Magic & Mentalism: page 31

Excerpt from the preface:

"extremely visual and psychological magic at its best!" - Titanas (Creator of Titan's Finger)

"So visual. This ones in the gig bag for sure! I love the fact that the gum changes in the spectator's hands. It's unbelievably good methodology to achieve that!!" - Rob Nekros (Professional Magician)

Exchange is a workable piece of visual and psychological magic that takes place in a spectator's hands and your own, making it personal and applicable to perform to a large group.

The effect is simple; you take out a pack of fruit gum. You take out a stick and have a spectator smell it, “smells...

This is the first volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston. He writes in his introduction about his motivation to publish this book: "My aim from the beginning has been to gather together from all sources everything new and big in magic that has not been fully explained before." And indeed we have contributions from the finest magicians living at that time: Chung Ling Soo, Harry Houdini, Servais Le Roy, Conradi, Chefalo, Oswald Williams and Chris Van Bern and others. And don't forget that Goldston himself was a prolific inventor of illusions, many of which are included in this work.

The contents spans...

From the introduction:

• Introduction ...

Berland and friends bring you sixteen beautiful effects using silks, balls, cards, canes, watches, cigarettes, liquid, and more in this updated and expanded edition. Long out of print, this manuscript contains a pair of mysteries by Tenkai, as well as several baffling effects by Berland, as well as some choice bits by his friends.

Partial contents:

• The Homing Cup of Lemonade
• Popping Silk
• Challenge Quadruple Cigarette Vanish
• Samson Cane Trick
• Vanishing and Reappearing Thimble
• Watch and Chain to Handkerchief
• Double Color Change
• Flash Cigarette Package to Box of Matches
• Tenkai Figure...

Fantastic card effects, rope magic, linking rings, vanishing bird cage, money magic, and a special chapter on "Openings".

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Remarks By Alan Keith
• A Word About The Author And The Book
• A Young Man From Texas
• Preface
• Dedication
• Acknowledgement
• CHAPTER I: Magical Openings
  • The Devilish Watch
  • A Smart Opening
  • The Proverbial Opener
  • Thread It
  • Jackie Gould's Idea
  • Snap! Snap! Snap!
  • The Ring and the Rose
  • A Phantom Tube Becomes a Small Illusion
• CHAPTER II: Money Magic
  • The Bill in Cigarette Mystery
  • An Infallible Illusion
  • Billo
  • The Modern Banker or Money and...

• 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.

A great manuscript describing manipulative magic with cards, coins, and balls. Included are several moves and effects by legendary trade show magician Tommy Tucker, including the first release of his classic "Six Card Repeat".

Excerpt from the foreword:

Conradi was the largest manufacturer of magic apparatus in Germany in the early 20th century. He wrote and published several major magic books and his magazine Zauberspiegel (Magic Mirror) predates Mahatma, the first American magic magazine. We should not forget that around 1900 Germany was dominating the magic market. Some of the largest magic retailers in the US, such as Roterberg, built their entire business on importing goods from various German manufacturers, such as Conrad-Horster, and then reselling them in the US. Roterberg's most successful book New Era Card Tricks was little more than a translation of effects taken from various...

From the preface:

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

Five effects with simple objects.

All of the effects are easy to do . . . are varied in effect. None of them requires elaborate properties.

Effect No. 1. Invisible Dice. A clever novelty. A prediction with a box of matches and invisible dice. No matter what number a spectator "throws," you show your prediction to be correct. A trick that will become one of your favorite pocket tricks.

Effect No. 2. Fire! A gag - but an unusual one you can use in many ways. Any time you need a light, i.e. in the Dove Pan routine, Burnt and Restored note, etc., you say you will show the Magician's way of...

Many magicians get their greatest pleasure out of making their own tricks - and there is no form of construction easier or less costly than working with plastic cups. For the man who likes to make his own - no workshop is needed for these easy to construct effects. Over thirty tricks you can make for pennies each. Good magic, low cost. Illustrated.

• The fake bottom cup
• Variations of the fake bottom cup
• The cup with a secret compartment
• The foo cup

1st edition 1976, 52 pages; digital edition 2012, 42 pages.

"Your wonderful book is entertaining, informative and inspiring. It is written in the humorous, intellectual style that is so uniquely yours ... You will live on in the history of Magic - forever." - Siegfried and Roy

These routines are taken from Punx's full evening show. This material is not only audience-tested, it is the material that one of the greatest magicians of the twentieth century used to earn a living. It is not a book for beginners. Some of the routines have only partial explanations. This is because most of this material consists only of presentations, many of them for...

Excerpt from the foreword:

• Foreword
• Amazo
• A Sensational Card Effect
• A Miracle In Cards
• Think And Take
• Bagging The Card
• Number Telepathy
• Slow Motion Tip
• Whispering Thought
• Midget Stack
• Shoe Laces Today
• Card Silk Routine
• Perfect Pellet Switch
• Simple Location
• Simple Do As...

Some of Dale's favorite creations collected/reprinted into one place. A retrospective introspective perspective.

A PDF eBook containing some of Dale's favorite pieces including but not limited to: Hypnohole, Alien Amazement, Caveman Catalog, Without Reservation, and Homage to Huffman.

• Hypnohole (Revisited)
• Bermuda Football
• Caveman Catalog
• The Stick Trick
• The Phantom Cigarette
• The iDale Bracelet
• One Ultimate Hottest Coin
• Haunted House Halloween Horrors
• Venus as UFO
• AABA Language Pattern
• Backwards Business
• Sensing Star Signs
• An NLP Psychic Connection
• Grandma's Gift
• Imprinting...

Only for a limited time ...

Here's a fabulous collection of magic, mentalism, and comedy bits for close-up and cabaret - all at a bargain festive price of $12! Around 100 pages of cool stuff including:

TRAVEL CHAOS: A series of effects revolving around travel and holidays.

MENTAL MOVIES: A self-working mentalism killer effect for cabaret or close-up.

SUPERSTARS-R-US: A great mentalism effect that plays big.

BOOK HIM DANNO! A comedy book test with a twist...

WHERE'S MY DOVE? An ultra-clever mentalism effect...

WHO'S GOT THE SNOW? - A 'just chance' routine with an adult...

Eight select bits of rascality from Harry the Hat.

From the Introduction:

Hints, aids and appliances for the professional and amateur magician.

These small "aids" to the magician appeared in early numbers of The Magic Wand. Covering many branches of the art, it is hoped that the various gadgets may prove of service. The publisher again expresses his thanks to the contributors who devised, and used, the appliances.

• Cards
  • Wire Stands and Supports
  • Card Indicator
  • Card Discovery
  • Card Standing on Edge
  • Card Reading
  • Quite an Old Trick
  • A Card Vanish
  • A Card Trick
  • An Easy Card Trick
• Coins
  • A Coin Producing Fake
  • Vanishing Penny
  • Coin Box
  • A Coin Move
  • A Coin and a Tumbler ...

Excerpt from the Preface:

These are the notes to Aldo Colombini's lecture from 1999.

• the K.I.S.S. Formula
• The Rule Of Three
• Hand Language
• Be Natural
• Use The Spectators' Brain
• Holmes Vs Moriarty
• Punch Meets His Match!
• Twice
• Point Of No Return
• Contact Colors
• Aces A Go-Go
• You Can Count On Them
• Coin Wrap
• Italian Emotional Bonding
• Telecard Across
• A Book Is Better
• Trifle
• Chinese Purse
• Deep Impact
• Stand Up

1st edition 1999, PDF 33 pages.

There are eight excellent effects in this updated ebook - plus a few variations - that you and your audiences will enjoy. Best of all, most can be made from materials found at discount and dollar stores. For example, Visible Silk Flight is a brilliant routine with a toy pop gun rifle and a colorful silk handkerchief that you can make up yourself. Just as good as a $150 dealer item. Or how about Lantern of the Air, a beautiful floating effect with a candle-lit Chinese paper lantern? You get two methods explained: one using an assistant and a second one for the one-person show. Or if it's comedy...

In this 2018 Revised Edition is a host of information to successfully perform a humbug flea circus. Also included are two easy build routines allowing readers to get started immediately with minimal expense.

Contents:

1. To Buy Or Not To Buy?
2. Poor Man’s High Dive (*Easy Build Routine)
3. Audience Placement
4. Super Simple Flea Swing (*Easy Build Routine)
5. Adding Atmosphere
6. Extra, Extra, Read All About It
7. Voice-Over Intro’s
8. Flea Names
9. My Old Routines (With A Svenson Mechanical Flea Circus)
10. Routine Variations
11. More Comedy Business

1st edition 2015, 2nd edition 2018 31 pages.

Whether you choose to use this as another act in Dave Arch's One Man Circus Sideshow or as a stand-alone twenty-minute act or merely take some of its effects and insert them into a show you currently do; you'll be using a routined collection of flea circus acts with complete scripts refined over ten years of performance. No mechanical contrivances to go wrong. Minimalistic in props and yet believable in the effects it produces - causing an audience to enter that world of fun where reality blurs with fantasy. Comes complete with its own specially-commissioned poster for advertising your next appearance....

Inspired by famous magician Cyril Takayama. After eating some noodles you make the chopsticks levitate above the cup!

• No threads.
• No wires.
• No magnets.
• No loops.

1st edition 2017, length 38min