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THBCERVON, Bruce (1941 – 2007). Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebook...
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CERVON, Bruce (1941 ? 2007). Bruce Cervon's Castle Notebooks. [California, 1964 ? 87]. The original thirteen Castle Notebooks, written and illustrated by hand by Bruce Cervon over the course of 23 years. Each notebook is comprised of approximately 100 (or more) three-hole-punched notebook pages that record tricks, sleights, routines, and subtleties devised by Cervon, Dai Vernon, Larry Jennings, and a host of sleight-of-hand magicians who crossed Cervon's path for over two decades at Hollywood's Magic Castle. A majority of the material covered deals with card tricks, sleights, and the like, but close-up and parlor magic of all kinds does appear throughout the notebooks. All volumes are bound in color fiberboard binders with internal metal mechanisms, the spines lettered with homemade labels.Much of the material recorded here were released in Cervon's own hardbound collections, in The Vernon Chronicles by Stephen Minch (as many of the items were gleaned from sessions with Vernon at the Castle), and in magic periodicals. But many other entries were held close for decades until finally being released as part of the limited-edition facsimile reproductions of these very notebooks. (A few very personal notes were redacted from even these editions.) Those hardbound works were published between 2007 and 2009 at a high original cost, with each volume limited to just 500 copies.These original sourcebooks are comprised of over 1500 pages in all, with Cervon's handwritten indexes, his crude illustrations, his annotations, and notes. The notebooks are offered together with typewritten notes and information from Cervon's files about their contents, and an LOA from Bruce Cervon's widow, Linda. An important and one-of-a-kind record of a storied era in magic, the characters that populated the Magic Castle, and their creations.
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