The Original Stars Of Magic (Singapore Magic Circle Forums)

Title: The Original Stars Of Magic
Description: NEW EDITION!

qureyoon - September 9, 2008 01:20 AM (GMT)

The best and most influential book on Close-Up Magic is back!

If you have not read and learned the magic contained in this book you have no business calling yourself a close-up magician. The magic by John Scarne, Dai Vernon, Bert Allerton, S. Leo Horowitz, Emil Jarrow, Francis Carlyle, Dr. Jacob Daley, Tony Slydini, Ross Bertram, Nate Leipzig, and Max Malini helped shape the art of close-up magic as we know it.

It has often been said that mastering the magic in this book will make you an accomplished close-up and sleight-of-hand artist. In many ways it contains all the magic you need to build a professional caliber repertoire. Many have earned a living performing these routines and now you can too.

The finest edition of the Stars Of Magic ever offered. 41 incredible routines, 11 incredible artists, 378 professionally enhanced photographs, 176 pages, hardcover. Features a new historical introduction and a bonus section with private correspondence related to the Stars Of Magic.

Written/Edited by George Starke with photographic interpretation George Karger this new edition is by far the best produced with crystal clear photographs printed on glossy paper and bound in a beautiful four-color laminated hardcover. Each book is also individually shrinkwrapped.

Only US $35.00 postpaid in the U.S. / or US $42.00 postpaid anywhere in the world.
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Most of the routines were originally sold as separate manuscripts. Purchased separately they would have cost you $98. Below are their original descriptions:

John Scarne
Series 1, No. 1: John Scarne's Classic Ball Routine
Series 1, No. 2: John Scarne's Triple Coincidence
Series 1, No. 3: John Scarne's Silver And Copper Trick

Dai Vernon
Series 2, No. 1: Dai Vernon's Triumph
Series 2, No. 2: Dai Vernon's Cutting The Aces
Series 2, No. 3: Dai Vernon's Spellbound
Series 2, No. 4: Dai Vernon's Kangaroo Coins

Bert Allerton
Series 3, No. 1: Bert Allerton's Pump Room Phantasy
Series 3, No. 2: Bert Allerton's Bamboozle

S. Leo Horowitz
Series 3, No. 3: S. Leo Horowitz's Malini-Bey Chink a Chink
Series 3, No. 4: S. Leo Horowitz's The Egyptian Ball Mystery

Jarrow
Series 3, No. 5: Jarrow's Hanky-Panky
Series 4, No. 1: Francis Carlyle's Decapitation

Francis Carlyle
Series 4, No. 2: Francis Carlyle's Homing Card
Series 4, No. 3: Francis Carlyle's Wrist Watch Steal

Dai Vernon
Series 5, No. 1: Dai Vernon's Impromptu Cups And Balls
Series 5, No. 2: Dai Vernon's Ambitious Card
Series 5, No. 3: Dai Vernon's Mental Card Miracle
Series 6, No. 1: Dai Vernon's The Ring On The Wand
Series 6, No. 2: Dai Vernon's Slow-Motion Four Aces
Series 6, No. 3: Dai Vernon's The Travelers

Dr. Jacob Daley
Series 7, No. 1: Dr. Jacob Daley's Cards Up The Sleeve
Series 7, No. 2: Dr. Jacob Daley's The Itinerant Pasteboards
Series 7, No. 3: Dr. Jacob Daley's The Cavorting Aces

Slydini
Series 8, No. 1: Slydini's Cigarette Miracle
Series 8, No. 2: Slydini's Flight Of The Paper Balls
Series 8, No. 3: Slydini's Flyaway Coin Routine

Ross Bertram
Series 9, No. 1: Ross Bertram On Coins: Rubdown, Double-Cross, Passing The Half-Bucks, The Porous Paw, Coin Assembly

Leipzig
Series 10: Vernon On Leipzig: Leipzig's Opener, Leipzig's Acrobats, Leipzig's Pride, Leipzig's Tear-Up With A Twist

Malini
Series 11: Vernon On Malini: Malini's Card Stabbing, Malini's Own Color Change, Malini's Favorite!

Dai Vernon
Lesson 1--Dai Vernon: Royal Monte

Tony Slydini
Lesson 1--Tony Slydini: The Art of Using the Lap as a Servante

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The Stars Of Magic book is considered by many to be the best book ever written about close-up magic and features some of the best creations from the leading magicians of the first half of the 20th century. Originally released by Stars of Magic, Inc. as separate manuscripts that sold in the 1940s and 1950s for around $5 each they were later bound in a hardcover edition by Louis Tannen, Inc. The rights to the monumental work were later purchased by D. Robbins & Co. and in September 2003 Meir Yedid Magic acquired the rights to the original and current editions.

Click for more descriptions on each routine and manuscripts here

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This is the best and most important book ever produced about close-up magic.
...Meir Yedid

The best tricks from the best magicians of the best period of close-up magic. I have studied every trick in the book and most of them are or have been part of my performing repertoire.
...Juan Tamariz

Very simply, one of the best books ever written on Close-Up Magic!
...Bill Malone

The Stars Of Magic may well be the best book of close up, sleight of hand magic I have ever read…and it will be one of the last you will pry from my cold, dead hands.
...John Carney

The Stars of Magic is one of the top five books in magic. It is a must-have for any magician and the tricks are priceless.
...Richard Kaufman

One of those rare books that both teaches and inspires. This is a book that becomes a part of you.
...David Regal

At least two of the greatest card tricks ever invented are here. You can't not have this book.
...John Bannon

Stars of Magic is truly the best from the best. No other book on close-up contains so many tricks that have become important classics.
...Rafael Benatar

This is one of the first and best magic books I ever bought. I highly recommend it.
...Paul Gertner

The Stars of Magic is one of the most seminal books in close-up magic. The effects within have inspired countless variations. Yet, in most cases, the originals are still great just as they are. You can't claim to be serious about close-up or card magic if you haven't studied this book.
...Darwin Ortiz

Stars of Magic is a goldmine that shines more brightly with each passing year.
...Max Maven

One of my favorite magic books of all time.
...Eugene Burger

I cannot think of a single book on the art of magic with more real world real working material than Stars of Magic. If your dream is to become a professional close up magician or just look like one, then Stars of Magic is for you.
...Eric DeCamps

I will always think of this as the first book I read that offered real secrets.
...Michael Weber

It's one of my favorite books of all time on any subject.
...Bob Farmer

Meir Yedid has done the next generation of Magicians a great service by reproducing this material in the way that it deserves and the historical information contained in the book will serve to let that next generation know that the history behind the magic is part of the magic itself.
...Steven Youell

If I was going to sell my huge magic library and keep only one book, it would be the bound volume of the original Stars of Magic. There is not a trick is there that is not a masterpiece!
...Harvey Rosenthal

Nothing finer in magic than this collection of superb magic. Each effect is a reputation builder. Get it now.
...Max Holden

I can think of perhaps four magic books that EVERYONE wanted and needed when I was much, much, younger. Stars of Magic was on top of that list.
...Harry Lorayne

Here's the creme de la creme of the magic world by its leading performers. The absolute ultimate in the impromptu, sleight of hand, no special props category.
...Tony Corinda

The "Stars" was way ahead of its time and these tricks have withstood the test of time.
...Howard Schwarzman

What a glittering array of talent and what a sparkling collection of magical gems! Show me the man who has mastered these constellations and I'll show you an outstanding closeup performer.
...J.G. Thompson. Jr.

A sumptuously produced book of the best close-up magic of top close-up performers. First-class magic with coins, cigarettes, cards, balls, etc., etc.
...Goodliffe

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