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Tops Volume 7 (1942)Percy AbbottJanuary 1942 - December 1942
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor
413 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 7, Number 1 - January 1942 - 36 pages
- Cover - Sid Lorraine
- With the Editor
- Contents
- The Facts of Life in the case of Sid Lorraine
- Land and Water Trick
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- The Figure Fiend - book - R. A. Burley
- Mother Goose Mystery - trick - Martin Gardner
- Questions and Answers
- Color Prediction - Joseph Brandi
- The Campbell Caravan - Loring and Kathryne Campbell
- Super-X Scores in Show
- Magical Crossword...
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Tops Volume 6 (1941)Percy AbbottJanuary 1941 - December 1941
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor
638 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 6, Number 1 - January 1941 - 52 pages
- Index - Contents (including advertisers)
- Editorial - Mel
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Jumbo Discovery - Bryce Chambers
- Bingo - A New Clever Novelty Trick
- re: J. C. Bisbee
- Where Was I? - "Monk" Watson
- The Card Trick Without a Deck - Allan Lambie
- Sucker Die Box Gag
- Chinese Lantern Trick - Otto Waldmann
- The Stuck Card Trick
- Bury Peter Rabbit
- Swann Suggested...
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Tops Volume 5 (1940)Percy AbbottJanuary 1940 - December 1940
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor
636 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1940 - 52 pages
- Index - Contents (including advertisers)
- Editorial - Percy Abbott
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- 1940 Good Wishes to You and Yours
- A Magici8an in the House - Sid Lorraine - correction
- Testimonial
- Magicians Guild of America - Recil Bordner
- Fitzkee's Story - Dariel Fitzkee
- The Magicians Guild Convention - Ken MacEachin
- E. J. Moore Sick Fund
- Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun
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Tops Volume 4 (1939)Percy AbbottJanuary 1939 - December 1939
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
621 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 4, Number 1 - January 1939 - 60 pages
- Index - Contents (including advertisers)
- Editorial - Percy Abbott
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- A Few Questions and Answers
- "Majah", Indian Mystic
- re: Will Rock
- "Greater Magic"
- New York State Conclave
- Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
- The Travelling Coins - Joseph's Routine
- Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun
- Corrections - for December Issue of "Potpourri"
- Fleming Trophy...
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Tops Volume 3 (1938)Percy AbbottJanuary 1938 - December 1938
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
659 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 3, Number 1 - January 1938 - 52 pages
- Index - Contents (including advertisers)
- Editorial - Percy Abbott
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Pig On the Slate by U. F. Grant not Oswald Williams
- Loyd's Mystery Wand - trick
- Questions and Answers
- The Permeating Pasteboard - Arthur H. Roberts
- Accumulated Magic - Ed Burchell
- Cigarette Vanish
- Another Cigarette Vanish
- Eating A Lighted Cigarette
- Silk Production
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Tops Volume 2 (1937)Percy AbbottJanuary 1937 - December 1937
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
649 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 2, Number 1 - January 1937 - 52 pages
- Index - Contents (including advertisers)
- Editorial - Percy Abbott
- New Magic Club - The Keystone Ring of Harrisburg
- Harlan Tarbell's Health
- The "Tops" Policy
- Is This A Pipe Dream? - letter from Julius Hopkins
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Thoughts About a Year of Tops
- Questions and Answers
- Variation of Rope Trick - Erwin Forsythe
- The Drop Cigarette Move - Percy Abbott
- Continuous Front and Back Palm With Lighted...
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Tops Volume 1 (1936)Percy AbbottJanuary 1936 - December 1936
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
585 pages
- The "Tops" - Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1936 - 36 pages
- The Policy of this Magazine
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter
- Trading Center - announcement
- Magicians Are The "Tops" - Alvin Richard Plough
- We Remember - Lester Lake (Marvelo)
- Our Nobel Prize For Today
- Continual Production of Lighted Pipes - Lu-Brent
- Why Not A Contest?
- I'm Telling You - H. Adrian Smith
- Editorial - Percy Abbott
- The Coin Cards - W. C. Oates
- Tops and...
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Publicity for MagiciansRobert E. BernhardFrom the introduction my Ormond McGill:
Few people are more fitted to discuss publicity for magicians than Robert Bernhard. I say this not because as a publicity man he has brought fame and fortune to waitresses and elevator girls who are now movie stars or because he has been my good friend for many years, but because he himself was a magician and knows the peculiar problems of the profession.
Under pressure, he is usually willing to admit he was probably the worst performer to ever inflict himself on a long suffering yet patient and forgiving public. Nevertheless, for several years he... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Handbook for the Theme Park MagicianWayne R. WissnerThe amusement park and theme park business is an interesting opportunity for magicians. If you have ever wanted to experience this performing venue ... now is the time ... and this is the ebook. The Handbook For The Theme Park Magician will tell you all you need to know: how the parks operate, how they book their attractions, what to expect (both personally and professionally) and more.
You will be given sound and practical advice from a man (Wayne Wissner) who has made his living for many years in this lucrative field. Advice on your act, your assistants, your daily life (both on and off... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listPDF |
Further Tips on ZombieJoe KarsonThe original book Tips on Zombie was published in 1946 and has long been out of print. The Abbott Magic Company acquired the rights to this book. Neil Foster compiled the additional material and the book has been revised and greatly enlarged. Magic's Number One illustrator, Sid Lorraine, contributed the more than sixty detailed illustrations. If you are interested in performing the famous "Zombie" effect, you must have this ebook. The contents include:
- Zombie
- Zombie Gimmicks (6 different types)
- The Start on the Arm
- Zombie Vanish (4 methods)
- The John Calvert Story
- The No-Gimmick Zombie
- Will Desmond's...
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Eddie Joseph on Cups and BallsEddie JosephThis ebook is a compilation of the following titles:
- A Practical Lesson in Cups and Balls
- Advanced Lessons in Cups and Balls
- Last Word on Cups and Balls
- My Favorite Routine with Cups and Balls
Four great books on one classic subject in one great volume. It contains all the material and all the illustrations of the four older books, but in an edited and slightly abridged form. Also, the material has been re-formatted so that all the moves and sleights are in one section, all the novelty effects and special apparatus cups are in another section and all the routines are together in the final section.
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The Last Word on Cups and BallsEddie JosephFrom the introduction:
Every piece of information - idea - suggestion and routine has been independently created, developed, exploited and tested by the author some time or other. The reader is therefore assured, he is not getting any "second-hand" material in consequence.
The colossal amount of material crammed between these covers, will provide the progressive manipulator with a wealth of valuable assets.
The book has been divided into three parts. The first supplies detailed explanation for nearly forty new moves and passes. The second is kept apart for the creation of novel effects... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Strange Secrets AddendaGordon MillerThis completes the series with
- Character Reading by R.S. Glover
- Astrologia by Howard P. Albright. A "sealed message" psychic routine completely detailed and incorporating the Automatic Prompter--an invaluable aid in delivering a convincing and unusual psychic reading.
Techniques and presentations that appear nowhere else.
1st edition 1984; PDF 72 pages | $10 to wish listPDF |
Strange Secrets 2Gordon MillerThis is a collection of the following titles:
- Needle Routine by M.S. "Doc" Mahdendra
- Super Psychic Mental Effects by Howard Albright
- Sand Painting by Howard Mel Melson
- Simplified Memory Act by Samuel Shapiro
- Dwarf Act by Richard Merry
- X-Jargon by Wallace Lee
- Thought Wings Onward--Part Two by Eddie Clever
PDF 123 pages | $10 to wish listPDF |
Strange Secrets 1Gordon MillerThis is a collection of the following titles:
PDF 122 pages | $10 to wish listPDF |
Forbidden WisdomHoward P. AlbrightShows you how to do a fortune telling act incorporating magic tricks.
- Fortune Telling By Cards (Three Methods)
- The Triple Turnover
- Out Of The Hat
- The Mental Wonder
- Simplified Interpretation Of The Cards
- The Suits (Indicate The Spheres Of Action)
- The Values (Indicate Events Of Importance)
- How To Memorize
- The Mystic Circle
- How To Give An Interesting Reading
- Pseudo-Palmistry
- A Sample Reading (From Observation And Information)
- Pseudo-Graphology
- Pseudo-Astrology
- The World Of Dreams
- Fortune Telling With Coins
- Fortune Telling With Dice
- Pseudo-Numerology
- Scribble-Ology (An Original...
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49 Easy To Do Card TricksPercy AbbottFrom the introduction:
Included in the 49 effects are some that are new and some that have been favorites of professional Magicians for years, but all of them have been tested on their merits as entertaining and mystifying tricks.
All of these tricks can be performed with any deck of playing cards, with little or no preparation beforehand, and in compiling them, it has been the aim to include only such tricks as may be performed simply with a pack of playing cards, without the necessity of any extra paraphernalia.
These tricks are easy to do, and may be performed once you have the directions... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF |
15 Exciting Minutes with a Borrowed DeckEddie JosephFrom the introduction:
The routine comprises five different effects, each able to stand out on its own merit. When combined, you will confuse the sharpest mind, the logical reason being that you appear to be doing the same thing over and over again, but you vary your secret procedure with each repetition.
All sleights have been eliminated and even if one had not done a single card trick before, he will still be able to bewilder and earn the reputation of a highly skilled card worker. The tricks are so designed that at no stage do you appear to be taking any active part — your spectators... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish listPDF |
Abbott Magic Catalog #5Percy AbbottThis #5 catalog was a supplementary catalog to #4. It only listed the new effects Abbott could supply.
1st edition ?, 94 pages. | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #13 1952Percy AbbottIn this catalog Eddie Joseph and all his publications and separately sold tricks received a separate section. Abbott is also operating their own printing presses and advertises to print business cards, letterheads, handbills and show cards for magicians. A price list is included at the very end.
- Accessories
- Balls
- Bottles
- Cages
- Canes
- Cards
- Change Bags
- Cigarettes
- Club
- Comedy
- Dice
- Eggs
- Escapes
- Fish
- Flowers
- Glasses
- Illusions
- Joseph
- Light Bulbs
- Linking Rings
- Liquid
- Livestock
- Lotas
- Mental
- Milk
- Money
- Novelties
- Paper
- Parasols
- Pocket
- Printing
- Reels
- Rice Bowls
- Rising...
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Abbott Magic Catalog #16 1964Recil BordnerMagic products are being offered in the following categories:
- Accessories
- Advertising Section
- Ball Magic
- Bird Cages
- Block Tricks
- Bottle Tricks
- Candle Tricks
- Canes
- Card Magic
- Change Bags
- Cigarette Tricks
- Close-Up and Pocket Tricks
- Coin and Money Magic
- Comedy Effects
- Cups and Balls
- Dice
- Egg
- Escapes
- Flower Magic
- Trick Glasses
- Illusions
- Kid-Show Magic
- Light Bulbs
- Linking Rings
- Liquid Magic
- Water Lotas
- Milk Tricks
- Tricks with Livestock
- Mental magic
- Paper Magic
- Production Magic
- Rice Bowls
- Rope Tricks
- Silk Magic
- Spook and Spirit Material
- Modern Tables
- Thimbles
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Punch and JudySydney de HempseyThis is the complete dialog for the presentation of PUNCH and JUDY.
The figures used in this dialog and in order of their appearance are as follows: Punch — Dog Toby — Judy — Baby — Beadle or Policeman — Joey the Clown — Crocodile — Ghost — Doctor.
In addition to the above, the following properties are used: Punch's stick — Sausages — Frying Pan — Gallows — Coffin — The Pall.
1st digital edition 2016, 10 pages. | $4 to wish listPDF |
Abbott Magic Catalog #22Recil BordnerThe catalog gives a date of 1976, but that is the same date as #21, which means they probably forgot to change it. Most likely this catalog was published in the early 1980s. The latest date mentioned anywhere in the catalog is 1981. My best guess therefore is that this catalog was released in 1981 or 1982.
1st edition 198?, 448 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #20 1972Recil BordnerIncludes a historical sketch about Abbott Magic, how it came to be, and why it was started in Colon, MI.
1st edition 1972, 464 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |