Diamond Jim Tyler: Close-Up Magic Secrets
Tyler, Diamond Jim: Close-Up Magic Secrets
©2000, 2011 Diamond Jim Tyler, Dover Publications, NY
Softcover, perfect-bound, 8.5x11", 176 pages
ISBN: 978-0-486-47891
Diamond Jim Tyler: Close-Up Magic Secrets
Courtesy Najee Williams, Hocus Pocus Focus

Comments: Photos by Jim and Kathy Tyler, edited by Robert Zafran and Dr. Sue Coffman. From the copyright page, "This Dover edition, first published in 2011, is a slightly corrected republication of the work originally published by Diamond Jim Productions, Irving, Texas, in 2000 under the title and subtitle Pockets Full of Miracles: Secrets from the Repertoire of a Professional Close-Up Magician."

Contents (from book ToC):

6 Introduction (Jeff Davis)
9 Foreword (Jon Racherbaumer)
11 A Night In the Life of Diamond Jim

13 The Gunslinger
18 New Age Spellbound
23 One-Armed Aces
27 The Hitchhiker
29 Baseball Diamond
32 The FBI Trick
39 Paperweight
43 Finger Ring and String
53 Soaring Straw
59 Comedy Shuffling Routine
63 Invisible Thumbscrews
65 Cat and Mouse
68 Fireball
72 Mathemagic
76 The Animated Cardbox
81 Three Burnt Matches
84 Burning Impression
87 Trapdoor Coins
91 Diamond Back
97 Reel Fun
101 Frog Hair
104 Sacring of Wicca
109 The Smoking Spoon
113 Diamond's Dazzler
116 Nimble Corks
119 Wise Guys Can't Count
121 Whatever It Takes
127 Pieces of Eight
138 The Birthday Bill

143 Glossary: definitions and longer entries that include working details. Most of those are listed below.
143 Bobo Switch
144 Break Force
145 Breather Card
145 Charlier Pass or Cut
146 Classic Palm
147 Click Pass
149 Cut Deeper Force
149 Double-Lift
150 Dovetail Shuffle
150 Down's Change
151 Dribbling Cards
152 Fanning Cards
153 French Drop
154 George Washington Flips Over Trick
155 Han Ping Chen
157 Hindu Shuffle
157 Hindu Shuffle Force
158 Kaps' Subtlety
158 Kelly Bottom Placement
161 Muscle Pass
162 Overhand Shuffle
164 Retention of Vision Vanish
165 Reversed Card Force
166 Ribbon Spreading
166 Riffle False Shuffle
168 Si Stebbins System
170 Slop Shuffle
171 Springing Cards
173 Swing False Cut
174 Walking a Coin

175 About the Author
176 Dover Books on Magic


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