Complete Works Of Derek Dingle

TIME magazine has called Derek Dingle, "...the greatest card manipulator extant," and from his television appearances with Tom Snyder, Dick Cavett, Barbara Walters, and Mike Douglas to his many contributions to Genii, Apocalypse, The pallbearer's Review, Epilogue and Innovations he has consistently proven TIME to be correct: there is no one else like Derek Dingle.

There are over 120 items with cards, coins, and cigarettes in The Complete Works Of Derek Dingle, his first book in over a decade, and it's really two books in one. While containing the 60 or so classic routines which have already appeared in print, most of which he has substantially improved (the originals unavailable in out-of-print magazines), it also has about 60 never before released sleights, effects, and routines. Among them:

Four Handlings of The Classic Pass
Deluxe Double Color-Changing Aces
Ultra Clean Slot Machine
Two-Fisted Deck Switch
World's Fastest Card Under Glass
Super Floating Card
Copper Silver Brass (The Silent Steal)
Post It!
Inflation
Complete Torn and Restored Card
A Case of Kings
The Restoration Assembly (as performed by Doug Henning on TV)
Every nuance of technique, every line of patter, every ingredient that makes Derek's magic so special is captured by Richard Kaufman, on of magic's most innovative writers and illustrators. With over 11,000 words of text and 800 illustrations the very essence of Dingle's magic is clearly taught as never before.

Hardbound and Fully Illustrated 219 Pages

Doc Wayne's Art of Public Squeeking Book

The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel Harry Lorayne

There weren’t as many magic books available back in 1978 as there are now. But one thing was the same then as it is now - there weren’t/aren’t many magic books published that contained/contain really great stuff. Wonderful stuff! Usable stuff! To-die-over stuff! Yes, it was some time back. And if anything can be said to have stood the test of time, passed the test of time, it can be said of the ideas, effects, routines, in this book.

They are as fresh and stimulating, as clean and precise, as intriguing and clever, as exhilarating and important, today as they were then, and have been through the years. And, you’ll fool (and entertain) magicians and laymen with them now just as you could have done, or did, back then. Over eighty items broken down into nine exciting sections. I’ve heard and read, many times, that there is no better handling and description of the Classic Pass than there is in Section Seven of this book. Along with eleven other passes, including the Mechanical Reverse, which has become a standard of card handling, The K-E Pass (beautiful, and so easy to do), The One-Card Middle Pass, The Dribble Pass, and more. The Eerie Spin-Out which, if you’ll forgive a rusty platitude, is worth the price of the book even if you paid five times the established price. As I say in my Last Word, you’ll use it for the rest of your life; there’s no way you can put a price on it. You’ll find easy-to-do sleights like The Natural Double Lift, The Pressure Hideout, The Invisible Reverse Transfer. The One-Card Double Lift is an exquisite fooler. So is The Optical Sandwich, The Miracle Multiple Peek and, oh - The Magic Bullet! There’s One-Hand Stop - the spectator ‘stops’ at his own card, The Impromptu Haunted Deck and The Front Tilt - and Force-Eps, The Fan Steal, The Squeeze Steal, The Broadside Steal. Do you like to practice? Well, Section Eight includes Bottom, Center, and Second Deals - Ken’s handling, my teaching (if that means anything to you). I’ve added my two or three cents with an idea or two of my own and with my inevitable Afterthoughts.

I could go on and on, but I won’t. I’ve had so many calls, requests, for this book through the years, but it wasn't available. Aren’t you lucky - it is now!

This book features 15 complete routines of magic and comedy, guaranteed to get great audience reactions. You'll read Sammy Smith's complete patter, word-for-word, from start to finish for each effect. You'll learn how to say the patter -- when to pause and what tone of voice to use -- to get the best response. Of course, you'll want to adapt these routines to fit your own personality, but learning from the author's more than 20 years' experience in entertaining children will save you valuable time and give you crucial information on how to get big laughs from little people.

Routines range from original effects to new presentations of classics. You'll read Sammy's handling of time-tested classics such as Cut and Restored Rope, Multiplying Billiard Balls, and Miser's Dream. And you'll find his original effects such as Headband Blendo, all updated from the first edition of Big Laughs for Little People with the latest improvements for the 21st century! 

In addition to the kid-show routines, Sammy shares his best tips and advice for entertaining children, learned from literally thousands of performances. This is a textbook on entertaining children with comedy and magic which every kid-show performer should own and use. The comments which a prominent children's performer made about the original edition of this book are even more valid with this newly revised and updated edition: 

"Big Laughs for Little People gives readers an opportunity to go backstage with a real pro and watch the show from behind the scenes. In a word, the book is tremendous." -Fetaque Sanders 

Routines include: 

Headband Blendo (new version) Super Frog Vanishing Candle Snake Cake Bake Jasper the Friendly Ghost Skip It! (Cut and Restored Rope) The Magic Knot Tube (updated) The Extra-Celestial (hilarious puppet routine) Tricky Bottles (updated) Invisible Flying Silk Scarf Polar Thermometers Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus (Strat-O-Sphere) Maxwell the Monster (Soft Soap) Multiplying Billiard Balls Cash Surprises (coin routine) 

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