Magic & Mentalism: page 26

A new look at some favorite topics in mentalism. From the favorite confabulation done with a phone, but needing no app all the way to a game of Russian roulette with a paintball gun and another with a glass of liquid!

Scott Xavier will take you through several mentalism effects he's added into his new resort show in key west.

1st edition 2016, 18 pages.

The Effect: The magi removes his house key from his key chain and entrusts the spectator with the remainder of his keys. The magus then promptly causes the house key to vanish and reappear on the key ring in the spectator's hand. Sleeves up, no holding out, completely clean vanish. Watch the Demo. This was another big hit of Jeff's on Underground Jam. The particular vanish (a Richard Ross idea) used for the key is the big killer that really inspired a lot of magicians. You don't want to miss this one!

Fun Side Note by Jeff: This effect was actually a dream that I had. I needed five effects...

One of America's finest close-up men has written a fine book on his work. Illustrated with excellent line drawings by Steranko. Makes all the tricks clear and easy to follow. Additionally there are a couple of photos of Milt demonstrating certain moves.

You will enjoy:

• Kortially Yours (card revealment)
• Homing Pigeon (a boomerang card)
• You Got Nothin' Poker Deal
• Cup Hola (paper cup and coin routine)
• Sheer Brute Strength (bending a penny by magic)
• Half From One (bill routine)
• Miser's Dream in Reverse
• Kort Coin Star
• Gone Again Coin Routine
• Miniature Cups and Balls
• Chromo Cups and...

Clever, quirky, original, commercial, funny, different, practical - these are just some of the words that you can use to describe the magic of Nathan Kranzo.

In this collection of his ideas for stand-up and close-up, you will find magic to suit a wide spectrum of tastes and audience types. With effects ranging from visibly sliding a tan line up your arm, right through to enabling a spectator to cut to the four Aces, Nathan combines raw cunning with extensive magical knowledge to produce magic that is always interesting and usually totally baffling.

Running through all the material is...

It is the third volume of the Hoffmann trilogy. The 1911 edition was expanded by almost 200 pages with the chapters 'New Miscellaneous Tricks' and 'Recollections of Hartz the Wizard'. This expanded 1911 edition is what you will get here. This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are

• Magicians' Tricks by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate
• The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
• The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
• Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• More Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant ...

This is an early publication by Will Goldston. It is a kind of smorgasbord of tricks, illusions, apparatus, hand shadows, plays, and advertisements for his Gamage Ltd.

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I
  • Latest Method For Performing Soup Plate And Handkerchief Trick
  • The Egg, Card, And Wand Balance
  • A Novel Trick
  • A Good Slate Trick
  • The Wine Bottle And Card Trick
  • The Latest Pip Card Trick
  • A Neat Handkerchief Trick
  • Mystic Canteen And Birdcage
  • The Egg And Straw Balance
  • Handkerchief Spinning Trick
  • The Table Lifting
  • A New Slate Trick
  • Slate Writing
  • Twenty-Five Balloons Produced From A Hat
  • Rifle And...

Latest Magic is the last book in Hoffmann's series Modern Magic, More Magic and Later Magic. Hoffmann had quite some problem finding a publisher for this book. The reason being the quality of the contents. When Modern Magic came out it explained new tricks and tricks which were performed at the time. Thus it was indeed 'modern'. It is also without a doubt the best book in the series. Latest Magic describes Hoffmann's own creations and dealt with a magic which was already considered old fashioned. From a historical perspective it still makes quite an interesting read.

1st edition, 1918, Spon & Chamberlain, New York; 2nd edition, 1919; 222...

From the preface:

• PREFACE TO NEW EDITION
• INTRODUCTION
  • The Wizard's Table
  • The Wizard's Dress
• THE LATEST SLEIGHTS
  • The Latest Methods employed in the Money Trick, explaining the Improved System of Palming, the Bamboo Stick, and other New Inventions.
  • A Dozen Half-Crowns Produced...

This book is the continuation of The Modern Wizard; same format almost same number of pages and same style. For example the 'handkerchief productions' are continued with methods twelve, thirteen fourteen, fifteen and sixteen. You will find many interesting plots with eggs, glasses, coins, silks, tubes, plates, flowers, nest of boxes, ...

1st edition, 1896; 112 pages.

5. Robinson's Flying Handkerchiefs
9. The Improved Soup Plate and Handkerchief Trick
10. First Method
10. Second Method
11. Third Method
12. Fourth Method
13. The Four Soup Plates and Handkerchiefs
15. The Handkerchief Coloring Trick
16. Handkerchief Productions,...

This download DVD features over 40 simple, easy-to-learn magic tricks that you can master in minutes and perform for your family and friends. It is easy to start with any tricks you want to learn and with close-up shots you will see all the special moves. You'll be performing these trick in no-time.

This feature is suitable for both adults and children. All the effects require items found around the home and include magic such as the pen through a banknote which can be seen below.

The effects you will learn include:

• Pencil Through Banknote
• Crazy Compass
• Paddle Sticks
• Amazing Colour...

Learn Magic is a classic magic book for serious beginners. It teaches 20 lessons and focuses not just on effects, tricks and moves, but also on the 'how to learn magic' aspect. Beautifully illustrated by Hans Jelinek.

Henry Hay's larger magic book for beginners, The Amateur Magician's Handbook is broader in scope and already assumes some basic knowledge about magic.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is a compilation of Hilliard's contributions to Floyd Thayer's magazine The Magical Bulletin.

Three of Mark's previously published lecture books in one convenient download:

• The Mark Leveridge Lecture Experience
• Solutions
• The Serial Thriller Lecture Book

The Mark Leveridge Lecture Experience

In this 82 page ebook there are some tremendous practical close up and mental items using cards, coins, rings, matches, envelopes and bank notes, with virtually no specialist equipment required. By using a subtle blend of good routining and some sleight of hand, many interesting and novel effects are created for you to use.

Some of Mark's best work is here - items such as 'It Pays To...

• Prelude To A Lecture
• Rope 'N' Silk
• Dicemania
• Boomerang Cards
• The Joker And The Wallet
• The Spelling Game
• The Radical Red Spot
• Trio Surprise
• Computer Card

1st edition 1976, 17 pages; PDF 30 pages.

This is an obscure but extremely fine lesson in conjuring. It is true that it was written as an introduction for the neophyte, but it is a gem of a book of great value to absolutely anyone regardless of their experience.

The text is very modest - no 'latest novelty' or 'top secret'. Just solid sensible counsel about standard, albeit classic, items from Devant's repertoire. Devant is not simply saying what you might want to hear, he is telling you what he has found to be important. He is treating you the way he would treat a private student. For a book this is quite unusual. Most authors hold...

For the time this was published, in the middle of the 19th century, these twelve lessons in magic are probably one of the best instructions in conjuring published in the English language, even though the intended reading audience was young folks. Professor Hoffmann's Modern Magic is still a decade into the future.

Henry Hatton, writing here under his real name Patrick Henry Cannon, describes a range of stage and parlor effects including some sleight-of-hand with coins and cards. His description of the pass is by far the best description I have read prior to Erdnase - almost 40 years prior that is! The accompanying...

This is a compilation of three books:

• Let's Make Magic (1st edition 1945)
• Traveling Ghost
• Restless Spook

• The Art Studio Illusionette
• Vibratory Deck
• The Malcolm Blindfold
• The Scintilating Spectre ...

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...

A new way to lift a wallet. It's not what you think.

You won't believe the video. This is an ultra-visual, realistic levitation of your spectator's wallet, without thread. You levitate their wallet after asking if he's seen the various ways of 'lifting' wallets (pickpocket style). You offer to demonstrate a new method on his wallet, needing to see his wallet first to see if it's the "right type," just an excuse for you to lay the wallet on the table (or whatever surface) and make it lift.

Practicality: Super Easy. From beginning to end, not one gimmick is seen nor anything exposed that...

Five effects suitable for performing on a pool table, a clever "camera" give-away item, and an extremely difficult to solve puzzle give-away item. For one of the pool effects you don't need to have any pool playing skill.

• Tom Poolery
  • First Stunt: CrazyBallz
  • Second Stunt: Make a Wish
  • Third Stunt: Two-Dollar Trick Shot
  • Fourth Stunt: Varner's Closer
• Pool's Best-Kept Secret
• Instant Camera
• Square Me Puzzle

1st digital edition 2012, 12 pages.

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...

A pair of authentic gypsy scams in print for the first time. One uses a lighted candle to dispel evil. The other appears to boil water in a glass using the power of the mind. A video is included demonstrating and explaining the boiling water trick.

1st edition 2016, 4 pages, video length 2:13.

From the Foreword:

The format follows Gregg's established style of illustrations and hand-lettered text.

• 4 Word
• Introduction
• #1: Thoughts on "Hanging Coins"
• #2: "Hanging Coins" with the Nowhere Palm
• #3: New Handling on the "Squeeze"
• #4: Revamping of Darwin Ortiz's "Jumping Gemini"
• #5: A Good 2-Part Card Trick
• #6: Look At Me Savage a Slydini Trick
• #7: 'Improve' or at least Shorten another Slydini Trick
• #8: Re-Tool a Coin Trick from the new The...