Creative World of Conjuring

This may well be Booth's most surprising book. A veritable treasure chest packed into 284 stunning pages. 100 photographs/illustrations including first portrait of Erdnase/Andrews published in magic literature.Half of this volume discloses professional stand up tricks for your show, and simple close up effects to amaze your friends. Patter included for most.Second half loaded with performing tips, startling information about Cardini, Kellar, Erdnase, biography and history, never before published. Insights from Booth's personal contacts with Thurston, Blackstone, Germain, Calvert, Allan Shaw, Fu Manchu, Edgar Bergen, Henning and others.Learn: Inside the TV World: Opportunities for You, Magic's Debt to Canadian Magicians, Tricks to Make Reputations, On Inventing Tricks and Illusions, Adding Sparkle to Wizardry.Editor Goodliffe once wrote of Booth's writings: "The reader gets the benefit of the wisdom of one of the most remarkable figures in magic during the last half century."This 16 chapter book is introduced by Paul Daniels, Britains foremost magician. Strikingly jacketed, hardbound in linen finish cloth, acid free paper, a book you'll cherish. Fast direct service.