Magic & Conjuring

A collection of 15 effects with ropes, silks, balls, cards, ribbons, paper, glasses, canes, dice and other objects.

• The Instant Silk
• The Ribbon Prediction
• A Rope Circle Routine
• Rainbow Balls
• The Black Die Prediction
• The Knot Off The Rope
• Newspaper Knotting II
• The Ribbon Transposition
• The Zebra Trick
• Encore The Silk In The Knot
• The Spotted Card
• Six Ideas For Cane Workers

1st edition 1974, PDF 27 pages.

More of Sam's commercial items, creations, and some of his ideas published in various magazines. Many require a bit of DIY building a prop or gimmick, but nothing requires any special skills or expensive supplies.

• Introduction
• Rainbow Chips
• Magician at the Casino
• Super Psychic Chips
• Climax Vision
• Multicolour Matrix
• Fire And Ice
• Space Warp
• Future Fungus
• Chameleon Fungus
• Visual Colour Changing Plumes
• Slow Change Plumes
• Famous Stamp Album Trick
• Six Way Coloring Book
• How to win at Dice games
• Improved Mental Logs
• Costume Capers
• The Alphabet Deck
• Card-I-Mental
• ESP Mental ...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

• Tricky Tidbits
• For The Green Chlorophyll Card
• Our Magician Of The Yearbook For 1954 - Del Ray
• The Royal Assembly
• Fourteen Effects With The Fourteen Of Clubs
• Mickey Mouse And His Magic Coats
• The Jackpot Cigarette Trick
• The Magnetic Ball
• Golf Ball To Silk
• The Human Volcano
• The Spectator Does A Card Trick
• Perfect Diminishing Pack Of Cigarettes
• Felix The Snake
• Torn Smoke
• The Ireland Handling For A Jumbo Two Way Forcing Deck
• Bamboo Chinese Sticks
• Sockard
• What To Do With A Slick Ace
• Sez You Giant Card Trick
• The No Gimmick Slate Gimmick
• The Foolproof Necktie Trick
• The Ghost...

This is a collection of material that is relatively easy to make up and use. It includes some of Sam's commercial items and some of his ideas published in various magazines. It does not include anything from his other booklets available on Lybrary.com.

• Introduction
• Auto Triumph
• Crystal Thought Condenser
• The Magic Zoo
• The Phantom Flush
• Phantom Phlush Mk-II
• Evaw Niarb
• The Brainwave Bandwagon
• From Aunt Teresa with Love
• The 543rd T & R Note
• Ready - Set - Go
• Forcing Pocket Calculator
• Mind-Kaleido
• Magic Conventions
• Compass Clock
• Blank Blank
• Auto Suggestion & Incensed
• 20th Century...

Excerpt from the introduction:

These are the Pavel 1990 lecture notes.

• Utility Pull
• The Enchanted Mirror
• Color Bet
• Quadsilx
• Silks From Silk
• Sucker Blendo
• The Yellow Rope
• Jumping Knots
• Silks & Rings
• Card Paper Tear
• New Silken Balls
• Sucker Ribbons
• The Universal Rope
• Krazy Knot

1st edition 1990, 26 pages; PDF 35 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:

• 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.

Routines with the Howard Adams' Ramasee Principle - a self-working method.

The Bammo Crambazzled Dossier is a deep-dive examination of a very strange and magical principle. You will fool yourself and, of course, everyone else. It works automatically, maybe even automagically. How it works may not be capable of an explanation from this world, but Bob Farmer does offer his ideas and those of many others.

The routines involve magic words, runes, Tarot cards, antique keys,...

The name Chris Congreave is synonymous with commercial close-up routines and ideas. As a full-time close up pro for over a decade, he has learned how to hone his magic in order to make it totally practical for performance to lay people in the real world, and this new ebook brings together a collection of 40 of his best ideas as well as providing you with three essays that offer sage advice.

Although a few of his routines do require some elements of sleight of hand, much of his material is extremely straightforward or even virtually self-working. In fact, the variety and breadth of the material...

The magic tricks presented here are subtle, easy to do, and require little or no apparatus. The inventions of some of our greatest magicians, these are sleights that involve a minimum of practice but achieve a maximum of effect.

Here are card tricks that are almost foolproof, and others that require some skill and more practice. Sleights for close-up performing, where the magic takes place right under the noses of the audience, and tricks with paper-folding, an ancient art adapted to modern magic, are outlined and diagramed. The author also includes tricks with coins and paper money, rings,...

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" ...

Anyone who has seen a magician perform has almost certainly seen one or more of the tricks explained in this book. For these are great tricks of the magic profession, tricks that have proved perennially spectacular in performances on the stage, on television, or in private audiences.

The author explains first the basic scheme of each trick, then discusses the possibilities for variation and expansion as developed by a number of famous magicians. Each of the classic tricks included here is methodically described in detail and illustrated in line drawings; none of them involves expensive...

Excerpt from the foreword by Paul Rosini:

Sleeving to me is one of my most valuable assets. As you well know, practical magic is what counts, and I have always found it my magical exploits that sleeving has been very practical. In fact, many well known magicians at conventions have passed...

Excerpt from the introduction:

"Now the question arises, who will be the legitimate successor to Prof. Hoffmann? I will venture to predict that it will be another Briton, Brunel White, whose first plunge into the literary end of the business, "Original Mysteries For Magicians," in my humble opinion, with the single exception of "Modern Magic," the best book I have yet seen, and there are hundreds of Magicians who will agree with me." - Maurice Bliss

• Introduction
• The Appearing And Disappearing Knot On Handkerchief ...

Tricks for amateur performers.

Excerpt from the foreword by Orson Welles:

Excerpt from the Preamble:

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.

Gary is one of those performers who is equally at home presenting magic to lay people or to a room full of magicians, and his creative output reflects those two requirements. Some of the magic in this collection is designed to intrigue and fool magicians, while other effects are fast, direct and perfect for working under almost any commercial conditions.

What all the magic has in common is that the methods have been constructed to extract the maximum effect for the minimum of fuss. Some of Gary's handlings do require some sleight of hand - he is very fond of palming cards, for instance...

Gary Jones is a full-time professional magician of many years standing, and he is a man who is widely respected for both his performing skills and his creative way of thinking. This ebook brings you the full illustrated details of a large selection of Gary’s worker routines and moves, a couple of effects from some of Gary’s good friends in magic, as well as many tips and much advice on performance and even what it takes to be a pro entertainer.

You will learn the secrets behind Gary's sleight-free coins through table, you will learn a really clever card-to-wallet idea that removes the...

Excerpt from the introduction:

A complete and practical guide to drawing-room and stage magic for professionals and amateurs, including a complete exposure of the black art.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This is an informative ebook for table-hoppers and folks who work or would like to work close-up magic venues: tips, advice, and routines.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This e-book addresses impromptu magic that can be performed anywhere - cards, coins, cups, and ESP. Includes three videos and many photos, explaining everything. These effects are not the typical long-winded, counting, confusing, multiple-packet effects that many young people "teach" on YouTube and claim that they're professional routines...they are not. The routines within, are interactive and visually pleasing. 10 professional impromptu effects are included - most are magician-foolers.

Effects included:

• Rainbow Match
• Cup thru Table
• Easy Triumph
• Four-Way Coincidence
• A Principal...

Triplets is a new series by Gregg Webb with three items each - tricks and essays. This first ebook in this series features "Cleverness", a two-card transpo, a coin routine that was inspired by Milt Kort's famous shot glass coin routine, and "Behold the Invisible Knife", a routine most suitable for a kids show.

"Gregg Webb is one of the most creative minds in Magic. For over 40 years he has been inspiring me with his contributions to our art." - Jeff McBride

1st edition 2022, PDF 7 pages.

• 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 foreword:

• Foreword
• Amazo
• A Sensational Card Effect
• A Miracle In Cards
• Think And Take
• Bagging The Card
• Number Telepathy
• Slow Motion Tip
• Whispering Thought
• Midget Stack
• Shoe Laces Today
• Card Silk Routine
• Perfect Pellet Switch
• Simple Location
• Simple Do As...

Being a collection of easily built tricks and small illusions.

• The Great Ovette
• A Novel Opening Number
• The Waterless Tube
• Magic Bunny Rings
• The Oriental Bead Rack
• The Oriental Tube
• Stack Of Fish Bowls
• Bunny Production Box
• The Traveling Silks
• On Again Off Again
• Bird And Cage
• The Vanishing Lamp
• Bird And Cage Illusion
• Candle And Fan

1st edition 1944, 30 pages; PDF 30 pages.

Excerpt from the Introduction:

• Dear God
• Introduction ...

The title says it all. A must-have for any Wayne Dobson fan. Lots of effects are explained, lots of anecdotes are told, and lots of photos are shown.

This eBook contains virtually every magic effect Wayne published up to 2011, and all have the hallmarks of Wayne's creative thinking. The methods are always simple and direct, and included amongst the selection of around 100 effects are some of the tricks that helped to establish Wayne as one of the top stage, cabaret, and TV magicians.

Much of the magic is suitable for close-up performance too, and the required props are either everyday...

Excerpt from the Introduction:

• Introduction
• Have Faith In Me
• Magical Strike
• Thru The Barriers
• Magical Gambling
• Flight-O-Disc
• Vibrations
• ESP Stacking
• On Time
• Floating Match Box
• What’s In a Name
• In the Cards
• Introducing...

In this ebook Solyl gives you an assortment of practical entertainment, from clever close-up with a plug for a prospective booking, to colourful, entertaining, and very impressive conjuring and stage magic. All simple to perform, and enjoyable to watch.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Introduction
• This is the drink I want
• Simplex Shower of Sweets
• Do It In Their Hand
• My Chop Cup Routine
• No Chance
• Magic Drinks Maker ...