Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

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Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby magicfish » April 26th, 2018, 2:29 am

I have just acquired a first edition Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green in excellent condition and from the library of Col. Dr. Harlan Taylor.

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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Jonathan Townsend » April 26th, 2018, 10:28 am

enjoy
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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Richard Kaufman » April 26th, 2018, 11:57 am

Great book. I bought the copyright some years ago and will redo the entire thing. Have been studying it since age 14 or so.
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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Christopher1979 » April 26th, 2018, 12:40 pm

magicfish wrote:I have just acquired a first edition Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green in excellent condition and from the library of Col. Dr. Harlan Taylor.


I believe you bought that copy off of me!. It is a wonderful book and the only reason i sold it was i just bought a copy in "New" old stock condition. Enjoy!
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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Bob Farmer » April 26th, 2018, 8:31 pm

I got my copy from one of my mentors, Bill Jennings, who got it from his friend, Cliff Green.

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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Joe Naud » April 27th, 2018, 12:41 am

Got mine off of eBay for a great price after Jamy Ian Swiss had this in his must have books list.

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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Richard Kaufman » April 27th, 2018, 11:06 am

Most of the book is quite poorly written. I'm going to remedy that.
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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby performer » April 27th, 2018, 12:18 pm

Alas many magic books are poorly written. Especially works on sleight of hand. It is actually not an easy thing to write technical prose with sufficient clarity for the reader.

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Re: Professional Card Magic by Cliff Green

Postby Chas Nigh » April 27th, 2018, 4:15 pm

When the going gets rough I just read it out loud a few times. Sometimes it works. Otherwise I count on RK.


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