The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel - Harry Lorayne Magic Book-1st Edition-Close-Up

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The Card Classics of Ken
Krenzel
by Harry Lorayne
Title: The Card Classics of Ken
Krenzel
Author:
Harry Lorayne
Publisher
: Richard Kaufman
Publication Date: 1978
Hardcover
Book Size: 6 ¼ X 9 ¼
Pages: 254
Edition: 1
st
Edition
Book Condition: Very Good+ - Pages clean & tight, Bumped corners & minor shelf wear
Dust Jacket Condition: None
I dare to say that this is one if the most underestimated books on card magic. For people that consider themselves "move-monkeys", the dinner has been served. There are many sleights in this book, including some really odd ones such as a bottom deal done at the fingertips and a "Tilt" move executed from the front.
My favorite item in this book has the most awesome title ever; "Two-Card Fan Lift Switch, Reversal, Palm". It's exactly that: a two card, fan lift switch, a reversal and a palm. It sounds nuts, because it is nuts.
There is also a great amount of routines utilizing the sleights taught in the book. Amongst variations of classic plots, you will find several original to Mr.
Krenzel
. For example, one interesting routine in the book is a Collectors routine done backwards: three selections vanish from in between the aces, instead of the other way around!
Ever heard of "The Mechanical Reverse"? This book contains
Krenzel's
original
writeup
for the move (although for the history buffs, there is some dispute over the fact that Ron
Wohl
published it before
Krenzel
). It's a great covered half pass that should be in every card magician's arsenal.
Ken
Krenzel's
description of the
Classic
Pass
has been regarded as one of the best, and it really is thorough. Several other shifts original to Ken
Krenzel
are also discussed in the book.
As you can probably tell, this book isn't for people with a mild interest in card magic. This is for the fanatics who get turned on by Two-Card Fan Lift Switch, Reversal, Palms and other such technical card magic. I love the book and if that kind of move excites you, you're going to love it too!
Contents
vii Foreword (Harry Lorayne)
ix Foreword (Ken
Krenzel
)
Section One
13 The Natural Double Lift
16 The Natural Multiple Lift
18 The Natural Multiple Lift Plus
19 Stop Me
22 All the Way
24 One-hand Stop
26 The Drag Lift
31 The Pressure Hideout
33 To Indicate the Future
37 Spectator Sympathy
41 Two-card Fan Lift Switch Reversal Palm
Section Two
45 The Invisible Bottom Reverse
49 The Finger Stab
52 The Invisible Reverse Transfer
54 The Direct Reverse
55 Magnetic Aces
57 Get the Message
59 At Any Number
60 Three Transfers
62 The "One-card" Double Lift
65 A Card Sandwich
66 The Four-ace Trap
Section Three
70 Turn Blue
72 The Optical Sandwich
74 Mental Matrix
77 The Peek Corner Crimp
79 The Magic Bullet
83 The Ultimate Tunnel
89 Variation of to Catch an Ace #6
91 The Princess
94
KK's
HHH (Hand-heel-holdout)
100 Kaleidoscope 10-hand Poker Deal
Section Four
105 The Impromptu
Zig
Zag
109 The Impromptu Sympathetic Ten
113 The Multiple Cop Progressive Aces
117 Mechanical Spell
120 Mechanical Poker
122
KK's
Handling of the Panoramic Shift
125 The Panoramic Shift Add-on
127 The Panoramic Plunger
128 The Miracle Multiple Peek
Section Five
135 The Pivot Pop-out
140 The Eerie Spin-out
144 The Impromptu Haunted Deck
146 Rip-off
148 Instant Appearance
150 Cut Propulsion
153 Ken's Riffle-shuffle Stack
156 The "Strange" Riffle Shuffle
159 The Tilt Sandwich
160 The Front Tilt
Section Six
164 Ken's
Kolor
Finesse
168 The Purist's Mini Hofzinser
173 Force-
eps
174 Force-
eps
Royal Marriages
177 Down-down-down
182 The Card Catch
186 Fan Steal
189 The Squeeze Steal
192 The Broadside Steal
Section Seven
197 The Classic Pass
204 The K-E Pass
207 The Mechanical Reverse
209 The Vanishing Collectors
212 The One-card Middle Pass
214 One-card Middle Pass #2
215 One-card Middle Pass to the Top
216 The Block Cover Pass
218 The Block-cover Pass Immediate Spell
219 The Block-cover Pass Two-card Control
220 The Dribble Pass
222 The Dribble Force
Section Eight
226 The Fingertip Bottom Deal
229 The Thumb-grip Bottom Deal
231 Slow Motion Bottom Deal
233 A Middle Deal
235 The One-hand Middle Deal
238 The Surefire Second Deal
Section Nine
243 OMM Handling
245 The Slip Shuffle
247 Last Card Push
248 The Instant Drop-switch Get-ready
250 The Floating Cut
254 Last Word
Harry Lorayne (born 1926)
Harry Lorayne is an American magician and a memory-training specialist and writer who was called "The Yoda of Memory Training" by Time magazine. He is well known for his mnemonic demonstrations and has appeared on numerous television shows including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His book The Memory Book was a New York Times bestseller. His card magic, especially his innovations in card sleights, is widely emulated by amateur and professional magicians.
He grew up in
New York
's Lower East Side and he learned sleight of hand at the
Hamilton
Fish
Park
in the 1930s. At age 18, he began to perform as a table magician at Billy Reed's Little Club at
70 E. 55th St.
in
New York
. He began appearing on national television in 1958 (after hosting a local show of his own in 1951, The Prof. Magic Show), first on I've Got a Secret, where he demonstrated his ability to remember everybody's name in the audience and later appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and numerous other television shows including Jack
Paar
, The
Merv
Griffin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Regis
Philbin
Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, That's Incredible & David
Susskind
. He performed 24 times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
To demonstrate his memory, Harry Lorayne would stand beside the president of the club he was visiting and be introduced to each member. The number of members of a club could reach up to 1,500. After an hour and a half, Lorayne would speak about memory for about 20 minutes and then ask if anyone had a question. He promised that he would pay any questioner whose name he could not remember a thousand dollars. He always remembered the names of every member of the audience. Lorayne also made news by memorizing and recalling information from phone books with no errors. He had a memory school in
New York
employing such instructors as Darwin Ortiz. His video course (MEMORY POWER) was used as part of the training of many top corporations.
Harry Lorayne is a prolific author of memory training books intended for the public, as well as writing books for professional magicians. His ''The Memory Book'' has sold over two million copies, whilst in Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan writes that he read
Lorayne's
book shortly before breaking through as a music star after finding it in the book collection of a friend. For twenty years, Lorayne wrote and published the monthly magazine Apocalypse. He is also a columnist for Genii magazine.
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