I think all shopping should revert immediately to the method described on this form: "Just check what you want and pin a one dollar bill to this letter." I wonder if Amazon.com would go for this idea.
I had never heard of any of the authors listed on this form. The name I decided to search for was Louis F. Christianer. While Louis was a prolific author of tricks, and seemed well regarded among his peers- in the 1920 book The Magic Art, author Donald Holmes said Christianer's, "fertile brain has contributed many good things to magic." Yet for all of the wonderful things people say, and how inspiring and lasting his impact in magic seemed to be, no one mentions anything about the actual man or his past. Did he go by a different name maybe?
Anyhow, if you would like to see a copy of his New Magical Conceptions, you can view it while it is still on sale via ebay.
We also have very little about the man on MagicPedia http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Louis_Christianer
ReplyDeleteI'll have to do some research and fix that :)
Yay! I was hoping someone would chime in- everyone seemed to love this guy, but no one has anything about him! I will be excited to know your findings- he could be the great unappreciated magician!
ReplyDeleteSurprisingly, not much has been written about him. I did find a picture of him and added it to http://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Louis_Christianer
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