Magic & Conjuring: page 20

This is all close up, intimate magic, with very little preparation, props you can find in any home, no expense, no skillful sleight of hand needed. It is called 'Minute Magic' because it is ready in a minute, for use at a moment's notice. Tricks with pop corn, sugar, bread, olives, salt, pepper, string, money, paper, gold fish, etc. 36 effects in all. Illustrated.

1st edition 1953, 36 pages; digital edition 2012, 35 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Introduction
6. Magic Pop Corn
6. Sugar From Bread
6. Tantalizing Tissue
8. Flash Change
8. Speedy Ring Vanish
9. Can You Do It?
10. A Startling Production
11. Out...

Contains a complete survey of the various kinds of clip boards, how they work, and how to use them. Plus fifteen different routines involving clip boards. Also in this ebook is a separate mental routine, Kleen, which does not involve carbons, impressions, mirrors, chemicals, switches, gimmicks, envelopes. None of that, just an ordinary sheet of paper and you have a dandy mental effect.

1st digital edition 2013, 13 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Types Of Clip Boards
5. $500 Name Challenge
6. Memory Expert
6. Magazine And Book Tests
7. Miracle Think A Card
7. Living And Dead Test
7. Telephone Card Trick ...

(Two videos included which explain everything.)

MIRAGE - a brand new concept in card magic - and particularly in the realm of paradoxes - a magician-fooler!

Plus two other brilliant "workers" are included below. Here is what the spectators (and magicians) see...

Two paper-clipped, red-backed cards are laid on the table at the onset ... your magician buddies are watching closely. A card from a blue-backed deck is selected and signed by the spectator, then lost back into the deck. The two red-backed, paper-clipped cards are openly picked up and one card is taken into each hand. The hands...

• Card Tricks
  • The Four Burglars
  • Divination
  • An Exhibition of Thought-Reading
  • The Disappearing Ace
  • Another Thought-Reading Trick
  • Hypnotic Selection
  • The Four Burglars Again
• Tricks with Ordinary Handkerchiefs
  • Parachute
  • Doubling the Allotment
  • The Puzzle Knot
  • The Stretched Handkerchief
  • The Salamandic Handkerchief
  • The Flash Handkerchief
  • The Acrobatic Handkerchief
  • Handkerchief Knotting Act
  • The Instantaneous Knot
  • One-Handed Knot
  • Double Instantaneous Knot
• Paper Magic
  • Trough
  • Easy Aeroplane Fold
  • Chrysalis Beads
  • Christmas Crackers
  • Slap Bang
  • Doorway Scoring Game
• Conjuring...

Every generation a magician comes along, whose intention is to record magic in an encyclopedic fashion. Professor Hoffmann was the first in recorded history to attempt such a feat with his trilogy Modern Magic, More Magic, and Later Magic. Certainly many magic books have been published before him, mostly copying from each other. But none reaches the depth and breadth of Prof. Hoffmann's work. The material in these three books records the state of the art of magic in the late 19th century. Today we know more tricks and we have also refined our techniques and methods. But it is astounding how much was already known...

In this classic manual, the first Hugard wrote for people outside the inner circle of magic performers, he reveals the secrets of a host of mystifying tricks covering all major forms of close-up and stand-up magic: conjuring with coins, watches, rings, balls, eggs, silks, cigarettes, cigars, thimbles, flowers, ropes, bills, cards and mental magic.

This is a great primer for anyone aspiring to be a performing magician. The large amount of effects also holds gems for the intermediate and advanced performer. There is some overlap of material with other Hugard publications.

Paul Fleming wrote:

What an excellent book. The quality of the material is outstanding. What makes this book particularly rare is a chapter on juggling and how to fake great juggle skills. I have yet to see another book on magic with such an extensive chapter on juggling. You will also find the obligatory chapter on shadowgraphy, a good write up of black art, and large sections on cards, coins, and tricks with many other props. You will find billiard ball manipulation as well as stage tricks with large apparatus.

1st edition, 1902, Frederick J. Drake & Co, Chicago; 440 pages; PDF 325 pages.

• Introduction ...

When several of the foremost authors in modern magic collaborate with the owner of one of the most respected magic companies, you just know the result will be a great book. Originally released in a limited edition by the owner of Thayer Magic Studios, the first and only previous edition of this clever collection sold out and has never been reprinted … until now.

Features top-quality effects from Dr. Boris Zola, J. Elder Blackledge, T. Nelson Downs, Edward Bagshawe, M. F. Zens, Harlan Tarbell, Herman L. Weber, T. J. Crawford, and others.

Originally published in a limited edition, priced at more than $33.00 in today's money. Not just jaw-dropping...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• Introduction
• Brunel White's Rabbit Box
• A Silk Warehouse from an Examined Empty Bowler Hat
• The B.W. "Mystic" Bouquet and Frame
• "The" Dove and Bouquet Transposition
• The Marvellous Eight Cut Strings Mystery
• A New "Master" Table Top
• The "B.W." Skeleton Table
• The "Limit"...

No matter if you're an amateur, semi-pro, or make your living from magic, there's gold in this ebook for performers of every ilk. Seventeen effects in all are included, ranging from card tricks to mental tests, to geek magic (such as you'd find in a carnival sideshow) and even a full-fledged illusion!

In the "Hammered Nails" effect, members of the audience are invited to drive several spikes or large nails into a trio of wooden boards with a sledgehammer. One of the boards is selected, and the performer - with his bare hands - pulls out the spike. This is "geek" magic at its best and an effect...

To tell you the truth, I do not know much about the author, G. C. Hines. But this shouldn't distract us from the contents of this neat little booklet. He describes how you can dye your own handkerchiefs. You will find some routines with handkerchiefs and two methods for the rising card - one for a stage and one for a parlor setting; two floating ball routines and a flag vase routine.

1st edition, 1915, Modern Mysteries Co.; 12 pages

3. A Word by the Author
5. Table Levitation
5. Dyeing Handkerchiefs
6. Handkerchief Wand
7. Flag between Handkerchiefs
8. Rising Cards - Stage Method
9. Rising Cards - Parlor...

This is the sequel to Slow Sleights and again includes a variety of moves for billiard balls, cards, thimbles, silks and cigarettes.

• Preface
• A Billiard Ball Flourish
• Third-Finger Vanish
• The Improved Ball Twist-Over
• The Finger-Clip Ball Vanish
• One-Handed Colour Change
• The Improved Drop Vanish
• The Perfect False Count
• The Invisible Card Change
• The Mysterious Twelve
• A Neat Thimble Vanish
• The “Sudden" Thimble Vanish
• A Little-Finger Vanish
• Thimble Through The Hand
• The Elusive Handkerchief Thimble
• A Thimble Vanish From Handkerchief
• A Thimble Constantly Passes From Hand To Hand
• A Twist-Over...

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Fore-Word
• The...

Stretching a handkerchief - taught to Blackstone, Sr. by Milbourne Christopher. A simple but effective book test. A simplified version of Albert Goshman's Cards Through the Newspaper. Card to Pocket. A false cut. Phantom Diminishing Cards.

1st digital edition 2012, 14 pages.

NON-CARD MATERIAL SPANNING 30 YEARS!

MONSTERBOXES are simply the best and most cost-effective way in which to explore Ben Harris' 30 year's worth of contributions to the art. By dividing the vast range of ebooks into genres, you can obtain exactly the type of material you are after. Be it cards, close-up, mentalism or animations, there is a MONSTERBOX just right for you!

You also save at least 30% over purchasing the ebooks separately. This is great value for money.

The ebooks in MONSTERBOX #1 cover a wide range of effects and themes. We have linking finger rings, effects with Tic Tacs,...

30 YEARS WORTH OF LEVITATION IDEAS IN ONE COLLECTION!

The ebooks in MONSTERBOX #2 cover a wide range of levitation/animation techniques and approaches. From Harris' world-famous FLOATING MATCH, a FLOATING DECK, ANIMATED WATER BOTTLE, the controversial EAR PLUG levitation and a complete work on ELASTIC THREAD MAGIC.

MONSTERBOXES are simply the best and most cost-effective way in which to explore Ben Harris' 30 year's worth of contributions to the art. By dividing the vast range of EBOOKS into genres, you can obtain EXACTLY the type of material you are after. Be it CARDS, CLOSE-UP, MENTALISM...

This is volume 2 of the 8-volume Collected Magic Series.

• Compilers Preamble
• "Jack Sheppard" A Mysterious Release
• The Enchanted Fan
• "Shades & Shapes" A Pretty Effect with Silks
• "The Zodizignz" An Ancient Oracle
• The "Debur" Afghan Bands
• "The Red Hand!" A Perpetration
• An Ingenious Hat Load
• "A Means to an End"
• The Elusive Stop
• Another Ingenious Hat Load
• The Diving Ball
• The "Regimental" Effect
• "Woolly Wizardry''
• On Card Levitations
• An Easy Hat Production
• "Dissolving Silk"
• The Bretma "Glasgow" Tray

This is the second volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston.

1st edition 1921; original 492 pages; PDF 275 pages.

Table of Contents

5. Contents
10. Introduction to "More Exclusive Magical Secrets."

    Part I. Pocket Tricks

12. The Cut String Restored
15. A Cigarette Trick
15. The Improved Chinese Bat
16. The Mysterious Coins
18. The Travelling Handkerchief
19. An Easy Way of Making Money
20. The Elusive Scent Bottle
21. The Cigarette Vanisher
22. The Magical Knife
23. The Mallet
24. Think of a Card
25. Will Goldston's Disappearing Knot
27. The Missing Money
28. The Match Through the Tube
29. The Conjurer's Will Power ...

Thirty more excellent effects with plastic cups.

• Introduction
• Rationale For Using Disposable Cups
• Folding Or Collapsible Cup
• Vanishing Cup Of Liquid
• Additional Folding Cup Ideas
• Improved Foo Cup
• Fake Bottom Cup
• Foo Cup, Continued
• Vanishing Omelet
• Transformation Tricks With Eggs
• Baking Tricks
• Baking Cup Cakes In Paper Bag
• Cake In Hat
• Egg Shampoo
• Using The Foo Cup For Changes
• Production Cups
• Productions Using One Cup
• Funny Routine With Fruit Punch
• Thrilling Rice Production
• Shades Of The Coffee, Milk, And Sugar Trick
• Magic With New Transparent Solo Cups
• Liquid Appear Outfit ...

• Games (Pass the Beads; The Magician Game; Sweet Production)
• Toadstool And Ragdoll
• Rabbit Production
• Happy Birthday / Happy Christmas Box
• Routine For Blind Date
• The Magic Christmas Tree
• Prize Spell
• Grandma's Knitting Bag
• The Space Rocket Trick

1st edition ~1988, PDF 10 pages.

This is the second volume of the Hoffmann trilogy. If you liked Modern Magic you will love More Magic. There is too much to list. Refer to the 'Table of Contents' below for details. This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are

• Magicians' Tricks by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate
• The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
• The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
• Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
• Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
• Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

This is volume two in the classic sleight-of-hand trilogy. From the foreword:

Excerpt from the Preamble:

• Card And Bathing Belle
• Paper Bag And Ball Of Wool
• The Productive Carton
• Discs And Wires
• The Giant Bead Trick
• Magically Making A Cake
• A Shot From A Magazine
• The In Between Block
• Smoke Writing
• Block Release
• An Invisible Pass
• A Telepathic Experiment
• Handkerchief Vanish
• Confetti Cups
• Novel Production Tubes
• Triple Tube Tumbler Vanish
• Coin In A Glass
• Find The Lady
• New Magnetic Wand
• Dial And Aces