Magic & Mentalism: page 29

(Two videos included which explain everything.)

MIRAGE - a brand new concept in card magic - and particularly in the realm of paradoxes - a magician-fooler!

Plus two other brilliant "workers" are included below. Here is what the spectators (and magicians) see...

Two paper-clipped, red-backed cards are laid on the table at the onset ... your magician buddies are watching closely. A card from a blue-backed deck is selected and signed by the spectator, then lost back into the deck. The two red-backed, paper-clipped cards are openly picked up and one card is taken into each hand. The hands...

Six different effects, coins, cards, drugs, money, tarot cards, plus 8 "rapid fire" ideas to take old props and ideas to a new level.

Quarter Bird
An update on the classic "pen behind the ear" vanish where the signed coin ends up in a nest of boxes that appears in the magician's hand.

The Target Card
A signed card across where the deck of cards becomes a makeshift weapon as the spectator fires the gun (with sound effects and all) causing his card to appear across the table.

Gift Vision
After seeing this, you'll dig our your Color Vision out of your magic drawer and actively begin...

• Giant Blunderbore’s Matches
• The Posy
• Twin Souls
• A Fake Blindfold
• Card Jugglery
• Carnival
• Again, The Ring On The Stick
• Snakes And Ladders
• To And Fro
• Carroty Kate And Sandy Sam
• Apple Blossom And Peach
• Confusion In The Ark

From the Introduction:

• Introduction
• "A Rose By Any Other Name - "
• Beelzebub's Bookmarks
• Two Little Dicky Birds
• Old Ted
• Wet Paint!
• Observation And Deduction
• "Staring Me In The Face"
• Little Willie's...

From the Introduction:

• OUR PUBLISHER
• INTRODUCTION
• "From Nothing to Nothing" ...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• Patriotic Torn Paper
• Dyeing Billiard Balls
• The "Repeater" Smoke Trick
• The Tobacco Trick (Simplified)
• The "Lyford - Armour" Universal...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• That Broken Match
• Self Igniting Dove Pan
• Knotted Changing Silks
• Splinters:...

From the foreword:

• Introductory Speech
• The Latest Card Force
• The Phantom Card
• The "De Caston" Method Of "Rising Cards" From Hand
• De Caston's Discovery
• A Spectacular Handkerchief Combination
• An Original Conception With Eggs And Flags
• A New Handkerchief Combination

Of particular interest are the various ideas to how to transmit information secretly.

• INTRODUCTION
• MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS
  • The Slave Bangle
  • Camouflage
  • Two Ropes And A Ring
  • A String Variation
  • A Marked Pack
  • Three Good Tricks (Will Goldston)
• PROBLEMS WITH CARDS
  • Removing Under Difficulties
  • A Problem With Cards
  • A Card Square
  • Values
  • A Puzzling Location
  • Suitable "Key" Card
• TRANSMISSION SIGNALS
  • Hands Of The Secret Service
  • Stage Billet Reading
  • The Interpreter
  • The Roll Call
  • The Carrier
  • Intelligent Fingers
  • Reconstruction

From the introduction:

From the preface:

This is an excellent magic book that deserves to be known more widely. Bruce Elliott wrote in the foreword:

This was Sam Dalal's first publication. It was written for the cabaret artist, the magician who is called on to give a "Spot Show" of about 10 to 15 minutes duration. Every item is applause tested, simple in execution, and lends itself to an amusing theme.

• In The Beginning
• The Impossible Peek Deck!
• The Sla-Test Color Gag
• Colour - Me!!!
• "Turn It Round"
• Brain Wave Bonus
• The New Whispering Queen
• Habit Bound!
• Old Wine In New Funnels
• "Pop Up" Gag
• Jackpot -- Almost
• Russian Roulette
• 'Knockout'
• Shell Craft
• In Conclusion

1st edition ~1970, 20 pages; PDF 23 pages.

From the hidden recesses of Musson's mind comes Forty-Four Foolers - a veritable gold mine of magic ideas and tricks that you can do. It covers such a large variety of effects that, regardless of whether you're a mentalist, magician, ghost show artist, manipulator, night club performer, parlor entertainer, or stage illusionist, you can find something of value in this ebook.

Inside you'll find new tricks with liquids, cards, balls, kittens, silks, cigars, cigarettes, alarm clocks, watches, thimbles, tumblers, needles, coins, and stage illusions. Read over the brief descriptions of a few of...

This was Robert Harbin's first publication writing under his real name 'Ned' Williams. Already noticeable in this first work his creative genius.

• INTRODUCTION
• SILK SECTION
  • Novel Silk Changes
  • The "Silko" Table Change
  • The New "Sun and Moon"
  • The Penetrating Tumbler
• CARD SECTION
  • A Card Restored
  • Four-Ace Supreme
  • The "Zomah" Force
• MISCELLANEOUS SECTION
  • A Colour-Changing Wand
  • The Penetrating Ball
  • Ink Transposition
  • The Psychic Cigarettes
  • "Will O’ the Wisp"
  • The Clothes-Line Mystery
  • The Wandering Fan
  • Ropes Thro’ the Body
  • Telepathic Paper-Tearing
  • A Mistake, But.....
  • A Castle Conundrum ...

For a limited time only, until July 13th 2020, you can get all of Dale's ebooks (the ones released on Lybrary.com) for merely $300.

Break into the world of table-hopping, banquet, restaurant and casino floor show magic with this insider's handbook. Elray, a former top entertainer, reveals the ins and outs of this lucrative field in this hard-to-find handbook.

To be a successful nightclub entertainer, you not only have to be different in your own style, but you have to present a different style of magic. This ebook lets you in on this secret world - from behind the scenes - so you can profit by it. Many effects were revealed here for the first time in print - tricks specially adapted for nightclub work.

Here's a partial...

Manipulative or sleight of hand magic is undoubtedly the purest form of the conjuror's art. Now you can add more than 20 beautiful and entertaining effects to your routine. Edwin A. French was a true artist, as shown by the moves that are well described by Chas. C. Eastman. Add to this the line art by none other than Nelson Hahne, and you have a combination that is hard to beat.

In addition to French's artistry, this edition also includes additional effects by Murray Sumner, John Morin, Nelson Hahne, Joseph Walker, Bert Douglas and Sid Lorraine.

While it's hard to be partial, as we like all the material, the Penetration effect is especially...

Some have argued that George Kaplan's Fine Art of Magic is the best magic book ever published. Juan Tamariz, who wrote a foreword to this second edition, says: "Hardly a performance where I do not include an effect from this book. It's the only book that contains only good and excellent tricks."

This magic treatise has stood the test of time. It has become a standard magic reference work. The First Edition is one of the most sought after magic books and is now available in its Second Edition, which incorporates additions and corrections from Kaplan's own notes, as well as adds more than 25% new and...

From the foreword by Jeffery Atkins:

• Publisher's Note
• Foreword
• INTRODUCTION THE ETHICS OF EXPOSURE
• CHAPTER I CARD MAGIC
• CHAPTER II CARD MAGIC (continued)
• CHAPTER III BILLIARD BALL MAGIC
• CHAPTER IV BILLIARD BALL MAGIC (continued)
• CHAPTER V FLOWER MAGIC
• CHAPTER VI OPENING ILLUSIONS
• CHAPTER VII MECHANICAL MAGIC
• CHAPTER VIII FAMOUS ILLUSIONS REVEALED
• CHAPTER IX MORE...

This was Goldston's first magic publication, a mix of magic, some juggling, and a bit of other variety arts such as shadowgraphy and chapeaugraphy.

From the Introduction:

• Introduction
• The Wedding Ring passed through a Handkerchief
• The Candle and Handkerchief Illusion
• The Devo Card Trick
• The...

From the preface:

• Fabians Sympathetic Ropes
• The Three Ropes
• Aye
• Chinese Coin
• Trio
• Cards And Ropes
• Fabian's Book...

From the preface:

• Preface And Acknowledgement
• Foreword Be Natural ...