Magic Tricks

Many years ago Jamy Ian Swiss told anyone who would listen about the amazing work of Latta. At that point, Latta was an underground legend known to a small part of the magic community.The only way to see any of his work was to find someone who had a copy of what came to be known as "The Pink Purse Tape." If you could find someone to sell you a duplicate it was beyond expensive for the time. I saw it once and was blown away.
Later, Jamy in his "John the Baptist" role for Latta convinced him to lecture at the LVMI. I was there and the lecture was great. Latta lived up to his hype.
I kept trying to get a copy of the tape (never did) and remembered his lecture with something like religious fervor. When I heard that the book was published (I had heard rumors of the book for years) I immediately bought one. Imagine my surprise when I looked at the back of the volume. Included was part of the "Pink Purse Tape."
This book is beautifully produced with clear prose and many helpful photographs. I don't think that it is hyperbole to say that this book will take its place with Bobo and Roth. Latta was a brilliant inventor and his construction of routines is second to no one. If you are at all interested in coin magic (and you should be) this is a must buy.
Working through this volume will teach the reader many lessons, some of which can be used for cards or other types of routines. I hope that another volume is in the works with Geoffrey's card work. The DVD only contains the coin work part of the tape. There was lots of very important teaching on cards as well and this teaching is certainly worth another book.
The only way that you would go wrong with this book is if you left it on the shelf and never worked through it. It deserves better than that. By it; study it; sneak a vanish or an appearance into your own routine and you will see how good this is.
Don't wait too long, the work may sell out. This may be the most important book on coin magic to be published in the last five, or even ten years. Get it now and you will not be disappointed.