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Max Andrews Vampire Magic Catalog: 1954Max AndrewsConjuring tricks, magical apparatus and illusions.
1st edition 1954, 279 pages. | $7 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Max Andrews Vampire Magic Catalog No 5: 1956Max AndrewsAdvertises with: Britain's largest magical manufacturer
1st edition 1956, 284 pages. | ★★★★★ $7 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Corinda Catalog No 2: 1960Tony CorindaMagic, books, occultism, mentalism, manuscripts
1st edition 1960, 43 pages. | $7 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Supreme Catalog No. 1Edwin HooperThe start of a legendary business.
1st edition 1956, 57 pages. | $8 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Supreme Catalog No. 4 Part 2 (1967)Edwin HooperMore tricks, books and accessories for the magician. There are no duplicates from part 1.
1st edition 1967, 167 pages. | $4 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Supreme Catalog No. 4 Part 3 (1969)Edwin HooperEven more tricks, books and accessories for the magician. There are no duplicates from part 1 or 2.
1st edition 1969, 94 pages. | $4 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Roterberg Catalog 5August RoterbergThe title page reads: "Superior, New and Standard Conjuring Tricks, Spiritualistic Manifestations and Books on Conjuring."
Particularly noteworthy are the pages in the back where he reprints quotes and praises from customers who have read his books including John Northern Hilliard and Harry Kellar.
1st edition ca. 1898, 76 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #9 1947Percy AbbottMore than 800 pages of tricks, books, illusions, and other magic products.
1st edition 1947, 832 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #20 1972Recil BordnerIncludes a historical sketch about Abbott Magic, how it came to be, and why it was started in Colon, MI.
1st edition 1972, 464 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Abbott Magic Catalog #16 1964Recil BordnerMagic products are being offered in the following categories:
- Accessories
- Advertising Section
- Ball Magic
- Bird Cages
- Block Tricks
- Bottle Tricks
- Candle Tricks
- Canes
- Card Magic
- Change Bags
- Cigarette Tricks
- Close-Up and Pocket Tricks
- Coin and Money Magic
- Comedy Effects
- Cups and Balls
- Dice
- Egg
- Escapes
- Flower Magic
- Trick Glasses
- Illusions
- Kid-Show Magic
- Light Bulbs
- Linking Rings
- Liquid Magic
- Water Lotas
- Milk Tricks
- Tricks with Livestock
- Mental magic
- Paper Magic
- Production Magic
- Rice Bowls
- Rope Tricks
- Silk Magic
- Spook and Spirit Material
- Modern Tables
- Thimbles
...
| ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
W. H. J. Shaw Catalog 1893William Henry James ShawA Chicago dealer who did manufacture his own apparatus.
1st edition 1893, 24 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
H. C. Evans Catalog 1909-1910Edwin C. HoodH. C. Evans was a company specializing in the manufacture and sale of gambling and carnival equipment. They also sold sporting goods like baseball gloves, various balls, hunting and fishing gear. Particularly noteworthy are their offerings for cheating purposes such as hold-outs, or dice which have been altered in a number of ways, or marked cards, etc.
1st edition 1909, 64 pages. | $5 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
H. C. Evans Catalog 1929Edwin C. HoodIn 1929 H. C. Evans was a large company specializing in the manufacture and sale of sporting goods and casino equipment.
- Casino supplies
- Trade Stimulators
- Pocket Novelties
- Amusement Park Supplies
- Fair Ground Games
- Shooting Galleries
1st edition 1929, 160 pages. | $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Ireland Magic Catalog No. 17Frances MarshallThe Ireland Magic Company was founded in 1926 by the late Laurie Lowell Ireland. The first retail advertisement appeared in The Sphinx and The Linking Ring for March 1929. The first trick was the clever Ireland Button Trick.
1st edition 1962, 224 pages. | ★★★★★ $8 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Magic Inc. Mid 80s Import Book CatalogueFrances MarshallCovering books published around the world on the subject of magic and allied arts.
1st edition ~1985; PDF 70 pages. | $6 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Magic Inc. Big Book CatalogFrances MarshallBooks are grouped in the following categories:
- Cards
- Coins
- Close-Up
- Mental
- Clowning, Balloons, Juggling, and Kid Shows
- Illusions
- Promotions
- Biography and History
- General
1st edition 1993; PDF 408 pages. | $15 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Magic Inc. Book Catalog 1Frances MarshallMagic Inc. always emphasized books in their offering. They published a lot of books themselves, imported books from foreign countries, and carried a large selection of publications related to magic. This of course was driven by Jay Marshall's passion for books.
1st edition ~1982; PDF 165 pages. | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Magic Inc. Trick Catalog #28Frances Marshall
Tricks are grouped in the following categories:
- Beginning Magic
- Card magic
- Money Magic
- Close-Up Magic
- Mentalism
- Kids Show Magic
- Stage Magic
- Miscellaneous Magic
- Prices
1st edition 1994; PDF 224 pages. | $12 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Anthology of Card MagicGordon MillerOriginally sold in three printed volumes, now combined in one gigantic PDF.
Ever since the Abbott Magic Company started business in 1934, hundreds of card tricks have been offered for sale in their catalogs. As each new catalog was published, many of these tricks were omitted to make room for newer ones ... but like good books, great music and fine art, these effects of card magic still remain classics. Gordon Miller, who has been a member of the Abbott staff for over thirty years, delved into the archives and compiled over three hundred of these effects into this huge collection. Almost... | ★★★★★ $12.95 to wish listPDF |
U. F. Grant's Lost Illusion Secrets RevealedDevin Knight & Ulysses Frederick Grant This is the largest collection of U. F. Grant illusions and illusionettes every assembled. It took Devin Knight several years to compile this collection. Grant wrote a few books on illusions such as: 15 Great Illusions, Chinese Magic and Illusions, Modern Levitations, Victory Carton Illusions, Grant's Illusion Secrets, and many others. However, most of the illusions in this PDF were not included in those manuscripts.
Over the years, Grant sold many manuscripts that just contained one illusion along with building plans in most cases. (Some of these were released by Percy Abbott in his catalog without credit to U. F. Grant.) This compilation is a collection of those plans released by Grant and also in the early... | ★★★★★ $35 to wish listPDF |
Magic DigestGeorge B. AndersonThe original ad read:
Secrets for the tricks in this book, if purchased separately from magic supply houses, would cost well over $1000. Here, in non-technical language, are hundreds of tricks that require no special apparatus; tricks that can be performed with simple, common objects to be found anywhere. Tricks with coins, rope, handkerchiefs, cigarettes, rubber bands, pencils, playing cards - objects completely free of trickery. Includes complete routines for a close-up act, a mental act, a children's show, and a catalog of magic and merchandise.
- Hundreds of self-working tricks that...
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New Tops Volume 28 (1988)Gordon Miller... - ...
- ...
- ... the Pasteboards - Again! - Ken Simmons
- Card Spinning - Tom Osborne
- The Dayton Razor Blade Miracle - Ronald J. Dayton
- Ambitious Card Omnibus - Daryl
- The Nixon Manuscript
- Precursor, June & September
- Chef's Hat Egg Bag - Ian Adair
- International Magic Studio - catalog
- For Women Only - Frances Marshall
- Forum - Bruce Posgate
- cartoon - The Traveling Salesman - Ed Harris
- Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
- Cover Story - re: Philip Morris
- Vent Views - Bill Boley
- Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
- Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
- This Business...
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New Tops Volume 29 (1989)Gordon MillerGreg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor
673 pages
- The New Tops - Volume 29, Number 1 - January 1989 - 56 pages
- Cover - Geoffrey Hansen
- Contents
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
- miscellaneous
- Seance - new magazine
- Current Comedy
- Morrissey Magic Ltd. - catalog
- Perfect Magic - catalog
- Books, Tricks, and Things I've Seen
- My Latest Book - Karrell Fox
- package of mailing pieces - Irv Weiner
- Bizarre with Maskelyne ye Mage - Tony Andruzzi - Video tape
- Conjurer's Psychological Secrets - S.H. Sharpe
- Signed Bill...
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New Tops Volume 17 (1977)Neil Foster... - ...
- Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
- cigarette pull for pencils - Ted Colteaux
- stretching a rabbit - Ted Colteaux
- Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
- miscellaneous
- A Short Checklist of Conjuring Periodicals in English - James Alfredson & George Dailey
- Jeff Busby - catalog and supplement
- New Books, Tricks and Things
- Paul Swinford Lecture Notes - new edition
- There's One Born Every Minute - Harry Blackstone, Jr.
- The Blue Book of Mentalism - Phil Goldstein
- nail writer - Johnson Products
- Johnson Products - catalog
- Would You Believe?...
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