Magic & Conjuring: page 331

Capture all four aces, one by one, between two spectator selected cards - a repeat sandwich effect.

1st edition 2017, length 6 min 6 s

A four card monte effect - a queen and three aces. Cards magically turn face up and down, and the queen vanishes. For the climax one card is removed, the queen reappears and suddenly two cards change completely into new cards and the queens back is now red.

1st edition 2017, length 4 min 57 s

Welcome to Simple Ideas Huge Impact, a collection of 6 close up magic effects utilizing everyday objects. All of these effects are simple to do and they require very little setup. Here are the effects:

King Split: A stunning two card production utilizing a double backed card. It can be used as great opener to any sandwich routine.

Simple Biddle: A simplified version of the classic Biddle trick with no Biddle Count.

Solvent Coin: A stunning way to change a drawing on a coin utilising a gimmick that most magicians are familiar with. No special ink.

Popcoin: A simple way to make a coin...

Vol. 13, No. 2, May 2017; 60 pages
Cover: Richard Jones

5. Editor's Letter
5. What's Inside - contents
6. Richard Jones - Operation Magic! - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
12. Magic on the Mersey - Liverpool is Magic! - Interview with Organiser Paul Stone
17. In The Phonebox with: ... Olivia Newton-John
18. Letters
20. 5 Rules Every Close-up Magician Must Break - Geraint Clarke
23. In The News
24. Masterclass
    24. Print-Out - Aldo Colombini
    25. Cheap Suit - Matt du Heaume
28. Daryl - August 13, 1955 to February 24, 2017 - Interview by Anastasia Dziekan
30. Jay Fortune - Magical Artist - Interview
36. Everyone Wants to be Stephen Bargatze!...

This ebook features a variety of strong and easy to perform tricks. Of course, as the author of Modern Coin Magic Bobo includes a solid section on coin tricks, but he also teaches routines with cards, thimbles, rope, and there is also a detailed section on sleeving. Bobo was a master of it.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter I: New Card Technique
  • Multiple Card Control
  • Bottom Up
  • Bottom Peek
  • Top Peek
  • U Peek, I Peek
  • Color Change
  • The Ebling Crimp
• Chapter II: Keys And Tricks Therewith
  • A New Key Card
  • The Isolated Key
  • Stop Card Trick
  • Found
  • Bobo Locatrix
  • In His Hands
  • Telepathic Miracle
  • Two Backward...

These are the instructions, including several photos, of the Florentin Hold-Out Martin Breese sold.

1st edition 2010, 8 pages.

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  • The Dress
  • The Table
  • The Servante
• CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO SMALL OBJECTS
  • Palming
  • Le Tourniquet
  • The Finger Palm
  • The Reverse Palm
  • To Change a Coin
• CHAPTER III. TRICKS WITH COINS
  • Magical Production of a Coin
  • The Wandering Coin
  • A New Coin Fold
  • Coin and Candle
  • An Artful Conjurer
  • The Invisible Flight
  • Vanish for Duplicate
  • To Pass a Coin Through the Body
  • Swallowing Illusions
  • Coin and Lemons
  • The Pocket Vanish
  • Florin v. Sixpence
  • To Pass a Coin into an Ordinary Matchbox held by One of the Spectators
  • Coin,...

This collection features lots of little tricks, stunts, science experiments and games. It also has an extensive advertisement section in the back.

• The Disappearing Egg
• "Ghost Rings": A Pretty Party Trick
• The Invisible Candle
• Home-made Ping-Pong
• Animal Magnetism
• A Curious Illusion
• The Dancing Skeleton
• The Floating Corks
• Restoring the Cut Thread
• Invisible Photographs
• A Laughmaker
• The Magic Coin Box
• A Match Trick
• The Balanced Coin
• The Disappearing Coin
• A Peculiar Number
• To Name all the Cards in the Pack in Succession
• The Indian Duck Trick
• The Latest Cigarette Vanish
• The Balanced...

This book covers a mix of stage illusions, manipulations, and parlor tricks. It is very nicely illustrated even featuring a couple of photos.

Paul Fleming wrote:

• Introduction
• The Watch, Handkerchief, And Bran
• The Egg And Handkerchief
• The Flying Glass, Watch, And Flag
• The Lamp-Chimney Color Change
• The Twentieth Century Trick
• Quadruple Flag And Handkerchief Trick
• The Phantom Handkerchiefs
• The Wedding Ring Trick
• Invisible Flight Of Handkerchiefs
• Another "Invisible Flight"
• The Latest Handkerchief "Flight"
• Handkerchief And Paper Tube
• "Primary And Compound"
• A "Changing Tube" Suggestion
• Handkerchiefs And Flag
• Loading The Paper Cone
• Numbered Cards
• The "Invisible" Charlier Pass
• The Transformed Handkerchiefs
• The Flag, Bran, And Orange Trick ...

Vol. 13, No. 3, July 2017; 60 pages
Cover: David Copperfield

5. Editor's Letter
5. What's Inside - contents
6. David Copperfield - The Man Who Makes Miracles - cover article/interview - George Luck
13. The Dealer's Booth - Sovereign Playing Cards - Mark Leveridge
14. In The News
16. Steve Rowe - The Sweet Smell of Success! - interview by Graham Hey
20. Letters
22. Hel! I Need Somebody - Christopher T. Magician
24. Masterclass - From Screen to Page
    • Inevitable - James Went
    • Glassique - Dave Jones
25. Like a Bat Out of Hell! - Eric Jones
30. Public Relations - The Power of a Story - Mark Leveridge
36. Penn & Teller...

An excellent collection of sleight-less card tricks. Some require a confederate but in all cases the author provides alternative methods and presentations to eliminate the need for a confederate. Each effect is taught with an effective presentation.

• I: The Four Burglars
• II: Divination
• III: An Exhibition Of Thought-Reading
• IV: The Disappearing Ace
• V: Another Thought-Reading Trick
• VI: Hypnotic Selection
• VII: The Four Burglars Again
• VIII: Another Method Of Divination
• IX: Bringing Back The Ashes
• X: Thought-Reading Extraordinary
• XI: Telepathy

1st edition 1914, PDF 32 pages

Tricks in allen Sparten vom Berliner Händler und Hersteller.

40 Seiten

Tricks in allen Sparten vom Berliner Händler und Hersteller.

40 Seiten

The record of a career famous for adventure and vicissitude, and in which the jester won more tricks than the gamester.

• Preface
• Chapter I: Birth And Early Peregrinations
• Chapter II: Becoming A Patron Of The Pasteboards
• Chapter III: Early Times On The Mississippi
• Chapter IV: Getting A Sobriquet And Meeting Great Men
• Chapter V: The Turnpikes, The Packets And The Inns
• Chapter VI: Initiated In The Sons Of Malta
• Chapter VII: From The Green Mountains To Pike's Peak
• Chapter VIII: With The Bold Soldier Boys
• Chapter IX: The Fraternity Of Gamesters
• Chapter X: To Point A Moral And Adorn A...

Donald Holmes was a magic dealer and author from Kansas City, Missouri. This is a very nice illustrated supplementary catalog starting at item number 601 all the way to 664.

1st edition 1924, 36 pages.

This is a great little booklet where U.F. Grant teaches three non-sleight replacement methods for

• Pass
• Force
• Palm
• Switch

1st edition 1943, 1st digital edition 2017, 4 pages.

Here are six stunning mental and spirit-flavored effects from the creative minds of Larsen and Wright.

From the authors of The L. W. Card Mysteries comes this great ebook of effects for psychic entertainers that will leave audiences thinking that they have just witnessed genuine thought stealing!

You get:

• Psychic Vision - An ingenious method of answering a single question.
• The Quick or the Dead - Perhaps the best method ever for performing this great billet test. Put your thinking cap on and you'll find many uses for this, aside from the original premise.
• From a Shuffled Pack - A great test feature. ...

Vol. 13, No. 4, September 2017; 60 pages
Cover: Jamie Raven

5. Editor's Letter
6. Jamie Raven - Some People Believe in Ghosts - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
13. In The Phonebox with: ... Aaron Paul
14. In The News
16. Letters - Have Your Say
18. The Three Biggest Business Mistakes Magicians Make - Aaron Fisher
22. Paul Richards - From New York to New Approach - interview - Graham Hey
26. Corporate Gigs v Private Events - Understanding the Difference - Ken Dyne
28. Masterclass - From Screen to Page
    28. Cross Purposes - John Bannon
    29. The Sili-Coin Chip - Mark Leveridge
34. Reading Between the Lines - How to Truly Understand...

It's Not Just About the Cards is a brief look at performance skills for the magician.

It covers:

• The types of performing areas commonly used and how to utilise that space and engage the audience.
• The Physical and Vocal side of performing.
• An approach of how to build a 'stage' or 'performing' character.

1st edition 2017, 28 pages.

H. C. Evans was a company specializing in the manufacture and sale of gambling and carnival equipment. They also sold sporting goods like baseball gloves, various balls, hunting and fishing gear. Particularly noteworthy are their offerings for cheating purposes such as hold-outs, or dice which have been altered in a number of ways, or marked cards, etc.

1st edition 1909, 64 pages.

• TRICKS WITH CARDS
  1. How To Make The Pass
  2. The Long Card
  3. To Produce a Particular Card without Seeing the Pack
  4. To Call for Any Card in the Pack
  5. The Changeable Ace
  6. The Convertible Aces
  7. The Gathering of the Clans
  8. Everybody's Card
  9. Forcing a Card
  10. The Card hit upon by Guess
  11. Ups and Downs
  12. To Tell The Card That A Person Has Touched With His Finger
  13. The Card Discovered by Touch or Smell
  14. Confederate Cards
  15. The Ten Duplicates, or Cards in Couples
  16. The Turn-Over Feat
  17. The Nerve Feat
  18. To Tell The Number Of Cards By The Weight
  19. To Change the Card by Word of Command
  20. The Card in a Mirror
  21. The...

Ken de Courcy and Billy McComb took an old chemical effect, figured out the secret that makes it work reliably, and worked out all the other kinks, to make it ready for real world performances. The effect reads like one from Lubor Fiedler.

Effect: The magician introduces a circle of yellow tissue paper and hands it to a spectator to crumple into a ball. He receives it back then, holding it at his fingertips, concentrates on it for a few moments. The tissue ball is placed on an ashtray then ... it suddenly bursts into flames and burns away.

PDF 6 pages.

A complete Gambler Expose act.

• Introduction
• The Gambler's Touch
• I Get The Aces
• The Gambler Gets Your Cards
• The Gambler's Second Dealing
• Three Card Monte
• Cutting The Pack
• The Sensational Poker Demonstration
  • The Demonstration
  • The Shuffle
  • Suggestions For Interchanging Cards
• Heads Or Tails
• Hitting The Spots
• Predicting The Spots
• The Thimbles And Dice
• Suggestions For Arranging A Routine

PDF 25 pages.