The most complete treatise on sleight-of-hand coin conjuring, including best traditional methods and modern innovations. Guides you systematically from basic techniques, through integrated tricks to complete routined acts, 18 in all. 510 clear illustrations by Nelson C. Hahne. The best manual for amateurs, an encyclopedic source for professionals.
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95 of 98 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is one of the true classics of magic. It contains the basics for almost all of coin magic. In other words you wouldn't have to read any other book and you could still be a top-notch coin magician.
MCM contains everything you need to know concerning concealment, production and alteration of coins. It has outstanding plots and routines and patter suggestions. It gives detailed accounts of some of the most cherished and "pet" tricks and routines of some of the finest "coin-men" in history. It is laid out very well with a fine index. It also has a history of coin magic. There is so much here that no matter where you start reading, you'll find yourself saying, "hey, I would really like to learn this!". Even though it is a fascinating read and fun to just glance through and dream over, I contend that if you decide to pick an effect, sleight or routine out of MCM and are determined to make it yours NO MATTER WHAT, you will be rewarded with the true wonder of magical study...RESULTS! Many magic books contain great items but lack good explanation which leads to frustration and lack of fulfillment. MCM has a unique quality about it. I think that is what I like most. It really provides the necessary explanation and instruction to actually teach you...if you let it and stay at it. But you have to want to read and study this book if you want the results. Self-working coin tricks are very rare.
While lecturing over the years I had the pleasure to meet many of the contributors of MCM. This was like magic in itself for me. One quick story. I was running the booth for Sasco Magic about 10 years ago at the St. Louis, IBM convention. Needless to say I was demonstrating coin effects, day after day...all day. A number of the true legends of coin magic were at the convention, many of which had effects in the "Bobo Book" (the generic name for MCM). It was a real treat to actually meet them and have them show me the same effects I had read about for years. But the biggest surprise was when Jim Buffaloe, after showing me his phenomenal items, told me that Bobo himself was there and that if I'd like, he'd bring him over to meet me. I could go on and on about the lengthy session that I, along with many other lucky magicians, witnessed that day, but let me say that J.B. Bobo was absolutely no fluke! He could do EVERYTHING in his book to perfection! That was the highlight of the whole convention as far as I was concerned. It was like one of those rare, surreal times we all experience once in a great while. What a trip!
I guess I could go on and on but let me just mention a few of the items I enjoy the most ( it's tough because I could say the whole book!).
Guess which Hand p134
Coin through Ring p171
The Bent Penny p186
Silver Extraction p187
Rattle Box Routine page 207
Presto Chango p245
Stack of Halves p255
Routine #4 p342
You haven't lived until you've curled up with Modern Coin Magic (The "Bobo Book").
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is older than Joan Rivers but has aged much more gracefully. Slieght of hand coin magic just really doesn't change over time and this is the motherload for learning coin magic. If this is a side of magic that interests you than do yourself a favor, read and learn. You can learn these tricks just from this book because of the excellent drawings but it will take practice like any skill.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There's no word to describe this book other than fantabulous. It is the one book every coin prestidigitator must have. It has everything you could ever possibly want to know about coing manipulation from simple passes and vanishes to spectacular routines and seemingly impossible flourishes. It starts from the very beginning so anybody can learn from this book, and finishes where few masters of the art tread. Completely comprehensive, if you so much as master the first couple chapters of the book, you can amaze almost anybody and if you master a couple more, you can amaze the rest. Eveything is clearly explained with many detailed diagrams. It has been the bible for coin magic ever since it came out and I doubt it will be replaced anytime soon. This is a classic that you cannot do without.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great Product
An awesome read. Many of Bobo's explanations should be supplemented by Youtube videos, or by some of the great advice on coinvanish. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Magic_is_Real
Good book for beginers with comitment
Gr8 book for begining people geting into coin magic/magic. This book is a commited read. Ok book for people into coin magic for a while as a reference. Read more
Published 9 months ago by shurtboy
Poetry of Magic
Hofzinser said cards are the poetry of magic but I have to respectively disagree; COINS are the real poetry. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Theo
Harbound Vs. Paperback? Final Words on the Bobo Book
There's over 40 reviews for this book as I write this. What's left to say about the Bobo book that hasn't already been said? Nothing. Everyone pretty much hit the nail on the head. Read more
Published 23 months ago by JW
The gold standard of coin tricks
Bobo's "Modern Coin Magic' is an encyclopedic work on sleights of hand involving coins. It covers the full gamut of effects from ones requiring no preparation, only a coin (my... Read more
Published on January 4, 2010 by E. M. Van Court
Good Book
Very good book, but didn't help my magic much. You need good hand eye coordination and time to practice, which I do not. Read more
Published on December 2, 2009 by Brian Prisby
A must for beginners in coin magic
This is my first serious book on coin magic and I owe most of my "education" in coin magic (and magic in general) to it. Read more
Published on September 4, 2009 by DuCK
Bobo review
Awesome book. Highly recommended for coin magic. It is considered to be the "bible" of coin magic and I loved it!
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Published on April 13, 2009 by Jacob C. Burton
This is the Coin Bible
Like most good Bible readers, I've read this cover to cover at least 4 times, and will do it again. I wouldn't expect to become David Roth after reading this, but it will give you... Read more
Published on March 26, 2009 by Gary W. Ailes
The Classic Treatise on Coin Manipulation
Modern Coin Magic, or the 'Bobo Book', is one of the CLASSICS of coin manipulation and deserves a prominent place in the library of any magician. Read more
Published on April 23, 2007 by Roshan Kamath
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double penetration, copper extraction, gimmicked coin, finger palmed coin, front finger hold, gimmicked box, regular half dollar, coin finger palmed, finger palm position, classic palmed, classic palm position, three marked coins, show the left hand empty, half dollar lying, coin from the left hand, topmost coin, real half dollar, coin inward, thumb palmed, coins finger palmed, coin into the left hand, right finger palm, folding coin, palm down right hand, crumbling motions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bobo Switch, Nelson Downs, Utility Switch, The French Drop, The Click Pass, Pumpkin Seed, Editor's Note, The Touch of Midas, The Back Palm, Stewart Judah, Coins Through the Table, Pocket Vanish, Make Money, The Sympathetic Coins, The Inseparable Pair, Half Shell, The Switchover, The Art of Magic, Presto Chango, Second Method, Rolland Hamblen, Delayed Action Sleeving, The Bobo Coin Vanish, Frank Garcia, The Hippity Hop Half Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
double penetration, copper extraction, gimmicked coin, finger palmed coin, front finger hold, gimmicked box, regular half dollar, coin finger palmed, finger palm position, classic palmed, classic palm position, three marked coins, show the left hand empty, half dollar lying, coin from the left hand, topmost coin, real half dollar, coin inward, thumb palmed, coins finger palmed, coin into the left hand, right finger palm, folding coin, palm down right hand, crumbling motions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Bobo Switch, Nelson Downs, Utility Switch, The French Drop, The Click Pass, Pumpkin Seed, Editor's Note, The Touch of Midas, The Back Palm, Stewart Judah, Coins Through the Table, Pocket Vanish, Make Money, The Sympathetic Coins, The Inseparable Pair, Half Shell, The Switchover, The Art of Magic, Presto Chango, Second Method, Rolland Hamblen, Delayed Action Sleeving, The Bobo Coin Vanish, Frank Garcia, The Hippity Hop Half Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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