Lewis Ganson products: page 3

On the covers are

• Val Andrews
• Ron MacMillan
• Dr. Raymond L. Beebe
• Frank Garcia
• Sydney Lawrence
• Eddie Dexter
• Jack Gillespie
• De Vega
• J. A. M. Howie
• Roger Klause
• John Booth
• Dino

1. Volume 19, Number 1, May, 1963, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Val Andrews
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Magic with Apparatus
   • Presentation of Cylindro - George Durant
7. Magic for the Pocket
   • I.O.U. - An Original Pocket Trick - Edward Victor
9. Mental and Spirit Magic
   • Murray on Mentalism
10. Psychojazzology - John Bragoli
12. Just a Few Words and Bits and Pieces...

On the covers are

• Albert Verity
• John Ramsay
• Tom Morley
• Chris Woodward
• Ralph Chart
• Eddie Taytelbaum
• Evelyn Rose
• Leslie May
• Kovari
• Andrew Dalziel
• Ludow
• David Hemingway

1. Volume 18, Number 1, May, 1962, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Albert Verity
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
   • Double Knot Release
5. The Homing Matches - Rink
7. Coins Across - Rink
8. Corner Count - Tom Sellers
10. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Colour Television - John Bragoli
12. A Sel-Dem Prediction - Jesse Demaline
13. Lewis Ganson Explains...

On the covers are

• Hugh Wylie
• Fred Lowe
• Docteur J. Dhotel
• Dorothy and Al Roberts
• Hans Anderson and Jeanette
• George L. Boston
• Bill Simon
• Jimmy Findlay
• Johnny Hart
• Glenn G. Gravatt
• Ken Brooke
• Sitta

1. Volume 17, Number 1, May, 1961, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Hugh Wylie
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Card Magic
   • Dice Scripto - Frederica
6. Take It Slowly - Robert Hamilton
7. Silk Magic
   • A Silken Interlude - Hugh Wylie
11. Improvement for the "Knife and Square Papers" - Jean Charles (France)
12. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland ...

On the covers are

• Al Koran
• Allan Jamieson
• Lloyd E. Jones
• Gerald Kosky
• Peter Pit
• Douglas Francis
• Lewis Ganson
• Mavis Murrell
• Don Alan
• Iris and Lester Sharpe
• Laurence Glen
• The Tornedo's

1. Volume 16, Number 1, May, 1960, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Al Koran
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Card Magic
   • Rainbow Pips - Bernard Shaw
6. Card Seance - John Howie
8. New Lamps for Old - series by Rink of Holland
   • The Sailor's Trick
11. Lewis Ganson Explains - series
    • Penetration of a Cigarette
13. Magic with Apparatus
    • Portfolio...

The Gen, Volume 15, Lewis Ganson, editor

On the covers are

• Don Lawton
• Bob Lawrence
• Wilfred Tyler
• Murray
• Jac Olten
• John Giordmaine
• Ernest Wethered
• Archie Tear
• Frank Brooker
• Chan Canasta
• Hubert Lambert
• Sam Hughes

1. Volume 15, Number 1, May, 1959, 34 numbered pages - Gala Issue cover picture: Don Lawton
2. Front Page Personality - Don Lawton
7. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
8. Magic for the Pocket
   • Pocket Size Indian Rope - Aenigma (Holland)
11. Mental and Spirit Magic
    • Behind My Blackboard - Dr. Stanley Jaks (USA)
14. New Lamps for Old...

The Gen, Volume 14, Lewis Ganson, editor - new editor

On the covers are

• Will Ayling
• Dai Vernon
• Slydini
• Harry Blackstone
• Phoa Yan Tiong
• Harold G. Beaumont
• Milton Woodward and Millicent Cooper
• Rink
• Maurice Rooklyn
• Harry Hickson
• Dany Ray
• John Ramsay

1. Volume 14, Number 1, May, 1958, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Will Ayling
3. Front Page Personality - Will Ayling
4. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
5. A new Card Fan - Dudley Fossum (Wisconsin, USA)
6. Lewis Ganson Explains - series
   • Juggling Tumbler - Will Ayling
9. Bento's Bat - Bento (Holland) ...

On the covers are

• Ron Urban
• Ed Marlo
• Frederica
• June Merlin
• Michael and Valerie Bailey
• ?
• Levante
• Donald G. Crombie
• Nelson Downs
• Remo Inzani
• Clifford Davis
• John Young

1. Volume 13, Number 1, May, 1957, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Ron Urban
3. Front Page Personality - Ron Urban
4. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. The Magic of Coins - series by Charles Kingston (California, USA)
   • One - Such Flimsy Material
7. More Finishing Touches - Nic Niberco (Hollnad)
   • Simplified Hofzinser Top Change - and a Trick
   • The Changing Card
10. A Trio from Tom Sellers ...

On the covers are

• Lewis Ganson
• Arnold Furst
• The Stuthard's
• Syd Bergson
• Lewis Ganson, The Stanleys, Ken Brooke, Jo Ganson, Mystic Craig
• Charles A. Schoke
• Dai Vernon
• Richard Merry
• Niberco Brothers
• Tom Sellers
• Alan Alan
• J. G. Thompson Junior

1. Volume 12, Number 1, May, 1956, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Lewis Ganson
3. Front Page Personality - Lewis Ganson
4. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. My Comedy Rope Routine - Arthur Leo
6. Jimmy Rogers' Ring Box - Tom Sellers
7. Len Belcher Presents - series
   • Atomic Gun
   • Space Gun
8. A Magician Explains - series...

On the covers are

• Dai Vernon
• Len Vintus
• Herbert J. Collings
• Billy McComb
• Mystic Craig
• Channing Pollock
• Tonny van Dommelen
• Corvelo
• The Stanleys
• Marconick
• Ken Scholes
• Charles A. Rosskam

1. Volume 11, Number 1, May, 1955, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Vernon on Stage
3. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. Correct Change - Charles Miller
7. My Favourite Living and Dead Test - Dr. Raymond L. Beebe
9. Red and Blue - Bob Haskell
11. The Animated Mouse - Magini
14. Front Page Personality - Vernon on Stage - Francis Ireland
15. A Magician Explains - series by Lewis Ganson

On the covers are

• Trevor Little
• Ali Bongo
• Frank Baumforth
• Francis White
• Geoffrey Robinson
• "Senator" Crandall
• Harold G. Beaumont
• Ram Das and Kim
• Peter Warlock
• Alex Elmsley
• Faucett W. Ross
• Henk Vermeyden

1. Volume 10, Number 1, May, 1954, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Trevor Little
3. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. Les Ashton's Magical Alphabet - series
   • No. 7 - Ghost Tubes, Guns and Gadgets
6. Bongo's Bargain Basement - series by Ali Bongo
   • Have a Heart!
   • Ties Up Again
   • There's a Long, Long Chain Awinding ...
   • Faked Feathers
8. A Pair...

Some topics are

• Going Mental
• Comedy Card Production
• Forcing a Card
• Ghost Writing
• A Rib Tickler
• The Evacuee Doll

• Volume 1, Numbers 1-2-3, undated [reprint, Number 1 originally printed in December, 1945], 8 unnumbered pages
• Going Mental
• Comedy Card Production
• Ideas - Tips - Gags and What Have You!
• Forcing a Card
• Interruption

• Volume 1, Number 4, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• On the Spot - Theodore Annemann
• Ghost Writing
• A Good Gag
• A Nice Bit of "Business"
• The Gen Awards £10 - contest announcement
• "Interruption Gag"

• Volume 1, Number 5, undated, 8 unnumbered pages
• editor's letter
• On...

The Gen magazine was published by Harry Stanley just after the war. The first issue came out in December 1945. The magazine was published for 26 years with 303 issues covering a total of 8,685 pages. Lewis Ganson, one of the greatest British magical writers ever, was the editor until the magazine changed hands in 1971. It continued under the editorship of Val Andrews for a further two issues as the New Gen.

Virtually every known name in the world of post-war magic made a contribution to the Gen or was featured in its columns. Ken Brooke, for example, contributed 27 items and even the final issue, under...

This is volume 2 of The Ganson Story, recorded by Martin Breese to capture some of the essence that made Lewis Ganson the great writer of magic literature that he was.

(Here you will find Volume 1.)

runtime: 1 hour

"In all the world of magic, I don't think you could find a fairer, squarer person than Lewis" - Dai Vernon, Genii December 1974.

"As I look at the literary scene of magic today, the name of one man stands out above all the rest and the owner of that name is my old friend Lew Ganson." - Peter Warlock, Genii, December 1974.

Martin Breese writes in the original description of these tapes:

This book is part biographical, a history of Lewis Ganson - one of the most prolific authors of magic, and a lot of wonderful magic.

It is written in Ganson's usual well-written, well-articulated style. Cards, coins, money magic, mental magic, cups and balls, and much more.

1st edition 1982; 232 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Dedication
5. Bibliography
7. Contents
9. Index of Photographs
12. A Tribute to Lewis Ganson Evening (Edwin Hooper)
17. Introduction
19. A Tribute from Dai Vernon
21. The Music Room
24. Jess
24. The Burford Arms
26. A Magician at the Bar
29. The Cap and Pence
34. Ellis Stanyon's Limit Four Ace Trick
40. Moving On
41. My Start in Magic
46. Jack...

Including R. C. Buff's original routine for the Floating Walking Stick and Lewis Ganson's routine for the Dancing Walking Stick. This was part of the famous Ganson Teach-In series originally published by Supreme Magic Inc. Rights are now owned by Martin Breese whom we thank for the kind permission to reproduce this booklet.

[Get the full collection of all 17 Teach-Ins at a huge discount.

1st edition 1977; original 27 pages; PDF 34 pages.

4. Contents
5. The Floating and Dancing Walking Stick
5. The Stick Dances
7. The Stick Floats
9. The Floating Walking Stick
9. - "The Balance"
10. - The Floating Moves
10. - The Stick Rises And Falls
12. - The Stick Floats ...

This is not a magic trick but a carnival game, a con game, where the operator can decide if you should win or not. Everything looks fair and above board, but there is simply no chance for the mark to win. It looks so innocent, a ball-chain loop, put out on the table in a figure eight. One loop in the eight catches your finger the other does not. You have to find the one that catches your finger. Only problem is that you will never find it if the operator so decides.

This game is sometimes called Loopy Loop, Figure Eight, the Chain Swindle, or Pricking the Garter. You will find in this ebook...

I was lucky that I stumbled across this book very early on in my magic development. It had a huge impact on how I approached magic and how I think today about magic. The introductory chapter "The Vernon Touch" should be mandatory reading for every magician. I would go so far as to recommend re-reading it every year. Martin Breese wrote: "One of the most important books of magic ever written." Max Holden said: "I consider Vernon the greatest man with a pack of cards of the present day." Many consider Dai Vernon, the professor, as one who had probably the biggest impact on magic in recent times. ...

Booklet stapled in very good condition.

Torn playing cards link together. It is a variation of Cardboard Connection by Paul Harris utilizing an alternate gaff. Photos and detailed description by Lewis Ganson. It also includes Jim Cozzens instructions for preparing the linked cards set.

1st edition 1981, 16 pages.

Torn playing cards link together. It is a variation of Cardboard Connection by Paul Harris utilizing an alternate gaff. Photos and detailed description by Lewis Ganson. It also includes Jim Cozzens instructions for preparing the linked cards set.

1st edition 1981, 16 pages; PDF 17 pages.

The second volume continues with more than 60 outstanding close-up routines from the best names in magic.

1st edition 1967, 300 pages; PDF 184 pages.

Table of Contents

6. Foreword

   Chapter 1: Destroyed & Restored

7. Cut & Restored Silk
9. Yarn Trick
11. Ten Shilling Note Trick
15. Torn & Restored Cigarette Paper
16. Bennett's Boner
17. Note In Cigarette

    Chapter 2: Three Rings For Dai Vernon

    Chapter 3: Mainly Mental

33. Seven Colours Of Wisdom
34. Elizabeth Arden
35. The Taste Tells
37. Mollusca Mental
39. Idento
40. Noted Number
42. Pseudo Psychometry
45. Transversale
47. Licensed Telepathy

    Chapter 4: Novel Necromancy

49. Miniature...

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.

Probably the greatest collection of close-up tricks ever assembled. And no card tricks are included in this first volume. It is so important not only because of its size (see the humongous table of contents below) and quality, but because the author has gone beyond the mere explanations of tricks and routines. The opening chapter, 'The Presentation of Close-Up Magic', embraces the whole approach to close-up performance. Includes hundreds of illustrations by Dennis Patten.

1st edition 1967, 344 pages; PDF 254 pages.

Table of Contents

9. Foreword

   Chapter One: The Presentation Of Close-Up...

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.