Description
The Fred Braue Notebooks
by Fred Braue
8-Volumes
1985-1997, published by Jeff Busby Magic
Originals, mint condition!
The fabled and extremely rare Fred Braue Notebooks, in mint condition! This series was originally meant to contain a total of 15 volumes, but Busby only ever released 8 of them.
8 1/2 x 11 inch format, spiral-bound.
Volume 1 – 35 pages
Volume 2 – 33 pages
Volume 3 – 33 pages
Volume 4 – 34 pages
Volume 5 – 33 pages
Volume 6 – 34 pages
Volume 7 – 37 pages
Volume 8 – 34 pages
Please note: While this item is new and unused, it has been sitting in storage for decades, so issues such as rusted staples or bowed pages may be present.
From the “Fred Braue Notebooks Prospectus,” 1985:
Fred Braue, co-author with Jean Hugard of the celebrated EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE and ROYAL ROAD TO CARD MAGIC left a rich legacy of unpublished material when he died in 1962. A superb technician, he had the “real work” on the current developments in card and close-up magic. Yet, much of Braue’s work remained unpublished on his death. His session notebooks, and notebooks of his own effects and sleights are simply astounding: they contain literally hundreds of effects, completely written, that have never seen print.
THE FRED BRAUE NOTEBOOKS in original form consists of roughly 1000 pages of typewritten text spanning some 30 years of creative thinking and recording. The few top-rank magicians who have viewed the vast amount of still unpublished Braue material have been astounded by its depth and scope.
The greater bulk of the material in THE FRED BRAUE NOTEBOOKS concerns card magic that Braue invented. It includes sophisticated sleights, close-up card routines, and platform card work. There is a complete general work on card magic consisting of several hundred pages which Braue was writing at the time of his death called SLEIGHTS. There is a complete book devoted to new routines and original sleights with cards that did not have a working title. And, included in THE FRED BRAUE NOTEBOOKS is the suppressed material from two classics, material that was intended for, but for various reasons never saw print in EXPERT CARD TECHNIQUE
and ROYAL ROAD TO CARD MAGIC. In short, there is a wide variety of original sleights, moves, effects, and routines with cards.
In addition, there is non-card material that will be of interest to any magician, including Braue’s routine for the Sympathetic Silks; other silk effects; visual gags; Linking Rings; coins; and a section on the Cups and Balls which includes a complete description of Braue’s Cups and Balls routine – an ingenious routine using five balls of which only three are seen. Also included is a comprehensive description of the ball vanish that Max Malini used in his Cups and Balls routine.
Included in the series of THE FRED BRAUE NOTEBOOKS will be the session notebooks that Braue kept – extensive notes on the
magicians that he met and the material that was shown to him – a fascinating look at the “underground” of the time. Included in the series are effects and routines by the following legendary names: Charlie Miller, T. Nelson Downs, Dai Vernon, Max Malini, Paul Rosini, Dr. Elliott, Nate Leipzig, Paul LePaul, Bert Allerton, Jack McMillen, Tenkai, Emil Jarrow, and many others.
In the bulk of the cases, these are not just “notes”, but complete descriptions by a professional writer. It is a wealth of material that has previously not seen print now being released for the first time.
