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Teller Jim Steinmeyer Hiding the Elephant (Paperback)

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Topic: Magic, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Modern / General Release Year: 2004 Publication Year: 2004 EAN: 9780786714018 Item Height: 1 in Publication Name: Hiding the Elephant Item Width: 5.5 in Book Title: Hiding the Elephant : How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear Item Weight: 14.4 Oz Genre: Games & Activities, Biography & Autobiography, History Language: English Format: Trade Paperback Author: Jim Steinmeyer Subtitle: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear ISBN-10: 0786714018 Country of Origin: US Number of Pages: 392 Pages Item Length: 8.5 in ISBN: 9780786714018 Release Date: 09/15/2004 gtin13: 9780786714018 Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Illustrator: Yes

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Further Details Title: Hiding the Elephant Condition: New Subtitle: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear Format: Paperback Author: Teller, Jim Steinmeyer ISBN-10: 0786714018 EAN: 9780786714018 ISBN: 9780786714018 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc Release Date: 09/15/2004 Description: Now in paperback comes Jim Steinmeyer's astonishing chronicle of half a century of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery, and keen competition within the world of magicians. Lauded by today's finest magicians and critics, Hiding the Elephant is a cultural history of the efforts among legendary conjurers to make things materialize, levitate, and disappear. Steinmeyer unveils the secrets and life stories of the fascinating personalities behind optical marvels such as floating ghosts interacting with live actors, disembodied heads, and vanishing ladies. He demystifies Pepper's Ghost, Harry Kellar's Levitation of Princess Karnak, Charles Morritt's Disappearing Donkey, and Houdini's landmark vanishing of Jennie the elephant in 1918. The dramatic mix of science and history, with revealing diagrams, photographs and magicians' portraits by William Stout, provides a glimpse behind the curtain at the backstage story of magic. Genre: History Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 210mm Item Length: 140mm Release Year: 2004 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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