The William W. Larsen Memorial Library

Long Goodbye, The

Author/Editor: Minch, Stephen and Hobbs, Stephen (for Geoff Latta)

w/dust jacket
includes The Pink Purse Tape (L46.1.p1:DVD:AV)

Introduction: He Was That Good (Jamy Ian Swiss)

Geoff’s Proposed Outline for This Book

Some Pages From Geoff’s Notebook

1. Concealed Weapons
The Butterfly Flick
The Retention of Vision Vanish
Latta on the Retention of Vision Vanish
The Fingertip Retention of Vision Vanish
Latta on Acting and Timing with Retention Vanishes
The Two-Minus-One Retention of Vision Vanish
The Grate Pass
Latta on Types of Vanishes
Clipped
Latta on the Best Vanish
Fingertip Twirl
Latta on Lying
Flop-Pop
The Flopperino Vanish
The One-Handed Turnover Switch
The French Transfer Switch
The Latta Transfer
Two Transfers with the Downs Palm
The Edge-Grip Switch
The T.P. Bottom Steal
Securing Two Coins of a Group in Classic Palm
Latta on Conviction in Presentation
The Deep Back-Clip Change
The Latta Deep Back-Clip Recovery
Latta on Coin Sizes
The Flopperino Jumbo Coin Production
Jumbo Chinese Coin Production

2. Mystery on the Orient Express
Han Ping Chien Technique
Latta on Further HPC Touches
The Isolation Placement with Multiple Coins
HPC Stanislavski
Pure Silver
Latta on the Jump-Back Gag
Cosmic Coins Across
Aphelion Coins
Scoop Addunder
Slippery Silver
Todd Lassen on Geoff’s Shells
Open HPC No. 1
Open HPC No. 2
Open HPC Coins Across
Ebony and Ivory

3. Midnight Journeys
C.S.B.Q. Coins Across
Directly from My Hand to You
The Spider Grip Vanish
Todd Lassen on Geoff’s Silver-Dollar Shell Set
Directly from My Hand to You, Too
Triple Crossed
The French Pop
Latta on the French Pop as a Measure of Creativity
Open Ticket
The Press Pick-up
Crystal Ship
Latta on Shell Coins
Glassed-In Attraction
Latta on Motivation for Coins through Table

4. Identity Theft
Spellround
Latta on Studying the Classics
Third Touch a Charm
Latta on Practice
Karate Coin
Painless Extraction
Silver Lining

5. Cross Dressings
Crossing the Line
Latta on Method
Undercover Crossing
Impossible under Glass CS Switch
Eclipse
Gulliver’s Transpo
Fisted
Flurrious Copper-Silver
Latta on Creating Naturalness
Transpo Chango
The Earl Johnson Palm Change
Purse, Coins, No Glass
CopSilBrass
The Vernon Loading Move

6. The Wild Bunch
Wild One
Latta on Creating New Methods
Two Wild
Tres Wild
Wild Phantoms
Latta on What to Perform for Magicians

7. Locked-Room Mysteries
Okito Arrives from Boston
Tabled Box Turnover
Han Bam Chien
Box Trot
The Under-Load
Latta Table-Slide Han Ping Chien

8. Strange Disappearances & Unsettling Arrivals
Iced
Lattaral Slow-motion Vanish
Slow-motion Copper-Silver Transposition
One-Gone Illusion
Latta on Degrees of Conviction in Vanishes
Two-Gone Conclusion
Latta on Early Inspiration
Streamlined Cylinder and Coins
Todd Lassen on Geoff’s Cylinder and Coins Gaff
Latta on Presenting the Cylinder and Coins
Cocked Hat
From the Elfin Hoard
Latta on From the Elfin Hoard
Standing Hoard
Elfin Hole
QuadraQuicksand Coins Away
Latta on Creativity
Hung Fu
Latta on Skyhooks and Hanging Coins

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