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Grant's Volume OneUlysses Frederick Grant65 tricks, gags, tips and ideas with money, cards, wands, cigarettes, watches, rings and more.
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Grant's Thirteen MysteriesUlysses Frederick GrantFrom the foreword: Mr. U. F. Grant was born in Millerton, New York on January 12, 1901. Now resides in Pittsfield, Massachusetts where he plays dates and conducts a Magic mail order trade. Ever since eight years of age he has been fooling with Magic. And to date he has invented and created over 200 new tricks and improvements on other effects. His photo appeared on the cover of The Sphinx for September 1928. His contributions to The Sphinx runs into many dozens which were well received. Mr, Grant also has received many favorable comments on his various original tricks from practically every well known... | $8 to wish list | |
Flash MagicUlysses Frederick Grant & B. W. McCarronThere 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... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish list | |
The Art of Modern ConjuringunknownToday we have the Masked Magician exposing magic secrets. Eighty years ago it probably was done by writing a book without the author's name given. I do not know if this book falls in the category 'exposure'. It certainly is a book that clearly reveals a lot of interesting tricks. One is the bullet catch. It has nearly 200 excellent photographs. Card and coin manipulation is dealt with in great detail. Overall a very good book. The photographs are the outstanding part. A review in the March 1909 Sphinx states: "The Art of Modern Conjuring" is an anonymously written work on "Drawing Room... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
Hocus Pocus JuniorunknownThis 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.
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The Play RoomunknownThis is an interesting book with beautifully weird games, stunts, experiments, puzzles and magic, some of which I have not seen described anywhere else.
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Magic For the MillionsunknownHow to do magic easily and quickly, including illusions, stage magic, parlor magic, sleight-of-hand, and party stunts. From the Foreword: The Author of Magic For the Millions is a retired magician of many years experience as a professional showman, entertainer, writer, compiler and creator of humor. He lets us peek into the mysteries of magic; he regales us with a lot of new party stunts; he tells us what to do to amuse guests at the dinner table.
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Simplicity, Audacity and BluffVal AndrewsThis could very well be Val Andrew's most important work. He describes with several great examples and historical effects, how one can entertain and amaze employing nothing but simple audacious ruses or outright bluffs. If there is a showman in you, you will love these effects and ideas. If you rather rely on your bottom deal and classic pass, then you will probably not be able to appreciate the value of this information.
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Friendly Fire: Magic From The Pages of New Directions MagazineVarious AuthorsFriendly Fire is an exciting collection of almost 30 effects, routines and essays from the contributors to Ben Harris' New Directions Magazine published between 1985-87. What exciting times these were. The masters like Marlo, Andrus, and Lorayne where at the top of their game and the new faces like Sankey, Sanders and Harkey were just emerging. And, New Directions captured a lovely slice of these changing times. We've even got Mike Gallo's ORIGINAL NO GAFF REVERSE MATRIX! Do you remember the excitement and torrent of creativity that spurned? Exciting card, coin and dice magic awaits you inside. Full routines,... | $20 to wish list | |
Bag-O-TrixVarious AuthorsSomeone once commented that "If you want to hide a magic secret, put it in a book or magazine!" There is probably some truth to that statement, as there is "buried treasure" on each and every page of this work. Tricks, ideas, gags, presentations, suggestions and routines from a full complement of magical authors. Bag-O-Trix is a collection. It contains the complete texts of many books previously issued separately. Some of these volumes are (and have been) out of print. Some others are in short supply. None will be reprinted as a separate item again. This massive ebook will be the only source... | ★★★★★ $9.95 to wish list | |
European Close-Up Magic Symposium Volume 1Various ContributorsOn November 2012 the first European Close-up Magic Symposium brought 20 magicians from all over the world to Milan for 2 days of non-stop close-up magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue selects among the best routines. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are some of the best names in the close-up magic. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.
DANI DAORTIZ: "Forcing card" | $15 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
European Close-Up Magic Symposium Volume 2Various ContributorsFRANCIS TABARY: "Rope Routine"
HENRY EVANS: "Total control" | $15 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
European Close-Up Magic Symposium Volume 3Various ContributorsBEBEL: "Ambition Colorè"
HENRY EVANS: "Three Predictions" | $15 to wish listMP4 (video) | |
Visible MagicVerrall WassThis booklet was inserted in volume 44 number 8 of The Sphinx. It was published as a gift to the loyal subscribers. Illustrations were done by Francis Martineau. 1st edition, 1944, Sphinx Publishing Corporation, USA; 11 pages.
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Twelve Tested TricksVerrall WassThis is a nicely illustrated manuscript describing a range of parlor tricks. At the end you will find three articles that still hold a lot of truth even after decades when they have been written. 1st edition 1936, PDF 19 pages
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Astound Your Audience Vol. 2Verrall Wass1st edition 1936; 93 pages.
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Magically YoursVerrall WassPractical effects with cards, flowers and silks. Here is Verrall Wass in his own words about the motivation of this book: Modern magicians are not magi, yet some wizards wish to divide conjuring into innumerable religions and subdivide each religion into as many sects. The doing of tricks for them becomes a ritual. To one, he who does not use Professor Shuffle's (the "Professor" is still with us) double-trouble riffle is a heretic. To another, disciple of The Great Marmagic (the "Greats" are still with us too), he who does not employ Marmagic's boil-and-bubble pass, aptly named because the... | $7 to wish list | |
Essence: 30 Magical ExperimentsVerrall WassFrom the introduction: It has been said that the art of magic is dying; that wireless, the cinema, and now the "Talkies" are killing it. Perhaps so, but the fault lies mainly with us in not supplying the public demand for originality and entertainment. Do not forget that entertainment is the essential factor. So long as the audience is pleased, and the show is well produced, that is all that matters. 1st edition 1931; PDF 56 pages Table of Contents
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House of a Thousand MysteriesVick Lawston"It is a great, great read, especially your recounting of how Mr. Lawstone substituted workshop sheets for the actual apparatus." - Christopher KenwortheyMany of you remember Vick Lawston's House of a Thousand Mysteries catalog. Most baby boomers that became magicians got their start from his catalog. They remember his slogan, "When you think of tricks, remember Vick's." Inside his catalog he included three free tricks that you could try on your friends. These were decent tricks and were some of the first tricks I ever did. They have been re-written and included in this release. His... | ★★★★★ $3 to wish list | |
Nu Trix with the Square CircleWalt WilliamsMore than just a simple prop, the Square Circle is a terrific way to magically produce an incredible array of items ... right before the very eyes of your audience. Yet, there's no need to go out and buy one, when you can build your own, folding model Square Circle, using the convenient plans that are included in this handy guide. Profusely illustrated. Already have a Square Circle? Great! You can use this ebook to get new ideas for loads and production items. Includes complete routines with patter for special occasions, exactly as presented by the author in nightclubs throughout the country... | $6 to wish list | |
GimacWalter A. SchwartzWalter Schwartz a member of the SAM and IBM wrote for many magazines among them The Sphinx. A total of 38 practical tricks is presented in this booklet. Not all effects are Walter's own, but many are. You can find quite a number of mentalism pieces, some card tricks, even a rabbit production is described. 1st edition 1933; 38 pages. | ★★★★★ $5 to wish list | |
Magic Made EasyWalter GibsonThis is a lovely and unusual publication with more than 200 feats described. Walter B. Gibson had a magic column in the Public Ledger, a newspaper in Philadelphia. The entire run of his columns is collected in this publication. You will find many simple magic tricks as well as some puzzles, stunts and brain teasers. While many will be familiar to most who have read similar collections of little tricks, there are a few real surprises I have not seen anywhere else. 1st digital edition 2013, 246 pages. Table of Contents
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After Dinner TricksWalter GibsonThis is a lovely collection of simple tricks, puzzles, brain teasers and other similar items. Each one is explained with text and an illustration.
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The Bunco BookWalter GibsonGaffed games, clever cons, sensational swindles - how to spot the bunco artist before he cheats you. This may well be the greatest exposé of gambling methods, swindles, confidence games and carnival midway hustles ever published. No matter if you're a magician, gambler, carnival midway patron (or operator), law enforcement professional, or simply want to protect yourself, you're going to enjoy this book. Especially valuable to those with an interest in carnival and gaming paraphernalia are the methods used to gaff the devices as sold back in the day by H. C. Evans, K. C. Card Co., and... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish list |