This is from a Private Estate in Like New Condition. This is a hardcover book with the original dust jacket all in like new condition and well preserved.
First Edition 1988
From the author:
"In this book I have collected some new masterpieces created by the young magicians of Japan. Upon glancing through these pages you may think, 'But you've also included tricks from people who aren't so young anymore.' That's true only if you gauge a person's age entirely by the number of years he or she has lived.
"I use the term as in 'young at heart and mind,' denoting an inner brightness which exists regardless of chronological age. This energy bestows a different kind of youth upon those lucky enough to possess it.
"I believe you can feel something new and different from all of the excellent routines included here. Even I'm not sure exactly what this new feeling means, but this book poses some interesting questions. If you take it upon yourself to answer some of them then you will have made us feel quite honored."
Contents include:
- Preface - Hiroyuki Sakai
- Foreword - Phil Goldstein
- Introduction - Richard Kaufman
- Card Ping Chien
- Miser's Miracle Again
- Metamorph-rose
- Card Quake
- Glass Load
- Climax Flower Chains
- Double Shock
- Cell Division
- Cane From Fireball
- Coin Fugue
- Counterfeit
- Joint Account
- The Three-Sixty Fan
- Dice Assembly
- Chonometer Card
- Triple Production Box
- Triangle Circle Square
- Quadruplicate Spellbound
- Crafty Wand Vanish
- Burnt Out
- Linking Cardboard
- Dedicated to Mr. Astaire
- Non-Prediction
- Spoony Ring
- Smoke Rings
