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Magician manual Henry Hay – The Amateur Magicians Handbook

Recognized classic magician manual , even David Copperfield on television also had recommended this .

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For more than a generationThe Amateur Magician’s Handbookhas been the acknowledged classic text for conjurers, both beginners and advanced. Even David Copperfield recommended it during one of his TV specials. Literally thousands of magicians found their love for magic through this book. Several of these magicians are today recognized performers. This fourth edition, expanded as well as thoroughly revised, and introduced by Milbourne Christopher, includes a section where the Amazing Randi contributes his experience using video for self-coaching.

This new edition teaches, briskly yet carefully, with hundreds of illustrations, all the skills and secrets of the wizard’s repertoire: reading minds, pulling rabbits from hats, turning red handkerchiefs green, dissolving konts, pouring drinks from empty jars, dealing yourself all the aces, finding silver dollars in the air, to name a few.

The Amateur Magician’s Handbookstands alone in showing how and why magic works as entertainment: how spectators think and how you must think, and feel, to make puzzling tricks pleasing.

A comprehensive new section covers the difficult but rewarding (and potentially profitable) art of entertaining children.

The final sections tell you what you need to know about conjuring beyond the tricks: comedy; pantomime; music An extensive bio-bibliography includes not only the great conjurers of the past but also the up-and-coming conjurers of today..

Lastly, author Henry Hay offers guidance on making magic make money for you. “If I hear of someone’s studyingThe Amateur Magician’s Handbookand then climbing out of the amateur class by getting paid for a show, “says Henry Hay,” I shall be satisfied. “

Table of Contents

pageIntroductionA Few Words Before Curtain Time1. The Magic State of Mind2. Hard Easy Tricks and Easy Hard Tricks3. Hand Magic with Cards4. Give Them a Rest – Tricks Where No Cards Are Chosen5. Please Take a Card – Standard Card Tricks6. Hand Magic with Coins7. The Miser’s Dream, and Other Great Coin Tricks8. Hand Magic with Billiard Balls9. The Multiplying Billiard Balls10. Other Hand Magic with Balls11. Hand Magic with Thimbles12. Hand Magic with Cigarettes13. Head Magic with Cards14. Varied Head Magic15. Silks16. Small Gimmicks and Fakes17. Standard Stuff18. Mental Magic19. Close-Up Performance20. Performing for Children21. Platform Magic22. How to Stage a Magic Show – Some Professional AdviceFurther Tricks and IllusionsBiography and BibliographyIndex1st edition 1950; 4th edition 1982; 424 pages