Percy Naldrett

(Worthing, Sussex, England: 17th May 1888 - 28th September 1973)

Printer by trade. Semi-pro magician since 1905. Magic collector. Wrote Magic of the Moment (1912, 50pp), Magical Notes and Notions (1913, 36pp), Miscellaneous Magic (1913, 48pp), Moments of Mystery (1914, 48pp), with H.C. Mole, More Miscellaneous Magic (1919, 50pp), More Collected Magic (1921, 91pp), and Further Expert Magic (1923). Edited Magic Circular 1938-49. Biographer is J.B. Findlay, Percy Naldrett, a Memoir together with a check list of his publications (1969, 17pp).

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Collected Magic Series Volume 1

Percy Naldrett

Excerpt from the introduction by Nevil Maskelyne:

The articles contained in this book have been written by good friends of mine. With some of them I have had the privilege of working, both in public and as officers of the Magic Circle. All of them are men well qualified to deal with the subjects they respectively discuss. Not only so, they have the faculty, sometimes lacking in writers upon magical subjects, of making their literature interesting. It is not too much to say of some magical works that they are deadly dull to read. No such reproach can be brought against this series of articles. The ideas...

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Expert Magic: Collected Magic Series Volume 3

Percy Naldrett

The Compiler's Excuse
"A Touching Trick"
"Spotting the Winner"
"A Card Catastrophe"
"The Mystic Sunflower"
"Guess!"
"The Enchanted Fan"
The Penetrative Pocket-knife
"The Painted Skeleton"
A New Principle for the "Four Aces," with marked Cards
"Silk and Tissue"
"An Episode in Three Reels"
Effects with Billiard Balls
"A Jar of Incense"
A Card and Cigarette Paper Combination

1st edition 1922, 93 pages; PDF 50 pages.

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Further Expert Magic: Collected Magic Series Volume 4

Percy Naldrett

Excerpt from the preface:

It is to be supposed (and profoundly hoped) that something good may be found herein: a quantity of sketches of more or less merit; certain idioms straight from the American; strange words in italic with wriggly accents; and, possibly, one or two typographical errors (the light is so bad in my attic and the gas has been cut off for many months past).

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A Conjuring Comedy with a Cone
A Pound Note Problem
"Rainbow Waves"
"Cut and Come Again"
The "Eureka" Mechanical Four-Ace Stand
"An Unusual Opening"
A Coin Gathering Idea
"Making a Candle Light" ...

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More Magical Experiments: Collected Magic Series Volume 5

Percy Naldrett

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The first volume of this never-to-be-too-much-praised series of pragmatical, pneumatical and windy problems I published for love; the second for fame, the third for a wager, the fourth from habit and this present one which you now hold in your much too shaky hands, for money.

Alas, it is so with all enthusiasm and desire: something fades. But, I promise you, this is not the last you will hear of me. Be frolic then, and delve into and dig out from herein the information you so much desire; but I pray that you may not discover from whom I borrow my preliminary thunder. ...

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Collected Magic Series Volume 6

Percy Naldrett

Excerpt from the introduction:

Remember, I beg of you, as you read this book, that one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and have hope within you, that you may discover herein the very item your frousty programme lacks. Believe me, the age of miracles has not ceased.

And you, critics, reviewers and turnip-munchers, bestir your jaded parrots in praise of this book, but whether you boom it or burst it, consider also this: that all the secret subtleties, the cute little, quaint little moves, the tricks of affectation and of style, all the glory and delight of accidental discovery,...

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The Magical Miscellany: Collected Magic Series Volume 7

Percy Naldrett

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The Magic Spell
New Patter for the “Trouble-Wit”
The Sympathetic Cubes
The Card Discs
“Shoo!”
A Production Banner
The “How-on-Earth” Tube
The “What-do-you-call-it”
The Enclosure
Tubomania
A Silken Series
Vice Versa
Conjurer’s Quoits
“By”
The Penetrating Tumbler
Magnetised Thought
The Lady of the Rose
The Sympathetic Star
L’Envoi

1st edition 1926, 96 pages; PDF 63 pages.

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Collected Magic Series Volume 8

Percy Naldrett

Excerpt from the introduction:

No, my ever so constant and indefatigable readers, this book contains no marvels, but merely the practical effects of men who conjure, men who think and men who achieve, in contradistinction to the dreamers who dream.

I said just now that there was nothing startling in this book; but there is some very good Magic. The "Snowman" takes my fancy. True, it makes use of plaguey and never-sufficiently-damned tubes. The peculiar stringing of a pack of cards which you will find on page - (How can I tell on which page it will eventually appear!) is alone worth the...

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More Miscellaneous Magic

Percy Naldrett

Biographical Note
Foreword
The Prisoner
The Divining Clock
The Penetrative Card
"Body-Loading"
A variation of the Coin and Ball of Wool
A Card and Handkerchief Effect
Patter for the Mutilated Sunshade Problem
The Green Ray
An addition to the Penetrative Ink
A Colour-Changing Silk
Wrinkles
The "Dublin" Rabbit
A Subtle Force
A Camoflage Vanish

1st edition 1919; PDF 36 pages.

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Moments of Mystery

Percy Naldrett

Excerpt from the foreword:

The section contributed by Mr. H. C. MOLE, an enthusiastic amateur of Aintree, Liverpool, is a complete programme in itself, being a practical explanation of an illustrated Lecture delivered by Mr. Mole before the Northern Magical Society at Liverpool, in October, 1914. The programme is unique in that it consists of acceptable items not requiring executive skill or manipulative practice.

My own section consists of various useful ideas and suggestions of such a variety calculated to interest every performer whether amateur or professional.