Magic & Conjuring: page 37

A collection of startling and sensational mysteries ... twenty feature tricks.

• Chinese Screen Trick
• Chinese Rope Trick
• Baskets-Confetti and Doves
• Ribbon And Hat
• Cylinder-Water & Fish
• Parasol-Ball & Water
• Cup-Silk & Smoke
• Gong Silk Production
• Copper Bowl Production
• Chinese Lamp Trick
• Chinese Water Cups
• Mystery Foulard
• Here And There
• Sensational Bowl Production
• Beads Of Chen-Lee
• Chinese Chew Tobacco
• Bamboo Pole and Box
• Flower Garden Illusion
• Screen Mystery

PDF 22 pages.

• The Call of the East
• The Wandering Bottle
• The Repeat Six Card Trick
• Es-Ta Burnt and Restored Handkerchief

1st edition 1949 (Calcutta, India), PDF 4 pages

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...

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...

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...

• 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

PDF 24 pages

• Introduction
• I: Tricks Without Sleight-Of-Hand
  • Discovery Of A Card
  • Gathering The Kings
  • Naming The Pack
  • The Magic Pairs
  • The Turned Card
  • The Magic Square
  • The Royal Court
  • The Assembly
  • Discovery Of Four
  • Discovery Of Two
  • The Permanent Card
• II: Sleight-Of-Hand With Cards
  • Shifting The Cut
  • Forcing A Card
  • The False Shuffle
  • The Indicated Card
  • The Faced Card
  • Palming A Card
  • Changing A Card
  • Springing The Cards
• III: Tricks With Coins, Watches, Dominoes, Etc.
  • Tricks With Coins
  • The Pass
  • The Change
  • The Joining Of The Coins
  • The Handkerchief Wrapper
  • The Vanishing Quarters ...

Here's a terrific book for those who wish to entertain their friends or business associates with clever magic that leaves a lasting impression.

Until now, this hard to find, limited edition book has been available only to collectors, selling for up to 150 times its original price. Now introduced as a convenient, digital ebook, Lustig's work will baffle a new generation of audiences with feats of magic and mindreading.

Over 50 excellent, impromptu effects to show friends, family and others. While most of the effects require practice, the instructions are clear enough that even younger magicians...

• Introduction
• A Few Hints
• Hearing With The Teeth
• To Cause A Coin To Vanish
• The Vanishing Ring
• Another Ring Trick
• The Penetrating Pennies
• The Vanishing Handkerchief
• A Thought-Reading Trick
• More Thought-Reading
• The Vanishing Cigarette
• A Hole In The Sleeve
• The Four Coins
• String Magic
• The Latest Disappearing Sixpence
• Three Hypnotic Tricks
• The Candle And Flag Trick
• Keda
• "Figaro," Monday, 21st, 1930
• Your Future Foretold

1st edition 1930, 34 pages; PDF 36 pages.

Joseffy, Josef P. Freud, was a magician from Vienna, Austria. He came to the US when he was 19 years old, and initially worked as manufacturer of props and apparatus for a magic shop in Chicago. Eventually he designed and built his own unexplainable creations, several of which are described in this ebook. However, only the effects are given, no methods are described. Abbott briefly outlines old methods for similar effects, but does not provide the methods Joseffy uses. This book is therefore a promotional item rather than a traditional magic book. It includes many staged photos of Joseffy presenting...

A great little trick/bet you can learn in just a few minutes and you are always ready to stump someone. The effect can be done with cards, matches or coins. The twelve objects are laid out in three horizontal rows. The object of the game is that the person left with the last item to pick up loses the game. You only play this game with one person at a time. The rules are simple. The player can only take from one row at a time. Take as many as you wish from either the first, second or third row, but you cannot pick from different rows until your next turn. Either you or the spectator can start...

This famous book is once again available in a new, revision edition.

Professional magicians and reviewers have given this book an amazing reception. The reason is plain to see, for here is a collection of the very smartest magic, devised and used in his own act by Lu Brent, the topnotch Philadelphia professional. Those who know have called the book sensational, others, novel and original, while all highly endorse the practical value and the effectiveness of the magic that is so thoroughly explained and illustrated. There is something of value for every performer, as the table of contents...

Here are not one, but two, fully routined magic acts that are commercial and different. They work equally well for the one- or two-person show. Each of the routines is a complete unit, with effects that lead up to a definite climax. Patter, music cues, stage movements and rehearsal suggestions are included. You also get standalone effects, new wrinkles for established effects, and additional patter and bits of business to add to your show.

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

THE RESTLESS COLORS (Orville Meyer) is a routine on par with "Out Of This World." It is guaranteed to leave magicians and laymen in a daze. It...

• Introductory Speech
• The Latest Card Force
• The Phantom Card
• The "De Caston" Method Of "Rising Cards" From Hand
• De Caston's Discovery
• A Spectacular Handkerchief Combination
• An Original Conception With Eggs And Flags
• A New Handkerchief Combination

From the foreword:

You'll no doubt be surprised at the many sensational uses Sylber and Whitney have discovered for this reliable magician's prop. Nine out of ten people interested in magic own a change bag, but there are many who use it for just one trick, or leave it in their drawer of magic odds and ends. This isn't right. The changing bag probably has more uses than any other piece of magical equipment.

To fill this need, Sylber and Whitney have developed this compendium of 33 clever tricks, ideas and routines that you can do with the change bag. Many are effects that you'd gladly pay upwards of twenty...

There 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...

In this article from Scribner's Monthly Magazine Henry Hatton, writing under the pseudonym of an 'Ex-Conjurer' explains in words and illustrations the Indian Box Mystery, the Spiritual Bench, the Inexhaustible bottle, including a funny accident that happened with it, and Marabout Mocca as performed by the elder Herrmann.

1st edition 1880, PDF 11 pages.

This book is the trick section of Sensational Tales of Mystery Men. Goldston felt that the trick section was the part that magicians would be most interested in and thus made it available as a separate book.

• Introduction
• The Newest Chinese Bat
• The Thought Reader
• Performing Matches
• The Best Penetrating Coin
• A Borrowed Handkerchief Burned
• A Mysterious Match
• Swallowing A Solid Wand
• Which Cigarette?
• The Vanished Egg
• The Expanding Egg
• The Newest Card Changing Box
• The G. W. Hunter Pull
• Cigarettes...

Introduce your business cards or credit cards in a fun new way.

EMERGE
Your Business Card / Credit Card or a Playing Card eerily emerges out of the inside compartment. [One time setup and you are good to go for hundreds of performances. The speed is completely under your control. Resets Instantly.]

CARD DART
Your Business Card / Credit Card jumps out of wallet. [Even for the laziest person set-up will takes less than 10 seconds]

Works with any regular bi-fold wallet. You can keep all your stuff in there and still perform these. Also included in the explanation is CARD DART II which is an impromptu take on it's earlier version.

(For the PDF please check your digital shelf.)

1st edition 2015, length 18 minutes....

Each ebook in the series will feature a single effect from Gregg's vast oeuvre. Whenever applicable, Gregg will present new handlings, suggestions, and presentations. The series follows Gregg's established style of graphics and hand-lettered text.

The effect, "The Key on the String," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Shade.

1st edition 2019, 3 pages.

This effect was originally published in Gregg Webb's various newsletters as "Hit-and-Run" before landing in Genii Magazine as "Coins Across 2000." This Super Session is an improved and updated version. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

This effect, "Nate Leipzig Poker Deal X," was originally published in Gregg Webb's ebook, The Lizard Wizard's Diary as part of his SOHO trilogy. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 2 pages.

Gregg Webb presents ideas using an egg bag to conjure up socks and other items that vanish in clothing dryers. The trick uses an egg bag and suitable small pieces of clothing.

Required props:

• An egg bag (available through your favorite magic dealer)
• Small pieces of colorful clothing, such as brightly colored socks

• Present a mirthful magic trick that uses an egg bag to produce clothing that disappeared in your dryer.
• Create an alternate egg bag that resembles articles of clothing

1st edition 2021, PDF 2 pages.