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The following book is a complete breakdown of my own professional roaming set. You might not agree with everything I write, but I can honestly say that I have had much success over the past two decades in using ideas, tips and tricks shared in this ebook.

• Dress Code
• Table
• Opening Lines
• First Effect: Chop Cup
• Second Effect: Male, Or Female
• Third Effect: Ambitious Card
• Fourth Effect: Body Language
• Children
• Awareness
• Use Your Time And Present!
• Your First Table/Group
• Following You Around
• Extra Content For My Set
• Cellphone App Magic
• Balloon Animals
• Last Performance
• Review
• Who...

A small book that's big on entertainment. Clean, novel methods are used to produce effects that are clear and uncluttered. Taking as an example the first effect in the book, 'Spellbound Climax': you show a 2p coin and magically transform it into a 10p. After repeating this a couple of times you are surprised to find that the coin has changed into a button! Looking down, you discover that the coin is attached to your jacket where the button should be.

To paraphrase Gordon Bruce's introduction, these aren't just tricks but lessons in presentation.

With illustrations by Roy Johnson.

Contents:

This booklet doesn't deserve the name 'booklet', because it is packed with many wonderful effects using small objects, from cards and coins, to ropes and silks and everything in between. There is also a nice section on vesting and sleeving. Jean Hugard is one of the outstanding teachers and authors in magic. My friend Chuck has been vanishing an orange for the last forty years in much the same manner that this booklet reveals how to vanish a dinner plate. He also remembers reading of Blackstone Sr. performing some of these stunts. Whenever the author is Jean Hugard - read it!

Paul Fleming wrote:

Pet secrets of some of the most celebrated close-up magicians of all time.

• Preface: Close-Up Magic by Bert Allerton
• What Makes a Trick by Al Baker
• Bottoms Down by Al Baker
• Mobilizing the Aces by Dai Vernon
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief by Dai Vernon
• Convening Kings by Francis Carlyle
• The Squeeze-Away Coin by Ross Bertram
• And the Part of a Garment by Emil Jarrow
• Card Effect With Two Packs by Nate Leipzig
• The Disconcerting Coins by Cliff Green
• Precognition by Cliff Green
• Scarne's Power of Thought by John Scarne
• The Coin Roll Vanish by Paul LePaul
• The Revolving Pass by Slydini
• Jacob's Ladder by Dr. Jacob Daley
• The Salt Trick by Dr. Jacob Daley
• Pop-Up Coins by S. Leo Horowitz ...

The Lottery - a frightening adaptation of the classic psychometry routine using a premise you might not have known existed. All based off of Shirley Jackson's famous short story "The Lottery"

Invisible Dreams - a clever adaptation to a prop you probably already own.

Gilbreath Revisited - this card effect is utterly baffling, so much that it's gone by some of the brightest minds in magic!

Psychic Art Thief - a drawing duplication routine that you can do during a walk around performances or even seated at a table.

Intuition - a foolproof cards across routine that never fails!

1st...

Drawing Man: a very fun and funny routine designed to get the audience involved. Using a classic artist's mannequin the mentalist predicts the outcome of an impossible to know pose.

Partners: this is a clever two person card routine that uses 2 decks, and comes with a surprise kicker ending! Mentalism with cards at it's finest.

The Magic Square: Chris unleashes all of his work on the classic magic square. With looks at the easy to the complicated you'll learn how to build, code and perform your own magic square.

Don't You Know It: A totally impromptu routine using some cards you're...

When Don Alan first worked at Schuliens Bar in Chicago, everyone highly praised his work and his fresh, new approach. He went on to set the standard for close-up magic. This ebook provides a group of solid Don Alan close up tricks: Flash Production Sponge Ball, Riffle Time Force, Subtle One Way Deck, Keep Your I On Your Hat, Wax in Matchbox, Inflation Pencil, Card in Egg, Bread Sandwich, Bill in Orange, Stuck Up Card, and more.

1st edition 1951, 20 pages; digital edition 2012, 23 pages.

This was Peter Duffie's first solo book published on the heels of his hugely successful Alternative Card Magic and Contemporary Card Magic.

It includes mostly card routines with a couple of coin routines sprinkled in for good measure. The effects are not difficult to do and can be classified as intermediate. Some routines require palms, half passes and riffle passes.

It is a joy if one can study the early creative output of one of the most accomplished card magician alive today.

1st edition 1984; original 30 pages; PDF 37 pages.

3. Contents
4. Author's Introduction
5. Ghost Hunters
7. Collectors Item
8. The Journey ...

This was Peter Duffie's first solo book published on the heels of his hugely successful Alternative Card Magic and Contemporary Card Magic.

It includes mostly card routines with a couple of coin routines sprinkled in for good measure. The effects are not difficult to do and can be classified as easy to intermediate at the most.

It is a joy if one can study the early creative output of one of the most accomplished card magician alive today.

1st edition 1984; original 30 pages; PDF 37 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
4. Author's Introduction
5. Ghost Hunters
7. Collectors Item
8. The Journey
10. Copper, Silver, Card!
12. Deja Vu
14. Signus XII ...

Paul presents seven powerful effects, explained in full, with many step-by-step photographs. These are powerful, yet easy-to-do, professional routines - complete with patter - and most of these effects are completely impromptu.

All seven effects are non-card effects.

The introduction is a six page treatise on performance, spectator management, various forms of misdirection, and the successful executions of some very important, yet troublesome sleights. Also learn how to passively and actively control your spectators. This is very important information!

Included in the introduction are...

This is a very well done PDF. Here is what Michael writes about his ebook:

This ebook offers unparalleled instruction by allowing text, photographs, and video clips to do what they do best and can be printed out to produce a spectacular 8.5 x 11, 179-page book. Each routine is described in complete detail in Michael Close’s clear, easy-to-read style. It’s almost like having private lessons with Michael Close. BONUS: Three Essays on Magic Theory and Michael’s Presentation & Handling of: Dean Dill’s Box & Gary Plants Magnetized Cards.

The 179 pages of Closely Guarded Secrets contain...

Make clouds vanish, appear and more. With a preface by Paolo Cavalli and a foreword by Enrique Enriquez.

Two of the world's foremost 'Cloudbusters' reveal their inner secrets of cloud magic!

In this ebook the authors strip away the veil of secrecy, revealing cloud secrets only known to a select few. Learn to make clouds vanish and appear. Sculpture them into images of selected playing cards, thought of numbers, ESP symbols, faces, and even animals.

Nothing is held back. Apparently change the weather by delaying rain or snow or even by making it warmer. Believe it or not you can do a...

This is a sponge ball routine with a very pleasant theme. The effect is:

Magician asks a female spectator: "Have you ever seen a clown?" As she answers, the magician removes a red sponge ball from his pocket. "You have probably noticed clowns always wear these silly little noses on their faces. What you may not realize is if you pull on one just right...it splits in two." The magician pulls at the one ball with both hands and produces a second one at his fingertips. "Now, clown noses are very lonely beings, when you place them into a dark place, like your hand," the magician sets one ball...

Jack Collins performed as Weedy the Clown. This ebook covers pretty much everything you need to know about clowning:

• Make-up and Costume
• Routines and Props
• Competitions
• Walk around Gags
• Other Ways of Making Money

1st digital edition 2013, 70 pages.

The English magazine [lc=3255 Club 71 ran from 1970 to 2007 and was produced by Geoff Maltby the owner of Repro Magic. For most of the time Walt Lees was the editor. Contributors include: Max Maven, Peter Duffie, Patrick Page, Al Smith, Angelo Carbone, Ian Rowland, Werner Miller, Peter Kane, Paul Hallas, Stephen Tucker, Ali Bongo and many more. The subjects discussed span everything from mentalism and cards, to magic for children and close-up.

CONTENTS:

• AROUND THE WORLD (Peter Underwood): A great mental effect. Two cards are selected by a cut of the deck done by a spectator. The two values added and an Atlas opened at that page to select a country. You have predicted that country. ...

CONTENTS:

• FINALE (Brian Davies): A card is selected (face unseen) from a red-backed deck and retained by a spectator. A number is chosen and counted in a blue-backed deck. The two cards match.
• THE POWER OF SUGGESTION (Barrie Richardson): A ring is placed around the neck of a Coca Cola bottle. The ring is removed, vanished and it appears back on the neck of the bottle.
• DOMINO TELEPATHY (Anonimous): All the domino pieces are put together in line. You devine the spots at each end of the chain. A classic.
• COLOR CROSSER (Max Maven): A series of stunning effects using just a packet of cards. ...

[Note that this volume has actually only 9 effects.]

CONTENTS:

• FINGERED 2 (Simon Lovell): A unique revelation of a selected card with a transposition.
• IT'S ME! (Solyl Kundu): Three cards show a picture of a magic wand. All three cards change into mirrors. Finally, you have a card with a mirror, a card with a wand and the third card with your picture (or your business card)
• COIN IN BALLOON (Angelo Carbone): A coin is thrown towards a balloon and magically appears inside the balloon that can be examined.
• HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF? (Melvin LeHair): An easy "Find The Lady" routine with a Queen and four Aces.
• CHEEKY RING (Ali Cardabra): A nice routine in three phases...

CONTENTS:

• TWO TIMES TEN CARD TRICK (Simon Lovell) - A super fair packet effect where a spectator's freely selected card is found in an impossible manner.
• WHAT'S IN A NAME (Arun Bonerjee) - A freeely selected card is discovered using the letters of a spectator's name.
• YCLIPT (Max Maven) - A paperclip disappears and reappears on a freely selected card.
• SIGNED TRANSPO IN TRIPLICATE (Justin Higham) - An excellent variaiton of Bro. John Hamman's "Signed Transverse Triplet". Two cards (can be signed) change places among four Kings... three times.
• A SUIT IN COURT (Solyl Kundu) - A B'Wave type effect using normal cards. ...

14 issues, the first period of Club 71 before its 6 year hiatus.
[Note: There is one small error in the numbering of issues which started later in the life of Club 71. When we trace back issue numbers we see that we have to start with issue #0 rather than #1 to make everything consistent.

• Inside information
• Curious about Curios?
• Made to Match
• Collector's Corner
• Are you an Individual? or do you run with the pack?

• Inside information
• Treasured Play-bills
• Let's Take A Closer Look
• Robert-Houdin Centenary Portfolio
• Insight on Robert-Houdin
• Collector's Corner
• Tributes to the Greats
• Spotlight on Etchings

Club 71 magazine ran from 1970 to 2007, with a break from 1978 to 1984, and was produced by Geoff Maltby the owner of Repro Magic (UK). [The name 'Repro' comes from the fact that Maltby started out selling REPROductions of magic posters, at a time when posters were hard to come by and very expensive.] For most of the time Walt Lees was the editor. In its later years it changed its name to The Magician. The total run consists of 193 issues, almost 14,000 pages, plus a parody of Abracadabra magazine.

Due to its irregular publishing schedule, name change, format change and five year publication pause early in its existence, it was impossible to find someone with a full run. This digital version was assembled from three different partial collections. This also means...

Issues 14-17

• Inside Information
• Let's Take a Closer Look: TYRED by Ron Escott
• Kiddies Column: Fatuous Fatima by Walt Lees
• Flying Spots by Tony Chaudhuri
• Magic of the Mind: Satan's Checkmate by Gardi
• News and Reviews
• Cabaret Time: Hints and Tips
• Blooming Cheek?

• Inside Information
• Let's Take A Closer Look: Matchaskill by Gerald Kosky
• Kiddies Column: Going Dutch by Walt Lees
• Bar Magic: The Card on the Window
• Computer Conjuring by Peter Rendle
• Card Sessions: Spot Repellant by Tony Chaudhuri
• Patrick's Page: The Square Circle Production
• Packet Jumping...

• Competition: Last Call
• Editorial
• Kiddies Column: Complete new routine by Walt Less
• Card Session
• Cabaret Time by Peter Kane
• Close-Up Magic: An intriguing effect from Charles Pemberton
• Basic Card Technique: The Double Lift
• Blackpool Convention (Special Offer for Club Members)
• Patrick's Page: A novel new Silk routine
• Society Roundup
• 1985 Catalogue Supplement
• Mental Magic: A clever prediction from 'Scrivante'
• Peanuts Monkeys and the Devil: A controversial article about fees
• Stunts and Tricks: More bar foolers
• News and Reviews
• Bar Magic
• Computer Conjuring: Conducted...

• Editorial by Walt Lees
• Hints and Tips by Marc Weinstock
• To Thine Own Self Be True: Thoughts on television magic
• Fred Robinson: An appreciation
• A Die-Abolic Mystery: A New Kids Routine from Tevor Lewis
• Letters: Club Members write
• That's the Way To Do It: Walt continues the series on Punch and Judy
• Unclassified Ads: Buy, sell, swop, trade with other Club Members
• Card Sessions by John C. Mournier
• Magical Diary: What's happening and when
• L. of a Card Trick: Card magic from Ian Rowland
• Bar Magic: Geoff continues this popular topic
• Let's Take A Closer Look: Penny Fortunes...

• Editorial: Walt tells it as it is
• Unclassified Ads: Buy, sell or swap
• Blackpool Convention last minute news
• Magic of the Mind by Len Vine
• The Egg Bag: Variations on a theme by Gerard Mallon
• Kiddies Column: The Fantasio Candle routined by Walt Lees
• Mental Magic by Barrie Richardson
• Card Sessions by John B. Wolf
• Psycholour Plus by Norman Wilcox
• Basic Card Technique: The Ascanio Spread
• Children's Magic: Pranky Plaque
• Close UP Card Magic by Stuart Colligan
• That's The Way To Do It: Our series on Punch and Judy continues
• Character Analysis by Harold Long
• Magical Diary:...