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A comb-bound book in good condition. The lowest tooth of the plastic comb has broken off. For the content see the digital edition.

Hardcover with dustjacket. The dustjacket has a small tear at the bottom edge in the front. It is in excellent condition. It is the second edition from 1980 and it has a Lee Jacobs sticker on the bottom of the title page. For the content see the digital edition.

Booklet stapled in very good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

This is the Magico reprint of this classic title. Hardcover without dustjacket in excellent condition. For the content see the digital edition.

Six small format booklets, stapled. They are all in good condition, only part one's cover has separated at the spine. For the content see the digital editions:

• Part 1: Original Silk Effects
• Part 2: Original Card Effects
• Part 3: Original Pocket Effects
• Part 4: Original Spiritualistic Effects
• Part 5: Miscellaneous Magic
• Part 6: More Miscellaneous Magic

This is a complete file bound together with three ribbons across the spines. The condition is very good for such an uncommon complete run. For the content see the digital edition.

This is a bilingual edition. Read from the front it is in English. Read from the back it is in German. Stapled booklet in good condition. For the content see the digital edition.

This is a complete file of this weekly periodical. It is bound into one volume. The spine of the binding has detached on the front. It has an ex-libris of J.B.A. Janson. For the content see the digital edition.

Büchlein mit Klebebindung in sehr gutem Zustand. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Heft geklammert in exzellentem Zustand. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Heft geklammert in gutem Zustand. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Das Buch ist in sehr gutem Zustand. Es hat keinen Schutzumschlag. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Buch mit Schutzumschlag sehr gut erhalten. Der Schutzumschlag ist an den Kanten leicht beschädigt. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Buch mit Schutzumschlag der an den Kanten etwas beschädigt ist. Das Buch selbst ist in sehr gutem Zustand. Zum Inhalt siehe die digitale Ausgabe.

Hardcover without dustjacket in very good condition. It has an exlibris of Leslie C. Smith. For the content see the digital edition.

The 24 routines from the 2022 Kaymar Advent Calendar.

The Contender - A sure bet where you put £1000 on being able to read the spectator's mind - and you are right every time. With a kicker!

Coinkydink - A self-working 'Do As I Do' with two regular, shuffled decks.

Locked Room Mystery - a secret so baffling it needs to be kept under lock and key for the sanity of your spectators. They open it at their peril.

Make Your Own Luck - Fortune Telling meets 'The Signed Card' as a reading ends with the revelation of a signed card from an impossible place.

Off-Colour Hummer - A spectator...

It talks, it answers questions, it floats, etc. The most complete treatise on the talking skull ever published. The Talking Skull is an entertaining and versatile effect that will find a place in any magician's act. It's as much at home in a Midnight Spook Show as it is in a straight magic routine. It plays as well on a nightclub floor as it does on television. The Talking Skull can be performed as seriously as the occasion requires, or it can provide much-needed comic relief in between the more serious effects in your show.

There have been a number of methods for the Talking Skull released...

You show four blank cards. Progressively their backs become blue, then faces of queens appear, then their backs become red, and finally all their backs change to yet another new back.

1st edition 2023, video 3:30.

An instructive warning to those who must play for stakes. Interesting amusement for those who do not.

Excerpt from the Foreword:

This book is nicely illustrated by Charles Remmers from photographs by the author. It contains a description of cheating at the popular Australian game of Two-Up which makes it unique.

• Foreword
• Spotlight On The Card-Sharp ...

Being an explanation of the game, and a warning against its dangers.

Excerpt from the preface:

A translation of Les Trickeries des Grecs by M. Robert-Houdin, one of the most valuable and interesting works on the subject of card sharping.

Excerpt from the preface:

• "S.O.S." Triangle
• Dance Of Death
• How's Your Bird?
• The Tattle-Tale Heart
• Return To Boggart’s Inn
• The Laughing Skull
• Train To Nowhere
• A.K. Cassette - Improved
• Electronics In Mentalism
• Source Section
• Final After-Thoughts

Note that this digital edition does not include the reprint of the first volume. The first volume is available separately here.

1st edition 1975, 59 pages; PDF 54 pages.

Elektronische Zauberkunststücke aus den Bereichen Mikro-, Salon- und Mentalmagie.

• Zauberstab mit Glühzünder
• Die Stanleykassette
• Die Edison-Box
• Salzstreuer mit Musik
• Pirouett
• Mein Karten-Roboter
• Tuch durch Kerzenflamme
• Vom Devano- zum Förderband-Kartensteiger
• Gedankenübertragung mit Disco-Antenne
• Elektronischer Würfel
• Riesenpointkarten Mental
• Lügendetektor

Erstausgabe 1986, 31 Seiten; PDF 33 Seiten.

The dark side of gambling.

"Loaded with rare, inside information." - Darwin Ortiz

"Absolutely fascinating and enlightening! Ingenious methods that boggle the mind." - Daryl

"Inside techniques exposed for the first time in print." - George Joseph / Director of Surveillance, Bally Entertainment Co.

It may be shocking and it's certainly dangerous. Nevertheless, this unique ebook represents the definitive resource on how professional con men cheat at Blackjack and other card games. The author, a former high-stakes cheater, explains an amazing array of specific moves...