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Dariel Fitzkee authored one of the best trilogies on magic theory. This volume, book one in the trilogy, primarily deals with theoretical aspects of a magic performance. This book has been cited numerous times and is one of the standard works every serious magician should read. Fitzkee has a very analytical mind and describes his thoughts clearly. As with any theory not everyone will agree with every detail and every suggestion. Regardless of if you fully subscribe to Fitzkee's thinking or not, there is plenty to learn from his writings.

Paul Fleming wrote:

From the back cover:

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"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...

160 pages

141. Goldston's Magical Quarterly - Volume 2 - 2 pages - originally at the end of the file
142. Volume 2 Index

1. Goldston's Magical Quarterly - Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer, 1935 - 40 pages
1. Contents
3. Editorial
3. Elections 1935
4. A Letter to all Members of the Magicians' Club - Horace Goldin
5. Contributed By
   5. A Trick for Card Manipulators - Royal V. Heath
   5. Mento-Test Card Effect - John B. Ward
   6. The Melting Knot - E. Brenton Jennings
   6. Writes Right - Rupert H. Slater
   8. Cyro's Mass Production
   8. The Mysterious Cut
   9. A Goldin Flight - Horace Goldin
   9. The "Do It Again" Rope...

Numbers 117-120

279 pages

1. Vol. 12, Number 117 March-May, 1923 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • What Of The Season?
   • Wireless Stage "Stunts"
   • One Penny!
   • Burglars
   • Two Conjurers
   • Where Ignorance Is Bliss
   • Our Correspondents
4. The Writing of "Nothing"
5. Soldiers of the King - Eric P. Wilson
7. The Greedy Goblin - James Mearns
9. Hot Coffee - G. O. Cox
10. A "Perpetual Calendar in Your Head" - F. R. Stanes
13. The Enchanted Dairy - Norman Hunter
14. Designing a Stage Setting - Sylvia M. Rangel
17. Pink and White Magic - Gwen Hilton
18. The Treasury Note and Lemon - Ray W. Lawes
20. The Artificial...

Numbers 161-164

236 pages

1. Vol. 23, Number 161 March-May, 1934 [48 numbered & 8 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Conjuring Books of the Future
   • Treading on the Gas
   • The Dinner Trick
   • Modern Instruction
   • Youth at the Helm
   • The Ever Ingenious Magician
4. The Monster of Loch Ness - Jules Danby
6. The Prediction of Prospero - Roy Walker
9. A Slow Sleight - The Fadeaway Vanish
10. Splitting the Atom - Wilfred Huggins
12. The Wedding of Mr. Mickey Mouse - C. Barnard
13. Another Silk Vanish - Eric J. Williams
14. Chit-Chat - article by Fred Culpitt
16. Snipping Again - Joseph Fitzpatrick
17. Novel Impromptu Rising...

This is the first volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston. He writes in his introduction about his motivation to publish this book: "My aim from the beginning has been to gather together from all sources everything new and big in magic that has not been fully explained before." And indeed we have contributions from the finest magicians living at that time: Chung Ling Soo, Harry Houdini, Servais Le Roy, Conradi, Chefalo, Oswald Williams and Chris Van Bern and others. And don't forget that Goldston himself was a prolific inventor of illusions, many of which are included in this work.

The contents spans...

Today we have the Masked Magician exposing magic secrets. Eighty years ago it probably was done by writing a book without the author's name given. I do not know if this book falls in the category 'exposure'. It certainly is a book that clearly reveals a lot of interesting tricks. One is the bullet catch. It has nearly 200 excellent photographs. Card and coin manipulation is dealt with in great detail. Overall a very good book. The photographs are the outstanding part.

A review in the March 1909 Sphinx states:

It is the third volume of the Hoffmann trilogy. The 1911 edition was expanded by almost 200 pages with the chapters 'New Miscellaneous Tricks' and 'Recollections of Hartz the Wizard'. This expanded 1911 edition is what you will get here. This book was rated one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring by H. Adrian Smith, historian, collector and owner of the largest private magic library in his time. Other books in this top 10 list are

• Magicians' Tricks by Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate
• The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase
• The Art of Magic by T. Nelson Downs
• Modern Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• More Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant ...

"Lifts the lid on all the real secrets of the top TV mind readers." - Steve Crabb, NLP MASTER Trainer

You will learn how to ...

• Suggest playing cards, images and pictures.
• Create powerful hypnotic phenomena, without formal hypnosis.
• Use suggestion and influence with contact muscle reading.
• Learn failsafe methods for practicing these effects.
• Become a more persuasive and powerful communicator.
• Learn how to spot trance states and utilize them in entertainment. And much much more.

"The Art of Suggestion and Influence is a gold mind and must have for any one who wants to...

Many years ago by a stroke of good luck, a fortunate combination of circumstances, I acquired a complete file of Thayer instruction sheets designed to accompany the apparatus. This just may be the only complete collection of Thayer secrets in existence. Recently I happened to mention this to Lloyd Jones who urged me to compile these instructions in book form, stressing the tremendous value of such a collection to magicians. This I consented to do but found there was too much material for one book. It was therefore decided to issue these secrets in several volumes, of which this is the first.

Some...

This is an all time classic with 57 beautiful illustrations. It is one of the most complete books written on magic, because it teaches both stage and close-up magic (cards, coins, silks, cups and balls, etc.), technique, presentation, and all the peripheral skills necessary for great conjuring.

"I beg to say that it is far and away the very best work of its kind ever published" - Harry Kellar

"My den contains a large collection of books on magic, but none has a cover so worn as 'Sleight of Hand' by Edwin Sachs." - David Devant

An autobiographical history of magic, profusely illustrated with diagrams of magic tricks and photographs of Goldston's career.

From the foreword by J. C. Cannell:

This book reveals some large-scale illusions and then teaches a range of easy tricks for the beginner.

• Introduction
• Secrets Of A Famous Magician Revealed
  • Buried Alive
  • Escape From A Milk-Can
  • The Vanishing Elephant
  • The Disappearing Horseman
  • "Needles And Thread"
  • Through A Brick Wall
• Magic Tricks Which Can Be Performed In The Home
  • The Handkerchief Trick
  • The Cord And The Handkerchief
  • The Vanishing Sixpence
  • A Bangle Trick
  • Try These Two Match Tricks
  • The Broken Match
  • The Coin Mystery
  • The Telegraphic Coin
  • A Blowing Feat
  • Lighting A Lump Of Sugar
  • The Three Boxes
  • The Tablecloth ...

Way Back in 1963 the Magic Castle opened its doors to the outside world so it could see the great variety and talent of magicians from all over the world. It began simply, but kept growing until today it is a world famous and beloved institution.

So it is with someone who wants to learn how to do card tricks. They begin in an easy manner with simple props and a minimum of skill. Slowly they grow in stature until someday they can hold their own with any other card magician in the world.

This booklet, small as it is, is the Open Sesame for people who want to learn to do card magic. It is...

You will learn the secrets and get detailed video instructions of how to make four impressive 'impossible' objects.

• Spider Link
• Checker Board
• The Needle
• Fork on Card

The Fork on Card will impress...

Numbers 213-216

261 pages

1. Vol. 36, Number 213, March-May, 1947 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered covers and advertising pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Magic for the Amateur
   • The Dealers
   • Our New Artist
   • Magical Broadcasts
   • Indian Magic
   • The Tribulations of a Publisher
5. Colour Changing Water - P. C. Sorcar (India)
7. The Roundabout - article by Claude Chandler
9. The Princess and The Pirate - Lamonte
12. The Appendix to Robert-Houdin's "Confidences" - translated by S. H. Sharpe
    • General Programme of the Experiments Invented and Performed During the Course of my Representations
    • The Inexhaustible Bottle
15. Mug's Game...

This small spring-loaded Bingo Shooting Device causes a loud bang by exploding a gunpowder cap.

According to its creator, S.S. Adams, ". . . It goes off with a loud bang when moved or disturbed. This little fun-maker can be used for jokes in a hundred different ways. Place it in a napkin or magazine, under a plate, cigarette box, hat, etc. [it’s] entirely harmless and always creates a big laugh."

Adams himself was known to install them in decks of playing cards, cigar boxes, books with risqué titles, and a whole lot more. Many of the ideas originated by Adams are sprinkled throughout this...

Numbers 13-24

192 pages

197. Cover, Vol. 2, No. 13, September, 1911 [16 pages]
197. Mr. Louis Nikola - profile
199. Editorial
200. Our Monthly Chat - little bits of news
201. Hofzinser's Card Tricks - Professor Hoffmann - biography
202. Shadow-graphy - column by Louis Nikola
203. Book Notes - reviews
     • The Sphinx (American) - August 1911 magazine
     • Sealed Mysteries - Burling Gilbert Galt Hull
204. Some Useful Card Sleights - column by Professor Hoffmann
206. Our Down-to-Date New Trick Competition - Series 2
     • 15. Fairy Egg and Handkerchief
     • 16. Original Clip Retainer for Chosen Card
     • 17. An Original Billiard Ball...

For over a decade, Steve Pellegrino has created strong magic and mentalism routines that have been released to the market. Professional magicians and mentalists have added many of those routines to their repertoires. Until now, these manuscripts have been unavailable anywhere.

Collected Secrets is a 455-page collection that combines Steve's previously released manuscripts into one large volume. It features 36 effects, including 5 previously unreleased routines.

Divided into three chapters, Cards, Mentalism & General Magic, here is what is included:

• Cards
  • Your Card!
  • Take It Further...

Some aficionados consider Dai Vernon's "Out of Sight-Out of Mind" from More Inner Secrets of Card Magic the best mindreading trick with an ordinary deck of cards. They may be right. Since the spectator does not remove a card from the deck but only thinks of a card, it makes a terrific mindreading trick. Erdnase explores the principle in "A Mindreading Trick" in Expert at the Card Table. Vernon used the principle to construct his trick.

Gerald keeps the exact effect of Vernon's original trick. In "Only in Your Mind", he uses adaptations of the Overhand Lift Shuffle and constructs a completely different handling of the trick. In keeping with the...

January 1961 - December 1961
Abbott's Magic Manufacturing Company
Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster Editor

591 pages

1. Pre-Publication Advertising sheet
1. The New Tops - Volume 1, Number 1 - January 1961 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Sid Lorraine
2. Cover Portrait - Sid Lorraine
3. Contents
4. Sketch of Percy Abbott
5. In Memoriam - re: Percy Abbott - 1886-1960
6. Gone, But Never Forgotten ... Howard Melson - by Gene Gordon
8. From the Editor's Desk - Neil Foster
9. Doves Doves Doves - Jack LaWain
12. Oriental Cabinets - W. W. Durbin
14. Snap It - Mike Miller
16. Tops & Bottoms - Don Alan
    • How to Make a Million...

September 1959 - August 1960
Geraldine Larsen, William Larsen, Jr. & Milton Page Larsen, Editors

426 pages (6 double pages)

1. Genii - Volume 24, Number 1 - September 1959 - 36 pages
1. Cover - Chop Chop and Ted Lewis
3. In This Issue - contents
6. Obituaries
   • Jean Hugard - by Milbourne Christopher
   • Karl Germain - by Stuart Cramer
7. The Genii Speaks - WWL Jr.
8. Psycho Vision - Glenn Gravatt
10. Slightly Fantastic - Dick Zimmerman
11. The Card Between - Glenn Gravatt
12. Humpty Dumpty - Joe White
12. The Fez Looks Familiar - Joe White
13. Spectator And The Aces - William Miesel
13. Maximus - Simon Aronson ...

1. ... Vol. 17, No. 11 - the last editorial from William. W. Larsen, Sr.
12. The 1-2-3-4 Elevator Cards - Frank Garcia
16. The Tea Cup And Paper Balls - Eddie Joseph
18. You Lie! - Raymond Beebe
20. Compared - Aldini
21. Publicity Headline Prediction - Teral Garrett
21. The Fallen Goddess - Rousseau
22. Remarks On Close-up Magic - open letter to Gene Gordon from Lt. Col. Franklin M. Davis, Jr.
    • Ice-Breakers
    • Routines & Tricks
26. Come Back Card - Ed Marlo
    • Double Face Card Version
    • Come Back Card Impromptu Version
28. Sorcar's Enigma Box - P. C. Sorcar
29. Sucker Silk Vanish - Victor the Magician
30. The Third...