Back Clip
136 Back Clip Recoveries
141 Back Clip Change Number One
145 Back Clip Change Number Two
147 The One-Two-Three Cover

151 Back Clip Routines
152 The Shrinking Coin
157 “Right There” Revisited
161 The Invisible Coin
163 The Hung Coin
171 Simple Triple One-Hand Spellbound
172 Quadruple One-Hand Spellbound - The Patriotic Poker Chip
173 Advanced Triple One-Hand Spellbound

175 Tenkai Pennies & Variations
176 Classic Two-Coin Handling with Back Clip
182 Tenkai Preliminary: The Malini Routine
183 One Coin Tenkai

186 On the Miser’s Dream
187 Sol’s Miser’s Dream Sequence
191 Tenkai’s Miser’s Dream Move
196 Back Clip Vanish and Production

198 Impossible Links
199 Linking Links
205 Ring on Pen (“On Again Off Again”)

212 Odds and Ends
213 The Ultimate Imp Bottle
215 Finger through Jacket
218 The New York Jumping Knot
229 The Bornstein Floating Bill

234 Two Classics
235 The Chaperone
239 $1,000 Dice Routine

251 Appendix: Sol Stone in Print
254 Index