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3. dedication page
4. Contents
1. Lift Off! - Ren Fetzer
2. Divination and Coincidence With ESP Cards - Stewart Judah
3. Kid Show Trick - George McAthy
4. Original Homing Card Routine - Edward Marlo
6. Five Plus One For The Magical Connoisseur - 'Mr. Mack'
   • Watch the Birdie
   • The Manchurian Termite
   • The Stool Pigeon
   • 16" Sunflower Production
   • Performing Fleas
   • Hole in Fore
8. Silk, Cage & Coil Canister - Tommy Windsor
9. 2 cartoons - O. Blake
10. The Sympathetic Kings and Queens Reworked - John Braun
11. cartoon - O. Blake
12. The Tieless Tie - Eddie Joseph
13. Tribute to Okito - Dennis R. Loomis
14. "Pogo Ball" Explained and Explored - Norman...

This ebook contains excellent variety for magicians and mentalists of all performing capabilities and experience levels. The effects and routines include apparatus tricks, mental stunts, spirit writing, predictions, magazine and book tests, thumb ties, and tricks with cards, silks, coins, cigarettes, billiard balls, sponge ball and a terrific rope routine.

Paul Fleming wrote:

J. G. Thompson, Jr's fabulous master-key to card control.

From the introduction by B. W. McCarron, "T-Formation (TF) is a monograph of card sleights that are not at all difficult for the average performer; yet they allow a nice range of performance possibilities. Forces, controls, peeks and even the versatile double lift are all given the 'Thompson treatment.' "

T-Formation teaches the average magician or mentalist an assortment of maneuvers with cards that are easy to execute but full of deceptiveness. In the author's words, T-Formation "enables the performer, with a minimum of effort, to perform...

Here are more beautifully routined professional effects to add to your act, from the minds of Berland and Whitney. The experts agree that the effects in this book are applause-getters. We concur, as well. Not just one or two, but seven separate routines that you'll want to put to use right away. The crystal-clear illustrations by Herb Borin and Mickey O'Malley make it easy to follow every move.

Just look at what's included:

Super Card Impalement - A card stab effect using two knives that reveal the selected cards from a pair of spectators.

Triple Magical Surprise - Three lit cigarettes...

Thimbles Two - A thimble held in the hand changes places with one wrapped in a handkerchief and held by a spectator.

Up! Cards! - A rising cards effect that can be performed close-up.

The Ghost Ring - A handkerchief is twirled into a rope-like condition. An examined ring passes onto the center of the silk, while both ends are held by a spectator.

Impossibility - A spectator selects a card and writes the name of...

While it's hard to be partial, as we like all the material, the Penetration effect is especially commercial. In essence, it is a no-frills version of the Penetration Frame dealer trick that uses only a small envelope. It can be adapted to other properties besides playing cards, too.

Partial contents:

• Routine: A Tricky Thimble
• French's Clip Pass
• Don't Drop It
• Presto Chango
• Slippery Sphere
• The Flip Pass
• A Surprise Vanish and Color Change
• Another Card Flourish
• French's Card Stabbing Routine
• Paper and Pasteboards
• French's Transpo Balls
• A Novel Card Fan...

A self-working principle which determined a person's thoughts . . . Listen to this bewildering effect. A pack of cards is shuffled and a spectator merely thinks of a card. The pack is then dealt once, twice and finally a third time into two piles. Before completing the last dealing the spectator may, if he so wishes, shuffle both halves. Despite all this, when the spectator deals through the pack he finds there are only 51 cards; the thought-of card has vanished! The performer produces the card from his pocket before the spectator names his chosen card. An astounding climax which completely...

This is a cheeky trick to perform when there is a request for "one more". The magician starts by telling a story. The spectator gets involved in the action and turns "matchmaker". This trick is free of any sleights. The spectator invariably cuts to the four queens in an impossible way.

The performer removes the four Kings openly and lays them face down next to each other. The deck is shuffled and a card is dealt face down in front of each King. The performer continues to deal cards into four piles. When the spectator stops him, the performer places the face up King on the pile stopped at...

All the court cards are found in a borrowed deck repeatedly and genuinely shuffled by the spectators. The performer first produces the Kings, then the Jacks, and lastly the Queens.

The deck is shuffled by a member of the audience. The cards are inserted in a trouser pocket. One at a time the Kings are produced. The spectator shuffles again the pack of cards. The performer puts it behind his back and produces the four Jacks. Again, the cards are genuinely shuffled by the spectator. After making the spectator check that his pocket is empty, the performer inserts the cards into it. Despite all...

Showing the various ways of performing tricks by sleight-of-hand on dice, cards, etc., together with many surprising deceptions.

• To change a Box of Bird Seed into a living Bird
• To thrust a Bodkin into your Forehead without any hurt
• Breslaw's grand Deception of the little learned Swan
• The mode of shewing the Hen and Egg Bag, and out of an empty Bag to bring upwards of an Hundred Eggs, and afterwards a live Hen
• How to seem to change a Card into a King or Queen
• Card burnt, and afterwards found in a Watch
• A curious trick played with a Fowl
• How to eat Fire, and blow it up in your Mouth...

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• APS Rising Cards
• Slow Motion Aces
• Red And Blue All The Way
• Incredible Sandwich
• Acrobatic Card
• Strange Deck And Triumphant Aces
• Turn Over Herrman Pass
• Meet Sreenivas

This ebook includes more than 130 photos to illustrate the moves...

Excerpt from the Introduction:

• Introduction
• Have Faith In Me
• Magical Strike
• Thru The Barriers
• Magical Gambling
• Flight-O-Disc
• Vibrations
• ESP Stacking
• On Time
• Floating Match Box
• What’s In a Name
• In the Cards
• Introducing...

Determine the card selected and the sum cast with two dice in a novel and very deceptive way.

You show a deck of cards, shuffle it and while you look away the spectator throws the two dice, adds the points shown, removes that many cards and remembers the lowest card in the removed packet. The dice are covered so that the performer can't see them. Now comes the unusual thing. The removed packet is inserted by the spectator somewhere in the middle of the pack. Then the spectator cuts and with a rosetta shuffle the cards are shuffled. This is immediately followed by any number of riffle and...

An exceedingly clever location of two cards using the Free Cut Principle by the inventor of this beautiful principle.

Effect: The performer hands a deck of cards to one of two spectators with the request that he shuffle it, and then divide it equally with a second spectator. While this is being done, the performer turns his back.

Now each spectator is instructed to select a card from his respective half. Next they each exchange a number of cards so that the performer doesn't know how many cards each man holds, or which cards were selected (and he doesn't). Now the performer tells them...

Effect:

The magician begins by placing a face up card (for example the King of Diamonds) onto the table for all to see and claims that it is a prediction. Next the magician introduces a deck of cards, which can be shuffled, and asks the spectator to deal out, one by one, the cards face up onto the table with the deck held face down. The magician then instructs that at any point in the dealing process, the spectator is to stop and deal a card face down onto the pile. Once the rest of the...

This manuscript features six routines from Paul Voodini, all utilizing a marked deck. As well as fully explaining the routines, Paul also discusses many subtleties that allow the performer to use a marked deck with confidence and the 'tricks of the trade' that mean the spectators never suspect for a moment that there is anything 'funny' about the cards.

The routines included are:

The Keeper of Secrets. The performer is able to correctly divine a chosen card despite the spectator desperately trying to keep its identity a secret.

Thought Transfer. Performer and spectator work together...

"Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyant had a bad cold, nonetheless was known to be the wisest woman in Europe with a wicked pack of cards." - T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"

The deck I'm using is "Morgan's Tarot," an unusual 86-card deck that bears little relationship with a normal Tarot deck. I found its simple black and white drawings and irreverent card titles to be apropos...

Unsettle anyone who owns a pack of cards!

You bought a box of vintage things in an estate sale and inside the box you found a creepy old cassette tape. You managed to find a tape player and what you heard was somewhat unsettling causing you to go quickly look at the pack of playing cards you have sitting on your coffee table. It's apparently a recording of some kind of preacher responding to a friend who wrote him a letter, concerned that his daughter was getting into playing cards. As you know, playing cards are sinful, evil, and the Devil's work.

They're not called the Devil's Pasteboards...

Content:

• The Magic Pendulum
• Introduction And Routine
• The Signature Effect
• ESP Cards
• One Of Five
• The Pendulum Picks A Playing Card
• The Pendulum And Random Numbers
• The Pendulum And The Ouija Board
• Untouched By Human Hands
• The Pendulum Weight
• A Bruce Bernstein Pendulum Routine
• Variation On The Previous Routine
• The Pendulum And A Deck
• The Pendulum And A Magic Shop...

This U. F. Grant publication was revised, enlarged and illustrated by Gene Gloye. This is the kind of material - assorted comedy bits and pieces, that you can add to any group of tricks to build up your show, add laughs, fill in for time.

Chapters cover:

• Cards
• Comedy Props
• Using Volunteer Assistants
• Mental Magic Gags
• Gag Bits of Business
• Stunts with an Assistant or Plant
• Patter
• More Stunts
• For the Master of Ceremonies
• For Magicians
• Politicking With Magic.

What an excellent book. The quality of the material is outstanding. What makes this book particularly rare is a chapter on juggling and how to fake great juggle skills. I have yet to see another book on magic with such an extensive chapter on juggling. You will also find the obligatory chapter on shadowgraphy, a good write up of black art, and large sections on cards, coins, and tricks with many other props. You will find billiard ball manipulation as well as stage tricks with large apparatus.

1st edition, 1902, Frederick J. Drake & Co, Chicago; 440 pages; PDF 325 pages.

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