Original & Creative: Intimate Coin Magic, Formal Coin Magic, Close-Up Magic, Stand-Up Magic, and Kid-Show Magic.

Jim Buffaloe was a magician who specialized in coin magic. He created many original routines and techniques that appeared in the classic Bobo’s Modern Coin Magic and multiple Linking Ring Parades. His specialty was showpieces which combined unique props and coins. The coin section of this book is considered one of the ten best books about original coin magic.

In addition to the excellent coin magic, the book concludes with Jim’s best and original stand-up, close-up, and kid-show routines.

You will also learn valuable lessons about what makes magic engaging, entertaining, and ultimately magical! These well thought out secrets and presentations are included within the routines and in separate essays.

Contents include:

►Brief Coin Routines: A Snappy Four, A Kneezy Production, Thumb Push Turnover, The Pull Through Concealment, Dollar Bill Jackpot, Coin-Ah-Copia, The Drop Concealment, The Houdini Safe And Lock Company, A Lesson In Subtlety, Harry Hoo & Dini, Cameo Miracle Production, A Weighty Matter, and Son Of New Era Coin Go.

►Formal Coin Routines: Theme and Variation in Silver - Part I (Instant Deposit, Slow Motion Replay, It’s In The Bag, Isolation Penetration, and Through The Threads), Theme and Variation in Silver - Part II (The Go-Go Coin, In The Blink Of An Eye, The Coin Tin,and A Plethora Of Silver), Theme and Variation in Silver - Part III (The Steroid Coin, The Invisible Shield, The Ginzu Chop Up, The Big Rub Out, The Big Break Through, Still Growing!, Money, Money Everywhere, and The Perpetual Production Move), and Stage Coin Routine.

►Theatrical Coin & Close-Up Routines: High Tech Blaster, The Big Melt Down, Molecular Re-Assembly, Coins Across — The “Safe” Way, Beamed Across, The Time Machine, Tightwad, Don’t Be So Nosey!, A Fistful Of Dimes, On The Level, The Pun-Aholic, This Spud’s For You, Caught!, An “Egg” Stra-Ordinary Journey, Come On Down, Handy Crafty, Bagged, Colorsation, and “It’s Mortar” He Said.

►A Tool Towards Excellence: Copper/Silver Routine, Anatomy Of A Routine, Thoughts On Style, One For The Experts, One For The Experts: A Four Postulate Analysis, A Perverse (But Effective) Way Of Thinking.

►Magic For Children: Trouble Witless, Mouse Capades, A New Look At Metamorpho Spots, The Capricious Ghost, and A Crown For A Queen.

►General Magic: Zany 20th Century Silk Routine, Slick Silks, The Hypnotized Finger, Super Ring Flite, Blow It Through Ring Release, The Gadabout Ring, Buffaloe Bill Buster, Sudden Impact, Keyless Konnivery, and An Absorbing Vanish.

First Paperback Edition. Published by Meir Yedid Magic in 2024 (first hardcover edition released in 1998). 236-pages, 8.5”x11”, Perfect Bound, with hundreds of illustrations by Tony Dunn, Marshall Philyaw, and Dan Garrett. Preface by Ed Buffaloe, Introduction by Phil Willmarth. A Meir Yedid Magic product.

“I said then, that only the world-renowned David Roth could compare to Jim in ability to create unusual plots and totally-deceptive routines of coin magic. Like David, Jim has a knack of introducing unusual props into his coin routines.” …Phil Willmarth

NOTE: We have a few copies left of the first hardcover edition that was published by Dan Garrett in 1998. That is what you will be getting when purchasing the hardcover.