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Percy Abbott

(Sydney, Australia: 3rd May 1886 - 26th August 1960)

Orphaned at age 8. Became interested in magic at age 12. Left home at age 14 to tour vaudeville circuits in Australia. Pro performer. Manager of H.L. Hutchinson's "New York Novelty Company" in Sydney 1909 - October 1911. Then on own as dealer in his "Magician's Supply Depot" in Sydney since late 1911. Leaving his business to brother Clarence, Percy toured Australia and Far East 1914-24. Ghost show and "Hall of Novelties" shop in a Sydney arcade 1916. Moved to USA in 1925.

Co-founder and co-owner (with Harry Blackstone) of the Blackstone Magic Company in Colon, Michigan, 1927-31. Founder-owner in 1933 (with Recil Bordner as junior partner since 1934) of Abbott's Magic Manufacturing Company in Colon. Retired in 1959. Pirated and marketed (since December 1933) "Doc" Zola's Squash, which became known as "The Trick that built the Abbott Magic Company". Similarly with Gwynne's Temple of Benares (since 1940). And again with Fox's Miracle Gimmick (by 1949).

Invented (or so he claimed) Spotting the Block (by 1925), Bowl of Water Vanish (by 1940), Name It (miniature bar, by 1940), Fountain Bouquet (by 1940), Squeez-It (by 1940), and The Tiger (Feb 1940).

Published Tops 1936-59. Wrote Abbott's Magic for Magicians (1934, 56pp), etc. Tricks in New Tops. Memoir is A Life Time in Magic (1960, 132pp).

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Abbott Magic Catalog #6 1940 (used) by Percy Abbott

This catalog has a soft cover and a glue binding. The cover is stained, creased, and bruised. An ink stain affects the edges of about the first half of the catalog but this is only visible on the edge and does not cover any content. We also offer a digital facsimile edition of this collectible catalog.

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Percy Abbott
Sensational Spirit Cabinet Act by Percy Abbott

A modern seance, with a tie that is like lightning for speed, and yet is the most convincing of all ties. Each wrist is securely tied with a length of rope. Any number of knots may be used and knots can be sealed. The ends of the rope are made secure to the back of the chair. Feet are also tied to chair legs. All ties are thoroughly inspected and the committee is convinced that there is no slack in the ropes and that magician is really secure. The cabinet is placed around magi ready for the tests. For instance, a card is selected and shuffled back into the pack, the pack placed between the...

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Abbott Magic Catalog #6 1940 by Percy Abbott

If you have never looked through one of these big magic catalogs this one is a good example. Even though WWII had already started Abbott's was offering almost 2000 magic items for sale. They had pretty much everything one can think of.

1st edition 1940, 544 pages.

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New Tops February 1975 (used) by Percy Abbott

This is the February 1975 issue of The New Tops magazine with John Thompson on the cover. Stapled issue in very good condition.

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New Tops June 1970 (used) by Percy Abbott

This is the June 1970 issue of The New Tops magazine with Spurlock on the cover. Stapled issue in very good condition.

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New Tops May 1970 (used) by Percy Abbott

This is the May 1970 issue of The New Tops magazine with Robert Mason on the cover. Stapled issue in very good condition.

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Percy Abbott
Nite Club Illusions and Illusionettes (used) by Percy Abbott

Softcover staple bound. Staples are not the original staples. Has been restapled. Published by Abbott's Magic. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

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Abbott Magic Catalog #14 by Percy Abbott

This catalog #14 is for whatever reason less common than the other Abbott catalogs. It included a tipped in sheet advertising six Robert Orben books.

86 pages.

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Percy Abbott
Nite Club Illusions and Illusionettes by Percy Abbott
  • Abbott's Chinese Chopper
  • The Chinese Straight Jacket
  • Cutting A Woman In Half
  • Walking Through A Ribbon
  • Spikes Through The Wrist
  • The Girl With The Pincushion Head
  • The Doni Rose Miniature Doll House
  • Abbott's Rod Through Girl
  • The Hindu Basket Trick
  • Nite-Club Girl Vanish
  • The Sword Box
  • The Cane Cabinet
  • Sword Cabinet Illusion
  • The Golem Illusion
  • Modernistic Amputation

1966 edition; PDF 31 pages

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Percy Abbott
Magic Card System by Percy Abbott

This is one of the books that Abbott published for the troops during wartime in the 1940's. It uses Si Stebbins system, except the step size is 4 rather than 3, also known as "The Riverboat Stack" or "Mark Twain Stack" (see New Card Tricks with the Mark Twain Stack). Routines can be performed with most other stacks.

  • Foreword
  • The Magic Card System: The Rules That Make It Work
  • Effect Number One: A Skeptical Spectator Interrupts
  • Effect Number Two
    • It Might Happen To You
    • Effect Number Two As Performed By Two Persons
  • Effect Number Three
  • Effect Number Four
  • Effect Number Five
    • The Effect Done With An Assistant
  • Effect Number Six ...
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Tops all Volumes 1-22 (1936-1957) by Percy Abbott

Tops was the house organ of the Abbott Magic & Novelty Co. Percy Abbott, the company founder and owner, served as the magazine's first editor as well as publisher. In 1940, Howard "Mel" Melson, Abbott's staff artist, began editing Tops, and continued doing so until his death in 1957, when the magazine ceased publication. It was succeeded in 1961 by The New Tops.

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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 22 (1957) by Percy Abbott

January 1957 - December 1957
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

93 pages - 3 Issues

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 22, Number 1 - January 1957 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Percy Abbott
  3. Contents
  4. Reversed Six card Repeat (111) - Simplified Method - Roxy
  5. Report On Chicago Magigals Assembly No. 9 - Sylvia Smith
  6. re: The Great Levante
  7. Dramatic Living and Dead Test
  8. Thimbles, Thimbles - Again and Again - Roxy
  9. re: Monk Watson
  10. Ring-String - Ray Hutchinson
  11. re: Chami Kkan
  12. Amazing Card Miracles - Mahendra, The Mystic (F. B. Sterling)
    • Design for Wrist Watch Gimmic ...
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Tops Volume 21 (1956) by Percy Abbott

January 1956 - December 1956
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

389 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 21, Number 1 - January 1956 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Mel
  3. Contents
  4. Bank Night Supreme - Roxy
  5. Aero Silks - Bert Douglas
  6. Another Thumb Tie
    • Patter and Presentation
  7. Canary Asrah - George Jo0hnstone
  8. re: feather flower cleaning
  9. A Rising Card Climax - Bert Douglas
  10. Cards, Nuts and Bill
  11. Rapid Flight Cards - Karson
  12. A Tip, Magi and Hypnotists
  13. Bitzemall Egg Bag - Roxy
  14. Blindfold Magic
  15. All Do As I Do
  16. re: Mrs. Audrey Guido blindfold drive
  17. Encyclopedia...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 20 (1955) by Percy Abbott

January 1955 - December 1955
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 20, Number 1 - January 1955 - 32 pages
  2. Floating Handkerchief
  3. Perfect Transpo-Card - Rovelli (Tenente Jose Silvestre)
  4. Silks in Chick-A-Dee - Anthony Dunn
  5. Useful Cigarette Sleights - Roxy
    • Number One
    • Number Two
    • Number Three
  6. Another Torn Restored Newspaper - Wilford Hutchinson
  7. Penetra - Roxy
  8. Tricks of East Indian Magicians - Part 3 - Eddie Joseph
    • The Cups and Balls
      • The Sleights
      • The Routine
    • The Egg Bag
  9. Handkerchief-Rope...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 19 (1954) by Percy Abbott

January 1954 - December 1954
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

389 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 19, Number 1 - January 1954 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Mel
  3. Contents
  4. Ultra Four-Ace Trick - Billy Bell
  5. Fifty-Fifty - S. Stern
    • Second Method
    • Suggestions for Preparing Props
  6. Drum Head Tube Routine - James Reneaux
  7. Simple Memorization
  8. re: Goodliffe
  9. re: Monk Watson
  10. The Spider and the Pips - Lu Brant
  11. Predicto - A Super Mental Card Test - Roxy
  12. Some Patter in Rhyme
    • Dyeing or Color Changing
    • For Children's Shows
    • For Dyeing Other Colors ...
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Tops Volume 18 (1953) by Percy Abbott

January 1953 - December 1953
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 18, Number 1 - January 1953 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Percy Abbott
  3. Contents
  4. Magical Card Finesse - Jerry Hornak
    • Sleights with Cards
      • A Rare Control
      • A Succeeding Control
      • Riffle Strip Control
      • Three Controls
        • Basic Move
        • 1 - Side Slip Action
        • 2 - Palm Slip Action
        • 3 - The Crimp Action
      • Ace Control
  5. Remember Twenty-Two - Dr. Maurice
  6. Some Magical Twists - V. C. Kitchen
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 17 (1952) by Percy Abbott

January 1952 - December 1952
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 17, Number 1 - January 1952 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Mel
  3. Contents
  4. A Novel Ring Release - Oswald Harrington
  5. Three Minds and a Card - A Different Working Method - Roxy
  6. Bird Cage in Square Circle - Louis Ward
  7. A Flash Billiard Ball Sleight - Cleveland Miller, Jr.
  8. Color Changing Balls - Prince Drakon
  9. Two E-Z Card Sleights - Roxy
  10. Astrologia - Howard P. Albright - continued
    • Sealed Message Reading Routine No. 2
    • Prompter-Cards for Use in Connection...
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Tops Volume 16 (1951) by Percy Abbott

January 1951 - December 1951
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 16, Number 1 - January 1951 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Mel
  3. Contents
  4. Lota-Gorda - George F. Wright
  5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Good Wishes
  6. Matching the Card - Carl C. Newbold
  7. Spotting the Spot - Eddie Joseph
  8. Envelope and Handkerchief - Augustus Rapp
  9. Coin and Matchbox Effect - Joseph Ovette
  10. [Stewart] James Case Dismissed
  11. So It's Laughs You Want! - Bob Brethen
    • Fun with Talking Teeth
    • The Party - A Skit with Talking Teeth
  12. A Card in Balloon Idea - Joseph...
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Tops Volume 15 (1950) by Percy Abbott

January 1950 - December 1950
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 15, Number 1 - January 1950 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Mel
  3. Contents
  4. Wright's Steal Pass - George F. Wright
  5. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Death of Tom Bowyer
    • reviews
      • Mental Magic - Al Baker
    • Origin of the Center Tear
    • Questions and Answers
  6. cartoon - Otho Blake
  7. A Close-Up Fooler - Clettis V. Musson
  8. Passed Through a Flame - Ken de Courcy
  9. For Vents Only - George McAthy
    • Dialog - Ed Hall ...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 14 (1949) by Percy Abbott

January 1949 - December 1949
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 14, Number 1 - January 1949 - 32 pages
  2. With the Editor - Mel
  3. Contents
  4. An Appreciation! - Percy Abbott - re: Howard Melson
  5. A Toast to the Flag
  6. New Indianapolis Store Open
  7. re: Edgar Bergen & Jim Sherman
  8. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • reviews
      • new effect from Eddie Joseph
      • Forbidden Wisdom - Howard Albright
      • I.O.U. - C. V. Tebbetis
      • Six Foolers with a Miniature Skull - Eddie Joseph - re; Skullo
      • Laugh Card ...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 13 (1948) by Percy Abbott

January 1948 - December 1948
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

393 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 13, Number 1 - January 1948 - 32 pages
  2. Cover - Bill Baird
  3. With the Editor - Mel
  4. Contents
  5. Bill Baird - "BB" for Billiard Balls!
  6. Cook Heads Montana Magi
  7. re: Dr. Aaron Weiss
  8. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Questions and Answers
  9. Vancouver Magic Circle
  10. re: Herb Antes
  11. re: J. C. Bisbee
  12. Thought Lost (or The Flying Signature) - R. F. Sparks
  13. Features Abbott Effects - photo - re: Tommy Windsor
  14. Panama Rope Trick Idea - Carroll...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 12 (1947) by Percy Abbott

January 1947 - December 1947
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

393 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 12, Number 1 - January 1947 - 32 pages
  2. Cover - Kathryne Campbell
  3. With the Editor - Mel
  4. Contents
  5. Kathryne Campbell - Vent with Loring!
  6. Colorado Magicians Honor [J. B.] Bobo
  7. re: John Musselman
  8. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • reviews
      • You Don't Have To Be Crazy Bit It Helps - Francis Ireland
      • Million-Dollar Bridge and Poker Demonstartions - Thompson
      • Dope Sheet - Tommy Windsor
      • 12 Ways to Use The Comedy Lit Cigar...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 11 (1946) by Percy Abbott

January 1946 - December 1946
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 11, Number 1 - January 1946 - 32 pages
  2. Cover - Duke Stern
  3. With the Editor - Mel
  4. Contents
  5. Duke Stern - Gay Musicican-Magician
  6. Ideas on "Repeat-It" - J. Milton Crowson
  7. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • reviews
      • More Tips on Tricks - Milbourne Christopher
      • Hugard's Magic Monthly, Volumes 1 & 2 - bound volume
      • My Best - J. G. Thompson, Jr., compiler
      • The Owl - periodical
    • Questions and Answers
  8. re:...
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Tops Volume 10 (1945) by Percy Abbott

January 1945 - December 1945
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

385 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 10, Number 1 - January 1945 - 32 pages
  2. Cover - Cazan
  3. With the Editor - Mel
  4. Contents
  5. Cazan - The Girl Houdini!
  6. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • reviews
      • The Trick Brain - Dariel Fitzkee
      • The Modern Magi, November
      • Card Mastery - Michael MacDougall
    • Questions and Answers
  7. Magic Promotes War Drives
  8. Drink Your Milk - Gene Gloye
  9. Stoogeless Tie Trick - Sheldon Levy
  10. Or Would You Rather Be a Dope? - McAthy's...
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Tops Volume 9 (1944) by Percy Abbott

January 1944 - December 1944
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

389 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 9, Number 1 - January 1944 - 32 pages
  2. Cover - Joe Ovette
  3. With the Editor - Mel
  4. Contents
  5. The Great Ovette - Nuff Said!
  6. Thanks for Holiday Greetings - Percy Abbott
  7. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • reviews
      • Tarbell Course, Volume 3
      • Fleming Book Reviews No. 50
      • Hugard's Magic Monthly, December
    • Questions and Answers
  8. re: Bob Haxton
  9. re: John J. Oakes
  10. "Magic on Broadway" - Al Minder
  11. Talk About Philadelphia...
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Tops Volume 8 (1943) by Percy Abbott

January 1943 - December 1943
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

393 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 8, Number 1 - January 1943 - 32 pages
  2. Cover - R. S. Glover
  3. With the Editor - Mel
  4. Contents
  5. Meet Professor Glover, M. M.
  6. Another Milk Vanish Idea - "Hen" Fetsch
  7. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Tarbell Course, Volume 2
    • Miracle Methods Number Three - book - Hugrad & Braue
    • Easy Magic - "Windy Higgins" with Paul Stadelman
    • Questions and Answers
  8. Karrell Fox Serves Magic
  9. re: Dell O'Dell
  10. Magician Plays Alaskan Circuit -...
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Tops Volume 7 (1942) by Percy Abbott

January 1942 - December 1942
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

413 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 7, Number 1 - January 1942 - 36 pages
  2. Cover - Sid Lorraine
  3. With the Editor
  4. Contents
  5. The Facts of Life in the case of Sid Lorraine
  6. Land and Water Trick
  7. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • The Figure Fiend - book - R. A. Burley
    • Mother Goose Mystery - trick - Martin Gardner
    • Questions and Answers
  8. Color Prediction - Joseph Brandi
  9. The Campbell Caravan - Loring and Kathryne Campbell
  10. Super-X Scores in Show
  11. Magical Crossword...
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Tops Volume 6 (1941) by Percy Abbott

January 1941 - December 1941
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

638 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 6, Number 1 - January 1941 - 52 pages
  2. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
  3. Editorial - Mel
  4. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Questions and Answers
  5. Jumbo Discovery - Bryce Chambers
  6. Bingo - A New Clever Novelty Trick
  7. re: J. C. Bisbee
  8. Where Was I? - "Monk" Watson
  9. The Card Trick Without a Deck - Allan Lambie
  10. Sucker Die Box Gag
  11. Chinese Lantern Trick - Otto Waldmann
  12. The Stuck Card Trick
  13. Bury Peter Rabbit
  14. Swann Suggested...
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Tops Volume 5 (1940) by Percy Abbott

January 1940 - December 1940
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor
Howard Melson "Mel", Editor

636 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1940 - 52 pages
  2. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
  3. Editorial - Percy Abbott
  4. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • 1940 Good Wishes to You and Yours
    • A Magici8an in the House - Sid Lorraine - correction
    • Testimonial
  5. Magicians Guild of America - Recil Bordner
  6. Fitzkee's Story - Dariel Fitzkee
  7. The Magicians Guild Convention - Ken MacEachin
  8. E. J. Moore Sick Fund
  9. Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun
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Tops Volume 4 (1939) by Percy Abbott

January 1939 - December 1939
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

621 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 4, Number 1 - January 1939 - 60 pages
  2. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
  3. Editorial - Percy Abbott
    • WE Give Thanks
  4. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • A Few Questions and Answers
  5. "Majah", Indian Mystic
  6. re: Will Rock
  7. "Greater Magic"
  8. New York State Conclave
  9. Dusting Off Some Old Ones - Eddie Joseph
    • The Travelling Coins - Joseph's Routine
  10. Conjuring Potpourri - John Braun
  11. Corrections - for December Issue of "Potpourri"
  12. Fleming Trophy...
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Percy Abbott
Tops Volume 3 (1938) by Percy Abbott

January 1938 - December 1938
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

659 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 3, Number 1 - January 1938 - 52 pages
  2. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
  3. Editorial - Percy Abbott
    • Happy Birthday To You
  4. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Pig On the Slate by U. F. Grant not Oswald Williams
    • Loyd's Mystery Wand - trick
    • Questions and Answers
  5. The Permeating Pasteboard - Arthur H. Roberts
  6. Accumulated Magic - Ed Burchell
    • Cigarette Vanish
    • Another Cigarette Vanish
    • Eating A Lighted Cigarette
    • Silk Production ...
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Tops Volume 2 (1937) by Percy Abbott

January 1937 - December 1937
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

649 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 2, Number 1 - January 1937 - 52 pages
  2. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
  3. Editorial - Percy Abbott
  4. New Magic Club - The Keystone Ring of Harrisburg
  5. Harlan Tarbell's Health
  6. The "Tops" Policy
  7. Is This A Pipe Dream? - letter from Julius Hopkins
  8. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
    • Thoughts About a Year of Tops
    • Questions and Answers
  9. Variation of Rope Trick - Erwin Forsythe
  10. The Drop Cigarette Move - Percy Abbott
  11. Continuous Front and Back Palm With Lighted...
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Tops Volume 1 (1936) by Percy Abbott

January 1936 - December 1936
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

585 pages

  1. The "Tops" - Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1936 - 36 pages
  2. The Policy of this Magazine
  3. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
  4. Trading Center - announcement
  5. Magicians Are The "Tops" - Alvin Richard Plough
  6. We Remember - Lester Lake (Marvelo)
  7. Our Nobel Prize For Today
    • Percy Abbott
  8. Continual Production of Lighted Pipes - Lu-Brent
  9. Why Not A Contest?
  10. I'm Telling You - H. Adrian Smith
    • Snooping Around In Magic
  11. Editorial - Percy Abbott
  12. The Coin Cards - W. C. Oates
  13. Tops and...
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Percy Abbott
49 Easy To Do Card Tricks by Percy Abbott

From the introduction:

Included in the 49 effects are some that are new and some that have been favorites of professional Magicians for years, but all of them have been tested on their merits as entertaining and mystifying tricks.

All of these tricks can be performed with any deck of playing cards, with little or no preparation beforehand, and in compiling them, it has been the aim to include only such tricks as may be performed simply with a pack of playing cards, without the necessity of any extra paraphernalia.

These tricks are easy to do, and may be performed once you have the directions...

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Percy Abbott
Abbott Magic Catalog #5 by Percy Abbott

This #5 catalog was a supplementary catalog to #4. It only listed the new effects Abbott could supply.

1st edition ?, 94 pages.

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Abbott Magic Catalog #13 1952 by Percy Abbott

In this catalog Eddie Joseph and all his publications and separately sold tricks received a separate section. Abbott is also operating their own printing presses and advertises to print business cards, letterheads, handbills and show cards for magicians. A price list is included at the very end.

  • Accessories
  • Balls
  • Bottles
  • Cages
  • Canes
  • Cards
  • Change Bags
  • Cigarettes
  • Club
  • Comedy
  • Dice
  • Eggs
  • Escapes
  • Fish
  • Flowers
  • Glasses
  • Illusions
  • Joseph
  • Light Bulbs
  • Linking Rings
  • Liquid
  • Livestock
  • Lotas
  • Mental
  • Milk
  • Money
  • Novelties
  • Paper
  • Parasols
  • Pocket
  • Printing
  • Reels
  • Rice Bowls
  • Rising...
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Percy Abbott
Abbott Magic Catalog #9 1947 by Percy Abbott

More than 800 pages of tricks, books, illusions, and other magic products.

1st edition 1947, 832 pages.

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Percy Abbott
Hellstromism (Abbott) by Percy Abbott

This lesson in telepathic experiments makes mind reading an understandable and practical thing. A method of reading one's thoughts that you can learn and apply. The secret mental equipment needed for your success as a mental performer. The late Axel Hellstrom, a German mental marvel, astounded the entire scientific world with his uncanny ability to read the thoughts of a person with whom he was in contact and to interpret these thoughts correctly. He would execute mental (not written) commands with lightning rapidity - find hidden articles wherever they were secreted - deliver sealed messages...

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Percy Abbott
Tops Treasury of Halloween Magic by Percy Abbott

Spooky effects and tips to help magicians create a Halloween atmosphere.

These are effects compiled from TOPS magazine, all suitable for Halloween. The ebook consists of three sections:

  1. SPOOKY MAGIC EFFECTS: Actual effects you can make or add to your Halloween show.
  2. HALLOWEEN STORIES and REVIEWS: Seances, magic spook shows, and scary stories in magic.
  3. REST IN PEACE TRICKS: If there is a graveyard of magic tricks then this is it.

1st digital edition 2011, 273 pages

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Percy Abbott
Abbott Magic Catalog #2 1935 by Percy Abbott

The second catalog already three times thicker.

1st edition 1935, 68 pages.

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Abbott Magic Catalog #1 1934 by Percy Abbott

This catalog started it all. It is the first one published in 1934, the start of a magic dynasty.

1st edition 1934, 23 pages.

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Percy Abbott
A Lifetime in Magic by Percy Abbott

Written by a man who spent seventy-four years ... a lifetime in magic! A professional magician, a world traveler, author, inventor, founder of the world's largest magic company. Percy Abbott, the 'Caliph of Colon', and magic are synonymous. In this ebook you will discover stories, experiences, secrets and advice that only a lifetime in magic can offer. You will uncover facts about the greats that will amaze you. There is a fund of information on tricks and illusions new to present day magicians.

Contents

  • Dedication
  • Memories
  • Foreword
  • The Chrystal Lantern
  • Comedy Snake Basket
  • Lost In...
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Percy Abbott
Magic for Magicians: Occidental and Oriental Mysteries by Percy Abbott

Excerpt from the Foreword:

Percy is an Australian and he has traveled all over the world, particularly in the Orient where he has searched out all the magic of the East. His head is full of the wonderful things that the Chinese, Japanese, East Indians and all those wonderful people of the East do.

We have had the opportunity to see and look through some of the Chinese books on magic and while we can’t read a word of it, yet the illustrations show some most ingenious devices and gimmicks and it is these things in which Abbott excells.

This new book runs the whole gamut of magic,...

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Percy Abbott
Improved Muscle Reading by Percy Abbott

The general effect and principle of Muscle Reading is that a person merely thinks of any object and you take hold of his wrist or hand and lead him to the article he is thinking of.

In this improved method, we have overcome several obstacles to insure picking out the right subjects so you cannot fail. As anyone giving public performances wishes to be sure he will be able to accomplish what he starts out to do, this is a big asset. We also have found a good reason for holding the subject's wrist, and last but not least have a practical apparent non-contact method. This throws the audience...

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Percy Abbott
Paper Magic by Percy Abbott

If you already have Bag-o-Trix you have this book. Although Percy Abbott put his name on the book, UF Grant said many of the ideas were his. This dispute later resulted in UF Grant leaving the Abbott company. There are over forty of the most unusual, unique and amazing new tricks that can be worked with paper. This is a new and untouched field. Paper tricks are easy to carry and are most effective. A few of the outstanding effects are:

  • The performer makes a paper fir tree - and then actually climbs it
  • A cabinet is made from paper - shown empty - and a girl crashes through it from apparently nowhere
  • A paper bag escape...
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