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Seven more incredible demonstrations of the paranormal that will entertain and perplex the most demanding audience.

When Martin Breese met Basil many, many years ago he saw him demonstrating his brilliant Poker Deal. He dealt cards to himself and to a spectator and then put a £50 note on the...

There are five volumes in this series:

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6

1st edition 1994, digital 2010; PDF 58 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
4. Introduction
5. Part One The Haines Phenomenon
5. - Bob Gill on The Haines Phenomenon
8. - ESP Card Mnemonic System
9. - Special ESP Test
12. - Spectator Turned Psychic
16. - ESP Divination, Clairvoyance & Mind Control
20. - ESP Challenge Mind Control
22. - Matching ESP
25. - £100 ESP Test
30. - Challenge Duplication ESP
32. Part Two The Horwitz Touch
33. - A Third Eye Experience
36. - Fingertip Prediction
41. - A Mindreading...

• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6

1st edition 1997, digital 2010; PDF 52 pages.

Table of Contents

3. Contents
4. Foreword
6. Psychic Roulette
14. The Unlimited Principle
27. Ultimate Challenge Thought and Clairvoyance
34. The Hot Chair
38. £100 Challenge Mind Control Test
43. Challenge Incredible Memory
47. The Super ESP Body Language Test

"Bob Farmer is an interesting man, who creates interesting magic, and that's all one would need to know. With Mind Reader he has once again topped himself, as it might very well blow your mind!" - Roberto Giobbi

"Compared to fully gaffed decks that accomplish the same effect, Bob's work gets you to the selected card faster and leaves you with a deck that can be examined/used for other effects. Final Rating (1-10, 10 being best): I rate this a solid 8 on 10 and a strong recommendation, especially if you are a fan of Bob's other works." - Chris Aguilar

"I have never seen Bob Farmer perform. I have never...

This is volume 3 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

• No 1:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: William Holden Maxwell, Ruth Dore
  • A THANK YOU FROM CONJURORS' STAFF
  • RIDDLE IN RED AND YELLOW: A Story about Chung Ling Soo by FULTON OURSLER
  • GIVE ME A RING - Edward M. Massey
  • CUPKAKES IN HAT - Burton Marks
  • SWORD-SORCERY - "Hen" Fetsch
  • FIFTEEN CARD TRICK - Stanley Beck
  • TORTURE BOX - Jay Berggren
  • ALONG WITH BLACKSTONE - Walter B. Gibson
  • MAGICIAN - SOLDIERS WANTED - Julien J. Proskauer: Featuring Statements to Conjurors' Readers by PRESIDENT TRUMAN and GENERAL EISENHOWER
  • TERRY LYNN - ON MAGIC
  • IMPROVED...

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  • ... Tannen
  • THE 17TH ANNUAL MAGI-FEST
  • CHINESE FLAG VASE OF ALL NATIONS - Okito
  • GAS FROM A BUSTED BALLOON - Grover A. Smith
  • HONEST SERVICE IN MAGIC - Collins Pentz
  • ONE AND ONE MAKES TEN - Cartoon by George Johnstone
  • UNPREPARED 20TH CENTURY - Prince Hara
  • CONJURORS' CORNER - Glen E. Towns
  • BANDAN-A-CARD - William A. Boylston
  • MILBOURNE CHRISTOPHER PRESENTS
  • THE HAND IS QUICKER THAN THE EYE - Theo Dore
  • DRINKING THE LOAD - Paul W. Schoeffler
  • CHANGO REVERSO - Allen Perlin
  • A NIFTY - Walter B. Gibson
• No 2:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: Bill and Florine Baird, Tommy and Betty Tucker
  • THE DANGERS...

Sometimes we confuse progress and novelty. Not everything new is an improvement.

What the off principle offers is not newness but rather simplicity. The Off-principle is not trying to replace breaks, peeks or controls and yet it is making them less relevant. The off principle is not an advanced move or trick and yet it is able to improve almost every card trick. The off principle is complex in it s applications and yet simplifies almost any card trick you are about to perform.

Yesterday you used controls to keep track of the spectators card, now it is still possible but unnecessary. Yesterday...

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  • ... Machine
  • The Table Bug
  • The End Bug
• Steering Against the "T" (Meaning the tip-off)
• Four of a Kind: Sitting pretty, are they not?
• Hank's Sure Way Of Making A Flush For His Partners
• Cross Lifting
• Cold Decking
• The Touch System
• The Telegraph System
• Getting The Sucker To Cold Deck Himself
• Card Room Bandits In A Duel To Death With Seattle, Washington, Police.
• Two Gunmen Taken In Hold-Up
• Forewarned Is Forearmed
• The Master Key To Read Cards Marked In The Manufacture Or Otherwise
• The Master Key
• Bee 67 Back
  • Reduced Diamonds
  • Specks
  • All-Over Shade
  • Glazed Work
  • Needle Pricks
  • Color...

This is Jack Merlin's Order trick from And a Pack of Cards. The performer and spectator each give the deck a legitimate riffle shuffle. Then all the Spades are removed from the deck, shown in a ribbon spread, counted to be 13, and magically end up in order from ace to king.

runtime: 4min 16s

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  • ...
• Side Strippers or Humps
  • Concave Strippers
  • Combination Strippers
  • Wedge Strippers
  • Banker and Broker or High and Low Strippers
  • Strippers and Readers
• Instant Shading Daub
• Check Cop
• Blockout Ink
  • Shading Ink
  • Cutout Ink for White Work
• Glassine Tissues
• Perfection Corner Cutter
• Evans' Card Shears
• Arm Pressure Holdout
• Common Sense Holdout
• Playing Cards
• Ring Holdout
• Bug Holdout
• Detachable Holdout
• Card Pricks for Second Dealing
• All Purpose Shiner
• Rhum Board
• Convex Shiner
• Books
  • Monte Carlo Secrets
  • Handbook on Percentages
  • The Sealed Book "Protection"
  • Hoyle's Standard...

The younger generation of card magicians probably knows or has heard of Card College by Roberto Giobbi. The Royal Road to Card Magic is very similar but of older vintage and doesn't cover as much ground. It introduces the novice into the art of card magic one move and principle at a time, always with tricks accompanying the moves. It is therefore not a mindless list of moves but a well prepared and thought out textbook. It will take the beginner to an intermediate level. Once The Royal Road to Card Magic has been mastered one can move on to Expert Card Technique which requires a higher skill level.

Actually because Expert Card Technique did not sell well...

From the Introduction:

If you want to know how this ebook relates to the Encyclopedia of Card Tricks get A Comparison of the Gravatt and Hugard Encyclopedias of Card Magic by William Rugh, who made a detailed comparison of the contents.

• Introduction
• Chapter One. Mental And Miscellaneous Miracles
  • Perplexo
  • Pythagoras
  • Uni Mentality ...

CHAPTER VIII:
Illusions And Disillusion - Disappearing Man - The Veiled Woman - An Escape In Mid-Air - The Caged Woman - The Girl And The Dominoes - Fire And Water - Illusions With Mirrors - The Country Girl - The Hammock - The Arbour

CHAPTER IX:
Card Tricks - Examples Of Thought-Reading - A Code - The Jumping Cards - Magnetic Aces - The Change Over - A Feat Of Strength - The Boomerang Card - Cutting The Cards - The Torn Card - Vanishing Cards By Pistol - The Four Aces - The Herschell Card-Stabbing Trick

1st edition 1931, 279 pages; PDF...

An act in itself. Seven cards are selected. One card is signed by a spectator and then all seven cards are lost in the deck. Eventually, one by one, they are found by the performer. The signed card continuously reappears and then finally, it is found inside your wallet. It also contains a multiple control of cards called Colombini's B.S. Control.