The Magic Show (book) – Mark Setteducati / Anne Benkovitz ESTATE

Magic Show book by Mark Setteducati and ; Anne Benkovitz – Rare Out of Print Magic Book

Long out of print, this now rare tome is one of the best magic books ever published (good used condition)

The first-ever self-performing book of illusion, The Magic Show is unlike any other book of magic ever published

–it actually does the tricks and illusions.

The reader is the audience, and the audience will be wonderstruck.

[MAGIC TRICK BOOK]. SETTEDUCATI, Mark and Anne Benkovitz. The Magic Show. Workman Publishing Co., New York: [N.d., ca. 1985].

Large quarto. Measures 10 x 10″. Unpaginated but with 20pp of full-color illustrated boards displaying 12 magic tricks including the front cover incorporated with a sphere wheel that changes color. Near fine with some light wear. Scarce with all parts in tact and unused.

How can a book read your mind? Or carry out a complicated sleight of hand that will leave you utterly astounded? Created by two magic inventors (one a practicing magician and the other a magic-trick designer), and featuring state-of-the-art paper engineering and printing, The Magic Show features 12 no-fail interactive tricks. Pick a card, any card, and the book will accurately guess it every time. Spin the wheel and watch brilliant spheres mysteriously change colors. There’s the Devious Dominoes, the Six Sorcerers, the Artful Aces. Illustrated with four-colour mixed media art, The Magic Show is as exhilarating as sitting front row at a real performance. But with one huge advantage–a convenient “reset” book that’s tucked into the last page allows you, the reader, to reset each trick with or without learning the secrets of the illusions, as well as providing some additional props to further enhance the show.

This is a book unlike any other magic book I have ever read. The book can be performed for others, but can just as easily be performed by and for you, the reader. Not only that but the innovative paper mechanisms employed here are such that you will almost certainly be fooled by at least some of the tricks on first reading, and maybe even all of them. These are not for the most part a rehash of tricks you have seen elsewhere, and if they do use previously seen concepts, they present them with humoor and panache giving them a breath of fresh air.

This is not just only a great book for kids (super easy to perform), but will fool adults too, and even wow professional Magicians.