Enlarge your magic repertoire and amaze your friends with mystifying rope tricks you can easily learn from this legendary encyclopedia of rope tricks for magicians.
Containing over 150 tricks, many created by masters of rope magic, this book shows you step-by-step how to perform the best rope tricks ever devised.
No matter how often you refer to it, this book will remain a complete and informative reference work that will be a valuable addition to your magic library. Grouped into nine chapters from knots and penetrations to cut and restored rope and more, this collection presents such effective tricks as:
Ralph Hull's Famous Vanishing Knot
C.T. Jordan's Mystifying Knot Trick
The Ropes and Rings Mystery
Loop the Loop
Nevil Maskelyne's Leg Tie
Jordan's Psychic Ring Release
The Famous Kellar String Tricks
Stanyon's String Restoration
Carl Bremas Knotted Rope
The L.W. Simplicity Rope Restoration
Jamison's Severed Rope
Liddle's Phenomenal Rope Trick
The Tarbell Rope Mystery
The Encore Rope Trick
Eddie Clever's Trple Cut Routine
Marvel Cut and Restored Rope
Maxam Triple Cut Rope Trick
Rhe Bachelor's Needle
Freer's Master Muscle
The Hypnotized Rope
Grant's Amazing Rope Secret
and many, many more.
A special last chapter offers seven versions of the mythical Hindu Rope Trick. Each trick is clearly and precisely described and 510 illustrations add to the detailed presentations. Rope tricks are always popular and this authoritative, comprehensive work on the subject gives the methods that the best rope magicians have used in their performances. Revealing the secrets of rope magic normally known only by professional magicians, this indispensable book is required reading for all aspiring and practicing magicians.
Paperbound, 400 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages, 510 illustrations.
2009 Wizard Headquarters
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