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Tops 1966 Trick AnnualNeil Foster
- Contents
- Don't Shoot Until You See the Whites of Their Eggs! - George McAthy
- An Experiment in Magic - Hiohn C. Sherwood
- 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
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Tops 1965 Trick AnnualNeil Foster
- Index
- Be An Entertainer - Mercer Helms
- Tangle Trickery - Sid Lorraine
- Stickshift - Harry George & Tom Reitze
- Faro Slough Offs - Jimmy Nuzzo
- Lighting a Cigarette by Magic - Eddie Joseph
- 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...
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Tops 1964 Trick AnnualNeil Foster
- 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
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Super-Sensitive FingertipsHoward P. AlbrightThis 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. | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listPDF |
Psychic MagicOrmond McGillThis 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:
In 1937, Ormond McGill wrote a group of articles for Tops under the title of "the psychic circle." the continued respect which this series has enjoyed through the years speaks volumes for both the vitality of Mr. McGill's writing and for magicians' interest in psychic magic. And yet, such interest is but natural, for the whole art of the conjurer is based on a love of performing the impossible and knowing the unknowable, and who more than magicians... | ★★★★★ $25 to wish listPDF |
Tops 1962 Trick AnnualNeil Foster36 pages
- Dr. Harlan Tarbell 18590-1960 - memorial/dedication
- Contents
- Phonovision - Tom Palmer
- The Magic Mirror - Sid Lorraine
- Repeat Vanishing Silk Routine - Percy Abbott
- Abbott's Short and Sweet
- Bird Cage to Silk - Bob Lewis
- Flash Appearance Of Two Bouquets
- Feather Bouquets - Various Methods Of Production
- Rice's Sympathetic Silks E-Z Knot Release - Harold R. Rice
- Walking Thru a Steel Plate Illusion
- Louine's Egg Bag Routine - Harry Louine
- Rajah Turban Mystery
- Club Performer's Spook Act
- Eddie Joseph's Original Conception For The Hindu Cups
- Travel...
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Tops 1963 Trick AnnualNeil Foster
- dedication page
- Contents
- Lift Off! - Ren Fetzer
- Divination and Coincidence With ESP Cards - Stewart Judah
- Kid Show Trick - George McAthy
- Original Homing Card Routine - Edward Marlo
- 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
- Silk, Cage & Coil Canister - Tommy Windsor
- 2 cartoons - O. Blake
- The Sympathetic Kings and Queens Reworked - John Braun
- cartoon - O. Blake
- The Tieless Tie - Eddie Joseph
- Tribute to Okito - Dennis R. Loomis
- "Pogo Ball" Explained and Explored - Norman...
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Magic that Points to the Upward LifeRev. Jim DracupHere 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... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Magic that Gives an Upward LiftRev. Jim DracupMagic 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.
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Magic with an Upward LookRev. Jim DracupJim 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... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
The New PremonitionEddie JosephFrom the introduction:
No matter how deep you delve into Magical history, you will not encounter another card effect similar to my "PREMONITION". When first introduced to fellow magicians, "PREMONITION" was greeted enthusiastically. Many knowledgeable members in the profession proclaimed its merits unstintedly. Others soon learnt of its singular entertainment potentiality and included it as a feature number in their acts. My files are full of laudable comments gathered from various sources. Two of these in particular I wish to record here. The first from that veritable human encylopedia of... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
The SmagoradGary Inglese & Dennis Laub 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
1st edition 1983; PDF 48 pages | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Memory of the MindEddie JosephKey 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. | $4 to wish listPDF |
Magic Card SystemPercy AbbottThis 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
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Magic a la CarteRavelle and Andree
- 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
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Amazing Card MiraclesM. S. Mahendra
- 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
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Live MagicW. O. TurnerLivestock 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
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Illusion Show Know-HowKen Griffin & Roberta 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... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Kid Show ShowmanshipBruce PosgateThis 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:
Entertaining children is a profitable business. Depressions may come and go; movies, television and other diversions can come and go ... but children are in constant supply. One generation after another as your potential audience.
Only an experienced performer could write a book of this kind. No... | $8 to wish listPDF |
Hit the DeckF. V. Schoneck
- 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. | $4 to wish listPDF |
Abbott Compendium 2016Greg BordnerThis 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. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF |
New Tops all Volumes 1-34 (1961-1994)Gordon MillerThe New Tops magazine was the successor to Tops Magazine. Abbott's printed and bound both Tops and New Tops itself at its own location, achieving an international circulation via mail delivery. | ★★★★★ $74.95 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
New Tops Volume 34 (1994)Gordon MillerGreg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor
729 pages
- The New Tops - Volume 34, Number 1 - January 1994 - 56 pages
- Cover - "Obie" O'Brien
- Contents
- Geoffrey Hansen's Magic Quiz
- Counter Intelligence - reviews
- Out Of This Galaxy - Tom Daugherty
- Misdirection Seque - Tom Daugherty
- Utterly Blown Away - Tom Daugherty
- But Four Wrongs Do! - Tom Daugherty
- The Sefalaljia Twins - Tom Daugherty
- Camera Magic - The Magician's Guide To Exceptional Publicity Photos - Anne White
- Mark Allen's 1994 Catalog
- Abracadabra - weekly
- The Quest For The Ultimate Secret - Bob...
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New Tops Volume 33 (1993)Gordon MillerGreg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor
677 pages
- The New Tops - Volume 33, Number 1 - January 1993 - 52 pages
- Cover - Hal Diamond
- Contents
- Cover Story - re: Hal Diamond
- Men of Magic - Robert Olson
- Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
- Goldi-Bear and the 36 Locks
- Riddle Rebus - Ed Harris
- Clowning with Dune Buggy [Col. Jim Russell]
- Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
- cartoon - Chalk Talk - Ed Harris
- Vent Views - Bill Boley
- Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
- Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
- Comic Trickartoon...
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