by Horace Bennett

Alternative Handlings is a book of finely constructed routines by Horace Bennett. Magicians who are familiar with Bennett's magic will immediately agree that he puts together some knockout magical effects by combining relatively simple skills with superb routining.

Alternative Handlings contains fourteen clearly described and fully illustrated routines. One hundred line drawings accompany the text. The tricks described are indeed "Alternative Handlings" of familiar plots re-routined by Bennett. Plots range from some of the "classics" of magic to plots published by some of the top close-up performers of the 1970s and 1980s.

Detailed Contents:

Presentation
Working Conditions
Improved "Penny For Your Thoughts"
Thoughts on Suit Yourself Improved
The Chinese Coin
Wild Coin
Multiple Coin Switch
Bennett's Baker
The Purse and the Wine Glass
Aces - Aces - Aces
Dawn
The Purse and the Okito Box
Seven in the Side Pocket Update
An Afternoon With Frank Thompson
Cut and Restored Rope - Close-Up
Suit Yourself
Additional Ideas for the Portable Hole
Errata (Bennett's Fourth Book) A correction about "Jimmy Wilson's Coin Vanish and Reproduction" covered in "Bennett's Fourth Book".
Afterword