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A wonderful ebook on the magic of Roy Baker, inventor of the PATEO force.

• Preface
• Section 1: General Magic
  • Baker’s Beakers
  • Bisected Balloon
  • Air-Lite
  • Flap-Doodle Bag
  • Super Silks
  • Electro-Van
  • T and R Gag
• Section 2: Card Magic
  • The Last of the Last Cards
  • Name Your Card
  • Star Location
  • Fantastic Aces
  • Ah-Bee Card in Envelope
  • Crazy Speller
  • Forceful Revelation
  • Blindfold Discovery
  • Psycho Card
  • Drunk Card
• Section 3: Close up Magic
  • Bewildering Matches
  • Three Trees
  • Hat-Tissue!
  • Going Through the Rye
  • Ring Off
  • Shooting Star
  • Spoon on Nose
  • Coins Across
• Section 4: Mentalism

Baker was a funny and versatile performer who performed and contributed unique routines from mentalism to cards, from stage and parlor to close-up, including a hypnosis show.

Also check out Baker's Bonanza by Hugh Miller.

• Publisher's Preface
• Foreword
• Section One: Card Chicanery
  • Spectator's 'Impossible' Divination
  • Chance-It!
  • Spot On!
  • Bewitched
  • Spooky Sunday
  • Flash Card
  • Betyatis
• Section Two: Roy's Cunning Close-Ups
  • Non-Stop Stopper
  • Torn-Lit-Cig
  • The Match Fountain
  • Hokey Pokey
  • Condi-Mental
  • Sneaky Snake
  • The Missing Link
  • Spoonerism
  • A Date To Remember
  • Stamp-It
  • A Cheeky Cigarette Move
  • Crazy Coin...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• About Roy Baker
• "Stuck-Kup"
• "Catch The Cup"
• Cigarette Through Handkerchief Baker Style
• Roy Baker's Method Of "Knife Thro' Coat"
• Two Stunts With A Pen
• It's Getting Larger
• The...

Balance small objects on the edge of a card. The gimmick is easy to make but finicky to use. Also, watch your angles. Great for one-on-one or video shots but not so great with multiple spectators. The gimmick does not involve a thread, reel, or magnets.

1st edition 2022, video 12:10.

Routines with the Howard Adams' Ramasee Principle - a self-working method.

The Bammo Crambazzled Dossier is a deep-dive examination of a very strange and magical principle. You will fool yourself and, of course, everyone else. It works automatically, maybe even automagically. How it works may not be capable of an explanation from this world, but Bob Farmer does offer his ideas and those of many others.

The routines involve magic words, runes, Tarot cards, antique keys,...

Dennis writes:

Michael Wild has teamed up with another hard core bar magician, Todd Diamond, to share with you their knowledge and great effects for the bar/pub venue. If you read Bar Magician it will become obvious that these two gentlemen have done magic in bars for quite some time. They explain their thinking and reveal some of their best effects. A bar can be a tough and sometimes rude place. Todd and Michael included one effect that matches this environment: "Two Cigarettes Having Sex". Be warned that this presentation may offend you. You might not want to do this for your in-laws next to the Christmas...

Note that this ebook includes x-rated balloon models and jokes. This is not appropriate material for minors.

• The Water Dog Trick
• Balloon Boys and Girls Together
• Mounting Dogs
• A View From the Zoo
• Big Boy Balloon
• The Circumcised Dogs
• X-Rated Rubber Quips or Dirty Bar Jokes

1st edition 1974, 24 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 18 pages.

If you enjoy performing for people in bars, restaurants or at parties then Bar TAB (or Bar Tricks And Bits) might interest you. It's a small collection of tricks, sight gags and other bits of business Ron had much success with in his bar, restaurant and party work.

It doesn't matter if you're a working pro or just like to go out on the town with your friends and entertain people. The Tricks And Bits in this PDF download are real world material that I'm sure you'll actually use.

Although Ron goes into great detail in explaining these tricks and bits or business. You won't find many sleight...

This is a neat little collection of bar tricks, stunts and simple magic effects. Some of it will be familiar to you, some have a new twist or plot and others might be completely new to you. Julian added photos to make it very easy to present these on your next visit to your favorite bar or restaurant. It is a good idea to have a few of these stunts ready when you are not prepared to do a full magic show, but still want to be the center of attention.

1st edition, 2004.

1. Red or Black
This trick will prove that your volunteer has ESP as they correctly predict whether cards are red or black. ...

All 24 tricks are explained in detail.

1. Surprise Spell
2. Uppercut
3. Nice and Dicey
4. Lucky 13
5. Your Card Is...
6. Dis-Gardina
7. Under Milk Cup
8. Gemini Production
9. The Repeater
10. EZSP
11. Love-Craft(s)
12. Rovi-Over
13. Handy-Andy
14. Call to Arms
15. Best. Card. Trick. Ever
16. Undressed Rehearsal
17. The Xerox Effect (Stephen Tucker)
18. Uppers and Downers
19. Secret Service Subraction
20. Colours Will Tell
21. The Decoy Assembly
22. Three Four Letter Words
23. Irish Fortune Telling
24. If You Don't Like Luck

1st edition 2021, PDF 61 pages.

Between 2009 and 2011 a very special column appeared in M-U-M, the in-house magazine for the Society of American Magicians. Conceived to be an introduction to sleight of hand aimed at beginners, the thirty-six lessons ended up being one of the most detailed courses in conjuring to date. The topics covered included all aspects of magic; cards and coins, balls, ropes and cups, stand up and close up, interspersed with real-world performance hints and tips from someone who has spent time in the trenches.

This e-book version contains all thirty six Basic Training columns, plus two extra lessons...

From the introduction:

The magician picks up a card box as if to demonstrate a card trick and discovers that it rattles. Opening it, he tips from within four 3-volt circular batteries. Taking one of the batteries into his fist, he squeezes it and on opening the hand it is seen to have changed to a more powerful AAA battery. Holding this battery at the fingertips, the performer passes his other hand across it and causes it to visibly change to a larger AA battery.

Finally, he clasps his two empty hands together and on parting them reveals that now a square 9-volt battery has magically appeared!

No gimmicks...

"Oh Hal, this course is amazing. I've been a magician for 24 years and just like you, I thought there was a void in beginner Sanada training. You have very nice handling and down to earth teaching." - Nick Williams

"This (Sanada) training is very good. I highly recommend it. A great starting point and loaded with good information. My favorite tricks you teach are the wormhole and faux hypnosis routines! Very well done and I love your thinking outside the box." - Matt Hilton

The Sanada Gimmick is an amazingly magical tool. And folks, it's available at your magic shop for well under...

Break into the world of table-hopping, banquet, restaurant and casino floor show magic with this insider's handbook. Elray, a former top entertainer, reveals the ins and outs of this lucrative field in this hard-to-find handbook.

To be a successful nightclub entertainer, you not only have to be different in your own style, but you have to present a different style of magic. This ebook lets you in on this secret world - from behind the scenes - so you can profit by it. Many effects were revealed here for the first time in print - tricks specially adapted for nightclub work.

Here's a partial...

This is an ebook about the magic of Peter Vanspauwen. Peter's name is not well-known in the magic community--yet! This ebook has some great stuff that will get your juices flowing, and like all of Scott's ebooks, is absolutely loaded with photo illustrations. 4 card routines, 3 coin routines, a wonderful rope routine, and two more routines for parlor or platform. 226 photos. Level: Intermediate

1st edition 2003; 100 pages.

Lubor Fiedler's famous dental dam illusion principle is applied to a variety of tricks and routines, not just the penetration of a coin through a rubber sheet. The only sad part here is that the name Lubor Fiedler cannot be found anywhere in this publication. No credit was given.

Excerpt from the introduction by Walter Gibson:

Len was a creative and innovative magician who came up with a number of engaging routines for mentalists, kid shows, and family performers. Here you will find mostly stand up routines.

• Publisher's Foreword
• Some Thoughts On Invention- And An Idea For A Screen Table
• Crowned
• Belcher's Club Table
• Newspell
• Pig Deal
• Kurious Kerchief
• Ring In The Old
• Looking In
• A Century Of Sympathy
• Knock Knock
• Enclosed Thought
• Singular Silks
• The Jolly Miller
• Sponge Down
• The Feast Of Lanterns
• The Ring And The Ball
• Guess Who!
• Rich Little Poor Girl
• Zippo Bag
• Telstar
• Post Prediction
• Easoulette ...

Right from its first issue, Magicseen Magazine has sought to showcase talent from the UK, talent that sometimes can be a little swamped by high profile personalities from other parts of the world. To put this right, Magicseen approached a list of the UK's top performers and creators and invited them to contribute to a book that is designed to show the world what they have to offer. Best Of British contains routines from over 20 creative British magicians, including Wayne Dobson, Peter Duffie, Geoffrey Durham, Paul Gordon, Simon Lovell, Shaun McCree, Marc Paul, Scott Penrose, Mark Shortland, Paul Stockman and many more. It's a fabulous collection...

Tom Sellers was a very creative magician who created in pretty much all disciplines of magic. He invented among others Bank Night and won the Sphinx Award, which was an award given to the best new creative routine.

• Foreword
• Section One: Cards
  • A "Double Face" Force
  • False Shuffle For An Arranged Pack
  • An Open Fingers Card Change
  • A Trick Using The Charlier Pass
  • Three Colour Changes
  • The Fly Past Transformation
  • A New Card Transformation
  • The Simple Card Change
  • A Card Prediction Using The Rough And Smooth Principle
  • An Unusual Prediction
  • Reading The Cards
  • An Easy False Shuffle
  • A Card...

This guide will take you step by step through the process of learning the thirteen absolute best DIY thumb tip modifications for magicians. These modifications will allow you to make your thumb tip a lot more sneakier. You will be able to move your handling to a whole new level.

Some of the modifications will allow you to handle liquids. Some modifications will allow you to handle granules like pepper, sand, or salt. And yes, some modifications will allow you to do both within one modified tip.

You will discover modifications that will allow you to handle the thumb tip in incredibly...

Jimmy Ray, a top-flight pro, reveals nearly two dozen of his favorite effects and routines for close-up and TV workers.

This ebook is often referred to in other books for professional magicians, but has long been unavailable. Now revised and updated, this great work is now available in a convenient digital format. Inside, you'll find beautifully routined magic with coins, cards, dice, and even doves - all clearly explained, along with 25 photographs.

These is commercial magic at its best, suitable for performance on TV, in bars, casinos, night clubs, and corporate events.

CONTENTS ...

Bish is the collected Kaymar Magic Advent for 2020, gathering all 24 tricks into one place. Here are the tricks, carefully explained in Liam's casual style, and the ebook features all new tricks, revealed here for the first time.

• Blockade - A Whole Chunk d' Triumph
• DIY Harry - Do-As-I-Do, and Do This Trick.
• Going The Distance - Socially Distanced Card Trick
• Imposter - An 8 Card Brainwave is Among Us!
• Three Wise Men - Jim'll Force It
• Suits You Sir - The Even Money Proposition Times Four.
• Only Transmutation - A Joker Production with a KICKER!
• Phoning It In - And The Put Away Vanish! ...