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Joseph Leeming (1897–1968)

Autor/a de Fun with String

60+ obres 714 Membres 3 Ressenyes

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Inclou el nom: LEEMING JOSEPH

Obres de Joseph Leeming

Fun with String (1940) 80 exemplars
The Real Book of Science Experiments (1954) — Autor — 45 exemplars
The Real Book about Magic (1951) 42 exemplars
Fun with Puzzles (1946) 40 exemplars
The Real Book of Games (1953) 33 exemplars
Riddles, riddles, riddles (1953) 28 exemplars
Fun with Paper (1939) 25 exemplars
The First Book of Chess (1953) 23 exemplars
Fabulous Fun with Puzzles (2008) 23 exemplars
Fun With Magic (1943) 19 exemplars
Fun With Naturecraft (1964) 16 exemplars
Fun with Clay (1944) 14 exemplars
Tricks any boy can do (1968) 12 exemplars
Fun with Wood (1942) 12 exemplars
Easy Magic Tricks (2008) 8 exemplars
Fun with Boxes (1937) 7 exemplars
Modern Ship Stowage (2010) 6 exemplars
Fun with Fabrics (1950) 6 exemplars
Fun with Leather (1941) 4 exemplars
Ships and Cargoes (1926) 4 exemplars
Fun with Wire 4 exemplars
Card Tricks Anyone Can Do (1941) 3 exemplars
Toy Boats to Make at Home (1946) 3 exemplars
Fun with shells; (1958) 2 exemplars
Fun with Greeting Cards (1960) 2 exemplars
Holiday Craft and Fun (1950) 2 exemplars
Das Zauberbuch 1 exemplars
Fun With Shells (1958) 1 exemplars
Peaks of Invention (1929) 1 exemplars
Bill Severn's Magic Workshop (1943) 1 exemplars
Fun Puzzles 1 exemplars

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Best in Children's Books 07 (1958) 91 exemplars

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Data de naixement
1897
Data de defunció
1968
Gènere
male

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Contents include: Toys and Useful Things from Cloth; Handkerchief Tricks; Gifts to Make from Felt; Fabric Decorating
 
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SHCG | Aug 25, 2011 |
Working with Wire is an excellent book to help one get started working with wire. The author, Joseph Leeming discussed the different methods of working with wire and the kinds of wire that can be used.
 
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taterzngravy | Nov 15, 2009 |
This 1943 publication is subtitled, How to make magic equipment; how to perform many tricks, including some of the best tricks of professional magicians and how to give successful magic shows.

This book is an introduction to magic for young readers. The table of contents will look familiar to people who've read lots of magic books. That's because magic props for beginners are limited in variety. For instance, this book describes tricks with handkerchiefs, coins, cards, rings, string, and rope along with a few mind reading tricks. Many of the tricks can be done without any special preparation, which means that you can do them anywhere and at any time. Others require the use of gimmicks that you can make yourself.

As an amateur magician (I am known as "The World's Most Amateur Magician"), I can attest to the fact that there is real entertainment value in the tricks described in this book. I have performed many of them, not just as a young performer, but as an adult performer. For example, here are a few of the tricks revealed in this book that, at one time or another, were a regular part of my magic shows: Handkerchief from Nowhere, The Disappearing Handkerchief, The Mystic Dissolving Knot, The Wizard's Dye Tube, The Twentieth-Century Silks, The Coin Vanishing Handkerchief, The Mephisto Coin Box, Invisible Flight of a Coin, Multiplying Money, The Magic Prediction, You Do as I Do, The Svengali Seven-card Trick, Mental Magic, The Great Book Test, The Dictionary Test, Cutting a Person in Two with Tapes, Self-Tying Knots, and the Afghan Bands.

In fact, there is more entertainment value in this old 1943 book than I have seen in many of the more recent titles for beginners. For example, there are 70 effects described in this book. I have actually performed 18 (26%) of them in magic shows. By contrast, in my newer magic books, not counting the tricks that are the same as those described in Leeming's book, I estimate that fewer than 2% of the more modern effects have sufficient entertainment value to supplant any of the older Leeming productions.

This book will provide the young reader with a solid foundation in magic. Remember, practice makes perfect.
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MrJack | Nov 10, 2008 |

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Estadístiques

Obres
60
També de
1
Membres
714
Popularitat
#35,524
Valoració
½ 3.5
Ressenyes
3
ISBN
50
Llengües
1

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