Magic & Conjuring: page 38

This is an interesting compilation of material - a mix of short portraits and Goldston's personal recollections of various magicians - some famous, some not, as well as some of their tricks and secrets. The result is a fairly extensive collection of tricks of all kinds and denominations. Includes many illustrations and photos of the contributors.

The first edition was issued in the same style as Goldston's famous Locked Books series, but without the clasp.

Excerpt from the introduction:

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...

This is an updated best of selection of TC's re-Think series. Effects included:

• Razor Blade (Swallowing)
• Colour Changing Knife
• Salt Pour
• Seven Keys to Baldpate (un-gimmicked version)
• Chair Test
• Out to Lunch, with a bonus OTL routine.

"This fantastic little eBook contains TC's thoughts on some classic premises in magic ... Lots to read, study, and learn. Bargain of the week." - Mark Elsdon

"Fantastic routine, so much magic with just one knife!" - Michael Ammar

"Finally a razor blade routine that makes sense !!!" - Paul Romhany

"I have always been a fan of TC's thinking. TC knows how to entertain and shares...

• The starting point for beginners
• Pocket Magic Show Video and eBook Bundle
• The Thumb Tip 101 Magic Learning Series
• The definitive beginner thumb tip magic course
• 7 downloadable videos 1 hour and 48 minutes of pure gold
• 3 amazing eBooks with 191 pages and links to 13 additional private videos

What people are saying...

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"If you are new to magic,...

Programmes, ventriloquial dialogues, juggling, cartooning, paper folding, care of animals and birds.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Within these pages, you will find seventeen performance-tested routines picked from my professional repertoire. Some of these I perform in almost every show, others are special items I have performed on television and special shows.

I have been a professional magician for 56 years, having performed in many Spanish-speaking countries like Panama, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Mexico, and Spain. In Spain, I remained for sixteen years and performed hundreds of shows, including national television. I have also been on cruise ships in the Mediterranean several times. ...

For the time this was published, in the middle of the 19th century, these twelve lessons in magic are probably one of the best instructions in conjuring published in the English language, even though the intended reading audience was young folks. Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic is still a decade into the future.

Henry Hatton, writing here under his real name Patrick Henry Cannon, describes a range of stage and parlor effects including some sleight-of-hand with coins and cards. His description of the pass is by far the best description I have read prior to Erdnase - almost 40 years prior that is! The accompanying...

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.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This edition features a completely different routine for MacDonald's Aces and a simple way to make the gaffs yourself. This is more of a platform or parlor version and not a close-up trick. The patter and presentation are also completely different from MacDonald's Aces. This is also different from the version in Hilliard's Lost Notebook. Gregg performed this on TV in 1968 long before Hilliard's notebook was even found. If you pride yourself on being different from the crowd, you'll love this. A very catchy storyline and premise is included.

Next follows many updates on a trick of Gregg's,...

Pet secrets of some of the most celebrated close-up magicians of all time.

• Preface: Close-Up Magic by Bert Allerton
• What Makes a Trick by Al Baker
• Bottoms Down by Al Baker
• Mobilizing the Aces by Dai Vernon
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief by Dai Vernon
• Convening Kings by Francis Carlyle
• The Squeeze-Away Coin by Ross Bertram
• And the Part of a Garment by Emil Jarrow
• Card Effect With Two Packs by Nate Leipzig
• The Disconcerting Coins by Cliff Green
• Precognition by Cliff Green
• Scarne's Power of Thought by John Scarne
• The Coin Roll Vanish by Paul LePaul
• The Revolving Pass by Slydini
• Jacob's Ladder by Dr. Jacob Daley
• The Salt Trick by Dr. Jacob Daley
• Pop-Up Coins by S. Leo Horowitz ...

This two-hour lecture will teach you a heightened awareness of how Slydini thought, moved, constructed, and achieved his magic. You will learn many of the underlying principles and concepts Slydini used to misdirect and apply sleight of hand. Dennis Barlotta demonstrates and explains the various ideas with examples mostly taken from Slydini's routines. No entire tricks will be taught. While it is helpful to be familiar with some of Slydini's tricks, their knowledge is not necessary to understand the various concepts taught.

Some of the topics covered are:

• stance, attire, performing conditions...

Lubor Fiedler's famous dental dam illusion principle is applied to a variety of tricks and routines, not just the penetration of a coin through a rubber sheet. The only sad part here is that the name Lubor Fiedler cannot be found anywhere in this publication. No credit was given.

Excerpt from the introduction by Walter Gibson:

A collection of conjuring secrets for magicians who entertain when surrounded by spectators.

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• Publisher's Note
• Preparation For The Hands
• A Table Tip
• The Guinea-Pig
• Card Change
• Flap Disposal-Single Slate
• Cap And Pence
  • I. The Load ...

The "Seven times Petrick" series was released in seven volumes, each with seven tricks covering a different subject, and each with a different color cover. This is the purple one.

• Lipstick Levitation: Selected card placed against the outside of the filled card box rises over the deck.
• Balloon Penny-Tration: Penetration of a penny into an empty, blown-up balloon.
• The Shrinking Card: A card is selected from a regular deck which transforms into a miniature deck. The selected card is replaced in the miniature deck only to transform into a random card.
• Strange Change: A card is selected,...

In February-March 2020, Pascal Marc sent Michael P. Lair on a 13-city magic lecture tour of Europe. Michael created his lecture notes Journey for this tour. They include 10 of Michael's standup magic routines featuring a mix of old favorites and brand-new effects.

If you enjoy standup magic with a poker chip, sponge ball, Red Bulls, a Jack in the Box, Fantasio candles, matches, a Fortune Teller Fish, rope, a ring, dimes, big coins, and a torn and restored 24 x 36" map, then you will love Journey. The notes are fully color photo illustrated.

• Sponge Poker
• Red Cola
• Jack in the Box
• Candle...

From coin tricks to card tricks, black art, mindreading and even ventriloquism, this work is meant as an introduction for the budding magician and showman.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Hints, aids and appliances for the professional and amateur magician.

These small "aids" to the magician appeared in early numbers of The Magic Wand. Covering many branches of the art, it is hoped that the various gadgets may prove of service. The publisher again expresses his thanks to the contributors who devised, and used, the appliances.

• Cards
  • Wire Stands and Supports
  • Card Indicator
  • Card Discovery
  • Card Standing on Edge
  • Card Reading
  • Quite an Old Trick
  • A Card Vanish
  • A Card Trick
  • An Easy Card Trick
• Coins
  • A Coin Producing Fake
  • Vanishing Penny
  • Coin Box
  • A Coin Move
  • A Coin and a Tumbler ...

With this tool, you are able to gently float small objects such as matches, feathers, playing cards, sponge balls or rubber bands, etc. a few centimeters above the table.

Easy to build. Not for live performances! Use the gimmick for Zoom, Instagram, or similar. Also very suitable for demo videos to let business cards gently lift off the table. Don't use it as a magic trick. Rather as a science experiment.

1st edition 2023, video 23 min.

Twelve tried, tested and proven, practical tricks that you will delight in using in your club and stage shows.

The apparatus requires no complicated mechanical ability to produce. Nor is great skill required to perform. Previously sold for the equivalent of more than $16.00 in today's money.

Contents:

Silversion: A borrowed coin is passed into a hermetically sealed bottle. Both may be examined.

Cheerio Glass: A complete disappearance of a 4-inch tumbler. No trick tables or tubes.

Squaring the Square: A unique effect with a piece of paper and a pair of scissors.

Count of Monte...

• Safety Catch
• Candle To Streamers: An 18” lit, white candle changes into a brilliant burst of white paper throw streamers.
• Candle To Sword: An 18” white candle is lit. In a shower of sparks, it magically changes into a 36” gleaming Chinese sword.
• Candle To Fan: An 18” white candle vanishes in a sparkle of light, turning into a 24” Chinese dragon fan that dramatically opens in a shower of confetti.
• Invisiclip
• Invisiclip: Torn & Restored Card: A playing card is selected and ripped into four pieces. The pieces are paper clipped together. A magical wave of the hand, and the pieces...

• Jack-In-The-Box: A playing card is selected by a spectator and ripped into four pieces. The pieces are paper clipped and set on top of a jack-in-the-box. The handle is turned, the familiar tune played, and the clown pops up. When he does, the selected card appears fully restored in the clown's hands.
• Silver Fire: When the magician lights a cigarette lighter, a half dollar appears. Light it again, and the coin vanishes. Light the lighter a third time, and the half-dollar reappears from within a cigar tube.
• Les Fleurs: A bouquet of flowers magically appears in the magician's top hat. With...

A collection of visual magic to add to your standup act.

• Dedication
• Author
• Foreword
• Candle Shell
• Candle Ring: With this setup, a Fantasio vanishing candle can be held at the middle and tossed from hand to hand, and then instantly vanished. This has been reprinted from my book Stage Cool.
• Color Change: A white, lit candle changes quite spectacularly into a red candle. The color change is done openly and it is very startling to the audience.
• Pocket Scarf Vanish: A red pocket scarf is placed in front of a red candle. The scarf magically adheres to the candle. In a flash, the pocket scarf...

A collection of cool magic effects to heat up your stage performance.

• Dedication
• Purple / Green Santa
• Author
• Sparkle Matches: Matches are produced lit in your magic act, with electrical sparks showering off them. The sparks accentuate the lit match productions.
• Confetti Packets: Produce a burst of shiny mylar confetti at any time during your magic act.
• Throw Streamer Packet: A colorful burst of throw streamers appears at any point in your act. This setup makes them easy to steal from any pocket, table, scarf, or any place you wish.
• Funbrella: At the end of a scarf routine, an umbrella...