Magic & Mentalism: page 268

• Sleeving by Vin Carey
• Sleeving by Horace Goldin
• Jarrow by Jay Marshall

1st edition ~1940, PDF 14 pages.

From the foreword:

Clowns perform magic. The only difference is the size of the magic and the illusions themselves. I work both as a clown and a magician. I was asked to share some of the materials I use to teach new clowns. This ebook introduces three classic magic tricks, offers routines to get you started, and is illustrated to show the various manipulations. All items pack small, do not take up much space in your pocket and can be found at very reasonable prices.

• What makes magic work
• Introducing the classics
• Thumb tip
• Thumb tip routines
• Hot rod
• Hot rod routines
• Sponge balls
• Sponge ball routines ...

What is the Private Medium's Secret Guide? What "secret" information does it contain? Is it the "Secret Blue Book" of the Spiritualists, often whispered about, but never seen? Just what does the guide contain?

The author is a person who has devoted his life to psychic research, both fraudulent and real--and writes not from theory, but from years of practical experience as a practicing psychologist and reader. His conclusions will be found in the pages of his guide. His advice and counsel on successful reading and counselling--and page upon page of "psychological readings", those exclusive...

Note that this ebook includes x-rated balloon models and jokes. This is not appropriate material for minors.

• The Water Dog Trick
• Balloon Boys and Girls Together
• Mounting Dogs
• A View From the Zoo
• Big Boy Balloon
• The Circumcised Dogs
• X-Rated Rubber Quips or Dirty Bar Jokes

1st edition 1974, 24 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 18 pages.

This is a multi-use rugged manual corner rounder that produces round corners in three sizes:

• 3 mm (1/8")
• 5 mm (3/16")
• 8 mm (5/16")

The 5 mm rounding is great for corner shorts....

Vol. 14, No. 1, March 2018; 60 pages
Cover: John Archer

5. A Word From The Editor
6. The Mailbox - Your View - Have Your Say
8. John Archer - Balloon Animals & Baftas! - cover article/interview - Graham Hey
14. In The Phonebox with David Lutz
14. One-Liner Heaven!
16. Musing on The Session - Mark Leveridge
16. Musing on The Event - Neil Kelso
20. Following Up with Fritz [Alkemade]!
23. Poster Problem; Too (many) words or not too (many) words? That is the question. - Jay Fortune
24. Masterclass
    24. The Perfect Match - Anthony Owen & Marc Paul
    25. True Romance - Allan Kronzek
28. Lookalikes!
33. Shout Outs - Here are some special 'extra' announcements...

A famous theatre ghost show performer reveals the secrets behind many of his hair-raising blackout stunts.

Want to host a midnight spook show? Or perhaps you want to host an entertaining seance or spooktacular ghost blackout routine in your magic act. Herman L. Weber ("Namreh") explains how to haunt a theatre with convincing ghost, spook and blackout effects that will scare the YELL out of your audience.

Introduction by Francisco, himself a famous ghost show performer.

One of the included effects, "The Floating Soul," was previously sold separately for $30 by mail. Another, "The Spectral...

Here are four mind-blowing card effects with a mental flavor. All are in keeping with the well-known ingenuity of these two artists. Every one of the effects is top notch. Magicians and mentalists everywhere raved about this collection when it was first released. Long out of print, this manuscript is now available to a new generation of performers.

Hallucination, Jr. (Clever) - The adventures of the card everyone is thinking about provides a baffling mystery and leaves the spectators talking to themselves in amazement, as the chosen card somehow leaves the table and materializes in the spectator's...

The Möbius strip is one of the most enigmatic principles of mathematics. A simple loop of paper transforms in unexpected ways. This topological quandary has not only inspired mathematicians; countless inventions use this principle and artists have painted, sculpted and written stories about the Möbius strip.

The art of magic has extensively used this topological principle to create the illusion of magic. The Afghan Bands were a favourite magic trick in the first half of the last century. Famous magicians such as Harry Blackstone and Nelson Downs regularly performed it in the stage act.

The Möbius Strip in Magic...

Impromptu Effects

• One Fantastic Move (Edward Marlo)
• The Joker Reads Minds (Edward Marlo)
• One Thru Four Elevator (Dave Solomon)
• You Did It Again! (Edward Marlo)
• You Did It Again And Again! (Edward Marlo)
• Black-Hole Card Switcheroo (Edward Marlo)
• A Way Out (Danny Korem)

• Moving Monte Switch (Chuck Smith)
• Sleeper Shank Shuffle (Edward Marlo)
• The Marnase Change And Vanish (Edward Marlo)
• The Double Erdnase Change (Edward Marlo)
• Darting Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Center Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Marlo's Swivel Cull (Edward Marlo)
• Snap Pass (Jon Racherbaumer) ...

Effect: Four blue-back cards are shown. One at a time each card - the Ace, Two, Three, and Four of Diamonds - turn face up. Their backs then change to red and then one at a time the backs change back to blue. Finally, the cards change to four Fours of Diamonds.

1st edition 1975 in Paul Diamond Presents Magical Masterpieces #2, updated 2018, PDF 15 pages.

• Your Best Asset
• Free Shows
• Your Show/Your Responsibility
• Famous Failures
• Magicians in Parade
• I Don't Trick / I Entertain

1st edition 2018, 10 pages.

Here is an act that I sincerely concede as being the best all-around modus operandi ever offered to the profession. The strong point is that this effect is done in real time. The original effect was sold in the Sphinx for $50.00 back in the 40s. By today's standards it would be almost $800.00. It was later improved by psychic Jason Michaels and used during his career. The effect is as follows: The performer passes out small cards on which spectators are requested to write their questions and sign their full name. This completed, cards are collected by performer, placed in small envelopes and sealed. ...

From the introduction:

Cause a glass hanging from a string to mysteriously chime whenever and how often you wish, with nothing to see for the spectators. It is a wonderful audiophile effect.

1st edition 2018, 4 pages + 2 videos

• Introduction
• Contributors
• The Hamman Twist (Brother John Hamman)
• Krenzel's Tunnel Change (Ken Krenzel)
• Dingle's Tunnel Change (Derek Dingle)
• No Force Vanish & Recovery (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Off-Sho Ot (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Jump-Jump Aces (Edward Marlo)
• The 999 Miracle (Edward Marlo)
• Pineapple Twist (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
• Sober Slop Poker (Edward Marlo)
• Breakless Curry Change (Edward Marlo)
• The Four Ace ... Er ... Queen Trick (Edward Marlo)
• Flash Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Fair On All Points (Edward Marlo)
• The Missing Hour (Edward Marlo)
• The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
• A Quickie (Edward Marlo)
• Exhibitionism (Edward Marlo) ...

Five of Baxter’s best with cards – all impromptu, all straightforward, all within reach of the average card man. Included is Easy Going Triumph, which puts the famous Vernon effect into an even more convincing mode and not a sleight in sight.

Direct and clean effects achieved by simple methods. With an introduction by Charles Gauci.

• Shared Sandwich
• Staying In Touch
• Rag
• Coin Spell
• Easy Going Triumph

1st edition 2018, 16 pages.

"A great introduction to the art of hypnosis, I even learnt something new!" - Phil Naylor, Magician

A concise guide to starting out in hypnosis, designed to get you practising within an hour of reading. This guide gets straight to the point. With ideas that are good for magicians as well as hypnotists, whatever your reason, this ebook will be a great starting point to begin your journey into this amazing art.

Looking at ways of using hypnosis without mentioning the word, you will learn a great...

This ultra-rare manuscript from magic author-dealer Howard Albright, features a trio of effects that each use two different-colored decks. These are audience-tested effects that will leave the spectators talking, long after the performance.

RED AND BLUE EN RAPPORT - You exhibit a red-backed deck of cards and a blue-backed deck. A spectator is handed one of the decks and shuffles them. You do likewise with your deck. A suit is chosen. Both of you remove the 13 cards of the selected suit from your deck. Each 13-card packet is then placed in its own houlette or wine glass. One at a time, the...

The Confusing Crayons is a well known classic. Two crayons and two cylinders are introduced. A volunteer gets one cylinder and selects a crayon. The magician takes the other cylinder and crayon. Instructing the volunteer to follow along the cylinders are turned over, back again and then over. The magicians crayon is right side up and the volunteers pointing down. This is a class that, up to this point, requires the use of a volunteer.

Confusing Crayons, 1 Person Routine is done without the need for a volunteer. Communication takes place with the magician's audience interaction. The audience...

In "39 gradini del mentalismo" Bob Cassidy ci accompagna per mano attraverso 39 testi fondamentali nella biblioteca di qualsiasi mentalista che si rispetti.

Cassidy offre la sua visione e le proprie preziose raccomandazioni circa i testi di grandi maestri del Mentalismo, tra cui Annemann, Corinda, Thompson, Bernstein, Banacheck, T.A. Waters e molti altri.

Perché proprio 39 e non 40 ad esempio? Sarà Bob stesso a spiegarvelo ...

Traduzione italiana a cura di Matteo Filippini

Continua la serie italiana di Bob Cassidy con Pseudomentalmente Vostro, il primo libro pubblicato da Cassidy nel lontano 1977 come supplemento n.2 della rivista Invocation (fondata dall'intrattenitore del mistero Tony Raven e dedicata principalmente a mentalismo e bizarre magick).

La quarta di copertina della prima edizione recitava:

"Una raccolta di inganni psichici originali creati per i mentalisti semi-professionisti o professionisti. Cercando di soddisfare il bisogno di potersi esibire virtualmente in qualsiasi condizione, l'autore ha sviluppato dei principi che rappresentano l'approccio...

Here is a fall-over-easy card trick that has taken in well-informed magicians. Based on Ken de Courcy’s ‘You Do As I Do’ approach called [lp=922355You’ll Get The Point], Baxter rises to the occasion with a baffling presentation using a cleverly concealed, ancient principle. Totally impromptu, no gimmicks, set up or sleights.

Why the extraneous procedure of changing packets? To Ian, this seems totally unnecessary, although (obviously) the mechanics of the trick, as is, necessitate it. This effect is almost exactly the same as the de Courcy contribution, but the method is altogether different.

1st edition 2018, 2 pages....