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David Devant's books are some of the best books on conjuring ever written. This one is no exception. There is so much wisdom and advice in them. Following it is bound to make you a better magician, particularly if you are relatively new to this performing art, or if you are struggling to have success with it.

From the insightful introduction:

The subtitle reads: Teaching you how to give a complete evening's entertainment of new conjuring tricks with highly-amusing patter, laughable ventriloquism and a diverting magical sketch.

From the introduction:

An "almost perfect" production of four individual coins from thin air. This is ideal as a prelude for an effect like Coins Across, Coins Thru Table or even 3Fly.

1. both hands are displayed as completely empty
2. a coin is snatched from the air by the openly shown right fingers
3. a second coin is seen to visibly materialize and is plucked for thin air by the left fingers
4. the righthand coin is added to the one on the left palm with both hands shown otherwise empty (Note: There is no movement to the body and then hands never touch - no gaffs either.)
5. a third coin is seen to materialize in the air...

John Racherbaumer's latest compendium Picnic Pocus, has certainly revived interest in that long-standing Ace revelation, Poker Player's Picnic. Published years back in The Royal Road to Card Magic, it is a routine most of us perform when starting out in card magic, but eventually, drop from our repertoire due to the odd counting method involved.

Ian Baxter's new approach to this classic has solved this problem, providing a clear rationale for the procedure and adding touches that considerably enhance the routine's effectiveness while still maintaining the sleight-free handling of the original. Clever thinking at work here! This new version is worthy...

Gregg Webb and Ed Brown teach a mentalism routine that enables you to perform a demonstration of clairvoyance or psychometry. Required are two easy-to-make packets of faces and a matching set of word cards that describe the emotions depicted by the faces. The spectator mixes the pictures and deals them to the table in any order. You deal the word cards face down on top of each face: all of the cards match!

• The cards are unmarked
• The method is simple and the effect is easy to perform, which allows you to focus on your presentation.

1st edition 2021, 5 pages hand lettered text with illustrations....

A C.A.A.N. Duel is a pair of incredible card magic effects of the 'Card At Any Number' theme. In the first effect, which gives the eBook its title, a complete deck of 52 cards, possibly also borrowed, is shuffled at will by a spectator who will take part in a challenge. The challenge is to guess which card is located at a given number between 1 and 52. After giving an initial example, we move on to the actual challenge: the magician begins, demonstrating his great skill in the matter by announcing (and writing on a notepad) the card, even before knowing the number that the spectator is going...

A playing card held between both hands vanishes in an instant. It does not use a thread or pull or topit.

1st edition 2021, PDF 3 pages, video 17 s.

From the foreword by Will Goldston:

In A C.A.A.N. Duel troverete una coppia di effetti incredibili di CARTOMAGIA a tema: Carta al Numero. - Nel primo effetto, che dà il titolo all'eBook, un mazzo completo di 52 carte, eventualmente anche preso a prestito, viene mescolato a piacere da uno spettatore che parteciperà ad uno sfida. Si tratterà di indovinare quale carta si trovi ad un numero indicato a scelta tra 1 e 52. Dopo aver fornito un primo esempio, si passa alla sfida vera e propria: inizia il mago che, a dimostrazione delle grandi capacità acquisite in materia, annuncia (e scrive su un biglietto) la carta ancor prima...

Eckhard Böttchers letzten ausgewählten Routinen.

In diesem EBuch finden Sie 20 Routinen mit ca. 120 Farbfotos bzw. farbigen Abbildungen und 12 s/w-Zeichnungen. Nicht alle Routinen sind von Böttcher selber, aber wie Jochen Zmeck zu sagen pflegte, er hat daran "gedreht".

• Vorwort
• 3-Becher-Vorhersage
• 9 minus 8 mit Karten
• Ägyptisches Orakel
• Auge des Götzen
• Büchse der Pandora
• Das Modell
• Der Zigarettenfang
• Der Diamant
• Ein Mentalexperiment
• Hexenalphabet
• Jeder kann gewinnen!
• Die magischen Tafeln
• Mozart oder Haydn
• Regenbogen-Wunder
• Die sprechende Uhr
• Tarot-Mirakel
• Tue, was ich tue! ...

This ebook gives directions for a number of conjuring tricks that depend on skill rather than costly apparatus for their magical effect. They include examples of mind-reading, escapology, ventriloquism, and stage illusions, and each section of the ebook is devoted to a particular type of act.

The success of any show depends on coordinating the movements with the patter. It is important that the two should be practiced together, so an outline script is provided with each trick.

• Foreword
• A Complete Conjuring Act
  • Effect
  • Accessories and Apparatus
  • Presenting the Routine: What to Say and...

• A Different Kind Of Penetration
• Routines For Clippo
• Matchless Magic
• An Alka Seltzer GAG
• A Pick Pocket Gag
• Ideas For Wiztax
• Cigarettes - Cigars - Pipe
• A New Deal In Poker
• Douglas Kelly's Telephone Trick
• A Suggestion For A New "Levitator"
• A Bit Of Patter
• New Routine For The Quarter In The Beer Mug
• Making The Most Of The Newspaper Tearing Trick
• The Health Magician
• Black Jack Magic
• The Card In The Mirror

At its core, this is a quick, high-impact propless piece that you can deploy in almost any situation like on a voice call, in a virtual show, face-to-face close up, parlor, street, etc. The performer divines a word being thought of by a participant.

But the true power is in its mind-boggling range of possibilities. You can literally plant about 48000 different possible words in a participant's mind and seemingly read their mind to exactly divine that word. The combination of principles is so flexible that you can again literally apply it to any theme of presentation you may want. If you...

An ebook of clever mental magic. Here are some of the effects explained:

CLEARLY CHANCE - This is the usual effect, using a tray, but what a refreshing difference. The tray is made of transparent plastic (perspex). Three sealed envelopes are handed out to a spectator. The performer says that one of the envelopes contains a treasury note (e.g. £10) but the other two contain slips of paper only. The spectator mixes the envelopes and offers one of them to another nearby spectator. He then takes one himself and offers the remaining one to the performer. The performer places his down on a small...

We are proud to reintroduce this rare manuscript of Audley Walsh's gambling exposé, which also includes a number of the author's card effects that make a perfect ending to the lecture.

Contains the "meat" of his now-famous lecture, including a brief biography; how he developed and organized the lecture; gives an excellent summary on the origin and history of playing cards; plus six excellent, illustrated card effects and sleights to present:

• The Mystic 32 Card Trick
• Any Name Called For
• Rubber-Fingered Charlie
• Use My Deck!
• Blackjack Peek
• Three Card Monte with Paper Clip
• The Magnetic...

The Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused eooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key magical areas. The eooks are written in an easy-to-understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.

Volume 5 sets out to discover whether there is one key element that contributes more than any other to making a performer a success. The conclusion is that CONTROL is a factor that if properly harnessed can exert a huge influence on the life of any performing magician.

With this in mind, I examine...

Unique magical effects and routine ideas made possible by the handle on a tea, demitasse or christening cup. Dozens of new moves, sleights, and subtleties beyond traditional cups and balls and chop cup routines.

Descriptions and definitions of T-cups and objects suitable for producing minor miracles and new feats of conjuring with free and ungaffed materials – simple teacups and small, common objects.

Explanation of more than sixty (60) moves using T-cups.

Detailed patterns of performance with T-cups using these moves.

A complete description and identification of 57 cup and ball...

Gregg Webb teaches a routine for causing a ball to appear in his hand and vanish multiple times, using an oversize magic wand. The routine uses one ball, and a simple-to-make wand: this is a great family-oriented trick for children's shows.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages hand lettered text with illustrations.

Virtual Revelations Triumph is a new and incredible hands-off card magic effect, which is also possible from a distance (in a video chat, e.g. on Zoom, Skype or Google Meet), in which a couple of people in the same room, even if they are connected to the illusionist miles away, will take part in an experiment in which two cards freely chosen from about half the deck, distributed in various piles and shuffled between them, turning some of them face up and others face down, depending on the free choices of the two participants, will end up being the only two cards left face down and which, once...

Virtual Revelations Triumph é un incredibile effetto inedito di cartomagia self-working, possibile anche a distanza (in una video chat, ad es. su Zoom, Skype o Google Meet), in cui una coppia di persone presenti nella stessa stanza, anche se collegati con l’illusionista a km di distanza, parteciperanno ad un esperimento in cui due carte scelte liberamente tra all’incirca metà mazzo, distribuite in vari mazzetti rimescolati tra loro, voltandone alcuni di faccia e altri di dorso, a seconda delle libere scelte dei due partecipanti, al termine si ritroveranno ad essere le UNICHE due carte...

• Vorwort zur ersten Auflage 1962
• Vorwort zur zweiten stark erweiterten Auflage
• Kapitel 1: Die Präparation
  • Standard-Tinktur
  • Kolophonium-Lösung
  • Mastix-Lösung
  • Speziallösungen
  • Anwendung
• Kapitel 2: Forcierspiele
  • 2.1. Das J. Z. Forcierspiel
  • 2.2. Schneller als das Auge
  • 2.3. Der zerrissene Gedanke
  • 2.4. Al Bakers Nummer-Force
  • 2.5. Die...

Dieses PDF ist nur die Anleitung dieses Tenyo Tricks (T-151) den Eckhard Böttcher für die Zauber Butike verfaßt hat. Sie bekommen kein Mäppchen und keine Karten.

Sie präsentieren Ihren Zuschauern ein kleines Mäppchen. Wenn es aufgeklappt wird, befindet sich auf einer Seite ein durchsichtiges Fach, in das Sie eine Karte mit der Abbildung eines leeren Käfigs schieben. Dann zeigen Sie den Zuschauern vier weitere Karten. Auf einer befindet sich der berühmte Illusionist "Ecardo", auf den übrigen sind drei verschiedene Tiere, ein Elefant, ein Löwe und eine Giraffe, zu sehen. Ein Zuschauer...

The pro guide to better compèring.

From the introduction by Billy McComb:

1st edition 1984, 13 pages; PDF 14 pages.

This ebook describes a number of new variety acts for the amateur entertainer that will enable him to present up-to- date versions of Chapeaugraphy (making many hats from one brim), Mind Reading, Chinese Paper Folding, Magic Spelling, Paper Tearing, Lightning Cartoons, Shadowgraphs and Magic.

Practically all the materials used to construct the simple props can be found in the home or bought in local stores, and great use is made of ordinary newspaper.

It is vital that talk and action should be practised together, so a detailed script with full patter and performing notes is given with...

Learn what and what not to do when presenting magic for a TV audience. In no other field is it as easy to go wrong, or as easy to do right - if you're prepared with the proper information. Discover why these tricks are not good for television broadcasts: Twentieth Century Silks, Sucker Sliding Die Box, Zombie, Sympathetic Silks, Gloves to Dove, Cigarette Manipulations. Do you know the answers to why the above - and scores more like them - are so often performed poorly on TV? If not, you need this ebook, which gives you all the answers.

Written by a former television artist, Tricks for Television...