Magic & Conjuring: page 16

Excerpt from the introduction:

"Now the question arises, who will be the legitimate successor to Prof. Hoffmann? I will venture to predict that it will be another Briton, Brunel White, whose first plunge into the literary end of the business, "Original Mysteries For Magicians," in my humble opinion, with the single exception of "Modern Magic," the best book I have yet seen, and there are hundreds of Magicians who will agree with me." - Maurice Bliss

• Introduction
• The Appearing And Disappearing Knot On Handkerchief ...

Excerpt from the preface:

• Argument
• A Conjuring Comedy with a Cone
• A Pound Note Problem
• "Rainbow Waves"
• "Cut and Come Again"
• The "Eureka" Mechanical Four-Ace Stand
• "An Unusual Opening"
• A Coin Gathering Idea
• "Making a Candle Light" ...

• The Compiler's Excuse
• "A Touching Trick"
• "Spotting the Winner"
• "A Card Catastrophe"
• "The Mystic Sunflower"
• "Guess!"
• "The Enchanted Fan"
• The Penetrative Pocket-knife
• "The Painted Skeleton"
• A New Principle for the "Four Aces," with marked Cards
• "Silk and Tissue"
• "An Episode in Three Reels"
• Effects with Billiard Balls
• "A Jar of Incense"
• A Card and Cigarette Paper Combination

1st edition 1922, 93 pages; PDF 50 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:

These are the Pavel 1990 lecture notes.

• Utility Pull
• The Enchanted Mirror
• Color Bet
• Quadsilx
• Silks From Silk
• Sucker Blendo
• The Yellow Rope
• Jumping Knots
• Silks & Rings
• Card Paper Tear
• New Silken Balls
• Sucker Ribbons
• The Universal Rope
• Krazy Knot

1st edition 1990, 26 pages; PDF 35 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the Foreword:

A collection of 15 effects with ropes, silks, balls, cards, ribbons, paper, glasses, canes, dice and other objects.

• The Instant Silk
• The Ribbon Prediction
• A Rope Circle Routine
• Rainbow Balls
• The Black Die Prediction
• The Knot Off The Rope
• Newspaper Knotting II
• The Ribbon Transposition
• The Zebra Trick
• Encore The Silk In The Knot
• The Spotted Card
• Six Ideas For Cane Workers

1st edition 1974, PDF 27 pages.

Excerpt from the Preface:

• Preface
• Live 1,000 Years!
• Tape Recording Tips
• Goldstrike
• Cash Match
• Inflation...

Going GaGa is a new ebook by Graham Hey containing some brand-new material and a couple of little-known classics brought up to date. They're all easy to do and brilliantly effective. You'll probably have most things you need to do these tricks - cards, duplicates, envelopes, etc.

Going GaGa is a great mentalism effect and a total 'magician fooler'. It's clever and easy to do. The performer hands a prediction to a spectator. Two spectators are given a pile of cards each. The first spectator shuffles his cards and selects any one. He is handed a list of celebrities and counts down - if he...

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...

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...

• 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...

• 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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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,...

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:

Doctor Edward George Ervin was a dentist and amateur magician whose mentor and teacher was famous William Robinson, aka Chung Ling Soo.

Excerpt from the introduction by T. Nelson Downs:

Here's a great collection of self-workers that can be achieved with some of the stuff most magicians will have at hand. For a couple of effects, you'll have to buy some items, but you won't have to spend more than a few dollars. And it will be well worth it!

Eight effects, all easy to do. Including:

EAT TO THE BEAT - a fun effect using a balloon and a free choice of card ...

I PREDICT A RIOT - The magician makes three predictions and the first two are wrong... but what about the third?

SIGHT FOR SORE EYES - A pirate's eye-patch and you'll be able to make a fabulous prediction. ...

A lecture in the art of close-up magic.

Excerpt from the introduction by Val Andrews:

It isn't what you do but the way that you do it.

A lecture on magic featuring all the original, unusual methods of handling, which have been applied to standard tricks, and, for the first time, revealing the secrets of sixty years, performing original effects that have proved enduring with audiences.

• A Cigarette
• Ed Mishell's Cut And Restored Rope
• Ribbon Production From A Handkerchief
• A Ring On A Ribbon
• The Impossible Bill Tube
• The Animated Match Box
• A New Slant On Three Ropes
• Handkerchiefs Produced From Ribbons
• The Coin That Vanishes
• The Cut And Restored Ribbons

1st edition...

Conjuring tricks with cards balls, and dice; magic writing, performing animals, etc.

This is a surprisingly interesting book edited by W. H. Cremer. It includes an early precursor of the Chop Cup. (See The Magic Dutch Balls.) It has interesting information on gambling, cheating, and scams. The chapter on 'Magic Writing' is a wonderful history of cryptography and steganography. The chapter on animal training is one of the most detailed I have encountered. It also includes a wealth of magic tricks, science experiments, and effects based on apparatus.

• Part I. Modern Magic By Sleight Of Hand...