Magic & Conjuring: page 397

This booklet was inserted in volume 44 number 8 of The Sphinx. It was published as a gift to the loyal subscribers. Illustrations were done by Francis Martineau.

1st edition, 1944, Sphinx Publishing Corporation, USA; 11 pages.

3. Preface
3. Eyes Colour Blind
3. Verrall's Visible Four Aces
4. From Deception to Doll's House
4. Verrall's Chameleon Carnations
7. Verrall's "Bango!"
7. Grandfather's Nightcap
8. Verrall's Vanishing Vase
8. It Hasn't Been Done Before!
8. Decanting a Rainbow
10. Francis Martineau
11. Verrall Wass

This is a nicely illustrated manuscript describing a range of parlor tricks. At the end you will find three articles that still hold a lot of truth even after decades when they have been written.

1st edition 1936, PDF 19 pages

• TRICKS
  5. 1. Triple Transposition
  6. 2. British Made
  7. 3. Magical Book Covering
  8. 4. The Homing Liquids
  8. 5. Balancing a Handkerchief
  9. 6. Bluff
  9. 7. Box 0' Chocs
  10. 8. Twice Twenty-Six
  11. 9. Poppies and Perfume
  12. 10. Transparent Transformation
  13. 11. Buddha's Shrine
  14. 12. The Blossoming Desert
• ARTICLES
  15. An Act "Borrowed from the Audience"
  16. Revolution Needed ? ...
  17. More Publicity...

This is the first volume in a five volume series from which only two have been published.

Verrall Wass takes us through his card tricks from manipulation to mechanical stage/platform effects. The ebook is split into two sections, one describing effects with regular sized cards, the other with giant cards.

The last chapter espouses some of his personal ideas as to magical presentation and psychic phenomenon. Robert Harbin even donated an effect to this collection - "The Card in a Lemon." Many of the ideas in this ebook have been hibernating since 1936 and need to be performed for the public.

1st...

1st edition 1936; 93 pages.

7. Where Are Tomorrow’s Magical Masters
10. I. Rameses’ Wine And Water
12. II. Flages Of Most Nations
15. III. Up Or Down
18. IV. Three From Five
23. V. The Leopard’s Spots
28. VI. Pot-Pourri
33. VII. Wool Gahering
36. VIII. Dyed In The Wool
40. IX. Chameleon Lucifers
43. X. The Photographic Album
47. XI. Vanity Bag
48. XII. Underground
53. XIII. Pail Go!
57. XIV. Butterfly Wings
61. XV. Candle Conception
65. XVI. Billboard
69. XVII. Jam
73. XVIII. On Parade
77. XIX. Shifting Sands
82. XX. Bath Salts
88. XXI. Magical Trade Union Wanted?

Practical effects with cards, flowers and silks. Here is Verrall Wass in his own words about the motivation of this book:

From the introduction:

1st edition 1931; PDF 56 pages

Table of Contents

6. Introduction

   Section One: Novelties

8. Tea
10. From Thin Air
10. Catching The Candle
12. The Bathing-Box
13. They Fell In Love
15. Window-Box Wizardry ...

Booklet stapled in very good condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Listen to the adventures of government agent Frank Chandler, a practitioner of the ancient arts of mysticism now known as Chandu: The Magician. These adventures are from the two final series of Chandu adventures when the format changed from daily 12 minute cliffhangers to half an hour stand alone weekly stories. They begin with Chandler returning to America after many years to see his sister and her family!

Thanks to the format change, you can enjoy these stories without being familiar with any of the earlier radio recordings or the movie serials (Chandu the Magician, 1932, or The Return...

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These two episodes have been digitally restored and remastered. Each episode has had the major clicks, pops and distortions removed while preserving the vintage sound.

The Black Steps
In this thrilling episode, the...

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Photographic Memory
Princess Nadji invites her...

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The Spell of Dimitri
Chandler, Dot and the kids...

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The Temple at Karnak
When the infamous Nazi chemist...

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The House of Fear
This episode finds Frank Chandler...

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The Ominous Sahara (aka The Ominous, Deadly Sahara)...

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Island of Disappearing Men (Temple Under the Sea...

Everything you need to know: vanishes, appearances, changes, multiplying, producing, explanation of various props to glamorize your cigarette work, etc. Carefully explained with pictures so that even the beginner can easily understand and do these tricks. A great little handbook of cigarette work, with tricks you will use.

1st edition 1957, 20 pages; digital edition 2012, 27 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Cigarette Vanisher (Pull)
7. The Professional Vanish
8. The Squeeze Vanish
9. Thumb Tip Vanish
10. Ireland Simplex Cigarette Production Act
13. Cigarettes-Cigars-Pipe
17. The Invisible Cigarette
19. Cigarette...

On November 2012 the first European Close-up Magic Symposium brought 20 magicians from all over the world to Milan for 2 days of non-stop close-up magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue selects among the best routines. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are some of the best names in the close-up magic. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

DANI DAORTIZ: "Forcing card"
One of the best cardicians of our time shows us and explains a beautiful routine with detailed explanation teaching every...

FRANCIS TABARY: "Rope Routine"
A beautiful routine, taken from his live act presented at the Symposium. Tabary amazes you with his original style, true magic from someone who is worldwide considered the most famous ropes magician of all time. In this routine explained in detail during his lecture at the symposium, Tabary gives you new moves and magic effects never been published before. Standing ovation at the end of his live performance at the symposium.

HENRY EVANS: "Total control"
An amazing routine with cards: the 4 aces are lost in a shuffled deck by two spectators. The deck is put...

BEBEL: "Ambition Colorè"
One of the greatest in the world of card magic. The next "Guest of Honor" edition 2013 symposium presents its own unique effect. One of his beautiful versions of the ambitious card, which in this case becomes a routine that is very original and has a surprise ending. Needless to say that everything is executed with his masterful touch that made him popular in the magic universe. The detailed explanation is another show within the show, with a lot of details and variations on the theme.

HENRY EVANS: "Three Predictions"
Another beautiful and inexplicable effect with...

Someone once commented that "If you want to hide a magic secret, put it in a book or magazine!" There is probably some truth to that statement, as there is "buried treasure" on each and every page of this work. Tricks, ideas, gags, presentations, suggestions and routines from a full complement of magical authors. Bag-O-Trix is a collection. It contains the complete texts of many books previously issued separately. Some of these volumes are (and have been) out of print. Some others are in short supply. None will be reprinted as a separate item again. This massive ebook will be the only source...

This ebook is a "Panorama of Professional Prose Palaver and Polished Poetical Patter". It is a collection of six previous Abbott publications:

• Practical Patter by Percy Abbot
• Patter Punches by Sol Stone
• Routines In Rhyme by Bill West
• Merrier Magical Chatter by Don Rogers
• 202 Ways To Stop Hecklers by Otis Manning
• Punch And Judy by Sydney de Hempsey

PDF 127 pages

A collection of stories of the supernatural. These are great starting points to develop your patter for bizarre or otherwise weird and scary plot lines.

• The Guide (Irene Amesbury)
• Call of the Pool Goddess (John C. Craig)
• The Room without Windows (W. P. Cockcroft)
• The Bride of Yum-Chac (Henry Rawle)
• The Fulfilment (Alexander O. Pearson)
• Sir Rodney keeps a Date (Andrew Ringwood)
• The Window (Winfred M. Carnegie)
• Binker's Ghost (A. C. Bailey)

PDF 58 pages

Softcover stapled in good condition. For details on contents see the {lp=922655 digital edition].

This is a fundraiser ebook. 100% of the proceeds of this ebook will go to Kennard Chandler and his wife Bean to help them in their personal and financial struggles.

A Who's Who of mentalism has contributed routines from their performing repertoire to make this fundraiser ebook worth your money and time. Not only is it a worthy cause to help support a member of our community, but it is also a great ebook to read, including some routines that were never published before. In other words, it is material you can only learn from this ebook.

• Introduction by Chandler
• "Hey Rube!"
• Act One: Make...