J.B. Bobo

When party guests request a few tricks, be prepared. Ask for a coin, and perform some of the tricks in this book. Because you will not have been aided by special stage apparatus, the results will be all the more astonishing. As tricks with coins are so readily improvised, they are among the most impressive forms of legerdemain.This book is the most complete treatise ever written on sleight-of-hand coin conjuring. Celebrated magician J. B. Bobo has gathered here the best and most useful of all coin tricks — not only his own, but those of some four dozen notable prestidigitators, including such greats as Robert-Houdin, Professer Hoffman, and — the greatest of all coin conjurers — T. Nelson Downs.All the tested, traditional methods of coin magic are here. Bobo has added to these the best of the modern innovations, while eliminating all of the out-of-date and impractical sleights of his sources. You will learn all about palms, holds, flips, switches, change-over, steals, cuffing, sleeving, and other sleight-of-hand techniques; coin tricks requiring special devices are also included. The author guides how systematically from basic techniques, concealments, and vanishes, through integrated tricks, to complete routine acts (18 in all). His clear explanations are splendidly complemented by 510 of Nelson C. Hahne's crisp illustrations.Sleight-of-hand magic has consistently earned the respect of professional magicians. If you are yet an amateur, this easy-to-follow manual — together with regular practice — is the surest route to professional-level competence. For professionals, this volume is a convenient encyclopedic reference that gathers in one place all the best coin magic from antiquity to modern times.

A modern treatise of ways of concealing, producing, altering and multiplying coins from the empty hands, being the first complete explanation of methods for so doing published since Downs' immortal classic of sixty-six years ago. Six hundred sixty-nine illustrations are included for clarity in demonstrating 110 coin sleights and 312 coin tricks. Bobo's Modern Coin Magic brings a new form of entertainment to the magic world. Coin Magic can be performed any time, anywhere, on the spur of the moment. With Bobo's Basic knowledge and know-how, the best feats of the world's expert coin workers can be yours.How often have you been asked, " Do us a few tricks, " and you have had to answer, " Sorry, I haven't anything with me."Now that day has passed, coins are always at hand, and magic with coins always appeals. With this book as your tutor, you can master the world's best coin tricks.

In this book by J.B. Bobo will be found tricks enough to earn for anyone with a will to practice the reputation of being "a matchlesse fellowe of legerdemaine" for here is performance-tested magic by one of America's foremost professional magicians. Because of the author's love for sleight-of-hand, the tricks you will find here are for the most part sleight-of-hand tricks - with coins, cards, thimbles, matches, ropes - Bobo's "pets" - in such variety that there is something for every taste. And for good measure, Paul Fox, Paul Ebling, Wallace Lee, Harry McDaniel, J.G. Thompson, Jr., J. Stewart Smith, and Phil Huckabee, all well-known magically, have contributed choice items - "pets" of theirs, no doubt.

Modern Coin Magic by J.B. BoboLearn 116 Coin Sleights and 236 Coin Tricks!You will learn all about coin palms, holds, flips, switches, change-over, steals, cuffing, sleeving, and other sleight-of-hand techniques; coin tricks requiring special devices are also included. The author guides how systematically from basic techniques, concealments, and vanishes, through integrated tricks, to complete routine acts (18 in all). His clear explanations are splendidly complemented by 510 of Nelson C. Hahne's crisp illustrations.

Now, one of the best books on coin and card magic is available in great perfect bound! Seven chapters packed full of Bobo's magic! This incredible volume features over 50 original illustrations and 100 pages, and magic by master magicians Paul Fox and JG Thompson. Includes some of Bobo's most famous • Key Card! • Bottom Peek! • Top Peek! • Color Change! • Sleeving! • Bobo Vanish! • The Bobo Switch! Excerpt from the The effects of the tricks contained herein are not new only the method of performing them. All, however, have original twists that will set them apart from run-of-the-mill material and all have been audience tested, which removes them from the pipe dream class. A few of the ideas have been known for a long time, but most are of my own creation. If the reader desires to mystify either the layman or his brother magician, he will find material on the following pages that will fill the bill. Of considerable value also is the fact that most of the effects can be done on the spur of the moment, since no unusual props are required. Watch This One! by JB Bobo is over 100 pages in perfect bound format.

This book is the Bible of all coin Magic.