Publisher: Harry Stanley Unique Magic Studio

An ebook of visual gags and other fun bits.

There are many types of comedy. Visual, verbal, straight, burlesque and pantomimic are but a few, and numerous off-shoots spring from them. Best of all, by far, is the visual gag. This has no language barriers and can be understood by young and old alike.

There was the classic visual gag of the famous musical clown, Grock. He would sit down at a grand piano, only to find the stool was too far away for him to reach the keys. To remedy this, he would rise from the stool, go to the other end of the piano, and laboriously start to push the heavy...

Previously titled Tricks with Jumbo Cards.

• Tricks With Jumbo Cards
  • Handling The Pack
  • Shuffling The Cards
  • Cutting The Pack
  • Forcing A Card
  • The Pre-Arranged Pack
• Tricks With An Unprepared Jumbo Pack
  • "Clipped" Card
  • Miracle Prediction
  • "Red Herring"
  • 20-Card Transposition
  • The Whispering Queen
  • The Trio

1st edition 1959, PDF 16 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Booklet stapled in excellent condition. For details on the content see the digital edition.

From author's note:

Please note that these stunts are dangerous and involve toxic and otherwise harmful substances. We are offering this ebook for historical and informational purposes. Anybody who experiments with...

Hardcover book in fair condition, no dust-jacket. Harry Stanley edition. Top edges of front and back cover have a larger nick. Has name and address of prior owner handwritten on front fly-leaf. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some minor damage on the lower edge and some minor soiling. Dust-jacket is protected by a clear cover that has been folded over it. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. The dust-jacket has some damage along its edges. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some damage but is protected by a clear cover that has been folded over it. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Connoisseurs' Coins Through ... a definitive routine, one of the finest ever for the coins through table. The work of Vernon, Slydini and a host of others combined to give the easiest handling with the maximum effect. In this routine several coins pass repeatedly through the table. You begin with six coins. Three of the coins pass through the table top two times. Then you eliminate two coins and repeat the penetration through the table with four coins. Again, you eliminate two coins and repeat the trick with two coins. At the end you eliminate another coin and repeat the penetration a last...

The ultimate visible 20th Century Silk Routine.

At a magical convention the packed audience of magicians gasped audibly with surprise at the wonderful visible climax they had just seen. The magical effects which gain most applause from modern audiences are those in which things happen smartly and visibly. Marconick's Prisoner Silk certainly produces a startling visual effect in record time and is a trick which pulls applause from all types of audiences. Things happen quickly and they are seen to happen right before their eyes!

EFFECT:

From his pocket performer takes two separate silks...

Booklet stapled in good condition. Published by Harry Stanley. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

First edition softcover stapled. Some pages have a tiny tear on the bottom edge. Published by Harry Stanley. Exlibris of Weirdo and Margaret Yates. For details on contents see the digital edition.

Softcover stapled in good condition. Published 1955. Some discoloration of back cover. For details on contents see the digital edition.

You reveal a freely thought card.

EFFECT: Spectator freely selects several cards from his own shuffled deck and thinks of one. Those are returned and mixed in the pack. By means of "tuned thought-waves" the performer discovers the very card spectator is thinking of and, either names it dramatically, or causes it to obey his command in a distinctly "unique" manner. A real mental mystery.

Remember:

• No advance preparation
• The card is really only thought
• Free choice without any force
• Cards can be borrowed
• Very subtle method…you will love it.

PDF 5 pages

Phoa Yan Tiong performed this clever effect in his cabaret act and it never fails to produce a gasp of amazement.

Effect: A handkerchief becomes visibly restored after being cut in half and the halves held well apart to prove that no trickery is involved. Indeed there is no trickery in the cutting, for both halves are quite separate. The effect has proved a great hit also, in the act of Will Ayling who used a regular linen handkerchief for its performance.

Phoa used to demonstrate and explain a version of this trick in the lecture he gave to Magical Societies and at Conventions, but the method he...

The Handbook for Impromptu Magic

• Preface
• At The Dinner Table
  • Coin Through Saucer
  • Coin Vanish
  • Coin And Glass Of Water
  • Inflation
  • Coin Tester
  • Balancing Coins
  • Phoenix Matches
  • Smokeless Cigarettes
  • Multiplying Matches
  • Musical Cutlery
  • Telepathic Tapping
  • Psychic Steam
  • Burning Sugar
  • Production Of A Glass Of Wine
  • Bending A Spoon
  • Salt Transposition
  • Seven-Cornered Napkin
  • Surprise Penetration
  • Vanishing Shaker
• Impromptu Magic ... Anywhere!
  • Evaporating Scent
  • Disappearing Pen
  • Drink Cards
  • Horrific
  • Telekinesis
  • Vanishing Ring
  • Maxwell's Miracle
  • Coin Penetration
  • Optical Change ...

A silent film record of Dai Vernon's visit to Britain in 1958.

If you have only read about the Professor Dai Vernon but never seen him in real life, then here is your chance for a glimpse into what he was like. You will see him sightseeing and you will see him perform several of his feature routines such as the Symphony of the Rings, card production, color change, wand spin vanish and more.

• Portsmouth: H.M.S. Victory and Dicken's Birthplace
• Polo at Cowdrey Park
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Fellow Magicians
• Leipzig's Card Levitation
• Card Production
• The Symphony of the Rings
• Colour Change
• Wand spin Vanish
• Jumping Jack
• Charlie Miller's Diminishing Cards ...

Mental Magic, Close-Up, Ropes, Money, Handkerchief, Cards, Stage and TV Tricks, Novelty Magic, and Behind the Curtain (tips on presentation, business, etc.)

• Preface
• Chapter One: Mental Magic
  • In The Crystal
  • Ball-Point Prediction
  • Palm Writing
  • Torn Centre Application
  • Blindfold Vision
  • Third Sight
  • Chalk Mark Telepathy
  • Think Of An Object
  • Think Of A Man
  • Find The Pin
  • Chairback Transmission
  • Getting The Chalk
  • Colours
  • Afterthought
  • Super Date Sense
  • Stage Version
  • Impromptu Version
  • Predicting The Winner
• Chapter Two: Close-Up Conjuring
  • Flame Up
  • A Glass Vanish
  • My Glass Through...

This ebook covers a wide variety of stand up, close up, and stage magic from the brilliant mind of Peter Warlock. Mentalism, Cards, Silks, Rope, Ball and Cone, and more.

• Aces Low
• Touchdown
• Kolar
• Mind Out Of Time
• Twang
• Android
• Android Two
• Tinker Bell
• Zodiac
• Slalem
• Tour De Force
• Jinx
• Five Chairs
• Trivu
• Tempus
• Nick
• Endora
• 3 Times Lucky
• Oldie
• A Matter Of Note
• Prize Winner
• The Cone & Ball Routine
• Willow Pattern Mystery
• Silks & Beakers
• Sympathetic Selection
• Red & White Mystery
• Triple Restoration

128 pages; PDF 79 pages.

• Little Miss Muffett
• Spot The Silks
• Candy Cascade
• Over The Rainbow
• A Giant For Christmas
• Miraculous Penetration
• Five Interludes
• Fancy That!
• The Banger
• Smarties
• The Great Gold Robbery
• Two Novel Silk Vanishes
• Red And Green Rabbits
• Animal Speller
• Travelling Tube
• The Magic Word
• I'll Do It Again
• Mysto
• Paper Tearing
• The Ribbon Egg
• The Magic Poster
• Turkish Delight
• Fly-Over Silks
• A Letter For The Conjuror
• Matinee If Wet
• Dis-A-Bell
• Yogi Dresses Up
• Tie Tactic
• Growing Tassel
• Growing Rope
• The Presentation Of Magic For Minors

1st edition 1967, 87 pages; 1st digital edition...

Marconick's was a master of silk magic. Here you will find several of his feature routines. This book was edited by Lewis Ganson and Hugh Miller.

• Introduction
• Silk Flash
• Twentieth Century Rope And Silks
• Bewildering Silks
• Stretching A Silk
• Fountain Of Silks
• Silken Bombshell
• Glass Of Liquid Production
• Three Silks On A Ribbon
• Rainbow Silk And Balls
• Massal
• Silk On
• Dream Silks
• Flying Silks
• Six Silks In A Flash
• Blendo In Reverse
• Silk Chain
• Four Balls From A Silk

All of these routines require gaffed cards of one or another kind: double backer, double facer, blank faces, blank backs, etc.

• Upsendown Cards
• The Faulty Follower
• Twice Predicted
• Flapjack
• Squelch
• The Final Spell
• Dizzy Nudist Pack Routine
• Chameleon Pack
• Red And Blue Transposition
• Colour Change Pack
• Blankety Blank Routine
• The Balsamo Card Trick
• The Spotter Cards
• The Triangle
• New Card Monte
• Card In Envelope Transposition
• A Book Test
• Slip Cut Force
• The Double Lift

PDF 30 pages

A wonderful ebook on the magic of Roy Baker, inventor of the PATEO force.

• Preface
• Section 1: General Magic
  • Baker’s Beakers
  • Bisected Balloon
  • Air-Lite
  • Flap-Doodle Bag
  • Super Silks
  • Electro-Van
  • T and R Gag
• Section 2: Card Magic
  • The Last of the Last Cards
  • Name Your Card
  • Star Location
  • Fantastic Aces
  • Ah-Bee Card in Envelope
  • Crazy Speller
  • Forceful Revelation
  • Blindfold Discovery
  • Psycho Card
  • Drunk Card
• Section 3: Close up Magic
  • Bewildering Matches
  • Three Trees
  • Hat-Tissue!
  • Going Through the Rye
  • Ring Off
  • Shooting Star
  • Spoon on Nose
  • Coins Across
• Section 4: Mentalism