Routined Manipulations

Parts 1 & 2

By Lewis Ganson

Presenting a book that covers almost every important area of the art of sleight of hand. Over 240 pages with professional illustrations to present Lewis Ganson's best magic routines with balls, candles, cards, coins, cigarettes, cups & balls, dice, newspaper, clay pipes, eggs, Chinese linking rings, thimbles, and much more. This book has two volumes in one! 

A great book with a variety of effects ranging from close-up to platform type effects.

Most emphasize sleight of hand. Photo illustrated.

Contents Include:

Presentation of Manipulation: Essay

• The Performer: personality, dress & appearance, care and use of the hands, speech, behavior, make-up
• His Outside Aids: Stage setting, lighting, music, apparatus, Technical Ability

The Production of Lighted Cigarettes: introduction

• Requirements and Preparation: cigarette droppers, cigarettes, hollow pipe & cigar, a lighted match from shoe
• 18 Manipulations
• 18 - The Thumb-palm
• 19 - To Switch a Cigarette
• 20 - Aquitment With a Lighted Cigarette
• 21 - Another Production
• 21 - A Vanish & Recovery
• 23 - A Triple Production
• 24 - Through the Knees
• 24 - Multiple Production
• 25 The Routine: in 8 stages

How Right You Are: Stop card trick, originally using a Svengali deck but updated for rough & smooth

• 29 The Rough and Smooth Pack
• 30 To Show the Cards All Different
• 30 To Shuffle the Cards
• 31 The Force
• 31 To Take Two Cards As One
• 32 The Routine: in four phases

Koran Torn and Restored Newspaper: Uses a tabloid size paper and needs a metal strip.

• 36 Preparation and Requirements
• 37 Performance

Fan Finale: Card fan flourishes

• 41 The Double Pack: cards to use and preparation
• 42 Performance
• 42 The First Fan
• 42 Closing the Giant Fan
• 43 The Second Fan
• 43 The Colour Changing Giant Fan
• 44 Splitting the Fans
• 46 To Close the Fans
• 46 The Single Handed Giant Fans
• 47 The Circle of Cards
• 48 The Routine: in 8 stages

 Crazy Fans: a close-up fan routine

• 50 Preparation
• 50 The Weave
• 51 To Alter the Angle of the Packs
• 51 To Make a Giant Fan
• 51 Possible Angles For the Packs 

Multiplying Lighted Candles: up to 8 candles produced

• 54 The Apparatus: describes gimmick by Unique Magic Studio, but adaptable to other brands
• 54 Preparing the Apparatus
• 55 The Size of the Flames
• 55 The Holder
• 55 Manipulation: for right and left hand
• 58 Suggestions For Routines
• 58 - Routine No. 1: four candles
• 59 - Routine No. 2: eight candles
• 60 - Routine No. 3: eight candles

Fred Robinson Explains

• 61 The Invisible Riffle Pass: top and bottomof deck is transposed during what appears to be a riffle
• 62 The Bottom Deal: uses a more natural method of holding the deck

The Walnut Shells and Pea: Three Shell Game routine

• 65 The Shells
• 65 The Pea
• 65 The Working Surface
• 65 The Basic Move
• 66 The Kick Steal
• 67 The Finger on the Shell
• 68 The Routine: in four phases
• 69 Notes
• 69 Additional Sleights for the Walnut Shells and Pea
• 69 - To Steal the Pea
• 70 - The Tea Cup
• 70 - Pic-a-Back
• 70 - The Spread

Gambler's Luck: a Four Kings routine with a Four Ace poker hand

• 71 Effect
• 71 Preparation
• 71 Presentation and Patter

Ken Brooke's Cups and Balls: As explained by Ken Brooke 

• 74 Set Up: the usual set of cups, three cork balls, and an onion
• 74 Working: a 24-step routine

The Egg on Fan: paper visibly changes to an egg when bounced on a fan. 

• 80 Preparation
• 81 Performance
• 81 How to Prepare the Egg Skin

Card Production Supreme: cards produced from the hand, even with the fingers spread.

• 83 Method for Holding the Cards
• 84 To Change The Cards From One Hand to Another
• 84 To Interlock the Fingers
• 85 To Bring the Cards Into the Back Palm Position
• 85 To End a Back and Front Palm Card Routine

 Matchic: Adapted from Hans Kaiser routine, a paddle routine using wooden matches

• 87 Requirements: two wooden matches specially prepared and an optional holder
• 87 Routine: in 5 stages

Readapack: Performer can reveal the next card cut, can be repeated and uses a non-gaffed deck; uses the Glimpse

 My Name - Your Name: 

• 91 Effect: Adaptation of Dr. Daley's "Ad Lib Spelling" card trick
• 91 Method
• 92 Performance and Patter

 Magic With Coins: from the weekly "Abracadabra", first two sleights based on work by T. Nelson Downs.

• 93 Sleight No. 1: The "Ace" of coin productions. Four coins produced from the seemingly empty hand
• 96 Sleight No. 2: Coins ina clear glass are dumped into the hand, then invisibly tossed back into the glass
• 97 A "Coins In Glass" Routine: using the commercial "Copenetro" (which seems to still be available)

Koran's Solo Aces: The aces leave the piles and join a chosen ace one at a time. 

• 100 The Buckle Count
• 101 Koran's Solo Aces Working

The Smoking Clay Pipes:  as performed by the German "Punx"; chemical magic

• 104 Effect: Smoke blown from two apparently empty pipes
• 104 Requirements: two ordinary clay pipes, liquid ammonia, a spirit of salts, metal tray

Harold Beaumont's Dice Routine: A clever four effect dice routine demonstrates magician's control of the dots

• 107 The First Effect
• 107 The Second Effect
• 107 Third Effect
• 108 The Fourth Effect

Thought Prescient (Harold G. Beaumont - a different Harold than above!)

• 109 Effect: A card is shouted out. The Performer tosses a deck of cards in the case and puts it on the table. One card is missing: the named card!
• 109 Working

The Chinese Linking Rings: 8 ring routine follows advice from Robert Harbin

• 110 The Rings: recommends a standard set of 10-inch rings
• 111 Performance and Patter
• 111 The Drop Count
• 112 Joining the Rings
• 114 I Can - You Can't
• 115 The Long Chain
• 116 All In One
• 118 Dropping the Rings

Money Attracts Money: Ganson's coins across routine. Uses a 5th silver coin to "attract" the coppers

• 7 Performance
• 11 Outline

The Colour Changing Pocket Knife

• 12 The Type of Knife to Use: uses three knives: W/R, W/B, and Striped
• 12 A Convenient Holder
• 13 Methods of Making the Knife Twist: three methods
• 15 Three Vanishes
• 17 The Knife Changes Colour Whilst Held By a Spectator
• 18 To Change One Knife for Another
• 19 The Routine and Patter

Thimble Manipulation: 

• 21 Objections: Three Objections to Thimble Magic addressed
• 22 Wilfred Bader's Thimble Routine
• 22 Thimbles: Uses one red and 10 yellow thimbles, recommends giant wooden thimbles
• 23 Holders: described
• 23 Preparation
• 24 Sleights and Steals
• 27 Performance of the Routine
• 34 Alternative Presentations: doing thimbles for a cabaret setting or a children's show
• 35 Levitation: levitating a thimble.

The Crystal Prism: A selected card is revealed in a prism.

 Card Quota: Section presents variations on common card sleights

• 38 The Glide
• 39 A New Location: for controlling a torn-off corner card
• 40 - The Card in Wallet: use of location with the commercial wallet by BillO'Conner, gaff not exposed
• 41 - The Card on the Ceiling
• 41 A Simple Pack Switch
• 42 Card Coin Cut (Dr. Georg Schitzkowski): Spectator cuts deck through a handkerchief, and a coin marks the selection

Ken Brook's Chapter: 

• 45 The Ken Brooke Routine For the Cap and Pence: Includes Ken's effective vanish for small items.
• 45 - Preparation
• 45 - Performance
• 47 - A Clean Prediction
• 47 - Effect: Prediction removed several in a hat matches chosen the object, no stooges. 
• 48 - The Actual Force
• 49 - Method of Working

Henry Hay's Coins Up the Sleeve: Includes descriptions of Hay's palm and vanish sleights

• 51 - The Palm
• 51 - The Vanish

Colour Change, Penetration, and Vanish: a silk routine using the dye tube; includes a Jack Chanin vanish. 

• 55 The Colour Change
• 58 Penetration Plus
• 58 Performance
• 59 A Vanish

Beer is Best: a paddle routine

• 61 The Paddle Twist
• 62 Beer is Best Routine

Cecil Keech's Rope an Silk:  

• 63 Effect: Silk transposes between a long and short rope, and the rope grows
• 63 Equipment: uses a gimmicked rope
• 63 Preparation
• 64 Performance

My Opening Card Routine

• 66 Effect: Production of multiple fans of cards
• 66 Sleights Used
• 66 Requirements: white gloves, playing cards, champagne bucket dress stick or cane
• 67 Performance

Dr. Geimer's Dice Routine  Dr. Alexander Geimer)

• 70 The Dice Move: thebasic move used for the routine
• 70 The First Effect
• 71 The Second Effect
• 71 The Third Effect
• 71 The Fourth Effect

Koran's Miracle Blindfold Card Act: A complete act with seven card revelations performed while blindfolded

• 72 Requirements
• 73 Preparation
• 73 Performance
• 73 Sense of Touch
• 74 Stop - By Power of Thought
• 74 Three Times Three
• 75 Double Thoughts
• 76 Prediction Plus
• 76 Force Superb
• 77 The Payoff

Harold G. Beaumont's Quartet: 4 effects

• 78 - The Coincidental Cut: card routine with red & blue decks where the odd cards find their matches
• 79 - Maybe This Is Crazy!: Production of a giant fan of cards
• 79 - Clean Cut Transposition. Four aces transpose with four spot cards in glasses
• 80 - The Sympathetic Ropes: Tied and untied ropes transpose, required knowledge of Tom Osborne's Three to One rope trick

 The Sympathetic Disks: Hilliard's Sympathetic Coins (Matrix) using coloured disks

•  82 Performance
• 83 Suggestions (Terence J. Coates)
• 84 To Show Both Sides of the Discs
• 85 Turning The Disc Under the Card

Egg Bag, Bag Egg: adapted from Percy Abbott routine

• 86 Effect: does not have a spectator handling the bag
• 86 Requirements: uses a Japanese silk egg bag, a duplicate ungimmicked bag, hollow egg with a hole, latex rubber egg, etc.
• 87 Preparation
• 87 Performance

 Will Ayling's Fashion Parade: a rolled up magazine rises and falls over two cords

Modern Billiard Ball Manipulation: Introduction and a brief history of ball magic

•  94 The Type and Size of Balls to Use: discussion of various types and colors available with advantages and disadvantages
• 95 The Half Shelf: to use or not to use
• 96 The Care and Preparation of the Hands
• 97 The Two Palm Positions: 
• 97 - The Palm Proper
• 97 - The Finger Palm
• 98 Simulation
• 98 Exercises With the Palm Proper
• 99 Exercises With the Finger Palm
• 99 Methods of Vanishing a Billiard Ball: 5 methods
• 103 Producing a Ball In the Hand: 2 methods
• 104 Productions With the Aid of the Shell: 2 methods
• 108 Acquitments with Billiard Balls: 6 methods to show the hands apparently empty
• 113 Manipulation of the Shell
• 114 Palming the Shell: 5 methods
• 115 Acquitments With the Shell
• 115 Apparatus Used for Obtaining a Ball Secretly
• 116 The Use of Misdirection
• 118 The First Routine: single ball multiplies to four
• 122 The Second Routine: An extension to routine one
• 123 Colour Changes with Billiard Balls
• 123 The Substitution of One Ball for Another: 5 methods
• 127 Colour Changes by Means of the Shell: 2 methods
• 129 The "Eight Ball" Routine: climaxing with the production of 8 balls

 

Details: Routined Manipulations By Lewis Ganson

133 pages, soft cover, perfect bound. size 6' by 9'.

Originally Copyrighted1950. The combined set published in 1976