Tannen’s – Stars of Magic full series

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.

Most of the routines were originally sold as separate manuscripts. Purchased separately they would have cost you $98. Below are their original descriptions:

Series 1, No. 1: John Scarne’s Classic Ball Routine:
The effect is a bewildering series of magical appearances and disappearances of small balls. Starting out by taking a pinch of ashes from an ash tray, you cause ball after ball mysteriously to materialize, multiply and vanish. At the end of the routine, the balls become ashes once again.

Series 1, No. 2: John Scarne’s Triple Coincidence:
Using two ordinary decks with backs of different design, the spectator shuffles one deck while performer shuffles the other. At no time does performer tough spectator’s deck. Spectator cuts his deck three times, each time exchanging a card with the performer. When both ribbon-spread their decks, a miracle is accomplished