
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.

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:
When Harry Anderson lived in New Orleans, we regularly discussed tricks, scams, and what Harry liked to call "throwaways that are keepers." These are tricks that symbolically serve the same purpose as Mardi Gras beads and doubloons tossed from floats during carnival season.
The following 8 things in this booklet are stunts and tricks Harry performed in his inimitable, fast-and-loose way when he held court in barrooms, poolrooms, or at his night club called Oswald's. In the right time and place they are worth knowing...

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.

Excerpt from the Preface:
No skill, no sleights, no manipulation is required to perform the following effects. Many are impromptu, making use of anyone's cards, and needing no preparation or make-ready. Others admittedly depend upon such chicanery as cards with double faces and blank faces, double backs and blank backs, roughing fluid and other aides, all available from magic shops. Many skilled manipulators have not hesitated to use such artifices, so the reader should not scorn them.
Aside from whatever merit these tricks may possess, it is believed their greatest value lies in the...

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

About the Sweat Palm.
The basic idea goes back to Scot's Discovery of Witchcraft. Jon traces the principle, as much as possible, through the conjuring literature.
1st edition 2025, PDF 10 pages.

Inspired by famous magician Cyril Takayama. After eating some noodles you make the chopsticks levitate above the cup!
1st edition 2017, length 38min

A straw floats from a cup or can into your hand.
The method goes back to Joseph Dunninger. Ralf explains the gimmick, setup and performance in detail in his video.
1st edition 2019, length 15min

This was a very successful book on magic when it originally appeared in 1944. Even the sophisticated New Yorker put at the top of its list of recommended books for servicemen.
Here's the book for every one who ever dreamed of pulling rabbits out of a hat or sawing a woman in two (and putting her back together again). The author, who has had a long experience in platform magic and two previous books...A complete repertory of tricks that can be performed without elaborate equipment.
The only book on magic that tells exactly how to keep the audience from seeing the mechanics of performance.

Once in a lifetime, there comes a book - a volume that will stand in magical history as a lasting monument, and tribute to the Magic Art. This, according to Floyd Thayer, is such a book.
Part 1 is devoted to the purpose and presentation of magic in all its phases - comprising the complete analysis of Magic from the beginning to the end: What Magic Is, Apparatus and Sleights, Dress, Environment, Plot, Silence, Speech, Dramatic, Humorous, Music, Settings, Program Material, Introductions, The Magic Sketch, etc. etc.
Part 2 deals with an abundance of remarkable examples of patter, adaptable...

First there was In A Flap – a ground breaking book detailing six individual gimmicked envelopes with many routines using them. This was followed by the publication of Still Flapping – a further three individual fake envelopes with routines both for these plus extra ideas for the envelopes revealed in the first book. Then came Forever Flapping which combined both the above books and included some extra envelope magic in a Bonus Section.
Now there is Forever Flapping Plus, an ebook which provides a further eight envelope routines on top of those originally published in the previous edition. ...

This new eBook is a treasure trove of great and practical magic. Old magic books, magazines, and catalogs are full of wonderful tricks that are mostly unknown today. These tricks astonished audiences in the past and they can astonish them today. All the material contained in Forgotten is practical and will work today as well as it did in the past. In this new eBook by Marko (former admin of The Learned Pig Project), you'll find the following.
MAGICAL GERMINATION. Dip your empty hand into a round transparent fishbowl and it magically fills with flowers. Hand is seen empty at all times. You're...

This ebook contains Tim's thoughts on close up magic. It includes a ring on string routine and a version of Jon Allen's Double Back which leaves you clean. It also discusses his theories on dealing with difficult people and his take on the watch steal. It finishes with his four card location and the ambitious card routine which won him the Rovi trophy at the IBM and second place in the Magic Circle Close up Competition.
1st edition 2006; 34 pages.

Looking for commercial, practical, and unforgettable material you'll actually use? Four Real Workers delivers exactly that - four powerful, practical, audience-tested routines that belong in every magician's arsenal.
Inside you'll discover:
MYSTERIOUS BOILING WATER - a startling impromptu effect with nothing more than a glass, water, a handkerchief, and a rubber band. The water boils mysteriously.
ULTIMATE IMPROMPTU DIE DIVINATION - a clean, fooling way to divine any thought-of number on a die.
INTO THIN AIR - a brilliant, overlooked handling of Theodore DeLand's Phantom Card...

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...

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...

Friendly Fire is an exciting collection of almost 30 effects, routines and essays from the contributors to Ben Harris' New Directions Magazine published between 1985-87.
What exciting times these were. The masters like Marlo, Andrus, and Lorayne where at the top of their game and the new faces like Sankey, Sanders and Harkey were just emerging. And, New Directions captured a lovely slice of these changing times. We've even got Mike Gallo's ORIGINAL NO GAFF REVERSE MATRIX! Do you remember the excitement and torrent of creativity that spurned?
Exciting card, coin and dice magic awaits you inside. Full routines,...

Step into the private workshop of Jack Chanin - Philadelphia's "Man With the Magic Hands" - with From the Private Files of Chanin, a curated collection of some of his most ingenious, deceptive, and surprisingly simple magical miracles. This isn't just another magic book - it's a vault of forgotten treasures, meticulously transcribed from Chanin's original instruction sheets, many of which baffled even his fellow magicians. Inside, you'll find 27 astonishing effects with cards, silks, ropes, eggs, coins, and everyday objects - including his legendary "Rip-It" (torn-and-restored bill), the mind-bending...

This is the third volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston.
1st edition 1927; original 362 pages; PDF 198 pages.
Table of Contents
Part I. Pocket Tricks
Part II. Sleight-of-Hand Pocket Tricks