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Wonderful Routines of Magic 

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Wonderful Routines Of Magic-Second Addendum

Both Books by by Ellison Poland

Wonderful Routines of Magic is an overlooked gem in magic publications. The late Ellison Poland published the first edition in 1969.  A number of contributors, including the author, offer a wide variety of magic effects for stage and close-up. There are seven effects offered by North Carolina's own Bill Spooner including the Deceptive Roll Cut. Milliken's Transposition is worth the price of the book. It is a double transportation with two halves and two quarters.  Ellison Poland was a technical writer for Westinghouse and knew the art of writing magic instructions. He was also a great illustrator. The 251-page book is well illustrated with numerous line drawings. There is also a section on Decorating and Finishing Magical Apparatus. The table of contents has 55 entries. Wonderful Routines Of Magic concludes with an annotated bibliography. The book has an attractive dust jacket. The hard binding is black with gold lettering. You will not be disappointed with the quality of the content or of the bookbinding. A great buy!
 

Contents of Wonderful Routines of Magic

Preface
13 Our Philosophy of Magic
15 How to Use this Book

19 A Ball and Silk Routine
33 Spooner's Switch
39 Spooner's Color 
45 Spooner's Ambitious Card Move
51 Spooner's Specialty Force
55 Spooner's Swift Switch
57 A False Shuffle for Giant Cards
59 Modern Variation of the Charlier False Shuffle
63 My Overhand False Shuffle
67 Variation of the Benson One Hand Shuffle
69 Simplicity Four Ace Trick
71 Nu-Hold Hindu Shuffle
73 Wallace Lee's Contribution
75 More About Seconds
81 Double Lift from the Center
83 Card Fans
99 A Card Fanning Routine
111 Productions of Single Cards
117 No-Turn-Over Okito Steal No. 1
121 No-Turn-Over Okito Steal No. 2
123 Okito Box Innovations
127 Okito Box Turn-Over Moves
131 Bill's Bit of Business With the Down's Palm
133 The Wrist Breaker
137 The Barefoot Shuffle-Pass-Count (BSPC)
139 Mishel Thumb Palm
141 A Coin Flourish
143 Milliken's Transposition
147 Black's Invisible Flight of Silver
153 Through the Needle's Eye
157 Black's Aerial Treasury
161 Kearns' Recoil
163 Black's Bowl Routine
169 Black's Magnetic Cup Routine
177 Black's Salt Trick
183 A New Dress for Chink-A-Chink
187 Cup and Ball Moves
193 Allen's Missing Link
195 Bill In the Barrels
201 Secrets of Senor Carlos M. Mora, H
205 Eenie, Meenie, Miney, --No Moe
207 Dime Store Magic
213 Pseudo ESPology
217 The Hang-Wan Rising Cards
221 Cash's Ball Dropper
223 Gold Fish Bowl Production
229 The Jewels Of Jhaumaphur
239 Decorating and Finishing Magic Apparatus
243 A Note to End On
245 Annotated Bibliography

Details: Wonderful Routines of Magic  by Ellison Poland
©1969 by Ellison Poland. 251 pages, hardbound with dust jacket, size 6 by 9 inches

 

Wonderful Routines Of Magic-Second Addendum

The first two books were well received and soon went out of print. With the encouragement of several dealers, Wonderful Routines of Magic was reprinted in October of 1992 The author is of the opinion that The Second Addendum is by far the best book of the series.

The effects are mostly cards and coins. There are two standout mental effects and two or three of the card effects can be presented as very strong mental effects. When “Psychic Pulse” was shown and explained to several magicians while on the way home from a convention, they said that it alone was worth the entire convention trip.

It is firmly believed that applications of “Slough-off Control,” combined with “Slough-off Mathematics” can revolutionize one facet of card magic. If these two concepts are combined with John Quine's handling of his “Quine’s Keeper,” even more miracles are possible. See the book The Magic of John Quine for an explanation of his concept.

This book consists of fifty-seven items, only twenty of which are by the author. The other contributors, listed alphabetically are Aaron Black, Tony Boon, Peter Duffie, Steve Hook, Gene Maze, Harry Milliken, Charles Pecor, Steve Pressley, Dan Tong, and Gary Ward. The primary focus is on close-up magic. The Second Addendum is indexed.

Contents of Wonderful Routines Of Magic-Second Addendum

Introduction
Foreword, Acknowledgements

Slough-Off Control
Slough-Off Mathematics
Si-Slough
King for a Day (Peter Duffie)

Thought Up Plus (Peter Duffie)
A Mental Case
The "Out" of Last Resort
The Impromptu Imposition (Peter Duffie)
The Future Packet (Peter Duffie)
Variation of Diaconis' "Les Cartes"
Grandson of IBGTH
Monte-Finale
Sobo - So What???
Put and Take
The Garden Path
A Casual Glimpse
Making Paper
MarkedMatcho No 2
A Pitchman's Spiel
Another Solution to Curry's Open Prediction Problem
The Final Transposition (Dan Ton)
In And Out
Colors By the Numbers No. 1
Colors By the Numbers No. 2
A Shade Inexplicable (Peter Duffie)
The Econ Poker Deal (Tony Econ)
Econ's Triple Coincidence (Tony Econ)
A Gambler's Switch
No SecondsDunbury (Harry Milliken)
Jack of Diamonds
Ward's Control (Gary Ward)
Thunk Cards (Gary Ward)
No Cover Aces Number One (Gene Maze)
Sandwich Aces (Gene Maze)
No Cover Aces Number Two (Gene Maze)
No Name Coincidence (Gene Maze)
The False Kick-Back Cut (Gene Maze)
Optical Illusion Cut (Gene Maze)
Jog Conversion (Gene Maze)

 Ubiquitous Readers
After the Peek (Gene Maze)
No Cover Assembly Number 3 (Gene Maze)
More of the Same - With Kicker (Gene Maze)
Old Wine (Gene Maze)
Soft Deck (Gene Maze)
New Wave Aces (Steve Pressley)
Pad Vanish (Dan Tong)
Pad Vanish Applications (Dan Tong)
New Wave Top Change (Dan Tong)
Swivel Side Steal (Dan Tong)
Stealth Whirley-Bird Card (Dan Tong)
The Psychic Pulse 
Off Your Box (Peter Duffie)
Ortho-Repeatic Jumbo Coin (Steve Hook)
Silver Thief (Steve Hook)
Odd Coin from Birmingham (Dr. Charles Pecor)
Black's Coins & Silk Routine (Aaron Black)
The Index

Note: Poland published a "First Addendum" prior to the "Second Addendum". It was a much shorter volume and was not hardbound. The publication is out of print.  

Details: Second Addendum to Wonderful Routines of Magic  by Ellis Poland
©1994 by Ellis Poland. Hardcover with a dust jacket, 192 pages