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Products
Sleightly Easier
Ken de Courcy
A book of alternative, easier, card sleights and tricks to go with them.
Excerpt from the introduction:
Many of the basic card sleights are not easy to do well. Take the Two-Handed Pass in which the top and bottom halves of the pack are transposed. The objective is to do it invisibly, which is just about impossible. To cover the action some very strong misdirection is required ... or an alternative method. This little book is about such alternative methods ... easier ways to bring about the same results. But because sleights, in themselves, are useless, I've endeavoured to include a few...
Wayne Dobson and Friends
Wayne Dobson
Excerpt from the Introduction:
Some people perform magic and some people are magic, but very few possess both of these qualities. I believe that the contributors to this book are genuine exceptions. It was Derek Lever who suggested to me that I should write this book. At first I was a little apprehensive about approaching my friends as I didn't want to feel that I was exploiting their status. I really shouldn't have worried as all the people featured in this book were more than happy to oblige - they have all been very generous in contributing some of their best material.
- Dear God
- Introduction ...
Wayne Dobson: The Definitive Collection
Wayne Dobson
The title says it all. A must-have for any Wayne Dobson fan. Lots of effects are explained, lots of anecdotes are told, and lots of photos are shown.
This eBook contains virtually every magic effect Wayne published up to 2011, and all have the hallmarks of Wayne's creative thinking. The methods are always simple and direct, and included amongst the selection of around 100 effects are some of the tricks that helped to establish Wayne as one of the top stage, cabaret, and TV magicians.
Much of the magic is suitable for close-up performance too, and the required props are either everyday...
Yosoku
Joseph B.
You can do this with a borrowed shuffled deck and four jokers you prepared beforehand. The spectator shuffles the deck. The performer cuts it into six packets. The spectator chooses four of these packets by placing the four face-up jokers on any of the four packets. These packets are cut by the spectator. The four cards lying next to the jokers are pulled out of the packs. Their value is added and that many cards are counted down in the remainder of the deck. The card selected this way is predicted on the backs of the four jokers.
1st edition 2022, video 17:15.
It Can Be Magic
J. Stewart Smith
This collection includes 13 baffling card mysteries. Close-up magicians who know their craft rave about Smith's work, both for its presentation and its methods.
PARTIAL CONTENTS:
- A Cocksure Choice
- Topsy-Turvy
- Without Doubt
- Invisible Power
- A Weird Event
- A Surprising Revelation
- A Transformation
- In Like Manner
- The Survivor
- A Magical Restoration
- Hide and Seek
- At Ease
- An Interchange
"Within these pages the reader will find many new effects. He will also discover a few oldies in new dress. But most of all he will find good, effective card tricks that he can perform with a minimum...
Silk and Flower Magic
A. K. Dutt
Excerpt from the Introduction:
Though I don't claim anything original in this book, I have tried to blend two existing effects to create a new one, or to use the usual accessories like utility reel, pull etc., in some unusual ways or to position them in some unexpected places for unexpected purposes. Most of the tricks explained in this book are in one way or another connected to body load methods and hence this book comes under that category.
- Introduction
- The Half and Half Colour Change Record
- Card on Rope
- Fifth Dimension Thimbles
- Bare handed Garland of Spring Flower Production ...
Show us a Trick!
Arun Bonerjee
Excerpt from the Introduction:
Here is a bunch of my creations in the field of intimate type close-up magic, that I have been using for long in my close-up work. In fact, many of the tricks in this book have been published earlier in Abra, and Magigram. However due to repeat performances, these have been further polished, and the articles are rewritten for this book, including these improvements.
- Introduction
- Have Faith In Me
- Magical Strike
- Thru The Barriers
- Magical Gambling
- Flight-O-Disc
- Vibrations
- ESP Stacking
- On Time
- Floating Match Box
- What’s In a Name
- In the Cards
- Introducing...
X-Ray Eyes
Sam Dalal
Methods and presentations for blindfolds, or 'sightless vision'.
Amongst the most sensational of magical effects, is the ability of the magician to do things blindfolded, which would normally require the use of his full vision. Like escapes, a blindfold drive is an excellent publicity stunt, in which you can involve the police department, the local medical and municipal authorities, the town council, the local newspapers and TV, and half the town people. It is one effect that can be performed under any conditions, drawing room, stage, club, arena, or across a town or state. And it is probably...
Magic of Merriment
Solyl Kundu
In this ebook Solyl gives you an assortment of practical entertainment, from clever close-up with a plug for a prospective booking, to colourful, entertaining, and very impressive conjuring and stage magic. All simple to perform, and enjoyable to watch.
Excerpt from the introduction:
I do not claim that this book is full of novel notions which are mind boggling and which will set the magic world ablaze. But I must say, keeping modesty aside for a moment, that the contents are all 'practical goodies'. Not always very original, but their dressing has fetched me laughs, applause, rewards,...
From Beyond: The Mental Magick of Basil Horwitz Volume 6
Basil Horwitz
During his last years, Basil Horwitz recorded a set of new routines on audio tape. When he passed away his wife Heidi sent these tapes to Martin Breese to turn into a new book. Martin worked on it for a good while together with the help of Clifford Card and Mike Vance. They were almost finished but also Martin passed away before he could publish the book. Having purchased Martin's business I took over this project which I can finally present to you.
- Foreword
- Body Language, Heads or Tails
- Mental Hypnotic Suggestion
- ESP Body Language
- Lesson in Body Language
- Challenge, ESP, Body Language
- Three Experiments...
The Sign of Exceptional Magic
Charles Thorton Jordan
This periodical was released by Ted Annemann. The plan was to publish some 350 original tricks by Charles T. Jordan that Jordan had released earlier either as single tricks or in booklets. Here is Annemann in his own words:
With this issue starts a series of magical secrets conceived by that genius of subtle sorcery, Mr. Charles T. Jordan. In years to come, the completed set will prove to be a bonanza of information second to none in the annals of magical literature. Its hundreds of practical-plus conceptions will ever be turned to, and the time will never come when a study of its pages will not disclose...
Meeow!
Graham Hey
30 visual gags to get your claws into.
Visual gags are worth their weight in gold, and for over twenty years, Graham Hey has been writing them for some of the world's top performers. Here's a collection of 30 of them - all easy to perform, for a variety of audiences from corporate to close-up, to kids. For many of them you won't have to buy anything at all, for others you will, but we're not talking more than a few bucks. Many of these have come from over 20 years of Graham's ebooks, and there are some new ones included too. This stuff you'll use.
From the brilliant Newspaper gag to the...
The Magic of Mahadevananda
Mahadevananda
Excerpt from the introduction:
My real forte is, I think, being able to take a couple of standard effects and shove them together and get a bit of a different effect. I also enjoy reading old magazines on Magic and reviving some of the good things that have been covered in dust for years. Who said, if you want to keep an original idea secret, publish it in a magazine? Truly, many real gems can be unearthed by plowing through old books and magazines.
- Introduction
- This is the drink I want
- Simplex Shower of Sweets
- Do It In Their Hand
- My Chop Cup Routine
- No Chance
- Magic Drinks Maker ...
SHIELD 2
Biagio Fasano
S.H.I.EL.D. 2 (SelfWorking Honestly Impromptu Effect: card Location in the Deck - Vol. 2) is the second part of a collection of new Cardmagic effects, never before published, designed by me and characterized by the fact that they can be performed with extreme ease, requiring no technique or manipulation on the part of the magician, and that they are completely impromptu, performable even with a deck borrowed and shuffled by the audience.
In addition, both of these effects can be performed entirely in "contactless mode," so even at a distance (by videoconference on Zoom, for example): the...
SHIELD 2 (Italian)
Biagio FasanoS.H.I.EL.D. 2 (SelfWorking Honestly Impromptu Effect: card Location in the Deck - Vol. 2) é la seconda parte di una raccolta di nuovi effetti di Cartomagia, mai pubblicati prima, da me ideati e caratterizzati dal fatto di poter essere eseguiti con estrema facilità, non richiedendo alcuna tecnica o manipolazione da parte del prestigiatore, e di essere completamente impromptu, performabili anche con un mazzo preso a prestito e mescolato dal pubblico.
Inoltre entrambi questi effetti possono essere interamente eseguiti in “modalità Contactless”, pertanto anche a distanza (in videoconferenza...
Magic and Story
Deepak Roy Chowdhury
Excerpt from the Preface:
Magic is an art. And I believe art depicts life. So it is obvious that magic must also depict life. But a mere trick can not depict life. Hence a trick is not art.
The trick with its secret and the strength within it to create surprise is a mere gadget. Utilising this gadget (trick) the magician creates the art which is called Magic. It has got similarity to other art forms also. A Painter creates a picture with brush and colour. A Sitar Player plays a sitar to create Ragas. Similarly the Magician creates Magic with the use of a trick. The more the presentation...
Stand Pat
David A. Curtis
Poker stories from the Mississippi.
The stories play in Brownsville and Arkansas City both located on the West bank of the Mississippi river during the second half of the 19th century.
Excerpt from the preface:
The things that I saw, that seemed worthy of note, I have set down without prejudice to the little town of Brownsville, which has grown since I was there. Let no citizen of the place pursue me vindictively because I found him less interesting than Stumpy. And let no one’s civic pride suffer because I noted in the town only what seemed to me picturesque. I have no quarrel with...
Card Circus
A. P. Sreenivasan
Excerpt from the preface:
This book is primarily intended for those who are familiar with card magic. I have performed these effects under many conditions with very good response from the audience. Some moves are simple, some are difficult, but all are natural. All my own sleights and some of the standard sleights are explained in detail.
- Preface
- APS Rising Cards
- Slow Motion Aces
- Red And Blue All The Way
- Incredible Sandwich
- Acrobatic Card
- Strange Deck And Triumphant Aces
- Turn Over Herrman Pass
- Meet Sreenivas
This ebook includes more than 130 photos to illustrate the moves...
Genii Volume 78 (2015)
Richard Kaufman
January 2015 - December 2015
1160 pages
[Note: The online content of the issues, such as audio and video files, are currently not part of this product. I am checking to see if I can add these files at a later date, but there is no guarantee I can give at this point.]
- Genii - Volume 78, Number 1 - January 2015 - 96 pages
- Cover - Walter Rolfo, FISM Italy 2015 President
- Contents
- Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
- online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
- online audio file available - Speaking of Max [Maven]
- online video file available - Face to Face - Matthew Field interviews John Carney
- In Memoriam - Bobby Bernard (1931-2014) - by Brian Sibley
- online video file available - In Memoriam - Bobby Bernard
- On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
- online audio file available...
Dove Pan-Orama
Bruce Posgate
A comprehensive survey of amusing ideas and ways to use a dove pan in an entertaining manner.
Excerpt from the Foreword by Sid Lorraine:
In this assembly of D. P. uses, Bruce Posgate has discovered how it can be effectively used in a variety of ways. I am sure the reader will wonder why he never thought of these things himself and how he could have been so stupid as to consider it a one-trick prop—strictly for the birds.
Coins, cards, beads, colored liquids, clocks, cigarettes, balloons and even mathematical magic may seem too wide a range of lid-loading stuff to please some, but I am sure the...
How's That?
Junior Shankar
A selection of close-up routines.
Excerpt from the introduction:
It is true that most of the ideas we get are from the books, Magazines etc. but many such ideas are left in a corner as they are difficult to prepare or the materials are not available. Whenever I get such ideas, I think of ways to make them easy and possible for performance.
- Introduction
- Gamblers Secrets
- The Poor Man’s Rainbow
- Way Out
- Jazz Cards
- Chopped Cards Through Table
- Copper And Silver Plus
- Magician Gets his Wish
- Tall Fat Lady
- Nu Way Coins Across
- Impossible Prediction
- E Zee Center Tear
- Meet Junior...
Watch This Closely
Someeran
Excerpt from the preface:
This is a book on close-up magic. The effects described in this book are not only mystifying but vastly entertaining. I know they are practical and popular, because I do them all the time, and I love them. Some of the effects in this book were originally published in different magic magazines like Magigram, Mantra etc. While re-writing them for this book, I have updated the effect, handling and presentation, based on my experience of performing them several times, to make them more interesting and entertaining. Even readers who may have read the original versions will find something...
How To Do The Black Art
A. Anderson
Containing a complete description of the mysteries of magic and sleight of hand, together with many wonderful experiments.
Excerpt from the introduction:
The chief requisites for success in the performance of the black art is manual dexterity and self-confidence; nimble fingers and a cool temper. Any one who exhibits feats of legerdemain, will do well to remember that one of the best methods of diverting the attention of the audience from the action of your fingers, is to keep talking; the more diverting your talk, the less attention will the audience give to your manipulation of the object...
The Final Straw
Graham Hey
The Final Straw - a very clever mentalism effect. Five different colored straws in a cocktail glass. One straw contains a rolled-up gift voucher for the holiday of a lifetime and a year's supply of cocktails. All the others contain a note which says 'you lost!' Spectators select any 4 colored straws (no forcing) the contents of each straw is pushed out ... and they all lose. The remaining straw has the winning gift voucher. This is so clever and virtually self-working. You'll need to buy some straws - you should have everything else you need. As usual with Graham's effects, they are easy to...