Marlo Without Tears (Jon Racherbaumer)

Description

This is a pre-owned book. Good clean condition inside and out. The dust cover has some minor faults but is complete and intact. Author/Editor: Jon Racherbaumer; Publisher: A Korem Publication; Date: 1983; First edition; Hardbound; Black cloth with gilt stamping on spine; Pictorial dust jacket;  Illustrated; 317 pages.

Edward Marlo is a phenomenon who has unquestionably made an indelible mark in the world of magic. In the past forty years he has published numerous innovative and influential books, plus an impressive number of articles for various magazines. The Complete Marlo Bibliography is still incomplete, but at last count there are over 1500 items, covering 3200 pages of text, and over 57 books! Over and above this remarkable prolificacy is the consistent superiority of the material itself. And all of it chronicles his long, ardent, and fastidious love affair with the pasteboards. Marlo Without Tears is another fascinating chapter in the Marlovian quest for the Real Work.

Jon Racherbaumer, in his own words, is “a conscientious dilettante, who strives to discover useful and lasting material and then translate it into readable books and articles.” He is the author of eighteen books and manuscripts, including the best-selling CARD FINESSE and THE ASCANIO SPREAD. He is also the controversial and innovative publisher of Hierophant, Kabbala, and Sticks & Stones, magazines that continue to inform and stimulate the cognoscenti. He has also contributed over 100 items to various magic magazines.

Of Marlo he has said, “It’s been my goal to infuse my writings with the same kind of enthusiasm and esprit evoked by Marlo’s actual performances to somehow show Marlo’s marvelous thinking, while giving a vicarious sense of life to the dead reckoning of dry, technical prose.”

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
FRONT ROOM FINESSE

The Two-Second Side Steal
The 380-Degree Tilt
The Bomb Door Card
The Marnase Bottom Deal
The Hittop Change
For Crimp’s Sake

NEW-WAVE CARDSTUFF

The Money Card
Bite The Bullet
Non-Saliva Vanish
Vernon Mental Force Handling
Barroom Poker
False Count Spell

PRIME CUTS

Double Underpeel Cut
The Olram Bottom Slip Cut
Combi-Null Cuts
From The Mind Of A Cardician

CLASSICS

Devilish Miracle Redux
Leipzig Would Have Loved This!
A Hull Of A Trick
Less Cards Marlo
Future Classic Double-Cross

BLUFF BUSINESS

A Tasty Bluff Sandwich
Bluff Ace-X-Ace
Bluff Miracle
The Real, Honest-To-God Bluff Cut
Second-Hand Bluff Cut

LOCUS-POCUS

Impossible?
Locus-Pocus

GOING MENTAL

Nouveau 21-Card Trick
Blind Mentalism
Tears Without Tears
Reading In Triplicate
The 27-Card Trick: Streamlined
14-14-14 Prediction
Self-Locating Predictions

EASY CHAIR SLEIGHTS

New-Approach Propelled Lapping
Direct Lapping Move
Screened Propelled Lapping
Fake Propelled Lapping

MORE CLASSICS

Of Course I Can Deal A Good Poker Hand!
A Subtile Triumph
The Four Eightses Classic
Clearly Oil and Water
It’s Only Us Chickens!

OVER EASY

About Facing
Subtile Fanover
Dressed Up Reverse

CLASSIC PALMS

Wrist Turn Palm
Turnover Palm
Future Classic Palm

MORE FRONT ROOM FINESSE

The End Tap Pass
Topping Thompson’s Pass
Convincing Convincer
The Roman Pick-up Control
The L-C-M Control
The C-S Control

CHANGING (EX-CHANGING) OF THE CARDS

Natural Deck Switch
Fan Swap-out
Drop-off Switch
Switchout Sidelights

BONUS EFFECTS

Olram’s Open Prediction
The Un-Stapled Cards
Latest Observation Test
The Smug Departure
Tears Without Tears 2
Face-up Poker Deals

ENVOI