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Twelve Tested TricksVerrall WassThis 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
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Astound Your Audience Vol. 2Verrall Wass1st edition 1936; 93 pages.
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Magically YoursVerrall WassPractical effects with cards, flowers and silks. Here is Verrall Wass in his own words about the motivation of this book: Modern magicians are not magi, yet some wizards wish to divide conjuring into innumerable religions and subdivide each religion into as many sects. The doing of tricks for them becomes a ritual. To one, he who does not use Professor Shuffle's (the "Professor" is still with us) double-trouble riffle is a heretic. To another, disciple of The Great Marmagic (the "Greats" are still with us too), he who does not employ Marmagic's boil-and-bubble pass, aptly named because the... | $7 to wish list | |
Essence: 30 Magical ExperimentsVerrall WassFrom the introduction: It has been said that the art of magic is dying; that wireless, the cinema, and now the "Talkies" are killing it. Perhaps so, but the fault lies mainly with us in not supplying the public demand for originality and entertainment. Do not forget that entertainment is the essential factor. So long as the audience is pleased, and the show is well produced, that is all that matters. 1st edition 1931; PDF 56 pages Table of Contents
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European Close-Up Magic Symposium Volume 1Various ContributorsOn 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" | $15 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
European Close-Up Magic Symposium Volume 2Various ContributorsFRANCIS TABARY: "Rope Routine"
HENRY EVANS: "Total control" | $15 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
European Close-Up Magic Symposium Volume 3Various ContributorsBEBEL: "Ambition Colorè"
HENRY EVANS: "Three Predictions" | $15 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Friendly Fire: Magic From The Pages of New Directions MagazineVarious AuthorsFriendly Fire is an exciting collection of almost 30 effects, routines and essays from the contributors to Ben Harris' New Directions Magazine published between 1985-87. What exciting times these were. The masters like Marlo, Andrus, and Lorayne where at the top of their game and the new faces like Sankey, Sanders and Harkey were just emerging. And, New Directions captured a lovely slice of these changing times. We've even got Mike Gallo's ORIGINAL NO GAFF REVERSE MATRIX! Do you remember the excitement and torrent of creativity that spurned? Exciting card, coin and dice magic awaits you inside. Full routines,... | $20 to wish list | |
Bag-O-TrixVarious AuthorsSomeone 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... | ★★★★★ $9.95 to wish list | |
Simplicity, Audacity and BluffVal AndrewsThis could very well be Val Andrew's most important work. He describes with several great examples and historical effects, how one can entertain and amaze employing nothing but simple audacious ruses or outright bluffs. If there is a showman in you, you will love these effects and ideas. If you rather rely on your bottom deal and classic pass, then you will probably not be able to appreciate the value of this information.
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The Art of Modern ConjuringunknownToday we have the Masked Magician exposing magic secrets. Eighty years ago it probably was done by writing a book without the author's name given. I do not know if this book falls in the category 'exposure'. It certainly is a book that clearly reveals a lot of interesting tricks. One is the bullet catch. It has nearly 200 excellent photographs. Card and coin manipulation is dealt with in great detail. Overall a very good book. The photographs are the outstanding part. A review in the March 1909 Sphinx states: "The Art of Modern Conjuring" is an anonymously written work on "Drawing Room... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
Hocus Pocus JuniorunknownThis book includes detailed work on the "Cups and Balls," and the first version of the "Stack of Pence" (i.e., "Stack of Quarters"). It is probably the first English book written from the viewpoint of a performing magician. Any serious magician should read this book, not to learn a lot of new tricks, but to realize how much has been known for a long time. This book is part of our history. I understand that $60 or more for a paper reprint is hard to justify, but now for a few bucks there should be no excuse to not read this wonderful little treasure. 1st edition, 1634; 52 pages.
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The Play RoomunknownThis is an interesting book with beautifully weird games, stunts, experiments, puzzles and magic, some of which I have not seen described anywhere else.
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Magic For the MillionsunknownHow to do magic easily and quickly, including illusions, stage magic, parlor magic, sleight-of-hand, and party stunts. From the Foreword: The Author of Magic For the Millions is a retired magician of many years experience as a professional showman, entertainer, writer, compiler and creator of humor. He lets us peek into the mysteries of magic; he regales us with a lot of new party stunts; he tells us what to do to amuse guests at the dinner table.
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Flash MagicUlysses Frederick Grant & B. W. McCarronThere are eight excellent effects in this updated ebook - plus a few variations - that you and your audiences will enjoy. Best of all, most can be made from materials found at discount and dollar stores. For example, Visible Silk Flight is a brilliant routine with a toy pop gun rifle and a colorful silk handkerchief that you can make up yourself. Just as good as a $150 dealer item. Or how about Lantern of the Air, a beautiful floating effect with a candle-lit Chinese paper lantern? You get two methods explained: one using an assistant and a second one for the one-person show. Or if it's comedy... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
SecretsUlysses Frederick GrantThe title "Secrets - Malini, Leipzig, Vernon, Jarrow, ..." suggests a lot, but these are merely the interpretations and versions of U. F. Grant to some of the classics of Malini, Leipzig, Vernon, Jarrow and others. Grant uses only one page to describe each effect and method. This book is therefore to some degree a disappointment. Nevertheless I think it is a cheap way to learn the plots and a method to several of the greatest tricks of all time. Just don't expect very detailed descriptions. Grant displays in this book an arrogant writing style with comments like 'This is good' or "The best method" or "Fools... | ★★★★★ $7 to wish list | |
CLIP - Clever Little Ideas PresentedUlysses Frederick Grant | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
45 TricksUlysses Frederick GrantThis is a remarkable collection of 45 individual single sheet trick instructions, many of which are illustrated. original 45 pages; PDF 49 pages.
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Gen Grant's Manual of MagicUlysses Frederick GrantGrant's storehouse of material! Like ten books in one. Contents include 25 Tricks and Ideas, 20 Tricks With a Short Card, Card in Envelope, Rising Floating Silk, Two Other Cigarette Routines, 25 Tricks and Ideas Part II, Five Super Card Mysteries, Thimble Routine, Lighted Cigarette Routine, 30th Century Magic. Illustrated. 1st edition 1964, pages 64; 1st digital editions 2012, 60 pages. | ★★★★★ $9.95 to wish list | |
Grant's ScrapbookUlysses Frederick GrantThis rare manuscript by U. F. Grant, originally sold as The Devil's Scrapbook, contains a lot of interesting material. Hidden in its pages are some little gems that you will not find anywhere else. There are no long descriptions of the methods, as Grant himself explains. He goes directly to the point. The style is typical of Grant and we made only some minor corrections of typos. From the introduction: This is a collection of picked items taken from an exclusive scrapbook....items that would have normally been sold separately at One...Two....Three Dollars A Piece. We are not going to... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
Miracles With A Clip BoardUlysses Frederick GrantContains 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
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Tricks with MagnetsUlysses Frederick GrantAll of these clever tricks use magnets in one way or another.
PDF 15 pages | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
Chinese Magic and IllusionsUlysses Frederick GrantA collection of startling and sensational mysteries ... twenty feature tricks.
PDF 22 pages. | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
Grant's Secret ServiceUlysses Frederick GrantIn the 1960s U. F. Grant release his last set of secrets. He sold these as Grant's Secret Service. These secrets sold for a dollar each. You get 24 secrets in one PDF. Here is what you get: 1. Aerial Fishing - Catching live gold fish on end of line . . . Any pole and line . . . Items in local stores. 2. Dramatic Pantomime Torn Card - Card tossed in air, caught and torn into small pieces . . . Visibly restored, as tossed in air. Card actually torn, not pulled apart like old methods. 3. Nu-Question Answering - Written questions sealed in envelopes, collected and mixed . . . Place each... | $20 to wish list |