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THE SILENCE OF CHUNG LING SOO DELUXE LIMITED EDITION THE SILENCE OF CHUNG LING SOO

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION NO. 16 of only 75 copies printed 

WRITTEN BY TODD KARR AND PUBLISHED BY THE MIRACLE FACTORY IN 2001  

Probably the most intriguing conjurer of magic’s Golden Age, William Robinson, under his stage name Chung Ling Soo, thrilled and mystified laymen and magicians alike throughout the four corners of the world.  

This conjuring giant bought his ticket to magic immortality through his on-stage death attempting the bullet-catch trick – A dramatic end to a life that was, at the same time, both strange and ingenius.  

This is number 16 of 75 of the beautifully illustrated Leatherbound Deluxe Limited Edition from the Miracle Factory. This book is in pristine condition in it’s black lacquered case as issued. Only the absence of the brittle wax seal from the brass disc affixed to the tie ribbons of the case prevents me from designating it as MINT!  

Many collectors believe that this book is the Miracle Factory’s Biographical Magnum Opus.  

488 pp Filled with photographs, including a full color gallery of many of Soo’s lithographs, this book is an extremely absorbing read as well as a research resource of the very first order.  

The Silence of Chung Ling Soo  

Contents
INTRODUCTION Todd Karr
SKETCHING ROBINSON’S CRYSTAL LANTERN Jim Steinmeyer
WORDS BY WILLIAM E. ROBINSON
The Art of Magic
Wrinkles on Magic
Alexander Herrmann
Indian Jugglery
How It Happened
Can Such Things Be?
MAN OF MYSTERY
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Robinson
Billy Robinson Walter B. Gibson
Marvellous Chinese Conjurer Ellis Stanyon
Australia
The Silent Performance
The Wizard Thurston
Howard Thurston
Bamboo Blossom
THE CHALLENGE
DEAR FRIEND HOUDINI
Dear Friend Houdini
An Impression of Chung Ling Soo Houdini
Ching Ling Foo and Chung Ling Soo Houdini
Conjurers’ Monthly Magazine
MYSTERIES
Aerial Fishing
Animated Cork
Astarte
Birth of the Pearl
Black Art
Chinese Magic
The Coin, Handkerchief and Ring Trick
The Rice Bowls and Mystic Coin
The Magic Coin Box
Gold or Silver?
The Floating Coin
The Chinese “Miser’s Dream”
Chung Ling Soo Coin and String
Crystal Casket
Defying the Bullets
Disappearing Demon
Dream of Wealth
Drum Production
A Few Card Tricks
A Few Coin Tricks
Fire Balloon
Flying Handkerchiefs
Goddess of Wine
Gone
Linking Rings
The Chinese Rings
A Chung Ling Soo Method
Magic Cauldron
Mysteries of the Mind, or Mental Magic
Mysterious Sum
New? Old? Card Trick
New Thought Card Sleights
Odds and Ends
Old Tricks
Rice Bowls
The “Best of All” Rice Bowls
The New Rice Bowls
Rising Cards
Sugar Stick Trick
Target Illusion
Vanish in Mid-Air
Varied Mysteries
The Orange Tree
New Method of Getting Flowers into Cone
Improved Finger Through Penny
The Best Watch-box
MARVELLOUS CHINESE CONJURER
July 7, 1900
November 1903
May 14, 1906
Ca. 1906
January 1908
1908
April 10, 1909
July 17, 1909
February 25, 1911
April 8, 1911
February 21, 1914
January 23, 1915
July 31, 1915
1915
March 18, 1918
SILENCE
Silence
Chung Ling Soo by One Who Knew Him
A FEW OF ROBINSON’S NEW IDEAS
EXTRAORDINARY MYSTICAL NOVELTIES
SPIRIT SLATE WRITING AND KINDRED PHENOMENA
Preface
1. The Single Slate
2. The Double Slate
3. Miscellaneous Slate Tests
4. Mind Reading and Kindred Phenomena
5. Table Lifting and Spirit Rapping
6. Spiritualistic Ties
7. Post tests, Handcuffs, Spirit Collars, etc.
8. Séances and Miscellaneous Spirit Tricks
9. Miscellaneous Tricks
Index to Spirit Slate Writing The Perfect Addition To Any Discriminating Collector’s Private Conjuring Library.