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Has anyone just looked through the index of Tarbell for fun. I was doing that yesterday and its just amazing the things youll find. People will ask me if I can do something sometimes, and if I cant, Ill usually find it in Tarbell, right before some other fantastic effect. Really great and I recommend all of them (except for volume 5, which I also recommend... strange the way my mind works)

You are right about the wealth of effects in these books. I learnt Card On Ceiling from Tarbell and it'll do for me, Tommy, so I haven't bothered with any of the commercially sold versions.
A lifetimes worth of effects which will fill up your time and your act.

£20 for a book chock full of the cream of magic is a bargain. I noticed the whole set was available in the US for about $180 or less but the shipping costs add significantly to the cost. I may have to save my pennies, travel over to New York on a cheapo ticket and bring the whole set back!

You will not regret it. There is an abundance of material in these books and you will never tire of ploughing through them. They're like a treasure trove of magical effects.
There are things in them that I read about years ago but didn't perform and it's great when you have the urge to learn something new to be able to refer to Tarbell and learn it!
It's all there...

To compare with Mandrake's list, here are the contents of the printed course:

Volume 1
1. History of Magic
2. Magic as a Science
3.Sleight of hand with coins
4. Coin tricks
5. More coin tricks
6. The TT
7. Impromptu tricks
8. Ball tricks
9. Mathematical mysteries
10. Effective card mysteries
11. Impromptu card mysteries
12. Mental card mysteries
13. Card sleights
14. Novel card mysteries
15. Restoring torn papers
16. Rope & tape principle
17. Handkerchief tricks
18. Knotty silks
19. Eggs and Silks

Volume 2
20. How to please your audience
21. Magic with wands
22. Double paper mysteries
23. Magic with coins
24. Cigarette magic
25. Sleight of hand with cards
26. Selected card mysteries
27. Rising cards
28. Egg magic
29. Billliard ball manipulation
30. Handkerchief magic
31. Rope magic
32. 'Ghostlite' mysteries
33. Illusions

Volume 3
34. Routining a magic show
35. How to make people laugh
36. Intimate magic
37. Conjuring with currency
38. Modern coin effects
39. Fundamental card sleights
40. Card mysteries
41. Card stabbing
42. Novelty handkerchief magic
43. Colour changing silks
44. Rabbit and dove magic
45. Illusions

Volume 4
46. Novelty magic
47. Thimble magic
48. Swallowing needles & blades
49. Unique vard magic
50. Novelty rising cards
52. card transition tricks
53. Mental & psychic mysteries
54. Chinese linking rings
55. Magic with ribbon
56. Silken trickery
57. Slate tricks
58. Illusion's - Fu Manchu's

Volume 5
59. Unique magic
60. More unique mysteries
61. Four-ace effects
62. Modern mental mysteries
63. Hat and coat productions
64. Oriental magic
65. Original oriental secrets
66. Tarbell hindu rope mysteries
67. Modern rope magic
68. Magic of the Bambergs
69. Magic with bowls and liquids
70. Illusions
71. Publicity and promotion

Volume 6
72. Novel ball magic
73. Unique card effects
74. Novelty magic
75. Rope magic
76. Mindreading mysteries
77. X-ray eyes and blindfold effects
78. Silk and rope penetrations
79. Escapes and substitutions
80. Spirit ties and vest turning
81. Modern stage magic
82. Stage productions
83. Magic as theatre

Volume 7
84. More mental magic
85. Card magic
86. Rope magic
87. Novelty magic
88. Money magic
89. Silk magic
90. Illusions you can make
91. Late arrivals

Volume 8
92.Thoughts and advice
93. Mysteries of the seance
94. Further unique mysteries
95. Magic with cards
96. Oriental magic
97. Magic of the mind
98. Rope magic
99. Chalk talk magic
100. Magic with apparatues
101. Comedy magic
102. Pantomime illusions
103. Making magic pay
Plus: The Selling of the Tarbell System, The Tarbell Lectures

lord freddie, thats exactly what i was looking for... and more!

thanks for the cd list mandrake.

ive decided upon the books as they are easier to bring around with me. theres tons of information in these books!