Magic & Conjuring: page 378

Chuck Smith writes: "Twenty-four illusions as mysterious to audiences today as when they were performed years ago. Most are so easy to construct and execute that a teenager could do them. I know because I, as a student in highschool, built and entertained with several of them. A couple of three fold screens and a large sheet gives you the material for several of the illusions. Recently in a magic periodical I saw an ad for an illusion that looked extremely familiar. It was selling for over $5000. It's method, I'm sure, had it's roots in Grant's Super-Fine Suspension on pages 27-28 of this book....I...

U. F. Grant presents several clever ideas on billet reading or how to use a svengali deck for mentalism. He also has a completely different version of "Grey Elephants in Denmark".

• Bill Reading
• Name Duplication
• Impromptu Test
• Best Digit Test
• Cards Impossible
• In Their Pocket
• Up & Down Test
• Thot of Person
• Card Projection
• Lites Out
• Dunninger Type Act
• Another Dunninger
• Weekly Prediction
• Committee Test
• Thought Projector
• Private Lives
• Lobby Tip-Off
• Directory Test
• Houdini Bill Reading
• Glass Clipboard
• Mental Table
• Flaming Answer
• Fake Questions
• Flower-Color-Animal
• Mass Mind Reading

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The title "Secrets - Malini, Leipzig, Vernon, Jarrow, ..." suggests a lot, but these are merely the interpretations and versions of U. F. Grant to some of the classics of Malini, Leipzig, Vernon, Jarrow and others. Grant uses only one page to describe each effect and method. This book is therefore to some degree a disappointment. Nevertheless I think it is a cheap way to learn the plots and a method to several of the greatest tricks of all time. Just don't expect very detailed descriptions. Grant displays in this book an arrogant writing style with comments like 'This is good' or "The best method" or "Fools...

Few people consider paper, cardboard and carton high-tech products, but they are. Go visit any paper factory and you will find out that some of the largest and most complex manufacturing machines in operation today are paper machines.

Since my father worked for many years for a paper manufacturer, I have learned to respect paper from a very early age. This is part of the reason why I am so excited about this e-book. It describes 12 stage illusions which you can build entirely from carton. Carton is inexpensive, easy to work with, light weight, pretty durable and packs flat. These are characteristics...

U.F. Grant has collected 13 tricks involving a paper clip. Paper clips are available pretty much anywhere, are common objects and therefore make ideal magic props.

1st edition 1947; original 12 pages; PDF 9 pages.

The ever creative and prolific Grant collected in this ebook 21 card tricks all based on the 'one-way' principle. Grant starts out with examples of decks which are one-way, how to setup everything, and how to handle the cards correctly.

1st edition 1935; original 23 pages; PDF 13 pages.

This is a remarkable collection of 45 individual single sheet trick instructions, many of which are illustrated.

original 45 pages; PDF 49 pages.

1. The Comedy Check
2. Improved Psychic Padlock
3. Any Card Called For Rises
4. Jarrow Bill In Lemon
5. Super Telephone Test
6. Leipzig Cards Through Air
7. Bag And Blindfold Trick
8. Nu Ring Off String
9. Hang-Ping-Ching Coin Trick
10. Improved Gloves To Dove
11. Half Dollar Through Ring
12. The Spy Ring
13. Head On Beer Trick
14. Best Packing Box Escape
15. Grant's Cut & Restored Light Wire
16. Striking A Match On Air
17. Leipzig Type Card Suspension
18. Malini Card Stabbing
19. Chinese Bowl Production ...

Perhaps no other effect is so much associated with the magician as that of producing a rabbit from an empty hat. And, oddly enough, so few magicians today use a rabbit in their act.

Where the idea of producing a rabbit from a hat originated is not certain. The favorite story seems to be about the 18th century English woman who felt that she was not getting the attention she deserved. She told her husband and neighbors that she had been accosted by a rabbit and some time latter she took to her bed. The story immediately went out that she had given birth to several rabbits. The story naturally...

Although the original title of this manuscript is "Close-Up Floating Light Bulb", this is not a close-up effect but a stage effect. The method would not allow you to perform this in an intimate close-up setting.

With the aid of a hoop you let a light bulb float, rise and descend.

6 pages

This ebook describes store window displays which are magical in one way or another causing pedestrians to stop and look into the window. Once a person stops and looks at the display the chances for them to actually enter the store have dramatically increased.

Several of these contraptions use magic principles. One can think of them as magic apparatus displayed in action. Although these displays could be employed by pretty much any store, I would think that they would be most appropriate in the window of a real magic store. I have never seen any magic store use anything like this. An innovative...

A wonderful self-working rendition of the classic "Out Of This World" effect. This was the first real card trick I saw - and I was baffled.

A borrowed deck is shuffled. A red and a black card are placed face up on the table. The performer then removes cards, one at a time from the deck. Without the spectator seeing the faces of these cards, he indicates whether he thinks a card is a red or a black. If he thinks it is a red card, the performer places it, face down, on the face up red card. If the spectator thinks it is a black card, the performer places it face down on the face up black card....

Although published anonymously, this was very likely written by U. F. Grant. 19 easy to build illusions.

4. Atomic Sight
5. The Bunny Girl Illusion
7. Chen Lee’s Laundry Bag Illusion
9. Flat Model Head Vanish
11. The Gate - Way Illusion
13. Ghost & Witch
16. Resista
18. The Miracle Dove Act
20. Modern Sawing Thru A Girl
22. Nu-Way Doll House
24. Nu-Tronic Spirit Cabinet
26. Shooting Thru A Girl
28. Spot-Lite Girl Vanish
30. Superior Dove Vanish
32. The Girl In The Balloon Illusion
34. Torture Of A Princess
38. The Victory Girl Production
40. Witch's Broom & Rope Illusion
42. The Zig Zag

Five easy to build and practical levitations by the creative master of thrift, U.F. Grant. One could even be called an impromptu levitation because most supplies are available in a typical household. Every levitation is illustrated.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Self-levitations have been recently popularized by street performers like David Blaine and others. U.F. Grant as usual was way ahead. Here you will find a lovely self-levitation as well as four other easy to build levitation apparatus.

If you are into levitations you should also check out Modern Levitations by U.F. Grant.

14 pages

3. Contents
4. Introduction
5. Uncanny Self-Levitation
7. Casket Asrah
10. Girls In The Air
11. Easy-Do Board Suspension
13. The Floating Head Illusion

This is the first and to this date one of only two English publications exclusively devoted to the rising card effect (the other being Knowing the Rising Cards). This was an early publication by U. F. Grant and is therefore exceedingly rare. Some of the methods described are well known others are quite unusual and therefore highly interesting.

It is likely that the effect of the houlette swinging on two ribbons in Samuel Hooker's famous rising cards is done exactly the way U. F. Grant describes in this manuscript.

The cover boldly states the price: $1 - in 1935 that is. According to the inflation calculator one dollar in 1935 is $15.53 today....

Grant's storehouse of material! Like ten books in one. Contents include 25 Tricks and Ideas, 20 Tricks With a Short Card, Card in Envelope, Rising Floating Silk, Two Other Cigarette Routines, 25 Tricks and Ideas Part II, Five Super Card Mysteries, Thimble Routine, Lighted Cigarette Routine, 30th Century Magic. Illustrated.

1st edition 1964, pages 64; 1st digital editions 2012, 60 pages.

Se sei stanco di spendere tanti soldi per inserire una grande illusione nel tuo repertorio ....
Se vuoi un illusione facile da costruire....addirittura improvvisata.....
Se vuoi eseguire grandi effetti in qualunque situazione....

Allora HAI BISOGNO DI " LEVITAZIONI MODERNE " un grande Classico di quel genio di GRANT!

In questo opuscolo Grant ti spiega come costruire con una spesa davvero minima, a volte irrisoria, ben 6 levitazioni ! Bada che stiamo parlando di levitazioni complete vere e proprie non del sollevarsi da terra di pochi cm come va tanto di moda oggi. Benché scritto diversi...

Un altro Grande Classico di Grant

In questo tempo di crisi economica è davvero utile questo libretto che insegna a costruire ben 5 tra sospensioni e levitazioni pratiche ed economiche.

Tutto materiale facilmente trasportabile e funzionale nel consueto stile di quel genio di Grant- Eccovi in breve i cinque effetti contenuti nel volumetto:

Autolevitazione – un sistema unico!

Immaginate di poter entrare in una qualunque casa, qualunque ufficio, qualunque posto voi vogliate e apparentemente essere capaci di volare! Leggete quanto segue e capirete quanto facile sia poterlo fare.... ...

Canastos is one of these few book test predictions, which you can perform anytime, anywhere and with anyone. Once you have learned Canastos, you can perform an impromptu miracle wherever you go.

The performer invites a spectator to take part in his experiment. The performer hands a spectator an envelope and asks them to make sure it is never touched by the performer again. The spectator is also given a book to inspect and to make sure that every page is different with nothing else written down except the text itself.

The performer takes the book back and riffles through the pages until...

Ulrich Von Etzenbach's Mind Realities Vol 1 will give you new routines, ideas, techniques and a interesting point of view for your own development as performer.

Classic plots in mentalism, structure and new options with simple methods and engaging performances. Learn how to make people fall with your influence (great finesses added), read minds without worries, impromptu and no gimmicks Bank Night and much more!

Content

1. Card Miracle - A four-phase miracle with a deck of cards. Perfect closer, very strong piece of card mentalism
2. Kiss From a Rose - Take your spectator on a journey through...

Ludwig Hanemann - Punx (27. Oktober 1907 - 4. Februar 1996) gehört zweifelsfrei zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen Zauberkünstlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Auch wenn er in der Öffentlichkeit vielleicht nicht so bekannt war wie mancher Kollege, hat er mit seiner Art, die Zauberkunst zu zelebrieren, generationsübergreifend Impulse für Kollegen gegeben. Darüber hinaus war er der erste TV-Zauberer, der an die 50 Mal regelmäßig im Fernsehen auftrat.

Was bisher fehlte: Eine Biographie, die das weit verstreute Erbe des Menschen Ludwig Hanemann wie auch des Zauberkünstlers Punx zusammenträgt...

Routinen und Hinweise zum automatischen Becherspiel.

• 1 Bevor Sie beginnen...
  • 1.1 Informationen zu den Requisiten
  • 1.2 Hinweise zur Pflege der Requisiten
  • 1.3 Was Sie bei der Lagerung beachten sollten
  • 1.4 Was Sie sonst noch beachten sollten
• 2 Die Routine
  • 2.1 Was Sie benötigen
  • 2.2 Die Vorbereitung
  • 2.3 Phase I
  • 2.4 Phase II
  • 2.5 Phase III
  • 2.6 Phase IV
• 3 Tips und Anregungen
  • 3.1 Was Sie mit einem einzelnen Becher vorführen können
  • 3.2 Was Sie mit zwei Bechern vorführen können
  • 3.3 Was Sie mit drei Bechern vorführen können

Erstausgabe 1995, 31 Seiten; erste digitale...

This lot includes two issues (January 1957 and January 1958) of True - the man's magazine. Issues are in good condition. The January 1958 issue is particularly interesting for Erdnase aficionados, because it features the Martin Gardner and John Conrad "The Murdering Card Shark" article.

I attended the Pavel 100% Magic Lecture when he visited Sydney, Australia sometime around 2005. I traveled the 2 hr drive home after the lecture and made sure to jot down notes about the effects that I was impressed with before I retired to bed that night. In hindsight I wish that I had written explanations for all the effects, but it was not to be. So what we have here are 8 items from this lecture explained in my own words. Along with the 100% Magic Lecture 'pictorial memory aid' which contains diagrams of the routines, you should have no trouble following the brilliant thinking behind these eight items.

• Silk on...