Any time someone sets down in print their life\u2019s work, it deserves your attention. When that person has spent some 60 years performing, writing, inventing and thinking magic, you can be sure it will be no ordinary book. Eric Lewis is just such a person, and there is certainly nothing ordinary about A Choice of Miracles.<\/p>\n
This two-time winner of the Magic Castle\u2019s \u201cStage Magician of the Year\u201d award needs no introduction to the magic fraternity. He is one of the art\u2019s most respected practitioners, and this is his life\u2019s story. Through these pages you will see a young Eric Lewis grow into a polished performer. You will gain insight into Eric\u2019s personal friends such as John Ramsay, Will Goldston, Robert Harbin, Dante, and many, many more. You\u2019ll read dozens of fascinating anecdotes told by a master story teller. And, of course, Eric will teach you his magic. Whether you prefer children\u2019s magic, mentalism, close-up, platform, cabaret, stage, comedy or serious magic, A Choice of Miracles has something for everyone. It contains dozens of time-tested effects skimmed from a lifetime of performing. Many consider Eric Lewis the finest illustrator in magic today, and Volume I of this trilogy contains 185 detailed examples of his artwork.<\/p>\n
Book Number One covers Eric\u2019s life and magic up until the outbreak of World War Two. Volume II (which is already written and illustrated) is even larger than this first book. Volume III will continue the story up to the present, and complete the set. We fully expect this set of books to become a standard work in all magic libraries. No working pro or collector can afford to be without it. We take great pleasure in offering this book to our fellow magicians.<\/p>\n
Contents<\/b>:<\/p>\n
10 Publisher\u2019s Note
\n11 Introduction (Charlie Miller)
\n13 Foreword<\/p>\n
15\u00a0Chapter I In The Beginning<\/u>
\n19 The Great Super-Colossal Jumbo Card-Pip Trick
\n24 The Alarm Clock Production
\n26 An Introductory Item
\n28 Four In Hand<\/p>\n
33\u00a0Chapter II And Then Came The Magicians<\/u>
\n35 The \u201cPump And Guess\u201d Card Discovery<\/p>\n
43\u00a0Chapter III \u201cWell I Never\u201d<\/u>
\n44 A Broken And Restored Wand
\n45 Visibly Through
\n47 The Multiplying Wands
\n50 Merely A Mistake
\n52 A Useful Forcing Device (Divinadisc)
\n54 Magical Pictures
\n56 Playing With Fire
\n57 The Book Of Spells<\/p>\n
61\u00a0Chapter IV A Magical Mentality<\/u>
\n63 Off And On The Ribbon
\n65 The Strange Letter
\n66 The Walking-Cane Suspension
\n70 Silk Over Head, Plus<\/p>\n
73\u00a0Chapter V Commercial Magic In the Early Thirties<\/u>
\n74 Through a Half-Inch Hole
\n77 The Locked Books Release
\n79 Card Castles
\n81 A Self-Erecting Card-Castle Table
\n83 The Case of the Curious Cubes
\n85 Curiouser and Curiouser
\n89 The \u201cMiracle\u201d Passing Cards
\n91 The Improved \u201cZen\u2019s\u201d Switch
\n93 The Queen of the Air<\/p>\n
99\u00a0Chapter VI Oriental Frolic<\/u>
\n101 The Penetrating Flower Pot
\n104 Comedy Flower Growth
\n105 The Chinese Hat
\n106 Dual Lantern Production
\n108 A Modern Chinese Lamp Stand Production
\n111 A Multiple Lantern Production
\n113 A Surprising Lantern
\n114 The Mystery of the Triple Temple<\/p>\n
119\u00a0Chapter VII \u201c\u2026Except Thee and Me\u2026\u201d<\/u>
\n128 If All The World Were Wine
\n129 The Convocational Jacks
\n131 An Everlit Match
\n132 Chris Van Bern\u2019s Mirror Mystery<\/p>\n
135\u00a0Chapter VIII Three From \u201933<\/u>
\n136 Archie Byford\u2019s Living and Dead Test
\n137 Cups and Balls For the Stage
\n145 The Shrinking Wand<\/p>\n
149\u00a0Distant Drums<\/u>
\n150 The Art of the Magician, by The Great Levante, 1936
\n152 Magic as a Business, by The Great Levante, 1937
\n154 Novel Nemocracy With Numbers
\n156 A Remarkable Record
\n159 The Obedient Cigarette Paper
\n160 Hallucination
\n163 The Educated Silk
\n165 The Unexpected Glass<\/p>\n
169\u00a0Chapter X Magic For Moderns<\/u>
\n170 A Convincing Color-Change Wand
\n172 The Vanishing Tube
\n174 The Quadrifid Cards
\n176 The Golden Arrow<\/p>\n
XI\u00a0The Calm Before<\/u>
\n180 The Eric Lewis Natural False Count
\n181 \u201cA Little Trick with Eight Cards\u201d
\n182 The Sharper Sharped
\n184 The Natural Put-Back Count
\n185 The \u2018Streamlined\u201d Cards to Pocket
\n189 Fantasm
\n191 The Big-Little Joker Transposition
\n193 The Electric Bulb Penetration
\n196 The Mutilated Note
\n198 Two-Color Paper Routine<\/p>\n
XII\u00a0The Storm<\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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