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Table of Contents

3. Content

   Introduction

4. Professional Attitude
5. Scientific Principles
5. How to Study
8. Your Success in Magic

   Easy Magic

10. Millinery in a Minute
12. The Flying Band
14. The Divination
17. Magnetic Power
19. The Devil's Addition
22. The Hindu Slave Bangle

    The History of Magic (part 1)

23. Magic in Egypt
24. Priestly Wonder Workers
25. Early Sleight-of-Hand

1st edition 1931; 26 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content

   Showmanship

5. Stage Fright and Nervousness

   Impromptu Magic

7. The Travelling Marbles
11. The Moving Matchbox
12. No Choice At All
13. The Jumping Match
14. The Handkerchief Through the Ankle
15. The Hypnotized Matchbox
16. The Haunted Hats
18. The Penetrating Fountain Pen

    The History of Magic (part 3)

20. Magic in the Middle Ages

1st edition 1931; 22 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content

   Magical Productions

4. Introduction
5. The Inexhaustible Box
7. Hat Productions
10. Cloth Productions
10. Bowl of Water Production
11. Bouquet Production
12. Shower of Flowers Production
12. The Enchanted Organ Pipes
14. Productions from a Spectator

    Opening Effects

15. The Vanishing Wand
16. The Fire Bowl
17. "Good Evening"
18. The Surprising Handkerchief
19. A Match For Anyone
19. The Flower Trays

21. Closing Effects
22. Caution

1st edition 1931; 23 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. The Golden Lift
6. Roses of Yesterday
7. The Floating Ball
8. The Travelling Bottle and Glass
11. Vice Versa
12. A Seaside Story
14. The Flying Shoe Laces
16. Bowl of Water Vanish

1st edition 1931; 18 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Content
4. The Holeproof Hat
6. The Penetrating Ring
8. Money by Wireless
11. My Lady of the Bath
13. A Domestic Mystery
15. The Snow Man
16. A Word of Thanks
17. Closing Words

1st edition 1931; 18 pages.

One of the things Jerry Andrus is known for are his safety pin tricks. He has created a whole range of methods and moves and effects. Enjoy an array of truly bewildering effects with the lowly safety pin. [Please note that no safety pins are included with this download.]

• Foreword
• A Word From The Author
• Materials Supplied With This Book
• About The Pins
• Triple Link From Spectator's Fingers
• "Tap" Linking
• From One To Another
• Triple Link From Table
• Strike Linking From Table Or Spectator's Palm
• Vanish Of A Linked Pin
• A Lu Brent Method Of Switching
• Impossible Repeat Link
• A Snappy Penetration
• Acrobatic Unlinking
• Strike Steal From Spectator's Fingers ...

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...

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...

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...

When I compiled volume 3 of these "Scrapbooks" I had mentioned it would be the last, unless I found some of my material in Abra and other periodicals I had no access to, along with a few of my earlier contributions and creations. Just two days after the publication of Volume 3, I received an email from Andy Martin, complete with all the Abra articles, and in subsequent emails a couple of my Magick contributions, and all the date and issue references.

I had forgotten since my Swami/Mantra days just how helpful a fellow "magic addict" can be in helping a complete stranger since I had no correspondence...

A magic wand disappears and re-appears. Then suddenly a lump of coal magically appears. The lump of coal disappears and re-appears three times and on the third complete disappearance it jumps into the pocket. Then the lump of coal multiplies into two lumps of coal, then it multiplies into three lumps of coal. To simplify spectator observation, two lumps of coal are removed and the last lump of coal is squeezed tightly in the hand causing the coal to change "under pressure" into a diamond which is given to the lady as a gift.

1st edition 2014, 29 pages

From the foreword by Fred Castl:

• Publishers' Preface
• Foreword ...

This ebook describes 201 easy to do but effective tricks covering a wide range including feats of mentalism, tricks with paper and parts of your body.

From the inside flap of the original book:

• The Spirit Guide
• A Paddle Routine
• The Impromptu Rising Card
• The Elongated Cigarette
• New Rising Cards
• Flip Flap
• The Tell Tale Scytale
• The Ribbon Pyramid
• Two Silks Vanish
• Off And On Again
• Change Over Cards
• The Jumping Ring
• The T.S. Find The Lady
• Winged Cigarettes
• On Again - Off Again
• Balls And Pillar
• An Old Trick Simplified
• The Winner
• It's Just Chance
• The Name On The Slate
• Living And Dead

Here's an expanded and updated edition of a Paul Curry manuscript that contains not one, but two powerful effects that will give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer.

Probability Zero

A batch of business cards are numbered and mixed, with their number sides down. A truly sensational climax is reached when a spectator, although he selects the cards at random and doesn't know the numbers on the cards, succeeds in arranging them in numerical order. Is it just chance? Not likely - the odds are over 300,000 to 1 against it.

The Color-Changing Deck

A new...

Here's an expanded and updated edition of the second and final Paul Curry manuscript in the series with a pair of powerful effects that'll give you a reputation as an outstanding magician and psychic entertainer. Both of these card miracles exhibit the brilliant methodology that you've come to expect from Paul Curry.

Think Of A Card

A spectator merely thinks of a card. The performer jots down the name of a card. The spectator names his card and the performer shows what he wrote - it's the name of the thought-of card. A clean-cut, logical effect.

Follow-up

This is a variation of the...

The title "Secrets - Malini, Leipzig, Vernon, Jarrow, ..." suggests a lot, but these are merely the interpretations and versions of U. F. Grant to some of the classics of Malini, Leipzig, Vernon, Jarrow and others. Grant uses only one page to describe each effect and method. This book is therefore to some degree a disappointment. Nevertheless I think it is a cheap way to learn the plots and a method to several of the greatest tricks of all time. Just don't expect very detailed descriptions. Grant displays in this book an arrogant writing style with comments like 'This is good' or "The best method" or "Fools...

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 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...

A collection of conjuring secrets for magicians who entertain when surrounded by spectators.

Excerpt from the preface:

• Preface
• Publisher's Note
• Preparation For The Hands
• A Table Tip
• The Guinea-Pig
• Card Change
• Flap Disposal-Single Slate
• Cap And Pence
  • I. The Load ...

This recording was made many years ago by Patrick Page and released as a Trik-a-Tape Video. Martin Breese was able to purchase the full rights to the tape. It is now available as a video download.

The material on this download DVD consists of demonstrations and explanations of the following effects:

• The Razor Blade Trick
• Last Second Ring on Rope
• The Flying Ring
• The Aggravating Arrows
• Smaller Than That

From the Foreword:

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

From the Preface:

• Preface
• The Torn And Restored Paper
• Glido - The Thimble That Glides
• The Vanishing Cigarette
• The Cut Tape And Match Box
• Another Cut Ribbon Effect
• A Deceptive Card Trick
• The Twin Aces
• An Easy Spelling Trick
• The Psychic Tissues
• Rollo
• The Phantom Domino
• The Phantom Ring
• An Advertisement Trick
• A Numeral Mystery
• A Surprise Slate Trick ...

[Seventeen refers to "IBM Ring 17". There are nine items in the ebook.]

Released to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of the Club (founded in 1942), this ebook contains contributions from the lecturers and speakers who presented at the club during the 2011-12 season. Material varies from simple to advanced, impromptu, close-up, mentalism and stage including cards, coins, iPads and band-aids.

• Inflated (Canadian) Transposition: Joshua Jay
• Fear and Loathing in Hong Kong: Richard Forget
• Band-Aid: Michael Weber
• Hold the Prosciutto: Matthew DiSero
• Guestimation: Will Houstoun
• Psycho2Metry: James Alan
• Musical ESP: Murray Hatfield
• Password Projected: James Biss
• That's What Key Said:...