Close-up Magic of the Masters
by Jack Flosso

Pet secrets of some of the most celebrated close-up magicians of all time.

• Preface: Close-Up Magic by Bert Allerton
• What Makes a Trick by Al Baker
• Bottoms Down by Al Baker
• Mobilizing the Aces by Dai Vernon
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief by Dai Vernon
• Convening Kings by Francis Carlyle
• The Squeeze-Away Coin by Ross Bertram
• And the Part of a Garment by Emil Jarrow
• Card Effect With Two Packs by Nate Leipzig
• The Disconcerting Coins by Cliff Green
• Precognition by Cliff Green
• Scarne's Power of Thought by John Scarne
• The Coin Roll Vanish by Paul LePaul
• The Revolving Pass by Slydini
• Jacob's Ladder by Dr. Jacob Daley
• The Salt Trick by Dr. Jacob Daley
• Pop-Up Coins by S. Leo Horowitz
• A Quarter and a Half by Mohammed Bey
• Two New Ball Sleights by George Starke
• The Fist Coin Routine by Arthur Punnar
• A New Card Change by Tommy Dowd
• The Kaplan Coin Transposition by George G. Kaplan
• Wandering Walnuts by Joseph Keen
• Name Your Number by Bert Allerton
• Coins Through the Table by Dai Vernon
• A Knotty Interlude
• A Rope Cutting Tie-Up by Francis J. Rigney
• New Thimble Vanish by Frank J. Rigney
• Novel Card and Cigarette Trick by Lu Brent
• Ballantine Color Change by Amazing Ballantine
• Table Magic

1st edition ~1980; PDF 35 pages.
word count: 29222 which is equivalent to 116 standard pages of text