Close-Up Magic Secrets

By Diamond Jim Tyler

Tyler teaches close up magic.Move objects with your mind, pass coins through tables, escape police restraints, and reveal other people's thoughts! 

Move objects with your mind, pass coins through tables, escape police restraints, and reveal other people's thoughts! Diamond Jim Tyler shows how to transform an ordinary act into a truly entertaining show. Learn 29 routines that include several original tricks as well as many tried-and-true crowd pleasers. 
 

Written for beginners and used by pros, this guide is designed for illusionists performing in small venues — bars, restaurants, and other places where audiences will be watching from close range. Its tricks for every type of magician include a variety of routines involving cards, money, fire, mind-reading, and comedy. Diamond Jim offers tips on patter and a helpful glossary of magic jargon. More than 300 photographs illustrate his easy-to-follow instructions.

Contents Include: 

6 Introduction by Jeff Davis
9 Foreword by Jon Racherbaumer
11 A Night In the Life of Diamond Jim 

13 The Gunslinger
18 New Age Spellbound
23 One-Armed Aces
27 The Hitchhiker
29 Baseball Diamond
32 The FBI Trick
39 Paperweight
43 Finger Ring and String
53 Soaring Straw
59 Comedy Shuffling Routine
63 Invisible Thumbscrews
65 Cat and Mouse
68 Fireball
72 Mathemagic
76 The Animated Cardbox
81 Three Burnt Matches
84 Burning Impression
87 Trapdoor Coins
91 Diamond Back
97 Reel Fun
101 Frog Hair
104 Sacring of Wicca
109 The Smoking Spoon
113 Diamond's Dazzler
116 Nimble Corks
119 Wise Guys Can't Count
121 Whatever It Takes
127 Pieces of Eight
138 The Birthday Bill

143 Glossary: definitions and longer entries that include working details. Most of those are listed below. 
143 Bobo Switch
144 Break Force
145 Breather Card
145 Charlier Pass or Cut
146 Classic Palm
147 Click Pass
149 Cut Deeper Force
149 Double-Lift
150 Dovetail Shuffle
150 Down's Change
151 Dribbling Cards
152 Fanning Cards
153 French Drop
154 George Washington Flips Over Trick
155 Han Ping Chen
157 Hindu Shuffle
157 Hindu Shuffle Force
158 Kaps' Subtlety
158 Kelly Bottom Placement
161 Muscle Pass
162 Overhand Shuffle
164 Retention of Vision Vanish
165 Reversed Card Force
166 Ribbon Spreading
166 Riffle False Shuffle
168 Si Stebbins System
170 Slop Shuffle
171 Springing Cards
173 Swing False Cut
174 Walking a Coin 

Details: Close-Up Magic Secrets by Diamond Jim Tyler

176 pages, soft covers, perfect binding, size 8 1/2" by 11".