Magic & Conjuring: page 234

An absolute expert in card manipulation, Ireland brings you here authoritative instructions on bottom and second dealing, a gambling routine, and instructions on the false count. This is ideal material because it is fully illustrated with line drawings by Steranko, plus a series of photographs taken from life. Belongs in the library of every card man.

1st edition 1938, revised in 1963, 24 pages; 1st digital edition 2012, 25 pages.

The original routines of one of the greatest cup and ball men of all time. Completely revised, edited, amplified and co-ordinated. The whole field of cups and balls in one comprehensive ebook.

Illustrated with dozens and dozens of clear line drawings and written so you can follow the routines with clarity and simplicity. One of the big features is the Double Load used by so many professionals. You will enjoy learning to use your cups and balls with the aide of this great ebook.

Part first released in 1937. 1st edition 1961; 1st digital edition 2013, 74 pages.

This was Laurie Ireland's first Year Book. Many more would follow. From the introduction:

• Introduction
• Ireland's Rubber Band Thumb Tie Method
• A Tip On Tongueing A Cigarette
• Goofy Deck
• Troublewit Idea For Children
• Here There And Everywhere Card Routine
• More Golf Ball Moves
• Cups And Balls Moves And Ideas
• New...

• The Prize Winner Rope Trick
• Patter For Any Newspaper Trick
• The Care Of Celluloid Gimmicks
• A Bit Of Patter For The Snake In The Basket, Snake That Unties Itself Or Any Other Snake Trick
• Charlie Levett's Idea On The Miracle Egg Trick
• The Patriotic Illusion
• The Utility Loaf Of Bread
• Are You Psychic?
• Earl Morgan's Rising Elame
• Ed Marlo's Simple Dice Routine
• High Caliber Production
• How To Wind And Tie A Turban
• Old Sour Puss
• Laurie Ireland's Blindfold Poker Deal
• You Always Have A Handkerchief......!
• The Little Bunny That Eats!
• The Brassiere
• The Little Hindu
• Miss Fatima
• Dr. Finkle's...

From the introduction:

• Introduction
• Hints For Amateurs On Forcing Cards
• The Automatic Jig Saw Puzzle Worker
• To Fully Restore The Card
• A Perfect False Riffle Shuffle
• A False Count To Be Used...

• Introduction
• Ireland's New Okito Coin Box Routine
• Ireland's Comedy Bullet Catching Trick
• Cups And Dollar Bills
• Ireland's Four Ace Trick
• Just A Little Different Thimble Pass
• Burlesque Explanation Of The De Muth Glass Penetration
• Ireland's Three Sponge Ball Trick
• Annie Oakley Outdone!
• Super Billiard Ball Pass
• The Opium Peddler And His Three Dream Pipes

• The Rabbit Bag
• A Novel Pigeon Production
• The Human Pin Cushion Torture Box
• How To Clean Celluloid Eggs
• Surprise Finish For The Alarm Clock Production
• A Modern Noahs' Ark
• The Artist Draws A Picture Of A Rabbit And The Picture Comes To Life

• Preface
• It Changes, It Shrinks, It Vanishes
• Big And Little Sponge Ball Transposition
• Mating The Cards With Jumbo Cards
• Card Control
• Coin Routine With A Silk
• Thimble Holder In The Trouser Pocket
• Thimble Surprise
• One Ahead Coin Routine
• Misdirection For The Two Handed Pass
• Effective Golf Ball Move
• You Caught Me That Time
• Ireland's Two Card Trick

• Introduction
• Yogi Ray's Night Club Milk Glass
• Jack Becomes An Aviator
• Chix - Levitation
• Buy Bonds
• A Tip On A Tip
• Victory Birdhouse Silk Production & Vanish
• Mental Disclosure
• Sense And Nonsense With Cards
• A Routine For The Twentieth Century And Other Standard Magic
• Glorifying The Dancing Handkerchief
• The Migrating Card
• A Follow Up
• Four Corks And A Hat
• Two Number Tricks
• Gag With A Lady's Purse
• A New Wrinkle For The Passe Passe Comedy Bottles
• Your Mind Has Told Me So
• Rope Through The Neck
• Bottle Of Smoke
• Modern Chapeaugraphy
• Sgt. Jack Blades' Balls And Ribbons From The Mouth...

• The Card In The Sandwich
• Misdirection Card Change
• Card And Whiskbroom
• Everready Pencil Trick
• The Coca Cola Bottle And Nipple Effect
• Card Control
• The Spirit Bar
• The Vanishing Cane For Close Up
• A Hanging Episode
• Magician's Lucky Card
• Deuces And Trays
• Manipulative Dollar
• Reverse Card Trick
• Ireland's "Live Bait" Card Fishing Trick Manuscript
• Color Change With A Laugh
• A Diachylon Trick

• A Different Kind Of Penetration
• Routines For Clippo
• Matchless Magic
• An Alka Seltzer GAG
• A Pick Pocket Gag
• Ideas For Wiztax
• Cigarettes - Cigars - Pipe
• A New Deal In Poker
• Douglas Kelly's Telephone Trick
• A Suggestion For A New "Levitator"
• A Bit Of Patter
• New Routine For The Quarter In The Beer Mug
• Making The Most Of The Newspaper Tearing Trick
• The Health Magician
• Black Jack Magic
• The Card In The Mirror

• The Unique Twentieth Century Silks
• Glen Gloye's Necktie Trick
• Practical Suggestions For The Welsh Rarebit Pan
• Card Filtration
• Back To Back
• Betchas
• The Magic Sharpshooter
• Reversette
• An Original Routine With The Milk Pitcher And Other Items Most Magicians Have
• Wild Beer
• My Favorite Card Routine
• Cold Fire — The Magic Torch
• The Earl Morgan Floating Ball
• Using A Dart Board
• Balloon To A Bouquet Of Flowers
• The Hindu Rope Trick
• The Z Ray Box
• The Inexhaustible Hat
• Tantalizing Thimbles
• Rodeo Magic
• "That's All" Wand
• A New Idea On The 20th Century Trick
• The Joe Sherman Spelling...

• Super Do As I Do
• A Double Change
• Kings On The Loose
• Preface To Out Of This World
• Billy Wiggins' Card Trick
• Cards Of Sympathy
• Five Card Super Vanish
• Turnabout
• Nest Egg
• The Spectator's Force
• Kidnapped
• Marlo's Hofzinser
• The Buckle Break
• Marlo Bottom Count
• Mystical Location
• A Nervy Card Trick
• Hockley's Prediction

1st edition 1958, 36 pages; PDF 34 pages.

This was the showstopper of Laurie Ireland's school show. This illusion is big and flashy while still lightweight, easy to handle, packs flat, is self-contained, requires no special stage conditions, and only requires one assistant. This ebook explains everything you need to construct, perform, and present this fantastic illusion.

Effect: An assistant enters a cabinet just big enough to accommodate her. Panels open to show head and feet. The magician then pushes five metal rods clear through the center of the box and right thru the ribs of the victim. Two more rods are then shoved through...

• My Blendo Load
• Amazing Coincidence
• You Can't Lose - Apparently!
• Okito Goes Mental
• My Favorite Routine With Otto The Duck
• Two Tips On Tricks
• One Card In 52
• Dice Stack Addenda
• A New Idea On Rising Cards
• Confetti And Milk
• Method For An Unprepared Blendo
• Drink Your Milk
• Cut Ribbon Gag
• About Tables
• Wine To Beer A Chemical Trick
• Utility Glass
• The Floating Glass
• Candy From The Air
• Paper Lady An Illusion For Production Of A Girl
• An Addition To Reversette
• The Crystal Flame
• The Magic House
• Checkers To Pear To Rice
• Colossal Glass Of Beer Production
• Tic Tac Toe - A Super Mental...

This is a delightful digital reproduction of an early marketing book for entertainers. Much of the advice given is true today as it was decades ago. You will find some wonderful stories as well as dozens of photos of magician posters and other artwork. After reading this ebook you will have a number of new ideas to promote your act. The topics discussed are:

• The First Aid To Publicity
• The Typewriter Helps
• Newspaper Advertisements And Clippings
• The Value Of The Local Newspaper
• How To Use Press Notices
• The Air Of Mystery
• Personal Advertising
• The Use Of Photographs
• Photo Blocks
• Throwaways ...

This little booklet details the code the Zancigs used. Laura Fixen writes in the preface that she was a student with the Zancigs and was taught their code.

1st edition, 1912, Laura G. Fixen; 27 pages.

3. Preface
4. How the Zancig System Was Obtained
5. How The Carter-Price Act Was Secured
6. How to Apply the "Second Sight" System
7. To Tell Letters
8. The Zancigs' Code
9. To Tell Numbers
9. To Tell Dates
10. To Tell Money
11. To Tell Names
12. To Tell Articles
13. Articles by Series
20. Countries
21. Lodges and Orders
22. Colors
22. Silent Cues
23. The Fays' Great Act
25. Advertisement

From the introduction by Caryl S. Fleming:

• Introduction
• Blanko Reverso
• X-Ray Eyes
• Your Chance
• The Thought Of Card From Pocket
• Telephone Directory Test
• Rising Cards
• The Medium Knows It
• The Performer Can't Be Wrong!
• The Ambitious...

In recent years magic has experienced a renewed and keen interest in mental, bizarre and storytelling magic. Magic that does more than just fool the eyes and mind, magic that tugs on the heart strings, that stirs arcane fears and longing, magic that grabs the audience and won't let go. Sometimes the experience is light and airy, sometimes it probes a bit deeper and provokes self analysis and even resolve, sometimes it is just plain spooky.

David Goodsell and the late Larry White spent three years of their lives gathering the best of this kind of magic in their unique Oracle Magic Magazine...

Here are six card magic routines, plus variations on two of them. All are truly impromptu, meaning they can be done with a borrowed, shuffled deck of ordinary cards. Some sleight-of-hand is required.

Synaptic - you reveal their thought-of card by "tuning in" to their senses

Maybe - an in-the-hands Open Prediction

Sweep - they choose a card through a visualisation process, but you knew their choice beforehand

Little Sympathy - impromptu sympathetic cards

Royal - a variation of Little Sympathy

Silver - they choose every card for two hands of poker, and you reveal a photographic...

The performer retails and reenacts a dream that at the end becomes reality.

A pack of cards is introduced. Spectator gives it a cut and peaks at a card in the center of the deck. Then the spectator gives the deck a shuffle. Performer turns half of the deck face up and half stays face down. The spectator is asked to remember if her card is in the face-up or face-down portion. The performer spreads the face-up portion. Then the portions are separated and the performer continues with his dream where he took a card crumpled it up and it vanished in mid air to reappear face up in the tabled portion....

An entertaining an fairly easy to perform effect.

Spectator picks a card, remembers it, and returns it. Performer claims that a pack of cards is like a computer and that he can program it to function like a lie detector. After the performer takes out some cards and reinserts them into the pack, the entire deck is handed to the spectator who answer and spells his answers by tabling cards. Was the card a face or point card? Was the card red or black? What suit was it? The bottom card of the tabled packet always shows the correct answer and therefore it is clear if the spectator told the truth...

This is a take on the Twisting Aces plot with a kicker climax where the four of a kind change into a Royal Flush.

The four tens are taken out of the pack and displayed one by one. Repeatedly twisting the pack turns one of the tens face up. At the very end the cards change into a Royalt Flush.

Intermediate difficulty. runtime: 7min 30s

The Ace Assembly theme is a classic one. Jennings credits Bill Miesel as the first to create a card assembly effect. Here you will learn Larry Jennings' variation which avoids bringing the deck and the aces together. The four aces are shown one at a time. Very slowly one by one and absolutely fairly three aces travel to the leader ace.

runtime 9min 40s