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Essential Sol Stone – Stephen Hobbs: At long last, legendary New York magician Sol Stone’s best effects have been collected in a single volume. Here are more than 50 of Sol’s favorite effects – including some of his best-kept secrets – all completely updated and rewritten with the full routines and Sol’s latest improvements.
The Essential Sol Stone also shares Sol’s life story, from his childlike wonderment at experiencing the Thurston show, to describing his near-death experience during World War II. Also described is his use of magic as diplomacy; his years on the faculty of Brooklyn College and his successful private practice as a clinical psychologist. Sol Stone unusually combined having a thriving professional career with being an excellent magician – not a lightweight, but a true master of the art of entertaining with close-up magic.
The book describes many different subtleties in Sol Stone’s vast arsenal of magic. Magicians of all levels can learn from this master of illusion.
First softcover edition. Published by Meir Yedid Magic. Written by Stephen Hobbs, edited by Richard Kaufman, 350+ crystal clear illustrations by Cassidy J. Alexander.
As a special bonus, this book includes Sol Stone’s first, and little-known, book Patter Punches, published by Abbott’s Magic in 1947 and includes 400+ jokes and one-liners that have a whopping 40 topics.
304 pages, approx. 15 x 23 cm, nice book in English.
