Magic & Mentalism

Fun with paper, coins, matches, handkerchiefs, and other homely articles.

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• A Chat with my Readers
• The Red, White, and Blue Candles
• The Half Crown that Goes
• The "Diana" Trick
• Any Card You Like
• Reading the Cards ...

The reason for this bundle is to help raise funds for a fellow magician's family member who is suffering from a recently diagnosed cancer. This offer will be available only during October. All portions of the author's sales will be given to the Unnamed Magician.

About the Sweat Palm.

The basic idea goes back to Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft. Jon traces the principle, as much as possible, through the conjuring literature.

1st edition 2025, PDF 10 pages.

Looking for commercial, practical, and unforgettable material you'll actually use? Four Real Workers delivers exactly that - four powerful, practical, audience-tested routines that belong in every magician's arsenal.

Inside you'll discover:

MYSTERIOUS BOILING WATER - a startling impromptu effect with nothing more than a glass, water, a handkerchief, and a rubber band. The water boils mysteriously.

ULTIMATE IMPROMPTU DIE DIVINATION - a clean, fooling way to divine any thought-of number on a die.

INTO THIN AIR - a brilliant, overlooked handling of Theodore DeLand's Phantom Card...

without apparatus, preparation or sleight of hand.

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Stop digging through countless books looking for practical routines for your shows! Discover fourteen powerful routines designed to captivate any platform or parlor audience. Blending classic principles with clever innovations, this collection offers practical, audience-tested magic that is both visual and memorable. Whether you're a professional seeking new material or a student of magic eager to grow, these routines provide everything you need to turn simple tricks into unforgettable performances.

1. THREE CARDS TO POCKET
The magician shows three cards that vanish from his hand, one...

Step into the private workshop of Jack Chanin - Philadelphia's "Man With the Magic Hands" - with From the Private Files of Chanin, a curated collection of some of his most ingenious, deceptive, and surprisingly simple magical miracles. This isn't just another magic book - it's a vault of forgotten treasures, meticulously transcribed from Chanin's original instruction sheets, many of which baffled even his fellow magicians. Inside, you'll find 27 astonishing effects with cards, silks, ropes, eggs, coins, and everyday objects - including his legendary "Rip-It" (torn-and-restored bill), the mind-bending...

Twenty-five ideas.

• Introduction
• About The Author/Lecturer
• Special Thanks And Acknowledgement
• Jumbo Identification
• Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
• Some Thoughts On The Willow Patterned Plate
• Slinkeroo Silk Vanish
• Wally The Wizard
• Say How!
• Headline Paper Tear
• Self Contained Colour Force
• Egg Nest
• Billy Button
• Sucker Magic Painting
• Gravity Outdone
• Shop Window Prediction
• Yellow Silk - Red Can Or Red Silk & Yellow Can!
• Balloon Bank Note
• Slinkeroooo!
• Highlighted Book Test
• C - Thru Silk Production
• Pill Box Dead And Alive Test
• Red, White Or Blue?
• Split-Apart Production Box ...

Ventriloquism, conjuring, shadowgraphy, mimicry, comedy, reciting.

• PART I. VENTRILOQUISM
  • CHAPTER I. The Practical Ventriloquist
    • No New Thing
    • Practice makes Perfect
    • There is Hope for All
    • A Useful Accomplishment
    • How to Begin
  • CHAPTER II. Breathing and Use of Figures
    • Methods of Breathing
    • Vocalisation
    • How to speak without moving the Lips
    • Ventriloquial Figures
    • Estimate of Outlay
    • A Few Practical Hints
  • CHAPTER III. Voice Illusions
    • Near and Distant Voices
    • The Drone
    • The Basis of the "Near" Ventriloquial Voices
    • Different Kinds of "Distant" Voices
    • Voices from Above
    • Voices...

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• An Original Method of Working the Postal Order and Nest of Boxes
• Thought Reading Outdone
• The Baffler Rising Card Trick
• The Novel Coin Stand
• Le Roy's "Mephisto" Burning Dress
• The "Beat All" Candle...

• PREFACE
• I. An Opening Wand Flourish
• II. A Novel Thought Reading Experiment
• III. Magnetic Writing
• IV. A New Multiplying Card
• V. A New Production for the Reverse Palm
• VI. The Enchanted Aces
• VII. A New Continuous Change
• VIII. A novel changing card
• IX. Hamley's Diminishing Pack of Cards
• X. Hamley's Novel Palming Coins
• XI. Two novel methods of vanishing a coin
• XII. Coin Wand a la Talma, Queen of Coins
• XIII. Le Coin Du Roi
• XIV. "The Miser's Dream," (Original Imitation)
• XV. L'eau Mysterieuse
• XVI. A Novel production for the "Organ Pipe" Illusion
• XVII. Hamley's Patriotic Thimble ...

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• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I. Tricks with Thimbles and Coins
  • Thimbles
  • An Improved Thumb-Palm
  • The Melting Thimbles
  • Tricks With Coins
  • A New Handkerchief Fold For A Coin ...

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• Exordium
• Chapter One: Magical Mixture
  • THE ERIC LEWIS PAPER AND HAT ROUTINE
  • A VANISH
  • SEBASTIAN
  • A PRODUCTION
  • A CIGARETTE CONCATENATION ...

The word 'stooge' evokes all sorts of emotions from magicians. Whenever we, as magicians, hear that a stooge is involved in an effect, often we're disappointed or angry. Many magicians have never even used a stooge as part of a routine. There are several reasons for this. Some magicians think that using stooges is dishonest, as if there are moral limits to trickery. Other magicians think that using stooges is too obvious, in the sense that an observing spectator will easily figure out that a stooge is involved.

In this PDF I would like to offer some ways of using a stooge that are not at...

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• Editorial
• The Art Of The Magician, The Great Levante
• The Four Ace Trick With Giant Cards By Ellis Stanyon
• The Mirror Mystery By Chris Van Bern
• Remarkable Record By Eric C. Lewis
• Novel Necromancy With Numbers By Stanley Collins
• A Brilliant Card Effect By Archie Tear
• The Queer Liquids By Robert Harbin ...

Cristian has performed his original Hot Rod routine thousands of times in a strolling magic environment, amazing spectators with this unique blend of visual and mental magic. He now shares his time-tested routine with the magic community. He also includes two other variations as well as other practical tips. The last variation is a very strong mentalism routine, suitable for close-up or stand-up, and which can even be incorporated in a hypnosis or pseudo-hypnosis show.

• Introduction
• Magic, Mental Magic, or Mentalism
• Props
• VARIATIONS
  • My Standard Hot Rod Routine
  • Single Prediction Hot...

Excerpt from the introduction:

• To The Great Levante
• The Editor Speaks
• This Way, Gentlemen! / Max Sterling
• Magic as a Business / The Great Levante
• ERIC C. LEWIS says
• The Convocational Jacks / Chris Van Bern
• Playing With Fire
• The Writing That Grows...

For too long, the color-changing knife has lived in the pockets of polite close-up magicians, flicked back and forth like a novelty toy. But in the right hands ... it is something else entirely. In Whispers in Steel Mystic Alexandre unlocks the hidden potential of one of magic's most popular tools, offering three unusual and unique presentations that linger long after the performance is over.

• THE RITUAL OF RELEASE
• THE SIDE WE HIDE
• THE DREAM KNIFE

You will not learn how the knife changes color, you will learn why it matters that it does.

Also included: The Psychology of The Color...

To compile this work, Derek Lever approached a number of Las Vegas resident magicians and visiting performers to contribute. Many have participated offering tricks, essays, and advice, including Rick Thomas, Jeff McBride, Aaron Fisher, John Bannon, Dan Garrett, Joshua Jay, Ed Ellis, Tony Chapek, Dirk Losander, Luna Shimada, Craig Dickson, Daryl, and Banachek.

• Foreword
• Ten Tips For Serious Magicians
• Here Is My Secret To My Success
• The Magician's Magician Daryl
• Untouched
• Magic Competitions - "The Will To Win!"
• Luna Shimada The Feminine Force Of Magic
• The Union Of Magic & Performance Art "Is It Magical Drama Or...

This was Eric C. Lewis's first publication, a start to what would become a series of excellent magic books.

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Also known as the "K" Book of Magic.

This material originally appeared in the booklet, Close Up Deceptions and in The New Tops magic magazine under the headings, Kardyro's Klose-up Konjuring and Klever Kardyro Kapers.

• T.K.'S Brain Dazzler Supreme
• The Ambitious Card
• T.K.'S Count Move
• Mentally Select One Card, Please
• T.K.'S Magapaddle
• T.K.'S Copper & Silver Routine Supreme
• T.K.'S Three Shell Game Supreme
• The Punch Ending Supreme
• Kardyro's Klose-Up Konjuring Rules
• Close Up Views
• T.K.'S Reverso-Nap Routine
• I'll Do It Again
• Deception With Sponges
• T.K.'S Magic Dust
• Keep Your Eye On My Hand ...

Tricks with magical accessories.

Edited by Roy Fromer and illustrated by "Doc" Tony Shiels. From the introduction by Roy Fromer:

• A Brief Biography Of Mercurio
• Introduction
• Acknowledgement
• Tricks With Magic Accessories ...

Introducing my Second Chance Collection - a carefully selected set of six individual eBooks ready for rediscovery. While these gems didn't sell well when first appearing on Lybrary.com, I'm confident you will perform these effects if you give them a chance. I'm offering this complete collection at over 50% off the regular price.

And here's what makes this deal even better - I'm including my bestseller for Free: 103 Tips and Resources for Magicians. This eBook alone is worth the price. It will save you time and money.

This is a fascinating compilation of apparatus magic explained in text and photos.

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Foreword
• Corinda's Dictionary Memory Feat
• Claude Chandler's Window Penetration
• J. F. Orrin's Match-Box Trick
• The Veroni House Of Magic Presents Gene Morrell's Miniature Illusion ...

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter I The Wandering Wand
• Chapter II The Adventures Of A Thimble
• Chapter III The Card And Cigarette Trick
• Chapter IV The Jazz Ray
• Chapter V "Mademoiselle From Armentières"
• Chapter VI Spirit Photography
• Chapter VII "Holding Up The Mail"
• Chapter VIII "Patter"
• Chapter IX Setting
• Chapter X Pocket Tricks

1st edition 1924, reprinted...