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Glenn G. Gravatt

Glenn G. Gravatt

(Sabetha, Kansas: 4th December 1899 - 17th April 1984)

Police officer. Amateur magician. Best-remembered for his flagrant publishing of others' tricks without permission. Yet awarded the 1980 AMA Literary Fellowship. Died in San Francisco.

Wrote (in "collaboration" with his fictitious alter ego "Doctor Wilhelm Von Deusen") Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks (2 vols, [1936], [1937], 451+150pp). Wrote Jap Box Tricks (1937, 123pp), Final Selection (1957, 89pp), Glenn Gravatt's Treasure Trove of Tricks (1971, 290pp), Fifty Modern Card Tricks You Can Do! (1974, 50pp), Fifty More Modern Card Tricks (60pp), Thayer Quality Magic Catalog Instruction Sheets (4 vols, 1978 etc), Collected Writings of Glenn Gravatt (1974, 254pp), More Collected Writings of Glenn Gravatt, & Goldmine of Magic (1984, 232pp). Many articles in magic magazines, including Genii.

Coauthors: Floyd Gerald Thayer

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Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt
Thayer Quality Magic Volume 4 by Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt

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One of the popular magic magazines of the twenties was published by Thayer under the name of Thayer's Magical Bulletin. The publication contained, along with news of magicians, etc., instructions for many fine tricks. Thayer also issued regularly a small house organ of about six pages called Thayer's Magical Ballygram. These were not dated, although No. 25 mentions the year 1928, No. 32, the year 1929, and No. 42, the year 1931. I have Nos. 1 to 70 but understand that there were 12 more issued later. The Ballygram mainly described the new tricks that came out since Thayer's last catalog,...

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Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt
Thayer Quality Magic Volume 3 by Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt

Volume Three of the Thayer Quality Magic Instruction Sheets brings you over 200 more explanations of magic sold by the leading dealer of the Golden Age of Magic, Floyd Thayer. Choice, exclusive magic in eighteen categories, the secret and presentation explained in nearly the exact words as furnished purchasers of what are now real treasures. This, together with the first two volumes, constitutes a veritable encyclopedia of magical knowledge, as you can readily see.

  • INTRODUCTION
  • Ball Magic
    • No. 115—Patriotic Billiard Balls
    • The Ball and Vase
    • No. 102—Billiard Ball Holder
    • No. 104—Fortune...
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Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt
Thayer Quality Magic Volume 2 by Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt

  • INTRODUCTION
  • Ball Magic
    • No. 700. Thayer's "Perfection" Multiplying Billiard Balls
    • No. 701. Special Ball Sets (Cheaper Grade)
    • No. 702. Thayer's "Clingo" Billiard Balls
    • No. 703. Thayer's Super Ball Set
    • No. 520—Unique Rainbow Billiard Ball Trick
    • No. 112—Bingo Billiard Ball Vanish
    • No. 105 The Ball and Handkerchief
    • No. 721. The Diminishing Billiard Ball
    • No. 727. Peerless Billiard Ball Stand
    • No. 487—Reyaht’s Eccentric Tube
    • No. 978. The Floating Ball
  • Tricks with Birds, etc.
    • No. 193—The Chafing Dish
    • No. 713—Magical Shot and Enchanted Cage
    • No. 261—The Birds From...
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Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt
Thayer Quality Magic Volume 1 by Floyd Gerald Thayer & Glenn G. Gravatt

Many years ago by a stroke of good luck, a fortunate combination of circumstances, I acquired a complete file of Thayer instruction sheets designed to accompany the apparatus. This just may be the only complete collection of Thayer secrets in existence. Recently I happened to mention this to Lloyd Jones who urged me to compile these instructions in book form, stressing the tremendous value of such a collection to magicians. This I consented to do but found there was too much material for one book. It was therefore decided to issue these secrets in several volumes, of which this is the first.

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Glenn G. Gravatt
Gold Mine of Magic by Glenn G. Gravatt

After 70 years in the magic business Glenn Gravatt compiled this wealth of effects and tricks, all are provided with presentation. They are generally speaking easy to do and do not require exotic gimmicks or apparatus.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter One: Some Unique And Unusual Wonders
    • Chameleon Spots
    • Gravatt's Instantaneous Triple Penetration
    • Crazy Colors
    • Color Spots Get Together
    • Punctured Poker Chip
    • Crystal Tube And Patriotic Blocks
    • Block And Cord Escape
    • The Wonderful Thingamajig
    • Stab-A-Ring
    • String Loops Entwined
    • Color Changing Cards
    • New Floating Ball
    • Visible Penetration
  • Chapter...
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Glenn G. Gravatt
Final Selection by Glenn G. Gravatt

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No skill, no sleights, no manipulation is required to perform the following effects. Many are impromptu, making use of anyone's cards, and needing no preparation or make-ready. Others admittedly depend upon such chicanery as cards with double faces and blank faces, double backs and blank backs, roughing fluid and other aides, all available from magic shops. Many skilled manipulators have not hesitated to use such artifices, so the reader should not scorn them.

Aside from whatever merit these tricks may possess, it is believed their greatest value lies in the...

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Glenn G. Gravatt
Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks by Glenn G. Gravatt

This is a marvelous compilation of mostly easy and sleightless, or as it is usually called self-working, card tricks. Some effects do require moves such as palming, and a good false shuffle and false cut will go a long way to make many otherwise sleightless effects much stronger. But for the most part no sleights are necessary to perform the vast majority of effects taught.

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It is to be hoped that the reader will not have to go far in this book before he realizes and appreciates that this is not just another book, collection, or compilation of card tricks. It is expected...

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Glenn G. Gravatt
The Second Encyclopedia of Card Tricks by Glenn G. Gravatt

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We are proud of the result, and we believe, justly so. It is submitted for your approval. It contains several new items, and many tricks, the secrets of which have been very expensive to buy. We hope you like it. If you do, we may feel encouraged to prepare still a third Encyclopedia of Card Tricks, or an Encyclopedia along some other branch of magic.

If you want to know how this ebook relates to the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks get A Comparison of the Gravatt and Hugard Encyclopedias of Card Magic by William Rugh, who made a detailed comparison of the contents.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Mental And Miscellaneous Miracles
    • Perplexo
    • Pythagoras
    • Uni Mentality ...
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Glenn G. Gravatt
Jap Box Tricks by Glenn G. Gravatt

The Jap Box or "Japanese Handkerchief Box" is a simple rectangular box without a lid and a removable bottom. The bottom has a hole in the center to facility its removal from the rest of the box. The basic effect is that the box is shown empty by showing it from all sides as well as removing the bottom. Then the bottom is replaced and silks appear in the box.

Producing silks is just the very beginning of possibilities with this prop. This ebook describes many other things that can be done with the basic version of the Jap Box. It is unclear where this trick originated. It is believed that...

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