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Secret Agenda by Roberto Giobbi and Hermetic Press (Hardcover)


365 tricks and secrets to make every day of the new year magical. From the author of one of the most respected texts in magic, Card College. ONLY 22 LEFT.
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Secret Agenda is a rare and wonderful book. It offers an entire year's worth of daily insights, tricks, and tactics from Roberto, one of the great card artists of our time. - Dr. Larry Hass

A Day Book of Magical Secrets
Secret Agenda
is your invitation to spend a year inside the head of Roberto Giobbi!

There, for every day of that year, you will open a fresh door in Giobbi's mind and have something surprising and enriching spring out to greet you-a new trick, sleight, technique, refinement, performance tip, business strategy, concept or insight, drawn from the thoughts, experience and notebooks of a full-time international performer and one of magic's great teachers.

With Secret Agenda, Roberto Giobbi, the world-renowned author of the Card College and Card College Light series, has written an invaluable text for his fellow magicians, and one entirely unlike anything in the literature of magic.

Secret Agenda contains 366 articles, one for each day of the year (plus one extra for leap years). The reader is invited to read just one of these articles a day-enjoying, learning, absorbing or being challenged by fresh thoughts and information-throughout an entire year.

For over four decades, Roberto Giobbi has devoted his life to exploring the world of magic, learning deeply about it from its vast international literature and the greatest magicians. Those whose unpublished work Giobbi draws on include Fred Kaps, Ascanio, Juan Tamariz, Lennart Green, Vanni Bossi, David Williamson and many others.

Over the years Giobbi has methodically, meticulously, exhaustively kept records of all he has learned. Secret Agenda is more than the work of one performer. It is an accumulation of priceless information, gathered from the finest minds in magic, past and present, laid out idea by idea, day by day, for the reader to enjoy and profit by.

While the material presented addresses in part the expected field of card magic, it covers much more: coin and close-up magic, platform and stage conjuring, theory, philosophy and humor. Secret Agenda is wide in scope, with invaluable information and insights for all magicians.

We have attempted to give a work of such uniqueness a fitting format. Secret Agenda is a large, sumptuous volume, indexed, bound in ornately foil-stamped cloth, and includes a book ribbon-a volume comfortable to the hand and inviting to the mind, offering pleasure for much more than one year, and advice for a lifetime.

424 pages in decorated hardcover binding.

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 1st, 2021
Great complete review of lots of card techniques that I’ve forgotten over the years, as well as some new ideas. A great read, well-illustrated, and thorough.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 31st, 2021
I am truly enjoying this book, I love the concept of a trick or tip a day. This is a gift that can keep on giving. Given our current pandemic status I think this book is work its weight in gold.
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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 12th, 2023
As stated in other reviews, this is a great one. Solid concept and full of golden nuggets
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 2nd, 2021
Merely from seeing the trailers ... but I intend to purchase this book ... perhaps in the next editions, place a ribbon bookmark in the binding. I know I would appreciate such an extra place keeper.
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Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on December 26th, 2023
there are a thousand books to read that cover the same old material time and time again...do yourself a favor save your money, books are way to hard to leard from and you will be disappointed,,,please consider what Ive said here,,,thank you
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