Magic & Conjuring: page 241

Lubor Fiedler's Gozinta Boxes is my all time favorite illusion. It has been so ever since I first saw it performed decades ago. I love the simplicity, clarity, and impossibility of the effect. Two boxes. One clearly larger than the other, because one fits into the other. But wait - now the larger one is smaller and the smaller one is larger. Every child can understand the impossibility of this. It transcends any language or cultural barrier. Since no explanation is necessary the magic first happens on a very deep visceral level. But then when the mind kicks in and tries to find an explanation...

Collector alert! Since this is a prototype, there is only one of it available.

This was a prototype for the Gozinta Boxes Revisited, an improved version of Lubor Fiedler's ingenious invention. This prototype is slightly larger than the final version and the transparent box has thicker walls. Otherwise, it is the same, 3D-printed magic trick.

This famous book is once again available in a new, revision edition.

Professional magicians and reviewers have given this book an amazing reception. The reason is plain to see, for here is a collection of the very smartest magic, devised and used in his own act by Lu Brent, the topnotch Philadelphia professional. Those who know have called the book sensational, others, novel and original, while all highly endorse the practical value and the effectiveness of the magic that is so thoroughly explained and illustrated. There is something of value for every performer, as the table of contents...

Fifteen excellent pasteboard effects, all easy to perform, as they require little or no skill.

The contents include "Unbelievable Coincidence" which in itself is worth more than the price of the entire book; "U-Find-Our-Cards," a chapter wherein spectators unknowingly discover their own selected cards in a puzzling fashion; and "Auto-Graphic Minds," which will never fail to bewilder the closest observer. Plus additional tricks of a professional caliber.

Here is a collection of the very smartest magic, devised and used in his own act by Lu Brent, the top-notch Philadelphia professional...

Anleitung zu mehr als hundert überraschenden Kartenkunststücken.

• Vorwort
• Vorbemerkung
• I. Abtheilung. Kartenkunststücke ohne Vorbereitung.
  • 1. Fünf Karten, die von fünf verschiedenen Personen gemerkt worden sind, zu nennen.
  • 2. Eine von fünfzehn Karten in den Sinn genommene zu nennen.
  • 3. Eine von Jemand gezogene und heimlich besehene Karte schnell aufzufinden.
  • 4. Auf neun Karten, in drei Reihen zu drei Blättern gelegt, noch drei Karten so zu legen, daß in jeder horizontalen oder senkrechten Reihe sich vier Karten befinden.
  • 5. Zwei Karten zu errathen, welche zwei Personen aus...

In this ebook is to be found the cream of the tricks, ideas and principles which have gone, over the years, into Histed's monster note-book. Here is the life-time's harvest of one man's brilliant thought and patient experimentation. And as every harvest carries the seeds of the next, we are confident that the principles which the author here discloses for the first time, and the new presentations he has devised for other effects, will bear further fruit in the work of amateur and professional magical entertainers all over the world.

The Magic of Louis S. Histed contains magic to suit every...

Hardcover with dust jacket. Supreme edition from about 1970. For details on the content see the digital edition.

The most famous invention of Nikola is his card system, which is described in The Nikola Card System and in an abbreviated version in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. Cards are not the only area Nikola excelled in.

From the inside cover: Magical Masterpieces is no mere fanciful title. It is an apt description of a selection from the accumulated repertoire of a practical magician whose outstanding characteristic is the painstaking perfection and stamp of individuality of all his productions. It is safe to say that if a new book of magic provides only one workable and suitable addition to the reader's store it is a sound investment. The magician...

Shadow entertainments are as old as the hills, but their popularity is undiminished and the hand shadow expert is a recognized and popular artist and entertainer. A practical guide for both adults and children.

Generations of entertainers have amused audiences of children and adults with the art of hand shadows, using only a light source and their own two hands to form immediately recognizable profiles of people and animals. Lovers of nostalgia and aspiring hand shadow artists will delight in this ebook, which features more than 50 hand shadows.

These quaint illustrations depict many different...

The Nikola Card System is more advanced than either the Si Stebbins or "Eight Kings" card systems. Even upon close examination pre-arrangement seems impossible with this system.

• Section 1: Argument
• Section 2: Curriculum
• Section 3: Utility
  • 1. "Stop"
  • 2. Cards By Weight
  • 3. Weighing Chosen Cards
  • 4. The Sense Of Touch
  • 5. Human Magnetism
  • 6. Locating
  • 7. Spelling
  • 8. To Spell Any Card Called For
  • 9. Thought Anticipated
  • 10. Unconscious Thought Transmission
  • 11. Wizard's Whist
  • 12. All Trumps
  • 13. The Spelling Bee,
  • 14. The Game Of Poker, And
  • 15. The Game Of "Nap"
  • 16. To Name The Position...

Intended by the author as "Card magic that is different," here are a baker's dozen card effects that your audience will enjoy. Card discoveries, mental mysteries, and audience participation effects are all included in this gem of a book. The author, a recognized card expert, shares these effects that rely on subtlety instead of "knuckle-buster" sleights. The routines described in this ebook can be performed by most any magician of average ability.

Here's what's included:

• Introduction
• El-El Telephone Test (with additional presentations)
• Lady Be Good
• El-El Bluff Force
• El-El Four Ace...

Here is a baker's dozen mentalism demonstrations and card effects that you'll be pleased to perform. The effects in this rare classic, by the author of Be Deceived, are a mix of close-up and club/stage routines that will find favor with most every magician or psychic entertainer.

One effect in particular, Key-ology, includes three different methods for the Seven Keys to Baldpate premise originated by Ted Annemann. What makes these methods worthy of note is that they all work with an ungimmicked lock. If you've wanted to add this effect to your act, but find the high prices that dealers charge for the special lock...

1. Magical Bulletin - Volume I, Number 1 - January, 1914 - 4 pages
1. Magical Notes
2. Editorials
2. A Good Card Gag
2. Suggestions
3. A Billet Test
3. Mystic Bran and Ring
3. Acknowledgements - Thayer & Christianer

5. Magical Bulletin - Volume I, Number 2 - February, 1914 - 4 pages
5. Magical Notes
6. Editorials
6. The "Perfecto" Black Art Table - H. Syril Dusenbery
7. Notice
7. Wanted
7. For Sale
7. The Changing Bag
3. Card, Orange and Dove

9. Magical Bulletin - Volume I, Number 3 - March, 1914 - 4 pages
9. Magical Notes
10. Editorials
10. Thanks For This
10. The Pacific Coast Society of Magicians - H. Syril Dusenbery
11. A Tip...

This magazine was the house organ of the "Magic Shop of the West". It started as a small free newsletter that grew into a full fledged magic periodical with original trick contributions.

This long-lost work contains eight marvelous effects for magicians everywhere. There are mental-flavored mysteries (including a dictionary test and a billet experiment), a vanishing flower from buttonhole effect, and several card tricks of the miracle class where the magic seems to happen almost entirely in the spectator's hands.

This is actually two manuscripts bound as one: Magical Odds and Ends and Kli Ban's Routine with a Borrowed Deck. The original work is "unobtanium," with copies so scarce as to be virtually nonexistent. We're happy to bring these effects back to a new generation of...

Subtitle of the book is: A series of artistic conjuring experiments fully explained in detail and supplemented by a preachment upon the art in the form of original essays upon the subject, The Actor Magician.

• PREFACE
• PROLOGUE
• PART I. MAGICIAN'S OPENING, PAR-EXCELLENCE
  • The Gloves And Pigeon Transformation
  • Chameleon Balls
  • The Astral Billiard Ball
  • The Phantom Billiard Ball
  • New Vanishing Billiard Ball. No. 1
  • New Vanishing Ball No. 2
  • The Travelling Balls No. 1.
  • The Travelling Balls No. 2
  • New Handkerchiefs And Balls
  • New Vanishing Handkerchief
  • The Multiplying Handkerchiefs
  • Handkerchief...

Sie kennen "Sidewalk Shuffle"?! Viele Zauberkünstler haben versucht, den Nachteil der dabei verwendeten Karten zu beseitigen; die Ergebnisse waren nicht befriedigend, da während der Vorführung auch dann nicht jede Karte fair vollflächig von beiden Seiten gezeigt werden konnte. Mit Big Bang ist das nun möglich!

Demonstration mit 4 Karten (3 unbedruckte Karten, 1 normale Spielkarte), wie ein Falschspieler sein Opfer hereinlegt. So genau man auch aufpasst, der Falschspieler gewinnt. Zum überraschenden Schluss zeigt sich, dass 3 normale Karten und nur eine unbedruckte Karte auf dem Tisch...

Dies ist ein typischer "Kümmelblättchen"-Effekt: Der Zuschauer soll auf die Lage einer von drei Karten achten; er wird durch den Zauberer immer wieder getäuscht!

Sie kennen TUWIT-Routinen ("Do as I do")?! Hier die ultimative Form!

Aus einem Kartenspiel werden vier rote und vier schwarze Karten entnommen. Die Karten werden natürlich einzeln von beiden Seiten vorgezeigt. Der Mitspieler entscheidet sich dann für die roten oder schwarzen Karten, die er auch einzeln in die Hand gezählt bekommt.

Dann werden langsam fünf identische Handlungen vorgenommen - jeweils mit einer einzelnen Karte. Werden die Karten dann normal ausgefächert, zeigt sich, dass der Mitspieler zaubern kann: Während beim Zauberer alle vier Karten rückenoben liegen, zeigt beim...

Die wohl "sauberste" Variante zum Thema "2-Männer-Trick". Bis zu 3 Karten wandern vom Spiel in die leere Kartenschachtel (oder unter die Hand eines Mitspielers) – und das ganz ohne Fingerfertigkeit!

Kein Rau/Glatt – Keine Klebepräparation!

Vier Karten werden von Vorder- und Rückseite vorgezeigt. Es handelt sich um 3 leere Karten und eine normale Karte. Eine leere Karte wird bildunten abgelegt, um das "Betrügerspiel mit 3 Karten" (2 leere und einer normalen) zu demonstrieren. Es stellt sich heraus, dass keine der 3 Karten die Spielkarte ist; alle drei sind leere Karten. Die Vermutung des Zuschauers, dass die auf dem Tisch liegende Karte die richtige ist, stellt sich als falsch heraus. Auf dieser Karte steht nur "ACHT". Wenn man will, kann man die Spielkarte aus der Tasche erscheinen lassen.

Joker drehen sich in der Hand des Zauberes magisch einzeln bildunten und dann verwandeln sich die Joker in verschiedenen Spielkarten. Zum Schluss führt der Zauberer mit diesen Karten noch ein magisches Spiel mit nur 3 Karten vor und der Zuschauer kann die Karten natürlich untersuchen.

Nicely illustrated routines of a full-time performer.

From the introduction:

From the Author's Note: