$19.50(4 customer ratings) ★★★★★
This is one of the most important books on stage illusions. Many experts consider it among the best 10 illusion books ever published - some even have it in their top three. Besides describing a list of startling illusions Guy Jarrett mixes in stories about show business and there in particular his opinion about some of the big names in magic. Particular Howard Thurston receives a lashing from Jarrett. This book has a refreshing honesty and directness that is missing from most other magic books. Jarrett even describes a few card effects and other parlor tricks he has performed.
Unfortunately the book has also a couple of real problems which were to a good degree caused by Guy Jarrett typesetting, printing and binding it all by himself. His spelling is sometimes quite 'adventurous'. He uses unusual abbreviations and the sequence of illustrations has very little to do with where they are referenced in the book.
To improve on the readability and correct these formatting deficiencies we have fixed some of the most disturbing spelling errors and we have reordered the illustrations to make them appear where, or close to where, they are referred to. This ebook is also formatted for convenient viewing and reading on mobile devices.
1st edition 1936, 1st digital edition 2013, 172 pages
Table of Contents
- I Say
- Twenty-one People Cabinet Production
- - Presentation on a clear stage
- - The explanation
- Sawing A Woman In Two
- My Sawing
- Sawing An Egg
- The Bangkok Bungalow
- Easel - Pedestal, in the G. V. Follies
- The Charlatan
- Zeno
- Easel and Star Trap
- Bottle Box
- Flower Cone
- Curtained Cabinet Without A Base
- Creo
- Buried Alive
- Floating Table
- Thru A Jail Window
- Walk Out Of A Rope Tie
- Plank And Chains
- Water Barrel Escape
- Grandfather's Mirror Illusion
- Sack And Bolt Escape
- A Camel Back Trunk
- Coat, Hat And Sphinx Table
- Fefi, Streets of Paris Chicago Fair
- Tenagra - Little Venus on the Half-shell
- Shuttle Table For Pigeons
- Otto Hornman's Own Ring Move
- Catching A Live Pigeon In The Air
- A Free Walking Figure
- Sheet Metal Box
- Vanishing Polly Cage
- Water Tank Escape
- Girl, Boy And Sack
- Whirling Tire
- Coat Tie
- Magic In The Chicago Fair
- Life Show
- The Micro Show
- Telling Time
- Matches And Steel Bar
- Dilger's Candle Stick
- Ghost Show
- Lambs Blood
- The Nightingale And The Rose
- Thurston's Patented Steamship
- Spear And Arrow In Crane Wilbur Drama
- Spirit Paintings
- Frozen In A Cake Of Ice
- David Devant
- Dracula
- Kellar Show To Thurston
- Ching Ling Foo
- Women Magi
- The Old Pipe Trick
- Cigarette Vanish
- Coin Vanish
- Coin Feke
- Illusions From World Renowned Inventors
- Improved Old Illusions
- Girl Without A Middle
- Up Side Down
- Substitution Trunk
- Belasco's Mimi
- Sample Spectator Of A Magic Show
- Moving Pictures With Perspective
- Vanishing Auto
- Vanishing Elephants
- The Kid Show Attractions
- - Hole in the tongue
- - Martha
- - Lentini
- - Jean
- - Half man and half woman
- - Chastity Belt
- Revolving Cabinet
- Bewitched
- Boaconstrictor
- Strippers
- Instantaneous
- "Knock 'em dead."
- A positive mind read
- The Fall Of Show Business
- Fish Bowl Table
- Levitation
- Puzzles
- Magic Show
- Not how books are usually published
word count: 47065 which is equivalent to 188 standard pages of text 
