Professional Card Magic Without Sleight-of-Hand
Giobbi, Roberto: Card College Lightest
©2010 1st English Edition.
Hardcover, 152 pages
Hardcover
Publisher: Hermetic Press; 1st Edition edition (2010)
ISBN-10: 0945296657
ISBN-13: 978-0945296652
Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
This Is Not Your Father’s “Self-Working” Card Book!
From the author of Card College, the world’s most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi’s first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill.
For whom is this book intended?
It is for beginners, of course—but by no means in total. This book is intended for everyone who has always wanted to perform card tricks, but who didn’t have the time necessary to learn complex routines, or the years necessary to master difficult techniques. So, yes, this book is certainly meant for beginners.
However, it is also directed at those who are already proficient in the craft. Card College Light is i a class apart from other books that focus on sleightless card tricks. When it comes to artistic considerations—interpretation, staging, communication and psychology—other books seldom even recognize such concepts. Card College Light strives to remain as simple as possible, yet to identify concepts and to open doors that put sleightless tricks into the context of artistic and utterly baffling card magic. Although other books consider the same type of material, their approaches to it are quite different from Giobbi’s.
Most of the tricks taught are from Mr. Giobbi’s active professional repertoire, with which he baffles the public and magicians, too. Every trick can be done with any deck of cards of average quality, and many can be done under all performance conditions, with a borrowed deck and no preparation. With these sleightless tricks, you can easily acquire a reputation as a magician who can really make magic.
Card College Lightest is the final volume of Roberto Giobbi’s acclaimed “Light” trilogy. In it are taught 18 thoroughly astonishing tricks of professional quality, complete with performing psychology, presentations, valuable tips and insights, all of which contribute to making these sleightless effects into near miracles.
The tricks Giobbi has selected this time range from time-tested classics to little-known wonders by masters of the craft, including Larry Becker, Henry Christ, Aldo Colombini, Paul Curry, Alex Elmsley, Karl Fulves, Martin Gardner, Stewart James, Howard Adams, Richard Vollmer and more.
Also explained are simple methods for achieving false shuffles, deck switches and other techniques usually attainable only by demanding sleight-of-hand.
Roberto Giobbi is acknowledged worldwide as the finest living teacher of card magic. His Card College series is a best-seller in five languages, and Card College Lightest is the newest example of why he and his works are held in such high regard by magicians of all levels, from rank amateur to seasoned professional. If you have read his books, you will need no urging to buy Card College Lightest. If you have yet to encounter Roberto Giobbi, you will find Card College Lightest a delightful introduction.
152 pages in hardcover, profusely illustrated, beautifully produced by Hermetic Press, with full-color dust jacket
| Owner | Bryan-Keith Taylor |
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| Location | Magic Library (Home) |
| Index | 4496 |
| Added Date | Apr 12, 2018 20:49:37 |
| Modified Date | Apr 06, 2026 14:22:20 |
| Book Condition | Mint |
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Roberto Giobbi (born May 1, 1959 in Basel) is a professional magician from Switzerland, noted for his many contributions in teaching card magic, such as his five-volume Card College series.
Life and work
After studying literature and linguistics at the University of Basel, Roberto Giobbi first worked as an interpreter and translator, with a fluency in German, English, Italian, French and Spanish. After his success as Vice World Champion in Card Magic at Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (FISM) in 1988, he turned professional as a magician. He has since been working as an author and lecturer, and has developed an international reputation as a teacher.
Giobbi has written 18 books, and his works have appeared in eight languages. His best-selling five-volume Card College series is considered to be a standard modern textbook for card magic, and is the most widely translated series of books in the history of magic.[1] He has also published articles and essays about magic in more than 50 magazines in Europe and overseas, including essays and columns for 14 consecutive years in Genii magazine. Since 2015, he has been one of the contributors for the Magic Circle of Austria's magazine Aladin.[2]
Giobbi has been a guest of many TV and radio shows, including appearances in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the USA, Japan and South America. He gives educational lectures in all five languages that he speaks. Since 1980, Giobbi has been a member of the Escuela Magica de Madrid, an exclusive magic think tank that has only 40 members worldwide.
In recognition of his skill at sleight of hand card magic, Giobbi has won several international awards in magic, notably Vice World Champion in Card Magic at FISM in 1988 and 1991. He was awarded the first-ever Grand Prix from the Swiss Magic Convention, in 1990, as the winner of all categories. In 2012, the Academy of Magical Arts awarded him their "Literary & Media Fellowship."
He lives and works as a freelance magician, seminar leader and specialist writer in Muttenz, Switzerland. He also gives interdisciplinary talks and workshops for industry managers on creativity, communication, and presentation, and is sought out by professional magicians worldwide for his expertise and lectures.
Giobbi is married and has two children.
Notable awards
1987 Writer of the Year of the Magischer Zirkel von Deutschland
1988 Runner-up in the category of Card Magic at FISM (The Hague)
1990 Grand Prix at the Swiss Championships of Magic
1991 Runner-up in the category of Card Magic at FISM (Lausanne)
2011 Literary & Media Fellowship from Academy of Magical Arts
2014 John Nevil Maskelyne Award for Literature from the Magic Circle of London
2015 FISM Lifetime Achievement Award “Theory & Philosophy”
Notable books
Card College, Vol. 1 (1995)
Card College, Vol. 2 (1996)
Card College, Vol. 3 (1998)
Card College, Vol. 4 (2000)
Card College, Vol. 5 (2003)
Card College Light (2006)
Card College Lighter (2008)
Card College Lightest (2010)
Secret Agenda (2010)
Confidences (2013)
The Art of Switching Decks (2013)
Standup Card Magic (2015)
Sharing Secrets (2021)
Film
In 2004, part of Giobbi's life was captured by Swiss TV in a 50-minute documentary entitled "Il giardino dei giochi segreti."[3]
References
Citations
"Robert Giobbi biography". robertogiobbi.com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
Magischer Ring Austria (19 December 2014). "Authors at Aladin 2015 - Roberto Giobbi". www.aladin.blog. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
"Il giardino dei giochi segreti" youtube.com
Sources
"Roberto Giobbi Profile" at the 2018 European Close-Up Magic Symposium, Milano, Italy (Guest of Honour).
Roberto Giobbi cover and feature in Genii, November 2009 (Vol. 72, No. 11)
"On the Making of Card College 1 to 5" by Roberto Giobbi in Genii, December 2008 (Vol. 71, No. 12), page 16.
"Portray Roberto Giobbi" in Magie (Magischer Zirkel v. Deutschland), August–September 1987 (Vol. 67, No 8/9), page 244
Complete bibliography of published works by Roberto Giobbi
External links
Roberto Giobbi website
Roberto Giobbi biography
Indexed list of Roberto Giobbi works at The Conjuring Archive
Roberto Giobbi books at Lybrary.com
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