Marian Chavez 

Encyclopedia of Dove Magic

A beautifully produced book about dove magic and all those extra things you need to know: care and feeding of doves, types of cages, presentation pointers, conditioning the audience, etc. Along with many fine dove effects such as The Floating Dove, Dove Tray Production, Egg to Dove, Production Dove Cage. There is an appendix containing Slydini's Master Dove Production. Illustrated with drawings and photos. 153 pages.

Contents Include:

• Care feeding and handling of doves.
• Training is a two-way street.
• The tinting of doves.
• For assistant only.
• Conditioning the audience.
• Can I become that good?.
• Pointers on presentation.
• Take your audience with you.
• How yo get applause.
• Pete Bouton's birds of freedom.
• Neil Foster's dove production.
• E-Z's dove production.
• The J.B. Dove production.
• Hypnotizing the dove.
• Displaying the doves.
• Training the doves.
• General dove effects.
• Top hat magic.
• The floating dove a la zombie.
• Technicolor doves.
• Carnival tissue to dove.
• Dove tray production.
• The dove triangle.
• The dove in the net.
• Egg to dove.
• Hong Kong dove production.
• Visible dove production box.
• Production dove cage.
• The Andre Kole dove kones.
• See thru screen dove box.
• Dove vanish a la paper bag.
• Transistorized doves.
• Frames of mystery.
• Novel vanish and appearance of a dove from paper bag.
• Twentieth century cane and dove.
• magic with a silken dove holder.
• Dove from tissue.
• Portfolio.
• Appendix 1 The magician's primer guide to dove: their care and handling.
• Appendix 2 Slydini's master dove production.