$225 · Tarbell Course In Magic (8 Vol. Set, Hardcover)

Tarbell Course In Magic - (Inside back cover) This hard cover, seven volume set is considered to be the most comprehensive course in magic. Each volume covers close-up, parlor and stage magic. It covers all the basics from sleight of hand to grand illusion. If you are really interested in the art of magic or want some young person to have a good, solid "foundation" to build on, the Tarbell Course is a must! We recommend it! Important: Each volume contains magic on all levels and in all types of magic, so you can start with any volume. Volume 7 also contains an index to all seven volumes. Tarbell Volume 8 - This exciting collection of Tarbell materials edited by a noted magic author is the latest Tarbell volume released. With a foreword by David Copperfield, this makes a valuable addition to the Tarbell series. A MASTER OF IMPOSSIBILITIES Dr. Tarbell was a genius in creating, solving and demonstrating mysteries. The things you know cannot be done-Dr. Tarbell did. He made mystery not only an art but a science. He puzzled the magician as well as the layman. At an early age, Dr. Tarbell realized the strange power that mystery held over man and how it shaped his destiny. He saw how legends lived when facts died and how illusion too often looked more like truth than truth itself. So he began to study magic and mystery the world over as practiced by the Witch Doctors of the Jungles, the Gulli-Gulli Wonder Workers of Egypt, the Magicians of the Orient and Occident, the Priests of the Pagan Temples, together with the Mysteries of Truth brought forth by the great Magi-the Wise Men of the Inner Brotherhoods. From his uncanny knowledge of these things he developed programs that were the outstanding sensations of the American platform. Dr. Tarbell's skill in creating mystery, his pleasing personality, his individualistic sense of humor and his ease of speaking, placed him in a class by himself. Every kind of audience enjoyed Dr. Tarbell. He was a supreme entertainer. DR. HARLAN TARBELL 1890-1960 There is no one in any magic club who has not at some time or other learned from Dr. Tarbell. There are many who lay the credit for their entire professions to the Tarbell Course, that vast storehouse of magical knowldge, painstakingly illustrated in great detail, with a text so crystal clear in simple English that students were doing the trick almost as they read about them. Dr. Tarbell had two great God-given talents that fitted in perfectly with his acquired talent of magic - he drew like an angel and he wrote with amazing clarity. He alone had been able to put before magicians, beginners or otherwise in a form they could quickly and easily understand. You may never have met him peronally, although he was so faithful in fraternal magic that seldom was he away from any national or local convention, any gathering of the clan. When you met him for the first time, you thought of him as a little like Will Rogers - slender, wiry five foot eight, never weighing over 130 pounds, keen of eye, ready of tongue, a little nervous and restless, kind to everyone, comfortable to be with, easy to know. Dr. Tarbell is not only for this generation. He will be known as the greatest teacher in magic. The man who laid down the rule, and played the game according to them. The world of magic has been waiting almost forty years for another volume in The Tarbell Course in Magic written and 1llustrated by the man who created what 1s universally hailed as the greatest school of magic ever set down on paper. Harlan Tarbell died in 1960, and few could conceive that yet another volume in The Tarbell Course in Magic written and illustrated by the master himself would ever appear. Until now. That day has arrived. Now you can walk into your local magic shop and buy Tarbell 8, the latest book in the immortal series first conceived by Dr. Harlan Tarbell in the 1920s.