... the price on MAGIC BY MISDIRECTION. The cheapest copy I could find was $228. So the fair market value on the Fitzkee trilogy at the moment is in the area of $500. When in print the set sold for around $80 and I think...be this kind of market for them. Gold is creeping toward the 1K mark, I should have been investing in Fitzkee. -Leary-

... of not just the Trick Brain, but the entire Fitzkee Trilogy: http://www.angelfire.com/musicals/fitzkee/TBc.html It's difficult to say if the Fitzkee Trilogy will ever be reprinted in our lifetime so my advice would be to download ... BOOKS. As a magical inventor myself I cannot understate the value of the Fitzkee Trilogy. I'm just glad I had the foresight...

I hate to tell you that the copies of the trilogy that I bought (first editions, published by Lloyd Jones (Magic Limited) sold for $12.50 (Showmanship), $13.50 (Misdirection) and $15.00 (Brain).  The only thing lacking are signatures by the author. Recently? or "back in the day"? Bruce Cervon's Castle notebooks are already as high as $500 on ebay!?!?!?!? go figure! I regret ...

... than $200. This does not fly for most of us. I wonder what that makes my first edition worth. I know a magic shop that should still have the Trick Brain and likely has the entire trilogy. I'll likely buy these as spares but if someone wants to make me an offer I can't refuse, I might part with them. I would estimate a first edition of the Trick Brain to go for around $500....

... wrote: As of this writing hard copies of the TRICK BRAIN are now going for more than $200. This does not fly for most of us. I wonder what that makes my first edition worth. I know a magic shop that should still have the Trick Brain and likely has the entire trilogy. I'll likely buy these as spares but if someone wants to make me an offer I can't refuse, I might part with them.

mitchell_leary wrote: My life has been so damn weird I don't think Rod Serling could have wrote this stuff. -Leary- I feel ya. A buddy and I recently mused about how tales of many of our adventures are met with responses like "You're just making this up as you go along" despite the fact that there isn't even an exaggeration involved much less a lie.

Al Hastings wrote: Mitch, For your legacy sake, I hope you do put some kind of big book of leary out some day. Just give the sign :) -A It will happen, even if done so posthumously. Someone is bound to get ahold of my countless notebooks and boxes of documents and publish them. It will be the biggest underground magic publication(s) anyone has ever seen. I draw...

In message <86y79av29i.fsf@localhost.localdomain>, Maxwell Lol <nospam@com.invalid> writes Al Hastings <magic4you@hotmail.com> writes: Pure Effect by Darren Brown There are two editions of this book. The first version included some material he used, and was removed from the second edition. Derren has decided to not print any more copies of his books. They will not be...

Mitch, For your legacy sake, I hope you do put some kind of big book of leary out some day. Just give the sign :) -A

The first version included some material he used, and was removed from the second edition. Thanks Max! 'Learned something today. The printing I have says "third edition." I'm curious what effect(s) he took out, but I don't think I'd pay the the $100-$200 price tag on ebay for it. It's been (at least 2? years since I read the book). I remember it being rather preachy and big ...