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The Magic of Johnny Thompson - Signed (2 Volume set) with slipcase.
Johnny Thompson
Magicana (2018)
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Hardcover ISBN 978-0-9878686-6
USA  eng
Thompson, Johnny: The Magic of Johnny Thompson Signed (2 Volume set) with slipcase.
©2018 Magicana
Hardcover, 663 pages
ISBN 978-0-9878686-6-4 (set)

Two-volume hardcover, slipcased set: 12.5" x 9.25" x 2.75" (31.75 x 23.5 x 7 cm), approximately 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) with 78 routines spread over 663 pages, featuring nearly 1,100 photographs.

The Magic of Johnny Thompson (Book Set/2nd printing) -Johnny Thompson / Jamy Ian Smith

“We have been fans of Johnny Thompson for more than forty years. He has helped create and refine virtually every branch of our stage and television work.” – Penn & Teller

“Johnny is not only the most knowledgeable and proficient magician I have ever met, he is also a great teacher who is happy to share his knowledge… I have learned more about magic from Johnny Thompson than anyone else in the world.” – Lance Burton

Johnny Thompson is one of the most respected minds in magic. His distinguished, decades-long career has covered all facets of magic. As a pioneer of trade show performances, as a legendary dove worker—performed as his iconic stage persona, The Great Tomsoni & Co.—as a bamboozling bar magician, as a charming mentalist, as a surprising illusionist, and as one of the most sought-after magic consultants… Johnny Thompson, truly, has done it all.

And now, he shares it all with you.

Written by renowned author Jamy Ian Swiss and the master magician himself, Johnny Thompson, The Magic of Johnny Thompson meticulously details the real secrets of seventy-eight of Johnny’s most cherished and celebrated routines, including The Cups & Balls, The Balls in the Net, The Egg Bag and The Gambler’s Ballad.

It also includes previously unpublished material from Johnny’s respected colleagues and mentors including Dai Vernon, Harry Riser and Ed Marlo. There is an extended chapter devoted to the close-up magic of Charlie Miller and Max Malini. There is the entire Johnny Thompson Trade Show Act (complete with a sample script), including the incredibly impossible $100 Dollar Prediction. There is also a chapter devoted to dove and silk magic by The Great Tomsoni & Co., which incudes a thorough essay on the development of a dove act.
This handsome two-volume, slipcased set is over 660 pages and is illustrated with nearly 1,100 photographs and features forewords by Jamy Ian Swiss and Lance Burton, and introductions by Teller and Levent. Every copy sold also features two original signatures: one by Johnny Thompson and one by The Great Tomsoni!

Everything you would expect—and much more—from one of the most respected magicians of this, or any other age!

SPECIFICATIONS
Two-volume hardcover, slipcased set: 12.5" x 9.25" x 2.75" (31.75 x 23.5 x 7 cm), approximately 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) with seventy-eight routines spread over 663 pages, featuring nearly 1,100 photographs.


First Edition Second printing of this highly desirable set!

CONTENTS


CONTENTS
VOLUME I
Foreword by Jamy Ian Swiss
Introduction by Teller

THE GAMBLER'S BALLAD

HARRY RISER:
Everywhere Nowhere All Backs, The Ambilipstrous Card, The Kissed Card, Les Quick Cartes, The Bean Coins, Elmsley’s Brainweave, Expert Dunbury Delusion, Impromptu Shiner

ED MARLO:
The Empty Balloon, KF + BC + EM2 = Another Universal, Stilted Tilt, Mental Card Miracle, Expert Estimating the Aces

BALLS IN THE NET

MIXED MACS

MORE CARDS:
Zarrow Translating Deck, The Whispering Queen, The Prowling Jokers, Stopping Hofzinser, Location with a One-Way Back, The Classic Force, Underground Card Moves: Finlay Shift, Optical Shuffle, Carlyle Top Palm Replacement, Dribble Replacement

BENSON BOWL

MILLER & MALINI:
Basic English, Charlie’s First Card Trick, Covering Erdnase, Malini Side Steal, Thompson Side Steal, The Trick That Cannot Be Explained, Manuel’s Phantom Cigarette, Han Ping Chien, The Vanishing Glass, Miller Cups and Balls, Sugar Cube Assembly

THE EGG BAG


VOLUME II
Foreword by Lance Burton
Introduction by Levent

THE CUPS AND BALLS

MORE COIN MAGIC:
Presto Chango, The Golden Coin, Coin in the Bottle

DAI VERNON:
Expert Vernon’s Variant, Cutting the Aces, Copper and Silver Transposition, Dai Vernon’s Magic Castle Act

COLOR-CHANGING KNIVES

EVEN MORE CARDS:
The Five Senses, Card on the Seat, Quadruple Coincidence, Grippo’s Card to Envelope, The Genii’s Stop Trick, The Scoot, Ravelli Meets Rix, Parrish the Thought, Lazy Man’s Card Trick

MENTALISM:
The Koran Medallion, Polish Epic, The Pump Deck

ILLUSIONS:
The Color-Changing Dress, The Transformation Tunnel, The Trunk Trick, The JT Asrah

THE GREAT TOMSONI & CO.:
The Act, On Birds, Pockets and Principles, Wings of Warsaw, Unprepared Serpentine Silk, Color-Changing Silk, Color-Changing Dove, Multiple Dove Vanish, Paper to Parakeet

TRADE SHOW ACT:
The Act, Sample Script, The Opener, Miniature Invisible Deck, Micro-Macro, Triumph, Signed Card to Miniature Box, The Johnny Thompson $100 Prediction

THE FINAL WORD
by Johnny Thompson

LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION
Swiss, Jamy Ian, author The magic of Johnny Thompson / by Jamy Ian Swiss and Johnny Thompson ; edited by David Ben and Karl Johnson.

ISBN 978-0-9878686-6-4 (set)

1. Magic tricks. 2. Thompson, Johnny, 1934-. I. Thompson, Johnny, 1934-, author II. Ben, David, editor III. Johnson, Karl, 1959-, editor IV. Title. V. Title: Johnny Thompson.

GV1547.S95 2018 793.8 C2017-907376-1
Product Details
LoC Classification GV1547.S95 2018
LoC Control Number C2017-907376
Dewey 793.8
Extras Author autograph
No. of Pages 663
Personal Details
Read It No
Location Magic Library (Home)
Condition Mint
Owner Bryan-Keith Taylor
Notes
Johnny Thompson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johnny Thompson
Born John Max Thompson
July 27, 1934 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died March 9, 2019 (aged 84) Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.

Nationality Polish-American
Other names The Great Tomsoni
Occupation Illusionist, comedian
Spouse(s) Pamela Hayes

John Max Thompson (July 27, 1934 – March 9, 2019) was an American comedian and Las Vegas illusionist who performed under the stage name The Great Tomsoni with his wife, Pamela Hayes. They had a comedic slapstick act with the well-dressed Thompson and his gum-popping assistant, Pam, performing illusions while enduring a series of mishaps. Within the magician community, Tomsoni was considered a virtuoso, widely known as a mentor and teacher of magic, and a creator of tricks, as opposed to simply a performer. He worked behind the scenes with magicians such as Penn and Teller, Lance Burton, Criss Angel and Mat Franco.[1][2] In 1999, he was awarded one of the highest honors in the magician community, a Masters Fellowship with the Academy of Magical Arts.[3]


Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Death
2 Names
3 Awards

Biography
Thompson, who was Polish-American,[4] was born in Chicago on July 27, 1934.[5]Along with his wife Pamela Hayes, he performed a slapstick comic magical act in which he played the role of a dapper but buffoonish vaudeville gentleman, with a gum-popping assistant, and they endured various mishaps during their performance. One of his trademarks was producing pure white doves on stage, which were trained to play along with the act once they had appeared.[6]

He had been featured on many episodes of Criss Angel's Mindfreak, the "Hair" episode of Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, and the film The Aristocrats. His wife and assistant, Pamela Hayes Thompson, was featured in the film Women in Boxes about magicians' assistants.[7]

He was the producer on the television program Penn & Teller: Fool Us. As part of that job, he was responsible for making the final call as to whether the performers were able to fool Penn & Teller.[8]

Death
On February 25, 2019, Thompson collapsed during a rehearsal of Fool Us and was taken to Spring Valley Hospital in Las Vegas. He died in the hospital 12 days later, on March 9, at the age of 84 from complications of respiratory failure.[9][10][5] As tearfully reported by Penn Jillette on his podcast, "Penn's Sunday School" released March 10, 2019: "Johnny Thompson, many of you know, my hero, my mentor, my friend, my co-worker...who for over 20 years had been working with Penn and Teller, guiding us on everything; Johnny Thompson who was like a grandfather to my children, Johnny died today. He was working on "Penn and Teller 'Fool Us'", right after working with an act, he collapsed next to Mike Close. His heart stopped. There was CPR. The EMTs got his heart going again. He went in and was in the hospital from that Monday until today, so 10 days. He was conscious for a few moments...I spoke to him, but he couldn't answer back because he had a ventilator in his mouth, but he was clearly there. And he died. ...So I'm doing the show tonight...because Johnny would not have allowed me not to go on. ...The last words I said to him were "I love you," the last words he said to me were "I love you," ...I love you, Johnny."

Names
Thompson's act has performed under the following names:

The Great Tomsoni
The Great Tomsoni & Co.
The Great Tomsoni and Company
The Great Tomsoni: The Wizard of Warsaw[11]
Tomsoni & Co.

Awards
Magicians of the Year: Johnny and Pam Thompson
Clarke Senator Crandall Award For Comedy, Abbott's Magic Get Together, 1992[12]
LOUIE award, Tannen's Magic Jubilee, 2000
Masters Fellowship, Academy of Magical Arts, 1999[3]