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• The flip-FLIP, ha-HA, card-CARD.
• RRIINNGG, short and snappy.
• Less is more, however...
• Royal flush-flash (for stand-up performances).
• Mighty mentalist versus magnificent magician (both using the front clip-palm).
• Illusion, mystery and the art of thought projection.
• Bank-a-bill-ity.
• Flip-pen-cy.
• A very lockkey affair.
• A hat and a mat. A production routine based on an old principle.

1st edition 1988, 15 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 25 pages.

This is a fairly typical magic book from the 19th century. It mixes magic tricks and illusions with science experiments. Due to the fact that back then many did not have a basic understanding of physics and chemistry, many of these exhibitions of science appeared like magic.

• How to Cut Your Arm off without Hurt or Danger
• The Basket Trick
• To Knock a Tumbler Through a Table
• To Drive One Tumbler Through Another
• The Dancing Skeleton
• To Place Water in a Drinking-glass Upside Down
• The Faded Rose Restored
• The Protean Liquid
• Eatable Candle Ends
• To Make a Watch Stop or Go at the Word of Command ...

Subtitle of the book is: A series of artistic conjuring experiments fully explained in detail and supplemented by a preachment upon the art in the form of original essays upon the subject, The Actor Magician.

Table of Contents

• PREFACE
• PROLOGUE
• PART I. MAGICIAN'S OPENING, PAR-EXCELLENCE
  • The Gloves And Pigeon Transformation
  • Chameleon Balls
  • The Astral Billiard Ball
  • The Phantom Billiard Ball
  • New Vanishing Billiard Ball. No. 1
  • New Vanishing Ball No. 2
  • The Travelling Balls No. 1.
  • The Travelling Balls No. 2
  • New Handkerchiefs And Balls
  • New Vanishing Handkerchief
  • The Multiplying Handkerchiefs ...

Len was a creative and innovative magician who came up with a number of engaging routines for mentalists, kid shows, and family performers. Here you will find mostly stand up routines.

Table of Contents

• Publisher's Foreword
• Some Thoughts On Invention- And An Idea For A Screen Table
• Crowned
• Belcher's Club Table
• Newspell
• Pig Deal
• Kurious Kerchief
• Ring In The Old
• Looking In
• A Century Of Sympathy
• Knock Knock
• Enclosed Thought
• Singular Silks
• The Jolly Miller
• Sponge Down
• The Feast Of Lanterns
• The Ring And The Ball
• Guess Who!
• Rich Little Poor Girl
• Zippo Bag
• Telstar
• Post Prediction ...

Great mentalism routines most don't know about.

• Foreword
• Chapter One: A Couple Of Starters
  • Is There A Mind-Reader In The House?
  • Technique Of The Swami
  • Swami Four-Thought
• Chapter Two: Something More Than Coincidence?
  • A Word From Atlantis
  • The Ultimate Seventh Key To Baldpate
  • Will Dexter's Routine For - Seven Keys To Baldpate
• Chapter Three: E.S.P. Of One Kind Or Another
  • Those E.S.P. Cards - Were They Designed By A Conjurer?
  • The Psychogram Test
  • The Third Eye
• Chapter Four: They Need To Laugh Sometimes, Don't They?
  • Will Dexter's Spirit Message Slates
  • Electro-Static...

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese. However, the instructions to make the gimmick and how to perform it are all clearly presented visually.

A card, knife or other flat object penetrates another card.

1st edition 2018, length 8 min

Please note that the instructions are purely visual with some captions, but no spoken instructions.

This preparation allows you to literally throw a coin, or other small objects, into a closed bottle. Bottle is gimmicked.

1st edition 2018, length 11 min 33 s.

Note that the instructions are purely visual with some captions.

A coin magically penetrates an empty cigarette package.

1st edition 2018, length 10 min 15 s

Note that the instructions are purely visual with some captions.

This easily constructed gimmick allows you to levitate small elongated objects on your finger. Ideal objects to levitate are pens, straws, spoons, chop sticks, and similar.

1st edition 2018, length 7 min 30 s

Perhaps the best torn and restored bill effect the magical world has ever seen.

A magical inspiration that comes once in a blue moon. A sensation of the I.B.M. and S.A.M. conventions. After you've read the following effect, you'll say it's impossible. And so will your audience, when they see you perform this bill tear.

Effect: The performer reaches into his wallet and removes a dollar bill. To preclude the possibility of exchange or duplicates, the performer requests someone in the audience to mark the bill in any manner they wish. His hands are carefully shown to be empty. There is no...

The authorship of this book is not entirely clear, but Frikell is a likely author of at least good parts of the book. However, most likely it is a compilation of material from different sources with potentially a number of editors and compilers. Some of the other names associated with this book are H.L. Williams, George Arnold, Frank Cahill, and John Wyman, Jr. The book covers not only magic tricks of various kinds, but also a lot of what we would call today "kitchen tabletop experiments" in fields ranging from mechanical and chemical to optical, math and others. It also features a section...

Shaw was a dealer in Chicago during the time of Erdnase, who specialized in manufacturing trick apparatus, illusions, and gimmicks. Most of the effects described in this work are apparatus type of magic. There is also a sizable section on Chapeaugraphy.

New Ideas In Magic

• The Demon Cards Of Faust
• Mystic Envelopes And Cards
• The Magic Growth Of Flowers
• The Changing Cards
• The Birth Of Floris
• Cassadaga Propaganda
• New Knotted Handkerchiefs
• New Color Changing Handkerchief
• Three Legged Lady
• Four Legged Lady
• The Soldier's Fate
• The Mysterious Glass Jar And Coins
• The Crystal Decanter And Mysterious...

Tom Sellers was a very creative magician who created in pretty much all disciplines of magic. He invented among others Bank Night and won the Sphinx Award, which was an award given to the best new creative routine.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Section One: Cards
  • A "Double Face" Force
  • False Shuffle For An Arranged Pack
  • An Open Fingers Card Change
  • A Trick Using The Charlier Pass
  • Three Colour Changes
  • The Fly Past Transformation
  • A New Card Transformation
  • The Simple Card Change
  • A Card Prediction Using The Rough And Smooth Principle
  • An Unusual Prediction
  • Reading The Cards
  • An Easy...

A collection of wonderful coin routines.

• The "Sky Hooks" Routine
• The Vanishing Biro
• A Coin From Two Cards
• Perfection Penetration
• Card-To-Wallet
• The "One Cup, One Ball, One Move" Routine
• The "Four-In-One" Routine
• The Coin On The Pipe Cleaner
• Name Spelling
• Copper To Silver
• Reading Cards - Behind Your Back
• Coin Through Ring
• The "No Load" Dice Stack Climax
• A Novel Penknife Routine
• The Cigar Tube Mystery
• The "Good Company" Penetration
• The Lie Detector
• A Routine For The "Pencil Through The Penny"
• A Clean Finish For The Coins Across
• The "Swivel Up" Card To Top
• Adding A Stack...

Karrell Fox had a unique style and take on classics of magic and various of his own creations. This ebook covers a wide swath of his magic from stage to close-up, mentalism to silly bits. Also includes lots of photos from his life and performances. Illustrated by Sid Lorraine.

• Introduction
• Thank You's ...
• Chapter One: Meet The Maestro
  • Tucker On Fox
  • Karrell Fox
  • The Karrell I Know
  • From The Vernon Touch
  • Mr. Fox ... Mr. E ... Mr. Enthusiasm
  • The Man Behind The Magic
  • Karrell Fox ....
• Chapter Two: At The Table
  • Finger Flinger
  • Time Killer
  • A "Ringer"
  • Karrell's "Trick-Key" Case
  • Unglued
  • A Couple...

A borrowed bank note, of any denomination, is marked with the initials of the owner, and wrapped in a handkerchief. A borrowed and examined lemon is placed under a tumbler. The bank note is commanded to leave the handkerchief, and is found inside the lemon.

1st edition 1983, 8 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 7 pages.

Live from the European Close-up Magic Symposium 2012. This is a wonderful sleight-less classic card routine that Giobbi has polished to a fine sheen with added psychological subtleties and a logical and meaningful presentation.

A brand new deck of cards, still wrapped in cellophane and sealed, is shuffled by different spectators. 10 cards are selected by a spectator. Roberto then divines each card without touching anything. The last card is revealed with a prediction and a duplicate of the last card is also found in the prediction envelope.

Performance duration: 9 minutes
Explanation...

Here's an amazing ebook of new effects and improvements to magic and mentalism classics, from the fertile mind of a master craftsman. Long off the market, this updated and expanded edition brings to life 16 miracles from the workshop of George Le Walke, the genius and craftsman who created effects for several well-known magic dealers. These miracles of magic and thought-reading will get your mind to thinking of ways to add one or more of them to your own act.

While some of the described effects do require workshop skills, they can be constructed in most anyone's home shop. If you're not mechanically...

A confidential report, intended only for those who are serious about the mental profession. Learn the correct techniques of presentation, teaching what to do and what not to do for successful mentalism. A must-have book for every mentalist and magician. These lessons will make you a better performer, enhance your reputation as an unusual entertainer and enable you to collect higher fees.

PARTIAL CONTENTS:

THE SERIOUS BUSINESS OF MENTALISM - Mentalism as a profitable business - The Mentalist's Sole Aim - The Effort to Deceive - The Challenge to the Spectator - Mentalism vs. Magic - Perfection...

Please note that the instructions are purely visual. No spoken words.

Show an empty pack of cigarettes. Close it. And when you open it again it is filled with genuine cigarettes.

1st edition 2018, 7 min 8 s

Note that the explanation is purely visual with some captions.

Have a telephone call appear on your phone at will. This does not require an app. You will need a Bluetooth speaker or music-player.

1st edition 2018, length 3 min 27 s

Please note that the instructions are purely visual, no spoken words.

This is a very subtle method to find a freely chosen (not forced) card. It needs some prior preparation, but the deck (cards) are not altered in any way. After the effect there is nothing left to detect and the cards can be handed out or given away.

The method to locate the chosen card is not sleight-of-hand based. But to present it properly you will need some basic card handling skills such as shuffling, cutting, and spreading cards. Depending on how you choose to produce the chosen card you may need to be able to cull...

Please note that this video is in Vietnamese, but the instructions to make the gimmick, and how to use it is perfectly understandable from the visual information alone.

Change a bill into a card. Easy gimmick. Easy to perform.

Obviously you need to use paper money that is compatible with the width of the cards you are using. Often bills can be trimmed slightly if they are too wide.

1st edition 2018, length 7 min 32 s

I remember reading an article about a magic trick. Not sure which magazine or issue it was in. But I want to read it again. I have two choices:

1. I can start the magazine shuffle. Issue by issue looking for the article.
2. Open a file folder on my computer. Then open the category folder and find the article.

An article written two months ago, or one that was published a few years ago can be found within...