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Kornfidentially YoursKarrell Fox Sixty different items of funny business as only Karrell Fox can deliver them. Two complete routines with patter, using rabbits, seven funny magic props, seven Foxy Foolers, twelve Kornceptions with cards, 25 KornyKwickies for laffs, and nine Fox Favorites, including a Pitch Act. 56 pages, with many hilarious illustrations.
1st edition 1954, 47 pages; 1st digital edition 2015, PDF 52 pages. | ★★★★★ $6.95 to wish listPDF |
Brain ControlS. W. Reilly Being a mental expert brings you prestige, today more than ever. You will be able to memorize and deliver back fast, and with ease and poise, lists of objects, names, numbers, cities, states, lists of every kind. This kind of mental phenomena is marveled at by the world, but it's just a case of knowing the secret. This ebook teaches you quickly.
- Preface
- Visualization
- Memory
- Permanent Code Words
- List In Story Form
- Remembering New Words
- How To Forget
- Practice Makes Perfect
- Exercise
- Number Code
- Recalling Numbers
- Remembering Telephone Numbers
- Miscellaneous Numbers
- Remembering Birthdays
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175 Tips and GagsUlysses Frederick Grant & Eugene E. Gloye  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.
The final chapter is especially interesting in election years, when you want to add political material, or even build a... | $6.95 to wish listPDF |
50 Crazy Card StuntsUlysses Frederick Grant These are all laugh getters, great ideas for zany card effects you will use to pep up your more serious routines. Easy to do, impromptu, and very effective. Devised by U.F. Grant, an expert at this sort of thing.
1st digital edition 2015, PDF 7 pages. | ★★★★★ $4.95 to wish listPDF |
33 Rope Ties and Chain ReleasesBurling Hull The art of rope tying and methods of obtaining releases from ropes, chains and shackles. New cut and restored rope effects including a number of original ties and releases.
- Houdini Did Not Steal This Book!
- Introduction
- Special Instructions For Beginners Suggestion As To Arrangement And Application
- Handling Committee
- Rope Tying And Release Methods
- The Mysterious Knots
- The Kellar Tie
- The Improved Kellar Tie
- The Figure 8 Tie
- The Mysterious Tie
- B. H. Strangle Rope Tie
- Important Points
- "New Spirit Tape Tie"
- The Twentieth Century Tie
- B. H. Triumph Tie
- The Ten Ichi Thumb Tie
- The Excelsior...
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Bobo Magic ShowJ. B. Bobo While you probably know Bobo from his classic Modern Coin Magic, he also was America's most famous school show performer and he was extremely successful in this field. In this ebook, he includes effects and presentations by the dozen. Loaded with photographs and drawings.
- How It All Happened
- The Joy Of Entertaining Children And Making A Good Living Out Of It
- The Road To Success In School Assembly Shows
- The School Show
- The Way To Go
- A Useful Approach
- Note On Angle Tricks
- Do The Trick!
- Using Kids From The Audience
- Gags, Jokes, And Bits Of Business
- Packing
- Opening Patter
- Programs
- Audacity
- Building...
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The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M.Paul LePaul & Bro. John Hamman  A great performer presents the work of another great performer, and you end up with an ebook of new and freshly different card effects. Brother John is known for his Final Ace Routine, Halucination, etc., but here is another side of his talents. All tricks with ordinary cards, gathered by Paul LePaul (his close and personal friend), edited into a dozen wonderful effects for the enthusiastic card man. The late Paul LePaul illustrated the material.
- Foreword
- THE MILLION-TO-ONE CHANCE
- THOUGHTS ON THE TRANSPOSITION OF TWO CARDS
- THE HAND IS QUICKER THAN THE EYE
- THE BLUSHING BRIDE
- THE CLASSICAL...
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The Magic PendulumGeorge B. Anderson From the introduction:
Anyone who's ever seen the late, great Al Koran's use of the sex detector or swinging pendulum which is nothing more than a weight on a piece of string, knows how fascinating and impressive it is. Here is a complete routine of tricks with the sex detector, that can run a full 15 minutes. An array of eight varied tricks, all apparently accomplished by use of the Pendulum with a most impressive finale. While the sex detector seems to accomplish each miracle, it can be thoroughly examined because there's absolutely no gimmick to be discovered. There's a pseudo-scientific approach... | ★★★★★ $6.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Black Art: a DIY versionLaurie Ireland & Paul Studham & Jasper Ward  The cry from TV, big Show Business, small Show Business, School Shows, is for something new, something different. Black Art is a new art to this generation. Dolinoff, Black Theatre of Prague, Ralph Adams, have all been featured on TV, but only these few have practiced this great Black Art. In this ebook you learn all about it, from a do-it-yourself standpoint. There are three complete acts fully described, what to do and how to do it, with details for a modern, portable presentation that can be done anywhere. A modern bar act, a noisy, fascinating spook act, and a children's routine the kids... | ★★★★★ $7.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Billiard BallsFrank Garcia There has always been a shortage of books on billiard ball routines, but here is one on that subject you will enjoy using. Not only has Garcia set forth many facets of ball material, but they are clearly and beautifully illustrated by Harvan, who is an excellent manipulator himself. The material on routining is followed by handling of the ball and shell, then a Master Routine, The One to Five Slow Motion Production, Bilious Balls, Strictly One Hand, One to Four With Solid Balls, Advice and Thoughts on Balls, Simple Golf Ball Routine, all very well explained. Many illustrations.
1st edition... | ★★★★★ $8.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
A Rhapsody in SilkAde Duval A world famous silk magician designed this beautiful finale to his show. Based on the use of a tube like a Phantom Tube, these clever and subtle methods create a great act. Anyone interested in silk work can make up the act and do it. Many clear sketches, photos, careful explanations teach you how.
- To Dorny...
- Prelude
- Preface
- How it all began . . .
- Audience eye view
- Frightening imitators
- Scientific loading
- The gimmicks
- The box
- The "suitcase" prop
- Switching tubes
- The soup ladles
- How to load
- Concealment
- Count down!
- Note to reader
- Author!
1st edition 1962, 64 pages; 1st digital... | $9.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Handbook of Card SleightsAl Leech A must for all card men. Handy reference ebook for all card sleights. The best possible way to learn card magic, explained in good, clear terms by an expert. Sleights are modern, broken down to their simplest factors, useful and practical. The ideal ebook for the beginner in card work. You can't tackle advanced card work until you have the basics. This ebook will help you. Illustrated. Highly recommended.
- Controls
- The Crimp
- Passes
- The Palm
- The Replacement
- Changes
- Forcing
- False Counts
- False Shuffles
- Cuts
- Reverses
- Additions
- The Color Change
- From The Center
- The Multiple Shift
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The Bunny Book For MagiciansFrances Marshall Everything you need to know about using rabbits in your act - lots of tips on care and maintenance, along with plenty of tricks and anecdotes. Plenty of pictures of bunnies and magicians. Interesting reading.
- How The Rabbit Got Into Magic
- Pets 'N Prestidigitation
- The Top Hat - Square Circle - Ten Rabbit Production
- Cherchez La Rabbit
- Back Stage Rabbit Vanish
- The Bunny Bit
- How To Do The Most Popular Trick In The World
- Irving's Bunny Cotton-Tail
- Bunny In A Basket
- Twin Chests, A Routine For Twin Rabbits
- A Unique Live Stock Production
- Carlton King's Rabbit Box
- The Artist Draws A...
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Bernstein on Number PredictionsBruce Bernstein As the title says, this is an overview of the subject, impromptu and otherwise. For the really sincere mentalism worker, a carefully worked out ebook on the subject. Several spectators are asked to choose numbers at random, which are then added together in a totally random manner. Yet in spite of the fact that the mentalist could have no idea what numbers would be chosen, and couldn't control what order they would be added up in, when his prediction is shown, it is seen that he was somehow able to predict the exact total!
From the early methods of accomplishing this miracle, to the most recent... | ★★★★★ $8.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
The Backstage Rabbit VanishJohn F. Yeager From the introduction:
There are many livestock vanishes, but none so easy-working or so mystifying as the following effect, in which the magician explains how the trick is done, yet leaves the audience completely baffled.
6 pages. | $4.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Newspaper TrickGene Anderson Gene Anderson's Torn and Restored Newspaper (Photo Version). This famous and sensational trick has brought tremendous applause and standing ovations everywhere Gene shows it. This is just like having personal instruction through a series of photos of Gene in action. The photos will teach you quickly and easily how to do this really great trick. Ebook contains photos, line sketches and text.
1st digital edition 2014, 16 pages. | ★★★★★ $9.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Parakeet MagicVarious Authors A symposium of material from John Shirley, Maurice Blackman, Brian LeSlie, Eric Lewis, Rupert Gilbert, Stuart Leith, Joe Zering.
Contains over fifty tricks and routines with parakeets, including many ideas for building special small illusions featuring the birds. Sections by several different experts on training and teaching the parakeets the first simple tricks which start them off to stardom. A complete section on the care, feeding and handling of parakeets.
Parakeet Magic is inexpensive to get started with - all it takes is a few dollars investment plus your time and enthusiasm. But... | $11.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
The Magic PlaySam Sharpe Did you know that Doug Henning and his Broadway play, "The Magic Show", was not a new idea? Do you know about the hundred or more years of Magic Plays that preceded Doug's triumph? If you truly are a magician, you should know all about the background of your hobby or profession - and here's a very pleasant way to find out about it.
Sam Sharpe (M.I.M.C.) has done extensive research to produce this volume, The Magic Play. 150 pages of absorbing reading, all about the use of magic in dramatic plays, what tricks were used, what famous personages used them, where they were used, how they were... | $14.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Let's Make MagicGordon M. Howatt This is a compilation of three books:
- Let's Make Magic (1st edition 1945)
- Traveling Ghost
- Restless Spook
Tricks to build in your home workshop. One big book tells you how to make all kinds of tricks, vanishes, productions, changes, liquid tricks, silk tricks, trick decks, levitation, jumbo card tricks, slate tricks, pocket tricks...Imagine! Fifty Tricks. Printed on large size pages to make it easy to study he plans. Simple tools are all you need to have all these new tricks for yourself.
- The Art Studio Illusionette
- Vibratory Deck
- The Malcolm Blindfold
- The Scintilating Spectre
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Marconick's Original Magic 5Marconick
- Lassoo A Silk
- Playing Cards
- Follow-Up Lassoo A Silk
- The Talking Frog
- A Card Vanish From The Table
- A Card Turn Over
- A Mental Effect
- A Champagne Production
- A Cigarette Production
- Linking Silks
- Rising Cards A La Svengali
- A Silk Vanish Opening
- Variation Triangle Silks
- A Perfect Glass Balance
- A Floating Record
- Cutting A Rope In Three
- A Folding Table Screen
- Silks In Loop-Holes
- Bottles To Doves Transformation
- The High Light Of The Show
- A Dove Or Rabbit Vanish
- A Card Fan Production
- Two Silks From The Air
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Stage MentalismNorth Bigbee Big, visual effects that make mentalism suitable for stage, platform, or club use. No card tricks, nail writers or close up pads. Instead, forty colorful and powerful mental effects in all categories from a Bargain Prediction Chest to ESP.
From the note to the reader by North Bigbee:
For the modern mentalist, here are forty varied presentations. They cover most phases of magic of the mind, include some new effects introducing new methods, other new methods for popular effects, and still other new mysteries from standard techniques.
Almost all are for a one man mental act, making use... | $14.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Let It Go To Your HeadFrances Marshall Get your wife, daughter, girl friend into the act! Here's a great comedy routine, very female, full of audience tested laughs, every bit of patter and business furnished - and any intelligent woman can learn to do it. Written pre-women's-lib era, but definitely a woman's routine for the felt chapeau. Owned by many magicians. If not, readily available. This material was used by Frances Marshall for most of her career. A big hit on women's club circuits, spring luncheons, P.T.A.'s, anywhere women congregate. Guaranteed laugh getter in female circles. Full explanation of all accessories used, all... | $6.95 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Kort Is Now In SessionMilton Kort One of America's finest close-up men has written a fine book on his work. Illustrated with excellent line drawings by Steranko. Makes all the tricks clear and easy to follow. Additionally there are a couple of photos of Milt demonstrating certain moves.
You will enjoy:
- Kortially Yours (card revealment)
- Homing Pigeon (a boomerang card)
- You Got Nothin' Poker Deal
- Cup Hola (paper cup and coin routine)
- Sheer Brute Strength (bending a penny by magic)
- Half From One (bill routine)
- Miser's Dream in Reverse
- Kort Coin Star
- Gone Again Coin Routine
- Miniature Cups and Balls
- Chromo Cups and...
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How To Win A Magic ContestVan Cleve Written by a man who has won many magic contests and who has the trophies to prove it! They illustrate this ebook.
- Introduction
- Why Enter A Magic Contest
- How To Win...Before The Contest
- Deadlines
- Time Limits
- Contest Categories
- Standard of Judging
- Learn the Situation
- Plan the Act as a Contest Winner
- Consider What Works Best in a Contest
- Rehearse a Winning Act
- How To Win...During the Contest
- Make the Most of the Audience
- Make the Most of the M.C.
- Make the Most of Your Act
- Make the Most of the Judges
- How To Win...After the Contest
- Win With the Magic Award
- Win With or Without...
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