Magic & Conjuring: page 91

Anton Kratky-Baschik begann seine Laufbahn als Mundharmonikavirtuose. Bei seinen Tourneen durch ganz Europa lernte er beim Zauberkünstler Bellachini die Kunst der Magie. Er kombiniert Zauberkunst mit Musikdarbietungen, physikalischen Effekten und Geistererscheinungen.

Nach jahrelangen erfolgreichen Gastspielreisen lässt er sich in Wien nieder, wo er große Erfolge in den Vergnügungsetablissements der Stadt feierte. Im Wiener Prater betrieb er drei Zaubertheater, das letzte bot 800 Besuchern Platz, damit war es das größte Zaubertheater der Zeit.

• Vorwort
• Kapitel 1: Anton Kratky-Baschik...

Viele Ideen und Tricks mit Magneten. Damals, als diese Publikation zum ersten Mal erschien, war es schwierig an starke Magnete heranzukommen. Heute sind Neodym-Magnete leicht in allen Größen und Varianten zu bekommen. Die Ideen von Kaldy-Karo sind aber nach wie vor effektvoll.

• 1. Einige Magnetisch Einführende Worte
• 2. Unmöglich Nahe
  • 2.1. Die Magnetischen Goldringe
  • 2.2. Bluff
  • 2.3. Time Flies
  • 2.4. Automatik
  • 2.5. Uri Geller - Zerfallender Löffel
  • 2.6. Magnetdaumen
  • 2.7. Psychokinetik
  • 2.8. Coffee Time
  • 2.9. Körpermontagen Für Die Magneten
  • 2.10. Impossible
  • 2.11. Empty Hands ...

The MUK or Museum für Unterhaltungskunst (Museum of Entertainment Arts) in Vienna, Austria, issues an interesting magazine every 6 months. This museum covers mostly magic, circus, and variety, and its publication draws from the holdings of the museum.

Even for people who do not read German this might be interesting, because many historical photos and artifacts are reproduced. For example, issue 2 features an article on Houdini with many fascinating photos, several of which I have never seen before.

You will receive the first three issues: 2007 No. 1, 2007 No. 2, and 2008 No. 3.

Heft ist sehr gut erhalten. Beschrieben werden eine Reihe von Zaubertricks passend für die Weihnachtszeit.

Are you a financially broke performer? Are you complaining that your gigs have dried up due to the economy? Or you might be that brave entrepreneur who wants to start performing magic or mentalism as a full-time profession but have to take a detour around the waiting time it takes to make money and getting your name out there? You might be in a "do or die", gun-to-the-head situation where you have to start generating 'immediate' income to provide for yourself and your family, or else...

This step-by-step ebook course is the answer for those of you who want to jump-start their performing career....

A reading system that gives you the necessary ammo to deliver a highly effective private reading for paying clients.

Have you ever wanted to be able to deliver a quick or full-blown reading for members of your audience or clients using something you carry every day, especially if you are a magician or mentalist?

If you are a magician or mentalist, have you ever considered maximizing the impact your card effect has on your audience, by giving your spectator a quick reading about themselves?

Or, if you've always wanted to learn how to give people readings using nothing but a deck of ordinary...

Here's a great club effect, where you are seen to pass a glass of water (or other liquid) through a handkerchief-covered hat. But wait! You can repeat it, which will blow away lay audiences and magicians alike.

The author's pet trick is revealed here, which uses no expensive dealer apparatus. Plus, he provides two methods, allowing you to repeat the effect, should you be called upon to do so. Sound good so far? What if we told you that this popular mystery can be performed impromptu? Now that would be real magic.

In this well-illustrated booklet, Matthews provides the step-by-step process...

A collection of wonderful card routines. Explanations include large illustrations by the author himself.

Routines taught:

• Revel Ace Tion
• Heart Transplant
• Grand Delusion
• The Albright Bird Trick Revisited
• The Royal Treatment
• Tear Rific
• The Amazing Deck Tear
• Half Hearted
• The Joker Knows
• Triple Decker Kings

1st edition 1981, 69 pages; 1st digital edition 2015, 53 pages.

The in-crowd is fascinated with displays of mind power. Old fashioned mentalism doesn't turn them on, but subtle, well-concealed actions in mentalism can be a tremendous hit. You have this in Trans-Actions. The effects are based on a new application of a principle, and you will be delighted with the ease of use, the very flexible quality of the working. Always ready to use. The props are whatever is handy! You can't ask for more than that! Great for parties, club type shows. The effects will impress thinking people, captivate your more intelligent friends. The run-of-the-mill crowd will just...

An incredible stack that was worked out by hand at a time when computers were not available. The experts were impressed:

"In actual play, that would get the money." - Dai Vernon

"... the best stack since Rusduck's. - Ross Bertram

"... interesting and has possibilities at the gaming table." - Faucett Ross

"... Ned, you've come across a real gem, don't tip it." - Orville Meyer

"Vernon should see this." - Francis Carlyle

The spectator takes a shuffled deck. The spectator makes a choice of the type of poker to be played:

• Straight Poker
• Stud Poker ( 5 – 6 – or 7 card)
• Blackjack
• Draw Poker

Softcover with plastic comb binding in very good condition. For details on the content see the digital edition.

Once a script writer for Jack Paar's show (1962-63) and Red Skelton's show (1964-70), has also written for Dick Gregory (six years), and was a speechwriter for President Gerald Ford in 1973-77.

One-liners, flip lines, gags and patter. Many of these one-lines are still good today. Others just need some updating but still very funny stuff.

The real benefit of having this material available in digital form is to be able to search for particular words and phrases which related to your performance, occasion or venue. This makes it much easier to find suitable comedy lines.

1st edition 1954,...

4. Robert Parrish
5. Prologue by Oscar Weigle
6. Mental Opener
8. Mysterious Casket
10. Great Slate Test
14. Floating Table
17. Stole Steal
19. Bull's Eye II
21. Picture ESP
23. Cups & Coins
24. Torn Paper Enigma
27. Epilogue by John Goodrum

1st edition 1974; original 14 pages; PDF 28 pages.

Tenkai was a legendary magician from Japan. As his gift for achieving the 'living legend' status in Japan he asked to meet Dai Vernon - which he did, but that is a story for another time.

In this manuscript Robert Parrish describes several wonderful effects created by Tenkai. All illustrations are drawn by Tenkai himself.

20 pages.

5. Tenkai Dye Tube Technique
7. Knots Supreme - Tenkai Silk and Tapes
11. Tenkai Three Dice Trick
13. Tenkai Two Penny Trick
15. Two Coin Moves
17. Tenkai Card Flight

This was a very successful book on magic when it originally appeared in 1944. Even the sophisticated New Yorker put at the top of its list of recommended books for servicemen.

A complete repertory of tricks that can be performed without elaborate equipment.

The only book on magic that tells exactly how to keep the audience from seeing the mechanics of performance.

New Ways To Mystify carries on its prestidigitation in the vein of For Magicians Only. Again Mr. Parrish has presented thirty "tricks" that can be performed without elaborate equipment, and with no more skill than the average person can muster. It's all in practice and in knowing how to distract the audience, Mr. Parrish says, and he demonstrates in such a simple manner that anyone, young or old, can master these feats of magic.

The general plan of the ebook follows that of the earlier volume, and Mr. Parrish again writes in his witty, urbane fashion. Dozens of simple diagrams, as well as clever chapter head...

Sidelights on some classics

• The Coin Jar
• Nest of Boxes
• No Lock "Locked" Key
• "Brainwave" Presentation

• The Great Slate Test
• The LePaul Hoax
• Method for a Marlo Miracle #183
• X-Ray Box

This is a wonderful collection of some of Charlie Miller's signature pieces with photos showing Charlie Miller performing the moves and routines.

From the introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito):

1st edition 1961, 1st digital edition 2014, 59 pages.

5. Introduction
7. About Charlie Miller
10. Mugs And Hats
15. The Jest Of The Joker
19. The Torn...

Hardcover with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some damage. Book has some light staining inside. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. The dust-jacket is damaged. A piece is missing from the top spine area, some foxing, small tears, and rubbing. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

A mix of cards, mentalism, and quite unusual manipulation with glasses and thimbles.

1st edition 1937, reprinted 1963; 65 pages.

• CARD AND MENTAL MAGIC
  9. The Heal Coincidence Trick
  9. Telephone Telepathy
  11. Telephone Telepathy Again
  11. Alias Divination
  14. Magazine Miracle
  15. Strange Interlude
  18. A Slate Writing Method
  20. Slate Psychics
  22. The Ultimate One Man Sealed Message Heading System
  26. Predetermination
  32. And a Routine
  33. An Improved Four Ace Routine
  35. Selective Card in Pocket
  36. Si Stebbins Up the Sleeve
  37. The Perfect Card Routine
• MOSTLY MANIPULATIVE — With Glasses
  42. Glass of Liquid from Card Fan
  43. Some...

Includes four sections, one on mental magic, card magic, silk magic and rope and lace magic respectively. All effects are easy to perform and do not require any exotic requisites.

• MENTAL MAGIC
  7. Wrong Number
  9. A Prediction to End Predictions
  12. The Payoff Prediction
  14. . . . Things to Come
  17. The "Direct" Divination
  17. The Phantom President
  19. Picture Projection
  21. Transposed Minds
  23. Comedy Color-Changing Slate
  25. Two Routines
• CARD MAGIC
  27. Thought on the Line
  29. "Picture This"
  30. Name Your Favorite
  31. Remote Re verso
  32. Synchronism
  35. Dual Impulsion
  37. Duo Prediction
  38. The Triple Enigma
  39. Nu-Locato
  40. Simplex...

From the introduction:

Robert Walker was a unicycling, high-school student. Looking five years younger than he was, he was a dyed-in-the-wool card guy tutored in Marlovian ways. He was also a precocious writer-creator, obsessed with false counts and packet tricks. He spent many hours "twisting the night away," taking voluminous notes, and developing new methods and approaches. His first mini-treatise dissected a marketed packet trick by Larry West ("Wild, Wild West") which he passed onto Jon Racherbaumer to publish. It became the second installment of the loose-leaf Avatar, printed on pink paper and unadorned by illustrations...