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Highlight Magic contains top flight routines for close-up, parlor, and stage. While not every effect requires some knowledge of sleights, some require mid-level skill. Nelson Hahne did the pen and ink illustrations, and as usual, his work is top notch, too.

Contents

• Foreword.
• From the Publisher. Introductory comments from John Snyder, Jr., magic dealer and past president of the IBM.
• THE SPIRIT OF THE COBRA. Three cards selected and returned to deck are tossed into a lidless box. Patter about a Cobra and a card peeps over the edge of the box and rises. Other cards are seen to be surprisingly...

• Production Of An Ice Pail And Silks
• Card From Fez
• Chain Reaction
• The Vanish Of A Vase Of Flowers
• Variation Chain Reaction
• A Waterballet
• How To Blow A Crease Into A Hat
• Dog Production
• Knotted Twice
• The Floating Sombrero
• It Is Up The Sleeve
• Silk Appearance On A Coat Hook
• Two Silks Change Places
• Catch A Card On A Rope
• Close Up With A Borrowed Handkerchief
• Transformation Chair-Suitcase
• Silk Production From A Card Fan
• Silk Production In Knot
• Coca Cola In A Newspaper
• Silk Manipulation For Two Hands
• Silk Return
• A Gambler's Dream

1st edition 1970, 1st digital edition 2016,...

Performed by Randy Wakeman before random, live audiences . . . then explained and taught in full detail.

Over the 1950s, 1960's, and through the 1970's a brand of bold and direct close-up magic was developed in Chicago, Illinois. These effects were known for simplicity, clarity, and strength of effect, and the powerful response they elicited. Chicago magical legends Don Alan, "Heba Haba Al" Andrucci, "Senator" Clarke Crandall, Frank Everhart, Jack Murray, Johnny Paul, James Patrick Ryan, and Matt Schulien forged their reputations with these effects, and now you can too.

While these quick, direct, simple, baffling effects...

This work by noted magic author and dealer Chas. Eastman contains 11 great effects and tips for performers of all skill levels. We think this could be the best value in magic today. Contributors include Tommy Tucker, James D. Taylor, Val Evans, Harry Valcarte, and more. Here's a look at the contents:

Publisher's Introduction

A Most Subtle Card Force - Spectator inserts a red-backed card into a blue-backed deck. The card at the selected position is actually forced. No slip force is used.

The Triple Mystery - A dictionary mental prediction with three climaxes!

Call It What You Like...

Between 2009 and 2011 a very special column appeared in M-U-M, the in-house magazine for the Society of American Magicians. Conceived to be an introduction to sleight of hand aimed at beginners, the thirty-six lessons ended up being one of the most detailed courses in conjuring to date. The topics covered included all aspects of magic; cards and coins, balls, ropes and cups, stand up and close up, interspersed with real-world performance hints and tips from someone who has spent time in the trenches.

This e-book version contains all thirty six Basic Training columns, plus two extra lessons...

This is the continuation of Best of Slydini ... and more.

As the first volume, this ebook includes both the text and the photos of the original two volume hardcover set. Each of the more than 1300 photos is available twice. The first time the photos appear dispersed through the text close to where each photo is first mentioned. And the second time all photos are together in one place, the same way this material was originally published - text and photos separate. Having the photos included with the text avoids the constant reference to another volume. But having them also together by themselves allows for a stop-motion-like...

This is a bonanza of magic - and begins with an intro of performance tips which contains tips, hints, suggestions, notes, and secrets of performance - very important! Included are two videos of performances and explanations. Magic with coins, ESP, cards, silks, bottles, topological problems, and most of these effects are impromptu.

22 monster effects are included with an introduction explaining how a real professional takes control and makes his or her spectators, in awe. Included is a section of "Quickies", or quick tricks that appear to be "off-the-cuff", yet, will dazzle your spectators. ...

A historical, extremely rare video: the only video ever released of one of Chicago's most beloved bartender/magicians, the "Great Heba Haba Al."

"How wonderful that this footage has been preserved for the charm, the methods, and the trick selection of the man Jay Marshall described as "the grandfather of bar magic in Chicago" are there to be studied and learned from. Even when you know what he is doing, and if you know card magic you will, he will still amaze you with the ease and the confidence with which he does it. Remembering that he may have had three tricks going on at once will only...

In 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...

In this, the first part of Simon's accoladed three volume video package, we begin with "The Wobbly Wombat Set." This is full blown, non-stop unrehearsed action, where the audience and the magic are both the real deal.

Included are sterling performances of Simon's latest and greatest handlings of "Fingered Number Three," "Card To Wallet," "The Lemming Ace Exchange," and Simon's stunning multiple selection routine: "The Wobbly Wombat."

The performance is spiced with gags and bits of business too numerous to mention. The audience reaction will make you a true believer in Simon's high-impact,...

Simon Lovell at his very best, performing (and teaching) Heartless, Another Departed Point, Sleight-of-Tongue, Paper Roses, and much, much more.

Volume two begins with "The Heartless Set." Again, full blown non-stop unrehearsed action with an incredible audience and incredible magic. Included are excellent performances of Simon's finest handlings of "Heartless," "Another Departed Point," "Sleight-of-Tongue," and Simon's wonderful, poignant and memorable "Paper Roses." The performance is laced with jokes and gags the entire way. The audience reaction for this performance leaves nothing to...

In this final volume, we begin with the "Packed Wallet Set." As before, Simon begins with the spontaneous magic and audience interaction as only he can do. Included are striking performances of "Lovey Dovey Sandwich","Elmsley Cut Elmsley," "The Packed Wallet," and Simon's show-stopping story deck routine, "Who Killed Lilly Longlegs?"

On all three volumes, after the performances we sneak away to the sanctuary of Bat Cave Studios where Simon breaks down all the performing details and tips the real work. Then, in a new analysis session, Simon gives you the why, the reasoning behind everything...

This is a classic, a wonderful book now available as PDF. It contains the best of the best from 115 well-known professionals and clever amateurs. 193 tricks and routines from all branches of magic.

Paul Fleming wrote:

No Adult Supervision is an updated compilation of Geoff's first two sets of lecture notes: The Lecture Your Mother Never Gave You and The Lecture Your Father Never Gave You.

Updated with lots of new text and illustrations, this ebook is filled with outstanding tricks, illusions, sleights and advice. Just a few of the highlights include:

THE "I HATE DAVID COPPERFIELD" TRICK: Based on "Close-Up Illusion" by Larry Jennings, a card visibly melts through another. The visuals here go way beyond the original.

JUST A BIT MORE ULTIMATE THAN JOHN MENDOZA'S "ULTIMATE TORN & RESTORED CARD": You're clean at...

A variety of close-up magic: cards, coins, cups and balls, sponge balls, and dice stacking.

• How Did You Know?
• Watch Me Work
• Anything I Can Do, You Can Do Better
• The Big Red One (sponge balls)
• R.W. Flying Eagles (coins)
• A Personal Triumph
• Count Wakeman
• A Piece of Your Mind
• Randy's Wild Card
• Stacked Impact (dice stacking)
• R.W. Coins Through Table
• Randy's Cups and Balls

1st edition 1990, length 1h 30min

Here are 22 funny, irreverent, off-beat magic and mentalism effects that are sure to get you noticed.

There's magic here with cards, dice, dictionaries, a paper giraffe, a restaurant menu ... even an Egyptian Scarab. Rarely does an ebook come around that's as much fun to read as it is to perform. This is just such an ebook. Here's a peek at what's inside:

• The Pasteboard Alibi
• The Card in the Ice Cube
• The Trick Without a Name
• The Nest of Sacks
• A Deck in Bondage
• Magic by the Hour
• With a Bit of Spice
• A Toast to Magic
• With the Sense of Touch
• Metamorphosis
• The Skeleton of Jekyll and...

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...

For many years David Devlin has been creating some really great magic and mentalism. This is a collection of 17 terrific effects, some of which is being released here for the first time. This ebook has something for everyone, packet tricks, mentalism, full deck magic, bizarre magic, scams, impromptu magic, and more.

• Symphony
• Inside Out (Previously Unreleased)
• Outside In (Previously Unreleased)
• Paramnesia
• Nitration
• The Best Scam You Can't Do Anymore
• The Okito Voodoo Doll
• Zodiac (appearing here for the 1st time in eBook form)
• My Favorite Anytime Scam
• Aces Under Control (Previously...

This is a sequel to the e-book Magic Variety Pack. Another variety of excellent "do-able" magic.

The introduction, alone, is a wealth of magic and performance advice. Magic Variety Pack 2 provides a large variety of ESP, card magic, goldfish magic, water bottle magic, and balloon magic.

INTRODUCTION: SHUFFLES, CUTS, and MISDIRECTION
8 full pages explain the use of shuffles, cuts, and many different types of misdirection, and how one can implement them to passively control your spectators. This section will educate you. Very important material! Also there are many sleights and ploys discussed. Learn techniques...

Twisty is the latest version of the mouse pitch. Learn the never revealed handling that allows you to baffle everyone with this classic carnival pitch wonder toy. Perfect for walk around. This move was originally developed and taught for the worm pitch.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages.

When an internationally-known funnyman-magician writes a book with his pals, you just know the result will perk you up!

And that's what you'll get with Magic That Perks - great magic with comedy patter that your audiences will love.

Cecil, a vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians, provides gems from his own act in the first part of the ebook. The second section contains great magic from his friends and fellow IBM alums involving cards, coins, rope, and more. Here's a look at what's inside:

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Opening Patter
• The Fir Tree
• Vanishing Wand
• Banana...

These are the lectures notes for a lecture Aldo gave at FISM.

Tip Top: the magician displays several cards bearing pictures of clowns, having different colored noses. A spectator selects a clown and the performer is seen to have the same colored clown nose... on his nose!

Poppy: a knot, tied in the middle of a piece of white rope, slides to one end, then the other; then change color. The different colored knot slides along the rope several times; the knot is then untied and seen to actually be a two inch section of the white rope.

Hit: method to tie two quick slip knots, one with each...

A pair of authentic gypsy scams in print for the first time. One uses a lighted candle to dispel evil. The other appears to boil water in a glass using the power of the mind. A video is included demonstrating and explaining the boiling water trick.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages, video length 2:13.

• The Abominylon Snowman
• Milk Go
• Three Blind Mice
• Hopping Hen Fruit
• Thread It
• Silk Blow - Silk Go
• The Cow With The Crumpled Horn
• Self - Service
• Peni - Sponge
• "Crash Thru" Production Box
• The Choice Of Cash
• Fantastrick

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