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1911 Supplementary Catalogue of New TricksAugust RoterbergFrom the introduction:
The splendid array of tricks offered in the following pages is the result of a most careful selection from several hundred new ideas. Of these new tricks, I have embodied in this catalogue only those which I consider to be the very best, this being practically the first time that the majority of these tricks have been offered for sale. All descriptive matter is original with me and the illustrations have been made from my own ideas, under my personal supervision, great care having been taken to neither exaggerate nor misrepresent the effects in either the reading matter... | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
A1-MagicalMedia Catalog Fall 2000Michael MaxwellFull color catalog advertising videos and books.
1st edition 2000; 16 pages. | $2 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #1 1934Percy AbbottThis catalog started it all. It is the first one published in 1934, the start of a magic dynasty.
1st edition 1934, 23 pages. | $4 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #13 1952Percy AbbottIn 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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Abbott Magic Catalog #14Percy AbbottThis 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. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #15Recil BordnerThis catalog #15 was the first catalog issued after Percy Abbott's death. The exact date is not clear but most likely it appeared in 1962.
~1962, 488 pages. | $12 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #16 1964Recil BordnerMagic products are being offered in the following categories:
- Accessories
- Advertising Section
- Ball Magic
- Bird Cages
- Block Tricks
- Bottle Tricks
- Candle Tricks
- Canes
- Card Magic
- Change Bags
- Cigarette Tricks
- Close-Up and Pocket Tricks
- Coin and Money Magic
- Comedy Effects
- Cups and Balls
- Dice
- Egg
- Escapes
- Flower Magic
- Trick Glasses
- Illusions
- Kid-Show Magic
- Light Bulbs
- Linking Rings
- Liquid Magic
- Water Lotas
- Milk Tricks
- Tricks with Livestock
- Mental magic
- Paper Magic
- Production Magic
- Rice Bowls
- Rope Tricks
- Silk Magic
- Spook and Spirit Material
- Modern Tables
- Thimbles
...
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Abbott Magic Catalog #17 1967Recil BordnerMagic products are being offered in the following categories:
- Accessories
- Advertising
- Ball Section
- Bird Cages
- Block Tricks
- Books
- Bottle Tricks
- Candle Tricks
- Cane Tricks
- Card Magic
- Change Bags
- Cigarette Tricks
- Close-Up, Pocket and Intimate Magic
- Coin and Money Magic
- Comedy Effects
- Cups and Balls
- Dice Magic
- Egg Tricks
- Escapes
- Flower Magic
- Glasses
- Illusions
- Kid-Show Magic
- Light Bulbs
- Linking Rings
- Liquid Magic
- Livestock Tricks
- Mental Effects
- Milk Tricks
- Miscellaneous
- Paper Magic
- Production Magic
- Rice Bowls
- Rope Tricks
- Silk Magic
- Spook Material
- Tables
- Thimbles
...
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Abbott Magic Catalog #18 1969Recil BordnerAfter the index in the back is a section of 14 pages with additional products. This means it is likely that Abbott catalog #18 is pretty much identical to Abbott catalog #17 except for this final section of products.
Magic products are being offered in the following categories:
- Accessories
- Advertising
- Ball Section
- Bird Cages
- Block Tricks
- Books
- Bottle Tricks
- Candle Tricks
- Cane Tricks
- Card Magic
- Change Bags
- Cigarette Tricks
- Close-Up, Pocket and Intimate Magic
- Coin and Money Magic
- Comedy Effects
- Cups and Balls
- Dice Magic
- Egg Tricks
- Escapes
- Flower Magic
- Glasses
- Illusions
- Kid-Show Magic
...
| ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #2 1935Percy AbbottThe second catalog already three times thicker.
1st edition 1935, 68 pages. | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #20 1972Recil BordnerIncludes a historical sketch about Abbott Magic, how it came to be, and why it was started in Colon, MI.
1st edition 1972, 464 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #21 1976Recil BordnerA massive catalog featuring magic tricks in all categories from balls and birds to cards and coins and wands and watches.
1st edition 1976, 516 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #22Recil BordnerThe catalog gives a date of 1976, but that is the same date as #21, which means they probably forgot to change it. Most likely this catalog was published in the early 1980s. The latest date mentioned anywhere in the catalog is 1981. My best guess therefore is that this catalog was released in 1981 or 1982.
1st edition 198?, 448 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #23 1987Recil BordnerThis catalog includes a price list.
1st edition 1987, 516 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #24 1993Recil BordnerA massive catalog featuring magic tricks in all categories from balls and birds to cards and coins and wands and watches.
1st edition 1993, 575 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #25 1997Recil BordnerA huge catalog including index and price list.
1st edition 1997, 525 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #26 2004Greg BordnerThe latest big catalog from Abbott Magic.
1st edition 2004, 472 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #5Percy AbbottThis #5 catalog was a supplementary catalog to #4. It only listed the new effects Abbott could supply.
1st edition ?, 94 pages. | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #6 1940Percy AbbottIf 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. | $15 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #9 1947Percy AbbottMore than 800 pages of tricks, books, illusions, and other magic products.
1st edition 1947, 832 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
All AccessMichael P. LairA video catalog of 18 of Michael's top-selling magic effects. Demonstrations only. The effects presented are:
- Animated Origami Bill
- Beach Memories
- Big Coins
- Candle Rewind
- Cane Fire
- Chinese Appearing Sword
- Chinese Fans
- Chinese Lucky Envelope
- Cool Coil and Silver Coil
- Fanfire
- Firefall
- Fire Flower Rose Coil
- Fire to Silk
- Hot Coil
- Spitfire
- Sponge Poker
- 20-oz Production
video 8:32 | $10 to wish listMP4 (video) |
Blue Book 1960KC Card CoNow included is the 8-page yellow supplement.
Just 15 years after WWII, life was good. As the world rebuilt itself, prosperity reigned. Returning soldiers who needed an outlet to keep their competitive edge found what they were looking for in gambling. Neighborhood poker games, back-alley craps,... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Catalogs constitute a very important record of history. It allows one to date tricks and effects, research the lineage of inventions and get a feeling of days gone by. Catalogs also inspire the imagination and exercise your magic knowledge. Reading an effect description in a catalog involuntarily makes you think about how this effect might be achieved. You start to think about methods and principles with which you could accomplish the same trick. And if you can't come up with a good answer you want to buy the trick. Wonderful! | |
Catalogue of New Card MiraclesAugust Roterberg
From the introduction:
The clever creations in the following pages are the result of the great demand for card tricks which has
swept the magical world. A few years ago practically all card tricks depended upon skill in sleight of hand. There were few, if any, real good tricks which the inexperienced could successfully perform without previous practice. The sudden demand of tricks for this nature has resulted in the invention of many clever and puzzling effects by some of the masterminds of the Magical Profession.
In the following pages are offered, for the first time, a collection... | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |