Jennings ’67 by Richard Kaufman-Expert Card Magic

Title: Jennings ‘67

Author: Richard Kaufman

Publisher: Kaufman & Company

Publication Date: 1997

Hardcover

Book Size: 8 ¾ X 11 ¼

Pages: 254 pages

Edition: 1st Edition/1st Printing

Book Condition: Excellent-Like New!

Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent-Like New!

Six years in production, this new book contains vintage magic with cards created by the late Larry Jennings during a golden age in southern California. Under the tutelage of Dai Vernon, Jennings developed many unique routines, which were kept from publication for decades. Seventy of these miracles (including some by Vernon) have been collected in a great book of card magic for everyone from beginner to expert.

Known for the clarity of his writing, Richard Kaufman traveled to Los Angeles numerous times to ensure that every aspect of the text and illustrations (from photographs of Larry Jennings' hands) are accurate in every respect. Never before has Jennings' technique been rendered so clearly in print. Earle Oakes magnificent artwork truly makes you feel as if Larry Jennings is in your home, personally demonstrating each trick just for you.

This book has a somewhat historic value, since it not only goes over the workings of sleights and effects, but also covers the history and various handlings. Richard Kaufman also has a small essay on what has become generally known as the Convincing Control, discussing the move's history and independent creators. Jennings' handling of the move is explained it great detail, as well.

One chapter is called Evolution of a Classic Routine: "Invisible Palm Aces". The chapter discusses several versions of Jennings' classic Open Travelers plot, and you get to see how it evolved over time. Similar chapters are dedicated to The Princess Card Trick, The Ace Assembly and Twisting the Aces. Jennings was always looking for a clear and streamlined effect, and you will see how he strives for that goal throughout this book.

Not only was Larry Jennings a great thinker; he was also an extraordinary technician. The chapter "Some Tools" has some really wonderful sleights. The Circle Shift and The Bevel Top Palm are among my highlights from this chapter. There is also some more or less self-working magic in the book, and you will most certainly find several things of use!

This book is the first of a planned trilogy about Larry Jennings' work; this mostly covers the 1960s-early 70's. Beautifully produced and written, typical of Kaufman's work, and this is clearly a labor of love on his part. Larry Jennings spent many hours during the final years of his life working intently on these books, books he knew would be his final legacy to the world of magic he loved so much.

Contents

11 Forward (Harvey Rosenthal)

12 Introduction

Easy Does It, Mr. Jennings

16 Another Four-Card Trick

18 Impossible Divination No. 1

20 Impossible Divination No. 2

22 Monarchs' Quartette: Version One

22 Jennings' Overhand Shuffle Jog Technique

23 Lin Searles' Autobreak

24 Monarchs' Quartette: Version Two

27 Red/Black Flyer, Version one

29 Red/Black Flyer, Version two

32 Re-Turned Touch Turn: Dai Vernon Handling

33 Re-Turned Touch Turn: Larry Jennings Handling

37 Another Winning Hand

39 A Gambler Holds Out the Aces

39 Jennings' Slip Cut Technique

Some Tools

42 Jennings' Double Pushoff Technique

44 Immediate Bottom Placement

45 Full Deck Handling

48 Small Packet Handling

51 LJ Angle Steal Multiple Shift

55 LJ Swing Cut Multiple Shift

57 Dad Stevens' Other Shuffle

60 The Circle Shift

64 The Circle Top Palm

66 The Bevel Top Palm

Experiments with the Gambler's Cop

70 '67 Transposition

72 1967 Version

73 1996 Version

74 The Six/Four Count Cart to Pocket

75 The Gambler's Cop

77 The Six/Four Count Card Across

79 Houdini Card Escapes Again

Meditations on the Princess Card Trick

82 Card to Pocket Princess: Version One

83 Card to Pocket Princess: Version Two

85 The '65 Card Staggerer: Version One

87 The '65 Card Staggerer: Version Two

88 Reconstructing the Professor's Princess

88 Method One (Vernon)

89 Tent Vanish Glimpse

91 Method Two (Jennings)

92 Paddle Move Glimpse

93 Method Three (Vernon & Jennings)

93 The Flick Glimpse

95 Method Four (Vernon, Jennings, and Goodwin)

Generally Mysterious

100 Depth Thrust I

100 A Subtle Getready for the Depth Illusion

102 Depth Thrust II

102 Jennings' Two-Step Side Steal

105 Search and Stop

106 Marlo's "Search" Technique

108 The Los Angeles Hop

113 Red/Black Shuffle Revelation

113 Jordan's Overhand Red/Black Shuffle

114 The Transmuted Cards

119 The Transmuted Deck

122 Jennings' Technique on the Houdini/Erdnase Transformation

124 The Wrong Place at the Right Time

124 Version One

125 Version Two

126 Version Three

127 Larry Whistles and Slides

127 Version One

130 Version Two

131 Seven-Card Monte

Meditations on Revolutions

138 Swindle Four-King Triumph

141 Vernon's Creeping Reverse

144 The Creeping Aces

146 The Truthful Triumph

146 Tenkai's Optical Reverse

148 The '65 Aces

149 D'Amico's Multiple Shift

150 Vernon's Advanced Stripout Addition

153 LJ's Instant Spell

Evolution of a Classic Routine: "Invisible Palm Aces"

156 History

160 Invisible Palm Aces No. 1 (The Molecular Aces)

160 Finley Tent Vanish

163 The Wave Production

164 The Tent Palm

167 Invisible Palm Aces No. 2

168 Tabled D'Amico Spread

170 Invisible Palm Aces No. 3 (The Appearing Aces)

170 Small-Packet Hofzinser Bottom/Top Change

172 Gambler's Cop Vanish

175 Invisible Palm Aces No. 4 (The Numerical Travellers)

178 Invisible Palm Aces No. 5 (The Lonesome Travellers & The Alpha Count Travellers)

181 Snap Palm

182 The Alpha Count

183 Bottom Palm Vanish

184 Invisible Palm Aces No. 6

195 Invisible Palm Aces to Pockets

195 Version One

198 Version Two

Meditations on "The Ace Assembly"

204 Royal Puzzle

207 The Christ Aces Redone

212 The Simple Stencel

212 Version One

213 Drop Sleight with Verdnase Break

215 Version Two

220 The Jennings/Collins Aces

Meditations on "Twisting the Aces"

226 The '65 Twist

229 The Ouagadougou Twist

232 Leaving the Body

236 Pineapple Surprise '70

237 Small-Packet Handling of the Mechanical Reverse

239 Jennings' Double-Lift Getready

242 Pineapple Surprise '92 No. 1

242 Bro. John Hamman's Two as Four Count

246 Pineapple Surprise '92 No. 2

251 Pineapple Surprise _au naturale_

253 The Misdirective Outjog Switch

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