Description: FINE ART OF MAGIC BY GEORGE G. KAPLAN (1948)-PUBLISHED BY FLEMING BOOK COMPANY, PENNSYLVANIA USA-RARE / FIRST EDITION Edited by Jean Hugard, illustrations by Francis Rigney. The Fine Art of Magic, by George G. Kaplan, is an entirely new, thoroughly American work. It is the outcome of twenty years or more of analysis, invention, and actual presentation of magic by Mr. Kaplan, whose ingenious feats and striking improvements have aroused the wonder and admiration of many of our best-informed experts. It is, in a very real sense of the term, the “life work” of a man who, though not a professional conjurer, has obviously given an enormous amount of study to the art of magic and made important contributions to its practice by devising new principles, new ways of employing old ones, and some very fine wholly new effects. The present release of this material to the conjuring fraternity must be credited largely to Jean Hugard, who persuaded Mr. Kaplan that the book should be written and agreed to serve as its editor. CONTENTS INCLUDE vii Forword 1 Technique for the Short Card 4 The Short Card, The Corner Short 5 The Secret Gadget 5 Advantages of the Corner-Short Procedures 6 The Pencil Dot 8 Avoiding Contrasts 8 To Bring the Corner Short to the Top of the Pack 9 The Kaplan Fan Cut11 To bring the corner-short to the Bottom of the Pack 12 To Control a Selected Card by Means of the Corner-Short 12 The Kaplan Control of a Glimpsed Card by Means of the Corner-Short 14 Retaining Control of several Glimpsed Cards by Means of the Corner-Short 16 Controlling Three Selected Cards by Means of the Corner-Short 18 To bring a Prearranged Packet above a Chosen Card by Means of the Corner-Short 19 Obtaining a Desired Packet Instantly by Means of the Corner-Short 19 Using the Corner-Short to Retain a Prearranged Deck in Order 21 Subtle Sleights 24 Master Card Control 27 The Riffle-Force – A New Angle 29 The Gambler´s False-Cut 30 The Peek 33 The Step 35 To Glimpse or Sight a Card Secretly 37 Impromptu Marking of Cards 39 Tricks Employing The Corner-Short 42 Out-of-the-Room Selection 43 The X-Ray Location 44 Double-Back Corner-Short Location 46 Mind-Reading with Two Subjects 46 The “Impossible” Discovery 47 The Twenty-Sixth Card Location – Using a Corner-Short 48 Au Naturelle 51 The Topsy-Turvy Fan 55 Close Up Card Tricks 56 Will-o´-the-Wisp Routine 65 New Card Affinity 67 Revello Card Circle 69 The “Stop!” Fan Discovery 71 Fan Force 72 Kaplan´s Clock Trick 74 A Lesson in Misdirection 79 Rex Card Mystery 88 Multiple Do As I Do 90 Follow the Arrow 93 The Card in the Shoe 94 The Royal Assembly 101 The Captain Kidd Card (First Version) 103 Second Version 105 Magnetic Thought Transference 107 Platform Card Tricks 110 The Lie Detector 113 Giant Trio-Flight 119 Card-Stabbing 124 The Kaplan Rising Cards 128 The Card in the Balloon 134 A Winning Wager 137 The Kaplan Torn and Restored Card 141 The Chameleon Card 145 Mind Reading Tricks with Cards 148 The Calcutta Mystery (First Version) 152 Second Version 153 Think 155 Do As I Do 158 The Princess Card Trick 163 The Yogi´s Secret 165 The New Brain-Wave Deck 167 Mahatma Thought Control 173 Psychic Sympathy 175 Twenty-One Cards A Double Prediction 179 Crystal Clairvoyance 181 Dial 182 Information, Please! 185 The Medium’s Card Test 186 Yogi Spelling Test 188 The Eighteen-Cards Spelling Trick 191 The Triple Spelling Trick 193 The Three-Billet Test No. 1 194 The Three-Billet Test No. 2 197 More Mind Reading Tricks 200 The Trance Quick-and-Dead Test 204 A Capitol Problem 209 Do-As-I-Do Telephone Test 211 An Improved Sealed-Message Reading 214 Mind-Figures 218 The Spirit-Slates and Magazine Test 219 Slate Move 223 A Cigarette-Paper Pellet Switch 226 The Three-Billet Test No. 3 230 Forcing Three Numbers 231 The Odd-Even Force 233 Coin Tricks 236 The Kaplan Coin Switch 237 The Kaplan Okito-Box Presentation 241 I Do As You Do 242 The Stack of Quarters 248 The Sympathetic Coins 251 Coin-Extraction Perfected 255 Selected Tricks 258 The Spirit Handkerchief 260 A Billiard-Ball Transposition 263 The Brema Tube and Bill 267 The Cigarette Vanish in Handkerchief 268 The Trap-Door `Kerchief 272 Tying the Knot for the Rope Trick 275 The Game of “Thirty-One” Played with a Dice 279 The Fifteen Match-Sticks Puzzle 283 Miscellaneous Plaftorm Tricks 286 Ben Ali´s Rope 292 The Lemon Trick 301 Card, Crystal Ball, and Panties 305 The Gypsy Thread Trick 313 The Comedy of Errors 319 The Kaplan Nest of Boxes Routine 329 Concluding Observations 337 Index CONDITION Book (cover & pages) in Very Condition, with clean text. 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