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The Magic Wand and Magical Review, Volume 32, George Johnson, editor
Quarterly format

1. Vol. 32, Number 197 March-May, 1943 [38 numbered & 6 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Condensed
   • How It's Done
   • Cups and Balls
   • A Boys' Own Book
   • A Card Trick in Bed
3. Tom Sellers' Magic
   • Bombay Blocks
   • Prediction Mysterio
   • Vanishing Bottle
   • Invisible Ink
   • A Block and Cord Release
   • Six Card Control
8. Are You a Good Magician - article by Sikandra
10. Card Conjuring for Conjurers - Arthur H. Eydmann
11. Flashes from the Forge - H. G. Sparks
    • Proclamations
14. Wedding Rings and Ribbon...

1. ...The Coupon Cut - R. A. Fairthorne
25. Magic Wand-erings - column by Verrall Wass
    • 9: The "Trey" of Diamonds
    • 10: V.W.'s Pretty Production Cabinet
    • 11: The Triple Tray Change
    • 12: Grease-Go!
28. The "Clumsy" Change - idea by Victor Thornton
29. Magic Photography - Victor Farelli
30. The Gramophone Record Trick
32. That Torn Card Again - Peter Sherwood
33. Professional Magic - Douglas Francis
    • a card trick
    • Beer is Best
34. Book Notes
    • Magic by Misdirection - Dariel Fitzkee
    • Mr. Smith's Guide to Sleight of Hand - Wilfrid Jonson
    • More Tips on Tricks - Milbourne Christopher
    • The Shower of Sweets - Tom Osborne
    • Hugard's Magic Monthly, Vols. 1 and 2
    • Magic...

1. ...
   1. ... Carter
   25. Simplisissimus - T. Ellrock
   30. Perfection Living and Dead Test - J. A. Esler
   31. Mental Mendacity - Robert Fairthorne
       • Sympathy
       • The Malkin [entry #1]
       • A Billet Switcher [entry #2]
       • Divination
   34. A Giant Memory Test with Cards - Robert A. Ingle
       • The Card System
   37. A Hand of Cards - Robert A. Ingle
   38. Calling Long Distance - George Joyce
   41. Basic English Mental Test - M. Thesscroft
44. Melange - notes and comments from George Johnson
    • Size and Scale
    • Publishing Troubles
    • Predictions
    • Illuminating
    • Inspiration
45. Competition - The Best Effect for Entertaining Children - announcement
46. Pronto Card Appear...

Numbers 241-244

236 pages

1. Extra photo plate page 1 - The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Vol. 43, Number 241, March, 1954 [48 numbered & 16 unnumbered cover, advertising & Index pages]
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
   • The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
2. The Merlini Card System - series by Jim Merlini - continued from V-42
   • "Name O'Card"
     • The Break Cards
     • The Spelling Cards
     • Special Spellers
   • Variations on a Theme
     • Divined by Spelling
     • The Card is Known
     • Behind the Back
6. For Sleight-of-Hand Enthusiasts - New Four Coin Production - E. Brian MacCarthy
7. The Conjurer's Table Cover...

Numbers 245-248

285 pages

1. Vol. 44, Number 245, March, 1955 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
2. The Zodiac Deck - Vivian St. John
   • A Card Vocabulary
   • Making the Zodiac Deck
   • Any Card Called For
   • The Colour Change Deck
     • To Show the Spot Cards Mixed
     • To Show the Spots All Black
     • To Show the Spots All Red
     • To Show the Backs All Red
     • To Show the Backs All Blue
     • To Show the Backs All Blue with Spots All Black
     • To Show the Backs All Red with Spots All Red
   • The Routine
     • The Brainwave Deck
     • Colour Change Routine
     • Any Card Called...

Secret techniques devised by Kevin Parker for remote viewing, reading a person's mind, and inducing false memory.

• Spectator's mental card to spectator's pocket.
• Remote viewing with a photo
• False memory

1st edition 2009; 11 pages.

Now available as a PDF ready for immediate download.

"Peter Duffie's The Magic Of Fred Robinson is a wonderful book containing a gold-mine of ideas, subtleties and secrets from one of magic's finest exponents and thinkers. ... The Magic Of Fred Robinson is an excellent book full of wonderful ideas, useful sleights, and powerful effects. More than that, it's a great read and takes me back to the feeling I had when I first read Vernon's Inner Secrets books." - R. Paul Wilson from his 2009 review in Genii.

"I state without fear of exaggerating that Fred was one of the all-time greats; especially with cards." - Dai Vernon

"Card magic and techniques...

• THE "HORUS" EYE - A randomly chosen spectator is able to visualize an image, symbol or word that is sealed inside an envelope.
• HALLUCINATION ACAAN - Any card at any number with a hallucination plot.
• DOUBLE CONTROL - Luca's personal twist to the E.S.P. chair test routine. No doubt you will use this one!
• P.D.R. - An incredible Psycometry Drawing Routine that plays big, with a clever method!
• PEEK ENVELOPE - A utility device that you can build with...

22 minutes video - 19 page PDF ebook - 8 powerful effects

This is best described as 'contact juggling with cards' - incredible. You will learn cuts, tosses, slides, as well as some magical effects such as transformations and transpositions. Great music by Daniel himself. Very gritty, powerful material for the hard core card handler.

Many of the 'pure magicians' might not like this. It is essentially all flourishes. But it is wonderfully acrobatic. I love this kind of manipulation. It is one direction modern card magic is going to follow. If you want to learn something impressive, something...

1. ... Leads
80. - Third Hand Play
82. - Second Hand Play
82. - More Cool Stuff - Advanced Defender Plays
84. - Books for Further Study
86. Chapter 7: Rubber Bridge Shuffle Up and Deal
110. Chapter 8: Overview of Other Bidding Systems
110. - Goren ("1950 Charlie")
111. - Modern Standard American and Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC)
113. - Two Over One Game Force (2/1 GF)
115. - Acol
116. - Big Club Systems
117. - The Expert American Bidding System and its prerequisite The Advanced American Bidding System
117. - Other Systems
118. Chapter 9: Add Ons (Super Simplicity)
118. - Improve Your Notrump Bidding Skills
143. - Splinter Bids
146. - Weak and Preemptive...

Roberto Giobbi's newest survey of sleightless card magic, Card College Lighter, gives the famous Giobbi treatment to 21 baffling card tricks by some of the craft's greatest masters, including Vernon, Annemann, Leech, Maven, Fulves, Hummer, Vollmer and Krenzel. These tricks do not require sleights, but they all show the cunning perspective of a professional performer, guaranteeing astonishing and entertaining results.

Following in the footsteps of his Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi teaches the secrets of professional-caliber card magic, providing insights into the presentation, psychology and routining that make these simple tricks into...

Paul Curry invented this effect when he was just 25 years old. It is one of the most well known and probably most often performed card effects today. A classic through and through. An incredibly strong effect paired with a most simple method. You can't find much better card tricks.

The effect as Curry describes it:

This game is sometimes called Loopy Loop, Figure Eight, the Chain Swindle, or Pricking the Garter. You will find in this ebook several well honed routines with patter and moves to fully control the chain.

This publication was part of the Supreme 'Know-How' Series, edited and written by Will Ayling. It was the follow up to the famous Teach-In Series written by Lewis Ganson after Ganson died. (We have all the Teach-Ins available as ebooks.)

1st edition 1983; original 44 pages; PDF...

Palming. Allan Ackerman takes you through a staggering list of palming techniques including Tenkai Palm, Gambler's Cop, Vernon Top Palm, Slydini Fan Steal, Marlo Bottom Palm, Side Steal to Palm, Bluff Control, and many more.

Allan Ackerman is one of the world's foremost experts at sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards. Allan is one of those humble down to earth guys with incredible chops. He executes the moves flawlessly and teaches them in a straight forward easy to grasp manner. On this incredible multi-volume series of DVDs, you will be treated to an instructional course encompassing...

This is the set of 8 download DVDs at a special low bundle price. It is an encyclopedia of card moves, taught and demonstrated by one of the best card handlers alive - Allan Ackerman. On top of it Ackerman also teaches many wonderful card routines where he applies the moves just taught.

This is not a set of download DVDs you will sit down and watch from start to finish. It is a body of work you will refer to piece by piece. For example, you might be in the process to study an effect that uses a move unfamiliar to you. Then you will turn to this encyclopedia, find the move and learn it from...

Learn how to move from one palm to another, for example, how does one go from a magician's palm to a gambler's flat palm.

runtime: 1min 8s

This is a technique, developed by the Professor, how to move the top card into a magician's palm while maintaining a high arch in your palming hand.

runtime: 57s

If you need to palm several cards at once, this is an effective method. Originally this move appeared in The Royal Road to Card Magic.

runtime 54s

This is another technique to palm several cards at once from the top of the deck. Here a special little finger break enables the move.

runtime: 1min 2s

This is Larry Jennings' version of Joe Berg's palm, originally published in Classic Magic of Larry Jennings. It is a multiple-top palm.

runtime: 46s

This is a move that comes originally from gambling. It is hard to do well, but Allan gives you a number of valuable tips.

runtime: 2 min 6 s

This is a move Ackerman developed himself. While riffle shuffling you palm the bottom card into a gambler's flat palm using a Kelly-type movement.

runtime: 1min 27s

Tony Slydini used this move for his famous helicopter card trick. A card is stolen into a Tenkai palm while it is inserted into a fan.

runtime: 56s

This is an idea by John Cornelius where a card is pushed into a fan and during closing the fan the card is stolen into a Tenkai palm.

runtime: 1min 17s