Magic & Conjuring: page 27

A new collection of Magic & Mentalism from Ireland, Scotland & Wales

• 35 contributors
• 45 routines
• including two essays
• over 170 pages
• fully illustrated with photographs & graphics

1st edition 2010; 181 pages.

Table of Contents

• Mentalism
  1. Q.R.: Confabulating Confabulation
  5. Max Gordon: The Creative Side
  9. Max Gordon: The Last Straw
  14. David Lees: Mentalism (essay)
  18. David Lees: Tarot Magick
  25. Jim Cuthbert: Where will we Go on Holiday?
  27. Paul Lesso: The Jungle Book Test
  29. Paul Lesso: Quadtratus Magic Square
  33. Pete Lamont: Shape Up and Shape Down
  38. Peter Duffie: Brainwoven
  40. Peter Duffie:...

Original ideas across the spectrum for magicians.

A collection of magical ideas, most of which have been tested on genuine living audiences. Pete Biro has been performing and lecturing, as well as dropping juggling props here and abroad since 1966 - plus a bunch of time in the early 50's. "Most original tricks and ideas" he says, "come from having a creative memory!"

• Greetings
• Philosophy Of Magic
• Simplicity
• Stealing Material
• Here 'Tis - The Jumping Cigarette
• Card Control & No-Palm To Pocket
• Invisible Hair
• Severn/Biro Impromptu Rising Cards
• Inspected By Number 27
• Sock Purse ...

• Fore-Word to Second Edition
• The Chocolate Box Mystery
• Flash Paper Ideas
• A "Live" Rabbit
• Fishing for Money
• The Suffragette Problem
• The Levitation of a Piece of Paper
• The Transformation Tumbler
• The Lightning Ink and Water Change
• The "Eureka" Slate
• An Egg, Handkerchief, & Milk Combination

1st edition 1913, 2nd edition 1920, 36 pages; PDF 23 pages.

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

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Fore-Word
• The...

• 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 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.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the Preamble:

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" ...

• 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.

Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This is the big book of Pavel's creative magic. A collection of some forty tricks using silks, ropes, cards, bottles and other objects, plus the author's philosophy regarding the creation of original magic. (A more detailed discussion of the innovative process used by Pavel can be found in his Magical Creation.)

Pavel lectured throughout the world, performed at the Magic Castle, at the Ed Sullivan show and countless other venues. Peter Warlock nicely characterizes Pavel's magic when he writes: "The beauty of Pavel's magic lies in its simplicity of plot and the simplicity of means to attain the necessary...

A selection of some thirty varied tricks for stage, parlor and close up, illustrating practical examples of magical plots and their solutions.

These are lecture notes for one of Pavel's lectures. Most of the descriptions are pictorial. Pavel intended this as a memory aid for people who attended his lecture. The descriptions are therefore not necessarily complete or very detailed in all cases.

[You might also be interested in Troy Murphie's notes he took after seeing this lecture.

• Silk on Rope (plot)
  • Loop-a-Silk
  • Tenkai Neck Tie and Silk
  • Pavel's Rope through Neck (with Silk or Necktie)
• Miracle Silk Pass
  • Silk Vanishers
  • The Ethereal...

A collection of some 15 effects with silks, ribbons, rings, balls, glasses, tubes, paper, dice, and other objects.

• Instant Silk
• Colorings
• Jet Rope
• Effecto Tube
• Top Match
• Test-A-Colour
• Chameleon Die
• Transpo Silks
• Jumping Knots
• Silken Trio
• Knotty Rope
• Ribbon Prediction
• Travelling Hole
• Sucker Restoration
• Super Ball

1st edition 1980, 34 pages; PDF 33 pages.

• The Mysterious Silk
• The Rings In A Matchbox
• Ultra Combination
• Double Color Laces
• The Odd Vision
• Discolora
• Square Circles
• The Pocket Rings
• The Pack Of 19 Cigarettes
• The Traveling Queens
• The Rings On Rope
• Two Possibilities
• Three Color Mystery
• The Laughing Rabbits
• The Secret Of The Ring

For the German edition see Pavel's 15 Mikro Tricks (German).

1st edition 1971; PDF 32 pages.

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.

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.

Seven effects from Paul's professional act with magic ranging from stage, close-up to parlor effects for the real world magician. The effects include

• Duck Call Gag
• Clean Sweep
• Business Card Switcharoo
• Poor Magician's Confabulation
• Dove/Plane Gag
• Newspaper Umbrella Trick
• Pin Number
• Bearly Impossible Solo
• Bonus routine: Chinese Cookie

1st edition 2009; 42 pages.

The effect is unusual, typical Paul Harris - a word on a page in a book moves.

runtime: 4min 53s

Mainly Close Up was Paul Hallas's first book published in 1979 and has been unavailable for around 30 years. Rather than just copy the book for an e-version it was re-typed and some corrections made and additional comments made from a 2013 perspective. Some of the original sketches have been left, others removed as not necessary and occasionally some photos added. Twenty seven ideas are described (though a couple will need patter updates) and it is perhaps Paul's most varied collection. As the title suggests, the book is mainly close up, and mostly cards, but also a couple of coin items, a stretching...

Here's an expanded and updated edition of a Paul Curry manuscript that contains not one, but two powerful effects that will give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer.

Probability Zero

A batch of business cards are numbered and mixed, with their number sides down. A truly sensational climax is reached when a spectator, although he selects the cards at random and doesn't know the numbers on the cards, succeeds in arranging them in numerical order. Is it just chance? Not likely - the odds are over 300,000 to 1 against it.

The Color-Changing Deck

A new...