La Dama inQuieta

Por tercer año consecutivo, la página web pone a disposición de manera regular durante el verano libros en formato pdf totalmente gratis. Estos últimos dos años me pude hacer con libros fantásticos, entre ellos uno de mis favoritos (My magic life de David Devant, el cual está ahora al 50% de descuento en la web).
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Para empezar esta vez tenemos Maskelyne's Book of Magic (Jasper M.). ¡A disfrutar!

Alfonso, disculpa: he subido la misma noticia que tú unos minutos después.

No creo que la pereza sea un problema, poniendo la palabra GRATIS en el título ...
(gracias a los dos por el aviso!!)

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Unmasking Robert-Houdin. A mí se me calló un mito leyendo la propia y exagerada biografía de Robert-Houdin, lo cual también movió a Houdini para escribir este libro. Desenmascarando a la leyenda.

Gracias por el aviso, jefe!

Calentito lo tenemos, oiga, calentito! Esta semana, Modern Coin Manipulation, de T. Nelson Downs


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T. Nelson Downs was an outstanding showman and certainly one of the greatest manipulative magicians the world has ever produced.

His performance career was legendary: three months at London's Palace Theatre, nine months at the Folies Bergere casino in Paris, 40 weeks at the Empire Theater in London, three months at the Winter Garden in Berlin. On his travels, he performed for royalty, including King Edward VII of England, Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, the sultan of Turkey and the czar of Russia.

"Pure sleight of hand has always been a great joy to me," he once said. He said he always chose tricks not necessarily for their difficulty but instead for their impact on an audience.

In Modern Coin Manipulations, Downs presents the correct methods of his innumerable coin sleights of his own inventions as well as a complete explanations for pieces in his acts including his World Famous Coin Creation, "The Miser's Dream" as presented by him at the Palace Theatre, London, for nearly 200 consecutive performances.

El por tantos citado Prof. Hoffmann, su continuación en la que se incluyó (según parece) por primera vez el salto o corte Charlier.
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Nueva entrada de la semana:
Ottokar Fischer's
Illustrated Magic

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Somos el equipo alemán

Genau

Si aprendió de Devant, seguro que es (son) un(os) libro(s) de lo más interesante:

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Farelli's Card Magic: A Practical Treatise on Little-Known Card Sleights, Including Numerous New Card Problems.

A student of David Devant, Victor Farelli was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was the foreign correspondent for a number of magic magazines.

Farelli’s Card Magic came out in 1933 in two parts. Each part contains over 120 items, and there is a lot of great material, much of which is little known these days. You will find tips, sleights, flourishes, passes, substitutes for the pass, forcing, false shuffling, palming, second dealing, card to wallet, and much more, from magic luminaries like: David Devant, Nate Leipzig, Horace Goldin, John Mullholland, Billy O’Connor, Harry Houdini, Dr. Elliott, and Chung Ling Soo.

It is a fantastic collection and a great way to get accustomed to another era in card handling. As a result, you will find many things that are of great value that didn’t make it into present day card books and which may either find a welcome home in your repertoire or inspire you in some new direction!