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What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 10:40 am
by Richard Kaufman
Did you get tricks, books, videos?

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 10:51 am
by John McDonald
Paul Daniels Bravura

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 11:25 am
by smerrill
I received 2 Books

Best of Friends Vol 1

Worlds Beyond

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 11:59 am
by Larry S.
I picked up some items from the Ring sale (local) that my wife then gave to me:
1) Marc De Souza's Chain Gang - I learned a lot from Pop Haydn's DVDs, and figured there'd be some variation here

2) Spring loaded fox - I couldn't resist, even tho it isn't really magic -)

3) 2nd copy of favorite book "Fantasia Mathematica"
which includes the Bruce Elliott story "The Last Magician", who plans to escape from a Klein bottle...

Larry

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 1:34 pm
by Leonard Hevia
I got:

1. The Vernon Companion
2. A Roy Kueppers soft Morgan Flipper
3. A set of brass Paul Fox cups

It's all good...

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 1:47 pm
by Steve Bryant
The Vernon Companion and The Skinner Tapes.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 1:50 pm
by Q. Kumber
The Vernon Companion
John Henry Anderson by Eddie and Michael Dawes (Conjuring Arts)
Classic Fantastic by Paul Vigil.

When I renewed my GENII subscription in November I took advantage of the offer on the Skinner Tapes. Sadly they haven't arrived yet.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 2:08 pm
by Ian Kendall
Classic Correspondence II.

Due to the lateness of the postie, the Vernon Companion has been relegated to early Birthday pressie...

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 2:16 pm
by Richard Kaufman
Quentin, send me an email about your order for The Skinner Tapes and we'll check it.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 3:36 pm
by Marco Pusterla
Vernon Companion
Classic Correspondence II
John Henry Anderson book

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 3:49 pm
by AJM
Classic Collection 5
and,
it's not magic,
Taschen's mahoosive 75 Years of Marvel
(signed by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas).

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 3:56 pm
by Mark Ratekin
I received the Tenyo 2015 collection.

Mark

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:20 pm
by Richard Kaufman
Andrew, let me know how the Taschen book is.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:23 pm
by AJM
Classic Collection 5
and,
it's not magic,
Taschen's mahoosive 75 Years of Marvel
(signed by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas).

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:32 pm
by MaxNY
Vapr...it's ON!

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:37 pm
by AJM
Richard - will send you on some details.

It's certainly looks very impressive.

Andrew

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:38 pm
by Doc Rogers
Several great magical history books
David Ben's biography of Paul Fox that makes up the latest issue of Magicol (No 188 from Magicana) Details the career of a great inventor and performer and the hardships he faced.
Michael Claxton's biography of Dell O'Dell Don't Fool Yourself (Squash Publications) Detailed and filled with details of the magic pros life of the 20's to 50's. A work of great scholarship filled with respect and love for his subject. (Squash Publishing)
William Rauscher's biography of Silent Mora: Louis J McCord. Details of the life of a great creator and performer of the Chautauqua and Vaudeville eras. (1878 Press Inc)
Billy McComb McCombical The Wit and Wisdom of Billy McComb(Magic Inc) As its titled and a great series of tricks, ideas and reminiscences of magic and magicians.
Michael Perovich's Vernon Companion where Michael plays Boswell to Vernon's Dr Johnson. Filled with stories and characters from the Castle. (Hermetic Press)
Mike Caveney's Classic Correspondence II More of the stories behind letters of the famous and not so famous performers of Magic's Past. (Magic Words)
Eddie Dawes' and son's book on John Henry Anderson clears up some of his family connections and other questions concerning this great performer of the mid 19th century (Conjuring Arts)
Santa was very good to me!
Doc

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:43 pm
by Richard Kaufman
"Mike Cavity"?

What's up Doc?

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 4:51 pm
by Doc Rogers
Must remember to turn off the spell checker!!!
Doc

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 6:07 pm
by Evan Shuster
The only magic gifts I receive are the ones I buy for myself, and I was very nice to myself this year. :)

- The deluxe version of the Tenyo book (looking forward to this!)
- A 2-year renewal to Genii
- William Rauscher's biography of Silent Mora
- Michael Perovich's Vernon Companion
- The new Dawes book on John Henry Anderson
- The Tenyo 2015 releases
- The new Real Secrets package of 3 "Everyday Wonders"
- Several other miscellaneous books and manuscripts

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 6:24 pm
by Fredrick
I did well this year...

The Vernon Companion (Michael Perovich)
The Wizards Way (Tobias Beckwith)
Old Ideas (Leonard Cohen) - not magic but quite magical.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 7:46 pm
by JimW
I got Steve Valentine's excellent "Cloth" triple DVD set. I'm only about halfway through it and I can't believe how much material he has already covered.

Classic Correspondence From Egyptian Hall Vol. 2 was a pre-Christmas gift to myself, and after reading a few reviews I ordered The Vernon Companion today. Lots of good reading in my future.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 7:58 pm
by Joe Naud
An autographed copy of T. Nelson Downs "Art of Magic"
Peace, Joe

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 8:38 pm
by Richard Kaufman
Seems like The Vernon Companion is a real hit this year.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 9:41 pm
by Bill Mullins
When did "Classic Correspondence II" come out? This is the first I've heard of it.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 26th, 2014, 9:54 pm
by Ted M
Bill Mullins wrote:When did "Classic Correspondence II" come out? This is the first I've heard of it.

It was announced via email just before Thanksgiving.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 27th, 2014, 9:30 am
by Tom Frame
Martin Lewis's reissue of Ken Allen's "Die-Namic" and Julio Montoro's "Pocket".

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 27th, 2014, 9:35 am
by kevinm
Tenyo Ultra Tube.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 27th, 2014, 10:43 am
by Richard Kaufman
Kevin: the original or the Tenyo Elite version?

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 27th, 2014, 10:55 am
by Andrew Martin Portala
Dell o' Dell Book.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 27th, 2014, 2:59 pm
by Bob Cunningham
A digital subscription to Genii and the Skinner tapes.

I was a little concerned about how interesting & accessible the "tapes" would be, but I just finished the first CD and it is REALLY good.

Thanks Richard and the whole Genii team for continuing to produce such high quality and affordable magic resources!

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 27th, 2014, 3:58 pm
by Asser Andersen
December was a good month and these were under the Christmas tree - from myself :-)
The Vernon Companion
McCombical (a good book - however it really made me sad to learn that a much larger compilation + biography was abandoned due to the publication of this book)
Alan Shaxon - The Sophisticated Sorcerer + Confabulation (the trick)

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 29th, 2014, 12:42 pm
by Ian Kendall
The Vernon Companion arrived this morning, so I think I can class that now.

I also bought a bunch of downloads for myself, since there were a lot of sales going on.

Re: What Magic Item did You Get for the Holidays?

Posted: December 29th, 2014, 1:48 pm
by poonchingyip
I got myself The Lottery Ticket Illusion book, the Guy Hollingworth DVD collection, the Mind and Magic of David Berglas book and the Vernon Companion. Gonna have a busy year-end reading project.....

- Arthur