Abbott Magic

Gordon Miller compiled a great collection of magical illusions from various Abbott publications - most with complete and detailed workshop plans.

• Abbott's Guillotine
• Cyclops Lens
• Caliph's Cutter
• Abbott's Barrel Escape
• Don Rose Miniature Doll House
• Abbott's Packing Box Escape
• Where's That Gal?
• Levitation Deluxe
• Abbott's Modern Sword Cabinet
• Girl In Fish Bowl
• Spike Illusion
• Canvas Case Illusion
• Phantasmo
• Devil Illusion
• Twin Boxes
• Dancing Slippers
• Abbott's Amazing Shrunken Living Head Illusion
• Abbott's Mummy Cloth Of The Nile
• Abbott's Mignon Illusion
• Abbott's Enchanted Tent ...

• Abbott's Chinese Chopper
• The Chinese Straight Jacket
• Cutting A Woman In Half
• Walking Through A Ribbon
• Spikes Through The Wrist
• The Girl With The Pincushion Head
• The Doni Rose Miniature Doll House
• Abbott's Rod Through Girl
• The Hindu Basket Trick
• Nite-Club Girl Vanish
• The Sword Box
• The Cane Cabinet
• Sword Cabinet Illusion
• The Golem Illusion
• Modernistic Amputation

1966 edition; PDF 31 pages

• Contents
• Thoughtography - Sid Lorraine
• Danger - Men at Work - Bert Douglas
• Hangman's-Noose Escape - North Bigbee
• Jiggery-Pokery Joe - Eddie Joseph
• Diapiresis - Jimmy Nuzzo
• The Passing of the New Hoodoo - Stewart James
• Borrowed Thoughts - Joseph K. Schmidt
• Magical Hints - Mercer Helms, Jr.
  • "Acrysol" - cleaner-degreaser
  • "Classic Car Wax" for slick ace effects
• The Cigar Bottom Deal - Edward Marlo
  • Full Grip Deal
  • The Pseudo Method
  • Push Pull Bottom Deal
• Bell's Box - Peter Warlock
• Zombanner - Carlos H. Colombi ...

• Contents
• Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eggs! - George McAthy
• An Experiment in Magic - Hiohn C. Sherwood
  • Addendum
• Ideas & Patter For Some New & Old Ones - John C. Sherwood
  • The Commercial
  • The Torture Cabinet of Goldtoe
  • Addendum
  • The Floating Thief
• The Oriental Mystery Cage - Jack La Wain
• Karrell's Bloomers - Karrell Fox
• Variation on "The Wonderful Vanish" - T. E. Westcott
• A Snakey-Routine - Joseph M. White
• Giant Color Change With Silk - Robert E. Olson
• More "Batty" Ideas - Dale Salwak
  • Hippity...

• Index
• Be An Entertainer - Mercer Helms
• Tangle Trickery - Sid Lorraine
• Stickshift - Harry George & Tom Reitze
• Faro Slough Offs - Jimmy Nuzzo
  • A Variation
• Lighting a Cigarette by Magic - Eddie Joseph
  • Self-Lighting Cigarette
• Mentalist Question Cards - Gerald Kosky
• The Bill and Nail - H. P. Albright
• Flame-Butterfly Illusion - North Bigbee and Paul J. Siegel
• Korny Bill Collection - Karrell Fox
• The Z-A-N-E-Y Lights - Walter Zaney Blaney
• Abbott's Vanishing Cage & Girl Illusion
• Hippity-Hop Skeletons - Dale Salwak
• Chink Can Comedy...

• A Bog O' Balls - Sid Lorraine
• G. A. G. - Howard Fingert
• Lunar Probe - Colin Smith
• Much Ado About Nothing - A Whole Act - Everett Lyda
• The Golden Spike Cabinet Illusion - Malcolm Campbell
• A Fish Story - Herb Runge
• Instant Vanish Illusion - North Bigbee
• Cartoon - Blake
• Flip Tear Dove Vanish - Don Kellar
• The Fantastic Ribbons - Clettus V. Musson
• Beauty and the Least - Karrell Fox
• Ink to Flowers - A. D. Banarjee
• Tape Recorder Prediction - Gerald Kosky
• China Lingo - Fedko
• Rope Acto - Fedko
• Hanko - Fedko
• Colombi's Card Prediction - Carlos H. Colombi ...

This ebook is also part of the collection Strange Secrets 1.

• Introduction: Points On Presentation And Patter
• Feeling The Spots
• Reading The Cards
• The Lip-Reading Test
• Important Features
• Hints About Blindfolding
• The Master's Touch
• Reading Dates On Coins, Numbers On Bills, Etc.
• Miracle Color Vision
• Reading "Ordinary Printed Matter" With The Fingertips
• Here's Your Card
• Snappy Number
• Psychometry
• In Conclusion
• The Si Stebbins Pre-Arranged Pack

1st edition 1948, 42 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 19 pages.

This ebook is an edited and slightly abridged version of material which originally appeared as "Psychic Magic" in six volumes. From the preface by Percy Abbott:

36 pages

1. Dr. Harlan Tarbell 18590-1960 - memorial/dedication
2. Contents
3. Phonovision - Tom Palmer
6. The Magic Mirror - Sid Lorraine
8. Repeat Vanishing Silk Routine - Percy Abbott
9. Abbott's Short and Sweet
10. Bird Cage to Silk - Bob Lewis
11. Flash Appearance Of Two Bouquets
11. Feather Bouquets - Various Methods Of Production
12. Rice's Sympathetic Silks E-Z Knot Release - Harold R. Rice
14. Walking Thru a Steel Plate Illusion
15. Louine's Egg Bag Routine - Harry Louine
16. Rajah Turban Mystery
17. Club Performer's Spook Act
18. Eddie Joseph's Original Conception For The Hindu Cups
20. Travel...

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...

Here is the third book in Rev. Jim Dracups gospel magic trilogy! The first two books, Magic With An Upward Look and Magic That Gives An Upward Lift have proven to be best-sellers. All the books in this three-book series are loaded with practical and audience-tested material. Each book contains so much material that you are sure to find an application for tricks you already own. (You will also find applications so perfect that you will convince yourself to buy the corresponding effect!) All of this stems from Jim Dracups extensive backgrounds in both gospel work and magic. Both have been his life work and these three books are the combined collection...

Magic That Gives an Upward Lift includes a section called "The Seed Basket". Here are many pages of outlines, ideas, quotations, illustrations and food for thought. This is material that can be incorporated into a patter line or story - or material that can be used just to inspire and get those brain cells working! Another special section of this ebook is called: "A Bit Of Humor". Over fifty pages of carefully selected gag lines, funny stories, daffynitions, puzzles, silly signs, one liners, etc. Special material for magicians and ministers and special material for an audience of children. ...

Jim Dracup is the author of a long out of print book, A Magician Goes To Church. That book has become one of the most requested and sought after works in the field of gospel magic. Since the publication of that first book, Jim has been gathering material and perfecting and polishing the routines that he uses on a day to day basis. That material has been published in the form of Magic With An Upward Look. This is the first ebook in a trilogy of gospel magic ebooks by Reverend Dracup.

Magic With An Upward Look contains only the best and the brightest material. There is, for instance, a chapter...

From the introduction:

The Smagorad is a legendary magick book whose very content was thought to be able to affect the course of the cosmic universe. Its secrets were believed so powerful that they could alter the natural elements.

• Dedicated To The Scribes
• Introduction
• The Dream
• The Psychic Detective
• Just In Case
• "The Shining!"
• Pop Psychology
• Divine Madness
• Nimbus
• Ekkballo!
• The "Subliminal" Force
• The Mysterious Visitor
• A "Key" Lesson...
• Cube3
• Pyrocentric Tear
• Cliptomaniac
• Post Mortem

Key codes, card systems, and mnemotechnic marvels.

• Introduction
• Mnemotechnic Marvels
• No. 1 - The Numbered Cards
• No. 2 - The Cloak-Room Attendant
• No. 3 - Seeing Through The Bag
• No. 4 - Objects In The Dark
• No. 5 - Locating The Page
• No. 6 - Double Dealing
• Identifying The Personality
• Key Codes
  • My Card System
  • How To Prepare For A Series Of Astounding Tricks Through "My System"
  • Formula To Find Out Where Any Particular Card Lies In The Pack
  • The Card Fiend
• Memory System

1st edition 1952, 23 pages.

This is one of the books that Abbott published for the troops during wartime in the 1940's. It uses Si Stebbins system, except the step size is 4 rather than 3, also known as "The Riverboat Stack" or "Mark Twain Stack" (see New Card Tricks with the Mark Twain Stack). Routines can be performed with most other stacks.

• Foreword
• The Magic Card System: The Rules That Make It Work
• Effect Number One: A Skeptical Spectator Interrupts
• Effect Number Two
  • It Might Happen To You
  • Effect Number Two As Performed By Two Persons
• Effect Number Three
• Effect Number Four
• Effect Number Five
  • The Effect Done With An Assistant
• Effect Number Six ...

• The Abominylon Snowman
• Milk Go
• Three Blind Mice
• Hopping Hen Fruit
• Thread It
• Silk Blow - Silk Go
• The Cow With The Crumpled Horn
• Self - Service
• Peni - Sponge
• "Crash Thru" Production Box
• The Choice Of Cash
• Fantastrick

PDF 24 pages

• Design For Wrist Watch Gimmic
• Preface
• The Arrangement
• Mechanics Of The Arrangement
• To Openly Arrange A Strange Deck
• The Peculiar Arrangement Of The Deck
• False Shuffles
• The “Perfect” False Shuffle
• Hugh Johnston False Shuffle
• False Cuts
• The Jordan False Cut
• The Lightning Card Counter
• Table Of Short Cuts
• Patter For Counting Cards
• The Human Scales
• The Strange Powers Of The Joker
• Patter Routine Number Two
• Another Presentation
• The Phantom Card Game
• Another Patter Routine For The Phantom Card Game
• Read My Mind
• Card Locations
• Positive Thought Control
• Clairvoyant Power ...

Livestock workers - this is the ebook you have been waiting for. Practical magic with livestock - all necessary apparatus is easy to make.

• Foreword
• The Rabbit And Hat
• Another Rabbit And Hat Method
• Still Another Rabbit And Hat Effect
• The Rabbit Disappears
• Rabbit To Box Of Candy
• The Coming Of A Cavy
• The Vanish Of A Dove
• Produckshun
• Magician’s Table
• The Guinea Pig Goes To Heaven

PDF 19 pages.

The Ken Griffin illusion show toured the world for well over a quarter of a century. The priceless ideas and methods used by the Griffins in their climb to prominence and profit are fully explained.

Almost every magician has dreamed, at one time or another, of headlining his own mystery revue. He visualizes the glamorous side of the picture ... the stage flooded with colored and glittering lights, the dazzling scenery, the gorgeous assistants, breathtaking illusions, the music from the orchestra surging to a crescendo, the thunderous cymbal crash as the magician strides on stage for his...

This ebook provides an entirely different approach to entertaining children. Original material and suggestions - "bread and butter" information by an experienced performer. This volume explains the psychology and know-how of working children's shows.

The following is an excerpt from the book:

Only an experienced performer could write a book of this kind. No...

• Winning At Gin Rummy
• Hole Card Wild
• Cards Of Unrest
• Double Denouement
• Mental Reverse
• The Incredible Prediction
• Four-Card Finale
• Thoughts Across Space
• Miracle From Smoke
• Miracle From Smoke (No. 2)
• Impromptu Daub Location
• Cards Do Not Lie

PDF 14 pages.

This is the most complete history of Abbott's Magic, and in particular it covers the long history of the Abbott's Get Together.

• Welcome to the 2016 Abbott Compendium
• Abbott's Historical Documentation
• Art of the Abbott Catalog
• Art of the Get Together
• Complete Get Together Performer List
• Timeline of Abbott's and the Get Together
• 2016 Magic Capital Events
• 79th Get Together August 3-8 2016

1st edition 2016, 521 pages.