Magic & Conjuring: page 29

Impromptu tricks for audiences who speak little to no English.

In today's global world it is important to be able to do magic for folks who do not speak your language or who do not understand the cultural nuances and jokes you may have in your primary program. Many of the tricks taught are impromptu. From the introduction by Billy McComb:

This book covers a mix of stage illusions, manipulations, and parlor tricks. It is very nicely illustrated even featuring a couple of photos.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This ebook, fully illustrated, gives the secrets of the television star's favourite tricks and novelties: magic, hypnotism, laugh stunts - that anyone can perform.

This is a fun ebook with lots of easy effects, some of which you will know others of which will be entirely new to you. The lineup of contributors is a long list of distinguished magicians including Martin Gardner, Lewis Ganson, Tom Sellers, Milbourne Christopher, Ken de Courcy, Harry Stanley, and many others.

There was a second volume in this series called More Tricks of the Television Stars.

1st edition 1958, 48 pages; PDF 75 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Foreword
5. Contents
6. Bits & Pieces
8. Stuntrix
21. New Leaf
22. Comedy Levitation ...

If you are familiar with Magician's DIY Tips and Tricks then Tricks of the Trade is written with a very similar idea in mind just 60 years prior. It describes a multitude of DIY tips and gimmicks and improvements for the magician.

It describes things like:

• How to turn a sock into a billiard ball holder.
• The two ingredients to make fake beer.
• How to clean cards.
• How to make a candle shell.
• How to make coin holders from pins and safety pins.
• How to make colored flash paper.
• etc.

1st edition 1949, PDF 22 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• Escapo
• Match Divination
• The Dissolving Ring
• A Production Box Idea
• A Novel Egg Trick
• The Magnetised Cards
• The Smoke Vase
• A Vanishing Wand
• Living Or Dead?
• Vibrato
• A New Reversed Card Effect
• A Baffling Card Prediction
• Card...

Here is a selection of tricks created by Werner Miller from his ebooks. These are all tricks that can be considered more or less self-working.

CONTENTS:

• FLIPDOODLE 1: You use the twelve face cards to produce an astonishing result that finds three of the same suit.
• I'M NOT OGEN: A spectator 'makes up a card combining any two cards. You spell the name of that card and you find it. Finally, you find the other three cards of the same value.
• CHEERS!: You show seven cards with name of drinks on them and a prediction. A spectator selects a drink and you show that the prediction is correct… with a laugh. ...

Here is a selection of tricks created by Werner Miller from his ebooks. These are all tricks that can be considered more or less self-working.

CONTENTS:

• DIAMOND SPELLER: The thirteen cards of Diamonds are used to reveal a freely selected card.
• FREE CUT DUO: Two spectators pick a card each and lose them in a packet of cards. You reveal these cards.
• FETCH + HOFZINSER: A spectator cuts any amount of cards and selects two cards. The sum of these two cards corresponds to the number of cards cut by the first spectator.
• CAUGHT TOGETHER, HANGED TOGETHER: One card is selected. Two Jacks capture four cards...

Here is a selection of tricks created by Werner Miller from his ebooks. These are all tricks that can be considered more or less self-working.

CONTENTS:

• THE FRENCH CARD TRAP: Here is a non-sleight-of-hand method of locating up to twelve selected cards.
• 4TUITOUS: A principle that can be used as a simple prediction in its own right, or as a number force in another effect.
• AS EASY AS COUNTING: A freely selected card is revealed in a very humorous way.
• GO WEST: Another funny and very interesting way to reveal a card with messages written on face cards. Just follow them. (For an exploration of this...

Here is a selection of tricks created by Werner Miller from his ebooks. These are all tricks that can be considered more or less self-working.

CONTENTS:

• DO NOT DISTURB: Here is Werner's version of the classic Hotel Mystery, totally self-working.
• EQUIVALENT: A new principle. Cards are dealt in packets and one is selected by a spectator. The card on top indicates the sum of the cards below the other piles.
• LINE DANCER: A freely selected card is revealed using a reversed card.
• MOITIÉ, MOITIÉ: A very interesting routine using five Clubs cards cut in the middle.
• AND HER SON: A selected card is lost...

This is new, revised, and enlarged edition of an old favorite. Almost everybody owns a folding coin - and there are now excellent new ones on the market. Now everybody can learn what to do with the trick.

• About The Coin
• The Famous Coin In The Bottle
• A Great Pocket Trick
• Thru The Card
• The Half Dollar In The Wand
• Thru The Hand
• Wrapped In A Dollar
• Production
• In A Cigar
• Silk Threads
• The Handkerchief Pedestal And Coin
• Thru The Hat
• Fake Back Palming
• Thru The Cloth
• Coin Trick With A Top Hat
• In The Handkerchief
• The Wand Shell
• "Half A Dollar"
• Thru The Knee
• Ball Of Wool
• Before We...

The ever creative and prolific Grant collected in this ebook 21 card tricks all based on the 'one-way' principle. Grant starts out with examples of decks which are one-way, how to setup everything, and how to handle the cards correctly.

1st edition 1935; original 23 pages; PDF 13 pages.

A complete manual of card conjuring. This is not identical to the card sections in Hoffmann's other books such as Modern Magic etc. But this book has been released in sections under the titles Card Tricks With Apparatus and Card Tricks Without Apparatus since 1893. It appears Hoffmann was not too happy about breaking it up into parts.

• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY
• CHAPTER II. SLEIGHT OF HAND PROCESSES, APPLICABLE TO CARD CONJURING
  • To Make the Pass
  • To Make the Pass with both Hands
  • Single-handed Pass, No. 1
  • Single-handed Pass, No. 2
  • Single-handed Pass, No. 3
  • To Force a Card
  • To Force a Person to Think...

A rare and original manuscript that explains 13 tricks and routines using "cellophane" as the "main ingredient".

In an early issue of the Sphinx Grant wrote about this manuscript:

Content

1. Ice Cold Water
2. The Flying Ice
3. Tieing A Cigarette In A Knot
4. The Rubber Cigarette ...

Perhaps no other effect is so much associated with the magician as that of producing a rabbit from an empty hat. And, oddly enough, so few magicians today use a rabbit in their act.

Where the idea of producing a rabbit from a hat originated is not certain. The favorite story seems to be about the 18th century English woman who felt that she was not getting the attention she deserved. She told her husband and neighbors that she had been accosted by a rabbit and some time latter she took to her bed. The story immediately went out that she had given birth to several rabbits. The story naturally...

All of these clever tricks use magnets in one way or another.

• Buddha Coin Mystery
• Fortune Telling Coin
• Cup Levitation
• Grant's Match Penetration
• Mental Detection
• Living and Dead Test
• Clever Coin Vanish
• Sliding Glue
• Improved Sliding Glue
• Psychic Lock And Keys
• Rising Cards And Wand
• Coin Through Block
• Box - Cover and Coin
• Tip-See Pencil
• Improved Imp Bottle
• Improved Wands and Cords
• Stopping A Watch
• Handkerchief Box
• Nu-Coin
• Rolling Cigarettes
• Adams Coin Box
• Magnetic Cigar
• Three Shell Game
• Number Detection
• Mystery Man

PDF 15 pages

Although this booklet was written in the 40s, paper cups are still ubiquituous objects. Go to any fast food restaurant and you will find them, or at parties, at the company water cooler, picknicks, fairs a.s.o. This makes paper cups an ideal item for us magicians - great for an impromptu miracle. Sam Berland teaches 25 amazing tricks, from vanishing liquids to appearing silks in cups. Almost any magical effect can be achieved.

You too should know at least one trick with a paper cup for the next discussion at the water cooler.

1st edition 1942; 26 pages.

3. Introduction
5. Liquid Vanishing Cup:...

Here are 19 clever and entertaining card magic miracles that can be performed with prepared cards. Explained are several amazing principles involving prepared cards, with ingenious ideas for their use. Also included, with special permission, are several creations by Ford B. Rogers, which were published in this book for the first time.

Here's what's included:

• Foreword
• "Incomprehensibility" (Rogers)
• The Key Card (Two Methods)
• Forcing a Card (with the Key Card) A Feat of Apparent Mindreading
• The "Reversed Card" Principle
• The Prediction
• The "Self-Shifting" Pack (Two Methods)
• The Card...

The Double Lift is a powerful move but it is also easy to do it wrong, meaning not deceptively. In this ebook, the author will show several ways to learn and effectively perform this sleight and how to perform a variety of card tricks using this technique.

• Introduction
• Choosing a Deck of Cards
• The Grip
• Methods for Performing the Double Lift
• Some Card Tricks Using the Double Lift
  • Several color changes including the Scrub Board Change
  • Four Card Assembly
  • Wrong, Wrong Again
  • Name Your Card

1st edition 2015, PDF 46 pages.

The apparatus for this classic item comprises a solid ring and a nesting half-shell. These are not included with this ebook but you may already own the gimmick, or you can readily purchase it at any well-stocked magic shop.

Please note that Goutam is left-handed, and his descriptions and photos of the routines are based on his handling.

• The Jardine Ellis Ring
  • Basic Move No. 1
  • Basic Move 2
  • Basic Move 3
  • Basic Move 4
• Ring On The Ribbon
• Ring Off The Ribbon
• Continuous Production of Rings
• Ring Penetrates The Handkerchief
• Ring Penetrates Through The Palm
• Ring On The Spoon
• Ring...

Softcover stapled booklet in good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Tricks, sleights, and routines with watches.

Paul Fleming wrote:

A mathemagical medley of semi-automatic tricks. These tricks appeared 2015-2018 in Rick Carruth's Magic Roadshow Online Magazine.

1st edition 2019, 16 pages.

This book is the trick section of Sensational Tales of Mystery Men. Goldston felt that the trick section was the part that magicians would be most interested in and thus made it available as a separate book.

• Introduction
• The Newest Chinese Bat
• The Thought Reader
• Performing Matches
• The Best Penetrating Coin
• A Borrowed Handkerchief Burned
• A Mysterious Match
• Swallowing A Solid Wand
• Which Cigarette?
• The Vanished Egg
• The Expanding Egg
• The Newest Card Changing Box
• The G. W. Hunter Pull
• Cigarettes...