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The Legendary Kabbala (1971-1981) (used)Jon Racherbaumer Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new condition. For details on the content see the digital edition. | $150 to wish list |
The Legendary Kabbala (1971-1981)Jon RacherbaumerThe meaning of Kabbala, translated from Hebrew, means something received and handed down. This definition resonates. Knowledge of magic, after all, is handed down from generation to generation, from magician to magician, and from teacher to disciple. Prior to xerography and personal computers, most magical knowledge was transmitted in this primitive, semi-private, and intimate means. Word-of-mouth reigned supreme and to a certain extent still does.
The magic scene in the Seventies was a blooming, buzzing place, atwitter with contentiousness and creativity. Close-up magic, particularly with... | ★★★★★ $49.50 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Sticks and Stones: a leaflet for the left handJon Racherbaumer Racherbaumer, a man of words - sometimes strong words, sometimes exotic words, sometimes provocative words, sometimes strange words - but always thoughtful and worth reading, wrote a two year column in The Greater Son of the Bat Jr. journal (S.O.B.jr.). All 24 installments of this column are collected here. You will find a lot of Marlo-vian talk, good tricks and interesting articles.
I was not a magician in the late 70s, so I cannot say how it was back then in the 'good old times', but reading Sticks and Stones allowed me to imagine how - I am sure - it must have been.
- EFFECTS ALPHABETICALLY
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Finessed ControlsJon Racherbaumer Controlling a card to the top or to the bottom is the most fundamental technique in card magic. Every card magician should have at least one good method to do that. Consequently many authors use the phrase "control card to the top/bottom with your preferred method" and leave the rest to the reader assuming that everyone already has his or her preferred method. While you might have your favorite method, the search for better ones never stops.
In this ebook Jon Racherbaumer describers several - as he calls them 'finessed' methods - to control a card to the top or to the bottom. You should find... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listPDF |
Marlo Without TearsJon Racherbaumer From the Foreword:
MARLO WITHOUT TEARS began as a flip notion five years ago. My original plan was to prepare a salmagundi of previously published material by Marlo that was easy to do; to select methods which stressed subtlety and psychological cunning and required no difficult sleights. There is a neat irony here because such material is not associated with Marlo. The prevailing assumption about Marlovian magic focusses on its difficulties, complexities, and textual protraction. The look of his books are intimidating: pages of explanation, dense detail, allusions to other notes (published... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listPDF |
Timely TrickeryJon Racherbaumer While we all intuitively understand what time is, even a child can tell you what time it is, it is a hard concept to fully understand from a scientific point of view. It is hard to define, and wrap your head around. That is part of the intrigue of making it the topic of a magic effect. Particularly for an interested and sophisticated audience it can be a very effective plot line. Jon Racherbaumer explores how magicians have made use of it over the decades, and he has unearthed some remarkable gems.
- Preface
- Foreword
- An Unusual Plot Emerges
- The Charmed Watch
- Charles Wicks
- Precursors
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The Ascanio SpreadJon Racherbaumer The Ascanio Spread is a beautiful false display move, generally used to display 4 cards and hide a fifth one.
From the Introduction:
The Ascanio Spread immigrated to this country from Amsterdam. Del Cartier, Herb Zarrow, Mike Rogers, and Pete Biro were instrumental in bringing this technique to America. In fact, Del Cartier is a close personal friend of Ascanio and was the go-between in obtaining the original Ascanio manuscript for Mike Rogers, who in turn passed it on to me.
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- To Begin
- Racherbaumer Variation
- Some Comments On The Mechanics Of The...
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Elevation OvationsJon Racherbaumer Although Marlo is generally credited with the Elevator plot, analysis of the action steps taken in the Four Burglars,
Jacob's Ladder, and Marlo's Penetration exhibit procedural similarities and could be presented as "elevating tricks" if accompanying patter expressed the "elevator" analogy. As far as the "elevator" trope is concerned, we can credit Bill Simon for naming rights.
- Part One: The Burglazing Beginning
- Introduction
- Gibson Puts Perps On Parade
- Rising Crime / Daryl Martinez
- Rising Robbers / Jon Racherbaumer
- Four Burglas / Jerry Mentzer
- Mystery Of The Penthouse / Nick Trost
- Burglar Trick / Nick...
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Analects and AnaloguesJon Racherbaumer Ten card mysteries Annemann would have loved.
This book was part of a two-person three-hour lecture session given by Harry Anderson that Jon gave at a Daytona Magic Conference.
Excerpt from the foreword:
Anneman believed that the effect is the most important thing and, to paraphrase Vince Lombardi, the effect is the only thing.
Anneman believed, as deists believe in a god, that a magician must do something extraordinary with the ordinary…and what is demonstrated must also have no practical use or relevance in the real world. It is a demo, not an application of real power.
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At the TableJon Racherbaumer Beautiful close up magic by Jon Racherbaumer, John Cornelius, Roger Klause, Ed Marlo, Jim Hunter, Steve Draun, Eddie Adams, Lee Fried, Chuck Smith, Phil Goldstein, Tom Mullica, and Simon Aronson. Here is magic that is unique and that you will not see in other books. The ebook is divided into chapters on Coins, Cards, Linking Pins, Mental Magic, and Diversions. You will find such unusual items as Marlo's complete presentation of the Color Vision box, Racherbaumer's close up Miser's Dream, Marlo work on Linking Pins, Cornelius' Coins thru Table, Mullica's version of Jarrow's Cig thru Hanky, and more. The section on card magic (mostly Marlo... | ★★★★★ $18 to wish listPDF |
Picnic PocusJon Racherbaumer This manuscript is about one trick that incorporates a seminal sorting procedure now given the name Belcho's Disbursive Deal. Over the years the trick eventually morphed into an organized compilation that shares the same identifiable title: "Poker Player's Picnic."
It begins with Vernon Lux, an enterprising amateur who founded the International Society of Junior Magician in 1931 and began a magazine called The Dragon in 1932. Therein Oscar Weigle had a column called "Themes and Schemes" where he explained a trick called "The Million to One Trick." (Later it was changed to
"Belchou's Aces.") It's unclear... | ★★★★★ $18 to wish listPDF |
Dunbury DelusionsJon Racherbaumer
"It is one of the very best tricks which can be done for close-up work." - Hugard and Braue from Show Stoppers With Cards
From the Foreword:
The Dunbury Delusion has an illustrious pedigree that has been up, down, and all around the magic scene for at least 100 years. Charlie Miller's method that was published in Expert Card Technique in 1940, more or less branded his name on it, but seven year earlier Victor Farelli published a modified version ("The Partagas Sell") in Farelli's Card Magic. He did not claim paternity but credited a Spanish magician named Partagas who apparently taught him the trick in 1908.
Basic Plot:
A selection "lost" in a deck is successfully found by using three... | ★★★★★ $16 to wish listPDF |
Muscle Moves: A Crash-Course in Powerful CardmanshipJon Racherbaumer [Note: Despite all the rumors the cover does not show Jon in his younger years.]
This is an ebook about moves, card moves to be precise. If you are already familiar with the basics of card magic then you will find here a lot of advanced moves and concepts to significantly improve your magic. If you are an experienced veteran of card magic you will probably still find some moves you are unfamiliar with. It is also a great reference ebook to have in case you run one day into any of these moves. The moves are described in text and photos with references and sources in the usually meticulous Racherbaumer style.
- Adding To Vernon (Jon Racherbaumer)
- The Altman Trap (Art...
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Marlo on Card to WalletJon Racherbaumer This treatise is a compilation of Marlo's methods for performing a card-to-wallet, incorporating his Exclusive Card in Wallet (1961) with methods published in Ibidem, [lc=4446 Hierophant, Card Finesse, Marlo's Magazine, and other previously unpublished but related methods. This material was discovered in a thick folder among Marlo's private effects.
The idea of causing a selection to disappear from the deck and then reappear elsewhere is almost as old as playing cards. Reinhard Müller has painstakingly researched the basic effect classified as "Card Found in Some Object," which was being performed (in some form)... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Marlo's Chameleon AcesJon Racherbaumer The basic plot of the "Chamele Aces" was developed in the late 40s by Edward Marlo, who shared ideas about this motif with Neal Elias in 1949. Elias wrote notes regarding the methods they explored, which he and Marlo then filed away. Neither published the "work;" however, Marlo performed an impromptu version at a Pittsburgh magic convention in 1955. Earlier the same year, Roy Walton published his version of "Chamele Aces" in The Gen (February-1955: Volume 10 - Number 10).
The basic Chamele Aces plot is four red-back and four blue-back Aces transpose one at a time.
1st edition 2008; 80 pages.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A World About Problemists
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Definitive Slip CutJon Racherbaumer Slip Cuts play a vital role in "Cutting to the Aces," a presentation auspiciously introduced in Stars of Magic (1946). Dai Vernon's handling sparked lots of interest when it first appeared, providing strong incentive to master the Slip Cut. Cardini, who also knew a great trick when he saw one, strongly endorsed Vernon's presentation:
"To lovers of outstanding card magic I heartily recommend 'Cutting the Aces.' It is showy and mystifying, more so than you would think a card trick could possibly be."
Therefore, this treatise begins with explanations of three versions of Ace-Cutting. This may induce... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Arch TriumphsJon Racherbaumer Every card magician will know the Triumph effect:
The performer is recklessly and haphazardly mixing cards face up and face down. Then, without warning
or manipulation, this entire disorder is instantly corrected. All of the cards face the same way except for a selection.
The most famous routine is Dai Vernon's "Triumph" originally published in Stars of Magic. However, he probably was influenced by other similar effects that came before. One such routine is Sid Lorraine's "Slop Shuffle".
Jon Racherbaumer will take you through the history of this wonderfully visual effect and will explain and discuss the many... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Big Easy Card CunningJon Racherbaumer These are all self-working or very easy to perform effects.
One item that I would like to highlight is the Klutz Force, because it is on the same skill level as the popular Criss-Cross force, which is frequently used in self-working effects. With the Klutz Force you have an alternative that has a different feel and procedure.
- Simplex Physical & Mental
- Telephenomenal
- 21 And Then Some
- Guesstimation City
- Marked Calculation
- What Is the Question?
- Easy Prefiguration
- Klutzy Forces
- Hobson Chooses Again
- Punch-Line Division
- Simple Sync
- Is Your Pants On Fire?
- Made In the Shade
- No-Clue
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Streamlining DiscernmentsJon Racherbaumer A treatise on how to determine a thought of card.
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Centric DoublesJon Racherbaumer This is a detailed and thoroughly researched work on double lifts taken from the center of the deck, or so called center double lifts.
A double lift is one of the hardest moves to do well and at the same time one of the most practical and useful moves in magic. One strategy to make a double lift more deceptive is to take two cards from the center rather than from the top of the deck. The downside of this strategy is that the utility of the move is reduced. Nevertheless, for the expert card handler it is worthwhile to study these types of double lifts and acquire one or two versions for one's... | $15 to wish listPDF |
Antics and Interludes: Contextual Card CozenageJon Racherbaumer Classic Racherbaumer. I had to use the dictionary twice just to make it past the title :-) If you don't learn any card magic you will certainly expand your vocabulary. But I am sure you will learn a good amount of very thoughtful pieces.
From the introduction:
Can we then agree that Card Antics consist of novel actions, cute bits, and amusing maneuvers? This is what happens when cards jump, rise, change, multiply, disappear, reappear, penetrate, spin, and so forth. Aren't Card Antics meant to provoke delight and bewilder?
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Jonah PloysJon Racherbaumer This manuscript explores hybrids of the Jonah Card Principle. Beyond that it hopes to draw attention to this fascinating motif and perhaps inspire further research and development.
- THE FOUR QUEENS (Bill Simon)
- MEN FROM THE BOYS (Colm Mulcahy - Bill Simon)
- ODD YET PREDICTABLE (Jon Racherbaumer)
- SPIN-OFFS of WINKLER'S COIN PUZZLE
- NO-JONAH POKER (Jon Racherbaumer)
- (LOSING) END POKER (Jon Racherbaumer)
- OUROBOROS (Jack Parker)
- DOUBLE PREDICTION JONAH POKER (Jon Racherbaumer)
- STRONG CIDER (Edward Marlo - Jon Racherbaumer)
- THE JONAH IN THE HARRY'S POCKET (Jon Racherbaumer)
- EMPOWERING POKER A BIT MORE (Jon...
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The Hierophant 1 and 2Jon Racherbaumer Issue 1:
- Proem
- Marlo Handles the Open Prediction (10 Variations, 15 Methods)
- Addition to Marlo's "Matching Miracle"
- Heldman's out of this World Clean-Up
- Estimations: Faro Fantasy, Finagling, and Paul Swinford
- The Satiricon
- Cardmanship
- Footnote to Ferris
- Mirabile Dictu
- Excerpt from a Dialogue Overheard at a Convention
- Postscript
Issue 2:
- New Fangled Glimpse Anthology
- If Glimpse
- Fi Glimpse
- Spring Glimpse
- Neo-Piquant Glimpse
- Marlo's Beveled Deck Glimpse
- Turn Around Center Glimpse
- Marlo Stalks the Ultimate Sandwich
- Marlo's "Collectors"
- Alternatives for the "Collectors"
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The Hierophant 3 and 4Jon Racherbaumer Issue 3:
- Major Arcana
- Hurley's Chinese Enigma
- Repeat Signed Card To Case
- Signature Transposition
- Simplex or Comples
- Minor Arcana
- Cervon's Dealing the Flush
- Allan Ackerman's The Fickle Card's Fingered Fate
- The Professor's Incubus
- Card-Nundrums
- Roy Walton's Friendly Persuasion
- 3 to the power of 2 Deal Duplicated
- The Satiricon
- La Fleury, Pagan Cardicienne
- Dove Droppings From All Over
- Ask the Millwright
- Olram Returns
- Convincing Control
- Marlo on the Charlier Pass
- Variant of Hit Second Deal
- The Surprise Packet
- Signed Card In ...
- No-turn Triumph
- Tilt Collectors
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The Hierophant 5 and 6Jon Racherbaumer Issue 5:
- Publisher's Palaver
- Hurley's Automatic Boston Box
- Coin Concatenation
- Ambush
- An Easy Ambush
- A Clean Ambush
- Let's Ambush and Kill "The Collectors"
- Dingle's "Collectors"
- All You Had To Do Was Watch And Still You're Not Happy
- "Collect Double"
- Marlo's Visual Retention Change
- Marlo's Technical Variation of the Veeser Concept
- Almost Like Trick Cards
- Estimations
- The "Too Perfect" Theory
- Dunbury's Delusions
- Riffs of Henry Christ
- A Dialogue with Merritt
- The Satiricon
- Further Cardmanship - part two
Issue 6:
- Notes on a Miracle
- Have Another Sandwich
- Variation...
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Red-Hot Mamas: 17 Ways and MeansJon Racherbaumer This manuscript is a compilation of methods in order to identify and track its history. In the process, it hopes to show how a given trick evolves, sometimes devolves, and ultimately reflects the periods of time this process has occurred.
The trick in this case is the "Red-Hot Mama" or "The Chicago Opener," a presentation that has been around for
almost 60 years and has been a useful, dependable and enduring workhorse.
In its basic form it is an effect where a card is selected. Its back changes color and is set aside. A second card is selected, lost in the deck, and the initial selection... | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Facsimile 5Jon Racherbaumer
- Last Card to Laugh (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Sounds of Silence?
- Face Value?
- Elevated Elevator (Edward Marlo, Frank Garcia)
- Shiner Notes (Files of Jon Racherbaumer)
- Remembrance of Things Passed (Jon Racherbaumer)
- About a Procedure for the Clock Trick (Jon Racherbaumer)
- The Cardini Control (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Niggling Narrativity (Jon Racherbaumer)
- New-And-Clear Force (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Bare-Faced Boys With Decks In Hand (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Impromptu Casino Shuffle (Gene Castillon)
- Notes on Peek Decks
- Marlo's Spread Lift (Edward Marlo)
- Magic: On the Edge: Trick-Soup For Dummies? (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Constructive Criticism
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Hull-A-Palooza: 25 Devilish Strategies of DivinationJon Racherbaumer From the Preface:
Conjurers (as entertainers) are agents of simulated magical phenomenon. And most theorists would likely agree that such simulations should be direct and powerful. For example, the phenomenon is prophesying a mentally selected card, begins when the agent writes down or verbalizes a prediction beforehand. Next, a spectator names a card and, finally, the named card matches the predicted card. This magical result, as just described, is almost tantamount to telling a person what they are thinking as they are thinking it. This is an ideal outcome.
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Facsimile 6Jon Racherbaumer Includes a more clarified explanation of Marlo's "Super Count" routine, and a lot more.
- Frank Shields: Bits And Pieces
- Super-Counting Caper
- Tabled Bottom Placement
- Gutting The Glut
- Everybody Is A Magician
- Re-Rereading
- Quick Note For The Cow-Pawed, Gibblefisted,
- Scram-Handed, Ballock-Handed,
- Keg-Handed And Cack-Handed Brethren
- Shades Of Ricky Jay
- The Credit Game
- Magic As Stamp Collecting?
- Marlo And The Second-Dealing Monkey
- Remembering Al Koran
- Guess What?
- Color Monte Notes
1st edition 2017, 70 pages. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
Facsimile 4Jon Racherbaumer
- Introduction
- Charlie Miller's Material in Expert Card Technique
- A Glimpse through the Fourth-Wall Window
- Uncontrolled Prediction (Edward Marlo)
- Indecent Exposure?
- Numero Trois (Blair Bowling)
- Breathing Heavy (Blair Bowling)
- Hofzinser, Carried Away (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller)
- Putting a Placement in Its Place
- Wee Madness in Vegas
- Yakety-Yak (Don't Talk Back)
- Footnotes to a Book-In-Limbo
- Busby Follies Redux
- "F" Is For Fake
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Oil and QueensJon Racherbaumer The oil and water effect is a classic of card magic, some love it, some hate it. If one has ever seen Rene Lavand do it slow motion with one hand you probably love it. But there is only one Rene Lavand. Some say the effect of red and black cards separating is rather weak, until Roy Walton added a kicker in 1969 where half the cards change to Queens. Dave Bendix tweaked Walton’s handling. Bob Stencil and Terry LaGerold devised a narrative that logically excused the surprise appearance of the Queens. Jon Racherbaumer and Jeff Busby independently expanded the kicker to not only change half the... | $15 to wish listPDF |
The Last HierophantJon Racherbaumer Impromptu Effects
- One Fantastic Move (Edward Marlo)
- The Joker Reads Minds (Edward Marlo)
- One Thru Four Elevator (Dave Solomon)
- You Did It Again! (Edward Marlo)
- You Did It Again And Again! (Edward Marlo)
- Black-Hole Card Switcheroo (Edward Marlo)
- A Way Out (Danny Korem)
Strictly Technical
- Moving Monte Switch (Chuck Smith)
- Sleeper Shank Shuffle (Edward Marlo)
- The Marnase Change And Vanish (Edward Marlo)
- The Double Erdnase Change (Edward Marlo)
- Darting Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Center Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
- Marlo's Swivel Cull (Edward Marlo)
- Snap Pass (Jon Racherbaumer)
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Lazing: Lazy Man's Card TrickJon Racherbaumer This compilation, like my others, my goal is to discover the "bits and pieces" and in this particular case, to partially answer how and why The Lazy Man's Card Trick came into being?
- A Few Words Before You Begin
- Introduction
- An Inauspicious Beginning
- Origin Story: The Seed
- The Row of Ten Cards (S. W. Erdnase)
- About the Supposed Operative Principle
- Ziska's Incomprehensible Card Effect
- Incomprehensible Divination (Hilliard)
- Who Was Ziska?
- A Morphing Begins
- That Number Down (Doc Miller)
- The Traveling Card (Jack Miller)
- A Lazy Man Does a Card Trick (Al Koran)
- Lazy Man's Card Trick (Harry Lorayne)
- The Plot Resurfaces...
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