Ben, David: Zarrow A Lifetime in Magic ©2008 Meir Yedid Magic Hardcover, 9.25x12.25", 480 pages

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Comments (Marco Antonio): Beautiful bound, A4 great size and a lot of photos and Tricks. It looks like expensive, but it worth the money without any doubt.

Contents:

xiii Introduction by David Ben

3 Part One
3 My Friend and Magical Confidant by Johnny Thompson … 3

7 Chapter One
7 U-Shuffle Poker
9 Switch Poker
11 Swindle Mates
12 Mind Match
15 Outnumbered
16 Touch Poker
19 Touch Aces
22 Top-Second-Bottom
22 The Straightest Gambler

27 Chapter Two
27 The Zarrow Block Addition
34 A Cutting Discovery
35 Quad Transposition Plus
37 Impromptu Out of This World
39 Dealing Forward and Backward to the Aces

43 Chapter Three
43 The Zarrow Fan Hold-Back
45 Mental Discernment
46 Slap Aces

51 Chapter Four
51 Blocking the Aces
52 Reversal of Fortune
54 Double Progressive
57 Turnover Surprise
60 Gathering Aces
62 Assemble the Aces
67 Black Mark Aces
70 Kicker Aces
75 Jumping Aces
76 Baseball Aces

89 Part Two
89 Filled With Magic by Marla Zarrow

91 Chapter Five
91 Revolving Aces
94 Revolving Royal Flush
94 Matched Revolvers
95 Revolving History
97 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - Déjà vu
99 On The Up And Up
101 Doubly Ambitious
104 Ambitious Reversed
108 Think Change

115 Chapter Six
115 All Backs
122 Short Follow the Leader
124 Descending Oil and Water
126 Fanning the Waters
128 A Quick Three-Way
130 One Wrong Makes Right

137 Chapter Seven
137 Magician Cuts the Aces
138 Spectator Cuts the Cards
140 Matching Cut Cards
140 Aces Wild
142 A Cutting Revelation
145 4-Card Catch

149 Chapter Eight
149 Long and Short Spell, Etc.
151 Double Spell
154 Fan Prediction
155 Fan Double Match
156 Minimal Miraskill
158 A Red-Black Prediction

163 Part Three
163 Rock Solid by Ronald Wohl

167 Chapter Nine
167 Insight
169 Tosheroon Two
170 Double Tosheroon Two
172 An Off Beat Card Trick
174 Faro Throw-Off
176 A Card Between
179 Another Card Between
180 A Surprising Discovery
182 A Surprising Discovery II

189 Chapter Ten
189 Seven Times Two
196 A Carlyle Transposition
Choose the Aces … 198
198 Push Through Kings
202 Two Card Transposition
203 Red Ace – Black Ace
203 Vernon’s 1-2-3

209 Chapter Eleven
209 Addition and Subtraction
212 Card Affinity
213 Zigs & Zags
214 A Four for Two
215 Herb’s Variant
216 Vernon’s ACAAN

221 Chapter Twelve
221 Three Cards Across
223 Two Mental Cards
225 A Two Deck Routine
227 Face Up to a Selection
231 Red/Black: Royal Flush
234 Herb’s Hotel
237 The Card Puzzle Revisited

247 Part Four
247 Personal Magic by John Mintz

251 Chapter Thirteen
251 A Strip-Out Production
253 Unshuffling the Colors
255 Is This Your Card?
257 Tommy Burke’s Faro Finesse
259 Expert Gymnastics
260 Double Bilis
263 Dunbury Delusion Revisited
266 Trapeze

273 Chapter Fourteen
273 Penny and Quarter Transposition
275 Switch-Change
276 Starfish Copper/Silver
278 Visu-Pinch
279 The Penetrating Bands
282 Wyatt Earp and the Rubber Lariat
286 Rubber Match
286 Found, Bound and Changed
288 Double Spin Out
292 The Berg Knot Revisited

301 Chapter Fifteen
301 A Criss-Cross Cut Force
303 Russ Bent Card through Pocket
304 Flicker Again
305 Flipper in the Hand
307 Fancy False Cuts
314 Easy Cut Flourish
318 Swivel Cut Revelations
323 Universal Count Grip
326 The Worraz Move

333 Chapter Sixteen
333 Double Peek Glimpse
335 The Vertical Turnover Pass
338 Loose Lifts
344 Double Lift Substitutes
346 On the Erdnase Bottom Palm
347 On the Diagonal Palm Shift
348 Too Good To Lose
349 A Middle Palm
351 Center Fugue
355 Cutting to a Card
355 Dhotel Revisited
358 Five Card Revelation
360 Tour through the Outback

365 Chapter Seventeen
365 Angle Step Injog Stack
366 Overhand Shuffle Injog
369 Cull Stock Shuffle
371 Spring Riffle Top Palm
372 Cut Palm Replacement
373 Multiple Bottom Palm
374 Riffle Steal
376 The Hop
381 Bottom Hop
383 Table False Cut
384 One-Hand False Table Cut

389 Part Five
389 Fifty Years wi0 th Herb and Phyllis by Persi Diaconis

395 Chapter Eighteen
395 The Zarrow Shuffle
401 Adding a Cut
403 Two Shuffles
405 Double-Cover Zarrow
406 Three Shuffle Double-Cover
407 Skimming the Aces
408 Four Packet Red Black
409 Zarrow Cull Stacking
412 Double-Cover Triumph
414 Quadruple Triumph
417 Surprise Stack
418 Alternate Aces Plus
420 Red Black Revelation
422 Attraction
425 Three Phase Poker
426 Black and Red Kingdoms
430 Parting Thoughts
430 After The Shuffle

457 Notes
460 A Lifetime of Magic
461 Chronological Bibliography
463 Acknowledgements