Magic & Conjuring: page 12

Thirty more excellent effects with plastic cups.

• Introduction
• Rationale For Using Disposable Cups
• Folding Or Collapsible Cup
• Vanishing Cup Of Liquid
• Additional Folding Cup Ideas
• Improved Foo Cup
• Fake Bottom Cup
• Foo Cup, Continued
• Vanishing Omelet
• Transformation Tricks With Eggs
• Baking Tricks
• Baking Cup Cakes In Paper Bag
• Cake In Hat
• Egg Shampoo
• Using The Foo Cup For Changes
• Production Cups
• Productions Using One Cup
• Funny Routine With Fruit Punch
• Thrilling Rice Production
• Shades Of The Coffee, Milk, And Sugar Trick
• Magic With New Transparent Solo Cups
• Liquid Appear Outfit ...

Note that this ebook includes x-rated balloon models and jokes. This is not appropriate material for minors.

• The Water Dog Trick
• Balloon Boys and Girls Together
• Mounting Dogs
• A View From the Zoo
• Big Boy Balloon
• The Circumcised Dogs
• X-Rated Rubber Quips or Dirty Bar Jokes

1st edition 1974, 24 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 18 pages.

Magic is mostly performed with man-made products - cards, coins, silks, ropes, ... Why not perform magic with items nature provides? This is even more powerful, because there is inherently no suspicion of gimmicked objects. Ralf has created a stunning miracle that is easy to perform during a stroll in the woods, or during a garden party, or other places where plants are in reach. All you need is access to leaves growing on a tree or a shrub and a pen to sign a leaf.

Effect: You and your spectator collect a couple of leaves. The spectator tears one in half, and signs it. Miraculously the torn...

Every generation a magician comes along, whose intention is to record magic in an encyclopedic fashion. Professor Hoffmann was the first in recorded history to attempt such a feat with his trilogy Modern Magic, More Magic, and Later Magic. Certainly many magic books have been published before him, mostly copying from each other. But none reaches the depth and breadth of Prof. Hoffmann's work. The material in these three books records the state of the art of magic in the late 19th century. Today we know more tricks and we have also refined our techniques and methods. But it is astounding how much was already known...

Jim Coles, who is the author of the best selling PK Revolution, describes in this ebook four stunning routines with cards, coins and cigarettes.

Mirror Image
Showing his hands to be unmistakably empty, the performer displays a small mirror and a half dollar. Holding the half dollar above the mirror, he tilts the mirror forward, making the coin's reflection slide off the mirror's surface and become a perfect duplicate of the coin he holds! No shell. Everything may be examined.

Shadow Of A Thought
Do thoughts have physical substance? Can that substance be captured? Using a pack of cigarettes as an...

There is no routine supplied with this extension pack. These are 25 more images that can be printed and used to perform David Devlin's Optical Opener.

Images include:

• Aleister Crowley (great for bizarrists)
• Bride of Frankenstein (Elsa Lancaster)
• Dracula (4 Images Lugosi & Lee)
• Ernest P. Worrell
• Harpo Marx
• Herman Munster (2 images)
• The Joker (Heath Ledger)
• President John F. Kennedy
• Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)
• Lucille Ball
• Mork (2 Images Robin Williams)
• Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins)
• The Phantom of The Opera (2 images Lon Chaney)
• Rodney Dangerfield
• Snoop Dogg
• Tim Allen
• Tupac Shakur
• Willy Wonka...

From the Introduction:

• Introduction
• The Magic Pop-gun
• The Versatile Tube
• Eat More Fruit
• Hell's Bells!
• Pickled Pieces
• " - and the dish ran away with the spoon"
• Cones within Cones
• These Little Pigs
• "Just on and off!"
• The Beetle Crawls
• The Productive Flower Pots
• The Great Packing Case Escape
• The Tell-tale Cigarette
• The Dunce's...

This is the last book in the 'Magician Annual' series of Goldston. It carries a slightly different title, 'Annual of Magic' instead of 'Magician Annual', but otherwise is kept in the very same style and type of contents as all the other books in this series. Beside tricks, illusions and patter, you will find a lot about magicians of this era. For example the "Who's Who and Why" is an interesting article.

1st edition, 1916, Will Goldston, London; 72 pages.

• A
  24. Abbott's Spirit Paintings Illusion
  16. Adhering Pips and Blank Cards
  7. Advertise, How to
  5. Advice for the Student
  37. Aeroplane and Trunk...

This was the first Magician Annual Will Goldston compiled and edited. It covers quite some ground. From juggling and optical illusions, to ventriloquism and palmistry. Of course you will find also magic illusions, tricks and patter. And if you want to read a little bit about hoop rolling, you can, too. These Magician Annuals are real fun to read. They are a great window into the past.

1st edition 1908, Gamage Ltd., London; 98 pages.

4. The Editor to His Readers, Will Goldston
5. Juggling Manipulations, Paul Cinquevalli
7. Crayon Drawing for the Stage, J. F. Burrows
8. Barrel and Packing-Case Tricks,...

This is the second volume in Goldston's Magician Annual series. It has a nice little section on Chapeaugraphy and a large section on patents. You will find there all kind of improvements to various apparatuses. And there is biographical information and recollections of famous magicians as well as a lot of photos of celebrities.

1st edition, 1909, London; 96 pages.

7. The Editor to His Readers, Will Goldston
8. Comedy Jugglers, The Great Weiland
10. Famous Magicians, Robert Ankele
11. Living Marionettes, Leah Laurie
13. Card Tricks, Dr. Elliott
14. My First Appearance on the Stage as a Magician, W. N. Winget
15. Episodes...

This book describes quite a number of card tricks and has a wonderful account of some of Buatier de Kolta's illusions, for example his famous "de Kolta Chair". An interesting story evolves around the cartoon on page 62, which depicts a famous magician's wife in a not very favorable light. Goldston released later a new edition which had this cartoon removed. Goldston also tried to buy back all the first editions but was not quite successful.

1st edition, 1910, London; 100 pages.

4. The Editor to his Readers, Will Goldston
5. An Interview and an Appreciation, Henry Byatt
7. Apparatus for Amateurs,...

This book is filled with a variety of interesting articles, from trick descriptions to patter suggestions, from biographical information to theory. Among others there is a trick contribution by Houdini. This book is layed out beautifully, almost like a magazine. Overall a very nice and interesting book to read.

1st edition, 1910, The Magician Limited, London; 106 pages.

3. Index
5. The Editor to his Readers
7. The Scribe, The Failure, and The Magician JOHN KEYMAN
10. Amateur Conjurer's Accessories GEORGE JOHNSON
12. The Magic of Suggestion PROFESSOR HOFFMANN
14. New Patter for Popular Problems WOOLFE CLYNE
23. Wine v. Water CHRIS VAN BERN
25. Telepathic...

This book has a broad range of contents, from stage juggling, to the history of playing cards (a really nice article), pocket tricks, illusions, biographical information, ... It is in the very same style as the other Magician Annuals. If you enjoyed those you will surely love this one, too.

1st edition, 1912, London; 99 pages.

6. Will Goldston, A Terrible Experience, Hohn Keyman
10. Original Patter for Original Minds, Woolfe Clyne
14. A Liner on Fire at Sea. An Original Lightning Painting Effect, Fred Velasco
17. Stage Juggling, Fred Velasco
21. Tricks for 1911-12, Jay Gee
29. The Magic Reel of Cotton,...

What an excellent book. The quality of the material is outstanding. What makes this book particularly rare is a chapter on juggling and how to fake great juggle skills. I have yet to see another book on magic with such an extensive chapter on juggling. You will also find the obligatory chapter on shadowgraphy, a good write up of black art, and large sections on cards, coins, and tricks with many other props. You will find billiard ball manipulation as well as stage tricks with large apparatus.

1st edition, 1902, Frederick J. Drake & Co, Chicago; 440 pages; PDF 325 pages.

• Introduction ...

The most famous invention of Nikola is his card system, which is described in The Nikola Card System and in an abbreviated version in Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. Cards are not the only area Nikola excelled in.

From the inside cover: Magical Masterpieces is no mere fanciful title. It is an apt description of a selection from the accumulated repertoire of a practical magician whose outstanding characteristic is the painstaking perfection and stamp of individuality of all his productions. It is safe to say that if a new book of magic provides only one workable and suitable addition to the reader's store it is a sound investment. The magician...

The 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...

This 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.

3. The Epistle...

This ebook describes 201 easy to do but effective tricks covering a wide range including feats of mentalism, tricks with paper and parts of your body.

From the inside flap of the original book:

After Rosini's death, Frederick Braue wrote in the February, 1949 issue of Hugard's Magic Monthly, "What a book Rosini could have written - and now his knowledge of audiences is lost. Others, take note." Unfortunately, Rosini never did get the chance to write a book detailing his own methods. He planned on writing one, but his dream was never realized during his lifetime.

In 1947 Paul approached his longtime friend and fellow magician Rufus Steele to aid him in writing a book of his tricks. Steele was a mysterious character whose background was questionable to say the least. An electrical engineer by trade, Rufus was also a gambler and...

You will find tricks with bills, cigarettes, coins, matches, silverware, napkins and salt shakers, all things which are readily available at any restaurant or dinner table.

This ebook was written for the performer, professional or amateur, who is seeking good, well-tested effects which do not require elaborate practice, preparation, or skill.

Martin has chosen only tricks which make use of objects found at any dinner table. All are performed while seated, with spectators on both right and left. A few of the effects are original, but most of them have been picked up from friends who picked...

This is Martin's continuation of After the Dessert with more impromptu tricks you can do at the lunch or dinner table. You will learn tricks with sugar cubes, silverware, paper matches, napkins, cigars, cigarettes, coins and glasses. There is also a section on folding money.

One unique feature of this particular ebook is that all line drawings are not merely raster images but vector graphics. This means you can zoom into any of the illustrations and you will never run into a resolution limit where individual pixels will prevent you from further zooming.

1st edition 1949, 43 pages....

Tenkai was a legendary magician from Japan. As his gift for achieving the 'living legend' status in Japan he asked to meet Dai Vernon - which he did, but that is a story for another time.

In this manuscript Robert Parrish describes several wonderful effects created by Tenkai. All illustrations are drawn by Tenkai himself.

20 pages.

5. Tenkai Dye Tube Technique
7. Knots Supreme - Tenkai Silk and Tapes
11. Tenkai Three Dice Trick
13. Tenkai Two Penny Trick
15. Two Coin Moves
17. Tenkai Card Flight

Enjoy some new tricks — pocket tricks that you can make yourself, card tricks you can do with anyone's deck of cards, stage routines with various magic props that you can make.

This is the first of a series of writings by U. F. (Gen) Grant and Frank Lane, who formed a partnership in the writing magic books.

1st edition 1935, PDF 31 pages.

4. THIS IS A GOOD BOOK
5. THE BOOMERANGS
6. READING CARDS
7. A NEW IMPROMPTU NUMBER TRICK
8. ANOTHER IMPROMPTU TABLE TRICK
8. A HANDKERCHIEF VANISH
8. THE LINDBERGH KIDNAP LADDER
11. A COMEDY HANDKERCHIEF ROUTINE
13. THE CARD AND THE CIGARETTE
13. NOW BACK TO THE CARDS ...

This in combination with Routined Manipulation Part Two and Routined Manipulation Finale is one of the best magic books ever published. Each routine is clearly explained mostly with photos and some illustrations. Many classic effects are described in detail. And the essay "Presentation of Manipulation" is a must read for any magician. It includes presentation, dress and appearance, care of the hands, make up, stage setting, music, personality, lighting, a.s.o.

Paul Fleming wrote: