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Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Christopher1979 » October 20th, 2017, 10:18 pm

It is evident beyond any doubt that Charlie Miller was in a class of his own when it came to the things he could do with a pack of cards. I am fascinated with the almost mythical presence he holds among many card workers that were around to see him at his best. I know that Ricky Jay was partly taught by Miller. It seems unbelievable that so little of his work is in print? or did he just keep his secrets to himself? If any of you have stories you could share about him or point me in the right direction regarding any published works of the great man i would be very grateful!.

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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Leonard Hevia » October 20th, 2017, 10:34 pm

You can start here:

http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php ... lie_Miller

Harry Riser teaches Miller's second deal and other card moves in Secrets of an Escamoteur.

There are Miller effects in Expert Card Technique.

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Postby Christopher1979 » October 20th, 2017, 10:38 pm

Leonard Hevia wrote:You can start here:

http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php ... lie_Miller

Harry Riser teaches Miller's second deal and other card moves in Secrets of an Escamoteur.

There are Miller effects in Expert Card Technique.



Hi Leonard,

Thank you very much for the link and book suggestion. I would be interested to see what type of Second deal Miller did!
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Postby lybrary » October 20th, 2017, 10:39 pm

Magic Inc. has published some booklets by Charlie Miller. We have two of them as PDFs. You can check them out here https://www.lybrary.com/charlie-miller-m-134097.html But I am sure Magic Inc still offers them as printed booklets. I assume you know that there is also a good amount of him in Genii magazine and some articles in Magic magazine.
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Postby Christopher1979 » October 20th, 2017, 10:51 pm

lybrary wrote:Magic Inc. has published some booklets by Charlie Miller. We have two of them as PDFs. You can check them out here https://www.lybrary.com/charlie-miller-m-134097.html But I am sure Magic Inc still offers them as printed booklets. I assume you know that there is also a good amount of him in Genii magazine and some articles in Magic magazine.


Thank you!, yes, i am aware of the material printed in Genii and such. I was interested in the way he preformed his Seconds, Centers and Bottoms along with any of the other "Gambling type" sleights
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Postby Christopher1979 » October 20th, 2017, 10:54 pm

lybrary wrote:Magic Inc. has published some booklets by Charlie Miller. We have two of them as PDFs. You can check them out here https://www.lybrary.com/charlie-miller-m-134097.html But I am sure Magic Inc still offers them as printed booklets. I assume you know that there is also a good amount of him in Genii magazine and some articles in Magic magazine.


Who has a copy of The Magic of Charlie Miller typescript.... i would be very interested in seeing that :!:
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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Q. Kumber » October 21st, 2017, 4:09 am

There's a detailed review of his show in The Jinx #140
There's video footage of him performing on The Magic Palace TV Shows at http://www.magicana.com/screening-room

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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby JustinM » October 21st, 2017, 8:19 am

He performs a No. 2 here.... Christopher, what type of No. 2, do you use?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkeJggTnN1Y

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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Q. Kumber » October 21st, 2017, 11:17 am

JustinM wrote:He performs a No. 2 here....


Could you rephrase that please.

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Postby Christopher1979 » October 21st, 2017, 11:46 am

Q. Kumber wrote:
JustinM wrote:He performs a No. 2 here....


Could you rephrase that please.


Hahaha, thats funny
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Postby Christopher1979 » October 21st, 2017, 11:50 am

Q. Kumber wrote:
JustinM wrote:He performs a No. 2 here....


Could you rephrase that please.


Its basically a Strike second but my own variation
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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Leonard Hevia » October 21st, 2017, 11:58 am

More Miller fodder for you Chris: An interesting Charlie Miller card trick post on the Double Deal card magic blog:

https://doubledeal.wordpress.com/tag/charlie-miller/

It helps to own Karl Fulves' The Pallbearers Review to locate the effect though.

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Postby Christopher1979 » October 21st, 2017, 12:30 pm

Leonard Hevia wrote:More Miller fodder for you Chris: An interesting Charlie Miller card trick post on the Double Deal card magic blog:

https://doubledeal.wordpress.com/tag/charlie-miller/

It helps to own Karl Fulves' The Pallbearers Review to locate the effect though.


Thank you Leonard, i think i will have to get a copy(s) of Pallbearer. I think i am more interested in his variations of certain sleights rather than the actually effect.
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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Jeff Pierce Magic » October 21st, 2017, 5:18 pm

I have these Miller notes in my library:

The Magic of Charles Earle (Charlie) Miller, 1961, compiled by Frank Csuri
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 1966, Magic Inc.
Charlie Miller on the Card Index, Magic Inc.
A Lecture on Impromptu Magic, no date
Miller's Mutterings, no date

If anyone knows of others I'd be interested in knowing.

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Postby Christopher1979 » October 21st, 2017, 7:23 pm

Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:I have these Miller notes in my library:

The Magic of Charles Earle (Charlie) Miller, 1961, compiled by Frank Csuri
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 1966, Magic Inc.
Charlie Miller on the Card Index, Magic Inc.
A Lecture on Impromptu Magic, no date
Miller's Mutterings, no date

If anyone knows of others I'd be interested in knowing.

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There is The Magic of Charlie Miller typescript which on researching i found there was only 6 none copies printed! I gather you are not one of the six :)
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Postby Christopher1979 » October 21st, 2017, 7:24 pm

Christopher1979 wrote:
Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:I have these Miller notes in my library:

The Magic of Charles Earle (Charlie) Miller, 1961, compiled by Frank Csuri
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 1966, Magic Inc.
Charlie Miller on the Card Index, Magic Inc.
A Lecture on Impromptu Magic, no date
Miller's Mutterings, no date

If anyone knows of others I'd be interested in knowing.

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There is The Magic of Charlie Miller typescript which on researching i found there was only 6 none copies printed! I gather you are not one of the six :)[/quote

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Re: Charlie Miller's published works...

Postby Bill Mullins » October 21st, 2017, 7:27 pm

He is listed as an author of Larry Jennings on Card and Coin Handling, along with Nina Jennings, Jeff Busby and Jules Lenier (published and edited by Busby, 1977). (reprint of chop cup routine from Genii, 1965)

Also:
"Ball and Hat Routine" Tops Jul 1941
"Spinning Card", "Sucker Color Change" The Bat Jul 1947
Rope trick, Ireland's Trick Talk, Autumn 1959
trick in "Card Man's Corner" Ireland's Year Book, 1959
Instructions for Malini Egg Bag, as sold with the bag, Magic Inc 1968
"Die Cast" Magick Nov 5 1971
"The Slicker Didn't Know I was Slicker Than He Was!" Talisman
"Delicate Touch of Charlie Miller" Magick Jul 31 1971
"Puff of Smoke" Magick Mar 10 1972
"Cigarette Pack Magic" Magick Nov 20 1970
"Miller Revisited" Magick Dec 4 1970
"Color Three" Magick Jul 14 1972
"Destiny's Date" Magick Jan 11 1974
"Fu Manchu's Time Capsule" Magick May 30 1975
"Dark Eyes" Magick Jul 1 1983
Introduction to The Magic of Marcom by Ralph Marcom, 1974
Introduction to My Hands Can Be Yours by Steve Spillman, pub LLoyd Jones 1973
Black Art Well Tricks edited by Charlie Miller, published by Magic Inc 1969
"The Rising Pencil" in Magic with Faucett Ross by Lewis Ganson, Supreme, 1980
Introduction to 1975 edition of Poker to Win by Al Smith
"Leipzig Four Ace Trick", "Charlie Miller Peek," "Glimpse," "Shuffle Misdirection," "Hofzinser Left Hand Palm," "Silk Moves Unknotting Silk," "Silk Moves Knot that Isn't," "Card Vanish," "Miller Methods of Peeking," "False Riffle Shuffles," "Charlie Miller Peek," "Shuffle, False Cut," "Six Cards - Miller," "False Counts Four as Three," "False Counts Two as Three" in Fred Braue Notebooks Vol 2 by Braue, pub by Jeff Busby
"Location," "Rosini Vester," "Charlie Miller Notes: To Deal Four as Three, Cards to Pocket, Bamberg's Card Strip, Additional Miller Notes," "A Descriptive Palm for the Cups and Balls," Braue Notebooks vol 3
"Poker Deal," Braue Notebooks vol 5
"My Friend Harry Riser" MUM, Nov 1986
Foreword, Feints and Temps of Harry Riser

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Postby Richard Kaufman » October 21st, 2017, 8:13 pm

Miller is listed as author in the Busby Jennings book because those tricks were taken directly from Genii.
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Postby Jeff Pierce Magic » October 21st, 2017, 8:34 pm

Christopher1979 wrote:
Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:I have these Miller notes in my library:

The Magic of Charles Earle (Charlie) Miller, 1961, compiled by Frank Csuri
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 1966, Magic Inc.
Charlie Miller on the Card Index, Magic Inc.
A Lecture on Impromptu Magic, no date
Miller's Mutterings, no date

If anyone knows of others I'd be interested in knowing.

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There is The Magic of Charlie Miller typescript which on researching i found there was only 6 none copies printed! I gather you are not one of the six :)


I believe but might be wrong that the item you are talking about and the Csuri notes are the same thing, but I could be mistaken. Where did you find that there are only 6 known copies?

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Postby Christopher1979 » October 21st, 2017, 10:39 pm

Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:
Christopher1979 wrote:
Jeff Pierce Magic wrote:I have these Miller notes in my library:

The Magic of Charles Earle (Charlie) Miller, 1961, compiled by Frank Csuri
Charlie Miller Lecture Notes 1966, Magic Inc.
Charlie Miller on the Card Index, Magic Inc.
A Lecture on Impromptu Magic, no date
Miller's Mutterings, no date

If anyone knows of others I'd be interested in knowing.

Jeff Pierce


There is The Magic of Charlie Miller typescript which on researching i found there was only 6 none copies printed! I gather you are not one of the six :)


I believe but might be wrong that the item you are talking about and the Csuri notes are the same thing, but I could be mistaken. Where did you find that there are only 6 known copies?


I just quoted it from - https://www.lybrary.com/charlie-miller-m-134097.html. Are those Csuri notes the same that was auctioned off by Potter and Potter earlier this month? think they made something like $29,000.
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Postby Jeff Pierce Magic » October 21st, 2017, 10:55 pm

The Miller Notes are but 1 of 6 different sets of notes in the csuri files, that were passed around the underground in the 60's and 70's. There are the Miller, Vernon, Dr. Daley, Paul Fox, and I can't think of the other two sets at the moment. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

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Postby Leonard Hevia » October 21st, 2017, 10:59 pm

Christopher1979 wrote:Are those Csuri notes the same that was auctioned off by Potter and Potter earlier this month? think they made something like $29,000.


A complete set of the Csuri notes was auctioned off in the August Jeff Busby Potter auction. That set contained the magic of Vernon, Miller, Woodfield, Daley, Ross, and Fox.

A large collection of correspondence between Miller and Ross was also auctioned off. This cache of letters was the basis for Csuri' s notes on Miller.

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Postby Christopher1979 » October 22nd, 2017, 9:54 am

Leonard Hevia wrote:
Christopher1979 wrote:Are those Csuri notes the same that was auctioned off by Potter and Potter earlier this month? think they made something like $29,000.


A complete set of the Csuri notes was auctioned off in the August Jeff Busby Potter auction. That set contained the magic of Vernon, Miller, Woodfield, Daley, Ross, and Fox.

A large collection of correspondence between Miller and Ross was also auctioned off. This cache of letters was the basis for Csuri' s notes on Miller.


Presumably most of the information in the Csuri files have not been printed anywhere else?...
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Postby Leonard Hevia » October 22nd, 2017, 11:33 am

Christopher1979 wrote:Presumably most of the information in the Csuri files have not been printed anywhere else?...


The Jacob Daley Csuri files were published as the Dr. Daley Notebook, and a portion of the Faucett Ross material was eventually published as well. I don't know what book that would be, perhaps The Magic of Faucett Ross written by Ganson?

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Postby Richard Kaufman » October 22nd, 2017, 12:12 pm

Most of the material in the Csuri notes has been published, with the exception of the Miller material and the Paul Fox material. Aside from the items he published himself, or chose to let others publish, Miller did not want his material published, which is why it has not happened.
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