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Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 20th, 2006, 4:00 pm

In another post:

"I've published 85 books....."

I thought my Kaufman collection was fairly complete, but now I realize I don't get a smell.

Is there a list somewhere?

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 20th, 2006, 6:07 pm

No list that I know of, but the first was The Interlocked Production of Coins in 1977.

The most recent was ... what the heck was it? (Don't count Genii books like Hilliard, Warlock, and Vernon.)

Oh--Eugene Burger's Mastering the Art of Magic a few years ago. I think that was it.

Look for some more next year. :)
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 20th, 2006, 6:53 pm

From http://magicbooks.be:

The Interlocked Production of Coins 1977.
The Second Now You See It, Now You Don't! 1978
On the Up and Up 1978
Cardmagic 1979
The Gene Maze Card Book 1980
CoinMagic 1981
Cardworks 1981
The Complete Works of Derek Dingle 1982
David Roth's Expert Coin Magic 1985
Don England's Gaffed To The Hilt! 1985
Sankey Panky 1986
The Uncanny Scot Ron Wilson 1987
Burger, Eugene: The Performance of Close-Up Magic 1987
Darwin Ortiz At the Card Table 1988
New Magic of Japan 1988
Williamson's Wonders 1989
The Book or Don't Forget to Point! ???
The Secrets of Brother John Hamman 1989
Burger, Eugene: The Experience of Magic 1989
100% Sankey 1990
Gary Kurtz- Unexplainable Acts 1990
The Amazing Miracles Of Shigeo Takagi 1990
Michael Weber, Life Savers 1991
Five Times Five 1992
The Collected Almanac 1992
Seabrooke, Terry: Beyond Compere 1993
Martin Gardner Presents 1993
Hilliard, John Northern: Greater Magic 1994
Gene Maze and The Art Of Bottom Dealing 1994
Paul Gertner's Steel and Silver 1994
Much Ado About Something 1995
Card Compulsions 1995
Ortiz, Darwin: Cardshark 1995
After Craft - More Card Trickery 1995
The Discoverie of Witchcraft 1995
Magie Duvivier 1996
Jennings '67 1997
Vis Vis 1998
The Mysteries Of My Life 1998
Burger, Eugene: Mastering the Art of Magic 2000
Sexy Magic 2002


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The Compleat Invocation
The Feints & Temps of Harry Riser
Folding Money Fooling
Great Balloons
Greater Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields
Looking Glass
Lou Gallo: The Underground Man
Magic of Edward Victors Hands
Magic of the Hands Trilogy
Magician Among the Spirits
Sance
Secrets Draun from Underground
Seriously Silly
Stanley Collins
Stanyons Serial Lessons in Conjuring (
Strange Ceremonies (Eugene Burger)
Street Magic,
Swami Mantra
Totally Out of Control
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Jim Maloney_dup1 » August 20th, 2006, 7:42 pm

A few more...
Sawa's Library of Magic, Volume 1

And from http://magicref.tripod.com/books.htm :
New York Magic Symposium Collection One
New York Magic Symposium Collection Two

If I've counted right, that leaves 21 more to go...

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Mark Collier » August 20th, 2006, 7:46 pm

It seems I remember Balls! Side Armed Snookery. I think that was Kaufman.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 20th, 2006, 7:54 pm

A few missing from the above lists:

Balls! Lessons in Side Arm Snookery (1977)
Tarbell 8
Card Craft (Hartman)
Trickery Treats (Hartman)
Strange Ceremonies (Burger)
Five Times Five Scotland (Duffie)
Effortless Card Magic (Duffie)
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Facsimile 2
Facsimile 3
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Apocalypse Vol.1

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 21st, 2006, 5:09 am

Here are a few more:

Charles Bertram The Court Conjurer, 1997 - Dawes
Ibidem vol 1
Lim-Tricks, 1987 - Sheridan
Much Ado About Something, 1995(?) - Karrel Fox
New Card Control Systems, 1995 - Schmidt
Notes to Houdini!, 1996 - Silverman
The Now You See It, Now You Don't! Notebook, 1998 - Tarr
Road Hustler, 1991
Show Time at the Tom Foolery, 1992 - Mullica
Smoke & Mirrors, 1991 - Bannon
Spirit Theatre, 1986 - Burger
Stodare: The Enigma Variations, 1998
Strong Magic, 1994 - Ortiz
Greater Magic, 1994 - Hilliard

What about:
Okito Revers-embly (with Chad Long)
Derek Dingle - Australian Poker

Were the New York Magic Symposia #3,4 & 5 also yours?

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Jim Maloney_dup1 » August 21st, 2006, 7:36 am

Originally posted by Richard Evans:
Were the New York Magic Symposia #3,4 & 5 also yours?
#3 was written by Adam Fleischer and Steven Minch. Minch wrote 4, 5, and 6 by himself. #6 was released as "Spectacle".

By the way, we're up to 91 books/manuscripts at this point.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2006, 8:02 am

Some of Richard Evans' posts are duplicates from earlier posts.
I did publish a tiny booklet of Dingle's Australian Poker as a give-away on red paper at some point, but it was later published in MAGIC. The Chad Long trick was also in MAGIC, never publishes separately.
Jim is correct, I did only the first two Symp books.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 21st, 2006, 8:48 am

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:
Some of Richard Evans' posts are duplicates from earlier posts.
Sorry - yes, I duplicated 'Greater Magic' and 'Much Ado About Something'.

Incidentally, there's a copy of the Dingle Autralian Poker up on eBay right now. It's not on red paper - is it an original or a copy?

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2006, 9:19 am

The Australian Poker cover is white stock--the interior pages are red. The one on eBay looks legit and I know the seller.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Bob Kentner » August 21st, 2006, 9:23 am

Here's a few more:

The New Jinx, 1987
Mahatma, 1994
Conjurers Monthly Magazine, 1991
Stanyons Magic, 1996

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2006, 10:39 am

It would have been nice to reach 100 someday, but with Genii to run it seems unlikely.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Jim Maloney_dup1 » August 21st, 2006, 11:35 am

Taking into account the corrections and additions that have been made, the number remains at 91. Come on, Richard...you're so close!

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2006, 11:45 am

Even counting all the books I still own, that I am intent on finishing (including two Jennings books, a Tenkai book, a DeLand book) there doesn't seem to be any way to reach 100 unless I put out a whole series of little pamplets solely to reach the number.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 21st, 2006, 12:55 pm

Whether or not you get to the century, that's an impressive list of books to have produced. There's a great quote from Jim Riser on his website's \'Musings\'page :

I have a library full of older magic books that are loaded with incorrect information, incorrect methods, incorrect "history" etc. The books produced in the last few years are a complete turnaround - a wealth of information presented in a quality manner that was never seen in the past.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 21st, 2006, 6:44 pm

This was posted on Little Egypt 1997

Post-publication item 2/20/97 THE LINEUP -- Richard Kaufman has released his list of 1997 titles. Look for
...
The Stone Age by Stephen Hobbs,
The Professional Now You See It, Now You Don't! by Bill Tarr,
Hauntics! by Christian Chelman
...
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 21st, 2006, 7:08 pm

Taking into account the corrections and additions that have been made, the number remains at 91. Come on, Richard...you're so close!
Richard,
if you follow the popular trend, just publish one small book in 9 volumes and you are there! 100!!

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 21st, 2006, 7:30 pm

I've got it up to 94. See the Kaufman Timeline

Please post here any additions/corrections and I'll update (I need some dates).

I can get it up to 97 if we list each Looking Glass volume seperately :)
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Jim Maloney_dup1 » August 21st, 2006, 8:04 pm

Originally posted by Joe Pecore:
I've got it up to 94.
So Richard, with the four more you have planned, that'll bring th total up to 98. You sure you can't squeeze in two more to hit the magic 100?

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 21st, 2006, 8:08 pm

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:
Don't count Genii books like Hilliard, Warlock, and Vernon.
Why not?
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2006, 8:25 pm

Why not Genii books? I don't know. I suppose you could count them.

You can count individual issues of a periodical like The Looking Glass, because then you'll have to count all the individual issues of Richard's Almanac as well and that makes no sense.

Joe, I don't see anything when I click on that link!
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 21st, 2006, 8:27 pm

The Stone Age by Stephen Hobbs,
The Professional Now You See It, Now You Don't! by Bill Tarr,
Hauntics! by Christian Chelman

Of the above titles, only the Tarr book was published under the title "Now You See It, Now You Don't Notebook."

Hauntics is being published in an entirely different version by Marco Pusterla.

The Stone Age has not been published.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 21st, 2006, 9:10 pm

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:

Joe, I don't see anything when I click on that link!
Give it a minute, sometimes it takes a little while to load. I'm working on trying to speed it up.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 21st, 2006, 10:21 pm

How about The Almanac One It was the green cover with just the first year of "the Almanac" bound together in hardcover.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 21st, 2006, 10:51 pm

Originally posted by Richard Kaufman:
Even counting all the books I still own, that I am intent on finishing (including two Jennings books, a Tenkai book, a DeLand book) there doesn't seem to be any way to reach 100 unless I put out a whole series of little pamplets solely to reach the number.
If you are interested in images of any of the early Deland effects let me know. I have the 5 Deland decks (Star, Nifty, Daisy, League, and Automatic), The Million Dollar Mystery, The Fadeaway Card, and 2 X-Ray Decks c 1915 (one regular and one gimmicked for an Arne Rise)

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 21st, 2006, 11:26 pm

Added the Genii books and thanks to www.qualitymagicbooks.com I found another one and some dates.

Total now up to 98!

Kaufman Timeline updated and a text version at Kaufman books
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 21st, 2006, 11:30 pm

Originally posted by EdAndres:
How about The Almanac One It was the green cover with just the first year of "the Almanac" bound together in hardcover.

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Good one! Now up to 99.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Matthew Field » August 22nd, 2006, 3:50 am

Does Larry Jennings' 1992 Lecture Notes count? I'm not sure who actually published it.

And I'm also not sure about David Roth's lecture notes.

And there's a bunch of other material Richard wrote and/or illustrated, like "On the Up And Up". Can't remember if Richard did the David Roth lecture notes. And there are his own lecture notes as well.

He's also got an effect in Tannen's New Stars of Magic series.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Steve Bryant » August 22nd, 2006, 4:57 am

The Miller/Patton/Giorgio years of Magicana would make a stunning book.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 22nd, 2006, 7:30 am

How about a 100th book containing all your favourite articles & routines from the other 99? :D

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 22nd, 2006, 7:52 am

Joe, your links still don't work. All I get on the timeline is a large empty box.
The other link to the text file crashes my browser (tried it three times). Please remove the links until you sort it out. Can't you just paste a text file into this thread?
(And remove Almanac Volume One if you added it:--it is superceded by The Collected Almanac)
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Jim Maloney_dup1 » August 22nd, 2006, 7:55 am

I haven't had a problem with any of Joe's links.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 22nd, 2006, 7:57 am

The TIMELINE seems to be working now (10:56am ET).

Very impressive, Richard.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Richard Kaufman » August 22nd, 2006, 8:12 am

I get nothing when viewing it in both Netscape and Internet Explorer.
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 22nd, 2006, 9:07 am

Richard, would you count 'Smashed'?

I also have a reference here to Mark Phillips' 1992 Vienna lecture notes and a set of Tom Mullica's lecture notes from '96.

Joe - I have a copy of the Sawa book - the date is 1988.

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 22nd, 2006, 9:33 am

Richard, What browser and operating system are you using? Is anyone else having a problem?
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Joe Pecore » August 22nd, 2006, 9:38 am

Here is my latest list:


1977 The Interlocked Production of Coins
1977 Balls! Lessons in Side Arm Snookery
1978 On the Up and Up
1998 Apocalypse, Vol.1 (Kaufman and Lorayne)
1979 CardMagic
1980 The Gene Maze Card Book
1981 CoinMagic
1981 CardWorks
1982 The Complete Works of Derek Dingle
1982 New York Magic Symposium Collection One
1983 New York Magic Symposium Collection Two
1984 Abstract (Lecture Notes)
1985 David Roth's Expert Coin Magic
1985 Don England's Gaffed To The Hilt! (Jon Racherbaumer)
1986 Sankey Panky
1986 The Compleat Invocation, 1 and 2 (Raven and Andruzzi)
1986 Spirit Theater (Eugene Burger)
1987 The Uncanny Scot Ron Wilson
1987 The Performance of Close-Up Magic (Eugene Burger)
1987 Lim-Tricks (Jeff Sheridan)
1987 The New Jinx (Bill Madsen)
1988 Darwin Ortiz At the Card Table (Darwin Ortiz)
1988 New Magic of Japan (Kaufman and Goldstein)
1988 Sawa's Library of Magic, Volume 1
1989 Williamson's Wonders
1989 The Secrets of Brother John Hamman
1989 The Experience of Magic (Eugene Burger)
1990 100% Sankey
1990 Gary Kurtz: Unexplainable Acts
1990 The Amazing Miracles Of Shigeo Takagi
1991 Life Savers (Michael Weber)
1991 Strange Ceremonies (Eugene Burger)
1991 Card Craft (J.K. Hartman)
1991 Road Hustler (Robert Prus)
1991 Smoke & Mirrors (John Bannon)
1991 Houdini's Conjurers Monthly Magazine
1992 Five Times Five: Japan
1992 The Collected Almanac
1992 Compleat Invocation 3 (Tony Andruzzi)
1992 Totally Out of Control (Chris Kenner)
1992 Show Time at the Tom Foolery
1993 Beyond Compere (Terry Seabrooke)
1993 Martin Gardner Presents (Martin Gardner)
1993 Secrets Draun from Underground
1993 Tarbell 8 (Tarbell, Burton, Kaufman)
1993 A Tarbell Scrapbook
1994 Greater Magic (John Northern Hilliard)
1994 Gene Maze and The Art Of Bottom Dealing (Stephen Hobbs)
1994 Paul Gertner's Steel and Silver
1994 Great Balloons! (Jean Merlin)
1994 Strong Magic (Darwin Ortiz)
1994 Mahatma
1995 Much Ado About Something (Karrell Fox)
1995 Duffie's Card Compulsions (Peter Duffie)
1995 Cardshark (Darwin Ortiz)
1995 After Craft: More Card Trickery (J.K. Hartman)
1995 The Discoverie of Witchcraft
1995 The Magic of Edward Victors Hands (Rae Hammond)
1995 The Magic of the Hands Trilogy
1995 Facsimile 1
1995 New Card Control Systems (Joseph K. Schmidt)
1996 Magie Duvivier (Jon Racherbaumer)
1996 Lou Gallo: The Underground Man (Kaufman and Phillips)
1996 Magician Among the Spirits (Houdini)
1996 Sance (Scott Davis)
1996 Facsimile 2
1996 Notes to Houdini!!! (Ken Silverman)
1996 Stanyons Magic
1997 Jennings '67
1997 Arcade Dreams: Ed Marlo (Jon Racherbaumer)
1997 The Feints & Temps of Harry Riser (Ed Brown)
1997 Folding Money Fooling (Robert Neale)
1997 Greater Artful Dodges of Eddie Fields (Jon Racherbaumer)
1997 Effortless Card Magic (Peter Duffie)
1997 Facsimile 3
1997 Charles Bertram, The Court Conjurer (Edwin Dawes)
1997 Looking Glass (4 issues)
1998 The Book or Don't Forget to Point (Flicking Fingers)
1998 Vis Vis: A Jack Avis Book (Jack Avis)
1998 The Mysteries Of My Life: Rene Lavand (Kaufman and Lavand)
1998 Five Times Five: Scotland (Peter Duffie)
1998 The Now You See It, Now You Don't! Notebook
1998 Stodare: The Enigma Variations (Edwin Dawes)
1998 Street Magic (Jeff Sheridan/Edward Claflin)
1999 Trickery Treats (J.K. Hartman)
1999 Artistic and Magical Life of Bob Kline
2000 Mastering the Art of Magic (Eugene Burger)
2000 Facsimile 4
2000 Other Voices: Ventriloquism from BC to TV (Stanley Burns)
2001 The Lost Notebooks of John Northern Hilliard
2002 Sexy Magic (James Hodges)
2002 Stanley Collins (Edwin Dawes)
2003 Stanyons Serial Lessons in Conjuring
2003 David Copperfield's Project Magic Handbook
2005 Seriously Silly (David Kaye)
2005 One Hundred By Warlock (Elizabeth Warlock)
2006 The Vernon Touch

????? The Second Now You See It, Now You Don't! (Bill Tarr)
???? Dingle's Australian Poker
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Re: Not even close....

Postby Guest » August 22nd, 2006, 9:48 am

Sawa's Library of Magic, Volume 1 - 1988

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Re: Not even close....

Postby Jim Morton » August 22nd, 2006, 10:20 am

Originally posted by Joe Pecore:
Richard, What browser and operating system are you using? Is anyone else having a problem?
Joe,


I tried it on my PC (Windows XP) with Firefox and Internet Explorer and it worked fine. I also tried it on my G4 Mac (OSX) with Safari and it worked fine there as well.

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