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Handbook of Card Sleights

Al Leech
Handbook of Card Sleights by Al 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 Magicians

Frances Marshall
The Bunny Book For Magicians by Frances 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 Predictions

Bruce Bernstein
Bernstein on Number Predictions by Bruce 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
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The Backstage Rabbit Vanish

John F. Yeager
The Backstage Rabbit Vanish by John 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.

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Newspaper Trick

Gene Anderson
Newspaper Trick by Gene 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
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Parakeet Magic

Various Authors
Parakeet Magic by Various 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...

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The Magic Play

Sam Sharpe
The Magic Play by Sam 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...

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Let's Make Magic

Gordon M. Howatt
Let's Make Magic by Gordon 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 5

Marconick
Marconick's Original Magic 5 by Marconick
  • 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 Mentalism

North Bigbee
Stage Mentalism by North 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
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Let It Go To Your Head

Frances Marshall
Let It Go To Your Head by Frances 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...

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Kort Is Now In Session

Milton Kort
Kort Is Now In Session by Milton 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 Contest

Van Cleve
How To Win A Magic Contest by Van 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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The Tie Pitch

Tom Palmer
The Tie Pitch by Tom Palmer

A different version of the Pitchman Act. This one is based on the tie salesman. Everyone has seen the booth where they sell the cheap ties be it a pushcart, folding suitcase, or a department store counter. The performer is loaded with tricks and gimmicks and things keep happening every time he shows a tie. The routine is full of comedy with a lot of surprises and really clever bits. You probably have the material among your tricks and can easily fix up the rest. The ebook covers every detail, with lots of illustrations.

1st digital edition 2014, 11 pages.

★★★★ $7.95
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How To Do Headline Predictions

Don Tanner
How To Do Headline Predictions by Don Tanner

Excellent coverage of an important magic subject. Any magician can add vital interest and sparkle to his program by including a headline prediction, or prediction on the outcome of some event. Tells you just how to do it, in ways that cannot fail. No great expense involved in any of the methods sometimes none at all.

Check the contents:

  • Introduction and pointers
  • Goose that Laid a Golden Egg
  • In a Block of Ice
  • In a Block of Cement
  • In a Loaf of Bread
  • The Eddie Clever Method
  • Floating Prediction
  • Prediction Chest
  • Two Way Predictions
  • Buddha Check Prediction
  • Two Way Box
  • Card Box Predictions ...
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How's Your Library?

James B. Findlay
How's Your Library? by James B. Findlay

An authoritative ebook on collecting for collectors. Written by one of the world's foremost collectors. Covers the whole subject of the care and arrangement of the magical library, data on the books themselves, bookplates with pages of examples, plus the Mulholland article on same. Other bits by well known collectors. Highly recommended to all who are building up their magic libraries, no matter how small at present. Preface by John Mulholland.

1st edition 1952 (self); 2nd edition 1958 (Ireland Magic); 1st digital edition, 44 pages.

★★★★★ $5.95
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Magic Bookman

Frances Marshall
Magic Bookman by Frances Marshall

Illustrated with nostalgic, rare photographs by Irving Desfor. Not to be read just once, but to keep as a reference ebook in your library.

  • Great Writers Discuss Books, by John Braun
  • Buy Lines, by Jimmy Findlay
  • Quest for Magic Books, by George Jenness
  • The Magician and Comedy, by Bob Orben
  • The Magical Bookie, by S. R. Patrick
  • Calculated Risk, by Dr. Edwin A. Dawes
  • Pleasures of Reviewing Books, by Sid Lorraine
  • Are Magic Books Worthwhile?, by John Mulholland
  • Books About Books, by Robert Lund
  • Magic Catalogues; Exciting Reading, by Dr. Grossman
  • Rarities, by Edgar Heyl
  • Thoughts on Lecture Notes, by Gary Bontjes ...
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An Evening With Charlie Miller

Robert Parrish
An Evening With Charlie Miller by Robert Parrish

This is a wonderful collection of some of Charlie Miller's signature pieces with photos showing Charlie Miller performing the moves and routines.

From the introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito):

I consider Charlie's technique not only original, subtle and entertaining, but above all, highly commercial. In this respect, he is in the tradition of the Old Masters, whose skill could be appreciated by the connoisseur, but who used that skill to keep their audiences highly entertained.

1st edition 1961, 1st digital edition 2014, 59 pages.

  1. Introduction
  2. About Charlie Miller
  3. Mugs And Hats
  4. The Jest Of The Joker
  5. The Torn...
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My Favorite Sucker Card Tricks

George B. Anderson
My Favorite Sucker Card Tricks by George B. Anderson

These are great routines if you need to silence a heckler. Lots of impact, good effects, experienced handling of cards and spectators. George knows how to lead you to the good ones, and they will sparkle up your routines. They are "different" and you do need variety in your card programs.

  • The Next Card
  • High Pair
  • The Bottom Switch
  • Sharp Perception
  • The Three Card Monte Swindle
  • The Blackjack Or Twenty-One Swindle
  • The Ace Of Hearts Swindle
  • The Seven And Eight Con
  • The Joker
  • A Crooked Poker Deal
  • The Spectator Does It
  • Test Your Memory
  • Don't Overdo Them

1st edition 1980, 1st digital...

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The Sponge Book

Frances Marshall
The Sponge Book by Frances Marshall

Contains twelve routines, plus a whole section by Al Goshman, King of the Sponge Balls. Featured is the famous Senator Crandall routine which Don Alan did for Ed Sullivan.

Other routines include: Ghost Balls, Three Ball Trick, Big and Little Balls, Silver and Sponges, Leaping Leprechauns, Passe Passe Sponges, Spicy Sponges, Crandall's Original Routine, Gen. Grant's Favorite, Surprise Finish for Rabbit Routine, Multi-ball, etc.

Tricks range from beginner's stuff to those for the expert. A little practice makes it possible for anyone to learn sponge tricks.

  • Goshman's Sponge Routine
  • The Ghost...
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Miracles With A Clip Board

Ulysses Frederick Grant
Miracles With A Clip Board by Ulysses Frederick Grant

Contains a complete survey of the various kinds of clip boards, how they work, and how to use them. Plus fifteen different routines involving clip boards. Also in this ebook is a separate mental routine, Kleen, which does not involve carbons, impressions, mirrors, chemicals, switches, gimmicks, envelopes. None of that, just an ordinary sheet of paper and you have a dandy mental effect.

1st digital edition 2013, 13 pages.

Table of Contents

  1. Types Of Clip Boards
  2. $500 Name Challenge
  3. Memory Expert
  4. Magazine And Book Tests
  5. Miracle Think A Card
  6. Living And Dead Test
  7. Telephone Card Trick ...
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Fire Magic

Clettis Musson
Fire Magic by Clettis Musson

Many wonderful fire tricks and the secrets of fire-eating. Add brightness, flash, color, and excitement to your show. The entire fire-eating subject is covered: torches, gas jets, licking a red hot poker, drinking boiling liquid, biting hot iron, eating burning objects, fire bubbles, etc. Also, the Human Blow Torch, other thrilling but different effects such as the Human Volcano, Fire Fountain, Burning a Living Head, Burning Water, the Dragon's Mouth, many others. Spectacular numbers include Colored Fire, Automatic Lamp, Mysterious Candles, Breath of Fire, etc. There are sixty tricks in all,...

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Fingertip Control: Revolutionary Card Technique - Chapter 3

Edward Marlo
Fingertip Control: Revolutionary Card Technique - Chapter 3 by Edward Marlo

The system of the Marlo Definite Fingertip Control explained in all its ramifications and ideas.

1st edition 1956, 1st digital edition 2013, 24 pages.

★★★★★ $7.95
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Dorny on Trix

Werner C. (Dorny) Dornfeld/Dornfield
Dorny on Trix by Werner C. (Dorny) Dornfeld/Dornfield

A delightful ebook of usable material by a truly great name in magic. A special feature is the chapter on appropriate magical music with titles and suggestions.

  • The Dorny Story
  • Dorny Says
  • Number One
  • The Giant (?) Memory
  • Dorny On The Invisible Pass
  • A Cardini Special
  • One Of My Favorites
  • A Tantalizing Puzzler
  • One With A Glass Of Beer
  • Another Of My Favorites
  • The Sniff Card Trick
  • Spectacular Bar Trick
  • Two Pencil Gags
  • The "Nerve" Card Trick
  • The Vanishing Card
  • The Telephone Card Trick
  • A Good Sucker Trick
  • Dorny's Hilarious Mind Reading Act
  • Where Is It?
  • The Phoenix Restored Paper ...
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