Swiss, Jamy Ian: Johnny Thompson: The Magic of Johnny Thompson Volume 1 ©2013 Magicana, Ontario, Canada Hardcover, no dj, 339 pages ISBN: 978-0-9878686-6-4

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Comments: Edited by David Ben and Karl Johnson. Design and Photos by Julie Eng. Part of a Two volume set in slipcover. Volume 2 is listed separately.

Contents (from book)

11 Foreword (Jamy Ian Swiss)
15 Introduction - Becoming Tomsini (Teller)

27 The Gambler’s Ballad: story based card routine
29 Introduction
30 The Gambler's Ballad - An Incident in Jake's Balloon: a poem
36 The Method Requires
38 Handling an Performance: with patter
55 Resetting the Stack

57 Harry Riser
59 Everywhere Nowhere All Backs: small packet
67 The Ambilipstrous Card
77 The Kissed Card
83 Les Quick Cartes: small packet routine
93 The Bean Coins: coins through the table
101 Elmsley’s Brainweave: Brainwave with an ungimmicked pack
107 Expert Dunbury Delusion
113 Impromptu Shiner: applications of this clever reflective surface

115 Ed Mario
117 The Empty Balloon: card in balloon
123 KF + RO + EMa = Another Universal
129 Stilted Tilt
133 Mental Card Miracle
141 Expert Estimating the Aces

147 Balls In The Net: using four 1" rubber balls and a 24" black chiffon scarf
150 - The Two-Ball Pop-Up Move
152 - Handling and Performance
158 - Balls to Egg Finish

159 Mixed Macs: four Ace routine

185 More Cards
187 Zarrow Translating Deck
195 The Whispering Queen
199 The Prowling Jokers
209 Stopping Hofzinser
215 Location with a One-Way Back
219 The Classic Force
223 Underground Card Moves

231 The Benson Bowl

245 Miller & Malini
247 Basic English: card trick achieved by speaking only a sequence of seven, one word commands
251 Charlie’s First Card Trick
257 Covering Erdnase
261 Malini Side Steal
265 Thompson Side Steal
271 The Trick That Cannot Be Explained
275 Manuel’s Phantom Cigarette: full routine
281 Han Ping Chien: using five coins
287 The Vanishing Glass: through the table
293 Miller Cups and Balls
301 Sugar Cube Assembly

309 The Egg Bag
312 - The Bag
313 - The Egg
315 - Presentation
315 - Thompson Egg Bag Script
318 - Handling and Performance
335 - The Malini Toss
336 - Charlie Miller's Devil's Hank Addition
337 - Act In A Bag
337 - Switching the Bag
338 - The Tomsoni Egg Bag
328 - The Polish Bag