Magic & Conjuring: page 129

If you have never looked through one of these big magic catalogs this one is a good example. Even though WWII had already started Abbott's was offering almost 2000 magic items for sale. They had pretty much everything one can think of.

1st edition 1940, 544 pages.

A modern seance, with a tie that is like lightning for speed, and yet is the most convincing of all ties. Each wrist is securely tied with a length of rope. Any number of knots may be used and knots can be sealed. The ends of the rope are made secure to the back of the chair. Feet are also tied to chair legs. All ties are thoroughly inspected and the committee is convinced that there is no slack in the ropes and that magician is really secure. The cabinet is placed around magi ready for the tests. For instance, a card is selected and shuffled back into the pack, the pack placed between the...

This catalog has a soft cover and a glue binding. The cover is stained, creased, and bruised. An ink stain affects the edges of about the first half of the catalog but this is only visible on the edge and does not cover any content. We also offer a digital facsimile edition of this collectible catalog.

• Fore-Word to Second Edition
• The Chocolate Box Mystery
• Flash Paper Ideas
• A "Live" Rabbit
• Fishing for Money
• The Suffragette Problem
• The Levitation of a Piece of Paper
• The Transformation Tumbler
• The Lightning Ink and Water Change
• The "Eureka" Slate
• An Egg, Handkerchief, & Milk Combination

1st edition 1913, 2nd edition 1920, 36 pages; PDF 23 pages.

This is volume 2 of the 8-volume Collected Magic Series.

• Compilers Preamble
• "Jack Sheppard" A Mysterious Release
• The Enchanted Fan
• "Shades & Shapes" A Pretty Effect with Silks
• "The Zodizignz" An Ancient Oracle
• The "Debur" Afghan Bands
• "The Red Hand!" A Perpetration
• An Ingenious Hat Load
• "A Means to an End"
• The Elusive Stop
• Another Ingenious Hat Load
• The Diving Ball
• The "Regimental" Effect
• "Woolly Wizardry''
• On Card Levitations
• An Easy Hat Production
• "Dissolving Silk"
• The Bretma "Glasgow" Tray

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Fore-Word
• The...

• Biographical Note
• Foreword
• The Prisoner
• The Divining Clock
• The Penetrative Card
• "Body-Loading"
• A variation of the Coin and Ball of Wool
• A Card and Handkerchief Effect
• Patter for the Mutilated Sunshade Problem
• The Green Ray
• An addition to the Penetrative Ink
• A Colour-Changing Silk
• Wrinkles
• The "Dublin" Rabbit
• A Subtle Force
• A Camoflage Vanish

1st edition 1919; PDF 36 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Divertisement
• The Magic Spell
• New Patter for the “Trouble-Wit”
• The Sympathetic Cubes
• The Card Discs
• “Shoo!”
• A Production Banner
• The “How-on-Earth” Tube
• The “What-do-you-call-it”
• The Enclosure
• Tubomania
• A Silken Series
• Vice Versa
• Conjurer’s Quoits
• “By”
• The Penetrating Tumbler
• Magnetised Thought
• The Lady of the Rose
• The Sympathetic Star
• L’Envoi

1st edition 1926, 96 pages; PDF 63 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the Preamble:

Excerpt from the preface:

• Argument
• A Conjuring Comedy with a Cone
• A Pound Note Problem
• "Rainbow Waves"
• "Cut and Come Again"
• The "Eureka" Mechanical Four-Ace Stand
• "An Unusual Opening"
• A Coin Gathering Idea
• "Making a Candle Light" ...

• The Compiler's Excuse
• "A Touching Trick"
• "Spotting the Winner"
• "A Card Catastrophe"
• "The Mystic Sunflower"
• "Guess!"
• "The Enchanted Fan"
• The Penetrative Pocket-knife
• "The Painted Skeleton"
• A New Principle for the "Four Aces," with marked Cards
• "Silk and Tissue"
• "An Episode in Three Reels"
• Effects with Billiard Balls
• "A Jar of Incense"
• A Card and Cigarette Paper Combination

1st edition 1922, 93 pages; PDF 50 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:

Percy Press died in 1980 at the age of 78. He was probably the last of the English Street Conjurors and learned his craft working the streets of England. He was also a distinguished Punch and Judy performer. On this recording, Percy Press talks about the effects that he performed on the the street and gives details of his routines for his Cups and Balls, his Funny Funnel, the Cap and Pence, a card trick using a card box and his entertaining Coat, Ropes and Rings.

One of Percy's most baffling effects was his production of a full glass of water and, on this recording, he gives the complete...

This was a favourite effect of the much loved Percy Press. He was, perhaps, the last of the English 'Street Conjurors' and had performed this effect thousands of times.

HOW IT LOOKED

Percy would tilt his small table forward to show that the top was solid. Replacing it on the ground, he laid a white handkerchief on it. A 10p coin was borrowed and placed in the centre of the handkerchief. He then borrowed a soft trilby hat and covered the coin with it. He lifted the hat and the coin was still on the hank. He placed the coin in his left hand and it vanished. He replaced the mouth-down hat...

Ein mathe-magisches Salon- und Tischprogramm

• Vorwort
• Die Magie der Zahl
• Hexagramm
• Neun
• Das "Magische Quadrat"
• "Magische Rechnung"
• Die Schicksalskarte
• Numerologische Kartenvorhersage
• Das Neuner-Mysterium
• Die Alterskarten
• Die Geisterfotografie
• Sie liebt mich - sie liebt mich nicht
• Automatenknacken
• TOPOLOGISCHEN PARADOXA
• Die Disziplinarstrafe
• Die Falten im Mantel der Zeit

Erstausgabe 1984, 25 Seiten; erste digitale Ausgabe 2018, 27 Seiten.

After a lengthy introduction, it describes and explains the performances of the muscle-reader Mr. Brown. It also describes and explains the performances of the brothers Outerbridge whose purpose it was to prove that these types of experiments are based on muscle-reading and not any other mysterious mental forces.

This talk was given before the Social Science Association on May 12th, 1875.

Persifor Frazer was an interesting character. For example, he was internationally respected as an expert on handwriting. He devised a process for detecting forgeries through composite photography, leading...

Original ideas across the spectrum for magicians.

A collection of magical ideas, most of which have been tested on genuine living audiences. Pete Biro has been performing and lecturing, as well as dropping juggling props here and abroad since 1966 - plus a bunch of time in the early 50's. "Most original tricks and ideas" he says, "come from having a creative memory!"

• Greetings
• Philosophy Of Magic
• Simplicity
• Stealing Material
• Here 'Tis - The Jumping Cigarette
• Card Control & No-Palm To Pocket
• Invisible Hair
• Severn/Biro Impromptu Rising Cards
• Inspected By Number 27
• Sock Purse ...

A system to make remembering numbers as easy as one two buckle your shoe. Learn this system and remember numbers with ease.

After several years struggling to learn the memory systems from other sources Pete developed the I.M.P Memory System. Other systems require complicated rules to be learned before you can remember numbers. With the I.M.P Memory System you will begin recalling numbers of any length much sooner than with other systems.

Turn the boring abstract into a vibrant image easily with the I.M.P Memory System!

1st edition 2008; 30 pages.

2. Introduction
3. Other Systems to Remember...

Add a little POW! to your readings.

Typically readings can be intense, or at least you can be dealing with intense emotional situations. It can be difficult to guide the person you are reading for as they can be too closely involved. They literally cannot see the wood for the trees!!

By sparingly and wisely adding the information found in POW! to your reading process, you can softly 'nudge' their thinking and encourage the sitter to look at situations in their life in a completely different light.

What you'll find in POW! are Quotes, Proverbs and more which have been carefully selected,...

KAPOW! picks up where Peter Arcane's POW! left off.

It offers 250 inspirational quotes, proverbs and sayings which cover 25 traits of the Minor Arcana and more - Peter also covers the most popular topics of Cold Reading.

Used with care, and sprinkled lightly through your readings KAPOW! will make you a true Superhero.

What's been said so far about KAPOW!...

What you get here is not an updated version of POW! No! Much better! This is a perfectly made follow up. - Rudolf Künzli

I was amazed at the new insights I gained from KAPOW. This is essential reading for anyone who uses Tarot...

Long out of print - now for the first time in eFormat. Over the last 11 years Peter Arcane's Zodiac KeyWords has become a bit a cult classic. Initially limited to 50 copies its long been sought after. Well now it's been released in electronic format for the enjoyment of those that perform miracles and missed out the first time round.

Zodiac KeyWords picks up where Ray Grismer's What's my sign? drops off.

What do you do once you know their sign?

Within the pages you'll find a technique that will allow you to take those next steps and present yourself as someone who has more than an understanding...

Peter Arcane first shared Quick Jumps Lazy in his 2004 Twisted Mind lecture notes.

Having refined the routine over the last 10 years he now shares with the fraternity his thinking behind the basic effect and more - isograms, panagrams and much much more...

The alphabet will never quite be remembered in the same way ever again!

1st edition 2004, 1st digital edition 2014, 17 pages.