Selling a used copy of Outs, Precautions, and Challenges for Ambitious Card Workers by Charles H. Hopkins. This is a staple-bound paperback booklet. Light yellowing from age, regular wear from use. There's a penciled in price on the cover page. All pages intact and fully readable.
1. Show a deck of playing cards to your audience, and invite a spectator to freely select one card. Place that card face-up onto the deck.2. Magically, the card slowly floats upward! You can even remove the card below the floating card, and the selected card remains suspended in mid-air.3. The selected card slowly returns to the deck. You can immediately spread the deck to show the faces of all the cards.
Ruby Duos CardsAn Edge Marked Deck created by Jake Banfield, out the box in Aronson and part of the Trilogy package.A genius marking system allows any performer to locate any card, from a freely shuffled deck within seconds by beveling the edge of the deck. The Ruby Duo's are printed on an incredibly smooth finish that faro in both directions easily, they also include a double backer and blank face card.
Written by male model/master magician Handsome Jack (with footnotes by John Lovick), this treatise is a rarity in the magic world: it's as funny (and attractive) as it is instructive. Handsome Jack, etc. details twenty stand-up (and close-up) routines with complete scripts, histories, and commentary on their development and performance.In addition to Jack's urbane descriptions, Lovick provides two essential essays on the subjects of scripting and persona.