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The name Chris Congreave is synonymous with commercial close-up routines and ideas. As a full-time close up pro for over a decade, he has learned how to hone his magic in order to make it totally practical for performance to lay people in the real world, and this new ebook brings together a collection of 40 of his best ideas as well as providing you with three essays that offer sage advice.

Although a few of his routines do require some elements of sleight of hand, much of his material is extremely straightforward or even virtually self-working. In fact, the variety and breadth of the material...

• PREFACE
• CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION
  • The Dress
  • The Table
  • The Servante
• CHAPTER II. PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT OF HAND APPLICABLE TO SMALL OBJECTS
  • Palming
  • Le Tourniquet
  • The Finger Palm
  • The Reverse Palm
  • To Change a Coin
• CHAPTER III. TRICKS WITH COINS
  • Magical Production of a Coin
  • The Wandering Coin
  • A New Coin Fold
  • Coin and Candle
  • An Artful Conjurer
  • The Invisible Flight
  • Vanish for Duplicate
  • To Pass a Coin Through the Body
  • Swallowing Illusions
  • Coin and Lemons
  • The Pocket Vanish
  • Florin v. Sixpence
  • To Pass a Coin into an Ordinary Matchbox held by One of the Spectators
  • Coin,...

• Foreword
• Useful Tables
• Two Flag Tricks
• The Vice Versa Candles
• A Soaples Case
• Bouquet Production
• A Useful Accessory for the Okito Tumbler
• The Magic of Millinery
• A Box for Vanishing, Exchanging, or Producing
• Novel Wand Production
• A Rag Picture Combination
• A Card Banner
• Palming a Coin
• The Magic Drinks
• Cigar and Candle
• The Hole in the Stocking
• Fire Flashes

1st edition 1921, 32 pages; PDF 22 pages.

A mix of conjuring tricks, science experiments, puzzles, games, gags, and other amusements. Most have been taken from the pages of the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph.

• The Hatched Bird
• The Match Trick
• The Enchanted Coin
• Hypnotic Burlesque
• Mysteries V. Shadows
• Magical Colors
• Destruction of Two Fluid Bodies, and the Formation of One New Solid in their Stead
• The Two Invisible Substances
• To Illuminate the Surface of the Water
• The Well of Fire
• To Produce Fire by the Mixture of Two Cold Liquids
• The Exploding Bubble
• Artificial Thunder
• Pressure Of Air Shewn By A Wine Glass
• The Magic Bottle ...

From the preface:

Contains sixty-one tricks with cards, coins, ropes, thimbles, cigarettes, cigarette lighters, table knife, silks, Mental Magic, Stage Magic etc. Most of the tricks are very easy to do and little practice is required. Several tricks are completely self-working and mechanical in nature.

Paul Fleming wrote:

9 Hands off effects you can do completely naked

Elimination: A card prediction without cards

The bills trip mystery

• "Happy Hour"
• "Money transfer"

• 3 card monte
• 4 card monte
• 5 card monte
• all hands off

Take my order: Imagine you are performing in a restaurant, you approach a table.
"I am your waiter. Are you ready to order?"
"Actually my name is …, I am a Performer"
"You are the waiter and I am the customer!...

Innovative! Brilliant! Impossible! As seen on TV! So, what is Crazy-8? A signed piece of paper is torn, rearranged, and restored MIS-MADE... and it's still signed. No tape, no glue, just magic! The spectator keeps the cool souvenir of your awesome magical powers. Plus, you'll learn how to do it with a borrowed dollar bill. Imagine that!

Includes: Fully illustrated instructions with the professional script written and performed by Harlan. Original artwork for making your own gimmicks... no refills needed. Full instructions for Crazy-Cash with information on how to obtain the secret materials...

A very visual and entertaining effect, complete with presentation, beautiful graphics, and soundtrack.

You will predict :

1. The ingredients freely chosen by spectators to make their unique "Crazy Cocktail"!
2. The price of the cocktail!
3. An additional, totally free choice made by the spectator at the last second before the revelations. The prediction will be found in an envelope the spectator had in her hands since the beginning of the routine. The envelope is normal, is not switched, and can be examined by the spectator!

The ebook includes:

• Every detail for maximum impact with...

Borrow a credit card and show the strips found on back of the card. Now just with your finger tips peel the identity strip completely off, restore it and return the card with your hands completely empty. A timely presentation around the issue of identity theft.

Unique magical effects and routine ideas made possible by the handle on a tea, demitasse or christening cup. Dozens of new moves, sleights, and subtleties beyond traditional cups and balls and chop cup routines.

Descriptions and definitions of T-cups and objects suitable for producing minor miracles and new feats of conjuring with free and ungaffed materials – simple teacups and small, common objects.

Explanation of more than sixty (60) moves using T-cups.

Detailed patterns of performance with T-cups using these moves.

A complete description and identification of 57 cup and ball...

Cybercup is a fast attention grabber with nothing but a pen that sits in your pocket. Based on a well-known handling, this effect will fool your spectators.

Do it for yourself in front of a mirror. You'll fool yourself, so strong is the illusion.

Cybercup is a fast, visual, and interactive effect. Whether you are a miracle worker, salesperson, event host, or public speaker, this will help you break the ice and engage people in an instant.

The effect has been created to be remarkably visual on camera - whether that's using Zoom, FaceTime, Instagram Live, YouTube, or Skype. Your (digital)...

Cyclopedia of Magic is an interesting book. It's primary quality stems from its alphabetical organization. It was compiled and written to provide the magician with a wide and solid background of magical knowledge. It provides definitions, descriptions, biographies and some routines on hundreds of magic topics. It is for the most part a compilation of material contributed by magicians such as August Roterberg, Charles Bertram, Eddie Joseph, Ellis Stanyon, John Mulholland, T. Nelson Downs and many others.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects (15 are card tricks the other 15 are non-card effects) that have appeared in various magazines more than a decade ago. There is no overlap with any other English ebooks by Werner Miller.

Two effects won the 1998 and 1992 Tenyo Magic Competition respectively!

The magic journals these effects have been published in are:

• Genii
• [lc=2163 Magigram
• The New Tops
• Club 71
• Tenyo Magic Catalog

• Under Down Puzzle
• PP-AA-II-RR-SS
• Update on an Old-timer
• Court Couples
• Double Match
• Add the Values
• A la Hofzinser - Plus
• Focused
• Mathemagician's...

This is a collection of 30 tricks which appeared in Genii, Magigram, The New Tops and Club 71 - all before 2000. As usual with Werner Miller these are math based without any difficult sleight-of-hand.

• Paradox Candles
• What about Magic Squares?
• Square Bet
• Square Move
• Two Way Forcing Device
• Hallucina-Turn
• Pip Dream
• Clean Cut – Plus!
• You Do K(Not) As I Do
• Running up the Odds
• Around the Table
• Permission to Lie
• Color Spelling
• At 100 “Pair” Cent
• Right – right – right – right, again!
• Yes, David, I Will!
• Diamond Speller
• E-Z Elmsley
• The Equation of the 8th Degree
• EZOP
• 4tuitous
• The French...

This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects based on math, geometry and logic.

These tricks originally appeared 2000-2003 in the print magazine Club 71 and in the online journal Online Visions.

The list of effects:

• Questa poi!
• Sandwich Sympathy
• Squaring the Cards
• Partner Swapping
• That Ace of Clubs!
• Three Chances
• Two to Toulouse
• Pointing the Way
• Australian Zodiac
• Diamond Speller II
• Everyone's a Wizard
• Right there!
• Fetsch + Hofzinser
• Ask the Cards!
• Magic Is Easy
• Split Personalities
• A Salute to Aberystwyth
• About Turn!
• Trikolore
• Club Speller
• Watch the Joker!
• Cupidity
• Escort Agency
• Without...

This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects based on math, geometry and logic.

These tricks originally appeared 2003-2005 in the print magazine Club 71 and in the online journal Online Visions.

The list of effects:

• Tripod
• I Can Work Wonders
• An Under/Down Force
• Piercing
• As Easy As Counting
• Stand to Lose
• Auto Transpo
• Color-Ado
• Klondyke Separation
• Criss Cross
• SEVENade
• Spellimination
• Pars pro toto
• Value & Suit
• Inseparable
• Go West!
• Pentaflush
• PuzzLegacy
• Cheers!
• Tabula rasa
• Marked for Matching
• Triple Jump
• CATO Plus
• SymboliClue
• ColOracle
• The Proof
• Hey, Peter!
• Promo
• Quiz...

These tricks originally appeared 1999-2010 in the print magazines Club 71 (later The Magician), Abracadabra, The Mystery Magazine, and in the online journal Visions.

The list of effects:

• An "Honest" Card Trick
• Janus-faced
• The Magnetic Joker
• Royalties
• Daltonico
• No Risk But Fun
• Thanks to Fibonacci III
• Orthochromatic ESP
• Aleaque
• Sex and the City
• Betwixt
• Family Affairs
• L'addition, s'il vous plait!
• Bizarre or Romantic
• BalVallaBel
• Happy Birthday!
• Bubble Sort
• Swindle Sudoku
• Shake Well Before Use
• Mixed Double
• Seeing Black
• Age Cube
• 4-3-2-1
• More Monge Shuffle Trickery
• Obedient to the Word
• Two Spelling Tricks ...

These tricks originally appeared 2006-2012 in the print magazines The Magician, Abracadabra, The Mystery Magazine, and in the online journal Visions.

The list of effects:

• Astro Nonet
• Double Sandwich
• Taken In Tow
• Quadrigula
• Stebbins Combo
• Joker Out – Your Card In
• ESP Twins
• Three Predictions
• Nothing
• Color Filter
• Sey On
• J. O'Seph
• Liar's Clock
• WYSIWYG
• Good Bye, Joe!
• Symbol Pattern Squares
• Migratory
• Lined Up
• Vive le Roi!
• Magic Patchwork
• Ghost Rider
• You Push the Button
• Fives or Sevens?
• He & She
• High Math
• Higher Math
• Quod Licet Jovi
• A la Harry
• Six Times No
• Not

1st edition 2012; 31 pages....

This is truly a gem, an early Vernon publication, the lecture notes to his first European lecture tour in 1955. Explained are classics of card, coin and ball magic and Vernon's Thumb Tie routine:

• Three Ball Transposition
• Ball, Cone and Handkerchief
• Seven Card Monte
• Expansion of Texture
• A Chinese Classic
• The Thumb Tie

1st edition 1955, 1st digital edition 2014, 14 pages.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is the revised and expanded second edition. (The first edition can be found here.) In particular it includes two additional effects: "Follow the Leader", and "Vernon's Automatic Gambler".

• Introduction
• "Topping The Deck"
• The Royal Marriages
• "Follow the Leader"
• Vernon's Automatic Gambler
• Addition And Subtraction
• The Little Dictators
• Winged Silver
• Two Impromptus
  • (1) Fallacy Of Vision
  • (2) Matchless Digits
• A Cigarette Switch
• Heads Or Tails
• Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick
• Snow Storm In China

2nd edition 1949, 41 pages; PDF 38 pages.

This is a fascinating combination of biographical detail and carefully described magical secrets researched and recorded by Dai Vernon and Lewis Ganson.

Vernon was an intimate friend of Leipzig. Vernon not only saw many performances given by Leipzig, but Leipzig also explained Vernon in detail how all of his tricks worked and how they are to be performed. Vernon recorded this in his notebooks from which this publication was prepared by Ganson and Vernon. It is therefore fair to say that this is as close as you will ever get to learn from Leipzig.

Leipzig was a gentelman of magic who could...

These were Ken de Courcy's USA lecture tour notes. It includes great material which puts entertainment first and foremost.

• The Haired Card - a comedy surprise with four outsize cards from a pack.
• Balloon Prediction - three balloons, the audience nominate the colors, these magically burst one at a time ... then you show that you knew the order the spectator chose and made a prediction to that effect!
• The Economy Card in Balloon - a simplicity version of the great classic effect.
• Explosive Rope Cut - cut and restore a rope with a bang. Unusual and good!
• Seeing is Disbelieving - spectators...