Herb Zarrow has spent a lifetime of magic -- exploring and creating in the art he loves. Best known, of course, for his legendary Zarrow Shuffle, one of the great, thundering moves and perhaps the only sleight to travel from the card trick to the card table. Herb is also the originator of many other sleights, subterfuges, and routines -- with playing cards, coins, handkerchiefs, ropes, and rubber bands -- many of which resulted from his long association with the greats of magic, men like Vernon, Miller, Carlyle, Balducci, Walton, Diaconis, and others.

For some six decades, Herb has kept the bulk of these secrets within a small, select circle. With this book, you can now join that circle.

Zarrow: A Lifetime of Magic is a cornucopia containing over one hundred and fifty of Herb’s most cherished secrets, sleights and routines, most of which appear here in print for the first time. The book, a distillation of one humble man’s journey to the essence of his art, is destined to join a short list of true classics of magic.

Written with great detail by David Ben, with more than a thousand photographs by Julie Eng, the book also includes loving commentary by Johnny Thompson, Marla Zarrow, Ron Wohl, John Mintz, and Persi Diaconis.

A lifetime of family. A lifetime of friends. A lifetime of art. A lifetime of magic.

First edition published by Meir Yedid Magic in November, 2008. Written by David Ben. A 480-page, oversized 9.25"x 12.25" hardcover with dustjacket.

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HERB ZARROW ON THE ZARROW SHUFFLE DVD

The Zarrow Shuffle is the ultimate false riffle shuffle. Now Herb Zarrow explains the details and secret techniques that make the Zarrow Shuffle undetectable. No matter how many riffle shuffles you give the deck, you maintain complete control of all the cards. The Zarrow Shuffle is the most deceptive false shuffle ever created and one of the few sleights that was instantly adopted not only by top card workers but also by professional card sharpers.

Persi Diaconis in his introduction to Dai Vernon’s Revelations wrote: Zarrow’s shuffle may very well be the single most important practical card move invented since Erdnase.

This is the first time that Herb Zarrow, the inventor of the shuffle, has revealed these handlings, variations and presentations using the shuffle. Most of the material on this tape has never been available before, including many fine points and applications that have been held back for more than 40 years. Learn from the only authorized DVD/video on the subject taught by Herb Zarrow, the man who invented it all.

Shuffle techniques taught: The original Complete Deck Control with Riffle Shuffle, speed, cover, resistance, angles, cutting sequences, get-readies, jog usage, double hand movement, red/black Zarrow Shuffle sequences, three card cover sequences, one and two shuffle sequences, Cut Simulation, Locking The Top Card, Two-Shuffle Control, Pre-Cut Double-Shuffle, Two-Shuffles and Cut, Skimming Using The Z, Double Cover, Double-Double Shuffle, Red/Black Cull and much more.

Routines and applications taught: Four Ace Shuffle Control, Surprise Stack, Quad Triumph, Cull Stack, Attraction, Red Black Cull and Zarrow Control, Four Packet Red Black, and Three Phase Poker Routine. In addition to shuffle applications the routines also contain unpublished techniques and ideas that can be applied to many effects.

This may be your only opportunity to really master this technique and add a valuable weapon to your arsenal of secret sleights. Running time: Approximately 82 minutes.

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