Magic & Conjuring: page 158

Being an explanation of the game, and a warning against its dangers.

Excerpt from the preface:

An instructive warning to those who must play for stakes. Interesting amusement for those who do not.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This book is nicely illustrated by Charles Remmers from photographs by the author. It contains a description of cheating at the popular Australian game of Two-Up which makes it unique.

• Foreword
• Spotlight On The Card-Sharp ...

You show four blank cards. Progressively their backs become blue, then faces of queens appear, then their backs become red, and finally all their backs change to yet another new back.

1st edition 2023, video 3:30.

Heft geklammert in exzellentem Zustand. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Büchlein mit Klebebindung in sehr gutem Zustand. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Booklet stapled in very good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Booklet stapled in excellent condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Red plastic comb-bound notes in very good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Black plastic comb-bound book in very good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Small format softcover booklet stapled. Mostly puzzles, brainteasers, and some which could be performed as magic tricks. In total there are 36 problems. Solutions are provided for all of them.

Booklet stapled in very good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Softcover stapled booklet in good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Four pages of instructions in one big folded sheet. Note that the folds have torn in several places. For the content see the digital edition.

A4-Format Heft geklammert in perfektem Zustand.

Booklet stapled, 44 pages - several in color, in very good condition. Published 2012.

You start out showing two seven of diamonds, one ace of spades and one ace of clubs. But in the process of showing them or turning them over they all become aces of spades, aces of clubs, or seven of diamonds. Best to watch the demo video below.

1st edition 2023, video 4:48.

A wonderful routine and variation for the Jastrow Illusion, also known as Magic Boomerangs.

Just who is the Top of the Bill? Stan Laurel or Oliver Hardy?

That's the dilemma confronting the performer in this strange and bizarre close-up routine. Seeing is believing!

Two nameplates, one for Stan and one for Ollie, shrink and elongate as each is given pride of place at the Top of the Bill. How? Simple, they are short on one side and long on the other. Or so claims the performer. Is it an optical illusion? It seems so until the finale in which the spectator is left with two nameplates...

Two cards are face-down on the table next to each other. When you turn over the first one it is blank on its face. When you turn over the second one a big hole appears in the center. When you turn them back face-down the big hole vanishes. It can hardly get any stranger.

1st edition 2024, video 2:03.

Three named playing cards are located aided by a wind-up toy. Self-working, foolproof, a real crowd pleaser. From the lecture notes of Jimmy Haviland, London's last street conjuror.

You will have to supply a wind-up toy yourself. It is ungimmicked. Anything that walks, hops, or drives a few inches will work.

1st edition 2024, PDF 4 pages + video.

You start with four blank cards and show them from both sides to be blank. Suddenly backs appear, faces appear, and you finish with yet another change of the back designs.

You will need three jacks or three cards with identical faces but different backs. You will also need three blank cards, two of which have the same back, and one a different back. You will also need a piece of hard wax which Peter uses to prepare one card.

1st edition 2024, video 2:34.

Excerpt from the introduction by David Hemingway:

Straight from the mentalism act of award-winning Linking Ring author Michael Breggar comes The No Tears Tear.

The No Tears Tear is an easy-to-execute center tear that provides a peek in real-time. Do we all need another center tear? Nope. You only need one. And this is the one.

The manuscript is loaded with text and photos depicting each action and step in detail. The rationale for each move is also discussed which makes learning the method a snap.

Features:

• Real-time
• Real deceptive
• Real easy

You will be using this approach in your mentalism routines shortly after reading...

For many years, Ray has worked on the problem of developing an impromptu version of the Paul Fox Miracle Gimmick. After testing and discarding several earlier handlings, he has come up with a stunning version that is a reputation-building demonstration of mass mentalism.

It can be done anytime, anywhere, totally impromptu, with a borrowed deck of cards which is first thoroughly shuffled by a spectator. The cards are handed out to several spectators - between five and twenty if you wish - and they are each asked to just think of a card. The cards are gathered and once again shuffled. You...

Sleights and routines with lit and unlit cigarettes. Illustrated by numerous photographic reproductions from the author's own hands, together with some additional line drawings.

• PUBLISHER'S NOTE
• FOREWORD
• INTRODUCTION
• PART ONE Unlighted Cigarette Section
  • Groundwork of Cigarette Magic
  • ENVANISHMENT
    • “Perfection” Vanish
    • Sliding Cigarette Vanish
    • My “Rising Cigarette” Vanish
    • “Vertical” Cigarette Vanish
    • “Favourite” Vanish
    • “Descention” Vanish
    • “D.D.” “Thumb-Slide” Vanish
    • Supplementary “Thumb-Slide” Vanish
    • My “Slow-Motion” Vanish
    • “Stationary”...