Magic & Mentalism: page 7

Excerpt from the introduction:

Gary Jones is a full-time professional magician of many years standing, and he is a man who is widely respected for both his performing skills and his creative way of thinking. This ebook brings you the full illustrated details of a large selection of Gary’s worker routines and moves, a couple of effects from some of Gary’s good friends in magic, as well as many tips and much advice on performance and even what it takes to be a pro entertainer.

You will learn the secrets behind Gary's sleight-free coins through table, you will learn a really clever card-to-wallet idea that removes the...

Gary is one of those performers who is equally at home presenting magic to lay people or to a room full of magicians, and his creative output reflects those two requirements. Some of the magic in this collection is designed to intrigue and fool magicians, while other effects are fast, direct and perfect for working under almost any commercial conditions.

What all the magic has in common is that the methods have been constructed to extract the maximum effect for the minimum of fuss. Some of Gary's handlings do require some sleight of hand - he is very fond of palming cards, for instance...

• Divertisement
• The Magic Spell
• New Patter for the “Trouble-Wit”
• The Sympathetic Cubes
• The Card Discs
• “Shoo!”
• A Production Banner
• The “How-on-Earth” Tube
• The “What-do-you-call-it”
• The Enclosure
• Tubomania
• A Silken Series
• Vice Versa
• Conjurer’s Quoits
• “By”
• The Penetrating Tumbler
• Magnetised Thought
• The Lady of the Rose
• The Sympathetic Star
• L’Envoi

1st edition 1926, 96 pages; PDF 63 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

Excerpt from the Preamble:

Tricks for amateur performers.

Excerpt from the foreword by Orson Welles:

Excerpt from the introduction:

"Now the question arises, who will be the legitimate successor to Prof. Hoffmann? I will venture to predict that it will be another Briton, Brunel White, whose first plunge into the literary end of the business, "Original Mysteries For Magicians," in my humble opinion, with the single exception of "Modern Magic," the best book I have yet seen, and there are hundreds of Magicians who will agree with me." - Maurice Bliss

• Introduction
• The Appearing And Disappearing Knot On Handkerchief ...

Excerpt from the foreword by Paul Rosini:

Sleeving to me is one of my most valuable assets. As you well know, practical magic is what counts, and I have always found it my magical exploits that sleeving has been very practical. In fact, many well known magicians at conventions have passed...

Anyone who has seen a magician perform has almost certainly seen one or more of the tricks explained in this book. For these are great tricks of the magic profession, tricks that have proved perennially spectacular in performances on the stage, on television, or in private audiences.

The author explains first the basic scheme of each trick, then discusses the possibilities for variation and expansion as developed by a number of famous magicians. Each of the classic tricks included here is methodically described in detail and illustrated in line drawings; none of them involves expensive...

Excerpt from the preface:

• Argument
• A Conjuring Comedy with a Cone
• A Pound Note Problem
• "Rainbow Waves"
• "Cut and Come Again"
• The "Eureka" Mechanical Four-Ace Stand
• "An Unusual Opening"
• A Coin Gathering Idea
• "Making a Candle Light" ...

The magic tricks presented here are subtle, easy to do, and require little or no apparatus. The inventions of some of our greatest magicians, these are sleights that involve a minimum of practice but achieve a maximum of effect.

Here are card tricks that are almost foolproof, and others that require some skill and more practice. Sleights for close-up performing, where the magic takes place right under the noses of the audience, and tricks with paper-folding, an ancient art adapted to modern magic, are outlined and diagramed. The author also includes tricks with coins and paper money, rings,...

The name Chris Congreave is synonymous with commercial close-up routines and ideas. As a full-time close up pro for over a decade, he has learned how to hone his magic in order to make it totally practical for performance to lay people in the real world, and this new ebook brings together a collection of 40 of his best ideas as well as providing you with three essays that offer sage advice.

Although a few of his routines do require some elements of sleight of hand, much of his material is extremely straightforward or even virtually self-working. In fact, the variety and breadth of the material...

Routines with the Howard Adams' Ramasee Principle - a self-working method.

The Bammo Crambazzled Dossier is a deep-dive examination of a very strange and magical principle. You will fool yourself and, of course, everyone else. It works automatically, maybe even automagically. How it works may not be capable of an explanation from this world, but Bob Farmer does offer his ideas and those of many others.

The routines involve magic words, runes, Tarot cards, antique keys,...

• The Compiler's Excuse
• "A Touching Trick"
• "Spotting the Winner"
• "A Card Catastrophe"
• "The Mystic Sunflower"
• "Guess!"
• "The Enchanted Fan"
• The Penetrative Pocket-knife
• "The Painted Skeleton"
• A New Principle for the "Four Aces," with marked Cards
• "Silk and Tissue"
• "An Episode in Three Reels"
• Effects with Billiard Balls
• "A Jar of Incense"
• A Card and Cigarette Paper Combination

1st edition 1922, 93 pages; PDF 50 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:

These are the Pavel 1990 lecture notes.

• Utility Pull
• The Enchanted Mirror
• Color Bet
• Quadsilx
• Silks From Silk
• Sucker Blendo
• The Yellow Rope
• Jumping Knots
• Silks & Rings
• Card Paper Tear
• New Silken Balls
• Sucker Ribbons
• The Universal Rope
• Krazy Knot

1st edition 1990, 26 pages; PDF 35 pages.

Excerpt from the introduction:

This "Scrapbook" is a small, haphazard collection of some of my contributions to the Art of Magic, over the past 50 years. Since the late 1960's I have contributed hundreds of my ideas to over a dozen national and international magic magazines, run a magician's service producing over 2000 magic items, (some hundreds of which were my own creations and which sold over a million Dollars worth a year around the world at one time), and for which I wrote over 2000 "instruction sheets." Many of these instructions had "ideas" for the use of the props that enabled our customers to get the maximum mileage...

Excerpt from the Foreword:

Over 50 years, I have run a Magician's service, producing and supplying several hundreds of thousands of pieces of over 2500 varieties of props to magic dealers and magicians worldwide, with retail sale value exceeding a million dollars a year over several years, so I figure we have been doing something right!

Many were "classic props" - my favorite sources being books like Hoffman's Modern, More and Later Magic, the many excellent magical secrets series and other illusion books by Will Goldston, and of more modern times, the World of Magic trilogy by Jack Hughes - with an effort to some times modify the props and their use to present...

A collection of 15 effects with ropes, silks, balls, cards, ribbons, paper, glasses, canes, dice and other objects.

• The Instant Silk
• The Ribbon Prediction
• A Rope Circle Routine
• Rainbow Balls
• The Black Die Prediction
• The Knot Off The Rope
• Newspaper Knotting II
• The Ribbon Transposition
• The Zebra Trick
• Encore The Silk In The Knot
• The Spotted Card
• Six Ideas For Cane Workers

1st edition 1974, PDF 27 pages.

This is my third Scrapbook composed in this month (March 2023). Even though when I mull over my commercial effects and magazine contributions from the decades gone by, the volume of material seems ample for a few more.

But everything I wrote or created is not worth recording or re-publishing in this collection. I found two big files chock-a-block full of the magazine articles I wrote for most of the magic magazines in the 1970's and 80's. About 2/3rds of these are not worth republishing, being my ideas on some dealer prop I purchased, or another magazine article. They would serve no purpose...

In this video I walk you slowly through the Loaded Salt Shaker Vanish and Reproduction. You can pour an entire shaker of salt in your hand, vanish it, and reproduce it. No TT or tips. This is accomplished with a cheap, easy-to-build homemade gimmick made from objects in almost every home on the planet. The build takes about 5 minutes.

The handling is key in making this work. The salt shaker is real, un-gimmicked and can be inspected. The funnel is real, un-gimmicked and inspectable. The salt cellar is also real and can be inspected. I use a few TT moves to throw off those in the know of...