“He was in ill health, butsaid if I sent him some money he’d sendme some stuff. Harry asked the retiredillusionist if he’d be willing to part withsome handcuffs. Then I got some Burl-ing Hull books, then thought I needed toknow something about handcuffs, so Istarted collecting those.” He even con-tacted The Great Nicola, the famed magi-cian who lived a few hours’ drive north ofHarry in Illinois. The neighbors thought wewere both crazy.” Harry says, “The first acquaintancemade with escapes was Ottokar Fischer’sbook Illustrated Magic, which has a finsection on escapes. He recalls, “The first timewanted to practice an upside-down strait-jacket escape, I put up a block-and-tacklein our yard and had my mother haul meup the tree.

Solomon’s Secrets is a an essential addition to any card enthusiast’s library, providing original, thought provoking material for performance repertoires or simply for the fun of it.Tion himself. At the end of most effects, the reader is invited into “Solomon’s Mind,” to better understand the thinking behind each effect, as well as its development and the ideas which led to its creation. The book's 208 pages are filled with detailed instructions, complemented by over 200 photos that clearly illustrate all sleights, layouts, and procedures.

Among the noteworthy effects explained are Solomon’s Simple Oil and Water, The Finger Print Trick, Folded Discovery, Matcho From a Shuffled Deck, Blah Day Clock, and Spectator Cuts U Count. Solomon’s Secrets includes 50 card effects, among them nuanced performance effects, poker tricks, card matches, mental miracles, updated mathematical approaches, and personal takes on classic plots. Now, he has compiled the best of them in this, his latest must-have volume. Over the last ten years, he has published more than 100 tricks online, in print, and shared them via DVD. David Solomon is one of the nation’s most prolific cardicians, having spent fifty three years seeking out, refining, and inventing the most interesting and fooling methods in the card magic.Ī confidant of Ed Marlo, and a stalwart of the 'Chicago Session' (with John Bannon and Simon Aronson), Solomon has developed his own style and reputation as a creator of superlative and cunning card tricks.

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