The Close-Up Magic of Aldo Colombini (Signed) - First Edition 1994

This is Dr. Jeffrey Pearson's Private Estate item in Very Good Condition.  This is a hardcover book with the original dust jacket with some dirt marks on the back dust jacket. The hardcover book is in great shape and inside the first page is signed by Aldo Colombini addressed to Bob Elliot. The edge of the pages are toned yellow from age.  First Edition 1994 This book details 60 effects with cards, coins, cups and balls, ring & rope, Oktio coin box, and billiard ball production and including: Never Say Dice, Four Card Display, Ace-embly, Hiccup Coins, Super Link (rubber bands), Hopping Cups and Balls (short routine suitable for table hopping), Back and Forth Sandwich (cards) plus many more. Contents: i A Few Words to the Reader (Aldo Colombini)ii Introduciton (Bob Elliott) 1 Back and Forth Sandwich: A black card placed face down between the black Kings transposes with a red card placed face down between the red Kings4 Follow This: spectator selects the only red backed card from a blue backed deck6 Love Affair: Two cards join in the middle ofthe deckand are found to be ‘one’8 Easy Location: The performer finds a mentally selected card10 Fast Food: Two selections plaad between three Jokers vanish, only to appear in the deck12 Zig Zag: Three cards are selected under fair conditions yet turn out to be mates of the card the performer predicted in advance14 F.F.F.F.: Four cards are selected and the deck is cut into four packets. On top of each packet is an Ace and the selections are produced.16 North by Northwest: A seleaed card travels from packet to packet invisibly18 Missing: Four Kings find three selections21 Ranka – Chank: The four Kings, posing as Cannibals, devour three selections who are moonlighting as Missionaries23 Back to the Future: Ace revelation25 Never Say Dice: Card values follow the dice28 Can’t Play Your Game: card transposition30 Hats Off: the performer fhds three selection32 Sandwich for You: A selected card travels invisibly34 The Old Romantics: card trick with the Aces36 Mambo Jack: The four Jacks are changed into Jokers. One of the Jokers changes into the selection, and remaining Jokers change into the mates of the selection39 Havana Sandwich: The first selection vanishes and appears fsre up between the two seleaed cards44 Poker Coins: Deck is shuffled and cut into four packets, with the cards left on the table as the Aces, and a large silver coin is found under each packet.47 Triumph Trio: variation of Triumph51 Champagne: Cards assemble into a pile only to change.55 Italian Heart: A spectator finds a seleaed card in a unique manner57 The Killer: The magician says that the JS represents a ‘killer’ and that the spectator who holds this card will be ‘hung’59 Formula One: card selection placed between two Jacks vanishes and becomes a previously tabled card61 Las Vegas: another Triumph variation63 Royal Flush: Aspectator finds theonly missing card ftomaRoyal Flush and his selected card65 Colorado: A selected card passes twice from one packet to another67 Jumbo: The perfirmer produces the selected card and then produces the four Aces69 Ace-mbly: Four Ace Assembly72 Snapping: rubber band card trick74 Four Card Display: This is a move to show four cards, such as the Aces.76 Vortex: red & blue deck trick82 Mini & Maxi: The performer shows two predictions and has a spectator select two matching cards84 Top Control: card move86 One, Two, Three, Four: The Aces are apparently lost in the deck only to be found in an extremely fair manner.89 Open Prediction: Paul Curry effect94 Follow the Oil & Water: combo Follow the Leader and Oil & Water100 Silence of the Kings: The four Kings are shown, disappear, and change into the four Aces102 W-Hole: Several transpositions o m , ending when the center piece of the 8Ctransposes with the enter piece of the JD107 Well Done Boys: Two spectators cut the deck into four packets. On the top of each packet lies a King, on the bottom, an Ace109 No Fake Wild Card: An impromptu method111 All the Best: Two Jacks assume the identity of any card, eventually becoming the selections113 Foottapper: The four Jacks are shown and placed aside. A card is selected and placed among the Jacks, only to vanish and appear face up in the center of the deck115 Koin Kut: A deck of cards is cut and a coin is found beneath the cut off packet117 Super Link: Two rubber bands link and unlink in the hands of a spectator121 Hopping Cups & Balls: Uses Two cups, three sponge balls about 1 and 1.5 inches in diameter, a close up pad, two bigger loads and a purse frame126 Hiccup – Coins: Three coins are shown. Two of the coins pass from the right to the lefi hand, only to pass back again128 Ring on Rope, or Vice Versa: Magician throws a ring towards the middle of the rope and the ring passes through the rope130 Ping Pong Routine: A Chinese coin changes places with a Half Dollar several times, eventually penetrating the folds of a handkerchief for the final transposition (Chinatown Half & Okito Box)137 Rings Off…Rings On: Key ring and rope routine (uses 4 ordinary key rings about an one and one half inches in diameter)141 Squeeze Ball Move: billiard ball move143 The Rubber Illusion: A Court card, reversed and placed between two other cards stretches in length and then shrinks to become a miniature149 The Card That Gets Confused: Three selected blue-back cards held in the left hand, have added to them a red back Joker, which duplicates the selections one after the other152 A Mirror Will Do: three blue backed cards are duplicated by a special blank card155 Out of this Country: A spectator touches 26 cards fiom a shuffled deck and the cards are separated into reds and blacks158 Out of Color: The spectator separates the colors of the backs of the cards159 Out of Apocalypse: The spectator separates the red and black cards in an incredible manner162 Half A World Away: A spectator separates the red and black cards but with two mistakes, which have been predicted by the magician166 Out of Suits: Two spectators separate a deck of cards into reds and blacks and, as well, into four packets which turn out to be the four suits.168 Matrix for Lazy People: Four coins are covered with four cards. One after the other, three coins vanish and appear under one card. At the end, a coin is back under each of the four cards