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Aenos 1 & 2
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Morriw Chang (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 14 July, 2026)
Interesting ebook that briefly touches on presentation and meeting some of the bigger names in Magic. Should I know these information are readily available in public domain I would probably not purchase this. Good read nevertheless.
Lubor Fiedler: a genius like no other
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by WERNER LIEBIG
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 13 July, 2026)
Dear Mr Wasshuber!
I send you my warmest regards and, on behalf of my best friend and magical godfather, I would like to thank you for the wonderful work you have created with this book!
Now Lubor can surely carry on thinking as he wished!
If there is a heaven, he will weep with joy there!
Now he has a dignified and indestructible gravestone, ensuring that this genius will never be forgotten!
With magical regards from Venezuela,
yours most sincerely,
Werner Liebig
Fundamentals
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Craig Daniel (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 11 July, 2026)
Incredible! Well worth it! This goes right alongside Bob's books: Artful Mentalism. The effects and the performing wisdom are great. Worth twice the price.
The Flying Carpet Illusion
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Kenneth Wofford (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 10 July, 2026)
Very nice workshop plans! Diagrams and explanations in good detail for those with the inclination to build a classic suspension.
Matching the Cards with Ease
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by hal barlow (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 08 July, 2026)
This is a valuable addition to this classic trick, which Dai Vernon called the "best card trick for layman". Well worth the price.
Grant's Fabulous Feats of Mental Magic
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 05 July, 2026)
U.F. Grant's ideas are always clever. They are often a tiny bit different from a popular trick that almost everyone knows...so it will fool those people too. This book will make you think, but since the material is a little dated, you may have to rework things to make something work in today's environment. For example, if carbon paper is mentioned, there is not as much of that around, but art stores have a product like carbon paper, to transfer a drawing to a canvas before painting it in, and it works with the same material as pencil lead...graphite. This product alone inspires some thought about mentalism billets, etc. This is my idea...not in the book...of how to update certain things. One other is a telephone book test. There aren't so many telephone books around today, so maybe make it about some other kind of book. See what I mean about maybe having to make small changes to what is written to "update" the material.
4 Most
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 05 July, 2026)
Quick tricks that seem to happen in the spectator's own hands are always welcome. Or, you can work faster if you deal the cards yourself. Usually a simple setup is required and then use your favorite false-shuffles and cuts, and viola.
Symbolics
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 28 June, 2026)
Don't be fooled by the brevity of this short publication. It conveys plenty of useful tips and ideas including several shuffles and is a really good introduction to the use of ESP cards and a cyclic stack.
ESP Card Magic Vol. 1: Nick Trost Part 1
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Larry Ekin (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 28 June, 2026)
Aldo Colombini provides a masterclass that reveals the depth and breadth of Nick Trost's thinking. The production might be considered quite minimalist by modern standards, but I like this succinct and focused approach. We are given the tools, but the construction of a presentation or routine is left to us and our own creativity. Even if you do not build a routine around one of these, the knowledge conveyed is invaluable.
Back in Its Place
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 25 June, 2026)
This is a marvelous trick. It is well thought out and has a nice presentation. I'm deducting one star for the lack of any crediting. Even at first glance, I noticed a similarity to Bill Simon's Business Card Prophecy move.
Other than the lack of crediting, this is a great release and a nice gift from Mr. Jonas.
Coloring (Blow) Book
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by David Gabbay
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 24 June, 2026)
I was shown this a few years ago. There is a wonderful display taught that really solidifies the color-changing pages. It is natural and definitely enhances the magical nature of this effect. If you perform this trick in any capacity, this idea is well worth a few bucks.
The Gaff Factory: A comprehensive dry-mounting tutorial
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Francis Menotti (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 23 June, 2026)
This is an immensely useful guide to the creation of various gaffed cards. The possibilities are endless.
Thought Swiper
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Kevin Needham (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 23 June, 2026)
I’m just now discovering this effect in 2026 even though it’s been out for several years. This used in conjunction with Invisibe Deck or any other “prediction” effect is absolutely MIND-BLOWING!
You can learn the method in under 5 minutes. No mechanics or special gimmicks. NO FORCE….the spectator absolutely thinks of ANY card and you almost instantly know what it is and you can do the reveal in any way your imagination takes you.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Coloring (Blow) Book
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Patricia Ireland
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 21 June, 2026)
I'm a big fan of Mr. Tilley's magic (and would be even if he weren't a college friend). This product illustrates what a gorgeous trick the Blow Book is and offers useful advice about performing it.
The Royal Road to Card Magic
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jeffrey ferrer (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 18 June, 2026)
I love this book because I want to be a magician someday. Thank you
Kardyro's Kolossal Kompendium of Klever and Kommercial Klose-Up
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Shaun Robison (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 17 June, 2026)
Great little booklet of information. There is always a hidden gem in every book you read. I've already found 2 that I've added to my set.
Paper Folding Formula
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Shaun Robison (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Wednesday 17 June, 2026)
I have enjoyed all of these and have made almost every one of them. Easy to understand and follow.
The Art of Mentalism 3
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Craig Daniel (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 16 June, 2026)
It's Bob Cassidy - what else need I say.
Bob had a different, cleaner, i.e., no props, way of performing. And what he gives is based on years and thousands of performances. His explanations are clear and cover everything you need to know, including some pitfalls you may encounter.
Between Bob Cassidy and Richard Osterlind, the art of mentalism is covered.
3 Lies 4 Cards Deckless Divination
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Richard Weber (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 13 June, 2026)
I performed this for the first time tonight and had a great reaction. I like that it is a trick that uses cards but does not need them physically. It can all be performed as a near propless conversation. Although at one stage I handed over my phone so that my subject could refer to a chart that I had prepared as a image. I made three small tweaks to the effect, strengthening it I think, but possible because I know a memorised deck. The highlight of the effect was when I announced that my subject had been thinking about the date of 1st January. He was completely agog that I could know that.
The Sign of the Five
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by DARRIN COOK (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 09 June, 2026)
Having seen the last reviewer give this routine two stars, I wanted to see that the late Aldo gets a fair review. The main criticism was that, although the routine is advertised as “impromptu,” “without difficult sleights,” and “almost automatic,” while requiring “minimal skill” and “very little effort,” it is actually more demanding and requires at least an intermediate degree of skill with cards.
My question was, “If you know that the routine is not self-working, is it a worthwhile purchase?” Unfortunately, the answer is no.
Even if the routine is not technically demanding, such as needing perfect faro shuffles, it is heavily procedural. There’s dealing cards into piles, placing cards on piles, picking up piles in a certain order, counting of 21 cards, counting of 26 cards, adding the values of three cards and dealing down to that sum, etc.
For example, the first effect requires knowing the card at the 22nd position in the deck. The reader is supposed to glimpse the tenth card, then perform a “reverse faro” of another 12 cards, which are then set on top of the deck. There’s no sleight, but that’s a lot of procedure.
There are references to, but no explanations of, double undercuts, false shuffles, and false cuts.
There are problems in translation, such as a reference to “Indian shuffles,” but I have no idea what that means. (Hindu shuffles? But the process isn’t explained.) Also, “Invite a spectator to select a card. Control it on the deck using one of your favorite methods.”
As much as I love and respect Aldo, this manuscript doesn’t do him justice.
The Sign of the Five
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Javier De La Hera (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 08 June, 2026)
Let me begin by saying I have nothing but the utmost respect and admiration towards The Great Aldo Colombini. His contributions to Magic and his performances are legendary, and belong in any present or future written history of our Art. Aldo has definitely made Magic history as one of the Greats and deserves all the recognition we can give him.
That said, I want to explain why I'm only giving 2 stars to this latest offering in English. My field is Mentalism/Bizarre Magic. That means I put presentation above everything else. I'm always on the lookout for clever methods from all areas of Magic that allow me to focus on giving a dramatic experience to my audience, without having to worry about technical finger acrobatics. I usually take a look at new card routines I didn't know before when they are presented as no skill, self-working or some such description. They might give me ideas I can adapt to tarot cards, alphabet cards, index cards or even use as given with playing cards, adapting it with my own patter and presentation.
Here comes my problem: THIS IS NOT A NO SKILL ROUTINE OR EVEN A MINIMAL SKILL ROUTINE. It is advertised as such though, and that's why I bought it. This routine requires you to know basic to intermediate sleigth of hand with cards. Aldo assumes you have a "favorite method" to place cards in positions needed and you will know how to do false cuts and shuffles, and other assorted moves. This should not be advertised in the self-working/no skill category. "No skill" means you focus on presentation and "moves" aren't needed. I do not consider a routine to be "no skill needed" or minimal skill if have to perform false shuffles and cuts not explained, place cards in position via double undercuts or overhand shuffles and such. Those are sleight of hand routines however basic you may think the sleight of hand is.
I'm very grateful to Aldo for all the truly no skill, self-working brilliant material I've gotten from him through the years. And for his wonderful performances. But this was a let down.
Caveat Emptor!
3 Lies 4 Cards Deckless Divination
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Kevin Needham (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 02 June, 2026)
This is absolutely brilliant! Once you learn this and with a small amount of practice, you will want to perform this as often as possible. The method is pretty simple and straightforward, yet the results are astonishing to say the least. To be able to reveal a birthday (or if you already know the spectator's birthday, ANY day of the year that they are thinking of) based on 3 lies about 4 cards, and while only THINKING of the 4th card, seems very unlikely and utterly impossible. This effect is one that I will definitely be using as often as possible. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Get This Now, you will not be disappointed.
GiSulHak: The Art of Conjuring
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 30 May, 2026)
Sometimes I get a book purely out of interest in it from a scholarly perspective. I don't always expect something earth-shattering. This book, though, has some interesting things. Beyond that, I am interested in how ideas in the arts seem to have flowed from China to Okinawa to Japan, and then to Korea. It will take me a while to decide if this pattern happened here, but I can say that if you are a bit of an historian, you may like this for scholarly reasons. If you are new to magic, you might like the tricks more than someone steeped in ancient magic.
Annemann's Test of the Tiber
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 30 May, 2026)
Anything by Annemann always catches my eye. I didn't have this one before, so I immediately wanted it. Besides being by Annemann, his items often have art by Nelson Hahne, who is one of my favorite artists. Finally, when the idea has any Al Baker thinking in it, I want it even more. So, this is a "Win, win, win".
Street Conjuror's Coins Across
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Jim Short (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Friday 29 May, 2026)
"Street Conjuror's Coins Across" is sort of a coins across. It's a transposition between a copper coin and a silver coin. It's super easy and the transposition looks nice. The coin shown last is legit, and that's the one that would have the most heat on it.
I wouldn't do this as a stand-alone. It's more of an interlude that could be included in a longer routine. I think that way, the use of two otherwise superfluous silver coins could be justified. I'm thinking of pairing it with Miguel Angel Gea's "Inferential Wild Coin", but anything using multiple coins with two different types of coins would work. This would be a nice lead-in for "Coins of Ishtar" by Jules DeBarros, for example.
En Rapport
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Luke Jonas (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 24 May, 2026)
Well worth the price of admission. Old but Gold.
Orgasm of Astonishment
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Bart Raeymaekers
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 19 May, 2026)
I purchased this little wonder from Mr. Gerats himself. Besides a routine (which is a twist to a classic) with a strong impact, that is easy to understand for most audiences and immediately resets, you also get an inside to Ferry's presentation of this routine. By reading the included text you see how he adds a high value of amusement and how he covers necessary manipulations. In my opinion, this routine is a valuable lesson for every performing magician.
Dai Vernon: L'Uomo Che Inganno' Houdini
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Emilio Barzanò (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Saturday 16 May, 2026)
Interessante e con una bibliografia incredibile
Dr. Q's Tarot Telepathy
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Stan Sieler (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Thursday 14 May, 2026)
This is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a "telepathy" routine.
There is absolutely no communication of any information about any Tarot card whatsoever.
Instead, it's primarily a few dozen canned readings, organized by querent's gender and age (the only two things communicated, and that not particularly subtly).
Quite disappointing.
"Outs" Precautions and Challenges
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Tuesday 12 May, 2026)
While this may seem like a way to protect yourself from a spectator who gives the wrong information, at the end of a trick, as a way of screwing up the magician just to be mean, I noticed something else. Especially useful to young magicians wanting to get into mentalism, the many ploys and procedures outlined here are useful to someone other than just card guys, and girls. I can remember Ricky Jay once did the Signed Bill in Lemon, and the spectator said at the end "That's not my signature" just to be mean. Imagine if Ricky had a nail writer handy, or some impression device. He knew how to forge signatures. He could have come up with an ending that didn't seem like a failure. I highly recommend this book, especially to young mentalists out there.