Publisher: D. Robbins & Co.: page 4

This ebook includes both the text and the photos of the original two volume hardcover set. Each of the almost 1000 photos is available twice. The first time the photos appear dispersed through the text close to where each photo is first mentioned. And the second time all photos are together in one place, the same way this material was originally published - text and photos separate. Having the photos included with the text avoids the constant reference to another volume. But having them also together by themselves allows for a stop-motion-like viewing of the action.

It is easy to sing the...

This work by LePaul has become a classic a long time ago. It is a must read for anybody who is seriously interested in card magic. LePaul was one of the 20th century's most admired card technicians. Here he teaches you 31 moves and 21 routines, beautifully explained in word and more than 300 photos showing the master at work.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is a combination of Corinda's Step 6 of his 13-Steps to Mentalism on Billets, and Ralph Read's One Man Mind Reading Secrets.

Part One Technique

• Introduction
• A Few Simple Rules For Working with Billets
• The Centre Tear - Corinda Variation
• The Centre Tear - Punx - Meir Variation
• Centre Tear - One Hand Variation
• Centre Tear - Corinda's Backward Variation
• Centre Tear - Preparation of the Billet
• Centre Tear - Reading the Billet
• Billet Switch - Bare Hand Method
• - Billet Switch (Annemann)
• - The Billet Switch Bare Hand Method (Corinda)
• Billet Switch by Lapping
• Billet Switch - Magnetic Clip...

This book was edited by Jean Hugard and illustrated by Stanley Jaks.

Martin Gardner had the following to say:

"Bill Simon has achieved an astonishing mastery of the medium. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves, and bold effects which break fresh paths in the card jungle. In this book he has given generously the fruits of his thinking and experience. The result is a book almost certain to become one of the basic texts of modem card conjuring."

This ebook covers many entertaining plots, novel sleights, shuffles and fancy cuts as well as useful information on practice, structuring, presentation, audience...

From the forward:

A wonderful ebook explaining all the best slate tricks and effects, by Peter Warlock, who has used slate tricks in his programs for many years. Covers the manipulation of unprepared slates, the use of the flap, various mechanical slates and aids, little know methods of fake mediums, chemical writing and many other methods that are as effective as they are unique.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This volume is the most complete and authoritative book that has been compiled on the subject to date. It has been several years in research and preparation. The co-authors are thoroughly versed in the art of magic and the science of chemistry. By combining the two old professions they have produced this new volume, Modern Chemical Magic.

For amusement in your own home or entertaining a group of friends, this new overture to magic has no peer; it is startling, mystifying and most effective. It gives a new approach to the professional or amateur magician to add variety to his programs. It...

Michael MacDougall explains new sleights, new methods of culling and stacking, new bottom steal, and more. Of interest to all card men, magicians and demonstrators. The second part of the book is S.W. Erdnase's seminal work on the art of sleight of hand with playing cards, The Expert at the Card Table.

Paul Fleming wrote:

A lovely digital reproduction of a book from England describing a range of card moves. It is profusely illustrated and very clearly describes all basic card moves and many specialties. Twenty chapters deal with subjects such as: The Pass, Location, Palming and Forcing, False Cuts, False Shuffles, False Counts, The Double Lift, Top and Bottom Change, Glide and Slip, Glimpse and Peek, Reversing Cards, Flourishes, Fanning, Front and Back Palm, etc. Learn the right way to do these sleights.

Other chapters deal with Presentation, Card Climaxes, Patter, Color Changes, Mental and Gambling Effects....

More than 25 tricks, tips, and ideas for performing with live as well as life-like rubber doves. Tricks for TV, nightclubs, schools and theaters. If you are a dove worker, you can't afford not to own this wonderful, exciting ebook.

• "About The Doves"
• The Classic Glove To Dove
• Technicolor Doves
• Passe-Passe Doves
• Hypnotizing A Dove
• Challenge Vanish
• Air Mail Dove
• The Dove In The Balloon
• Cone And Dove
• The Supreme Gimmick
• Bags Of Doves
• Cane To Dove
• Mexican Doves
• Jap Doves
• Blackstone's Vanish
• Dove From Newspaper
• Devil's Dove
• The Doves From The Hat
• Silken Dove
• Crystal Dove Bag ...

This was the first book on performing magic on a cruise ship. Many magicians realize that one of the more enjoyable ways to earn a living in this profession is to work the cruise ships. The eating is great and you can see the world. You may die from over-eating but what a way to go! If you think you can eat the gourmet food on the cruise ships and still fit into your tuxedo, then this book is for you.

The problem for most magicians who desire to work on the cruise ships is lack of information on how to go about it. This ebook details how to get booked, the names and addresses of the agents...

From the introduction

Magic dice. They stack up, vanish, appear, grow larger, shrink smaller, and act in general like they were...

Tom Osborne writes:

All the basic ball moves are described in detail using clear illustrations. A section of routines is described that will get you started on your way to devising your own methods and plots....

This is mostly an ebook on card magic but it also has a few effects with coins, dollar bills and cigarettes. By far the best routine in the ebook is the "Ten Card Poker Deal". It is a hugely entertaining, dynamic routine in which ten cards culled from the deck are dealt into two poker hands in a multitude of ways, but somehow, the magician's hand always ends up winning. The effect is virtually self-working and Harry's routining turns it into a real reputation maker.

From the Foreword:

Contains over 100 ideas, tricks, routines and novelties with the Cups and Balls. Contains over 40 illustrations, engravings and photos. Includes the original Mohammed Bey routines and three authentic Easy Indian Cup routines. For beginners and experts alike.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Publisher's Note
• Introduction

  About 'The Cups'

• The Basic Routine

  My Cup Runneth Over

• Pot Holes
• The Society Cups And Balls
• The Traveling Skulls
• Emergency Cups
• Close-Up Cups
• Impromptu Close-Up Cups
• Avant-Garde Cups
• Thimblerigging
• Mechanical Cups
• The Foo Cup
• The Walking Cups
• ...And Talking...

This is actually a compilation of two books:

• Doing Magic For Youngsters by Bert Easley
• The Art of Conjuring TO Children by Eric P. Wilson

Contents:

PART I: DOING MAGIC FOR YOUNGSTERS ...

Complete instructions for 16 different figures.

Joe La Monica, magician, hypnotist and a leader in the balloon-sculpturing field has added many new ideas to this fascinating hobby. He has proven that it can be fun and profitable to create balloon figures. The color and the action of sculpting with balloons entertain children and adults alike. With the advent of shopping malls, balloon sculpturing has been found to be a traffic-builder and an exciting addition to a shopper's routine. Children, the primary market at the malls, carry the balloons around. Before retirement Mr. La Monica could...

84 card tricks with an explanation of the general principles of sleight of hand using ordinary cards.

1. The All-Important "Pass"
2. Deceptive Shuffles
3. Forcing A Card
4. The "Long Card"
5. The Divining Card
6. The Bootlegged Card
7. To Place A Card
8. To Slip A Card
9. To Carry Away A Card
10. The Congress Of Court Cards
11. To Discover The Card Which Is Drawn, By The Throw Of A Dice
12. The Guessed Card
13. The Recruit Trick
14. To Tell The Card That May Be Noted
15. To Separate The Two Colors Of A Pack Of Cards By One Cut
16. The "Spelling Bee" Trick
17. The "Alternate Card" Trick
18. To Name Any Number Of Cards In Succession Without...

Beautiful close up magic by Jon Racherbaumer, John Cornelius, Roger Klause, Ed Marlo, Jim Hunter, Steve Draun, Eddie Adams, Lee Fried, Chuck Smith, Phil Goldstein, Tom Mullica, and Simon Aronson. Here is magic that is unique and that you will not see in other books. The ebook is divided into chapters on Coins, Cards, Linking Pins, Mental Magic, and Diversions. You will find such unusual items as Marlo's complete presentation of the Color Vision box, Racherbaumer's close up Miser's Dream, Marlo work on Linking Pins, Cornelius' Coins thru Table, Mullica's version of Jarrow's Cig thru Hanky, and more. The section on card magic (mostly Marlo...

Contains sixty-one tricks with cards, coins, ropes, thimbles, cigarettes, cigarette lighters, table knife, silks, Mental Magic, Stage Magic etc. Most of the tricks are very easy to do and little practice is required. Several tricks are completely self-working and mechanical in nature.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Includes four sections, one on mental magic, card magic, silk magic and rope and lace magic respectively. All effects are easy to perform and do not require any exotic requisites.

• MENTAL MAGIC
  7. Wrong Number
  9. A Prediction to End Predictions
  12. The Payoff Prediction
  14. . . . Things to Come
  17. The "Direct" Divination
  17. The Phantom President
  19. Picture Projection
  21. Transposed Minds
  23. Comedy Color-Changing Slate
  25. Two Routines
• CARD MAGIC
  27. Thought on the Line
  29. "Picture This"
  30. Name Your Favorite
  31. Remote Re verso
  32. Synchronism
  35. Dual Impulsion
  37. Duo Prediction
  38. The Triple Enigma
  39. Nu-Locato
  40. Simplex...

This booklet doesn't deserve the name 'booklet', because it is packed with many wonderful effects using small objects, from cards and coins, to ropes and silks and everything in between. There is also a nice section on vesting and sleeving. Jean Hugard is one of the outstanding teachers and authors in magic. My friend Chuck has been vanishing an orange for the last forty years in much the same manner that this booklet reveals how to vanish a dinner plate. He also remembers reading of Blackstone Sr. performing some of these stunts. Whenever the author is Jean Hugard - read it!

Paul Fleming wrote: