Lewis Ganson

Give a Magician Enough Rope

...and he'll do a trick

The Supreme Magic Company (1978)

Hardcover

344 pages | Great Britain | English

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Dewey 793.8

Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks

Plot

Ganson, Lewis (editor): Give a Magician Enough Rope
©1968 Harry Stanley
Hardcover, w/dj, 6x9", 125 pages Gansons: Give a Magician Enough Rope

©1978 Supreme Magic Co. Ltd, Bideford, England

Comments: a variety of rope routines by Lewis Ganson, Peter Warlock, Van Rinkkuyzen, Anverdi, Faucett W. Ross, Jay Ose, Martin Gardner, Edward Victor, Stanley Norman, Norman Rashleigh, Harold Beaumont, C.F. Germelman, Horace Bennett, H. Fernandes, Bill Shewan.

Contents (from revised edition ToC):

5 Give a Magician Enough Rope (Lewis Ganson)
15 Cut-Knot-Join
18 Impromptu Neck Penetration
19 Rope Thru' Wrist
22 Red & White Ropes
26 A Remarkable Square Knot
29 Stretching A Rope
33 Equally Unequal Ropes
43 Equally Unequal Variations
50 More Variations
60 Equally Unequal Patter Story
64 Cut and Restored Rope
66 Fast Cut & Restoration
68 Variations on the Hunter Knot
71 3 Equal Ropes
74 Jay Ose’s Thumb Tie
79 A Ring and A Rope
82 Unique Rope Routine
93 Ring Varia
97 Another Remarkable Knot
103 Sliding and Vanishing Knot
107 Rope Through Neck
112 Fly-Away Knot
115 Dopey Rope
118 En Rapport
124 Knot Flourish

Personal

Owner	Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	4373
Added Date	Sep 25, 2019 20:20:09
Modified Date	Apr 06, 2026 14:22:07

Value

Book Condition	Mint

Notes

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Lewis Ganson

Cover of Genii (1974)
Born Lewis Jack Ganson
April 15, 1913
Burford Arms, Startford Market, London, England
Died December 22, 1980 (age 67)
Hampshire, England
Categories Books by Lewis Ganson
Lewis Ganson (b.1913-d.1980) was one of the most prolific writers in magic with over sixty books to his credit.

Contents
1 Biography
2 Awards and Honors
3 Books
4 References
Biography
He was a professional close-up magician, except for his time in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 1939-1958.

For years, Ganson was editor of Harry Stanley's magazine The Gen and contributor to the Magigram magazine. He was a vice president of the British Ring of the IBM and a founding member of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle.

Awards and Honors
Academy of Magical Arts' first Literary Fellowship in 1968.
Books
Expert Manipulation of Playing Cards (1948)
How Right You Are (1948)
Routined Manipulation, Vol. 1 (1950)
Routined Manipulation, Vol. 2 (1952)
Routined Manipulation Finale (1954)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic (1955)
A Magician Explains (1955)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic II (1956)
Dai Vernon Book of Magic (1957)
Cy Endfield's Entertaining Card Magic III (1958)
Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1959)
Magic from the Mind (1959)
Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1960)
The Magic of Slydini (1960)
Dai Vernon's Further Secrets of Card Magic (1961)
Malini and His Magic (1962)
Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig (1963)
Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic (1967)
The Art of Close-up, Vol. 1 (1967)
The Art of Close-up, Vol. 2 (1969)
Ganson Teach-In Series (1977-1987)
The Ganson Book (1983)
The Complete Ganson Magic Teach-In Series (2010)
References
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The Gen, Vol. 5, No. 5, September 1949, FRONT PAGE PERSONALITIES, LEWIS GANSON and JO, page 134
Cover Genii 1974 December
Magic Circular, Vol. 75, No. 812, January 1981, Obituaries, LEWIS GANSON, page 27
Obit Genii 1981 January
The Linking Ring, Vol.61, No. 3, March 1981, Our Side of the Pond by PETER WARLOCK, page 93, LEWIS GANSON, page 117
M-U-M, Vol. 70, No.10, MARCH 1981, Broken Wands, LEWIS GANSON, page 39
Goodliffe's Abracadabra, Vol. 73, No. 1896, May 1982, Tribute to Lewis Ganson, page 676
Genii, Vol. 46, No. 7, July 1982, TRIBUTE TO LEWIS GANSON, page 461
Magicana, Vol. 30, No. 176, July-August 1982, TRIBUTE TO LEWIS GANSON EVENING – 17 MAY 1982 by EDWIN HOOPER
The Magic Circular, Vol. 100, No. 1075, February 2006, A Tribute to Lewis Ganson – Alexander Crawford by Peter Altman, page 63
Lewis Ganson - Dai Vernon book of Magic bibliography