PRE OWNED
Author/Editor: Johann N. Hofzinser
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Date: 1973
Condition: Very Good
Dover edition. Pictorial wrappers, illustrated, 188 pages. Mild toning and visible blemishes. Cover has been very neatly wrapped in protective plastic. Overall very good condition.
A wonderful book with a very interesting history…
(from Magicpedia)
Hofzinser’s Card Conjuring is an English translation of a book about Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser’s card magic, originally written in German by Ottokar Fischer as Kartenkünste in 1910.
Five hundred copies were printed, but eighty were destroyed when the binder’s premises were laid waste in the London blitz of October, 1940.
The material can be a bit hard to follow as the original German descriptions are a bit flawed since Hofzinser died long before Fischer became interested in his magic (and Fischer was not be best writer.) He had to rely upon second-hand descriptions from Hofzinser’s friends and students. With the English translation, the results became so far removed from the original source that it causes many problems trying to reconstruct the sleights and effects.
Although, without this book, the work of Hofzinser may have been forgotten.
Dover reprinted Fulves’ edition of Sharpe’s Hofzinser translation in 1986 without Sharpe’s permission. He complained and they sent him a check. They never reprinted after that, probably to avoid further problems
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