Jim Steinmeyer (James Hahne Steinmeyer)

Device and illusion

A Book of Routines for Modern Stage Conjurers

Hahne (1997)

Second printing

Hardcover

134 pages | USA | eng

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Dewey 793.8

LC Classification GV1547.S795 1991

Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks
Magic tricks - Equipment and supplies

Plot

Steinmeyer, Jim: Device and Illusion
©1991 Jim Steinmeyer, Hahne Books, CA
©1997 Jim Steinmeyer, Hahne Books, CA
Hardcover, no dj, 8.5x8.5, 134 pages

Comments: "A book of Routines for Modern Stage Conjurers"

Contents (from book ToC):

5 Acknowledgements
7 About the Author
9 Introduction

13 Houdini’s Rope
21 Neon
31 Perforation
43 The Artist’s Daydream
53 India Rubber
61 Through a One Inch-Hole
71 Small Packages
81 Hot Air
93 The Lady in the Puzzle

107 Six Routines
107 The Two-Sided Triangle
109 Knot Unexpected: cut and restored rope with gimmicked knife
112 Black Confetti
117 Needles: East Indian Needle Trick
119 San Fernando Monte
123 Smoke and Fire: signed bill to lit cigar

131 In Conclusion: developing and performing magic

Personal

Owner	Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	5477
Added Date	Jul 01, 2017 03:06:49
Modified Date	Apr 06, 2026 14:24:01

Value

Book Condition	Mint

Notes

Jim Steinmeyer
(b.1958) has been called by The New York Times the "celebrated invisible man—inventor, designer and creative brain behind many of the great stage magicians of the last quarter-century." He's also the inventor of the Nine Card Problem.

Biography
Steinmeyer has worked with most of the leading magician around the world, produced magic for their television specials, and authored many books on illusions and the history of magic. He served as a consultant for notable magicians including Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield and Lance Burton and developed magic for Orson Welles, Harry Blackstone, and The Pendragons.

He was the Magic Designer for Doug Henning on his four television specials, six touring shows and two Broadway shows.
For one of David Copperfield's television specials, Jim proposed the scenario and secret by which the Statue of Liberty "disappeared."
In 1991 he was awarded The Creative Fellowship by The Academy of Magical Arts.
Steinmeyer produced the 1997 four hour A&E Television Special, "The Story of Magic," hosted by Ricky Jay.

Books
Jarrett (1981)
Antonio Diavolo, A Souvenir of his Performance (with John Gaughan) (1986)
Device and Illusion (1991)
Strange Powers and Other Problems for Magicians (1992)
The Magic of Alan Wakeling: The Works of a Master Magician (1993)
Modern Art and Other Mysteries (1995)
Art & Artifice and Other Essays on Illusion (1998)
The Science Behind the Ghost (1999)
The Complete Jarrett (2001)
Discovering Invisibility (2001)
Impuzzibilities (2002)
Hiding the Elephant (2003)
Artificial Conclusions (2003)
The Glorious Deception (2005)
The Conjuring Anthology (2006)
Further Impuzzibilities (2006)
The Secret No One Tells You (2008)
A Tribute to Robert Harbin - Two Lectures (2009)
Technique and Understanding (2009)
Modern Art and Other Mysteries (2009)
The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston vs. Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards (2011)
Subsequent Impuzzibilities (2011)

References
The Linking Ring, Vol. 71, No. 2, February 1991, Memoirs Of A Magician's Ghost, by John Booth, CHAPTER 251 – Jim Steinmeyer: Consultant Extraordinary, page 63
The Linking Ring, Vol. 71, No. 3, March 1991, Memoirs Of A Magician's Ghost, by John Booth, CHAPTER 251 (continued) – Steinmeyer on Creativity, page 67
Jim Steinmeyer: Deviser of Illusions By T. A. Waters, MAGIC Magazine, September 1996
Cover Genii Magazine, Vol. 66, No. 11, November 2003
http://www.jimsteinmeyer.com