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Right from its first issue, Magicseen Magazine has sought to showcase talent from the UK, talent that sometimes can be a little swamped by high profile personalities from other parts of the world. To put this right, Magicseen approached a list of the UK's top performers and creators and invited them to contribute to a book that is designed to show the world what they have to offer. Best Of British contains routines from over 20 creative British magicians, including Wayne Dobson, Peter Duffie, Geoffrey Durham, Paul Gordon, Simon Lovell, Shaun McCree, Marc Paul, Scott Penrose, Mark Shortland, Paul Stockman and many more. It's a fabulous collection...

Readers of Magicseen will be familiar with Andrew as there have been a couple of features on him and he has also appeared a few times answering questions in the Close Up Clinic. Now Andrew reveals the secrets of his commercial success by recounting his life story so far, gives readers excellent food for thought in a section called Devil's Advocate in which he passes opinion on all manner of magical themes, and finally he also gives full details of 28 of his pet routines for close up, stand up and mentalism. Everything Andrew does is geared to commercial performance and his methods are delightfully straightforward....

Wayne Dobson has had a life full of incredible highs and hard-to-bear lows, and in this candidly written ebook, he lays it all before you. The full story is here charting his meteoric rise to international fame and TV stardom in which, when he was at the height of his powers, he became a household name in the UK and was seen as a genuine alternative to Paul Daniels as a mainstream TV magician, right through to his valiant and uncomplaining struggle with MS. It's a tale of courage, is often very funny, and it is always fascinating.

As well as Wayne's life story this excellent ebook provides...

This ebook is filled with classic routines and effects performed by Ken Brooke.

From the introduction:

Adair has always been a prolific creator of magical effects. Several stage magic and card magic effects are explained with beautiful illustrations. Some of the effects you will find explained are:

SEE - THROUGH FOLDER
This is a quick appearance of four silks in a simple folder. The silks appear visibly and are seen through a window in the folder.

SILKEN BUTTERFLY
A pretty conceit with a plaque, showing a picture of a butterfly and with four cut-out holes on the butterfly wings. Coloured silks represent the colours on the butterfly, they are removed, placed into a beaker from which they...

Alexander de Cova performs mostly stand-up, that means his magic is suitable for the small stage or platform. But many of his routines can also done close-up. In these lecture notes you will find some of his best effects, sleights, gimmicks, tips and ideas.

Alexander is a strong believer in utility sleights that can be used in different routines. Therefore you will find lots of material that deals with new techniques or variations on existing things which you can incorporate in your own routines and tricks.

1st edition 2004, 28 pages.

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3. A Few Words Before
4. Two Switch...

There are many shows to be had among the various luncheon, commercial and civic clubs found in all cities, but they don't really like "fun shows." They prefer something with a message. The excellent program Dr. Reum has created here, based on his own experience, ties in with magic tricks you probably have at home. This is all tied in very neatly with the patter which is so suitable and so right for the organization show. It can also be exactly timed, which is also a must with these shows.

Dr. Reum was co-ordinator of student activities of the city of Denver, plus being obligated for many...

First class magic from Ian Adair. In this ebook there is something for everyone. A lot of children magic, general magic, mental magic, card magic and close-up magic, all in the classic Adair's style. All the tricks described in the ebook are easy to do.

Here is a list of the tricks explained in the ebook:

• PERSONALITY PIPE
• BANG-BANG SILK
• SUCKER SILK CHANGE
• SILKEN SPACE SORCERY
• LINK-UP
• MICKMORENCY THE MOUSE
• NOT-A-SAUSAGE!
• INKED!
• FREE CHOICE BOOK TEST
• TWO USING THE CLASSIC SAND FRAME
• RATTLE BELLS
• BAFFLING BOOK-TEST
• A PASSING DOUBLE
• HINGE-OVER PRODUCTION TUBE
• 3 FROM IAN ADAIR ...

Here is a selection of tricks created by Werner Miller from his ebooks. These are all tricks that can be considered more or less self-working.

CONTENTS:

• DO NOT DISTURB: Here is Werner's version of the classic Hotel Mystery, totally self-working.
• EQUIVALENT: A new principle. Cards are dealt in packets and one is selected by a spectator. The card on top indicates the sum of the cards below the other piles.
• LINE DANCER: A freely selected card is revealed using a reversed card.
• MOITIÉ, MOITIÉ: A very interesting routine using five Clubs cards cut in the middle.
• AND HER SON: A selected card is lost...

This 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.

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11. Preface
13. The Balanced Egg
14. The Jumping Card
15. Coin In Handkerchief ...

The very commercial routines of one of our top performers. Graduate of the Chavez School, host of his own TV show on several occasions, including 26 weeks of "Magic Ranch." A full time pro who specialized in the kind of tricks you love. These pages bring you his close up tricks with cards, balls, coins, ball point pen, pins, flash string, a lump of coal (the hit of many TV shows!) and others. Everyone of these tricks is a proven commercial success before it hit the book.

1st edition 1956; 1st digital edition 2013, 51 pages.

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5. About Don Alan
6. The Four Jacks And The Bouncing...

Roy Johnson had a wonderful clean and simple style, often mixed with unique methods. Roy always applied his own mind, even to classic effects, and thus you are getting here the Roy Johnson treatment.

Effects taught:

• Flash Square
• The Race
• Checkmate
• Sum
• Match Block
• Dialamite
• Twinned Princess
• Murder Imperfect
• Psycho
• P.S.S.
• Reflective Jackpot
• Chromatism
• Son Of Astro
• The Con (Sidewalk Shuffle)
• Koranistic
• Pairs
• Nuts

1st edition 1988, 1st digital edition 2013, 75 pages.

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.

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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...