Card Craft Reprint?

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Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Guest » February 23rd, 2003, 8:05 pm

I believe I read somewhere on the net that Hartman's "Card Craft" is being reprinted in 2003? i hope it is because I have wanted this book for many years. Anyone heard about this?

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » February 23rd, 2003, 8:37 pm

Card Craft WILL be reprinted this year.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Chris Aguilar » March 22nd, 2003, 9:30 pm

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:
Card Craft WILL be reprinted this year.
Richard, Pardon me for asking.

Any ballpark figure as to how much the reprints will cost?

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 22nd, 2003, 10:11 pm

I am actually in the process of selling part of my publishing business. I will not be the person reprinting Card Craft.
It will be up to the new publisher to make that choice. The cost of printing Card Craft is equal to the cost of printing Greater Magic, so my guess is that it will cost about $75.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Chris Aguilar » March 23rd, 2003, 8:08 am

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:
I am actually in the process of selling part of my publishing business.
Thanks so much for the "heads up" Richard.

Will the selling of part of your publishing business affect other books you currently have in the pipeline like the Jennings and Sankey books?

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 23rd, 2003, 8:20 am

The Sankey book will go along in the deal to the new guy: I didn't write it. I have not sold any of the books I've written (and that means I've kept, and will finish, the Jennings books).
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby David Regal » March 24th, 2003, 10:56 am

Richard - Is it true you have sold your business to Jeff Busby?

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 24th, 2003, 12:09 pm

Uh ... that would be NO.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Pete McCabe » March 24th, 2003, 4:12 pm

Richard --

Is it true you sold Genii magazine to David Regal?

If not, think about it. He already writes half the damn thing anyway.

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 24th, 2003, 6:51 pm

No ... David wrote a quarter of the April issue for which I am deeply grateful, but I don't think he'd want to own Genii. In fact, after four and a half years of publishing it, I can't imagine that anyone in his or her right mind would want it knowing the work involved. Just spent most of the day writing up a coin routine for the June Magicana.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Frank Tougas » March 24th, 2003, 8:41 pm

Richard,

Just received my new copy of Copperfield's Project Magic Book. I had one from long ago, it was a pretty grotesque thing, looked like it was mimeographed. I see the new version is worth every penny it cost ($40.00) and has your indelible mark of quality on it. Even though the tricks are basic and mostly public domain, the book itself is a thing of beauty and worthy of being in any magicians library. I appreciate what you do for the magic community.

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Guest » March 27th, 2003, 1:14 pm

What's the difference between Kaufman Publishing and Kaufman & Greenberg Publishing? When a new project came out, did Mr. Greenberg then make a decision whether he wants to be involved? Just curious.

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 27th, 2003, 9:14 pm

The difference is that Alan Greenberg financed the publication of all the books published by Kaufman and Greenberg.
We dissolved our agreement, and thereafter books were published by Kaufman and Company.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Guest » April 5th, 2003, 9:47 pm

Card Craft reprint is great news! Richard, do you have any idea as to a date that "Card Craft" will be out? Thanks!

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Guest » February 13th, 2004, 3:31 pm

Hello,

The above mentioned Card Craft reprint in 2003 seems not to have happened. Has the publishing schedule slipped to 2004? Or have the plans to reprint it been cancelled? :(

Thanks for any info you can share,
David Keith Gonda

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Guest » April 25th, 2007, 2:19 am

Any concrete new about the Card Craft reprint?
Thanks in advance.

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Guest » April 25th, 2007, 3:13 pm

Looks like 2005 is the soonest it could come out now :(

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Jim Martin » January 6th, 2010, 11:59 am

Richard Kaufman wrote:Card Craft WILL be reprinted this year.


I'm reviving this February '03 thread to see if I missed the plans for this book. Was it reprinted then?

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » January 6th, 2010, 12:24 pm

No, it has never been reprinted. The book is essentially too big and too expensive to reprint in relation to the demand.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Jim Martin » January 6th, 2010, 12:33 pm

Thanks for the update.
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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Evan Shuster » January 10th, 2010, 11:23 am

That's disappointing. I have been hoping for a reprint for some time now. I would have thought (given the going rate for used copies) that it would have been more in demand. Perhaps in time...

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Re: Card Craft Reprint?

Postby Richard Kaufman » January 10th, 2010, 12:43 pm

The price for used copies has been dropping over the past few years.
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