Geoff Latta kept a quiet profile. He did not pursue a performing career, he seldom lectured on his magic, and he published selectively, an item here, another there. Yet his material and its influence slowly permeated the fabric of modern close-up magic. This quiet dissemination of sleights and tricks disguised a surprisingly large body of important work.

52 Farewells gathers all of Geoff Latta’s known card magic, published as well as private into a final book that will cement his legacy as an expert card magician and thinker. You will learn his many techniques, refinements, applications, and routines.

First Edition, first printing. Written by Stephen Hobbs and Stephen Minch. Published by Penguin Magic in 2025. 314-pages with many photographs, 10.5”x6.5” hardcover with dustjacket. Includes online access to the Pink Purse video.

"During the nine years I worked at Tannen’s I would session with Geoff Latta almost every day after work. He was one of the best card and coin sleight of hand artist I have ever met. His enthusiasm and attention to detail was unsurpassed. I remember one day he was bothered because he noticed that when he palmed a card, one of the veins on the back of his hand would bulge. It drove him crazy. Not sure he ever solved that problem, but I can highly recommend anything that is attached to his name, because he was thinking on a higher level than the rest of us." …Meir Yedid