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If bought together with Run Silent Run Deep you will receive an instant $5 bundle discount.

"This is so much more than just an effect. It is a powerful subtlety that is a must have for your mentalist toolbox." - Banachek (USA)

"Crystal clear and absolutely mindblowing!" - Martin Adams (UK)

POSSIBLY THE MOST AMAZING "THINK OF A CARD" METHOD IN YEARS!
You'll use this for the rest of your life. No props, just what appears to be pure mind-reading! A stunningly produced ebook with 3 full routines and amazing bonus contributions!

So, what is Silent Running?

Briefly, it's a "Think Of A Card" concept...

Annemann describes a wealth of forty pieces in this wonderful booklet. The first, "Call me up sometime" is a beautifully direct telephone miracle. This is a prime example of Annemann's mantra of 'effect before method'.

I found the following line from Annemann's introduction funny:

1st edition 1934; 50 pages.

5. Call Me Up Sometime
6. The Borrowed Deck Tragedy
7. Help Wanted In The Dark
9. A Thought...

The final book of the Routined Manipulation series. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.) More great hand magic for both close up and stage by some of the greatest magicians of all times.

• Anti Gravity Glasses: A feature of Ganson's act for years. Three glasses suspend from a clear sheet of plexiglass. Everything is examinable. This was a marketed item by Unique Studios for many years and now you can easily make this up at home and use it.
• Fred Kaps Coins and Glass Routine: This is the exact routine used by Fred Kaps throughout his career. One of the finest routines with coins ever!
• Peter Warlock's Take a Bow:...

"Some of the most clever takes on the Torn and Restored Card in years, Ben Harris' Quarks & Quirks is an invigorating journey of topological twists and tears." - Richard Kaufman

A journey beyond the tear, inspired by the weird world of Quantum Physics. In this superbly produced book, filled with photographs Ben Harris shares seven routines. Includes:

THE QUARTER BACK TEAR

A method for apparently tearing a card cleanly in half, while in reality, only tearing one quarter from the card. This sets you up as either a "quarter ahead" or a "quarter behind" depending upon the intended...

There is telekinesis of all kinds within these pages from coins to nails. An effect that allows the mentalist/psychic to bring dead ants back to life! Levitation effects, abnormal lifts, teleportation, creating movement with your mind! Effects included:

• The Bends
• Permutation Of Matter - A Solid Through A Solid Effect
• The Spikes Of Asmodeus
• The Frankenstein Affair
• Imponderable Enrgy
• The Reach Of The Mind
• Merlin's Magic Marionettes
• The Secret Of The Ancients

PSI-POKER is the latest creation from Ben Harris (co-creator of 2010’s hit X-RAY).

This new effect is totally self-working, requiring no skill or gaffs. (Unless you are calling 'peeking the bottom card' a move.) The secret is ancient, but it’s never been used in this manner before. Magic’s leading historians and card experts have confirmed this claim. (To be precise, it is a new property of an old principle. Very clever indeed.)

So, what is PSI-POKER?

The effect is a multiple prediction of how a game of “Texas Hold ‘em” will play out from a shuffled deck. You hand a prediction...

• TRANS PHONE TEST: Mentalist asks anyone in the audience to use his cell phone to call home and ask anyone to choose a number (which is kept secret). Another person chooses a number secretly. These numbers combined secretly by the spectators to arrive at a page in a book. Mentalist reveals the passage in the book plus the two numbers thought of. You never approach the spectators.
• WEIRD PROPHESY: You write 6 digits on a card and give to anyone to hold. The digits are visible to the person holding them. Members of the audienc call out 4 digits while another person on the phone chooses 2 more....

From the forward by Al Mann: The Mag-Eye catapults the center-tear method of thought reading into the space-age! The technique given here makes obsolete most of the former writings on the center-tear. Including the author's own. Such is progress. But bear in mind that occasionally the mentalist will have need of resorting to the original method of stealing the folded center piece as some spectators write a message and fold it and bring it to you for a test. At this writing only two persons know the secret of the Mag-Eye move. Only three persons know the secrets of "Cistella" and only one has...

This book has long become a classic for close-up magicians. I have acquired a box as part of a larger deal and am pricing it ridiculously low. If you already have this book buy three more copies and hand them out as gifts. Your friends will love you. (Please note that while these are not used books, they are not necessarily in pristine condition. Some rubbing and chaffing on the covers, and the cover print is at times not perfect.)

1st edition 1978; 150 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Pen-Ultimate
10. UnCanny
19. Stapled! by Paul and Looy
26. The P.H. Invisible Palm
42. Absorption
52. OverExposure
58. Invisible...

Anyone who has seen Paul work will know that he is first and foremost an entertainer. This book contains commercial routines he has used professionally for many years.

Includes:

• Introduction by Martin Breese
• "I'm There To Make Them Happy"
• Paul's ESP Trick
• The Flying Eagles
• Coins Across
• The Travellers
• Two Copper, One Silver
• Diamond Aces
• Mandarin Coin

1st edition 1986, 38 pages.

This booklet features two separate titles in one bound softcover. Read one title from one side, then turn the booklet front to back and read the other title.

• Patter in Rhyme by Bert Douglas
• En Rapport by Ted Annemann

• The Ghost of the Unborn
• The Master of the Word
• The Adonis Book Test
• Adonis, Aphrodite and Zeus
• Fifth Row Center Aisle
• The Shades of Thought
• The Uninvited
• Forcing the Word
• Forcing Three Words
• The Book Mark

23 pages

The knowledge in this manuscript allows the mentalist to very convincingly demonstrate the ability to read sealed messages and posses the art of thought-transference! The spectator is told to take his business card out and write out a question and turn the card writing-side down. The card is then sealed in a envelope which the spectator signs and holds. After the mentalist divines the thought, the envelope is opened and the card is taken out for a handwriting analysis and then both the card and the envelope are returned to the spectator! Contents:

• The Essence Of Thought
• Threshold Three...

The manipulation of money is fascinating to everyone and probably always will be. Bills are common, pack small, and easy to borrow. This booklet describes in detail all the important moves, gimmicks and tricks with paper money. Great effects are taught, spanning the impromptu situation to the prepared performance from close-up to parlor or stage. This is a great book with very practical and strong effects.

1st edition, 1937 Max Holden, New York; 62 pages.

3. Introduction
4. Chapter 1: Preliminary Preparation
7. Chapter 2: Sleights, Switches
16. Chapter 3: Vanishes
19. Chapter 4: Impromptu Tricks with...

Part II from Al Mann Zodiac Series. You will find here several card techniques and a special card trick: how to deal five Aces to any seat at the poker table with a shuffled and cut deck. From the introduction, by Al Mann: I have been told by magicians who should know, that Poker demonstrations and Mentalism should not mix. I disagree with the above 100%... I have seen the amazed look in the eyes of a person when the Mentalist reads his mind... And I have also seen the terrible look in the eyes of the spectator after the miracle man deals five aces (4 aces and the joker), to any seat at the...

A collection of provocative mental effects. Includes:

• A Link With Eternity (An Object Lesson In The Art Of Mindreading)
• To Command The Elements (Weather Prediction)
• Thot-Prints 1 (Test By Fire)
• Thot-Prints Ii (Passing Thoughts)
• Mental-Kinesis (Spoon Bending)
• Dinner Table Yoga (Levitation)
• The Mystery Of The Triplets (Math Mentalism)
• The Sans Tear Center Method (Billets)
• The Unseen Tear
• Sealed And Torn Messages
• Gemel's Messages
• The Tretology Of Dionysus
• The Mystic Chalice
• Typhon's Tongs
• Herpicks' Tongs
• Psychic Feedback
• Suspended Animation
• The Pharaoh's Palm ...

Classic routines with coins, bank notes, cigarettes, thimbles, and cards by the amazing Al Koran & and the ingenious Jack Lamonte.

Including Koran's amazing Miracle Card Stab.

1st edition 1947; reprinted 1987; digital edition 2010; original 66 pages; PDF 44 pages.

Table of Contents

3. CONTENTS
4. PREFACE
5. Amazement with Money
6. - THE "LAST-WORD" NOTE ROUTINE
10. - THE MASTER "SILVER AND COPPER" ROUTINE
14. - THE MASTER "CLOSE-UP" COIN VANISH
16. Cigarette Sorcery
17. - PERFECT CIG-SWITCH
19. - THE CHAPEAU CIGARETTES
21. - CIG SUSPENSION
23. Thimble Amazement
24. - THE MASTER MOVE
26. - THE "PINCH" HIGH SPEED VISIBLE VANISH ...

The first part in this four part series deals with effects done with ordinary slates, ungimmicked and without flaps, that anyone can do without having to invest in expensive trick slates.

Note that this manuscript comes unbound in a package of loose sheets, the way Al Mann stored them. You can bind them anyway you like, or leave them unbound, perhaps only hole punch them and put them in a binder.

27 pages

More early card and coin creations from Peter Duffie and Jerry Sadowitz. Martin Breese was called the "Card Magic Publisher Of the Year" due the various publications by these two gentlemen.

Table of Contents

1. Contents
5. Publisher's Foreword

7. Chapter One Jerry Sadowitz On Cards
7. Smile Away
8. Discrepancy Transposition: 1
9. Discrepancy Transposition: 2
10. Flush Locator
11. All Change
13. Mik Mak Mok

15. Chapter Two Peter Duffie On Cards
15. Envelope Prediction
17. Apartheid
17. Worlds Apart
19. Home Computer
20. Pocket Assembly

22. Chapter Three Jerry Sadowitz Sleights And Moves
22. Shuffle Lap
23. Stop Sleight
24. Slip Cut Half Pass ...

Know their traits and what to expect. Learn routines that work.

1st edition 2003; 21 pages.

5. FOREWORD
6. TO DO or NOT TO DO
6. - DO - Be Polite
6. - DO - Maintain Crowd Control
7. - DO - Maintain an Energy Level
7. - DO - Use Audience Participation
7. - DO NOT - Make a Fool Out of Any Individual
8. - DO NOT - Work From the Floor
8. - DO NOT - Turn Your Back on the Audience
8. - DO NOT - Do Smokes, Booze or Drugs
9. - DO NOT - Do Blue Material
9. - DO NOT - Do Card Tricks
10. THE TRAITS OF CHILDREN BY AGE GROUP
10. - AGES 1 through 2
10. - AGES 3 through 4
11. - AGES 5 through 8
11. - AGES 9 through 11
12. - AGES 12 through 16
12. -...

"Something that's never been done before using a method that's never been used before - very cool." - Richard Kaufman

"...situational, astonishing and a devilishly clever piece of magic. The best effect I've seen in a long time!" - Joshua Jay

"Mind expanding magic in every sense..." - Michael Ammar

Hole in the Head created a furor when released to the general magic community. Originally worked up as a situational piece for a David Blaine TV special, the general market place would have nothing of something as esoteric. No, you had to be able to pull it out of a baggie and stumble through it for a street...

The magician pulls out a six foot piece of rope, pulls it up in the center and clearly cuts the rope into two pieces. He then picks up the bottom ends, brings them to the top and the rope fully restores. He then grabs the rope by the middle and cuts it in half again. He trims off the pieces at the top and the rope restores a second time.

He folds the rope into thirds and cuts it at the top and bottom. He clearly counts off the three separate and equal pieces from one hand to the other. With all the pieces held in one hand he brings the bottom ends to the top and individually pulls out three...

A golden stick floats in the air without any means of support. A hoop is passed across and around the stick yet it still floats until finally at the command of the magician it travels away from him, at least six feet, and gently comes to rest upon a table.

This effect can be performed in a large drawing room or whilst completely surrounded. It is a one man floating effect and no assistants are required. It should not be confused with the Finn Jon Floating Stick which uses an entirely different method. With this routine the stick actually floats away from the magician and if performed on a...

"A beautifully realized moment of astonishment ... the new gimmick is very clever indeed!" - Paul Harris

"A stunning vanishing deck that takes an original idea by Paul Harris and sends it to the moon." - Richard Kaufman

The remarkable effect shifts "the moment" in Paul Harris' amazing Vanishing Deck allowing for a card to be selected and signed.

This selected card is shuffled back into the deck which is then held in full view.

Upon command, the entire deck visually vanishes (that's right - it just blinks out of being) leaving only the chosen card as a poignant applause cue.

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