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Max Andrews' Magic Magazine: Volume 2 (12 issues)
Published by Max Andrews and Vampire Magic, 344 pages

Volume 2, Number 1, April, 1953, 28 numbered pages without covers

1. advertisements
3. Meet - - Jay Palmer
3. Contents
4. Editor's Page - Max Andrews
5. The Magic Circle - Month Concert report
6. Stand It Up - Jack Nightingale
7. Fishing-A-Ring - Jose Ablang (Singapore)
8. Bamboo Sticks - review by George Blake
10. The Annual Dinner of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (British Ring) - report
12. Almost in Confidence - series by Victor Farelli
    • Spectacular Production of a Coil (Using a Long...

GIACOMO BERTINI: "Cylinder & Chips"
This is his easy version of the famous coin routine. Giacomo uses poker chips instead of coins and his own gimmick, which you can buy from him. He created this routine for professional use, such as when working at event dinners, and in any difficult situation, anywhere. The effect is amazing, like the classical version, but in this case, the routine is really easy to perform, and the hands are really empty, in front of the spectators. Very beautiful routine for stand-up workers. Beginner level.

DARYL: "The Manly Matrix"
This is a wonderful version of the classic...

Numbers 61-72

200 pages

1. Vol. 6, No. 1, September, 1915 [20 pages]
1. Miss Marguerite De Lara - biography
2. Our Monthly Chat - little bits of news
3. How to Make an Expanding Die
4. Order of the Magi - club news
4. Northern Magical Society - club news
5. Reviews
   • The Magician - August 1915 magazine
   • The Sphinx - July 1915 magazine
   • Magical Bulletin - magazine
   • The Magic Circular - September 1915 magazine
   • The Mahatma Circular - August 1915 magazine
   • The Magi - September 1915 magazine
6. New Pillory Release - Stanley Norton - effect
7. The Mahatma Circle of Magicians - club news
7. Notes on the...

Numbers 173-176

244 pages

1. Vol. 26, Number 173 March-May, 1937 [56 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • All The Jokes
   • On the Side of Sanity
   • A Little While Ago
   • Conjuring Books for Boys
3. Obituary
   • Will Blyth
4. Miscellaneous Magic - Tom Sellers
   • Cards on Ribbon
   • Cut and Restored Ribbon Box
   • Ring Through the Finger
   • The Novelty Prediction
9. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
12. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
    • A Novel Penetration
    • A Cigarette Sleight
    • A Good Production
    • Passing a Coin Through the Hand
    • Passe Passe Silks
1. extra...

Max Sterling discontinued his weekly magic journal The Magical World in May 1911. After two years he restarted it for another period less than a year long. This second series from June 14th, 1913 until February 4th, 1914, is included in this PDF, 582 pages. It is not easy to publish a weekly conjuring periodical.

Number 1 (June 4th, 1913)

• Protection
• Between Ourselves
• American Notes
• What Others are Doing - Houdini
• Practial Magic - Cut and Restored Hat
• Pithy Patter - Torn Strip of Paper
• In Open Council
• Whereabouts this Week
• Cards - A Pre-arranged Pack
• For Beginners - Handkerchief Dyeing Extraordinary ...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 3
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 3 consists of 6 issues, 264 pages total

Volume 3, Number 1, October/November 1981, 40 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
2. Magical Inventor of the Year Competition
   • The Impromptu Chop Cup - Eoin Taylor
   • Phenominal Coincidence - E. W. Thomas
   • Routine for the Cups and Balls Plus Chop Cup Set - Paul Anthony
5. another (better) photo of Edwin Hooper
5. List of readers who passed the examination...

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...

On November 12th and 13th 2011 the second European Coin Magic Symposium brought 16 magicians from all over the world to Milan for two days of non-stop coin magic, with lectures and performances, private sessions and gala shows. The routines in this issue is a selection of the best. They were shot live at the symposium, and they are very impressive and strong. Expect some knuckle busters as most of the contributors in this issue are the best names in the Coin Magic genre. All routines are complete with performance and explanation.

GIACOMO BERTINI: "Matrix Colors"
You can see this amazing...

The Magic Wand and Magical Review, Volume 10, Numbers 109-112, George Johnson, editor
Quarterly format

258 pages

1. Vol. 10, Number 109 March-May, 1921 [48 numbered & 10 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • The Magical Newspaper
   • Conjuring for Conjurers
   • The Hobby of the Cultivated
   • Command Performances
   • Mail Order Publications
   • Money for Nothing
4. Novel Discovery of a Chosen Card - J. T. Coles
5. Producing the Magical Act - David Devant
7. Cigarette Transposition - A. J. Esler
8. The True-Lovers' Knot - George Johnson
10. New Coin and Ball Stands - apparatus by Harry H. Thomson
12. The Pessimist - article...

Numbers 249-252

173 pages

1. Vol. 45, Number 249, March, 1956 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Extra photo plate page 1 - Winners of the George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Foreword - George Armstrong
   • The Kalanag Revue
   • The Sorcar Controversy
2. My Magic - series by Bridger Lewis
   • Rope Through Stick
   • Rope Through Leg
   • Silk Transpo
5. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
   • The Twin Principle
   • Preparing the Outfit
   • Defining the Principle
8. The Card Tricks of Jerry [sic] Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
   • Four Aces and Four Kings
11. Magic for the Concert Platform Magician - series...

Numbers 253-256

228 pages

1. Vol. 46, Part One, Number 253, [1957] [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. editorial comments - George Armstrong
   • Farewell to an Old Friend
   • Magic and Television and News
2. The Three Shell Game - series by Eddie Joseph
   • Routines
     • The Regular Routine
     • The Riler
     • The Boomerang
10. The Card Tricks of Gerry Lee - series by Gerard de Bodt
    • The Four Fours Trick
15. Back-Palm Coin Switch - Mark Weston
16. Salutations to Robert-Houdin: His Life, Magic, and Automata - series by S. H. Sharpe
    • Section Two - Robert-Houdin, The Arch-Conjurer
      • Robert-Houdin's...

Volume V (June 1947 - May 1948), Jean Hugard, editor

104 pages

323. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume V, Number 1 - June 1947 - 8 pages
323. Burned and Restored Handkerchief - Jean Hugard
324. Milbourne Christopher's Column
     • The Silk in the Case
     • The Sensitized Silk
     • The Pips Pass
     • Conclusion
326. Merlini's Magic - Clayton Rawson
     • The Counterfeiter's Dream
327. Roundabout with Fred Braue - column
     • The Five-Best Poll
       • Card Transits
       • Coincidences
       • Predictions
       • Telepathy or Mind Reading
       • Reverses
       • Changes
       • Spellers
       • Transpositions
       • A Show...

Cyclopedia of Magic is an interesting book. It's primary quality stems from its alphabetical organization. It was compiled and written to provide the magician with a wide and solid background of magical knowledge. It provides definitions, descriptions, biographies and some routines on hundreds of magic topics. It is for the most part a compilation of material contributed by magicians such as August Roterberg, Charles Bertram, Eddie Joseph, Ellis Stanyon, John Mulholland, T. Nelson Downs and many others.

Paul Fleming wrote:

Numbers 121-123

290 pages

1. Vol. 13, Number 121 February, 1924 [56 numbered & 10 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Undue Pessimism
   • The All-Round Show
   • The Loan of Books
   • A Peep Behind the Scenes
   • Tricks by Wireless
4. The Evolution of the Ace of Spades - Prof. Day
4. Obituary
   • Charles Oswald Williams
5. The Drum Head Tube - Oswald Williams
6. The "Sharpe" Scissors Problems - Louis F. Christianer
7. A Triple Transposition - George Joyce
8. Loading a Card in an Envelope - J. A. Esler
9. What is Wrong with the Magicians? - article by Rupert Holmes Slater
9. The Bacchanalian Tankard - A Mystery...

Numbers 237-240

231 pages

1. Vol. 42, Number 237, March, 1953 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
1. Extra photo plate page - The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
1. Foreword - by the editor
   • comments about the new format
   • The George Johnson "Magic Wand" Trophy
2. Excelsior - article by George Johnson
3. The Merlini Card System - series by Jim Merlini
   • Foreword
   • The Counting Down Principle
     • Card of the Zodiac
   • The Key Card Principle - I. The Merlini Key Card
     • Using the Merlini "Key"
     • Normal Location
     • Shuffling Off and Glimpsing
     • The Force
     • Discarding the Key
     • Convocational...

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...

The Magical World is one of the few weekly periodicals in magic. This periodical ran from November 1910 until May 1911 and was edited by Max Sterling. Volume one contained 26 issues and volume two ended the series with No. 3 - a total of more than 470 pages.

For the continuation of this periodical see the second series.

Volume 1, Number 1 (November 2nd, 1910)

• Announcements
• Between Ourselves
• What Others Are Doing - Oswald Williams
• Practical Magic - Levitation of a Card
• For Beginners - A Japanese Floral Fan-cy
• Impromptu Tricks - The Impossible Die
• Cards - Simple Effect
• Whereabouts This Week ...

Numbers 129-132

288 pages

1. Vol. 15, Number 129 March-May, 1926 [52 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Cruelty to Conjurers
   • The New Conjurers
   • The Birds of Paradise
   • A Trick on the Floor
   • An Everyday Book
   • Mainly Advertisement
5. The Spot Light - A Card Mystery - Stuart Luciene
8. Easy Magic - article by Wilfrid Jonson
8. The Modern View - poem by Wilfrid Jonson
9. A Different Flower Growth - H. Latour
10. Conjuring and Comedy - article by G. S. Brownlow
12. A Manufactured Diamond - contributed
13. A Sharper's Coin Trick - G. W. Hunter
14. An All Round Useful Appliance - Norman Hunter
14. Magical...

Numbers 181-184

246 pages

1. Vol. 28, Number 181 March-May, 1939 [52 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Worth While Magic
   • Hotel Show
   • The Passing of Anderton's [former home of the Magic Circle]
   • Miry Magic
   • More Ingenuity
5. Uniting the Nations - H. W. Brehaut
6. The Magic Bran Tub - J. F. Orrin
11. A Production Box - John Robinson
12. On Being Funny - article by H. A. M. Bone
14. The Twentieth Century (Red, White and) Blues - Harold H. Saunders
16. The Rise of Genius - S. H. Sharpe
16. Lemon and Sausage - Wilfrid Jonson
17. Card and Miscellaneous Magic - Tom Sellers
    • Just Glimpse a Card
    • Torn and Restored Paper
    • New...

Numbers 229-232

235 pages

1. Vol. 40, Number 229, March, 1951 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXIX Index pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Thank You
   • So Here We Are
   • Looking Back
3. Apparatus Trick Competition
   3. Penetrating Pack - R. W. Edwards
   6. "Flash" Ribbon Restoration - Tom Sellers
   8. The Smoked Card - Johnny Geddes
10. Patter in Rhyme - A. C. Newitt
    • For the "All Backs" Effect - Dai Vernon
    • Routine to Accompany "All Backs" Patter in Rhyme
13. Hickory Clock - E. Subkleve (Transvaal)
17. Magically Yours - series by Verrall Wass
    17. Nofors Card in Cigarette
    21. The Spectator Predicts
    27. Purely Co-incidental ...

This is volume three in the classic sleight-of-hand trilogy. From the foreword by Douglas Craggs:

Numbers 157-160

237 pages

1. Vol. 22, Number 157 March-May, 1933 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Introduction
   • A New Levitation
   • Magic on the Screen
   • Long-Distance Magic
   • Forthcoming Books
   • The Season
   • The Happy Hare Hunt
   • Producing a Cannon Ball
4. The Bewildering Spheres - Rupert H. Slater
5. The Spirit Slates Supreme - Bruce Hurling
6. Thought Transference - Jhano
8. A Pretty Card Effect - Tom Sellers
9. Imitation is-- - Wilf. Huggins
10. A Lesson in Magic - Wilfrid Jonson
12. Modern Magical Methods - Allan Peterson
    • The Bewildering Block
    • The "Fantom" Four
    • The Vanish...

Numbers 201-204

193 pages

1. Vol. 33, Number 201 March-May, 1944 [42 numbered & 6 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Aid
   • Card Miracles
   • The Expert
   • Squaring the Circle
3. A Change-Over Palm with Four Coins - E. Brian MacCarthy
4. Ignus - V. A. Menzies
5. A Subtle Changing Card - Sydney de Hempsey
6. What is a Good Trick? - article by Dr. H. J. Tattersall
10. The Dissolving Sugar Trick Improved - Victor Farelli
11. Disc and Rope - Allan Lambie
12. The Shilling and the Snake - Wilfrid Jonson
13. Try This Strange Puzzle - Sydney de Hempsey
14. A Little Different - Alfred Frangleton
15. A Novel Doll Production - Eric...