MARLO: The Final Cut
MARLO: The Final Cut
MARLO: The Final Cut is the broadest and most ambitious compilation of Ed Marlo’s work ever published. Spanning more than thirty different published sources released from 1941-1974, it covers hundreds of tricks, moves, routines, subtleties, musings, and thought problems. Not only does this volume compile thirteen distinct books, but it also reprints his contributions from a myriad of other publications—magazines to books to newsletters.
Note: This book was printed before the editor’s public transition, and so refers to her using incorrect pronouns.
MARLO: The Final Cut is the broadest and most ambitious compilation of Ed Marlo’s work ever published. Spanning more than thirty different published sources released from 1941-1974, it covers hundreds of tricks, moves, routines, subtleties, musings, and thought problems. Not only does this volume compile thirteen distinct books, but it also reprints his contributions from a myriad of other publications—magazines to books to newsletters.
In this harback tome you’ll discover material of all kinds—from close-up to stage, from semi-automatic to knuckle-busting, from complex routines to simple tricks. Learn modernist masterpieces like Devilish Miracle, practical worker’s material like Cardician Makes Good, ornate dances like New Elevator, and elemental concepts like the KM Move.
Compiled and edited by Nancy Colwell with more than 300 endnotes and notations providing historical, literary, and clarifying context and foreword and remembrance by two of Ed Marlo’s most prominent students—Jon Racherbaumer and Allan Ackerman.
CONTENTS
FRONT MATTER
Introduction by Nancy Colwell
Remembering Eddie by Allan Ackerman
Foreword by Jon Racherbaumer
PART ONE: BOOKS
Chapter 1 - Card Fan Productions (1941)
Chapter 2 - Deck Deception (1942)
Chapter 3 - Future Reverse (1945)
Chapter 4 - Havana Deal (1948)
Chapter 5 - A Devilish Miracle by Ed Marlo and Carmen D’Amico (1948)
Chapter 6 - Ed Marlo’s Lecture Notes (1951)
Chapter 7 - The Future Classic by Ed Marlo and Carmen D’Amico (1953)
Chapter 8 - The Magic Seven (1954)
Chapter 9 - Classical Foursome by Ed Marlo and Carmen D’Amico (1956)
Chapter 10 - Marlo Meets His Match (1959)
Chapter 11 - The K. M. Move by Ed Marlo with Tony Kardyro (1962)
Chapter 12 - Tilt! (1962)
Chapter 13 - Marlo's Objectives (1973)
PART TWO: EXCERPTS
Chapter 14 - Steele & Leech (1949-1952)
Chapter 15 - Ireland’s Yearbook (1950-1962)
Chapter 16 - The New Phoenix (1955-1962)
Chapter 17 - Ireland’s Card Annual (1956-1958)
Chapter 18 - Ireland’s Trick Talk (1957)
Chapter 19 - Kid Stuff (1974)
BACK MATTER
Afterword by Nancy Colwell
Appendix
Index
“Ed taught me how to think and create, and MARLO: The Final Cut will teach you much of what you need to know to to do the same with your magic.”
—Allan Ackerman