Magic & Conjuring: page 21

Gregg Webb discusses some aspects of coin magic that have bothered him for a long time. How to best get rid of an extra coin without arousing suspicion? What is the problem with the Bobo Switch? Why do Jumbo Coins make no sense? What to do about the disappearance of the Half Dollar, the basis of so much classic coin magic?

1st edition 2022, PDF 3 pages.

Gregg modifies Jackie Flosso's Bill in Lemon effect to use a matchbox rather than a lemon - much less messy - among other tweaks.

1st edition 2022, PDF 3 pages.

Turn a card trick into something much more relatable - a stack of instant photographs taken just minutes ago.

Polaroid Princess was an effect Gregg kicked around for hours on the phone with the great mentalist Bob Cassidy. He liked the idea. This is a further development of the same idea. You will need some form of instant camera, be it a classic Polaroid camera or any regular camera with a Zero-ink portable instant photo printer.

1st edition 2022, PDF 3 pages.

Gregg Webb presents ideas based on Slydini's use of Classic Palm and dropping coins to the cupped hand instead of lapping. Here, you will learn subtleties:

• How to vanish a coin by dumping it from your palm to your other hand.
• Tips for retaining and releasing coins from Classic Palm when standing or sitting.

1st edition 2021, PDF 3 pages.

This very first issue of "Aether" features an exploration of Gregg's "Ink Flight" effect. The concept is stunning: a spectator's signature travels across space to appear on a selected card.

The effect requires the following props:

• Blank face cards
• A forcing deck
• A set of "Buddha papers"
• A Himber wallet

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages.

Guida pratica alla costruzione di aerei di carta.

Esistono passioni alle quali è difficile avvicinarsi in quanto talvolta poco conosciute e proprio per questo è difficile trovare chi le può insegnare e trovare materiale che ci aiuti ad imparare in modo semplice e divertente.

Questo ebook scritto da Jacorpo Furci e Simone Bianco, due veri appassionati dell’arte di costruire aerei di carta va incontro proprio all’esigenza degli appassionati di imparare autonomamente a realizzare tanti stupendi aerei di carta divertendosi e ottenendo un oggetto che può essere collezionato, usato per...

The Aeon Reading is a mysterious Tarot card reading/experiment that will leave your participant wondering about the mystical powers of the Tarot. It will also leave them with an important message. If you perform at all with Tarot cards, you’ll surely be using this routine which has been in Alexandre's repertoire for years.

Written for the Thoth tarot deck (where the Aeon card is the 20th card) it can be automatically adapted to any tarot deck you might already own. This is based on a self working principle - no sleight of hand required.

1st edition 2005; 3 pages.

Softcover stapled. Book was at one time creased lengthwise because there is still a noticeable crease in the front and back covers. On the inside pages this crease is hardly noticeable. For details on content see the digital edition.

The magic of the voice with many hints for beginners.

From the Introduction:

From the Foreword:

Just before Helen Stoner's twin sister Julia was about to get married she was murdered during the night in her own chambers which she habitually locked from inside before going to bed. Now Helen was recently engaged and she, too, fears that she may be about to be killed. Ms. Stoner is living with her stepfather Dr. Roylotts of Stoke Moran in the old half-abandoned ancestral country house. Watson and Holmes investigate ...

Arthur Conan Doyle considered this his best story. It is a classic locked room mystery with a clever method. It has been adapted for television, film, theatre, radio,...

The first part and majority of this book deals with marked cards. It shows numerous examples of how and where to mark various back designs popular during the early 20th century in the United States. The second part briefly describes sleight-of-hand for the card cheater such as second dealing, bottom dealing, shuffling, false cuts, and mechanical hold outs. Each technique is illustrated with a photo, which is quite remarkable for a book from that time. The third and final part deals with the mathematical odds of draw poker.

Some people believe that F. R. Ritter might be S. W. Erdnase, the unknown author...

This was the advertisement booklet for Ritter's book Advantage Card Playing and Draw Poker. It describes the motivation of the book and shows some excerpts including four illustrations.

1st edition 1905, 9 pages; digital edition colorized.

Advancing Mother is a 'progressive' advancement in the revelation of the famous effect, Mother Of All Book Tests (MOABT) by Ted Karmilovich. If you already own a copy of MOABT then Advancing Mother is for you. If you don't, then hopefully this will inspire you to get one for yourself.

Tommy Burnett's thinking will take you down a short but winding road towards the goal of revealing a thought of word. By using Tommy's well thought out system you no longer need to secretly discover the first letter of the word. You can get an immediate hit without asking anything and in most cases get hit after...

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...

Softcover stapled in good condition. Retailer sticker on inside cover and on title page. For details on contents see the digital edition.

• The Goofy Card
• The Persistent Card
• The Mind of Mephistopheles
• Intuition or What?
• Peculiarities of the Pasteboards
• Mental Power
• Surprise Speller
• The Educated Cards
• Albright’s Instantaneous Method For Determining the Number of Letters Required to Spell Any Card
• Triple-Stop Disclosure
• Lucky Number

PDF 25 pages

Sleights & Moves:

• ATFUS
• Fine Points of ATFUS
• Fu-Fu Switch
• Vernon's ATFUS
• Hugard/Braue Addition
• Secret Subtraction
• Vernon Add-On
• 1-2-3-4 Switch
• Quick Three-Way
• D'Amico Multiple Spread
• The Drop Switch
• The Jennings' Add-On
• Vernon Shuffle Reverse
• Cervon's Cut Reverse
• Braue Reversal 1
• Braue Reversal 2
• Ackerman's Shuffle Reverse
• Propelled Lapping
• Pemper Deck Switch
• In-the-Pocket Switch
• Bert Allerton Move
• On the Up & Up
• The Ultra Move
• The Curry Change
• Tilt & Variations
• One-Handed Tilt
• Schwarzman's Tilt Subtlety
• The Classic Force
• The Hofzinser Force

• Variant's Variant
• The Devilish Miracle
• Easy-Off Pips
• Dunbury...

Sleights & Moves:

• The Elmsley Count
• Counting Terminology
• The X-Y-Z Count
• Underground Elmsley Count
• The OPEC Count
• The Jordan Count
• 3-4-3 Count
• 3-5-4 Count
• 2-X-2 Count
• 2-4-4 Count
• The Olram Subtlety
• The OPOS Count
• The Gemini Count
• Rhythm Count (Jennings)
• Rhythm Count (Ackerman)
• Rhythm Count (Carpenter)
• The Jiminy Cricket Count
• The Flushtration Count
• The Rumba Count
• Elmsley Flushtration Count
• Ireland's False Count
• Carlyle's False Count
• Showing Four Aces as Five
• The Biddle Count
• The Veeser Concept
• Vanishing Cards via the Biddle
• Here's Hockley
• The Biddle as a Force
• Minch's Biddle Force
• Switch-Out...

Sleights & Moves:

• In-The-Hands Faro Technique
• Cutting At 26
• Adjusting the Cut
• In-Faros vs. Out-Faros
• Fine Points of the Faro Shuffle
• Re-Squaring the Packets
• In Case of a Miss
• Rock & Re-Weave
• The Faro Shuffle as a Real Shuffle
• Further Fine Faro Points
• The Fourth Finger Table
• Key Cards
• The Tabled Faro
• The Faro Check
• Stacking with the Faro Shuffle
• Combining Faro & Riffle
• The Ten-Card Poker Stack
• The Stay Stack
• Incomplete Faro Control
• Incomplete Faro with a Jog
• Automatic Placement Control
• Si Stebbins
• Any Card at Any Number
• Faro Mental Displacement
• Getting Packets the Same Size ...

Sleights & Moves:

• G.W. Hunter False Shuffle
• Erdnase False Shuffle
• Strip-Out False Shuffle
• Up The Ladder
• Pull-Through with a Cut
• The Zarrow Shuffle
• The Shank Shuffle
• Slip Shod
• Vernon's Two-Shuffle Concept
• The Sideways Shank Shuffle
• Controlling the Top Stock
• Controlling the Bottom Stock
• Ireland's Red/Black Shuffle
• Downs' Red/Black Shuffle
• Double Undercut to Top
• Double Undercut to Bottom
• Top Block Transfer
• Bottom Block Transfer
• Tabled Fake Cut
• Stover Fake Cut
• Ose Fake Cut
• Triple Fake Cut
• Fake Double Swing Cut
• Fake Triple Swing Cut
• Tabled Slip Cut
• Off-The-Bottom Strip Fake Cut
• Klause Overhand False Shuffle ...

Sleights & Moves:

• The Thumb Fan
• Pressure Fans
• One-Handed Fans
• One-Handed Overhand Shuffle
• On-Handed Faro Shuffle
• Charlier (One-Handed) Cut
• Kosy Cut
• Charlier Cut with a Somersault
• Erdnase One-Handed Cut
• The Distinction Between a Change and a Switch
• Slap Change
• Color Change
• Hit Double Lift
• Push-Off Double Lift
• Outjog Subtlety
• Another Two-Card Push-Off
• Vernon Push-Off
• A Little Noise
• Spooky Altman Trap
• D'Amico Spread
• Spooky Bro. Altman
• Multiple Turnovers
• Pinky Count
• Square-Up Break
• Obtaining A Break
• Pop-Over Lift
• Marlo's Throw Double
• Schwarzman's Long Toss
• Double Double Toss
• Wipe Change ...

Controls. Breaks, peeks, glimpses, crimps, jogs, passes, shifts, twists, reversals, replacements, shuffle controls, hofzinser control, convincing control...all the good stuff you need to know to have full control of your deck of cards.

Sleights & Moves:

• Little Finger Break
• Spectator Peek
• After the Break
• The Marlo Break
• Klause Breakout Display
• Controlling to Top or Bottom
• Kick Count
• Maintain Break with Fan
• All-Around Square-Up Glimpse
• Book Break Glimpse
• Fan Glimpse
• Draun's Fan Glimpse
• Kick Count to Crimp
• Automatic Jog
• Keep Jog while Dribbling
• Fan Jog
• Overhand Shuffle Control ...

False Deals. Allan Ackerman teaches the Second Deal, Bottom Deal and Center Deal, plus a number of variations and methods including effects with these moves. The Side Glide developed by Dai Vernon is a piece of beauty - minimal movement - maximum impact.

Allan Ackerman is one of the world's foremost experts at sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards. Allan is one of those humble down to earth guys with incredible chops. He executes the moves flawlessly and teaches them in a straight forward easy to grasp manner. On this incredible multi-volume series of DVDs, you will be treated to an instructional...