Very good condition. Copy 308 out of 1000, signed by Gertrude & Les Smith.
Here is the long anticipated Vol. 2 of Keep the Wheels Turning collection. Now you can read the story of Floyd Thayer too in this fabulous companion volume.
Details: The most comprehensive and authoritatively researched volume regarding the life, heritage, times and associates of the man who most influenced magic in his own era and beyond, is now offered to the magical fraternity. This book chronicles a century of magical events with which Floyd Thayer was involved.
Over 25 years and thousands of hours of meticulous research were utilized before its final production. Twelve chapters in 372 pages of historical data, maps, charts, and anecdotes are illustrated with over 200 actual photographs and hundreds of line drawings; most never seen by this generation of magicians.
These unusual and rare photographs will take you back to those intriguing times of yesterday and give you an indepth insight into the foundations of today’s magical show business. Many of the actual blueprints and drawings used by The Thayer Manufacturing Company are completely delineated in this volume.
Seventeen pages in full color including a full color portrait of Floyd Thayer are bound in this book. There are numerous reproductions of Floyd Thayer’s drawings of magic props and clips from several of his personal scrapbooks.
Finally, in keeping with volume I, the book is meticulously handbound in black leather and green linen fabric then gold stamped with title, logo and trademark. Issued in a limited, numbered edition and signed by the authors, Les and Gertrude Smith.
Contents:
Chapter 1 – Floyd’s Heritage 1
Chapter 2 – Floyd’s Upbringing 11
Chapter 3 – From Teen to Manhood 31
Chapter 4 – Prelude 45
Chapter 5 – The Fulfillment of a Dream 63
Chapter 6 – Another Dream Realized 79
Chapter 7 – After Brookledge 101
Chapter 8 – Associated Characters 117
Chapter 9 – L.A.S.M. and Other Magic Clubs 147
Color Section 163
Chapter 10 – A Business of Tricks or the Tricks of Business 179
Chapter 11 – Illusions and Stage Magic 201
Battle of the Toy Soldiers
Confusion in the Ark
Confusion in the Ark (Carl Owen)
Vanish of a Caged Parrot
Larsen’s Girl Without a Middle
Jack in the Box
Chef’s Nightmare
Triple Trunk Mystery
Girl in The Hammock
Hoist for Girl in Hammock
American Indian Torture Tie
Paper Target Escape
Bullet-Proof Girl
Topsy-Turvy Miss
Chocolate Soldier
Merry Widow
Billiard Ball Backdrop and Stand
Wheel of Torture
Crash! The Death Slide
Challenge Milk Can Escape
Jacobsen Milk Can Escape
Enemy Torture Cage Escape
Improved Substitution Trunk
Through the Needle’s Eye
Pigeon Catching
Famous Barrel Escape
Hindu Rope Trick
Egyptian Talking Vase
Talking Tea Pot
Talking Genii Lamp
The Talking Buddha
Spirito (Carl Owen)
The Arm Amputation Illusion
Clocks on Ribbons
Die and Clock Exchange
Kellar Levitation Mystery
Chapter 12 – Small Magic and Apparatus – The Wood Turner’s Art 277
Yo! Ho! Ho! and a Bottle of Rum
The Tom Sellers’ Rising Cards
The Die and Box of Flags
The Changing Card Tray
Thayer’s Simplex Real Half Dollar Vanisher
Flower and Vase Production
Lodgings for Two
The Enchanted Tube
The Mystic Box and Lucky Die
The Big Egg
Ball Vases
The Vanishing Lamp
The Bran Plates
Button Button
New Model Tumbler Pedestal
Poko Chinko
The Obedient Orange
Cone and Billiard Ball
The Apple and Orange Trick
The Fortune Telling Ball
The Flying Handkerchief and Candle
The Turntable Stand
Golly Wobble Bottle
King Felton’s Blindfold
Three Types of Imp Bottle
Thayer’s New Color Passe Passe
Cups and Balls
Flag and Candle
Patriotic Billiard Balls
The Mysterious Ink Bottle
Transpo-Chango Hanko
Coin Plug Box
Morison Pill Box and Billiard Ball Shell Mallet
Bran Vase
The Croquet Trick
The Candle that Was
Simplex Tumbler Pedestal
Lloyd Chamber’s Tenacious Ball
The Mummy Case
Eli’s Die Box
Nic’s Napkins
The Triple Tube Vanish
The Wine and Water Trick
Dr. “Q’s” Mysterious Want Ad Test
Glass Go
Cannonball Vase
The Orange and Lemon Mystery
A New Mystical Coin Act
Candle to Bouquet
Snuff Box Vase
Hat and Cane to Table
Thayer Foo Can
Gavel
Billiard Ball Pedestal
Hollow Egg – Silk Pull – Nikko – Hindu Cup
Hindu Water Tube
The Dye Tube
Turn of the Tide
Pipe Stand
Thayer’s Card Rising Tray
Ovette’s Chinese Tea Chest
The Acrobatic Match Box
The Perfection Flag Trick
Magical Scraps
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