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Take your magic to the next level by incorporating one or more of Berland's beautifully choreographed routines into your act. This is magic that makes audiences, booking agents, and club owners sit up and take notice.

Not just one or two, but eight separate routines, using items already owned by most magicians. The performances are well-thought out, clearly described, and with 147 illustrations, easy for most any performer to understand and put to use. Just look at what's included:

• A Word to My Friends in Magic
• Routine Impromptu
• Astrological Forecast
• Liquor Finish for Cups and Balls ...

A wonderful ebook on the magic of Roy Baker, inventor of the PATEO force.

• Preface
• Section 1: General Magic
  • Baker’s Beakers
  • Bisected Balloon
  • Air-Lite
  • Flap-Doodle Bag
  • Super Silks
  • Electro-Van
  • T and R Gag
• Section 2: Card Magic
  • The Last of the Last Cards
  • Name Your Card
  • Star Location
  • Fantastic Aces
  • Ah-Bee Card in Envelope
  • Crazy Speller
  • Forceful Revelation
  • Blindfold Discovery
  • Psycho Card
  • Drunk Card
• Section 3: Close up Magic
  • Bewildering Matches
  • Three Trees
  • Hat-Tissue!
  • Going Through the Rye
  • Ring Off
  • Shooting Star
  • Spoon on Nose
  • Coins Across
• Section 4: Mentalism

"Zitta has done it again. He has completed a new work that is outstanding, practical, and mostly Impromptu. I don't know how he does it, ideas, brilliant ones, flow like water. Get this. And if you don't have them, get all his work. They bring me and the audience wonderment, joy, and workable thoughts. 5 out of 5" - Marc Salem

Welcome to Simple Ideas Huge Impact, a collection of 6 close up magic effects utilizing everyday objects. All of these effects are simple to do and they require very little setup. Here are the effects:

King Split: A stunning two card production utilizing a double backed card. It can be used as great opener to any sandwich routine.

Simple Biddle: A simplified version of the classic Biddle trick with no Biddle Count.

Solvent Coin: A stunning way to change a drawing on a coin utilising a gimmick that most magicians are familiar with. No special ink.

Popcoin: A simple way to make a coin...

87 Tricks, routines, ideas, developments and bits that will help you get the most out of the magic you now own. Lee Snyder is a "thinking magician" and you can easily apply the magical thoughts he has come up with.

• Lee-gerdemain
• Portable Hole Made Portable
• The Disappearing Cane
• Business Card Business
• A Rainbow Fantasy
• Training Your Balloon Dog
• The Memory Stick
• Yogurt of the Yogi
• The Weaving of the Rings
• Balancing the Budget
• Star Trick
• Instant Rabbit
• Pest Control
• Magic Greeting Card
• Balloon Transplant
• Balloon Bazooka
• Cold Cuts
• Handcuffs
• Tatooed
• Simple Manipulative Routine ...

"Out of my, 44 books of magic, I am probably most proud of this one...powerful magic that can be used for Openers and Closers! Every detail worked out with pictures, 3 videos, history, and many underground sleights! This is a gold mine!" - Paul A. Lelekis

The ESP effect SHOCK! alone, is worth 10X the price of this e-book. However...all of these effects are priceless. All patter, psychology, history, nuances, and underground sleights are explained in detail.

1) OPENERS - essay of what they are, how they work, how to use them, transitioning, and why they work. ...and then four powerful...

U. F. Grant contributed some of his best material to the Tarbell Course in magic. Most of this material is unique to the Tarbell Course and does not appear elsewhere. Before Grant died, he compiled a manuscript containing all of the material he contributed. It ranges from close up to stage illusions. A lot of magicians don't have the original Tarbell Course, so here is your chance to get all of the tricks he created and contributed in one place. Fully illustrated and one of the best buys in magic. This is stuff you will use and do and as Harlan Tarbell said, some of the best magic in his course.

One of the best tricks that Grant created was Ghost...

Close-up magic tricks for everyone - from cards to general close-up

This ebook is filled with various commercial close-up tricks and routines that have been tried, tested and performed for live audiences over many years. These are practical and commercial effects that will appeal to the working magician whose focus is on captivating and entertaining his audience.

You will find a mix of old and new items, original tricks, twists on old routines and ideas to tweak those close-up effects gathering dust in your cupboard.

For the card magicians, you will find sensational routines, such as...

Dinner's over, so now what? Entertain your guests, that's what! Here's a clever collection of after-dinner magic to entertain friends, business associates, and even total strangers.

Written by a famous Chicago magic dealer, the effects run the gamut from close-up miracles to routines for club and platform. You'll find entertaining matrix effects, cut and restored mysteries, mindreading experiments, and much more. Includes a very nice two-person mental act that could be the hit of your next corporate show, banquet, or awards dinner.

Some of these effects were sold individually by magic...

This ebook features a variety of strong and easy to perform tricks. Of course, as the author of Modern Coin Magic Bobo includes a solid section on coin tricks, but he also teaches routines with cards, thimbles, rope, and there is also a detailed section on sleeving. Bobo was a master of it.

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter I: New Card Technique
  • Multiple Card Control
  • Bottom Up
  • Bottom Peek
  • Top Peek
  • U Peek, I Peek
  • Color Change
  • The Ebling Crimp
• Chapter II: Keys And Tricks Therewith
  • A New Key Card
  • The Isolated Key
  • Stop Card Trick
  • Found
  • Bobo Locatrix
  • In His Hands
  • Telepathic Miracle
  • Two Backward...

This ebook contains excellent variety for magicians and mentalists of all performing capabilities and experience levels. The effects and routines include apparatus tricks, mental stunts, spirit writing, predictions, magazine and book tests, thumb ties, and tricks with cards, silks, coins, cigarettes, billiard balls, sponge ball and a terrific rope routine.

Paul Fleming wrote:

• Preface
• INTRODUCTION
• PART I: THE TRUE SECRETS OF CONJURING
• PART II: TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
  • Section I: CARD TRICKS
    • Palming Cards - Improved Method
    • Naming a Card that has been removed from a Pack
    • Improved Method of finding a Card in a selected Position in the Pack
    • An invisible Flight of a Card
    • Rising Card without Apparatus
    • Card Photography
    • The Four Ace Trick - A New Method
    • Two Cards placed in Envelopes Made to Change Places
    • The "Foreman and Miners" Trick
    • Magical Disappearance of Three Cards
    • A New Card Frame
  • Section II: MISCELLANEOUS TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
    • The Drawer Box ...

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  • The Dress
  • The Table
  • The Servante
• CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO SMALL OBJECTS
  • Palming
  • Le Tourniquet
  • The Finger Palm
  • The Reverse Palm
  • To Change a Coin
• CHAPTER III. TRICKS WITH COINS
  • Magical Production of a Coin
  • The Wandering Coin
  • A New Coin Fold
  • Coin and Candle
  • An Artful Conjurer
  • The Invisible Flight
  • Vanish for Duplicate
  • To Pass a Coin Through the Body
  • Swallowing Illusions
  • Coin and Lemons
  • The Pocket Vanish
  • Florin v. Sixpence
  • To Pass a Coin into an Ordinary Matchbox held by One of the Spectators
  • Coin,...

Fabian, in the role as literary and technical editor of Abracadabra magazine, selected and edited these routines.

• Publisher's Foreword
• "The Conjurer Comes Forward" Or Making Money Out Of Magic (Ron Bishop)
• Allez Oop!! (Jack Shepherd)
• Glass Distinction (Robert W. Edmanson)
• The Grand National (Syd the Sorcerer)
• Picture Projection (Arthur Eydmann)
• The Spanish Prince (John K. Bays)
• The Mechanical Banner (Jack Le Dair)
• Blown Egg (Syd the Sorcerer)
• The Chinese Chain (A. G. Jacobs)
• Cigarettes To Pocket (John K. Bays)
• The Quick And The Dead (Peter A. McDonald)
• Decks In Sympathy (Arnold...

Going down the list of contributors one will find very prominent names such as Elmsley, Walton and Avis. When this book originally appeared they were young and largely unknown. Enjoy some of their early contributions to the art of close-up magic.

• Foreword
• The Repeat Card In Hat (Tommy Vanderschmidt)
• The Cut And Restored Cigarette (Arthur Holland)
• Jet Transportation (Bobby Bernard)
• Point Of Departure (Alex Elmsley)
• Knifed (Roy Walton)
• The Seance Card Trick (Ted Danson)
• The Monte Cristo Ring (John Derris)
• The Cards Of Pegasus (Jack Avis)

1st edition 1953, 37 pages; 1st digital edition 2017, 30 pages....

Here's a book that belongs on every magician's digital shelf. Inside you'll find 48 effects, tips and suggestions for close-up and club performers.

One of our favorites is the "Ring and Balloon Problem," as we can see it being used to win bar bets. Especially if you use an engagement or wedding patter story with your spectator. "Dollar Discernment" is also exceptionally clever as a mental test. We believe entertainers will make great use of it for those situations where they are asked to perform and have no props with them. Good stuff.

Here's a look at what's included:

• Preface
• The...

The Openers and the Closers of your magic shows are the most important aspect of magical entertainment...they dictate how your audiences will perceive you...then and later.

Many photographs and a video are included explaining every detail of Paul's excitingly magical routines!

Paul's "The not so invisible deck" routine is not what you think. It is his very special routine that he has used as his "closer" for over 20 years. The patter is hilarious...wait until you see the real secret behind this routine. All patter and many nuances of performance are included.

The introduction contains...

The Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused ebooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key performance areas. The ebooks are written in an easy to understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.

The first volume in the series is entitled Going Walkabout, and it contains 28 pages of important and valuable information about how to make a success of working close up magic at reception style events where the spectators are all standing or where there is, at best, only a very informal arrangement...

The Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused ebooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key performance areas. The ebooks are written in an easy to understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.

Volume 2 in this series concentrates on how to use magic at trade shows and business exhibitions. For many years I have been working at business events using my strolling magic as a highly effective way to put across company messages and to help promote them at their exhibitions. My approach...

The Professional Worker Series is a selection of targeted and focused ebooks which offer professional, sound advice on a number of key performance areas. The ebooks are written in an easy to understand style which cuts out all the waffle and padding, and instead gets right to the core of each subject.

Volume 3 in this series takes a close look at what is required to work commercial magic at a table side. It's probably true to say that more opportunities are available for close up magicians to work at a table side than for any other form of close up. From big dinner functions with large numbers...

Here's a terrific book containing ten tricks, using cards, a magic wand, rope, and other items associated with the magic arts. Most of the effects require no special apparatus. What little is needed can easily be constructed. We think modern performers will really enjoy the card rise, where the action takes place with a borrowed deck! Also of interest will be "Through the Five-Spot," which is an impossible solid-through-solid effect where a five of spades visibly melts through the center of the magician's wand.

We've especially had fun performing the ball bearing mental test, which is a great...

This ebook is filled with practical stage and parlor effects, includes patter for a number of well-known routines, plus numerous tips and ideas to enhance older classic effects. The focus is on commercial tricks that will appeal to the working magician who places emphasis on entertainment.

You will find a mix of old and new items, original tricks, twists on old routines and ideas to tweak your current favorite effects as well as those gathering dust in your cupboard. From silks, jumbo cards, crosswords, ropes, newspapers, illusions, gags and predictions to restorations and comedy.

Included...

This collection features lots of little tricks, stunts, science experiments and games. It also has an extensive advertisement section in the back.

• The Disappearing Egg
• "Ghost Rings": A Pretty Party Trick
• The Invisible Candle
• Home-made Ping-Pong
• Animal Magnetism
• A Curious Illusion
• The Dancing Skeleton
• The Floating Corks
• Restoring the Cut Thread
• Invisible Photographs
• A Laughmaker
• The Magic Coin Box
• A Match Trick
• The Balanced Coin
• The Disappearing Coin
• A Peculiar Number
• To Name all the Cards in the Pack in Succession
• The Indian Duck Trick
• The Latest Cigarette Vanish
• The Balanced...

This book covers a mix of stage illusions, manipulations, and parlor tricks. It is very nicely illustrated even featuring a couple of photos.

Paul Fleming wrote: