Magic & Conjuring: page 256

Marketing is the key to a magician's success. The amount of work he gets depends on how well he gets his name out. All of us use the common sources: newspaper, Facebook, direct mail, email and others. Many fail because they make their debut in these areas only to drop out and not keep them going.

Even with common sources covered there comes a time when magician's cast their eyes on higher income. At that point, the opinion is such that they must jump into expensive media. Newspapers, radio, television and others sound good. They should. It is a sales person presenting this information in...

The Hypno-Dream Program

For over fifty-eight years Charles Gauci has applied the principles contained in this program to help him achieve tremendous world wide success both as a hypnotist and a mentalist. He explains:

• Why Positive Thinking fails 95% of the time when applied.
• The Law of Reversed Effort. Why the harder we try the less we succeed.
• Why, when the Will Power and the Belief System are in conflict the Belief System always wins.

An autobiographical history of magic, profusely illustrated with diagrams of magic tricks and photographs of Goldston's career.

From the foreword by J. C. Cannell:

A masterful presentation of Extra Sensory Perception wherein five different spectators prove their psychic ability.

EFFECT: Five different Jumbo ESP symbol cards are exhibited, and one card each is sealed in a large manila envelope. The envelopes are mixed, so the whereabouts of any given symbol is unknown. Any five spectators volunteer, and name the envelope which they think contains a certain specified symbol card. Spectator's names are each written on an envelope, and their selection is recorded beside their name on a large white board or easel-mounted display card.

Each envelope, as...

Here's a terrific book for those who wish to entertain their friends or business associates with clever magic that leaves a lasting impression.

Until now, this hard to find, limited edition book has been available only to collectors, selling for up to 150 times its original price. Now introduced as a convenient, digital ebook, Lustig's work will baffle a new generation of audiences with feats of magic and mindreading.

Over 50 excellent, impromptu effects to show friends, family and others. While most of the effects require practice, the instructions are clear enough that even younger magicians...

The record of a career famous for adventure and vicissitude, and in which the jester won more tricks than the gamester.

• Preface
• Chapter I: Birth And Early Peregrinations
• Chapter II: Becoming A Patron Of The Pasteboards
• Chapter III: Early Times On The Mississippi
• Chapter IV: Getting A Sobriquet And Meeting Great Men
• Chapter V: The Turnpikes, The Packets And The Inns
• Chapter VI: Initiated In The Sons Of Malta
• Chapter VII: From The Green Mountains To Pike's Peak
• Chapter VIII: With The Bold Soldier Boys
• Chapter IX: The Fraternity Of Gamesters
• Chapter X: To Point A Moral And Adorn A...

This is an unusual mix of contents including magic card tricks, card games and how gamblers cheat at those games, other swindles and scams, a section on dice and cheating at dice games, as well as moralizing against the evils of gambling.

Jonathan H. Green was a reformed gambler, who made a career exposing cheating via lectures, presentations and books.

An earlier shorter edition of this book was published under the title Games and Tricks with Cards.

If you are looking for an edited version and somewhat modernized rendition of this book you can find it here.

• Chapter I
  • Invention Of Cards
  • Mysterious Trick...

Cursed includes two effects:

1) Cursed Bottle: Borrow a bottle and let them examine it. Close the cap of the bottle and let spectator hold the bottle. Now cause the bottle to unscrew itself on your command while spectator is holding the cap.

2) Cursed Cap: Cause the cap of the bottle to unscrew itself on your command. You can stop the movement when you wish.

• Spectator holds it during the effect
• Everything is under your control
• Everything is examinable
• Easily constructable gimmick
• No Magnets, rubbers or electronics

1st edition 2017, length 9 min 45 s

The four aces are removed from a red backed deck. The Ace of Spades is placed on top of the red deck as the three other aces are lost one by one into a blue deck. After a magical gesture, the aces disappear from the blue backed deck and reappear on top of the red deck, under the Ace of Spades!

Excerpts from a few Magic Cafe reviews:

"How the aces "move" seems to confuse the spectator...and they have a weird look on their face, like "how is this possible!??". What I personally like about this one is that you end clean!!!"

"An assembly type trick, which is different from any other assembly...

Concerning marks and stamps, portable and fixed devices, manipulation of cards and other matters of interest to lovers of draw.

This is one of the better early books on card advantage play. We can be almost certain that Erdnase read this book.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Marks And Stamps
• Watermark
• Disfigurement Of Edges
• Nail Impressions
• Ruffling
• Roughening
• Bleaching
• Crimping
• Erasing
• Evaporating
• Glazing
• Enamel
• Acidulated
• Other Marks
• Pricking
• Trimmed
• Briefs
• Wedges
• Strippers Or Humps
• Scratches
• Filling And Burnishing
• Assorted
• Cut-Off
• Shading
• Scrolling
• Stamped Or Readers
• Portable...

It's all in the Head - Lecture Notes

"Genuinely fabulous!" - Ken Dyne

Get ready to step inside of Stefan Olschewski's head. In this ebook, you will find lots of content from his professional repertoire. Nothing is held back. Stefan even shares an exclusive idea that got him standing ovations when he did his lecture in Austria, something that has never happened before in the 35 years history of the respective club.

Here is what you will find inside:

• 51 pages full of mind blowing mentalism
• 44 photos and drawings explaining everything in great detail
• Professional effects from Stefan's working...

• Card Tricks
  • The Four Burglars
  • Divination
  • An Exhibition of Thought-Reading
  • The Disappearing Ace
  • Another Thought-Reading Trick
  • Hypnotic Selection
  • The Four Burglars Again
• Tricks with Ordinary Handkerchiefs
  • Parachute
  • Doubling the Allotment
  • The Puzzle Knot
  • The Stretched Handkerchief
  • The Salamandic Handkerchief
  • The Flash Handkerchief
  • The Acrobatic Handkerchief
  • Handkerchief Knotting Act
  • The Instantaneous Knot
  • One-Handed Knot
  • Double Instantaneous Knot
• Paper Magic
  • Trough
  • Easy Aeroplane Fold
  • Chrysalis Beads
  • Christmas Crackers
  • Slap Bang
  • Doorway Scoring Game
• Conjuring...

• Foreword
• Playing With Fire - Part One
  • The Construction Of The Fire-Eaters Torch
  • To Eat Fire
  • A Novel Way To Light The Second Torch
  • Eating Fire From The Hand
  • Burning The Tongue Alive
  • Try Shooting Flames From The Mouth
  • The Giant Blow-Out
  • A True Story
• Playing With Fire - Part Two
  • The Mysterious Gas Jet
  • A Simple Fire Wheel
  • Balancing The Fire Wheel
  • Miscellaneous Fire Effects
  • Multiplying Candles
  • The Famous Clay Pipes Mystery
  • The Fire Bowl
  • Re-Lighting Tapers
  • Lighted Candle From Pocket
  • The Fire Walk
• A Complete Fire Act
  • Notes On Fire Regulations
  • A Final Word
• Please...

One of Dai Vernon's favorite casual effects. The double vanish and reappearing of a coin.

1st edition 2017, 4 pages.

"Dr. A" was a real-life figure, having devoted 33 years of his life as a very successful office reader and clairvoyant. He gave Robert Nelson full permission to publish his unique secrets, however he requested that he remain anonymous.

He devised, created and used what Nelson regarded as one of the finest - if not the finest - methods of giving private readings and (apparently) reading the minds of others.

The system described is so subtle and versatile that Dr. "A" and Nelson both were able to give thought-staggering readings and demonstrations under the most adverse of conditions, whether...

This was a piracy of Hugh J. Johnston's and F. B. Sterling's book Modern Card Miracles.

A treatise on card systems and setups, as well as effects that will fool laymen and magicians alike!

Presentation, secrets, routine and patter are all included. Because most of the effects rely on subtlety instead of difficult sleights, even amateur performers can now fool with professional-caliber presentations. Included are card miracles for parlor, platform, club and stage, as well as effects that will garner free publicity if performed for newspaper editors and reporters. While advertisements say that no sleight of hand is required, one simple sleight...

September 1895 - November 1896 Borwig und Horster, Dresden; Dezember 1896 - Juni 1898 Horster und Kluge, Dresden; ab Januar 1904 Conradi-Horster, Berlin.

Kunststücke aus allen Sparten der Magie. Detaillierte Beschreibungen klassischer Zaubergeräte, Hilfsmittel und Kunststücke (die oft auch heute noch im Handel sind). Erklärung vieler Großillusionen der damaligen Zeit. Viel Material über Trickkarten, Trickspiele und mechanische Karten. Viele Vorträge, oft von humoristischer Art, die leicht zu modernisieren sind. In vielen Jahrgängen finden sich die ständigen Rubriken Antispiritismus,...

10 Hefte vom Oktober 1928 bis September 1929. 120 Seiten.

• Vorwort zum XIII. Jahrgang
• Mein interessantes Bühnenerlebnis
• Zick-Zack
• Silbenrätsel / Eugen Harkewitz
• Die Kunst des Mathematikers / F. Hügli
• Sichtbar oder Unsichtbar? / H. W. Tagrey
• Eine neue Art des Unerschöpflichen Tamburin
• Gaston's Tüchertrick
• Gaston's Kaninchentrick
• Briefkasten
• Karten-Kunststücke: Unnütze Vorsicht / F. Hügli
• Silbenrätsel / Eugen Harkewitz
• Magische Aphorismen / Gaston
• Rund um die magische Welt
• Die Kritik: John Olms der Uhrenkönig aus New York

• Enttrohnte Medien
• Magisches...

12 Hefte vom Oktober 1927 bis September 1928. 214 Seiten.

• Vorwort zum XII. Jahrgang des Zauberspiegels
• Preisrätsel / Eugen Harkewitz
• Der Schwebende Zauberstab von Röhl
• Ein Waschbecken-Trick
• Ein "Guter" Tuch-Trick
• Carlo Arminio's Original Geldfang-Trick im Champagnerkühler
• Ein Mirakel / W. H. Baastad
• Der indische Seiltrick
• Karten-Kunststück: Der Künstler als Schnelldrucker / K. Zeisel
• Ein Telepathisches Experiment / H. Hahne
• Aus meiner Vortragsmappe: Der Schneiderpokal / Talmi-Bellachini, O. Schiele
• Rund um die magische Welt
• Die Kritik
• Magische Aphorismen / H. W....

10 Hefte vom Oktober 1926 bis September 1927. 172 Seiten.

• Deas Geheimnis des Erfolges
• Hat sich die Zauberkunst überlebt? / Kurt Engelberg
• Magische Rundschau der Vereinigung Maja
• Erdmann Hertwig Nachruf
• Kurt Engelberg Nachruf
• Karten-Kunststücke: Die fünf mysteriösen Karten
• Eine mysteriöse Gedankenphotographie / P. von Kalnassy
• Die in freier Hand erscheinende und verschwindende Karte / Dr. E. Gradmann
• Was Ihr wollt / Walter Herder
• Für Bastler: Der Kartensteiger in der Tasche
• Gaston's grosser Sanduhrtrick
• Ein Schellen-Experiment / E. W. Peters
• Verse, welche beim...

9 Hefte vom Juli 1925 bis Juni 1926. 146 Seiten.

• Conradis mysteriöses Schellen Potpourri
• Doktor Faust's Unerschöpfliche Mappe
• Sherlock Holmes Kerze
• Der mysteriöse Taubenfang aus der Luft
• Das Japanische Taubenwunder
• Pecunia: der Geldfang im Sektkühler
• Ein Divinatorisches Rätsel: Das Geheimnis des Wörterbuches / F. Hügli
• Karten-Kunststück: Das verzauberte Licht / E. Hertwig
• Psycho, der Wunderkasten
• Rund um die magische Welt: W. W. Durbin
• Die Kritik

• Im Bunde der Dritte / Alfred Keßler
• Conradis mysteriöses Schellen-Potpourri
• Die Brieftauben-Glocken...

7 Hefte vom Oktober 1924 bis Juni 1925. 160 Seiten.

• Zum Wiedererscheinen des "Zauberspiegels"
• Conradis Acht-Fingerhut-Trick
• Der wandernde Fingerhut nach Salern
• Kabarett-Neuheiten
• Die Duplizität der Ereignisse
• Eine Viertelstunde Kabarett-, Varieté- oder Vereins-Vorstellung: Der große Wasser- und Feuerschalen-Akt
• Das Riesenkartenspiel
• Die Kritik
• Magische Literatur

• Eine Viertelstunde Kabarett-, Varieté- oder Vereins-Vorstellung
• Von Tüte zu Tüte / Helmuth Schreiber
• Das Radio Couvert
• Die neue Verkleinerungs-Zigarre
• Clement de Lions Erscheinen von Gegenständen...

12 Hefte vom Januar 1908 bis Dezember 1908. 240 Seiten.

Aufgrund von Arbeitsübarlastung entschloß sich Conradi-Horster, statt des 8. Jhgs. ein Buch, nämlich Der Zauberkünstler auf der Höhe der Kunst, erscheinen zu lassen, das den Abonnenten des Zauberspiegels in monatlichen Heften zugesandt wurde. Somit gibt es eigentlich keinen 8. Jahrgang. No. 1

• Geschichte, Wesen und Mittel der Magie
• Vorwort
• Ein genialer Kartentrick / Le Roy
• Photo: Le Roy, Talma, Bosco
• Rätselhafter Transport geliehener Gegenstände / H. F. C. Suhr
• Eine magische Kaffeehaus-Scene / Le Roy
• Der Blumengärtner...

12 Hefte vom Januar 1907 bis Dezember 1907. 236 Seiten.

• Karten-Kunststücke: Die schwarze Dame / Dr. Rohnstein
• Das magische Papierband / Horace Goldin
• Das geheimnisvolle Papierband / H. F. C. Suhr
• Die gezeichnete Münze im Hühnerei
• Der magnetisierte Spazierstock
• Billardqueue-Klammer
• Zick-Zack: Occident und Orient, Chevalier Ernest Thorn, Chung Ling Soo, Francois Rooberts

• Karten-Kunststücke: Die wunderbare Vereinigung / Hugo Schrader
• Eine neue Weinchange / H. F. C. Suhr
• Gegenstände aus dem Weltausstellungszylinder, dem Tamburin etc.
• Eine originelle Produktion...