Roberto Giobbi's Card College Lighter : More Professional Card Magic Without Sleight-of-hand

by Roberto Giobbi, Barbara Giobbi-Ebnöther (Illustrator), Dave Shepherd (Translator)

Roberto Giobbi's newest survey of sleightless card magic, Card College Lighter, gives the famous Giobbi treatment to 21 baffling card tricks by some of the craft's greatest masters, including Vernon, Annemann, Leech, Maven, Fulves, Hummer, Vollmer and Krenzel. These tricks do not require sleights, but they all show the cunning perspective of a professional performer, guaranteeing astonishing and entertaining results.

Following in the footsteps of his Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi teaches the secrets of professional-caliber card magic, providing insights into the presentation, psychology and routining that make these simple tricks into seeming miracles. He gives the reader all the tools necessary for a professional-quality performance.

21 Tricks
175 pages in hardcover

Giobbi also explains how these tricks can be arranged into highly effective and entertaining routines. The reader will learn the secrets of expert organization and combination that make good tricks even more baffling. These lessons serve both the beginner and the advanced card-magician who wish to do magic that allows the audience to stare relentlessly at the fingers without discovering a thing.

Genres: Magic

175 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Roberto Giobbi is a full-time professional magician and one of Europe's finest and most successful exponents of sleight-of-hand with cards. In 1988 and 1991 he was recognized by his peers with awards for excellence in card magic from the prestigious FISM World Congress of Magicians, and in 1990 he received from the Swiss International Congress of Magicians their highest award, the Grand Prix. He also is one of the thirty members of the exclusive Escuela Magica de Madrid, and the author of numerous works on magic in German. In 1988 he was named Author of the Year by the Magischer Zirkel von Deutschland.