This is a fascinating combination of biographical detail and carefully described magical secrets researched and recorded by Dai Vernon and Lewis Ganson.
Vernon was an intimate friend of Leipzig. Vernon not only saw many performances given by Leipzig, but Leipzig also explained Vernon in detail how all of his tricks worked and how they are to be performed. Vernon recorded this in his notebooks from which this publication was prepared by Ganson and Vernon. It is therefore fair to say that this is as close as you will ever get to learn from Leipzig.
Leipzig was a gentelman of magic who could perform a close-up effect in the most intimate setting as well as command the largest stages in a style unlike any other.
1st edition 1963, PDF 192 pages.
Table of Contents
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- Leipzig's Card Sleights
- Colour Change
- Side Slip
- Peek Control
- The Pass
- Double Lift
- CHAPTER THREE
- Leipzig's Stage Act - 1: Thimble Routine
- CHAPTER FOUR
- Leipzig's Stage Act - 2: Colour Change Routine
- CHAPTER FIVE
- Leipzig's Stage Act - 3: Slap Four Ace Routine
- CHAPTER SIX
- Leipzig's Stage Act - 4: Card Locations
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- Leipzig's Stage Act - 5: Card Stabbing
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- Leipzig's Stage Act - 6: Twenty Card Trick
- CHAPTER NINE
- "A few grips with a Cane"
- CHAPTER TEN
- Tricks with Knots
- Fade-a-way Knot
- Handkerchief Off Wrist
- Double-Triple Knot
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- Coin Quickies
- Thumb Roll
- Coin Roll
- Boomerang Coin
- Balanced Coin
- "Right There!"
- Slow Motion Coin Vanish
- Coin from hand to hand
- Coin on the Knee
- Another Coin Vanish
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
- Coin Tricks
- Coin in Glass
- Copper and Silver Transposition
- Penny out of glass of Beer
- Leipzig's Pride
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN
- Off the Beaten Track
- The First Born Child
- Creation of Life
- Reading the Pencil
- Cigarette paper Prediction
- Tumbler Vanish
- Dice Moves
- Levitation of a Cigar or Cigarette
- Ring on Stick
- Vanish of Matches
- The Stretching Match
- Ball Vanish
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN
- Some Favourite Card Tricks
- Leipzig's Opener
- Acrobats
- Automatic Gambler
- Ambitious Card Quickie
- Mathematics
- Leipzig's Favourite Four Ace Trick
- The Matching-up Trick
- Bottom Card Change
- Twirl Cut
- Card Change
- Knife Glimpse
- Reverso
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
- Tricks with Faked Cards
- Sympathetic Thirteen
- Princess Card Trick
- The Magnetised Cards
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
- Peeked At
- Palm Up
- Turnabout
- Spring Card Location
- Card Through Handkerchief
- The Rising Card
- Stop Trick
- Card by Thought
word count: 41070 which is equivalent to 164 standard pages of text
