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Contains 23 amazing effects:

1. An Olive in the Hand
2. Olive & Shaker Routine
3. Party on the P-A-T-E-O (Maxwell)
4. Towel Chicken
5. Card in Shoe
6. Simple Coins Across (Maxwell)
7. Toony Angel (Maxwell)
8. Pencil through Quarter
9. Bill in Lemon
10. Card in Ice Cube
11. Nickel on Forehead
12. Levitating Salt Shaker
13. Floating Cup
14. Ring in Dinner Roll/One-Handed Knot
15. Stolen Cards (Green)
16. Laser D'Lite
17. Gift of Grab (Maxwell)
18. Whisky/Shoe Production (Green)
19. Producing Items from a Deck (Green)
20. Cigarette Through Quarter (Dingle)
21. Paper Strip (Marotta)
22. The 14 of Spades Trick
23. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card ...

Contains 20 amazing effects:

1. Starcle (Harlan)
2. Indian Bean Mystery
3. Swallowing a Balloon
4. Reflex (Harris)
5. Swiss Movement (Harris)
6. Gray Elephant in Denmark
7. 11 Carrots
8. Ring on Stick (Maxwell)
9. Ashes through Hand
10. Chink-A-Chink
11. Matrix
12. Out of this World (Lorayne)
13. Ghost Spoon/Floating Dinner Roll
14. Copper/Silver Transposition
15. Miser's Miracle (Andrus)
16. Cut & Restored Rope (Skinner)
17. Wild Coin (Roth)
18. Starcle (Harlan)
19. The Blank Card
20. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card

Contains 38 amazing effects:

1. Introduction
2. Dropping a Match on Edge
3. Coin Cross
4. Coin Triangle
5. One of them is not a Dime
6. Dime for Every Quarter
7. Heads & Tails
8. Bill & Bottle
9. Match Triangle
10. Picking Up Straws
11. Ten Dimes in Shot Glass
12. Bill Between Two Beer Bottles
13. Circumference vs. Height
14. Olive in Ashtray
15. Heckler Shot
16. Stepping through a Business Card
17. William Tell Match
18. The Dry Dime
19. Squeeze Play
20. Topsy-Turvy Coins
21. Centrifugal Force Coin & Glass
22. Heads & Tails on the Line
23. Coin Star
24. Matching Birthdays
25. Dropping a Matchbox on End
26. Ten-Cent Shot
27. Two Shots,...

This is truly a gem, an early Vernon publication, the lecture notes to his first European lecture tour in 1955. Explained are classics of card, coin and ball magic and Vernon's Thumb Tie routine:

• Three Ball Transposition
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief
• Seven Card Monte
• Expansion of Texture
• A Chinese Classic
• The Thumb Tie

1st edition 1955, 1st digital edition 2014, 14 pages.

Swallowing the razor blades is a classic routine of magic. In this two video pack Ian shares everything about the routine that he has used on stage and on the streets all over the world for almost twenty years. Nothing is held back as you see clips from several different live performances to illustrate what is being taught. This is a full professional routine for a fraction of the price of other versions.

length 40 minutes.

[Note that due to the age of the recording there are occasionally problems with the audio and the video freezes. Despite these problems there are many very practical ideas, moves and routines being taught.]

On 31st March 1985 the American street magician John Lenahan gave his first ever lecture. The event was held in the Magic Lounge London and organized by Martin Breese. John calls his lecture "Taking it to the streets ... or the tables ... or the bars ... or wherever they will watch."

• Miser's Dream with a surprise ending
• Chats about working on the street
• Vanishing handkerchief
• Rope routine
• Sponge ball bit
• Tips on working on the street
• Ambitious card routine
• Working tables
• Bullet card trick
• Four ace routine
• Rising cards

length 1h 20min...

Cyclopedia of Magic is an interesting book. It's primary quality stems from its alphabetical organization. It was compiled and written to provide the magician with a wide and solid background of magical knowledge. It provides definitions, descriptions, biographies and some routines on hundreds of magic topics. It is for the most part a compilation of material contributed by magicians such as August Roterberg, Charles Bertram, Eddie Joseph, Ellis Stanyon, John Mulholland, T. Nelson Downs and many others.

Paul Fleming wrote:

When I attend a magic convention, I enjoy the dealer's show very much. It sends me hurrying to the dealer room to see up-close what I just witnessed. After all, maybe it's something I should add to my show?

I also enjoy all that magic did for me as a child and the contribution it has made to my life as an adult. Magic put me in front of people, increased my confidence, built creativity, encouraged my ability to read and comprehend oftentimes cryptic directions, expanded my memory and many more skills that I still leverage in my career today.

So ... I began to design a show that I would...

In this 2018 Revised Edition is a host of information to successfully perform a humbug flea circus. Also included are two easy build routines allowing readers to get started immediately with minimal expense.

Contents:

1. To Buy Or Not To Buy?
2. Poor Man’s High Dive (*Easy Build Routine)
3. Audience Placement
4. Super Simple Flea Swing (*Easy Build Routine)
5. Adding Atmosphere
6. Extra, Extra, Read All About It
7. Voice-Over Intro’s
8. Flea Names
9. My Old Routines (With A Svenson Mechanical Flea Circus)
10. Routine Variations
11. More Comedy Business

1st edition 2015, 2nd edition 2018 31 pages.

When David Devlin was in high school he never had a job. Not a summer job, not a part-time job, no nothin'. All of his friends did, but not David. That is not to say that he never had money. He always had plenty of cash in his wallet. He never stole money. He earned it. But how can this be if David did not have a job of any kind? The fact is that he scammed and hustled it from the friends who had jobs.

If you love scams, hustles, cons, bar betchyas, flim-flam, stings, snow jobs, bamboozles, chicanery, shams, fixes, baloney, and other dirty tricks then this book is for YOU!

In this eBook,...

Shadow is a great utility prop that you make yourself for less than about $13! With Shadow you can switch cards, billets, money, or anything else you can think of. It can be used in mentalism routines to bring in a prediction; you can also make vanished objects appear in an impossible location. You are really limited only by your imagination.

Not only do you get very detailed instructions on how to make this prop (it takes about 3 minutes or so) and handling techniques, but you also get a hard-hitting routine that David uses as a closer in his formal close up performances. The routine is...

Parlor and stage magic updated! Includes a version of the 6 Card Repeat that has an actual climax as well as a Vanishing Candle you can perform within inches of the audience.

This ebook is for the parlor/banquet/stage performer that wants to add funny, well-thought out, and highly visible routines to his or her act.

A performer that wants tricks that actually work. Where the nasty things, like angles and spectator management have been thought out.

The material is:

• Solution 6 - a 6 card repeat that has an actual magical climax and a totally logical story line. This routine is loosely...

If you love scams, hustles, cons, bar betchyas, flim-flam, stings, snow jobs, bamboozles, chicanery, shams, fixes, baloney, and other dirty tricks then this ebook is for YOU!

In this follow-up to his popular eBook How to Sell Bridges, David Devlin teaches the finer points of some of the many scams and hustles that have made him a lot of money. He also discusses some of the more elaborate cons that have been used throughout history and the cons who pulled them off. Also discussed are cons used today including selling ridiculous products, phony business "opportunities", scamming major corporations out of thousands...

The original ad read:

• Hundreds of self-working tricks that...

Impromptu tricks for audiences who speak little to no English.

In today's global world it is important to be able to do magic for folks who do not speak your language or who do not understand the cultural nuances and jokes you may have in your primary program. Many of the tricks taught are impromptu. From the introduction by Billy McComb:

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

You will get both a PDF and a video (download from your digital shelf).

PDF
3 Disk Monte is a variation of the street hustle often played with cards. Three black face down disks, one with a white dot, are mixed. The spectator tries to guess which disk is the one with the white dot. The disks have increasingly gained popularity due to their visibility and handling. This PDF illustrates and describes the various sleights that can be used while performing this effect. Topics include the basics plus some of the more advanced moves that can be used.

• The Disks
• The Mat
• Working Height
• The...

This ebook covers a wide variety of stand up, close up, and stage magic from the brilliant mind of Peter Warlock. Mentalism, Cards, Silks, Rope, Ball and Cone, and more.

• Aces Low
• Touchdown
• Kolar
• Mind Out Of Time
• Twang
• Android
• Android Two
• Tinker Bell
• Zodiac
• Slalem
• Tour De Force
• Jinx
• Five Chairs
• Trivu
• Tempus
• Nick
• Endora
• 3 Times Lucky
• Oldie
• A Matter Of Note
• Prize Winner
• The Cone & Ball Routine
• Willow Pattern Mystery
• Silks & Beakers
• Sympathetic Selection
• Red & White Mystery
• Triple Restoration

128 pages; PDF 79 pages.

The Handbook for Impromptu Magic

• Preface
• At The Dinner Table
  • Coin Through Saucer
  • Coin Vanish
  • Coin And Glass Of Water
  • Inflation
  • Coin Tester
  • Balancing Coins
  • Phoenix Matches
  • Smokeless Cigarettes
  • Multiplying Matches
  • Musical Cutlery
  • Telepathic Tapping
  • Psychic Steam
  • Burning Sugar
  • Production Of A Glass Of Wine
  • Bending A Spoon
  • Salt Transposition
  • Seven-Cornered Napkin
  • Surprise Penetration
  • Vanishing Shaker
• Impromptu Magic ... Anywhere!
  • Evaporating Scent
  • Disappearing Pen
  • Drink Cards
  • Horrific
  • Telekinesis
  • Vanishing Ring
  • Maxwell's Miracle
  • Coin Penetration
  • Optical Change ...

From the foreword by Fred Castl:

• Publishers' Preface ...

From the Foreword by Harry Blackstone, Jr.

• Dedication
• Thank Yous ...
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Watch Closely
  • Gulliver's Nickel
  • The "Slaphappy" Coin
  • Floating Foam
  • The Write Word
  • Confuscious Say
  • Changing The Change
  • A Mouse In The House
• Chapter 2: Card Concepts
  • E.Z. Bridge
  • A False Swinger
  • The...

From the introduction:

The Confusing Crayons is a well known classic. Two crayons and two cylinders are introduced. A volunteer gets one cylinder and selects a crayon. The magician takes the other cylinder and crayon. Instructing the volunteer to follow along the cylinders are turned over, back again and then over. The magicians crayon is right side up and the volunteers pointing down. This is a class that, up to this point, requires the use of a volunteer.

Confusing Crayons, 1 Person Routine is done without the need for a volunteer. Communication takes place with the magician's audience interaction. The audience...

Everyone gets nervous before they begin their performance. Those who say they don't are lying. The degree of stage fright is different, but everyone experiences it. There are tips of the trade that many professionals use to work through it. Some are physical and others mental. Combined they can help you control the pressures stage fright can have on you. This text shares a few of those tips. It provides a detailed description of the elements of stage fright, and ways you can calm yourself and focus on your magic.

• Preface
• Stage fright and its impact
• Working the pressure meter
• Confront the...