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Che cos'è "ESPerimento di Coppie a Distanza"?

Si tratta di un effetto inedito di Mentalismo, possibile anche a distanza (in una video chat, ad es. su Zoom, Skype o Google Meet, o anche solo al telefono), in cui l'illusionista riuscirà sempre ad indovinare il simbolo ESP riportato su di una...

Lewis Ganson, mostly known as author of magic books, was also himself an expert stage card manipulator. This ebook is a complete course in the art of manipulating playing cards, from back palms, to catching cards, card fans, flourishes, gimmicks and holders, and how to put it all together into a routine. ...

One of the most convincing remote viewing routines yet devised. May be performed any time at any place. It is an improvement of Bob's earlier "The Moleskine Divination". It does not need the Royal Heath's classic "Dye-ciphering Dice".

1st edition 2003; 26 pages.

L’arte di combinare “magia” e umorismo

Dall’introduzione:

“Mi sono sbellicato dalle risate leggendo questo libro! Ho pregustato quella che sarebbe stata la reazione del pubblico applicando le tecniche descritte dal caro Aldo in queto volumetto ed eseguendo le routines descritte....

Five effects with simple objects.

All of the effects are easy to do . . . are varied in effect. None of them requires elaborate properties.

Effect No. 1. Invisible Dice. A clever novelty. A prediction with a box of matches and invisible dice. No matter what number a spectator "throws," you show your prediction to be correct. A trick that will become one of your favorite pocket tricks.

Effect No. 2. Fire! A gag - but an unusual one you can use in many ways. Any time you need a light, i.e. in the Dove Pan routine, Burnt and Restored note, etc., you say you will show the Magician's way of...

più di 50 giochi sensazionali

F A V O L O S O è senza dubbio l'aggettivo giusto per descrivere questo libro!

U. F. Grant, che coloro che ci seguono da tempo conoscono, era veramente geniale, si dice inventasse almeno tre nuovi trucchi al giorno! Alcune delle sue straordinarie creazioni sono descritte in quest'opera insieme ad alcuni classici del mentalismo, tutti però con il tocco di Grant.

Troverete in esso molto materiale da poter utilizzare nei vostri spettacoli siano essi di close-up a da scena. Inoltre troverete molti principi poco conosciuti per ottenere straordinari effetti...

• ...Chapter Five: Mathematical Mind-Benders
  • The Magic Of Magic Squares
  • Naming The Day For Any Date
  • Computer Mind
• Chapter Six: Look! He Does Card Tricks, Too!
  • The Cut That Isn't
  • A False Shuffle Without Fuss
  • Image On The Retina
• Chapter Seven: For The Kitchen Table Mechanic
  • Pocket Trick Hold-All
  • The Forceful Notebook
  • Dice Duplicity
• Chapter Eight: Not Mentalism - But It's Beautiful!
  • The Chinese Butterflies

1st edition 1975, 151 pages; 1st digital edition 2018, 125 pages.

A collection of wonderful coin routines.

• The "Sky Hooks" Routine
• The Vanishing Biro
• A Coin From Two Cards
• Perfection Penetration
• Card-To-Wallet
• The "One Cup, One Ball, One Move" Routine
• The "Four-In-One" Routine
• The Coin On The Pipe Cleaner
• Name Spelling
• Copper To Silver
• Reading Cards - Behind Your Back
• Coin Through Ring
• The "No Load" Dice Stack Climax
• A Novel Penknife Routine
• The Cigar Tube Mystery
• The "Good Company" Penetration
• The Lie Detector
• A Routine For The "Pencil Through The Penny"
• A Clean Finish For The Coins Across
• The "Swivel Up" Card To Top
• Adding A Stack...

The final volume of weird and wonderful magic!

A lucky coin that becomes as scarred as its owner, a murdered woman kept alive in a photograph, dice that tell the future just for starters, a Chinese magician who gets his revenge in the most horrible of ways, an obscene thing which hides beauty and reveals hypocrisy -- and that's just the beginning of what you'll find in Five, the last volume of the strange magic series!

13 routines of bizarre, touching, weird, scary, and entertaining magic!

• Demonstrate the transparency of the human personality with the most horrid of tests!
• Show just...

Then, I have included a couple basic, customizable, template printable "props" for the "Caveman Catalog" routine that can be used as justification for handing out the...

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  • ...Chapter IV: Germany, Russia, Roumania, Bulgaria And Servia
  • Chapter V: Italy, Monte Carlo, France, Spain, Mexico, Central And South America
  • Chapter VI: England
• Part II
  • Chapter I: Gambling In The New World
  • Chapter II: Faro Gambling And Gamblers
  • Chapter III: Poker And Poker Players
  • Chapter IV: Short Games
  • Chapter V: Various Card Games
  • Chapter VI: Dice And The Dice Box
  • Chapter VII: Games At Fairs And Circuses
  • Chapter VIII: "Gold Bricks"
  • Every Bit True
  • Chapter IX: Confidence Games
  • Chapter X: Gambling Stories And Personal Reminiscences
  • Chapter XI: My Wife
  • Chapter XII: Local Gambling
• Part III
  • Chapter I: The Turf
  • Chapter II: The Exchange ...

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  • ...Chapter IV: Germany, Russia, Roumania, Bulgaria And Servia
  • Chapter V: Italy, Monte Carlo, France, Spain, Mexico, Central And South America
  • Chapter VI: England
• Part II
  • Chapter I: Gambling In The New World
  • Chapter II: Faro Gambling And Gamblers
  • Chapter III: Poker And Poker Players
  • Chapter IV: Short Games
  • Chapter V: Various Card Games
  • Chapter VI: Dice And The Dice Box
  • Chapter VII: Games At Fairs And Circuses
  • Chapter VIII: "Gold Bricks"
  • Every Bit True
  • Chapter IX: Confidence Games
  • Chapter X: Gambling Stories And Personal Reminiscences
  • Chapter XI: My Wife
  • Chapter XII: Local Gambling
• Part III
  • Chapter I: The Turf
  • Chapter II: The Exchange ...

Shows you how to do a fortune telling act incorporating magic tricks.

• Fortune Telling By Cards (Three Methods)
• The Triple Turnover
• Out Of The Hat
• The Mental Wonder
• Simplified Interpretation Of The Cards
• The Suits (Indicate The Spheres Of Action)
• The Values (Indicate Events Of Importance)
• How To Memorize
• The Mystic Circle
• How To Give An Interesting Reading
• Pseudo-Palmistry
• A Sample Reading (From Observation And Information)
• Pseudo-Graphology
• Pseudo-Astrology
• The World Of Dreams
• Fortune Telling With Coins
• Fortune Telling With Dice
• Pseudo-Numerology
• Scribble-Ology (An Original...

Spectator is presented with a number of Fortune Cookies and is asked to select anyone they like, they can sign and date the cookie packaging. A deck of cards are mixed, then the spectator is asked to generate a random number by rolling 2 dice.

A number is settled on and they're asked to count down that many cards from the deck to a randomly selected card. The performer asks the spectator to open the Fortune Cookie and encourages them to read aloud the paper fortune inside, they turn over their selected card and it is found that both the paper fortune and card are a perfect match! Leaving...

Friendly Fire is an exciting collection of almost 30 effects, routines and essays from the contributors to Ben Harris' New Directions Magazine published between 1985-87.

What exciting times these were. The masters like Marlo, Andrus, and Lorayne where at the top of their game and the new faces like Sankey, Sanders and Harkey were just emerging. And, New Directions captured a lovely slice of these changing times. We've even got Mike Gallo's ORIGINAL NO GAFF REVERSE MATRIX! Do you remember the excitement and torrent of creativity that spurned?

Exciting card, coin and dice magic awaits you inside. Full routines,...

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  • ... Of Weight"
  • No. 3 "The Three Prophecies"
  • No. 4 "A Mental Impression"
  • No. 5 "A Nap Hand"
  • No. 6 "Spelling Bee"
  • No. 7 "Think Of A Card"
• CHAPTER VIII MISCELLANEOUS EFFECTS
  • An Impromptu Handkerchief And Thimble Routine
  • "Spiritualistic" Visiting Card Mystery
  • "Multiple Palming"
  • A "Mental" Dice Effect
  • The "Ghost" Mail
• CONCLUSION

1st edition 1946, 1st digital edition 2016, 87 pages.

Gags, visual comedy, and funny routines for the close-up magician.

• Breaking The Ice
• Twist My Arm
• Special Delivery
• King Tut
• Another Magic Mummy Stunt
• Close Up Gags And Gadgets
• Miniature Bottle And Rope
• Diversions With Dice
• Comedy For Card Men
• Gags With Fags
• King Size
• Chancy - Just - Chance
• The Magnet Repels
• Never Be "Caught Short"
• Cup And Ball Comedy
• Look Younger ... Live Longer
• Balls Of Fire
• Great Snakes
• No Cups ... No Balls
• Visual Gag With Cups And Balls
• Comedy Live Chick
• Jumping Cup
• The Warning Voice
• Bottomless Cup
• Capering Cups
• Cups, Balls, Shells And Peas
• Greek...

• ...'Hank To Sock'
• Cutting Down On Smoking
• What A Shock
• The Medium
• Breakfast Table Newspaper
• Shot From A Cannon
• The Boomerang Bouquet
• A Queer Word
• Not Paid For
• Have A Banana
• The Unruly Carpet
• The Message On The Hall-Mat
• Swing Music
• Tailor's Dummy
• The Juggler
• Well - Well - Well
• Oh Donald!
• Crooked Dice
• Aye - Aye!
• A Death Worse Than Fate
• Light-Up Bow Tie
• "Annie Laurie"
• Christmas Presents
• The Tail End
• "Woofle Snuff"
• Just A Thought
• Burning A Candle At Both Ends
• Once In A Blue Moon
• Raving
• The Invitation
• A Feat Of Juggling
• The Truth
• Card Magic
• Duck In Any Case
• Chasing Butterflies ...

Every word has been reset in crystal clear type for easy reading. Additional illustrations have been added (now twice as many). Over a hundred corrections were made, as well as several new paragraphs added.

[If you are looking for an unedited version true to its original see Gamblers' Tricks With Cards Exposed and Explained. ...

This is an unusual mix of contents including magic card tricks, card games and how gamblers cheat at those games, other swindles and scams, a section on dice and cheating at dice games, as well as moralizing against the evils of gambling.

Jonathan H. Green was a reformed gambler, who made a career exposing cheating via lectures, presentations and books.

An earlier shorter edition of this book was published under the title Games and Tricks with Cards.

If you are looking for an edited version and somewhat modernized rendition of this book you can find it here.

• Chapter I
  • Invention Of Cards
  • Mysterious Trick...

• ... Black
• Diana Game
• Three Card Monte
• Tipping The Hand
• Roulette
• Social Card Playing: The Kindergarten To The Gambling Hell
• The Upward Way
• The Downward Way
• Gambling At Wiesbaden
• Wheel Of Fortune Or Chuck-A-Luck
• Monte Carlo Pool
• The Stock Exchange
• Bucket Shops
• Policy
• The Gambler's Wife
• Dice And The Dice Box
• The New Mathematical Block Game; Or, Rolling Log
• Die Pins
• Star Pointer
• The Striker
• Drop Cases
• Fish Pond
• Single Arrow Chuck-A-Luck Spindle And Table Layout
• New Idea Cigar Machine
• Gravitation Ball Game
• Cane Rack
• The O'leary Belt
• Shell Game
• Tivoli Or Bagatelle
• The Jenny...

Full exposition of all the various arts, mysteries, and miseries of gambling.

It is a complete exposure, of the different and various ways of deception and cheating in all the numerous games played, such as Faro, Two, Three, and Four-Handed Poker, Shuffling Cards, Roulette and Rolling Faro, Vingt-Un, Brag, Euchre, Game of Boston, All Fours, Cribbage, Whist, Dice, Stealing out Cards, Palming, Playing by Signs, Marking Cards, Backgammon, Solitaire, Playing Three against One, Spring Tables, Spring Boxes, Pulleys, Ingenuity of Gamblers, Card Manufactories, Lotteries, then modes of drawing and...

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   1. ...
      • ... Book of Patter - Jimmy Stoppard
   31. Book Reviews - Lloyd E. Jones
       • The Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks - Glenn Gravatt
       • Practical Hypnotism - Ed Wolff
       • Money Magic - Jean Hugard
       • 1937 Yearbook - L. L. Ireland
       • Fifteen Minutes with a Piece of Rope - Ralph W. Hull
       • Goofy Dice - Ralph W. Hull
       • Coo Coo Cards - Ralph W. Hull
       • The Homing Ball - Ralph W. Hull
       • Pocket Book of Patter - Jimmy Stoppard
       • Cups and Balls Magic - Tom Osborne
       • The Jinx, No. 33
       • The Jinx, The Summer Extra
       • The Art of Makeup - Serge Strenkovsky
       • The Tops
       • The Imp
   32. Bagdad

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   1. Genii - Volume 1, Number 12 - August 1937 - 32 pages
   1. cover - Ted Annemann
   4. Contents
   4. Ted Annemann - biographical notes
   5. Genii Speaks...

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   • ... and Sponges - Ireland
   • Miracle Memory - Otis Manning
   • torn and restored magazine pages - Lu Brent
   • The Tight - Percy Abbott
   • String and Rods - Abbott
   • Confetti Vase - Abbott
   • Devil'n Chains - Nat Louis
   • Miraculous Rope Restoration - H. C. Bjorklund
   • Joker Trick - Carl Thiene
   • No Dice - Carl Thiene
   • Fire, Fire, Fire - Carl Thiene
   • Slaphappy - Carl Thiene
   • Whirlitzer - Carl Thiene
   • Million Dollar Mystery - Grant
   • Greater Magic - Hilliard
   • Stamp-It - Paul Curry
   • The Dragon, March
   • The Linking Ring, April
   • Chap's Scrapbook, April
   • Funny Talk, April
   • The Jinx, 55
   • The Sphinx, April
   • Tops, April
305. Evolution of National Magic Day - Edward Saint

317. Genii -...