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Misdirection for Magicians (used)Dariel Fitzkee Softcover stapled. Cover soiled. For details on content see the digital edition. | 2020 / 1 / 9 | $10.00 to wish list |
Rings In Your Fingers (used)Dariel Fitzkee Green hardcover pictorial embossed. Inside cover with exlibris of Charles L. Rulfs. For details on the content see the digital edition. | 2020 / 1 / 9 | $20.00 to wish list |
Misdirection for MagiciansDariel Fitzkee This is an early version of what would eventually become Magic by Misdirection.
A detailed analytical treatment of the principles and methods. Explores the psychological basis and its adaptation to the performance of magic. Many detailed ruses included covering the entire field. How to develop misdirection to fit all situations. What it is and how it works. The first concrete work on a subject that is common to all effects and all performers.
- ALDEBERONTICITISFICIFORMLO, ALSO ABRACADABRA
- SHEPHERD'S GLASS TRICK
- "OH, I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO LOOK AT IT!"
- THE LEVITATION
- MISDIRECTION
- THE INGREDIENTS OF MISDIRECTION
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| 2019 / 9 / 9 | $5.00 to wish listPDF |
Rings In Your FingersDariel Fitzkee A complete text on methods, mechanical devices, moves, techniques, figures, artifices, routines, etc., for performing one of the great classics in the repertoire of magic. It includes modern improvements, suggestions and ideas, together with routines eliminating the use of the key.
- INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
- The Effect
- The Presentation
- The Fundamental Methods
- The Apparatus
- The Arrangement of the Rings
CHAPTER TWO
- The Drop Count
- The Pass Count
- The Wrist Count
- The Odin Count
- The Fitzkee Count
- A Variation of the Fitzkee Small Ring Count
- The Fitzkee Large Ring Count
- Another Original...
| 2018 / 11 / 29 | $12.00 to wish listPDF |
The Only Six Ways to Restore a Rope (Rope Eternal)Dariel Fitzkee Create your own custom versions of the popular cut and restored rope effect.
Dariel Fitzkee applied his world-renowned Trick Brain method to completely analyze and dissemble the Cut and Restored Rope effect into its basic components. Fitzkee's patient explanations and diagrams examine the six basic principles of all rope, cord and string effects, allowing the clever performer to pick and choose the methods that best fit his or her performing style to develop diabolically clever and unique rope routines.
Along the way, you'll learn the secrets to several past and present commercial rope effects that... | 2018 / 1 / 23 | $4.00 to wish listPDF |
Jumbo Card ManipulationDariel Fitzkee In this ebook Dariel Fitzkee translates a range of moves and sleights from regular sized cards to jumbo sized cards. You will be surprised how many moves can actually be done with jumbo cards.
1st edition 1929, PDF 31 pages; illustrated
- Contents
- Preface
- Giant Cards
- My Own Pass
- My Own Pass
- The Pack
- A Stripper Principle
- An Added Feature
- Two Reversing Ideas
- Handling The Giant Cards
- Shuffling Giant Cards
- The Riffle Shuffle
- A Reversing Principal
- Riffle Shuffle
- Springing The Cards
- Other Flourishes
- The Snap
- Other Sleights
- Another Pass
- The Screened Vanish
- To Regain Card
- The...
| 2009 / 6 / 11 | $8.00 to wish listPDF |
Linking Ring ManipulationDariel Fitzkee This is an important work on linking rings. It includes Fitzkee's "The Oriental Rings" routine.
34 pages
- Contents
- Preface
- The Old Routine
- Methods Of Gaining Possession Of Concealed Key Ring
- The Box Method
- The Japanese Basket
- The Newspaper
- The Table
- The Handkerchief
- Other Concealments
- Body Concealment
- The Oriental Rings
- The Apparatus
- Preparation
- The Presentation
- The Wrist Count
- The Drop Count
- The Single Ring Count
- An Exchange
- A Namreh Solid Ring Move
- The Clash Link
- Key Steal
- Laurant's Clash
- Triple Chain Substitution
- To Remove The Center From The Triple Chain
- The...
| 2009 / 5 / 19 | $7.00 to wish listPDF |
The Trick BrainDariel Fitzkee This is book two from Fitzkee's trilogy and is unlike any other book ever written on magic. It was the first book (and to my knowledge the only book) to attack magic methods from a scientific standpoint. Fitzkee develops here a classification of effects, from appearances to vanishes, and then describes a system to invent or develop new trick plots. This is an invention system. I would say it is one way to invent new trick plots. But even if you are not of the scientific sort, the classification and discussion of magic effects and methods is a tremendous resource to expand your horizon and think... | 2006 / 8 / 12 | $9.00 to wish listPDF |
Magic by MisdirectionDariel Fitzkee This volume, book three in the trilogy, is all about the psychology in magic. Mechanics alone, a sleight or move, are not sufficient to produce a strong magic effect. Dexterity by itself is more like juggling. Only if misdirection, the psychological aspect of deception, is added into the mix, will one be able to create a truly magic experience.
There aren't many good works on misdirection. This is one of the must read ebooks, a classic in the theory of magic. A shorter but modern discussion of misdirection can be read in Pocket Power by Jarle Leirpoll.
- INTRODUCTION
- Which is the cart and which is the horse
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| 2006 / 8 / 11 | $9.00 to wish listPDF |
Showmanship for MagiciansDariel Fitzkee Dariel Fitzkee authored one of the best trilogies on magic theory. This volume, book one in the trilogy, primarily deals with theoretical aspects of a magic performance. This book has been cited numerous times and is one of the standard works every serious magician should read. Fitzkee has a very analytical mind and describes his thoughts clearly. As with any theory not everyone will agree with every detail and every suggestion. Regardless of if you fully subscribe to Fitzkee's thinking or not, there is plenty to learn from his writings.
Here is what others had to say about this book, when... | 2006 / 8 / 10 | $9.00 to wish listPDF |
Contact Mind Reading ExpandedDariel Fitzkee The original edition of this book was selected among the best books of 1935 by John Mulholland, editor of The Sphinx. Contact mind reading or 'muscle reading' is probably the next best thing to genuine mind reading. It doesn't require any gimmicks, codes or confederates. It is based on involuntary subtle clues spectators give. This is one of the best texts ever written on this subject.
1st edition, 1935; expanded edition, 1945; 38 pages.
- Introduction. By C. A. George Newmann.
- Preface. By Dariel Fitzkee.
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four.
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
... | 2005 / 9 / 10 | $15.00 to wish listPDF |