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This in combination with Routined Manipulation Part Two and Routined Manipulation Finale is one of the best magic books ever published. Each routine is clearly explained mostly with photos and some illustrations. Many classic effects are described in detail. And the essay "Presentation of Manipulation" is a must read for any magician. It includes presentation, dress and appearance, care of the hands, make up, stage setting, music, personality, lighting, a.s.o.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is the second part of the masterfully written classic work on magic. Together with Routined Manipulation Part One and Routined Manipulation Finale it is an excellent work on sleight-of-hand magic. The effects taught are suitable from stage and parlor to intimate settings of close-up magic.

This volume has a large section on billiard ball manipulation. Barrows Mussey calls it 'the best thing in print on the subject'. And Al Koran's Blindfold Card Act is a beauty on its own.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This book is part biographical, a history of Lewis Ganson - one of the most prolific authors of magic, and a lot of wonderful magic.

It is written in Ganson's usual well-written, well-articulated style. Cards, coins, money magic, mental magic, cups and balls, and much more.

1st edition 1982; 232 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Dedication
5. Bibliography
7. Contents
9. Index of Photographs
12. A Tribute to Lewis Ganson Evening (Edwin Hooper)
17. Introduction
19. A Tribute from Dai Vernon
21. The Music Room
24. Jess
24. The Burford Arms
26. A Magician at the Bar
29. The Cap and Pence
34. Ellis Stanyon's Limit Four Ace Trick
40. Moving On
41. My Start in Magic
46. Jack...

The final book of the Routined Manipulation series. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.) More great hand magic for both close up and stage by some of the greatest magicians of all times.

• Anti Gravity Glasses: A feature of Ganson's act for years. Three glasses suspend from a clear sheet of plexiglass. Everything is examinable. This was a marketed item by Unique Studios for many years and now you can easily make this up at home and use it.
• Fred Kaps Coins and Glass Routine: This is the exact routine used by Fred Kaps throughout his career. One of the finest routines with coins ever!
• Peter Warlock's Take a Bow:...

Here is another classic magic book by Lewis Ganson with effects by Ken Brooke, Peter Warlock, Cy Endfield, Marconick, Tonny van Dommelen and others.

c1950, 59 pages

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: Free Choice
11. Chapter 2: Cy Endfield's Card Penetration and Change
15. Chapter 3: Bags of Everything
21. Chapter 4: Eddie Ward's Zombie Card Rise
23. Chapter 5: Three Penetration Effects
23. (a) Bertram Millidge's New Move with the Jardine Ellis Ring
24. (b) Silk Through Ring
25. (c) Silk through Silk
27. Chapter 6: Ken Brooke's Knot-Out plus a simple routine for the Sympathetic Silks
33. Chapter 7: Ken Brooke's Presentation of the Vanishing...

This is a compilation of all 17 Lewis Ganson Teach-In booklets. And as a bonus you will also get the 7 Know-How booklets which was the Series that was supposed to continue the Teach-In Series.

• Card Fans Teach-In
• Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic Teach-In
• Mark Weston's Continuous Cigarette Production Teach-In
• Colombini's Cups and Balls Teach-In
• The Floating and Dancing Cane Teach-In
• Bernard's Lesson on Dice Stacking Teach-In
• Hindu Thread Trick and Gypsy Thread Teach-In
• Matching the Cards Teach-In
• Okito Box Teach-In
• Rings Supreme Teach-In
• Rovi Reveals Teach-In
• Sympathetic Silks Teach-In
• Three Card Monte Teach-In
• Three Chinese Rings Teach-In
• Two in the Hand Teach-In
• Werry's Fantastic Thimbles Teach-In
• Zombie Teach-In

Free Bonus

• Catching a Marked Bullet
• Knowing the Endless Chain
• Knowing the Chop Cup
• Knowing the Indian Cups and Balls
• Knowing the Egg Bag
• Knowing the Rising Cards
• Knowing the Ropes

Probably the greatest collection of close-up tricks ever assembled. And no card tricks are included in this first volume. It is so important not only because of its size (see the humongous table of contents below) and quality, but because the author has gone beyond the mere explanations of tricks and routines. The opening chapter, 'The Presentation of Close-Up Magic', embraces the whole approach to close-up performance. Includes hundreds of illustrations by Dennis Patten.

1st edition 1967, 344 pages; PDF 254 pages.

Table of Contents

9. Foreword

   Chapter One: The Presentation Of Close-Up...

The second volume continues with more than 60 outstanding close-up routines from the best names in magic.

1st edition 1967, 300 pages; PDF 184 pages.

Table of Contents

6. Foreword

   Chapter 1: Destroyed & Restored

7. Cut & Restored Silk
9. Yarn Trick
11. Ten Shilling Note Trick
15. Torn & Restored Cigarette Paper
16. Bennett's Boner
17. Note In Cigarette

    Chapter 2: Three Rings For Dai Vernon

    Chapter 3: Mainly Mental

33. Seven Colours Of Wisdom
34. Elizabeth Arden
35. The Taste Tells
37. Mollusca Mental
39. Idento
40. Noted Number
42. Pseudo Psychometry
45. Transversale
47. Licensed Telepathy

    Chapter 4: Novel Necromancy

49. Miniature...

This ebook contains routines by

CHARLES HARRISON. Member of the Inner Magic Circle, London. A fine performer who is a master at devising magic dependent upon subtle ideas and misdirection. His "Marvellous Marbles" is one of the finest close-up routines it has been Lewis Ganson's privilege to witness.

HARRY G. FRANKE of America who is well known for the clever ideas he has given to the magical fraternity through the pages of JEAN HUGARD'S excellent monthly magazine. "The Vanishing Lady" described herein is a terrific effect brought about with - just three cards.

CY ENDFIELD. Well known Film Director...

Many effects from famous magicians such as Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Fred Keating, David Devant, T. Nelson Downs, Ross Horwitz, Nate Leipzig and of course Faucett Ross himself.

• PREFACE
• A Magician and his Magic
  • Faucett Ross
  • Letters to Charlie Miller
  • The Beginning
  • The Business Side
  • Rules and Common Sense
  • Practice
  • The Magician
  • Showmanship
  • A Bargain
  • Advice on Programmes
• Section One: HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • A Glass and a Silk
  • The Colour Change
  • Handkerchief Box Routine
  • Cut, Burnt and Restored Handkerchief
  • Novel Addition
  • Handkerchief Cane
  • Producing a Silk
  • Fountain of Silks
• Section Two: AN ORIENTAL FLAVOUR
  • Snowstorm in...

This rare booklet contains some real gems. The routines are described concisely and with lots of clear photos.

• Introduction
• Fooling with Hoola Fooler
• A Ring and some rope
• Matched Up
• Card Production
• Phoa Yan Tiong's Cut and Restored Handkerchief
• Coin Manipulation
• Eddie Wards Card rise
• Quick Tricks
• Malini's Vanish of Note from a Handkerchief
• An effective routine for Equally Unequal Ropes
• Giant fans

I was lucky that I stumbled across this book very early on in my magic development. It had a huge impact on how I approached magic and how I think today about magic. The introductory chapter "The Vernon Touch" should be mandatory reading for every magician. I would go so far as to recommend re-reading it every year. Martin Breese wrote: "One of the most important books of magic ever written." Max Holden said: "I consider Vernon the greatest man with a pack of cards of the present day." Many consider Dai Vernon, the professor, as one who had probably the biggest impact on magic in recent times. ...

This is a fascinating combination of biographical detail and carefully described magical secrets researched and recorded by Dai Vernon and Lewis Ganson.

Vernon was an intimate friend of Leipzig. Vernon not only saw many performances given by Leipzig, but Leipzig also explained Vernon in detail how all of his tricks worked and how they are to be performed. Vernon recorded this in his notebooks from which this publication was prepared by Ganson and Vernon. It is therefore fair to say that this is as close as you will ever get to learn from Leipzig.

Leipzig was a gentelman of magic who could...

This is a classic book, probably one of the best books on close-up magic ever written. Now available as an ebook with an improved layout. The original book had 448 photos grouped together in full-page photo plates. This meant that most photos were removed from the text which goes along with the photos. We have corrected this error in this digital edition. All photos have been inserted in the text where they are referred to.

Slydini was a genius of misdirection. Every movement and every word is deliberately chosen to direct the attention of spectators as well as to produce a graceful and engaging...

• Predict something incredibly personal to your spectator – the location of their tattoo. Then go one step further, and divine the design!
• Cause an angel to visually melt from one half of a playing card to another in this shockingly visual application of Paul Harris's Twilight Angels.
• Imagine causing the Hot and Cold water to transpose between your bathroom taps!
• A spectator is offered a free choice from your stack of business cards, and signs the blank side. On turning it over, he finds it is the same business card that you signed earlier in this strange display of coincidence.
• Use a...

The 24 routines from the 2022 Kaymar Advent Calendar.

The Contender - A sure bet where you put £1000 on being able to read the spectator's mind - and you are right every time. With a kicker!

Coinkydink - A self-working 'Do As I Do' with two regular, shuffled decks.

Locked Room Mystery - a secret so baffling it needs to be kept under lock and key for the sanity of your spectators. They open it at their peril.

Make Your Own Luck - Fortune Telling meets 'The Signed Card' as a reading ends with the revelation of a signed card from an impossible place.

Off-Colour Hummer - A spectator...

Darren McQuade and Liam Montier's superb ebook features seven new ideas using a Frixion pen. You can obtain a Frixion pen from most stationary stores worldwide. You will learn some superb and off-beat magic using the Frixion principle in totally commercial and practical routines, as opposed to half-baked pipe dreams that similar publications on the same topic offer.

This ebook takes you through what the Frixion principle is, how to conceal it, how to activate it, and then six killer real-world routines. These include:

Visual Voodoo - Help a spectator out by performing a visual voodoo...

Magicians rarely theme their magic around holidays, but it's something that Darius and I have always done, and this documents a selection of our Christmas-themed magic.

Christmas Cracker Prediction - Predict the joke in your Xmas Cracker, with no forces.

Frosty Card Reveal - A snow spray card prediction reveals one card, and changes to reveal a second one.

Card Through Window - A festive take on a classic.

Around the Snow Globe - A snow globe is opened and the contents changed into real snow.

Bang For Your Buck - Taking a party popper, you fire it, then replace the ribbons inside,...

A master craftsman reveals some of his most prized magical effects!

Lloyd W. Chambers is well-known in magic and collector circles for having built some very fine examples of the conjuror's craft for the likes of Thayer, Abbott, and his own Chambers Magic Co. Within the pages of this ebook are 26 magic effects, many of them offered for sale individually in dealer catalogues for prices far exceeding the price of the entire book.

Here's a look at the contents:

1. Publisher's Introduction
2. L-W-C Telepathy
3. Fisherman's Mat
4. How Time Flies
5. Mawe's Telepathy
6. A Match for You
7. The Flying Ball ...

Nicely illustrated routines of a full-time performer.

From the introduction:

From the Author's Note:

This long-lost work contains eight marvelous effects for magicians everywhere. There are mental-flavored mysteries (including a dictionary test and a billet experiment), a vanishing flower from buttonhole effect, and several card tricks of the miracle class where the magic seems to happen almost entirely in the spectator's hands.

This is actually two manuscripts bound as one: Magical Odds and Ends and Kli Ban's Routine with a Borrowed Deck. The original work is "unobtanium," with copies so scarce as to be virtually nonexistent. We're happy to bring these effects back to a new generation of...

The most famous invention of Nikola is his card system, which is described in The Nikola Card System and in an abbreviated version in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. Cards are not the only area Nikola excelled in.

From the inside cover: Magical Masterpieces is no mere fanciful title. It is an apt description of a selection from the accumulated repertoire of a practical magician whose outstanding characteristic is the painstaking perfection and stamp of individuality of all his productions. It is safe to say that if a new book of magic provides only one workable and suitable addition to the reader's store it is a sound investment. The magician...

In this ebook is to be found the cream of the tricks, ideas and principles which have gone, over the years, into Histed's monster note-book. Here is the life-time's harvest of one man's brilliant thought and patient experimentation. And as every harvest carries the seeds of the next, we are confident that the principles which the author here discloses for the first time, and the new presentations he has devised for other effects, will bear further fruit in the work of amateur and professional magical entertainers all over the world.

The Magic of Louis S. Histed contains magic to suit every...