ハードカバー。著者トミー・ワンダー。2巻組。第1巻 327ページ。第2巻 342ページ。
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Attention-Getting Devices
Getting the Mis Out of Misdirection
Tough Customers
Ricochet
Travel Tales of Mr. Pip
Magic Ranch
The Mind Movie
Fabricated
The Architect
Elizabeth III
Failureffects
Here and Not
The Pavlov Effect
Post-ultimate Rip-off
Counting Cards, Unnatural Rhythms and Other Problems
The Poltergeist Pack
Walk, Don’t Run
Carpenter’s Revenge
Rubik’s Card
Concerning Eye Contact
The Shrinking Card-case
Falling Pips
Card Holdout
Ambi-tilt
The Two-second Card Fold
The Card in the Ringbox
Squeeze
All That Glitters
The Pip-eating Spider
The Origin of Originality
The Wondereverse
Déjá ReVurse
Breath Control
Master or Servant?
The Tamed Card
The Creative Process
The Tamed Card
The Kickoff
Card Forcing
Confidence
Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Fictitious Danger
An Examination of Examinations
High and Low
The Family Three
Reset
Presentations In Silver
Coins Across and Back with Interlude
Mud in Your Eye
When Tricks Become Transparent
Sweet and Sour Simplicity
Cigarette Through Quarter
And Here I Have…
Counterfeiter’s Spellbound
Group Encounters
Dealers
Date with an Inflatable Bunny
Rabbit Rouser
Practical Thinking
The Tobacco Exchange
Emotional Involvement
The Improved Hydrostatic Glass
Acting is Not Making Faces
Auto-link
The Paradox of Money and Success
The Ring, the Watch and the Wallet
The Three Pillars
In the Trenches
Sit or Stand?
The Essence of Close-Up
A Table-worker’s Table
Facing the Music
Fifty Percent Lighter
Secondhand Drama
The Saving of a Cigarette
Amateur vs. Pro
Splitting the Profit
Approaching the Table
Toss and Turn
Our Big Happy Family
Clear Through
The Sensitivity of the Audience
Through the Eye of the Needle
When We Are Not Amused
Winged Signatures
And Now a Brief Message
Acetabula Et Calculi
Cups and Balls – A Private History
Loads
Loading Techniques
Chop Cup Load
A Three Cup Load
Keep on Polishing
The Two-cup Routine
Applause
Finger Sprints
Recalcitrant
Phase One The Vanish of the Case
Phase Two the Case Returns
Phase Three The Transposition
Phase Four The Case Comes Back Again
Conflict and Emotion
The Snail’s Progress
Colors Three and Through
Commercial
Perpetual Motion
A Sequence with Balls
The Big One
Shaking Them Off
Department of Utilities
Now That Was a Great Magician!
The Tails Topit
The Belly Servante
Force and Its Disguise
On the Pendulum Holdout
The Frozen Lock
Utility Devices
Mechanical Marvels
High Roads and Long
The Well-Tempered Birdcage
The Express Pull
Thoughts in Mid-air
Animating a Zombie
A Recipe for Art
The Watch in Nest of Boxes
Method One
Method Two
Method Three
Too Perfect?
