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Creditable Conjuring (used)Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in good condition; slight crease on cover and first three pages. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $7 to wish list | ||
Cabaret Card Divination (used)Billy McComb & Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $10 to wish list | ||
Accusation (used)Jack Yates & Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $8 to wish list | ||
After Dinner Technique (used)Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $10 to wish list | ||
Walking Through a Steel Plate Plus (used)Ulysses Frederick Grant & Ken de CourcyStapled booklet in good condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $7 to wish list | ||
Linking Finger Ring (used)Richard Himber & Ken de Courcy & George BlakeStapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition. | $7 to wish list | ||
Ken de Courcy Discusses The World's Fastest Card Trick (used)Ken de Courcy | $7 to wish list | ||
Nod ... è PossibileKen de CourcyOttieni il massimo da un trucco classico. Tutto ciò di cui hai bisogno è un unico pezzo di corda (che può essere preso in prestito) e sei sempre pronto a intrattenere il tuo pubblico. È così piccolo ma ha un effetto così grande. Puoi eseguirlo da vicino o per un grande pubblico. Puoi eseguirlo anche in VIDEOCONFERENZA! Ottieni il massimo dal “Nodo Impossibile di Hunter” con questa routine del grande Edwin Hooper descritta dall’altrettanto grande Ken De courcy. "The Impossible Knot", originariamente chiamato "G.W.Hunter's Puzzle Knot", era ben noto ai maghi cinquant'anni fa,... | $4 to wish list | ||
33 Trucchi con la Forzatura I.D.E.U.Ken de CourcyE’ con grande piacere che presentiamo per la prima volta al pubblico dei prestigiatori Italiani questo bellissimo quanto ricco lavoro di Ken De Courcy. La Forzatura “I.D.E.U. ( In lingua originale PATEO) è una delle più versatili e apparentemente innocenti che siano state ideate. I.D.E.U. è un acronimo per “Indicane Due Eliminane Una”. Infatti un qualsiasi numero di carte (o oggetti) viene disposto sul tavolo in qualsiasi ordine e alternativamente lo spettatore e l’esecutore ne coprono due con le mani e una carta viene eliminata liberamente ogni volta. Eppure, questo processo... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
PentertainKen de CourcyFifteen minutes impromptu entertainment with pen and paper. From the introduction: Here is a short, entertaining act that can be worked impromptu anywhere you have a pen, paper and audience. For larger shows it can be done with chalk and blackboard. I have even done it on an Overhead Projector during a break in a Training Course.
1st edition... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
Son of PentertainKen de CourcyThe sequel to Pentertain. As before, these oddities can be shown wherever you have pencil and paper. For larger audiences a chalkboard, whiteboard or flip-chart is better; you can even do them in sand on a sea-shore.
1st edition 1975, 17 pages; PDF 22 pages. | $10 to wish list | ||
Mistress of PentertainKen de CourcyFiddling with figures. More along the lines of Pentertain and Son of Pentertain. The fact that there is so much material here is due to the efforts of Geoffrey Lamb, Ralph Erlewine, Dr. Bernard Juby, R. C. Buff, Peter Rees and, in particular, Leslie May who sent in pages of figure oddities.
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Son of Pentertain (used)Ken de CourcySoftcover booklet in excellent condition. For details on the content see the digital edition. | $15 to wish list | ||
Magic in Cabaret LandKen de CourcyFrom the introduction: The word itself, "Cabaret", carries overtones that conjure exotic pictures of nude dancers, the "Moulin Rouge" and German Beer Cellars; a sort of high-class iniquitous entertainment enjoyed by the lucky few. But that is all changed. It's been brought down to the level of the man-in-the-street. Now he can have a ringside seat for dining, dancing, drinking, a show ... and gambling. Yet he won't take advantage of all this 'loose-living' unless there is also a "SHOW", as the proprietors of these establishments well know. There is a plethora of singers and 'groups', and... | $10 to wish list | ||
The Magical Jumbo Chinese CoinKen de Courcy & Ian AdairExcerpt from the Foreword: Certain pieces of apparatus, not many, have a sort of built-in glamour. Maybe charisma is a better word. I'm talking about props you enjoy seeing and handling. Supreme's Jumbo Chinese Coin comes into this category. To coin a phrase ... "It looks good ... it feels good ... and, by golly, it works good!" For the close-up performer it will add an expensive appearance to your routines as well as a completely unexpected climax to any trick with coins. For the cabaret magician, it can be easily seen and appreciated and, since it is unfaked, examined if necessary. In... | $10 to wish list | ||
Sleightly EasierKen de CourcyA book of alternative, easier, card sleights and tricks to go with them. Excerpt from the introduction: Many of the basic card sleights are not easy to do well. Take the Two-Handed Pass in which the top and bottom halves of the pack are transposed. The objective is to do it invisibly, which is just about impossible. To cover the action some very strong misdirection is required ... or an alternative method. This little book is about such alternative methods ... easier ways to bring about the same results. But because sleights, in themselves, are useless, I've endeavoured to include a few... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish list | ||
A Card ExitsKen de CourcyThis is Ken's take on R.M. Jamison's 'Yogi Tells' effect from The Phoenix. Someone thinks of one of four cards of the same value of different suits. After two brief shuffles, you spell "Y-O-G-I" three times discarding the card on the last letter, and the card that remains is the one the spectator chose. In Ken's version the spectator thought of card magically flys into the pocket of the performer. 1st edition 1984, 8 pages; PDF 9 pages. | $8 to wish list | ||
Hot Ice 1Ken de CourcyA series of novel and above all entertaining card tricks, all requiring a minimum of skill, the simplest of apparatus and all designed for the maximum entertainment and audience appeal. No. 1. "A Double-Dose": Predestined and Black and Red Computation II. Two effects, both using the same subtle principle, credited to Nick Trost. PREDESTINED is for platform performances. You can use a Jumbo pack of cards and four cardboard plates. You will make this up in a few minutes and have a good program item. The working is simplicity itself but, being more interested in the presentation possibilities... | $8 to wish list | ||
Hot Ice 3: The Kosky CutKen de CourcyHere Ken de Courcy took a clever cut effect by Gerald Kosky, changed it, and altered it to make it completely self-contained and also impromptu. Whilst doing this, Ken hit on another use and here you are getting two for the price of one. EFFECT: A borrowed pack is shuffled by the owner, then the magician extracts two cards from it, hands the cards to the spectator and asks him to place them into a convenient pocket. The deck is placed on the table and the spectator is requested to cut off about two-thirds and lay it face-up alongside the remainder. He now cuts the larger packet roughly... | $8 to wish list | ||
The Astro Card FileKen de CourcyEffects with the Zodiac deck. (Deck not included with this PDF.) Excerpt from the introduction: Whilst this beautifully produced pack can be used for card games, as suggested in the small folder that comes with the deck, its main strength to a magician lies in the way that ordinary card tricks can be given an astrological slant and thus personalized. To the mentalist, of course, the pack represents one of the finest adjuncts to have come out for many years. Whilst a spectator may not be able to associate herself with the Queen of Hearts, she can certainly relate to her own birth sign.... | $8 to wish list | ||
The Systematic SeerKen de CourcyA simplified system of fortune telling. One of the most effective ways of entertaining informally is by Fortune-Telling and, as a magician, you must have been asked many times if you can "tell fortunes". To do this properly requires much study and memory work, time you can probably not afford. So here is a new, simplified system that can easily be applied to Palmistry, the Tarot, Sand Reading, and almost every other form of divination. Apart from anything else, it's a great way to make friends. The problem has always been to obtain sufficient 'cues' with which to give a 'reading'. Whilst... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish list | ||
Cards in CabaretKen de CourcyFrom the prologue by Billy McComb: The thing which annoys me about Ken de Courcy is that he has a tidy mind. This means he correlates everything in his nut so that it all has a place. This I don't have. So I suppose my annoyance is goaded by envy. Now if you were to ask me to give you a hundred commercial card tricks which were new to audiences, I'd swallow down the Six Card Repeat and the Brainwave Deck and die quietly. Not so our gallant Ken de C. He just sits down and puts a gaggle of highly commercial card tricks into book form ... and readably so, too. And, blast me thumb-tips, he invents... | $12 to wish list | ||
AutomentalismKen de CourcyA complete man and wife telepathy act. A nicely worked out two-person act that eliminates long memorization preparation and training. The basic idea can be adapted and extended to fit your needs. (Originally this booklet was sold with an 'apparatus'. The 'apparatus' was a set of cue cards or cue stickers which could be pasted onto cards. These are not included in this digital reproduction. However, the ebook does include images of all the cue cards and you can therefore make them yourself.) A truly sensational mental telepathy act with ordinary playing cards and other objects handed... | $10 to wish list | ||
Danson's Diary TrickKen de CourcyDanson's Diary Trick was first published in the New Pentagram Vol 2. It was an effect many magicians liked and subsequently several variations were published. Ken de Courcy compiles here several variations from Roy Johnson, from MUM magazine, including his own ideas, tips, and suggestions. 1st edition 1983, 20 pages; PDF 23 pages. | $10 to wish list |