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Close-up magic tricks for everyone - from cards to general close-up

This ebook is filled with various commercial close-up tricks and routines that have been tried, tested and performed for live audiences over many years. These are practical and commercial effects that will appeal to the working magician whose focus is on captivating and entertaining his audience.

You will find a mix of old and new items, original tricks, twists on old routines and ideas to tweak those close-up effects gathering dust in your cupboard.

For the card magicians, you will find sensational routines, such as...

Inspired by Greg Arce's stage routine 'Awe-Sum Total' which in turn was inspired by Larry Becker's 'Sum total. Scott has taken Greg's original (with his permission) and adapted it for close-up table hopping without losing the impact of the original.

Five, five digit numbers are displayed to the audience as a prediction. These numbers remain in full view throughout the routine and are not switched. The audience generates a random six-digit number in the hundreds of thousands, no forcing. The five prediction numbers are added together by an audience member using the calculator on his phone. The total matches...

Five volumes of creative, practical and professional mentalism created by a master performer. Many effects rely on subtlety rather than complex sleight of hand or expensive props. Basil Horwitz is not as well known as others such as Annemann or Corinda, but purely based on his creativity he can easily hold his ground among the greatest mentalists.

These are the instructions Martin Breese supplied with the Flying Ring trick. This routine can also be found in Al Koran’s Professional Presentation book.

1st edition 2009, 3 pages.

• Don't Follow the Crowd
• Save $ on Insurance
• Plastic Members
• Hand Cuffed??
• Don't have to Follow Directions
• Role Models
• Karaoke and Magic
• You Heard What?
• Release

1st edition 2017, 10 pages.

This very rare, and highly sought after, gambling book from 1915 is finally available. This book was the first to publish the fact that eight out-faro shuffles brings the deck back in its original order.

• Preface
• Stacking Or Running Up Cards
• Controlling Four Aces And Four Kings By Stacking And Bottom Dealing
• Stacking Cards With The Faro Riffle
• Combination Cold Deck And Faro Riffle
• False Cuts
• Marked Cards
• Controlling Cards In The Draw
• The Tip
• Telling Hole Cards In Stud Poker
• The Draw Out In Stud Poker
• Edge Work For The Draw Out In Stud
• The Spread
• Second Dealing
• Cold Decking ...

An advancement on Ed Marlo's iconic card change. See video below. You can only perform this at a table with an assistant.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

Revolutionary Card Technique No. 13. An ebook on an intriguing aspect of card magic. Both mechanical and natural estimation.

• Estimation
• Mechanical Estimation
  • First Method: The Comparison Method
  • Second Method: The Automatic Gauge Method
  • Third Method: The Nail Gauge
  • Fourth Method: Marlo's Favorite
  • Fifth Method: The Faro Check
• Mechanical Estimation Effects
  • The Magic Card
  • "Think I'll Stop Here"
  • "Chosen Card Count Down"
  • The Tipoff
  • Reversed Card Out
• Natural Estimation
  • Side Riffle Estimation
  • Pull Down Estimation
  • Back End Riffle Estimation
  • The Cut Estimate
  • Visual Retention...

• The Unique Classic Reel
• The Unique Classic Locking Reel
• The Unique Classic Double Reel
• The Unique Classic Double Reel in a Wristwatch
• Ken Brooke's Method for the Serpent Silk

1st digital edition 2017, 8 pages photo illustrated.

U. F. Grant contributed some of his best material to the Tarbell Course in magic. Most of this material is unique to the Tarbell Course and does not appear elsewhere. Before Grant died, he compiled a manuscript containing all of the material he contributed. It ranges from close up to stage illusions. A lot of magicians don't have the original Tarbell Course, so here is your chance to get all of the tricks he created and contributed in one place. Fully illustrated and one of the best buys in magic. This is stuff you will use and do and as Harlan Tarbell said, some of the best magic in his course.

One of the best tricks that Grant created was Ghost...

From the introduction by Eric Mason:

Ideas and Routines for Card Warp.

• Foreword
• Notes
• Routines
  • Witch Hunt
  • Physics Class
  • Batman Unmasked
  • Card Warp - 'David Blaine style'
  • Beat the Challenge
  • Spirit Contact
• Ideas
• Resources

1st edition 2017, 12 pages.

Vol. 13, No. 2, May 2017; 60 pages
Cover: Richard Jones

5. Editor's Letter
5. What's Inside - contents
6. Richard Jones - Operation Magic! - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
12. Magic on the Mersey - Liverpool is Magic! - Interview with Organiser Paul Stone
17. In The Phonebox with: ... Olivia Newton-John
18. Letters
20. 5 Rules Every Close-up Magician Must Break - Geraint Clarke
23. In The News
24. Masterclass
    24. Print-Out - Aldo Colombini
    25. Cheap Suit - Matt du Heaume
28. Daryl - August 13, 1955 to February 24, 2017 - Interview by Anastasia Dziekan
30. Jay Fortune - Magical Artist - Interview
36. Everyone Wants to be Stephen Bargatze!...

These are the instructions Martin Breese sent with the key. It includes the story how Martin managed to have the perfect keys manufactured. (No key included.)

1st edition 1983, 3 pages.

"Out of my, 44 books of magic, I am probably most proud of this one...powerful magic that can be used for Openers and Closers! Every detail worked out with pictures, 3 videos, history, and many underground sleights! This is a gold mine!" - Paul A. Lelekis

The ESP effect SHOCK! alone, is worth 10X the price of this e-book. However...all of these effects are priceless. All patter, psychology, history, nuances, and underground sleights are explained in detail.

1) OPENERS - essay of what they are, how they work, how to use them, transitioning, and why they work. ...and then four powerful...

Here is a stunning ten-minute routine for the magician to use as an encore at the end of his or her regular act. The performer demonstrates with devastating correctness that he can read the collective minds of several spectators.

In a very informal and impromptu style, the magician offers to read the minds of the spectators. He asks the audience to think of a question, name, relationship, number, color, etc. They are asked only to THINK these thoughts. Without further ado, the performer proceeds to call spectators by name, telling them of the exact thoughts in their minds at the moment, answering...

• Subliminal Parapsychology
• Mental Elimination
• The Great Lottery
• Mental Count Formula
• A Quickie
• Fortune Telling By Cards
• A Human Lie Detector
• Hi, There, Princess!
• No Carbon Impression
• The Unaware Confederates
• Reading Cards Behind Your Back
• Think Of A Card
• A Playing Card Book Test
• Enough Of A Good Thing

1st edition 1980, 24 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 20 pages.

87 Tricks, routines, ideas, developments and bits that will help you get the most out of the magic you now own. Lee Snyder is a "thinking magician" and you can easily apply the magical thoughts he has come up with.

• Lee-gerdemain
• Portable Hole Made Portable
• The Disappearing Cane
• Business Card Business
• A Rainbow Fantasy
• Training Your Balloon Dog
• The Memory Stick
• Yogurt of the Yogi
• The Weaving of the Rings
• Balancing the Budget
• Star Trick
• Instant Rabbit
• Pest Control
• Magic Greeting Card
• Balloon Transplant
• Balloon Bazooka
• Cold Cuts
• Handcuffs
• Tatooed
• Simple Manipulative Routine ...

A streamlined version of Ray Grismer's Shorty Routine.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

After more than one year and a half of planning, programming and thinking over and over about details, my third release is here. For this occasion, I'm sharing with you three effects along with some really cool phone applications. These are the effects found in the ebook:

THE PERFECT LOCATION: You place a red card as a prediction in a blue deck. A spectator selects a freely chosen card from the same blue deck and replaces it in a random position of his choice. The deck is divided into two and you take cards simultaneously from each packet. When you get to your prediction card (the red card),...

This is a collection of 10 ACAAN and plot variation methods. It covers subconscious predictions, Si work, and other such shenanigans.

Here is a list of the contents:

Predestination - A deck is shuffled by the spectator, and a card is thought of. The participant deals cards until they find the one they thought of. You have predicted the exact position it was found in. No forces involved, and nothing is said out-loud by the participant. Oh, and you can perform this blindfolded.

True ACAAN - No stooges, forces, trick decks, etc. It requires work, but it's not hard to do, and is entirely...

After working a few card tricks, how many times have you been asked "Can you tell fortunes with cards?" Fortune telling with cards has always been interesting; but, how many of us have wanted to spend the time to learn and memorize the meanings of all the playing cards? I would dare say, very few of us. Besides, there is no trick to it.

Now you can say, "Yes." Not only that, but you can actually tell people how many brothers and sisters they have, how many children they have including their gender, number of pets and the month of their birthday, including their current age (without doing...

Original methods for switching a card or cards.

• Rear Flat Palm
• Rear Angle Palm
• Thumb Clip Palm
• Latest Thumb Clip Palm
• Changing Palm Positions
• Flat Card Pickup
• Getting into the Palm Positions
• Methods of Unloading the X Card after the Switch: The Flexible Unload
• The Card Switch Transfer
• An Impressive Sequence
• A Simpler Sequence
• A Third Sequence
• First Switch
• Variations of the First Switch
• Marlo's Card Switch
• Additional Method for Getting into Basic Position of Rear Flat Palm required for the Marlo Card Swtich
• Methods of Disclosure
  • The Delayed Disclosure
  • The Indirect Disclosure ...

The important thing about these most practical and usable illusions is that they were created with the idea that the modern performer had to carry them in his car, use them on small platforms and stages, or in clubs, and yet had to give the impression of doing a big show. Here you have eleven easy to build illusions which fit all the above requirements, and they are mysterious, exciting and applause getting, to boot. Plenty of good illustrations will help you build these good, practical tricks. A minimum of carpenter work is required. Light and easy is the motto for this line of tricks.Large...