Magic & Mentalism: page 29

These are portions from Dave Arch's magic keynote where he uses several of the effects taught in his "Tricks for Trainers" series:

• Tricks for Trainers 1
• Tricks for Trainers 2
• Tricks for Trainers 3
• Tricks for Trainers 4
• Tricks for Trainers 5
• Tricks for Trainers 6

Alberto Sitta specializes in commercial magic that you can use in your stage, cabaret and close-up shows. His Leopard Silk is perhaps his most famous effect and has been performed and copied by magicians all over the world. In this ebook Alberto reveals more of the mysteries that have gained him a reputation as one of Italy's most creative performers.

There are no pipe dreams here. All the magic has been regularly used by Alberto Sitta in his professional performances and lectures throughout Europe. Practical, colorful and commercial these are the hallmarks of Sitta's creations and here are...

This ebook contains little tidbits and ideas that you can place right into your act. Some are clever, some are cute and some will make you (and your audiences) laugh out loud!

• Memento
• Three
• Borrowing Money By Remote Control
• Moola Monte
• Silk Extraction
• A Card Stabbing Souvenir
• In Miniature
• Odds And Ends
• Escape
• Impromptu Bullet Catching

1st edition 1959; 1st digital edition 2013, 15 pages.

These were Ken de Courcy's USA lecture tour notes. It includes great material which puts entertainment first and foremost.

• The Haired Card - a comedy surprise with four outsize cards from a pack.
• Balloon Prediction - three balloons, the audience nominate the colors, these magically burst one at a time ... then you show that you knew the order the spectator chose and made a prediction to that effect!
• The Economy Card in Balloon - a simplicity version of the great classic effect.
• Explosive Rope Cut - cut and restore a rope with a bang. Unusual and good!
• Seeing is Disbelieving - spectators...

This ebook contains routines by

CHARLES HARRISON. Member of the Inner Magic Circle, London. A fine performer who is a master at devising magic dependent upon subtle ideas and misdirection. His "Marvellous Marbles" is one of the finest close-up routines it has been Lewis Ganson's privilege to witness.

HARRY G. FRANKE of America who is well known for the clever ideas he has given to the magical fraternity through the pages of JEAN HUGARD'S excellent monthly magazine. "The Vanishing Lady" described herein is a terrific effect brought about with - just three cards.

CY ENDFIELD. Well known Film Director...

A delightful ebook of usable material by a truly great name in magic. A special feature is the chapter on appropriate magical music with titles and suggestions.

• The Dorny Story
• Dorny Says
• Number One
• The Giant (?) Memory
• Dorny On The Invisible Pass
• A Cardini Special
• One Of My Favorites
• A Tantalizing Puzzler
• One With A Glass Of Beer
• Another Of My Favorites
• The Sniff Card Trick
• Spectacular Bar Trick
• Two Pencil Gags
• The "Nerve" Card Trick
• The Vanishing Card
• The Telephone Card Trick
• A Good Sucker Trick
• Dorny's Hilarious Mind Reading Act
• Where Is It?
• The Phoenix Restored Paper ...

[Seventeen refers to "IBM Ring 17". There are nine items in the ebook.]

Released to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Club (founded in 1942), this ebook contains contributions from the lecturers and speakers who presented at the club during the 2011-12 season. Material varies from simple to advanced, impromptu, close-up, mentalism and stage including cards, coins, iPads and band-aids.

• Inflated (Canadian) Transposition: Joshua Jay
• Fear and Loathing in Hong Kong: Richard Forget
• Band-Aid: Michael Weber
• Hold the Prosciutto: Matthew DiSero
• Guestimation: Will Houstoun
• Psycho2Metry: James Alan
• Musical ESP: Murray Hatfield
• Password Projected: James Biss
• That's What Key Said:...

[Seventeen refers to "IBM Ring 17". There are eleven items in the ebook.]

Seventeen Secrets Volume 2 includes a mixture of close up and stand-up, magic and mentalism with cards, money, cell phones and markers as well as previously unpublished stories from the road. The material is suitable for formal and impromptu performances and covers a range of difficulty.

• Impossible Killer: Bill Abbott
• Bill in Melon: James Alan
• Lie Detector: Denis Behr
• Three Card Monte: Eugene Burger
• Cell Mate: Alain Choquette
• Magic and Monkeys: Matt DiSero
• Lost Luggage: Tina Lenert
• Trinado: Chris Mayhew
• The Diagonal Palm Smith: Ricky Smith
• Forensic Specialist: Rob Testa
• Timecap:...

Kellar's Wonder Book was a booklet that Kellar published for his audiences. It is full of magic tricks, games, optical illusions, stunts, and other useful knowledge such as how to turn a pocket knife into a compass or how to draw a spiral.

1st edition 1903, 1st digital edition 2013, 54 pages.

Contains a complete survey of the various kinds of clip boards, how they work, and how to use them. Plus fifteen different routines involving clip boards. Also in this ebook is a separate mental routine, Kleen, which does not involve carbons, impressions, mirrors, chemicals, switches, gimmicks, envelopes. None of that, just an ordinary sheet of paper and you have a dandy mental effect.

1st digital edition 2013, 13 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Types Of Clip Boards
5. $500 Name Challenge
6. Memory Expert
6. Magazine And Book Tests
7. Miracle Think A Card
7. Living And Dead Test
7. Telephone Card Trick ...

• Box, Handkerchief and Colour Change
• Handkerchief changed to Ribbons
• The New Magic Knots
• Wax, Ball and Handkerchief
• Egg, Glass and Handkerchief
• Tricks with Cigars
• New Sleights with Cigars
• Cigar Vanish and Recovery, No. 1
• Cigar Vanish and Recovery, No. 2
• Vanish and Recovery, No. 3
• To make One Cigar into Two
• How to Change a Borrowed Watch for a Dummy
• Hook for Watch and Nest of Boxes
• The Changing Coins
• How to produce a Bantam Cockerel from an Opera Hat
• Twelve Court Cards in Glass change places with Twelve ordinary Cards held in the Hand
• Carl's Cup and Saucer for Confetti
• New...

Mainly Close Up was Paul Hallas's first book published in 1979 and has been unavailable for around 30 years. Rather than just copy the book for an e-version it was re-typed and some corrections made and additional comments made from a 2013 perspective. Some of the original sketches have been left, others removed as not necessary and occasionally some photos added. Twenty seven ideas are described (though a couple will need patter updates) and it is perhaps Paul's most varied collection. As the title suggests, the book is mainly close up, and mostly cards, but also a couple of coin items, a stretching...

This is a wonderful collection of some of Charlie Miller's signature pieces with photos showing Charlie Miller performing the moves and routines.

From the introduction by Theo Bamberg (Okito):

1st edition 1961, 1st digital edition 2014, 59 pages.

5. Introduction
7. About Charlie Miller
10. Mugs And Hats
15. The Jest Of The Joker
19. The Torn...

A very easy, commercial and entertaining color changing knife routine in several phases. With ideas by Ken Brooke, Ascanio and Juan Tamariz. For close-up and walk around. A white knife (or any color) changes to black. You simply say that you are using TWO knives so you produce a white one. The two knives change places a few times and at the end everything can be examined (obviously you have to bring your own knives)!

Michael Maxwell's Incredible Magic at the Bar is a six-volume series designed to teach you how to easily master and perform some of the greatest and easiest magic tricks. Each set in the series covers a different and unique type of magic, such as Bar Magic, Card Magic, Coin Magic, Rope Magic, Silk Magic, Impromptu Magic, Mental Magic, Money Magic and many more.

Incredible Magic at the Bar, Volume 1 teaches you effects that are easy to perform on either side of the bar, but especially suitable for bartenders who wish to raise their image to a new level. Return customers are guaranteed; they will...

Contains 17 Amazing Effects:

1. Appearing and Vanishing Cigarette
2. Cellophane Connection (Okawa)
3. Star Warp (Howie Schwartzman/Harry Lorayne)
4. Spectral Silk (J.C. Wagner)
5. Raccoonteur
6. Cut and Restored Rope
7. Burnt and Restored Napkin
8. Sponge Rabbits
9. Card on Forehead
10. Broken and Rstorted Toothpick
11. Signed Coin in Sugar Packet
12. Close-Up Illusion (Larry Jennings)
13. Swizzlestick
14. Ultimate Pickpocket (Michael Maxwell)
15. Coins to Cup (David Roth)
16. Heading North (David Regal)
17. Snap Crackle Pop (Tom Ladshaw)

runtime 1h 40min

Contains 19 Amazing Effects:

1. Dice Stacking
2. Trained Seal
3. Floating Glass
4. Scotch & Soda
5. Coin in Bottle
6. Super Memory
7. Biting a Coin
8. Ambitious Card/Card Under Drink
9. Fly Away Jack
10. Thought-of Card (Maxwell)
11. Acrobatic Aces
12. Cutting the Aces
13. Do As I Do
14. Jumping Rubber Band
15. Three-and-a-Half of Clubs Trick
16. Signed Card to Coffee Cup (Fayne)
17. Peripatetic Coins (Jennings)
18. Pretzel Logic (Givan)
19. 3 1/2 of Clubs/ 14 of Spades/ Blank Card

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 ebook contains five full length effects, achieved with minimum sleights, all based on the plot, intrigue and characters from the popular board game Cluedo, or Clue, as it is known in the States. Each effect involves and engages the audience fully and are easy to do. All you need to do is provide the dramatic art bit!

Murdered (Again!)
As Dr. Black moves around each room in his mansion his killer anticipates every move. Moved by a spectator, with free choice of room or direction, around a plan of his home. Dr. Black is eventually cornered in a room previously predicted.

Choose your...

In order to help Tommy's friend who lost her work due to a serious health issue (pulmonary hypertension and multiple sclerosis) he decide to help her by raising money through his ebooks and he is offering an insane deal.

All of his ebooks above for just $20! (Bonus: Michael Kociolek added two of his own ebooks to the bundle and Peter Duffie added four of his ebooks.)

This deal will stay active until Tommy has raised the 15,000 Euros his friend needs to keep her home.

J.J. ZAPPATTA. The enigma, the man of mystery who hung with the shadows throughout the course of many a magic convention, over many a decade. These books are a first glimpse at the crazy and wild world that was/is ZAPPATTA. And, at last, his clever levitation is fully explained in Volume 2!

All items are described in J.J.'s brief and point by point style. If you're not prepared to THINK, J.J's not interested in ya. Period. Illustrated with Mr. Zappatta's crude but informative sketches.

1. THWONG
Flip-Flops (or thongs) are a kind of footwear fashionable at resorts, beach-side, and other casual...

All items are described in J.J.'s brief and point by point style. If you're not prepared to THINK, J.J's not interested in ya. Period. Illustrated with Mr. Zappatta's crude but informative sketches.

1. ZIP-WOW
A super-quick torn and restored card or dollar note. Looks absolutely perfect and is examinable.

2. CELL-PHONE GLIM
Put the ubiquitous cell phone to clever use as a "glim device".

3. PERFECTO-CIRCLE CARDS
Revealed, the underground secret for cutting perfectly bur-less holes in playing cards. Idea for users of the Eidetic-type changes. (If you have to ask, then this is not...