Owen, Richard: Rovi The Story of a Man and His Magic ©2000 Anthony Brahams and Richard Owen The Cairn Press, Norwich, U.K. Hardcover, no dj, 173 pages

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Comments: Illustrated by Tony Dunn, produced and partly editied by Anthony Brahams.

Contents (from book ToC):

5 Dedication
6 Acknowledgements
7 Tribute
8 Publisher’s Notes
9 General Introduction
11 Birth to Youth
17 Military Service then Work in Printing
23 Minnie, Marriage, Magic
29 Magical Societies
35 Anecdotes and Appreciation

47 Three Tributes from Three Colleagues
47 Tom Owen
50 Barry Williams
52 Arthur Day

57 Introduction to Rovi’s Magic

67 The Pass — A Necessary Evil?
68 The Rovi Pass and Controls
72 Card in Chocolate Box
74 Safe Bet
75 Dippy Duck

77 The Top Change
79 The Choice is Yours
80 Just for a Change
81 Whose Card are we Talking About?
82 One of the Best

85 The Peek
85 To Peek at Leisure

91 The Fan Force
92 Rovi’s Fan Force
95 The Best of Both
95 Pressure Fan Force
96 Ribbon Spread Force
96 It Saves a Lot of Time
96 I’ve Been Beaten
96 Signed Card in Wallet
97 Mine or Yours?
97 Amazing, is it Not?
98 Nothing Short of a Miracle

101 The Jinx or Hindu or End Shuffle
101 And Your Name is?
102 The Jinx Shuffle to Show all the Cards the Same
104 Card in Wallet
104 The Jinx Shuffle Force
105 Nice and Quick
105 Jinx Cut
107 Between You and Me
108 The ‘Find You' Card
109 Just Between Friends

115 Rovi’s Side Slip

119 The Hinged Card
120 Who do you Support?
123 Card through Table
124 Card in Balloon
125 Yours, I Believe

129 The Thick Card
129 Without Sight-—Without Knowledge
131 Is it Possible? No it’s Not!
133 Card in Wallet
133 Cards in Harmony
136 Your Card Plus Four Aces

139 Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
140 Reputation Maker
142 Cowboy trick
144 The Magnetic North

147 The Sandwich (Francis Haxton)
148 Rovi's version—The Powerful Queen
150 Rovi’s Close Up Version—Quick Bite
152 Alternative method

153 Rovi Book Tests
153 The Impossible made Possible
154 The Rovi Book Test
156 Saves a lot of Trouble Method

157 Your Card and “Three Fat Ladies”
160 Quick Time Version

165 Roy, Roger Reminiscing

167 Old Wines and Old Friends are Best
167 Personal Perceptions
168 Perception Replicated
170 In my Estimation

173 Song without Words