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Long out of print, this classic of close-up magic is back with a new look and even more tricks. Through the clever use of dominoes, those attractive, wooden tiles that everyone is familiar with, this ebook explains 18 close-up and parlor mysteries with which to entertain any audience. Beginners and seasoned performers alike will find something of value here, as most effects end with a domino that can be examined to the heart's content of any spectator. Difficult sleights have been dispensed with, relying instead of subtlety and the occasional piece of standard apparatus already owned by most...

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...

Get more mileage from your floating lamp or ball effect with this outstanding ebook. The floating light is a beautiful and mysterious stage effect whereby an illuminated light bulb (that may be in a lamp) visibly detaches itself and floats across the stage, apparently under the performer's control. The performer makes mystic gestures toward himself and the lighted bulb floats toward him and lands in his palm. It may be carried to the footlights and shown all around. It can even be laid on the palm of a spectator. The magician then throws the bulb away from him several feet, and at a snap of...

This hard-to-find title contains a wealth of dealer-quality club and stage magic, mentalism, and more for you to perform and enjoy. Here's a book from 1935 that, until now, has been out of print and jealously hoarded by collectors. It's filled with entertaining magic for close-up, club and stage. Clearly explained and well-illustrated, this goldmine of magic contains effects that will entertain as well today, as they did back when this book was originally released.

Divided into chapters, you'll find clever magic themed for Stage and Club, Comedy, Mentalism, and Card Effects. And only in this...

This work covers a lot of ground, from various parlor tricks, chemical tricks, card tricks, to a section on two person codes, and a section on artifices of cardsharks.

• description Of The Magician's Table
• How To Make A Person Jump
• The Invisible Chicken, Or Enchanted Egg Bag, As Performed By The Celebrated Wyman
• Scrap, Or Blowing Book, As Performed By Potter
• Gun Cotton - How Prepared
• Sympathetic Inks
• Apparatus For Writing In The Dark
• Dancing Turkeys
• The Self-Balanced Pail
• Sympathetic Lamp
• The Gas Candle
• Ice Made In A Red Hot Vessel
• Magical Colours
• The Magic Nosegay Blowing At The...

• 50 Cent Drinks
• Beer Bottle Mover
• Bottle Cap Trick
• Match Box 40
• Change Game
• NIM
• Date On A Coin
• Dime Wine
• Eleven Makes Nine
• Heads I Win
• Just Lie to Me
• Just Stand Up
• Lift Your Foot
• Light a Used Match
• Mirror Mirror
• No “A” In Free Drinks…
• Odds Win
• Olympic Cap Thrower
• Pick Up The Bill
• Psychic Mathematician
• Ready for a Shot Sobriety Test
• Shot Smart
• Snifter control
• The Coin Pyramid
• Time Is Definitely Money
• Walk Through the Business Card
• Word Einstein
• World’s Fastest Drinker
• Match Toss
• Bonus Bet

1st edition 2020, PDF 25 pages.

15 monster effects and 8 videos. 14 major effects with cards, coins, gambling themes, mentalism, silks, predictions...and 8 brain busters.

Introduction - discussing a philosophy of "tried and true" performance that just might change your mind...and it works.

What is quantum reality? - You may not be interested in Quantum Physics...but this may open up your mind.

The Magic Effects. Quantum Quickies:

Quantum Optical Triumph - A Triumph effect that will make their heads spin...and it's very easy to do. Just watch the video.

She Has Quantum Power - Give your spectator a power that...

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 ...

You'll no doubt be surprised at the many sensational uses Sylber and Whitney have discovered for this reliable magician's prop. Nine out of ten people interested in magic own a change bag, but there are many who use it for just one trick, or leave it in their drawer of magic odds and ends. This isn't right. The changing bag probably has more uses than any other piece of magical equipment.

To fill this need, Sylber and Whitney have developed this compendium of 33 clever tricks, ideas and routines that you can do with the change bag. Many are effects that you'd gladly pay upwards of twenty...

From the Introduction:

• Introduction
• The Magic Pop-gun
• The Versatile Tube
• Eat More Fruit
• Hell's Bells!
• Pickled Pieces
• " - and the dish ran away with the spoon"
• Cones within Cones
• These Little Pigs
• "Just on and off!"
• The Beetle Crawls
• The Productive Flower Pots
• The Great Packing Case Escape
• The Tell-tale Cigarette
• The Dunce's...

In the pages of this booklet Billy goes fully through the great material which earned him such a tremendous ovation at the Supreme 2nd Magical Weekend.

Contents include:

• The True Secret of Magic - Introduction.
• Cut & Gone Rope (a rope is cut and then disappears).
• The Williamised Spider
• Torn and Restored Airmail Letter. Simple; Amusing; complete with all the patter, this was one of the hits of the lecture. It could be a hit in your show.
• Eye-level, One-Man Card Vanish (crazy trick, yet absolutely baffling)
• A Variation on a Theme - A rope and a ring. The audience are let in on the secret,...

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.

A triple effect with a sheet of paper. You can immediately print yourself the necessary pictures. This is the original description of the effect as sold by Supreme:

“What a fantastic pocket effect! .... What a great trick for you to use at kids' party-shows or your more intimate type dates. Nothing to carry but it's big, big, big, in effect. Based on an original effect given to us as a Supreme Exclusive; top magician, top journalist, Alan Kennaugh has come up with a brilliant idea which at once makes this into a new trick, an entertaining trick, a mystifying trick, and one which has a really...

A collection of practical magical effects.

• the Introduction
• The Spinning Card
• The Flower Stall
• Raps!
• The Pusillanimous Pips
• Plonk!
• "A Hard Pill To Swallow"
• A Penny Bun
• The Sympathetic Sands
• Second Sight
  • "Say It With Flowers!"
  • The Signals
  • The Code
• Serve!
• " - And Hit The Crow"
• Hop, Skip, And Jump
• A Sensational Opening Production
• Light Fetters
• A Harmless Explosion
• Filling The Baby's Bottle
• A Lightning Wrist Tie
• A Bunch Of Bananas
• Coffee For Two

Grab Bag includes a grab bag of previously published items as well as a couple of new items. Methods vary from the over-complicated to the burdensome to the easy to the easy - as soon as you print a few props - to easy as soon as you learn the method. Included are the following:

WHAT IS PRECOGITIVE JEOPARDY?

Everybody's favorite game show with a few predictions. USA based effect. "Temporary Magic" as in there are limited uses and the method may expire at some point.

DIET WITCH CAN

A science experiment given a Witch Trial story line with a kicker magic ending.

MELTABLE MELT TABLE ...

More than just a simple prop, the Square Circle is a terrific way to magically produce an incredible array of items ... right before the very eyes of your audience. Yet, there's no need to go out and buy one, when you can build your own, folding model Square Circle, using the convenient plans that are included in this handy guide. Profusely illustrated.

Already have a Square Circle? Great! You can use this ebook to get new ideas for loads and production items. Includes complete routines with patter for special occasions, exactly as presented by the author in nightclubs throughout the country...

From the introduction:

• Introduction
• Bursting a Balloon
• Explosive 20th. Century
• Cut and Restored Rope
• The Hydrostatic Glass
• The Sharpshooter
• Milk in Light Bulb
• Upside Down Bottle
• Balloon Bouncing
• The Break-a-way Bouncer
• Balloon Destroyer
• The...

From the Foreword:

• Foreword
• Escapo
• Match Divination
• The Dissolving Ring
• A Production Box Idea
• A Novel Egg Trick
• The Magnetised Cards
• The Smoke Vase
• A Vanishing Wand
• Living Or Dead?
• Vibrato
• A New Reversed Card Effect
• A Baffling Card Prediction
• Card...

Do you want those extra dates between Thanksgiving and Christmas? Then update and transform your act with one or more of these sparkling suggestions for timely holiday magic. Let your agent or webmaster know that you've added something special to your act for the holiday season and watch those bookings roll in.

If you're interested in earning those extra dollars, this updated ebook is for you. With 79 ideas for tricks and extra seasonal revenue with Christmas ornaments, Santa Claus, candles, holly wreathes, mistletoe, holly berries, tinsel garlands, gift-wrapped presents, etc.

But don't...

• Card In Glass
• Paper Balls And Hat
• 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 Cards To Pockets
• The Hindu Thread Trick
• Electro Chemical Stop
• Take A Card!
• The Talking Skull

From the Preface:

• Preface
• The Torn And Restored Paper
• Glido - The Thimble That Glides
• The Vanishing Cigarette
• The Cut Tape And Match Box
• Another Cut Ribbon Effect
• A Deceptive Card Trick
• The Twin Aces
• An Easy Spelling Trick
• The Psychic Tissues
• Rollo
• The Phantom Domino
• The Phantom Ring
• An Advertisement Trick
• A Numeral Mystery
• A Surprise Slate Trick ...

• The Shooting Pellet
• Easy Ropes And Rings
• A Different Ring Release
• The Milk Goes Down
• Silks From Confetti
• Oriental Cut And Restored
• The T.S. Safety Rice Bowls
• Think Of A Card
• A Good Prediction
• A Novel Colour Change
• A Different Pass
• A False Count
• Matching The Colours
• Telepathy Simplified
• Graphology Supreme
• A Different Stretching Rope
• Giant Match Trick
• An Easily Worked "Stung" Trick
• Sun And Moon
• Bottle, Glass And Discs

1st edition 1941, 16 pages; PDF 18 pages.

From the Foreword:

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...