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Ian Adair - Dealing with Magic |
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Written by Keith Churcher
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Friday, 20 August 2010 14:32 |
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“Dealing with Magic” is the autobiography of Ian Adair, author of over 250 books on Magic and one of the most prolific inventors of magical effects and routines. Ian starts with his early years which gradually developed until he became one of the lynch-pins of The Supreme Magic Company and joined the late Edwin Hooper as his partner.
The development of Supreme is well set out and one follows the expansions and innovations that took place over the years of trading, until the sad day when Edwin announced the sale of the business. Subsequent events form an unhappy story as the business slid downwards until the final bitter blow when Ian was dismissed by the “then owners”. Thanks to his resilience he started to create a new and active magical life for himself trading under his own name and also lectured and performed around the UK.
For any magician who ever made a purchase from Supreme Magic this is very definitely a “must read” and should be on the bookshelf of all. There is just one magical effect in the book, Ian’s Brainteaser Deck which once again shows the creative magical brain of a “Master of Amazement”.
Ian is an Honorary Member of the HCMS and a magical friend standing high on my list. Don’t give the purchase a second thought, buy before this limited print edition runs out.
Copies cost £16.50 (post free) can only be obtained directly from: Ian Adair, Mystic House, 15 Oak Tree Drive, Whiddon Valley, Barnstaple, North Devon, EX32 0HE
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Review of David Nixon - Entertainer with the Magic Touch |
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Written by Andrew Webb
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Saturday, 17 October 2009 20:31 |
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David Nixon - Entertainer with the Magic Touch (Edwin A. Dawes, Stephen Short)
Hardback, 276 x 210mm, 288 pages, price £35.00 www.jeremymillspublishing.co.uk.
 Mention to anyone ‘Magic and TV’ and you will normally get one of a number of answers depending on the age range, but you can almost guarantee that one of those names will be David Nixon. Dubbed ‘The Father of Magic on TV’, David is fondly remembered by many for this relaxed and friendly style of magic, and his long career on TV in the 1950’s through to the 1970’s. Yet strangely, there has never been any major book on David’s life and career. Thankfully Edwin A Dawes and Stephen Short have collated photos, memories and first hand experiences from many of David’s family, friends and colleagues in show business into a wonderful, enlightening, humorous and factual trip through the life, times and experience that was ‘David Nixon - Entertainer with the Magic Touch’
Delving into this gorgeous and lavish book there is an abundance of photos, magazine clippings, show bills, and television stills, many of which have been collected from the Nixon family, friends and associates, these create a wonderful base around which David’s life story can be told, over 200 photos and illustrations covering all the aspects of David’s on stage, screen and personal life bring the book and David’s story to life. The book was written with help and assistance from the Nixon family, a number of close friends and colleagues of David including the late Ali Bongo. Their memories of David also helps capture and convey David’s delightful charm not only of his magic, but of his personality as well.
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