![]() ![]() The first Bruce Elliott book I encountered was “Professional Magic Made Easy.” This in the local library. ![]() ![]() View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts Send Instant Message Alan Smithee It won't be quite the same as reading it when you were 12, but I'll bet you might get more out of it as an older person anyway. Maybe it'll even inspire a few new people to find a good used copy and dive in. Lorayne, should he see this) recollections of time spent with the author himself. This is a thread for your memories of growing up with Bruce Elliott's books, discussions of which material you have used or are still using today, or (in the case of Mr. The relative availability of used copies now is probably a testament to just how common and popular the books were in their heyday. I finally remedied this recently by getting used copies of all four of Elliott's magic books -Magic as a Hobby, Classic Secrets of Magic, The Best in Magic, and Professional Magic Made Easy -on ebay. Henry Hay, John Scarne, Mark Wilson, Bill Tarr, James Randi, and even David Ginn, but no Bruce Elliott. ![]() I don't what the deal with my library was, or perhaps my latchkey kid time was just decades after some of yours, but there were no Bruce Elliott books to be found for me. View Member Profile Send Email Find Member's Topics Find Member's Posts Send Instant Message chris wįrom what I've read on magic forums, it seems a whole generation of magicians cut their teeth on Bruce Elliott magic books discovered in public libraries. ![]()
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