Description
Effect: For decades people have been begging for, and have repeatedly asked me, “Where is the Charlie Miller book?”
Where indeed ? It’s been under your nose for 40 years, in the pages of “Magicana” where Charlie published an enormous amount of his own repertoire. Not just stuff he noodled together the night before, but full performance pieces from a half-century of being a professional magician. And if his trick wasn’t the lead item, there was often another trick or technique hidden in “Intermission,” the commentary part ofthe column. In all there are well over 150 tricks in this book.
I doubt you will find another book published in the last half-century that contains, in addition to its bountiful close-up magic, as much stand-up and parlor magic.
For decades people have been begging for, and have repeatedly asked me, “Where is the Charlie Miller book?” Where indeed ? It’s been under your nose for 40 years, in the pages of “Magicana” where Charlie published an enormous amount of his own repertoire. Not just stuff he noodled together the night before, but full performance pieces from a half-century of being a professional magician. And if his trick wasn’t the lead item, there was often another trick or technique hidden in “Intermission,” the commentary part ofthe column. In all there are well over 150 tricks in this book. I doubt you will find another book published in the last half-century that contains, in addition to its bountiful close-up magic, as much stand-up and parlor magic.
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This book represents Charlie’s initial run as writer/editor from 1964 to 1978. In the mid- 1970s Charlie started working on cruise ships doing magic, and he became quite successful. Elizabeth Wilson, wife of Castle Board member and magician Ron Wilson, started ghostwriting for Charlie, eventually receiving the written credit for “Intermission” and finally for the entire column. Unfortunately, without Charlie, it was not the same, and “Magicana” stopped in 1978. Charlie was later lured back in the 1980s, but that’s another story for another book. Between the pages of this book you will find the first and best run of “Magicana” by Charlie, who liked to hear his name said thrice.
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This book represents Charlie’s initial run as writer/editor from 1964 to 1978. In the mid- 1970s Charlie started working on cruise ships doing magic, and he became quite successful. Elizabeth Wilson, wife of Castle Board member and magician Ron Wilson, started ghostwriting for Charlie, eventually receiving the written credit for “Intermission” and finally for the entire column. Unfortunately, without Charlie, it was not the same, and “Magicana” stopped in 1978. Charlie was later lured back in the 1980s, but that’s another story for another book. Between the pages of this book you will find the first and best run of “Magicana” by Charlie, who liked to hear his name said thrice.
(From the Publisher’s Note by Richard Kaufman)
Contents:
Author/Editor: Miller, Charlie
Think Card Trick (Charlie Miller)
The Kaleidoscope Card (Bill Woodfield)
ZENITH A Reverse Card Trick (Charlie Miller)
Coin Thru the Hand (Larry Jennings)
Reaping the Aces (Larry Jennings)
Torn Napkin (Charlie Miller)
Unmatchable Matches (Larry Jennings)
Prefiguration (Larry Jennings)
Famous Chop Cup Routine (Larry Jennings)
The Peripatetic Coins (Larry Jennings)
Review of Harry Mendoza’s Show (Charlie Miller)
Three Rope Trick (Charlie Miller)
Gadabout Coin (Gerald Kosky)
Remember and Forget (Dai Vernon and Larry Jennings)
Charlie Miller’s Think Card Trick Variation (Bill Woodfield)
Routine for the Miser’s Dream (Charlie Miller)
Card at Desired Number (Charlie Miller and Dom Paolino)
False Shuffle (Part One) (Dom Paolino)
Coin Trick (Cal Emmett)
False Shuffle (Part Two) (Dom Paolino)
The Coin Box (Glen Harrison)
Deluxe Billiard Ball Routine (Harry Mendoza)
Chinese Ring (Faucett Ross)
Card Switch (Dom Paolino)
Double Lift (Howard Campbell)
Shuffle Palm (Dom Paolino)
The Ring on the Stick (Harry Mendoza)
Larry Jennings’ Reaping the Aces Varation (Tom Batchelor)
A Novel Card Transformation (Ed Balducci)
Tobacco Vanish (Dr. Ervin)
The Dice Box (Robert Gunther)
Double Take (Robert Gunther)
About the Dom Paolino Card Switch (Charlie Miller)
Four Cards Through the Newspaper (Albert Goshman)
A Modern Day Presentation for the Card Sword (Charlie Miller and Harry Mendoza)
The Great Faucett Ross Card Act (Faucett Ross)
The Thousand Dollar Coin Move for Miser’s Dream (Charlie Miller)
The Velcro Coins (Charles E. Penton)
Cigarette and Toothpick (Leo Behnke)
The Flirtatious Queen (Bernie Walsh)
Glass of Wine Production (Harry Mendoza)
The Fabulous Center Deal (Dom Paolino)
A Brief Outline on the Presentation of Magic (Charlie Miller)
The Umbrella Trick (Lu Brent)
The Silent Link (Roy Benson)
Contact Mindreading (David Alexander)
The Odin Count (Claudios Odin)
A Version of the Ring of Rope to Pencil (James Ryan and Charlie Miller)
An Aces and Kings Transposition (Roy Walton)
Corrections for Goshman’s Cards Through the Newspaper
Mental Stuff (Charlie Miller)
The Vanishing and Reappearing Salt (Carl Stenquist)
The Adhering Cane (Carl Stenquist)
An Unbelievable Restoration of a Gentleman’s Cut Necktie (Card Stenquist)
Turban Trick (Cyril Yettmah)
Thumb Tie (Cyril Yettman)
Streamlined Version of Alexander Herrmann’s Serpentine Handkerchief (Charlie Miller)
Twentieth Century Handkerchiefs (Ed Marlo)
30th Century Silk Handkerchiefs (Ed Marlo)
The Amazing Card Discovery (Charlie Miller)
The Lowey Palm as it Should be Done (Professor Morris Lowey)
An Amazing Coin Penetration Through a Solid Topped Table (Ed Marlo)
A Novel Rope Knotting (Ed Jarrow)
The Great Debatable Rope Mystery of Hocus Pokus Jr. (Charlie Miller)
Borrowed Bill in a Potato (Ed Marlo)
Impromptu Ring on Handkerchief (John Rivera)
Card in the Wallet (Larry Beaubien)
Coin Sleight (Howard Schwarzman)
Fabulous Expanding Card (Brother John Hamman)
The Highland Hop (Ron Wilson)
Double Lift (Paul Diamond)
Kling Klang (Charlie Miller)
Ding Dong Daddy (Wayne Gibbons)
Concerning Patter (Danny Dew)
Cane to Silk (Frank Rameriz)
About Kling Klang (Charlie Miller)
Coin Magic (Charlie Miller)
The Card Fountain (Charlie Miller)
The Indian Cups and Balls (Charlie Miller)
The Indian Cups and Balls (Second Part) (Charlie Miller)
The Transfixed Card (Mike Skinner)
Slip Slide Sleight (Jack McMillen)
A Favorite of the Late Doctor Jax
The Magic Mail (Will De Sieve)
E.S.P. in Flames (Rolland Hamblen)
The Diminishing Playing Cards (Ron Wilson)
Diabolical Variations with a Bill Tube (Aurie Dgenal)
The Memphis Marvel (Ron Wilson)
How to Clean a Ring (Doc Russo)
The Flying Ring Plus (Ron Wilson)
A Card Trick Without Cards (William McCaffery)
Water to Wine to Beer to Milk (Sam Shapiro)
The Bewildering Ball Vase (Mike Skinner)
The Jumping Knot (Paul Fox)
The Handkerchief and Candle Trick (Charlie Miller)
Smashed and Restored Watch in a Bun (Charlie Miller)
Swindle Flip (Bob Byrne)
Swindle Flip Transpo (Bob Byrne)
The Candle That Was (Charles Waller)
Single Cup and Balls Routine (Larry Jennings)
An Idea or Two for Coin Catching (Roy Benson and Charlie Miller)
Presentation, Timing, and Other Things (Charlie Miller)
In Memory of Max Katz (Gerald Kosky)
Watch It! (William Ravetta)
A Taste of Money (Gene Shelley)
Card Verb System (Pat Hennessy)
The Coin and the Hat (Fred Roberts)
A Prediction (Charlie Miller)
The Card in the Egg (Hugh Johnston and Charlie Miller)
The Mysterious Glass (Charlie Miller)
The Rope Through the Body (Paul Fox and Danny Dew)
The Two-Handed Pass (Charlie Miller)
Express Elevator (Harvey Rosenthal)
Ring (Ray Grismer)
Some Tips and Suggestions (Steve Trott)
Conclave in Spades (David Bornstein)
Push-Through Change (Steve Spillman)
Corrections to Ray Grismer’s Ring
Second Sight (Ron Wilson)
A Novel Expose (Charlie Miller)
Tragedy and Comedy (Snag Werris)
The Twentieth Century Coins (Bill McCaffrey)
A Novel Card Discovery (Matthew Corin)
A Novel Sleight (Charlie Miller)
A Charlie Miller Special 1: Tissue Paper to Bill (Charlie Miller)
Interview with Ron Wilson
The Lucky Key (Gerald Kosky)
Telephonic Telepathy (Gerald Kosky)
Rub-A-Dub-Dub (Gerald Kosky)
Tomatoes Anyone? (Gerald Kosky)
Piff-Paff-Poof Variation (Gerald Kosky)
The Second Deal (Gerald Kosky)
Merlin’s Gem (Paul Green)
Two Ideas of Al Baker (Charlie Miller)
Code (Ray Grismer)
A Double Card Prediction (Robert Stull)
The Come Back Balls (Charlie Miller)
The Diakka Gets Doubled (Charles Jordan and Charlie Miller)
A Routine for the Coin in the Bottle (Charlie Miller)
Quadruple Change (Takeo Usui)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Magic (Peter Pit)
Four Balls in a Net (Silent Mora)
Super Money Passbook (Gerald Kosky)
Needs Two Packs (Al Portwood)
A Practical Card Index (Paul Green)
Kay-Gee Card Control (Chris Kessler and Paul Green)
A Name Revelation with Faro Shuffles (Michael S. Ewer)
Quintessential Copper-Silver (Barry Price)
Did You Bring…? (Barry Price)
Tips and Ideas (Charlie Miller)
Frazier’s Pass (Dr. Elliott)
The Perfect Coin Vanish (Steve Freeman)
A Fair Exchange (Gerald Kosky)
Rabbits (Charlie Miller)
Where Did Those Rabbits Go? (Charlie Miller)
Computerized (Gerald Kosky)
Foxy (Ray Grismer)
Novel Method of Switching Handkerchiefs or Other Small Articles by Means of a Clever Chair Servante (David Bamberg)
A Novel Combination with Matches, Cards and a Banknote (Jean Merlin)
The Drop Shift (Dom Paolino)
Triple Change Spellbound (Scotty York)
How To Construct a Malini Egg Bag (Robert T.H. Davidson)
Pride Goeth Before a Fall (Ray Grismer)
Corrections for Charlie Miller’s Where Did the Rabbits Go?
A Flash Ace Opener (Frank Thompson)
A Ring Trilogy (Scotty York)
Han Ping Chien Again (Scotty York)
The Fabulous Red Snapper (Scotty York)
A Nice Coin Routine (Marty Goldstein)
The Spellbound Miser (John Carney)
Thru (Ray Grismer)
A Transposition of Two Copper Coins with Four Silver Coins (Scotty York)
An Impromptu Torn and Restored Match (Allen Okawa)
A Method for Determining a Card Secretly Chosen While the Magician is Out of the Room
Bonus for the Four Coins Across (Howard W. Rheam)
The Hopping Copper and Silver (Oran Dent)
Boomerang Band (John Bass)
Reverse Red Snapper Move (Ed Marlo)
Packet to Packet Collectors (Tom Gagnon)
A Series of Card Flourishes (Marty Goldstein)
A Bit of Fun (Charlie Miller)
Fingers (Ray Grismer)
The Vanishing Salt … Shaker (John Carney)
Milkeau (Charlie Miller)
A Routine with the Jardine Ellis Ring (Charlie Miller)
A Quick Code (Simon I. Brown)
Do As Gene Do (Nick Lewin)
Wash Off (Earl Nelson)
Morton’s Miracle (Martin Lewis)
The Last Card Trick (Charlie Miller)
Flight of the Phoenix (Ron Wilson)
The Trunk Trick (Johnny Thompson)
Tip and Hits (Charlie Miller)
Patter on the Newlywed Match Trick (Bill McCaffrey)
MacDonald’s $100 Four-Ace Routine (Johnny Thompson)
A New Kling Klang (William B. Dodson and Charlie Miller)
Fingertip Color Change Routine (Barry Price)
Headline Prediction (E. Raymond Carlyle)
All-a-Number (E. Raymond Carlyle)
A Couple of Gags (Roy Roth)
Galli-Galli Switch (Gerald Kosky)
Another Ring Move (Earl Nelson)
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