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Andrus Card ControlJerry AndrusThis is Jerry Andrus' most important publication. This ebook includes volume 1 and 2 of the printed version. The more than 1000 illustrations from volume 2 have been inserted close to where they are referenced in the text, making this ebook a lot easier to study than the original printed version where text and illustrations are separated. Jerry Andrus was an incredible creative and inquisitive man. He could converse just as easily on questions surrounding quantum mechanics as he could on magic and optical illusions. He looked at a deck of cards very differently than most of us. This allowed... | ★★★★★ $30 to wish list | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes DVD 1Jerry Cestkowski
You might think that some of these crazy flourishes are impossible to do. You might think they are 'made up'. Well, here is your proof that Jerry can do all of them and then some. This is a performance-only download DVD. It does, however, include many invaluable suggestions for routining flourishes and making even the most mundane move look spectacular. See the Flourishman perform every flourish in Chapters 1 through... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes DVD 2Jerry Cestkowski
You might think that some of these crazy flourishes are impossible to do. You might think they are 'made up'. Well, here is your proof that Jerry can do all of them and then some. This is a performance-only download DVD. It does, however, include many invaluable suggestions for routining flourishes and making even the most mundane move look spectacular. The Flourishman... | $20 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes DVD 3Jerry Cestkowski
You might think that some of these crazy flourishes are impossible to do. You might think they are 'made up'. Well, here is your proof that Jerry can do all of them and then some. This is a performance-only download DVD. It does, however, include many invaluable suggestions for routining flourishes and making even the most mundane move... | $20 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes DVD 4Jerry Cestkowski
You might think that some of these crazy flourishes are impossible to do. You might think they are 'made up'. Well, here is your proof that Jerry can do all of them and then some. This is a performance-only download DVD. It does, however, include many invaluable suggestions for routining flourishes and making even the most mundane move look spectacular. See the Flourishman perform every flourish in Chapters 9 through 12 of what is already... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card FlourishesJerry Cestkowski"Fantastic book. It will influence a new generation of artists." - Jeff McBride, Las Vegas HeadlinerThe Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes is the first of its kind. This current, comprehensive treatment of fancy card manipulation (XCM - extreme card manipulation, contact juggling with cards, card flourishes and cardistry) will teach you everything from the Charlier Pass to juggling cards. This encyclopedia has already become a modern classic, the bible for anybody interested to manipulate playing cards in astounding and artistic manner. With 2,800 photographs and a wealth of informative... | ★★★★★ $55 to wish list | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes DVDs 1-4Jerry Cestkowski | ★★★★★ $70 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Encyclopedia of Playing Card Flourishes: Ebook + DVDs 1-4Jerry Cestkowski | $115 to wish listPDF & MP4 | |
Cards HitJerry SadowitzIn true Jerry Sadowitz fashion this book was originally titled "Card Shit". The reader is free to speculate why the title change. Table of Contents
1st edition June 1984; original 38 pages; PDF 45 pages.... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
Cards on the TableJerry SadowitzThis was Jerry's first hardbound collection and it contains some wonderful card magic. New plots, new methods, all with the distinctive Sadowitz flair for ingenuity. If you haven't read any of Jerry's material before, this book will convince you why Jerry is regarded as one of the most creative cardicians. The book opens with "Fetch", an animated card discovery which you will use as soon as you read it. Or what about "A Million to One" in which the spectator shuffles the deck and then cuts it into two piles, one contains all the red cards, the second contains all the black cards! Or if you... | ★★★★★ $22 to wish list | |
Reflections on the Double Card: Ascanio's HandlingJesús EtcheverryThe Double Lift is one of the easiest and at the same time one of the hardest moves in conjuring with cards. It is the easiest, because everybody can get a break under the top two cards, and then take and show them as one. There is no difficulty whatsoever in doing this. However, it is also one of the hardest moves, because to do this simple action deceptively, so that nobody even suspects in the slightest you hold two cards, is hard. This ebook explains in detail Arturo de Ascanio's approach to making the Double Lift deceptive. Jesús Etcheverry, a longtime student and close friend of Ascanio,... | ★★★★★ $19.95 to wish list | |
The Best 200 Tricks With A Svengali DeckJim McKeagueThis exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations. Contents
1st edition 1999, 181 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | |
The Working Professional's Ambitious CardJim SistiFrom the introduction: Though there is little that is "new" in the way of sleights here, this routine came from years of careful trial and error. The five phases represented here are the final result. I've found, after thousands of performances, that for the walk-around performer, this routine is just the right length to maintain spectator interest. Also, like any magic routine where the same effect is apparently repeated a number of times, each phase offers an apparently more impossible set of circumstances. It also ends with a natural applause cue. 7 pages, photo illustrated | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
Brainwave MiraclesJim SistiFrom the introduction: The magician claims to have taken a playing card from a completely different pack and reversed it in the deck placed in plain view. The spectator is then asked to merely think of any card. After the selection is made, the magician picks up the pack, removes it from its case, and spreads through the cards, displaying the spectator's choice as the only card face up. When it's removed from the pack, it's turned over to display a completely different back color, thus proving the magician's claim that it originated in a completely different pack. This is the basic presentation... | ★★★★★ $19.90 to wish list | |
Jazzy Transposition 2Jim SistiFour Jokers mysteriously vanish from one place and reappear in another... The cards certainly appear ordinary...but your audience will be rubbing its eyes as four bicycle-riding Kings disappear right off the faces of four Jokers one at a time and reappear on the faces of previously blank cards. It even happens when a spectator places their finger on one of the blank cards! Here in more details what the spectators see: Two packets of cards are introduced, one containing four Jokers, the other four blank-faced cards. One Joker is set aside as a "leader card" and the others are tabled.... | $9.95 to wish list | |
Artanis Bottom DealJoe ArtanisIt took us two years to track down a copy of these elusive instructions to the bottom deal. Gary Plants, the man with the best bottom deal alive, wrote "The Artanis bottom deal is probably the closest thing in print to the type of bottom deal that I do." The really cool part of this ebook is that you can study the bottom deal audio-visually: hear, see and read. Artanis explains verbally how to do the bottom deal, you can study 12 photos that capture every stage of the bottom deal, and you can read a set of instructions. The electronic format allowed us to further improve the audio-visual... | ★★★★★ $35 to wish list | |
Rough StuffJoe Berg & Al Aldini & B. W. McCarronA great ebook for those interested in creating their own mechanical (rough and smooth) trick decks or restoring old ones. The mechanical decks described in the first part of this ebook were brand new when first published, and represented a value - in today's dollars - of nearly $195 if purchased from a dealer. But that's not all. In this revised and expanded edition, you also get complete instructions for making your own Brainwave and Pop-Eyed Popper decks. While you can buy them ready-made from a dealer, making them yourself allows you to create custom decks, such as with airline or other... | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
The World's Fastest Card TrickJoe KarsonThis is the epitome of Karson's comedic talent. Other than "Zombie" this trick is often the only other thing remembered about Joe Karson. When he published this effect, Karson was riding the crest of his wave of popularity. The World's Fastest Card Trick was often a show stopper when he performed it at various magic conventions and shows. Karson explains in this ebook the entire work on this trick. He gives the reader the presentation, the method, the patter, and most importantly, the timing. This trick literally got screams of laughter. [For a discussion of this effect by Ken de Courcy see Ken de Courcy Discusses "The World's Fastest Card Trick". 1st edition 1948; 11 pages.... | ★★★★★ $3 to wish list | |
Stuthard's Svengali SubtletiesJoe StuthardAn excellent work on the Svengali Deck, including drawings and photos.
1st edition 1948, 15 pages; PDF 13 pages. | ★★★★★ $8 to wish list | |
Magic from Joel and JimJoel HowlettInternational award-winning Australian magician Joel Howlett was a very close friend to the late Jim McKeague. Jim was not only a magician but also a magic historian and author of The Best 200 Tricks With A Svengali Deck. Joel has taken the time to describe three of the routines ('Jack And His Dog', 'Ten Card Poker' and 'The Three Card Trick') that he and Jim worked on together. Joel has also attempted to include some of the advice and tips Jim lovingly shared with him. The result was this PDF book. PLEASE NOTE - The ebook is aimed at the intermediate magician as some of the more basic card moves are not described in detail. 1st edition... | $8 to wish list | |
Hofzinser's Card ConjuringJohann Nepomuk Hofzinser & Ottokar Fischer & Sam SharpeHofzinser was born at the beginning of the 19th century and lived in Vienna during a time called the 'Biedermeier'. This was a time where people enjoyed art and entertainment in drawing-room presentations and at little receptions in the houses and villas of the rich and famous. Hofzinser thus never performed on a stage but perfected the branch of magic today known as 'Close-up'. One could argue that Hofzinser is the grandfather of close-up magic in particular close-up card magic. And this book is all about card magic. We have to thank Ottokar Fischer for collecting Hofzinser's material about... | ★★★★★ $6 to wish list | |
Timely DepartureJohn BannonThree spectators choose a card each. The cards vanish from the deck to later reappear face-up in a face-down spread. As long as you can count and do a double undercut you can perform this effect. Since there is counting and displaying of cards involved this effect requires a captive and moderately intelligent audience to play well. runtime 9min 40s | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
The Best of BenzaisJohn BenzaisA classic publication with wonderful coin magic, some card tricks and cut and restored rope. Slydini adopted some routines from Benzais.
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TranscorneredJohn Blunt & Lewis GansonThe reputation-making card routine with which John Blunt won the Premier Award of the London Society of Magicians for the best magical effect. Reviewing the effect, Claude Chandler wrote: "An original version of the Torn & Restored Card plus transposition etc. It is so original as to almost entirely conceal this fact. It gives us a series of new, interesting and baffling surprises, beautifully-routined. The cleverly worked-out methods make for clean presentation. Not the least of its merits and one that is valuable for close-up performance, is the fact that all evidence is disposed of and the... | $8 to wish list |