... 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-

... As of this writing hard copies of the TRICK BRAIN are now going for more ... magic shop that should still have the Trick Brain and likely has the entire trilogy. I'll likely buy these as spares but ...I would estimate a first edition of the Trick Brain to go for around $500.oo. ...This includes my heavily "foxed" copy of the Trick Brain, that contains among other classified magic documents ...

mitchell_leary 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...

... site is still going? I remembered I surfed onto it about almost 4 years ago. I like the "trick brain" It has most major magic tricks invented summerized in 1 or 2 sentences each! $200?? Dang! I'm ...it's not just another book about "some magician's version of a trick already in use." I highly recommend it (I hardly recommend books too). ...

...our good friend Jack Poulter turned me onto this online version 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...inventor myself I cannot understate the value of the Fitzkee Trilogy. I'm just glad I had the foresight...

... for some reason on ebay for reasons I haven't a clue on--). I'm not a mentalist, I suspose it is a different kind of thinking... not my thing. From all things in the book I do use a card trick as part of my repertoire he talked about. He loses a card, fails to find it, and opens the deck like a cell phone to call information to find the name of the card....I use my own script :-) I'm ...

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