Stephen Minch & Giacomo Bertini: Giacomo Bertini's System for Amazement
Minch, Stephen & Giacomo Bertini: Giacomo Bertini's System for Amazement
©2018 Stephen Minch & Penguin Magic, Inc., CA
Hardcover, w/dj, 10x8", 161 pages
ISBN: 978-0-945296-88-1
Giacomo Bertini's System for Amazement
Image courtesy Don's Magic and Books

Comments: B&W Photo illustrated, with DVD. "A New Approach to Magic with Coins". Includes Giacomo's theory of micro-misdirection, many original sleights, and a selection tricks and routines.

Contents (from book ToC):

ix Foreword (Jon Racherbaumer)

1 Section 1 - Elements of the System
3 The Bertini System, An Overview
7 Bertini on the Classic Palm
10 The Pinky Load
14 The Pinky Concealment
17 The Palm Shuttle
21 The Pinky Steal
24 The Slide Pass
27 The Pinky Change
29 The Passing Hands Acquitments
29 - In-Touch Passing Hands Acquitment
31 - Non-Toccare Passing Hands Acquitment
32 - Non-Toccare Shuttle Pass
33 - Non-Toccare Production
35 The Pinky Flash Production
37 Depth Charge
40 - The Snap-Palm Vanish
44 The Edge-Grip Production
49 Here Gone and Back Again
49 - Retention of Vision Vanish

53 Section 2: Routines from the System
55 Back and Forth with Malini
57 Swopper Silver
60 - Palm Change
62 Coins and Corners
63 - Curl Palm to Thumb Palm
64 - Getting a Stack into Edge Grip
68 3Across and 1Through
68 - The Fan Steal
72 - The Frick-Click Steal
74 - The Coin Star
76 Poles Apart
85 - The Thumb Shuttle
88 Florentine Assembly
101 Color Matrix
103 - The Card-Twirl Palm
111 Only Place To Hide
126 - Edge-Grip Transfer
130 Cylinder and Chips
136 The Black Hole
138 The Italian Plop
143 PorTable Hole
146 - The Plop-Click Steal
149 Coinmeleon
155 Fort Knox
160 - The Bertini False Turnover


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