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Most likely you have never heard about this magic course. When I think about a 'magic gem' I have these 25 volumes in mind. This course could be called the 'British Tarbell Course' and in many respects it is much better than the Tarbell Course. It came out around the same time Tarbell issued his course and it had the same intent, to take a novice, introduce him to magic in a serious and thorough manner and give him all the information to develop him into a performer who can earn a living from performing magic. Rupert Howard's course does not cover as much ground as the Tarbell on trick technique, but quantity...

From the back cover:

This superb ebook is packed with ideas and routines from Patrick Page one of the most knowledgeable professional magicians. Imagine producing real beer in an empty can - close-up! Or learn a routine for the transparent Chop Cup. Plus rope routines, card moves and effects and lots more, including Pat's Princess Quatro Card Trick. Everything is beautifully illustrated by Earle Oakes.

1st edition 1990; original 94 pages; PDF 71 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
4. Introduction
5. The Biro Can
9. The Vanishing Knot
11. The Ever Change Card
15. The Pageboy's Picture Frame
17. The Not-A-Knot Rope
19. The Misdirope...

Here is another classic magic book by Lewis Ganson with effects by Ken Brooke, Peter Warlock, Cy Endfield, Marconick, Tonny van Dommelen and others.

c1950, 59 pages

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: Free Choice
11. Chapter 2: Cy Endfield's Card Penetration and Change
15. Chapter 3: Bags of Everything
21. Chapter 4: Eddie Ward's Zombie Card Rise
23. Chapter 5: Three Penetration Effects
23. (a) Bertram Millidge's New Move with the Jardine Ellis Ring
24. (b) Silk Through Ring
25. (c) Silk through Silk
27. Chapter 6: Ken Brooke's Knot-Out plus a simple routine for the Sympathetic Silks
33. Chapter 7: Ken Brooke's Presentation of the Vanishing...

The final book of the Routined Manipulation series. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.) More great hand magic for both close up and stage by some of the greatest magicians of all times.

• Anti Gravity Glasses: A feature of Ganson's act for years. Three glasses suspend from a clear sheet of plexiglass. Everything is examinable. This was a marketed item by Unique Studios for many years and now you can easily make this up at home and use it.
• Fred Kaps Coins and Glass Routine: This is the exact routine used by Fred Kaps throughout his career. One of the finest routines with coins ever!
• Peter Warlock's Take a Bow:...

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,...

This is an obscure but extremely fine lesson in conjuring. It is true that it was written as an introduction for the neophyte, but it is a gem of a book of great value to absolutely anyone regardless of their experience.

The text is very modest - no 'latest novelty' or 'top secret'. Just solid sensible counsel about standard, albeit classic, items from Devant's repertoire. Devant is not simply saying what you might want to hear, he is telling you what he has found to be important. He is treating you the way he would treat a private student. For a book this is quite unusual. Most authors hold...

The effect is unusual, typical Paul Harris - a word on a page in a book moves.

runtime: 4min 53s

This is a completely new, revised, expanded and updated edition.

The ebook contains most of the original material but virtually everything has been re-written and benefits from the skill of an expert editor. There is a host of additional material written by Lewis Ganson and previously published in the Routined Manipulation series published by Harry Stanley.

Along with Graham Jolley, Martin Breese has always been a follower of Al Koran and his amazing material. Al Koran’s name appeared on almost every page of the Gen. And thanks to Harry Stanley his material has been preserved for future generations to study and use.

Graham Jolley...

Stuff is a beautifully designed and produced book (now available as ebook) of top quality magic and contains detailed descriptions of several marketed props and routines. These include the Beta Wallet, the Breese-Mason Wallet, Cummupence, the Silver Retriever, the Golden Retriever and Pandora. Eric Mason was not only a brilliant inventor and magician; he was a creative and talented illustrator. You will find several examples of Mason's skill as illustrator in this ebook.

Eric Mason was a highly talented and exceptionally creative magician and illustrator. He was the Art Editor of Pabular magazine and illustrated...

This book is part biographical, a history of Lewis Ganson - one of the most prolific authors of magic, and a lot of wonderful magic.

It is written in Ganson's usual well-written, well-articulated style. Cards, coins, money magic, mental magic, cups and balls, and much more.

1st edition 1982; 232 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Dedication
5. Bibliography
7. Contents
9. Index of Photographs
12. A Tribute to Lewis Ganson Evening (Edwin Hooper)
17. Introduction
19. A Tribute from Dai Vernon
21. The Music Room
24. Jess
24. The Burford Arms
26. A Magician at the Bar
29. The Cap and Pence
34. Ellis Stanyon's Limit Four Ace Trick
40. Moving On
41. My Start in Magic
46. Jack...

Borrow a set of keys. Break off the tip of a key clearly showing the broken key still on the key ring. Then mend the key and return all keys in perfect condition back to the spectator.

This is a very visual quick effect to impress your audience and set the right mood for more miracles to come.

runtime: 6min 35s

A very visual effect that is very easy to perform. You take out a red Sharpie and change it to a black Sharpie with a simple flick of your hand. This is so easy to do and a great off beat effect whenever you need a card signed.

Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 1999.

runtime: 3min 40s

This is currently the most complete and thorough work on the use of Frixion pens (heat sensitive ink) in magic.

At first glance, Stone Frixion Fire plumbs the depths of what can be accomplished with these ingenious pens to entertain your audience. But it goes farther: it cultivates directions in which these pens can take your performing. The effects presented are smooth and very reachable for nearly any performer. Good, solid material all the way around.

With the coming of Frixion to America, now is the time to ride the wave. Stone Frixion Fire is the most comprehensive study of this fascinating...

A collection of non-card effects

"I need more non-card stuff," is a familiar refrain with most close up magicians. Well, it's Cameron Francis to the rescue as he presents 8 stunning routines with business cards, coins, coin holders, sugar packets and matchboxes. That's right, no playing cards! Just practical, astonishing, real world effects using everyday objects which you will want to add to your repertoire straight away.

• The Unfolding – A business card transpo that means business.
• The Magic Coin – An offbeat Wild Coin routine that will surely lay them flat.
• Business Burn – A...

This was Peter Duffie's first solo book published on the heels of his hugely successful Alternative Card Magic and Contemporary Card Magic.

It includes mostly card routines with a couple of coin routines sprinkled in for good measure. The effects are not difficult to do and can be classified as intermediate. Some routines require palms, half passes and riffle passes.

It is a joy if one can study the early creative output of one of the most accomplished card magician alive today.

1st edition 1984; original 30 pages; PDF 37 pages.

3. Contents
4. Author's Introduction
5. Ghost Hunters
7. Collectors Item
8. The Journey ...

This is a work most will not be familiar with. Many will dismiss it with 'another old magic book'. But those in the know have carefully studied it and hold it dear as one of the most valuable books for a working professional magician.

It is the original and the only one of four places where Annemann's bullet catch is described, because it was Orville Meyer who supplied Annemann with the method. All the three other places where this is described are out of print and hard to impossible to find.

And now this lost Orville Meyer gem has been made even more valuable by extensive annotations and a new...

On this download DVD are countless Ken Brooke movies showing him demonstrating and performing some of his classic routines together with many effects from Harry Stanley's Unique Magic Studio in London ... but best of all ...

Patrick Page has provided a remarkable and informative live sound commentary for this fabulous video compilation.

Martin Breese acquired the copyright to all of the Unique Magic Studio material some years ago. Amongst the many Unique Studio items were a number of silent movies and many of these featured the amazing magic of the amazing Ken Brooke – one of the most loved British magicians of...

This is the second part of the masterfully written classic work on magic. Together with Routined Manipulation Part One and Routined Manipulation Finale it is an excellent work on sleight-of-hand magic. The effects taught are suitable from stage and parlor to intimate settings of close-up magic.

This volume has a large section on billiard ball manipulation. Barrows Mussey calls it 'the best thing in print on the subject'. And Al Koran's Blindfold Card Act is a beauty on its own.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This in combination with Routined Manipulation Part Two and Routined Manipulation Finale is one of the best magic books ever published. Each routine is clearly explained mostly with photos and some illustrations. Many classic effects are described in detail. And the essay "Presentation of Manipulation" is a must read for any magician. It includes presentation, dress and appearance, care of the hands, make up, stage setting, music, personality, lighting, a.s.o.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is a highly underrated magic book written by one of the masters and scholars of magic, John Mulholland, that is now again available in digital form as ebook. It comes with a brand new introduction by Ben Robinson, the expert on John Mulholland.

Here is an ebook of magic feats from countries all around the world that will delight aspiring young and old magicians alike.

John Mulholland drew on many years of experience as a performer. The result was this splendid collection of tricks, mysterious and fascinating to see, with which you can entertain your friends or paying clients.

Among the tricks...

This wonderful publication is subtitled: First lecture in England in Years. Illustrated by Ken de Courcy. McComb is at his best with a range of props from ropes, balls, egg-bags, cards, and more.

1st edition 1990; 20 pages.

2. McComb-ical Billiard Ball Extravaganza
3. About Face Card Stunt
4. McComb-ical Cheap Girl, Post and Ropes
5. When you "Haven't Anything with YOU"
6. Egg-less Bag-less Egg Bag
7. The Money Saving McComb-ical Rice Bowls
8. Hank to Egg Repeat with Sucker Finish
9. New Traveling Dove Feeder
10. Finish to the Diminishing Cards
11. Get Credit where you Can
12. Whiskey Egg-Bag Finish
14. Booking ... All...

Sidelights on some classics

• The Coin Jar
• Nest of Boxes
• No Lock "Locked" Key
• "Brainwave" Presentation

• The Great Slate Test
• The LePaul Hoax
• Method for a Marlo Miracle #183
• X-Ray Box

Seven effects from Paul's professional act with magic ranging from stage, close-up to parlor effects for the real world magician. The effects include

• Duck Call Gag
• Clean Sweep
• Business Card Switcharoo
• Poor Magician's Confabulation
• Dove/Plane Gag
• Newspaper Umbrella Trick
• Pin Number
• Bearly Impossible Solo
• Bonus routine: Chinese Cookie

1st edition 2009; 42 pages.