Magic & Conjuring: page 14

Harry Baron performed magic for over sixty years and was a Member of the Inner Magic Circle with the coveted Gold Star. His books have sold around the world and have been translated into many languages. Apart from writing Magic for Beginners he produced instructions for hundreds of other tricks. He owned his own magic studio and manufactured apparatus for amateurs and professionals. As a result of managing the conjuring department of the famous Gamages store for nearly thirty years, he met most of the world's leading magicians. He lectured and taught conjuring to professional groups, as well...

50 tricks with a bottomless glass.

Here's a clever collection of fifty tricks, tips, and ideas that you can do with a bottomless glass. Tricks you never thought possible can be done: mental effects, transpositions, color changes, vanishes, penetrations, comedy effects, productions, transformations, and more. Tricks with silks, coins, eggs, liquids, chains, cards, balls, smoke, sand, rings, dice, and much more.

Get this handy utility device out of your magic drawer and put it to work, with the help of this manuscript. You'll no doubt think of many other fine effects, once you've read it...

The Tarbell Course is without a doubt the most comprehensive and most encompassing magic literary work in existance today. It has almost 1300 pages and nearly 2900 illustrations. It covers practically every form of magic: sleight of hand with cards, coins, thimbles, cigarettes, silks, ropes, ..., up to mentalism and illusions. It goes beyond the mere technique and teaches patter, routining, marketing and other often neglected facets of being a magician. There is no other book which comes even close in breadth and depth of the material covered. It is amazing that since the late 1920s nobody has...

After Tarbell finished his 60 lesson Tarbell Course he decided to continue with post-graduate lessons. The name post-graduate stems from the fact that Tarbell sent out graduation diplomas for all who followed along his 60 lesson course. To my knowledge he only published one such post-graduate lesson. If you know about more such lessons I would be delighted to hear from you.

1st edition, 1926, Tarbell System Inc., Chicago; 33 pages.

3. Tarbell Post-Graduate Service in Magic
5. The Original Rope Release
9. Three Silk Handkerchiefs Released from Ropes
12. A New Ghost Ring
17. A Button Off the Vest
21. The Kick-Back Card...

Here are ten fun-to-perform mysteries from arguably the best magical artist and instructor on the planet. Easy enough for the beginner, the varied routines will entertain any audience, regardless of the performer's skill level. Despite the title, you'll find yourself using one or more of these stunts wherever people gather: at the dinner table, at your favorite watering hole, at parties, or at get-togethers with friends and family. Each effect is painstakingly illustrated in Doc Tarbell's famous style, making them fun and easy to learn and perform.

Originally published in 1930, after the...

• Card In Glass
• Paper Balls And Hat
• 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Cards To Pockets
• The Hindu Thread Trick
• Electro Chemical Stop
• Take A Card!
• The Talking Skull

Stunts of the stage and big top from starting to starring.

An ideal lesson and source book for obtaining information on acquiring show skills. Learn them and perform at fairs, traveling circuses, rodeos, "in one" before the curtain at magic shows, on cruise ships, or on TV. Let's face it. Audiences love show stunts, such as juggling, balance feats, acrobatic demonstrations, and the like. They appreciate the level of skill and dedication that these artists possess.

Because these acts are somewhat of a novelty, they fit in well with other entertainments, making an extravaganza that is a...

Can we move beyond the basic silk vanish? Can we do anything more magical than the old bill change? Can you improve on the basic salt vanish? The answer is, "Yes!". It all starts with your handling of the thumb tip.

I have almost 200 very magical effects that I perform with the basic thumb tip and people never see or even suspect a thumb tip. The secret to skyrocketing your thumb tip skills is to learn how to handle the thumb tip.

Not a day goes by that I don't get asked about how to match a thumb tip color to an individual skin tone. Everyone is concerned about someone seeing it. My...

This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the thirteen absolute best DIY thumb tip modifications for magicians. These modifications will allow you to make your thumb tip a lot more sneakier. You will be able to move your handling to a whole new level.

Some of the modifications will allow you to handle liquids. Some modifications will allow you to handle granules like pepper, sand, or salt. And yes, some modifications will allow you to do both within one modified tip.

You will discover modifications that will allow you to handle the thumb tip in incredibly...

This can be the most powerfully deceptive steal or vanish in your thumb tip arsenal. No, it is not the Slydini Back Steal or the Vernon Kick Steal.

"This is the best 10 minutes of thumb tip magic ever! Thank you so much Hal." - Kim Fitzpatrick

The Ultimate Angle Proof Vanish video is by far the number one video download I have ever offered on the thumb tip. This is an incredibly deceptive, under your nose steal or vanish for not just a silk, but anything you can possibly fit in a thumb tip. Performed slow and with no wacky hand movements or gestures or crazy sleights; I believe this is the best...

This isn't your fathers magnetic thumb tip. Your tipistry reimagined and revolutionized. Tipistry means breathtaking thumb tip handling ability, competence, proficiency, or mastery.

This guide will show you how to dramatically improve your thumb tip ability (Tipistry) with magnets. How can something so simple and so overlooked be so amazing? One person posted on a forum many years ago and said, "Don't get a magnetic tip. You can do anything you can do with a magnetic tip with a PK Ring." (Magnetic ring). Nope. No way. Totally misguided. Absolutely untrue. Poor fellow, bless his heart. He...

This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the Pepper In and Salt Out Transformation and Vanish. This trick or effect is designed for beginner to advanced magicians. You will learn moves and handling that will serve you very well in dozens of other effects. There are several twists and turns that are very uncommon and not found in the normal salt/pepper shaker routines seen in the magic universe today.

Four things make this effect very special.

1. Spectator Involvement. The spectator pours pepper from a pepper shaker into the closed fist of the magician.
2. The...

This is an intermediate to advanced thumb tip workshop for my friends at Lybrary.com. I want us to reimagine and revolutionize our tipistry. Tipistry means breathtaking thumb tip handling ability, competence, proficiency, and mastery. If we can pull this off, you'll skyrocket your confidence with a thumb tip. In our thumb tip magic, objections create skeptics and I don't want to create skeptics, I want to create awe.

In this 29-minute workshop, I will discuss the misconceptions and no no's of thumb tip magic and how to correct these flaws. I will show you how to elevate your Tipistry and...

"It's a thing of beauty. Everything is covered and I believe it might be one of the best purchases magicians can make today. You cover everything in detail and it's a pleasure to watch. - Olivier Boes

I want us to reimagine and revolutionize our tipistry. Tipistry means breathtaking thumb tip handling ability, competence, proficiency, and mastery. If we can pull this off, you'll also skyrocket your confidence with a thumb tip.

My methodology is to perform close up, with no weird or wacky moves. I just perform slow and deliberate with handling and moves that defy logic.

The Thumb...

In this video I walk you slowly through the Loaded Salt Shaker Vanish and Reproduction. You can pour an entire shaker of salt in your hand, vanish it, and reproduce it. No TT or tips. This is accomplished with a cheap, easy-to-build homemade gimmick made from objects in almost every home on the planet. The build takes about 5 minutes.

The handling is key in making this work. The salt shaker is real, un-gimmicked and can be inspected. The funnel is real, un-gimmicked and inspectable. The salt cellar is also real and can be inspected. I use a few TT moves to throw off those in the know of...

Invisibly switch a folded playing card (bill, cash, sugar pack, ...) against another right in front of their eyes.

Destined to be in your EDC (everyday carry). A real crowd-pleaser. A perfect close-up and table-hopping effect. A very fast, angle-proof, and up-close transformation with spectator involvement. Not a thumb-tip. This effect uses a homemade gimmick that most homes would have. The gimmick takes about five minutes to make. Both playing cards can be inspected.

You can also change bills, billets, cash a check, change sugar to sweeten low, etc.

Absolutely incredible misdirection...

• 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...

"Hal, this is by far the most comprehensive beginner training for the thumb tip ever! Thank you." - Darrel, Davenport Iowa, USA

"Very well done. I have watched the videos over and over. This is awesome." - Kendall Johnson, California USA

"If you are new to magic,...

From the Foreword by David Devant:

• A Foreword
• "Ladies & Gentlemen"
• Natural Selection
• Shuffle For Arranged Pack
• Aerial Treasury Up-to-Date
• The Celebrity Trick
• Thought Control
• A Card Location Idea
• A Fruity Experiment
• A Use For The Charlier Pass
• A Special Table & Suggestions therewith
• Chameleon Balls and Water
• False Shuffle For Arranged Pack
• A New Precipitation of Cards
• A Black Art Chair
• The Dictionary Trick
• Hammond's Method for Arranged Pack of Cards ...

A compilation of effects by magic notable H. Adrian Smith including Modern Card Miracle, Magic Square, Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick, and an Effective Handkerchief stretch. 16 effects in all plus a introduction from Percy Abbott.

• Introduction
• Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick
• New Card to the Pocket
• A Modern Card Miracle
• A Different Conclusion
• Sympathetic Aces
• Matching the Aces
• A Sucker Mental Effect
• A New Click Pass
• The Coins Up the Sleeve
• Passing Four Coins to a Glass
• A Further Variation of the Passing of the Four Coins
• An Effective Handkerchief Stretch
• Untying a...

• Twentieth Century Billiard Ball Trick
• New Card To The Pocket
• A Modern Card Miracle
• A Different Conclusion
• Sympathetic Aces
• A New Click Pass
• The Coins Up The Sleeve
• A New Miser's Dream
• The Magic Square
• The Percival Shoe Lace Trick

1st edition 1933, PDF 16 pages.

This is a compilation of magic newsletters by the same name that Gregg wrote, illustrated, and published in 2004 and 2005.

Contents:

• Foreword (Doug MacGeorge)
• Table of Contents

• S.K.I.S.S.E.S.: Simplified Poker Deal
• Retouches: Simplified Poker Deal
• Key and Card: Idea for the Ghost Key
• The Haunted Bookshelf: brief thoughts on the upcoming Juan Tamariz' Mnemonica book

• Wild Card Trick: Using Cartoons on Cards
• Retouches: Adjusting Your Presentation
• New 1 to 4: Coin Multiplication
• Retouches: Coin Angles ...

• Chapter 1:
  • Blinded Deluxe
  • Comedy Mental
  • New Experimental Grip for Webb's False Count with Coins
  • A Handling Variation of the L'Homme Masque Load
  • New Shamanism
• Chapter 2:
  • Leaf Rejuvination
  • Bubble-Pop Corn
  • Tierra Del Fuego Leather Strap Stretch: a real shaman's trick
  • Imaginary Friends
  • Clay Tablets and Beyond
• Chapter 3:
  • Variations on Chanin's Production
  • Chanin Production to get into 3-Fly
  • Next: A New Ending for 3-Fly
  • 3 At Once
  • On Shamanism
  • Original Spin
• Chapter 4:
  • Gellerbound
  • Shades of Geller
  • Some from the Fingertips
  • Postcards from the Edge (of Hell)
• Chapter...

Magic, sleights, humor, opinion, history, presentation, theories, reviews, cartoons, advice, laughs, observations, ramblings, tricks, tricks, tricks, ...

Chapter 1

• Introduction
• No Other Card Quite Like It!
• Lead-In to Wallet
• The 30 Second Memorized Deck
• Backspin

Chapter 2

• Casino Style Zarrow Shuffle + Revised Poker Deal
• New Works on Marlo/Gardner/Webb Poker Routine
• New Ending for the 4 Bikers of the Apocalypse
• Doug MacGeorge - Magic Square as a Card Trick
• Backspin

Chapter 3

• The Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy
• Changes in Philosophy
• Poor Man's Raven III...

A mix of Time Travelers, Time Capsules, and BOF Bonuses.

1st edition 2015, 120 pages.