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ISBN
9780786714018
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Item Height
210mm
Author
Jim Steinmeyer, Teller Teller
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
Item Width
140mm
Subject
History
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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Now in paperback comes Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians. Lauded by today's finest magicians and critics, Hiding the Elephant is a cultural history of the efforts among legendary conjurers to make things materialize, levitate, and disappear. Steinmeyer unveils the secrets and life stories of the fascinating personalities behind optical marvels such as floating ghosts interacting with live actors, disembodied heads, and vanishing ladies. He demystifies Pepper's Ghost, Harry Kellar's Levitation of Princess Karnak, Charles Morritt's Disappearing Donkey, and Houdini's landmark vanishing of Jennie the elephant in 1918. The dramatic mix of science and history, with revealing diagrams, photographs and magicians' portraits by William Stout, provides a glimpse behind the curtain at the backstage story of magic.

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Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
ISBN-13
9780786714018
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Jim Steinmeyer, Teller Teller
Publication Name
Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
392 Pages

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Item Height
210mm
Item Width
140mm

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Teller Teller, Jim Steinmeyer
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