Gregg Webb - Tbtde The book that doesn't exist

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Why do the same tricks everyone else is doing?

The Book That Doesn't Exist is the new name for the continuation of FEEN-X Magazine, an underground newsletter read by some of the top names in magic. Now it can be yours!

2002-2003, 178 pages.

1. Table of Contents

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 1 - 5 pages
2. Twistin' The Night Away - A New Twist to Card Twisting Effects
3. Slowly I Turn - Thoughts on Quick Moves Vs. Smooth Moves
4. Johnny CardTrickSeeds - A Short Story
5. Brian Higgins Alternative to the Rub-A-Dub Vanish - A Different Card Vanish
6. Old Business - Thoughts on Stigmata Effects

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 2 - 4 pages
2. The No-Gimmick Sound Gimmick
3. Precursors - Two Coin Routines Without Sound
4. No-Gimmick Sound Gimmick - A Coin Routine With Sound Effects
5. The Library - Thoughts on Books
6. Silent Blasphemy - Another Story

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 3 - 6 pages
2. One Gambler Vs. Three Magicians
3. One Gambler Vs. Three Magicians - Progessive Ace Assembly With Different Color Backs
4. Olinksy's Treasure - A True Story
5. The Library - Thoughts On Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 4 - 8 pages
2. Okito Box Routine That Doesn't Exist - Original Okito Box Routine
3. The Library - Current Magic Books
4. Addendum - Patter Spin on One Gambler Vs. Three Magicians
5. HP Wand Design - New Look for Magic Wands
6. State of The Onion - Thoughts on TV Magic

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 5 - 5 pages
2. Card Magic: Blindfold Poker Deal
3. Pseudo Center - A Pseudo Center for Blindfolded Dealing
4. The Library - Current Magic Books
5. Slowly I Turn - Thoughts on Trick Photography in TV Magic
6. Dark Frickin Humor - The New York Scene
7. Addendum - Additional Notes on the Pseudo Center Deal
8. Super Addendum - Looking Back on One Gambler Vs. Three Magicians

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 6 - 7 pages
2. Speaking of Monie: Out Thru the Side of Purse - Coin Production
3. The Unseen Force - A Card Force by Cushing Strout
4. The Library - Thoughts on The Lost Notebooks of John Hilliard
5. Pro Fun Ditties - Thoughts on Magic
6. More From The Library - About Genii Magazine, Magic Books, Videos
7. Pottered - Thoughts on Developing a Wizard Theme

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 7 - Special Issue: No Cards-No Coins - 5 pages
2. Special Issue: No Cards - No Coins
3. Multiplication Trick With Small Balls
4. Jacks or Better - A Trick Using Children's Gaming Jacks
5. Another Poor Man's Raven - A New Vanisher Without a Magnet
6. The Library - Denny & Lee
7. Slowly I - Thoughts on New Format

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 8 - 7 pages
2. The Mysterious Letter
3. 4 Signed Aces Vanish and Reappear in a Sealed Letter
4. The Trick That Fooled Houdin - In Depth! (An Ambitious Card Move)
5. For The Cost of Two Rubber Bands - A Packet Trick
6. Zen In The Art of Magic Illustration - Thoughts on Packaging DVDs
7. Zen In The Art of WRITING About Magic
8. The Library - Books, Videos, and Magazines
9. Dark Frickin' Humor
10. Review -- The Encyclopedia of Egg Magic

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 9 - 5 pages
2. Ipso Facto - The Best New Coin Trick in the World (Introducing Skid HPC)
3. Library - The Magic Mirror (Review), Misc. Thoughts

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Special Bonus Issue - 3 pages
2. Let's Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer (Packet Card Trick) - Gregg Webb & Doug MacGeorge

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 10 - Robert E. Neale/Halloween Issue - 5 pages
2. Four Bikers of the Apocalypse
3. A New Packet Trick!
4. The Library - Writings on Ancient Sacred Magic

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 11 - Countact Deluxe - 4 pages
2. Countact Deluxe - A Variation on a T. A. Waters Effect
3. Webb's 5 Card Psych Force Deck
4. Future 5vPsych Force
5. Combined 5 and Hobson's Choice - Mentalism With Cards

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 12 - Back to Ever Lovin' Cards - 8 pages
2. Jack Chanin's Top Change - An Unusual Top Change
3. Webb's Center - A Center Deal
4. Thoughts on the Bart Harding Stack - Mental Feats With a Stacked Deck
5. Special Bonus: Cheat Sheet For The Harding Stack

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Special Holiday Bonus - 5 pages
2. Jumpin' Gemini - Variations on a Trick by Darwin Ortiz
3. Hitchcock Aces - Variations on Another Ortiz Trick
4. Touches That Help Performing Paul Harris' Anything Deck
5. A Tip for Monte
6. Thoughts on Paul Curry's Cider
7. Bob Cassidy's Art Of Mentalism
8. Kudos - Max Maven's Mentalism With Batteries
9. On The Demise of Hartumim The Great
10. On Jongling Vs. Manipulation
11. A Xmas Story

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 13 - My Lucky Number - 7 pages
2. Webb's "My Magic Card" Revisited - Selected Cards to Pocket and Case
3. Hobson's Living & Dead - A Living and Dead Test
4. The Afterburner - Thoughts on Derren Brown & Aaron Fisher

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - The BTDE Special New Year Issue - 7 pages
2. Reds Progress - A Card Trick Featuring a Kicker by Brian Higgins
3. The Patter for Reds Progress
4. Afterimages - Final Thoughts on Reds Progress
5. Book Review - Aaron Fisher's The Paper Engine
6. The Fix-It Shop - Thoughts on Max Maven's Caffeinomenon
7. Dark Frickin Humor
8. Extra Options for Reds Progress

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus Chapter - A Book That Doesn't Exist Publication - 4 pages
2. Webb / Marlo / Leipzig Punch Deal - Dealing a Royal Flush Blindfolded
3. On the Use of Lucid Dreaming
4. Feel My Aura - Mentalism With Invisible Thread
5. Feel My Aura - Additional Credits
6. On Debunking Nostradamus
7. The Cusp - Review of Darwin Ortiz' Scams and Fantasies

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 14 - 5 pages
2. Spell Check Bee - Spelling to Selected Card
3. The Afterburner - Razzle-Dazzle Vs. Magic

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus 2 - A Book That Doesn't Exist Publication - 9 pages
2. The Addendum Move Strikes Back - A New Copper-Silver-Brass Coin Routine
3. The No-Punch Punch - Blindfolded Dealing Without a Punch
4. Stargate GW - A Signed Card Vanishes and Reappears in Case
5. Jonathan Townsend Returns
6. The Afterburner - Final Tips on Webb's No-Punch Deal and Stargate GW
7. Further Adventures of the No-Punch Deal - More Tips

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus 3 - Hey! Don't Expect One Of These Every Time! - 2 pages
2. Coin and Bill Vignette - A Dollar Bill Turns Into Coins
3. Best Poker Deal - Getting a Royal Flush in Spades

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 15 - 5 pages
2. Geller Coin
3. Bending a Coin With Your Mind
4. 2 A-Heads - Variations With Copper and Silver Coins
5. From the Backroom - The NY Scene
6. Gregg Webb Newsflash!

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 16 - Herb Zarrow Tribute Issue - 6 pages
2. The "Z"
3. Using The "Z" - The Zarrow Shuffle
4. I Wouldn't Want to Play Cards With You - A Poker Demonstration
5. Experimental - A Psych Card Force
6. Rumblings And Grumblings - Thoughts on Making Magic Clean

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 17 - 5 pages
2. "Changes" Not "Twists"
3. Fixing Weak Spots in Tricks
4. Waist Level 3-Fly - In Hands Coins Across
5. On The Origin of Kaps' Subtlety
6. One-Handed 3-Way Spellbound - New Variation on a Great Coin Trick
7. Rumblings And Grumblings - Pausing at the Right Spots

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 18 - 4 pages
2. Best Frickin' Poker (Or, Best Poker Routine Revisited)
3. On The Selection Process - Tips on Having Cards Selected
4. For Magic Only - A Sucker 21 Cent Trick
5. The Vortex - Origin of the Word Sleight

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 19 - The Fix-It Shop - 4 pages
2. Red Hot Ma-Ma - Variations on a Card Trick
3. Webb's Color Stun - Variations on Color Stunner

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 20 - Coin Issue - 6 pages
2. Kicker For One-Hand Three-Way - Variations for a Copper-Silver-Brass Routine
3. Kicker For Webb O. Box Routine - Kickers for an Okito Coin Box Routine
4. On Bending Rubber - More For Webb's Bent Coin Routine
5. Dark Frickin' Humor - A Story (Slydini's Impromptu 1 Coin Routine
6. Pro Fun Ditties - Thoughts on Watching Other Magicians

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 21 - 5 pages
2. Give Us A Sign!
3. Mentalism With Stamps and Pendulum
4. Heads I Win - Tails I Win (Calling a Tossed Coin)
5. Continous Ace Palm-Off Production

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 22 - Coin Magic - 5 pages
2. Shotglass Milagro - Coins Through Shotglass
3. Bottlecaps Magic - Chink-a-Chink and Matrix

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus Halloween Present - 2 pages
2. Bro. Hamman Count With Coins! - And a Coin Routine

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 23 - A Card Trick & A Coin Trick - 4 pages
2. The Card Trick
3. Palming 2 Coins of a Group - On Palming Technique
4. Coin Routine Using 2-Palm Technique

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus Coins - 2 pages
2. Chop Shuffle For Coins - A False Shuffle-False Count
3. False Counting in Coin Tricks

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus Cards - 2 pages
2. Let's Pretend (a Card Trick)

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus Challenge - 2 pages
2. Signed Selected Card Appears in Book

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Chapter 24 - Final Edition - Final Card Tricks - 3 pages
2. Further Adventures of the Dupe Signature in Card Tricks
3. The Final Afterburner - Selected Card at Any Number

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Bonus Xmas Present - 2 pages
2. One Hand Bank Night (Coins And Coffee Cup)

1. The Book That Doesn't Exist - Final Bonus - 4 pages
2. Impersonation Aces, a Card Trick

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