Magic & Mentalism: page 9

Creative mentalism at its finest.

• Foreword by David Acer
• Mind Opener: no setup, no props, no stooge, no nothing .. but chutzpah.
• E.S. Pizza
• Pool Master
• P.K. Divination
• Flash Thought
• Drawing Ceremony
• Simplex Chair Mystery
• Invisible Touches

A collection of 21 columns Ali Bongo wrote for Abracadabra magazine. The column was called "Backsheesh" and teaches mostly comedic parlor and stage effects.

• ALL ABOUT ALI
• NUMBER ONE: DOVES A LA CARTE
• NUMBER TWO: SNOWSTORM IN PONGOLIA
• NUMBER THREE: OUT OF THE PICTURE
• NUMBER FOUR: WITCH SWITCH
• NUMBER FIVE: THE TEARABLE OGRE
• NUMBER SIX: PENETRATION MINUS
• NUMBER SEVEN: THE LADY’S NOT FOR BURNING
• NUMBER EIGHT: BONGO’S BLOOMING BUSH
• NUMBER NINE: THE PRINTER’S NIGHTMARE
• NUMBER TEN: FRUIT SALAD
• NUMBER ELEVEN: THE BALANCING YOGI
• NUMBER TWELVE: ONE ROPE ONLY
• NUMBER THIRTEEN: THE...

Transform the classic close-up version of The Thieves and Sheep to an audience-pleasing platform melodrama utilizing those notorious bank robbers of years gone by Bonnie and Clyde. While the audience supplies the sound effects, you can be the narrator (the author's choice) or another member of the audience could read the story as a volunteer from the audience stands behind the table and acts out the story with two paper sacks and some coins (up to silver dollar size for visibility).

The colorful placemats setting on the table in front of your volunteer gives him/her additional prompts - supplementing...

Being a simple description of some good tricks and how to do them, with patter.

This ebook is very thorough and teaches routines from a full cross-section of conjuring including routines with and without apparatus, with and without skill, mentalism, big stage illusions, a good amount of performing advice, and other tips and resources necessary for the magician. It even provides a glossary in the back to define special words and phrases. It shows that Mr. Collins is an experienced author of textbooks.

Table of Contents

• A WORD TO YOU
• CHAPTER I MAGIC WITHOUT APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL ...

• Chapter I: Introduction
• Chapter II: Dress, Table, Wand, Apparatus, And Stage
• Chapter III: Tricks With Handkerchiefs
• Chapter IV: Palming, Passing, And Changing Coins, Rings, And Small Articles
• Chapter V: Tricks With Coins Not Requiring Apparatus
• Chapter VI: Coin Tricks Requiring Apparatus
• Chapter VII: Tricks With Cups And Balls
• Chapter VIII: Tricks With Rings
• Chapter IX: Tricks With Hats
• Chapter X: Tricks With Watches
• Chapter XI: Tricks With Dice And Dominoes
• Chapter XII: Tricks With Electricity
• Chapter XIII: Miscellaneous Tricks
• Chapter XIV: Spiritualism And Mesmerism

1st edition...

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

Excerpt from the preface:

Table of Contents

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

With added chapters on easy magic you can do, with and without playing cards.

In this book, the secrets of ancient miracles and of modern magic have been thoroughly explained. No phase of the mystic art has been neglected. The reader is initiated into the secrets of antiquity. He is told of the methods of mediaeval wizards; and the secrets of modern wonders are disclosed to him. He is led behind the scenes to study the magic of the stage; true facts of Oriental mystery are brought before him. The secrets of the Hindu fakirs are revealed in detail, based upon the testimony of trained investigators...

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1:
  • Blinded Deluxe
  • Comedy Mental
  • New Experimental Grip for Webb's False Count with Coins
  • A Handling Variation of the L'Homme Masque Load
  • New Shamanism
• Chapter 2:
  • Leaf Rejuvination
  • Bubble-Pop Corn
  • Tierra Del Fuego Leather Strap Stretch: a real shaman's trick
  • Imaginary Friends
  • Clay Tablets and Beyond
• Chapter 3:
  • Variations on Chanin's Production
  • Chanin Production to get into 3-Fly
  • Next: A New Ending for 3-Fly
  • 3 At Once
  • On Shamanism
  • Original Spin
• Chapter 4:
  • Gellerbound
  • Shades of Geller
  • Some from the Fingertips
  • Postcards from the Edge...

This is a compilation of magic newsletters by the same name that Gregg wrote, illustrated, and published in 2004 and 2005.

Contents:

• Foreword (Doug MacGeorge)
• Table of Contents

• S.K.I.S.S.E.S.: Simplified Poker Deal
• Retouches: Simplified Poker Deal
• Key and Card: Idea for the Ghost Key
• The Haunted Bookshelf: brief thoughts on the upcoming Juan Tamariz' Mnemonica book

• Wild Card Trick: Using Cartoons on Cards
• Retouches: Adjusting Your Presentation
• New 1 to 4: Coin Multiplication
• Retouches: Coin Angles ...

A treatise on the Gozinta Boxes

The Box Goes-In-Da Box. A treatise on the Gozinta Boxes. Magicians have been captivated by the Gozinta Box since it was first introduced to the magic world by Lubor Fiedler in 1970. The essence of the gozinta plot in magic is that an object fits into itself - a topological anomaly.

The word gozinta (also spelt 'gazinta') is a form of eye dialect, just like words such as fella for fellow or helluva instead of "hell of a". The word gozinta was introduced by primary school teachers to explain long division using the gozinta method: 2 gozinta 4, 3 gozinta 6 and so on. ...

Gaffed games, clever cons, sensational swindles - how to spot the bunco artist before he cheats you.

This may well be the greatest exposé of gambling methods, swindles, confidence games and carnival midway hustles ever published. No matter if you're a magician, gambler, carnival midway patron (or operator), law enforcement professional, or simply want to protect yourself, you're going to enjoy this book.

Especially valuable to those with an interest in carnival and gaming paraphernalia are the methods used to gaff the devices as sold back in the day by H. C. Evans, K. C. Card Co., and...

A new collection of Magic & Mentalism from Ireland, Scotland & Wales

• 35 contributors
• 45 routines
• including two essays
• over 170 pages
• fully illustrated with photographs & graphics

1st edition 2010; 181 pages.

Table of Contents

• Mentalism
  1. Q.R.: Confabulating Confabulation
  5. Max Gordon: The Creative Side
  9. Max Gordon: The Last Straw
  14. David Lees: Mentalism (essay)
  18. David Lees: Tarot Magick
  25. Jim Cuthbert: Where will we Go on Holiday?
  27. Paul Lesso: The Jungle Book Test
  29. Paul Lesso: Quadtratus Magic Square
  33. Pete Lamont: Shape Up and Shape Down
  38. Peter Duffie: Brainwoven
  40. Peter Duffie:...

Lecture notes with great advice and eight wonderful routines by master entertainer Aldo Colombini.

• You are the only one who knows!
• Seventh Floor: Seven cards are selected. One card is signed by the spectator and then all seven cards are lost in the deck. One by one, they are found by the performer. The signed card re-appears and then finally, it is found inside the pocket.
• Ace-mbly: You perform a Matrix effect with the Aces and four coins. The first time the coins gather under one Ace. The second time the coins do not move, but the pips of the cards do: Three Aces become blank and the fourth...

Ever since Obie O'Brien brought Aldo Colombini to the FFFF convention many years ago, it has been a love affair between Aldo and magic in America. While Aldo can do some of the hardest moves, he has developed a unique style of strong magic with little sleight-of-hand. The kind that is entertaining to watch and fun to perform. None of the material is hard to do, yet will fool any audience, including those hard to please magicians themselves.

It is hard to miss Aldo, both in person (6' 5"), and in magic, because he has written for many magazines, performed and lectured throughout the world...

At the height of his success, Bert was the most celebrated close up performer and highest paid cafe entertainer. These are the tricks he made famous. Edited by Bob Parrish, illustrated by Howard Bamman.

Contents include his Seven Secret Tricks, Eight Favorite Card Tricks, plus his specialty-cutting to any card, Eight Novelty Tricks like his scissors, Little Hindu, The Flutist, and others, The Allerton Classics, The Jumping Flower, The Bird Cage, etc. Plus rules for a close up magician, and a bibliography. The seventy pages are wound throughout with a vast assortment of Allerton memorabilia....

Alberto Sitta specializes in commercial magic that you can use in your stage, cabaret and close-up shows. His Leopard Silk is perhaps his most famous effect and has been performed and copied by magicians all over the world. In this ebook Alberto reveals more of the mysteries that have gained him a reputation as one of Italy's most creative performers.

There are no pipe dreams here. All the magic has been regularly used by Alberto Sitta in his professional performances and lectures throughout Europe. Practical, colorful and commercial these are the hallmarks of Sitta's creations and here are...

Wolfgang Riebe has been one of the most successful professional magicians in the world during the last 30 years with appearances in over 165 countries. This is not just an ebook on prestidigitation, but original routines and ideas that work. A unique feature is that most tricks have video links where you can see Wolfgang perform the effects and routines he shares. So you are not buying an ebook on 'theory', but on practical magic that works. As a bonus he shares links to select online teach-in videos too.

This is a man who has achieved a number of firsts in the magic world, had over 200 TV...

From the foreword by Will Goldston:

"Sticky greatness = epic!! Great e-book and I will be using this one for definite!" - Chris Congreave

From January 2010 to February 2011, Cameron had 12 tricks published in the British IBM magazine The Budget. The column was called "The Continental" and thanks to editor Stephen Tucker, Cameron is now able to offer you all 12 effects in one PDF.

The column includes tricks for close-up and stand-up work using cards, coins, bills, matchbooks, business cards, Sharpies, steno pads and drawings. While some of the material has been published before, five of the tricks have never been previously published and most of...

A practical guide to the invention of tricks plus newly created tricks.

"I must say that I was prepared to dislike this book ... Wilker's discussion, however, is so pleasant and unassuming that one can hardly disagree with him. In part, this is because Wilker seems to recognize the inherent problems in stating hard and fast rules about creativity and so limits his conclusions accordingly." - Stephen Hobbs

From the Preface:

I was lucky that I stumbled across this book very early on in my magic development. It had a huge impact on how I approached magic and how I think today about magic. The introductory chapter "The Vernon Touch" should be mandatory reading for every magician. I would go so far as to recommend re-reading it every year. Martin Breese wrote: "One of the most important books of magic ever written." Max Holden said: "I consider Vernon the greatest man with a pack of cards of the present day." Many consider Dai Vernon, the professor, as one who had probably the biggest impact on magic in recent times. ...

Reginald Scot intended his Discoverie of Witchcraft as a sensible argument disputing the existence of witches. It also features a small section on magic. The magic section starts with Booke 13 and Chapter 22. You will find rich full accounts of charges against witches, witch trials and practice of the black arts. Further, interviews with convicted witches, excerpts from inquisition, astrology, alchemy, charms, the names of demons, angels and other "words of power", spells, rituals, sabbats, biblical and Egyptian magic, and more. The Discoverie remains a much quoted primary source for those interested...

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

Table of Contents

• 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...

This hard-to-find title contains a wealth of dealer-quality club and stage magic, mentalism, and more for you to perform and enjoy. Here's a book from 1935 that, until now, has been out of print and jealously hoarded by collectors. It's filled with entertaining magic for close-up, club and stage. Clearly explained and well-illustrated, this goldmine of magic contains effects that will entertain as well today, as they did back when this book was originally released.

Divided into chapters, you'll find clever magic themed for Stage and Club, Comedy, Mentalism, and Card Effects. And only in this...