A VBO FROM MAGIC DREAM EDITIONS!

Judging by the books published in recent years, so-called automatic or semi-automatic card tricks have finally left the purgatory to which the elite of contemporary cardicians had relegated them, since many of their own creations now belong to this once-despised genre.

Like the previous anthologies offered by Richard Vollmer, this new gathering is more a capricious bouquet than an ingeniously composed mosaic; there's no point looking for a common thread, a cleverly orchestrated progression, or a balanced distribution by type of effect. Each of the ninety-five tricks in the collection, most of which are original and unpublished, is explained in the smallest detail so that the beginner you may be can have the full description of its handling without having to look elsewhere for the explanation of an important phase.

None of them requires, strictly speaking, any particular dexterity or know-how, the mystery resting essentially on simple and secret arrangements of cards, ingenious mathematical and topological principles, psychological ruses, as well as features intrinsic to the cards themselves. It is all these means, more or less subtle, unknown or little-known to laypeople, used alone or in combination, that make up the invisible gears of an inexorable mechanism controlling the hidden movements of the cards among themselves to produce incomprehensible effects without any suspicious or surreptitious moves — in short, as if by magic!

Chances are this exceptional book, aimed as much at beginners as at seasoned cardicians, will rid those who still have any of all preconceptions and prejudices against these extraordinary tricks that work by themselves... or almost!

A word about the author:

To date, he has about a hundred books to his name. Over time, Richard Vollmer has translated most of them from English. About ten come directly from his own pen. He knows the best cardicians and mentalists in the world. The elite of world magic hold court in his office: H. Lorraine, Paul Curry, Roberto Giobbi, J. Bannon, Tony Corinda, David Berglas, Tommy Wonder, Barrie Richardson, Martin Gardner, Joshua Jay, Th. Annemann, Dai Vernon, Ed Marlo, Darwin Ortiz, Simon Aronson, Aldo Colombini, and many more I'm forgetting, all jostle on the shelves lining the walls of his magical den. The knowledge of each name is now accessible thanks to his skills. There the spirit blows of all those whose minds (and secrets) he has entered during the long hours spent translating the ruses and subtleties that made them famous!

Richard Vollmer does his show every day in front of his computer. His stage is the keyboard and mouse. As they get busy, the astonishing routines are born that will let you mystify your spectators.

236 pages – Format 16.5 x 23.5 cm – Soft color cover