Lewis Ganson products: page 4

Il grandissimo Lewis Ganson è stato un vero maestro nell’arte di descrivere e insegnare routines di grandi prestigiatori da tutto il mondo. Molti dicono che le sue spiegazioni dettagliate siano pari all’insegnamento in presenza. Le sue spiegazioni hanno il pregio di essere sempre chiare e accompagnate da foto esplicative. Oggi ti presentiamo, per la prima volta in italiano, la sua accurata e completa descrizione di una spettacolare routine di Aldo Colombini. Leggi attentamente perché, te lo assicuriamo, ne vale la pena.

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Excerpt from the introduction:

An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."

From the introduction:

This rare booklet contains some real gems. The routines are described concisely and with lots of clear photos.

• Introduction
• Fooling with Hoola Fooler
• A Ring and some rope
• Matched Up
• Card Production
• Phoa Yan Tiong's Cut and Restored Handkerchief
• Coin Manipulation
• Eddie Wards Card rise
• Quick Tricks
• Malini's Vanish of Note from a Handkerchief
• An effective routine for Equally Unequal Ropes
• Giant fans

Hardcover book in fair condition, no dust-jacket. Harry Stanley edition. Top edges of front and back cover have a larger nick. Has name and address of prior owner handwritten on front fly-leaf. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some minor damage on the lower edge and some minor soiling. Dust-jacket is protected by a clear cover that has been folded over it. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some damage but is protected by a clear cover that has been folded over it. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in good condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in good condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in very good condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in good condition. Cover has a crease. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Booklet stapled in very good condition.

Torn playing cards link together. It is a variation of Cardboard Connection by Paul Harris utilizing an alternate gaff. Photos and detailed description by Lewis Ganson. It also includes Jim Cozzens instructions for preparing the linked cards set.

1st edition 1981, 16 pages.

The reputation-making card routine with which John Blunt won the Premier Award of the London Society of Magicians for the best magical effect. Reviewing the effect, Claude Chandler wrote: "An original version of the Torn & Restored Card plus transposition etc. It is so original as to almost entirely conceal this fact. It gives us a series of new, interesting and baffling surprises, beautifully-routined. The cleverly worked-out methods make for clean presentation. Not the least of its merits and one that is valuable for close-up performance, is the fact that all evidence is disposed of and the...

Softcover stapled in good condition. Published by Supreme Magic. For details on contents see the digital edition.

First edition softcover stapled. Some pages have a tiny tear on the bottom edge. Published by Harry Stanley. Exlibris of Weirdo and Margaret Yates. For details on contents see the digital edition.

Softcover stapled in good condition. Published 1955. Some discoloration of back cover. For details on contents see the digital edition.

The original eye-popping effect plus great new routines by William G. Stickland and Bob Gill.

A version of this stunning effect first appeared in print in Hugard's Monthly Magic Magazine dated April 1962. The effect and method of the 'Wild Card' originated by Peter Kane, and described on his behalf by Gus Southall, has become a classic.

Top flight magicians all over the world acclaimed the effect. However, many magicians "fought shy" of it feeling that it was difficult to do, or, sometimes having difficulty in obtaining sets of cards which had really strong contrasts to emphasize the astonishing change. Peter Kane's 'Wild Card...

Four superb card routines.

From the introduction:

Top routines with miniature slates by Peter Warlock, George Blake and Edwin Hooper.

• Introduction
• Phantom Prediction
• Shuffled Forecast
• Sum Total
• Spirit Message
• Spirit Message Again
• Duplication
• Mini-Transpo
• Two Messages
• Two Messages On One Slate
• Numbered Slates
• Any Colour With White Chalk

PDF 28 pages.

Like ghosts they pass up the sleeve and into the pocket.

From the introduction:

A silent film record of Dai Vernon's visit to Britain in 1958.

If you have only read about the Professor Dai Vernon but never seen him in real life, then here is your chance for a glimpse into what he was like. You will see him sightseeing and you will see him perform several of his feature routines such as the Symphony of the Rings, card production, color change, wand spin vanish and more.

• Portsmouth: H.M.S. Victory and Dicken's Birthplace
• Polo at Cowdrey Park
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Fellow Magicians
• Leipzig's Card Levitation
• Card Production
• The Symphony of the Rings
• Colour Change
• Wand spin Vanish
• Jumping Jack
• Charlie Miller's Diminishing Cards ...

Torn playing cards link together. It is a variation of Cardboard Connection by Paul Harris utilizing an alternate gaff. Photos and detailed description by Lewis Ganson. It also includes Jim Cozzens instructions for preparing the linked cards set.

1st edition 1981, 16 pages; PDF 17 pages.

Many effects from famous magicians such as Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Fred Keating, David Devant, T. Nelson Downs, Ross Horwitz, Nate Leipzig and of course Faucett Ross himself.

• PREFACE
• A Magician and his Magic
  • Faucett Ross
  • Letters to Charlie Miller
  • The Beginning
  • The Business Side
  • Rules and Common Sense
  • Practice
  • The Magician
  • Showmanship
  • A Bargain
  • Advice on Programmes
• Section One: HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • A Glass and a Silk
  • The Colour Change
  • Handkerchief Box Routine
  • Cut, Burnt and Restored Handkerchief
  • Novel Addition
  • Handkerchief Cane
  • Producing a Silk
  • Fountain of Silks
• Section Two: AN ORIENTAL FLAVOUR
  • Snowstorm in...

Le tour du Fil gypsy fait partie de ces effets classiques dans la même lignée que les anneaux chinois et les balles et gobelets. Un fil est cassé en plusieurs petits morceaux, puis il est magiquement reconstitué en un long morceau de fil. Bon nombre des meilleurs magiciens ont intégré le Fil gypsy à leurs spectacles : Fred Kaps, Dany Ray, Ricky Jay, Billy McComb, Ali Bongo, Hans Trixer, Marconick et Eugene Burger pour n'en citer que quelques-uns. Lewis Ganson enseigne ici en détail avec du texte, des photos et des illustrations les tenants et les aboutissants de cette routine.

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This is a wonderful collection of some of the best mental magic published in The Gen.

CONTENTS:

Section One - Predictions

• The 100% Prediction (Punx)
• Total Prediction (Gerald Kosky)
• The Direct Prediction (John Rice)
• Note and the Jar (Tom Sellers)
• Phenomenal Forecast (Jack Cook)
• The One-man Full-Vu Prediction (Ken De Courcy)
• Mental Flashes (Dr. Stanley Jaks)
• The Patient Telepath (Peter Warlock)
• Novelty Dice Prediction (Tom Sellers)
• Predicted From the Papers (Tom Sellers)
• Super Forethought (Cyro)

• Unique Book Test (Harry Stanley)
• Magazine Test (Ali Bongo)
• Danson's Book Test (Ted Danson)
• A Telephone Directory Test (Eric...

Lewis Ganson, mostly known as author of magic books, was also himself an expert stage card manipulator. This ebook is a complete course in the art of manipulating playing cards, from back palms, to catching cards, card fans, flourishes, gimmicks and holders, and how to put it all together into a routine.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is a silent film from the 1950s from Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio featuring Lewis Ganson performing mostly card manipulation and a few other routines with silks, coins and lighters.

Contents

• card manipulation (back palm)
• diminishing cards
• card fans (also see his Fan Finale)
• card flourishes
• giant fans
• a clear case of anti-gravity
• coins at his finger tips
• multiplying lighters

length 6 min 40 seconds

This is a silent film produced by Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studios. It shows Lewis Ganson performing his Cups and Balls routine as well as an effect with a glass plate, three transparent cups and three silks.

1st edition 1960s, length 9 min.

This profusely illustrated booklet. with 66 nice clear drawings, teaches you a complete and seemingly impossible rope and ring routine from Rink. The name of Rink of Holland is tied to many wonderful tricks and routines.

This Ganson description is, as always, a masterpiece and tells all you need to know to fool your audience with a simple piece of rope (with a little preparation) and a ring.

From the introduction