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January 2020 - December 2020
1120 pages

[Note: The online content of the issues, such as audio and video files, are currently not part of this product. I am checking to see if I can add these files at a later date, but there is no guarantee I can give at this point.]

1. Genii - Volume 83, Number 1 - January 2020 - 96 pages
1. Cover - Yuji Wada
6. Contents
8. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
   • online video file available - More Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
10. In Memoriam - Simon Aronson (1943-2019) by Jon Racherbaumer
11. Now Performing
12. The Eye - Chloe Olewitz
18. Yuji Wada: Office Worker - Dustin Stinett
32. Cardistry Rocks - Jeff Prace
42. Lightning: The Odds - Creating The Magic Castle Cabaret - Shawn McMaster
50. Keeper of The Kettle - Steve Cohen
56. Classic Correspondence - Mike Caveney
    • P.T. Selbit to Howard Thurston ...

• ... An Adventurous Cat-fish. The Result of a Mis-step. Brave Father and Brave Son. A Most Inhuman Massacre. Le Marais du Cygne.
• CHAPTER X. A Party of Peace-makers. Before a Comfortable Fire. A Night at Osawattomie. Both Sides of the Question. A Simple, Touching Story. The Great Guerrilla Chieftain. One of his Devoted Adherents. ‘Catching a Tartar’ Illustrated. A Moment of Excitement. Uniting to Keep the Peace. An Address by Montgomery.
• CHAPTER XI. Feminine Smokers of Tobacco. Fever and Ague Experiences. Perplexing Usages of Words. Mysterious Slang Phrases Interpreted. Pearls and Returning...

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...

of Johnnie Ramsay. His sleight of hand is unexcelled, perhaps even unequalled. Performers who know all there is to know about the Cups and Balls are not merely puzzled, but utterly baffled by Ramsay's presentation. His Cap and Pence is a masterpiece of artistry.... It is not that he is always "one ahead": he must generally be half-a-dozen ahead.... His misdirection is perfect. Every action is perfectly natural and fully accounted for... If it be true that art consists in the concealment of art, then John Ramsay is the finest magical artist that we have seen...." - ABRACADABRA (30th March,...

• ... sleight magic
• Journal highlights. The Professor saves you buying all those other magazines!
• Steve Jones shows you what to do with all those reels of cotton
• Brian Lead offers seasonal DIY euthanasia
• Barrie Richardson shows how to memorise a deck in seconds
• Alan Wood Boxing clever for Boxing day
• Back window view of the trial and tribulations of performing table magic
• Basic Card technique continues with a topical Double Lift
• Mind Power of Arun Bonerjee

• ... in which four completely blank cards transpose with four kings that are in your wallet.
• Walt Lees is missing a card
• Stephen Tucker submits Vic Bridle's take on the "T of S" prediction that he has been pursuing of late.
• Werner Miller has two placed back into the pack, the other one not. The first is located and the second named. Not one, but three methods are described.

• Geoff with news on the current magical scene
• Steve Jones recounts amusing things children have said during his shows.
• Malcolm Yaffe announces that he is giving up card tricks
• Eddie...

Volume XIV (June 1956 - May 1957), Jean Hugard, editor

144 pages

433. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume XIV, Number 1 - June 1956 - 12 pages
433. The Enchanted Cylinder of Benaiah - Okito
434. Backstage - Frank Joglar
     • Convention Sidelights
     • News and Notes
     • Dunninger
     • Rosskam
434. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
     • Slydini
435. Zero - A Coin Vanish - Cliff Green
435. Roundabout with Fred Braue
     • Card Index
     • Max Malini Trick
     • Variation
     • Rosini Show
436. Out of My Profonde - Arthur Leroy
     • Saturday at Ducrot's Dirty Dump
437. Hands Across the Sea - Peter Warlock

July 1988 - June 1989
William Larsen, Jr., Publisher and Editor

843 pages (1 double page)

1. Genii - Volume 52, Number 1 - July 1988 - 60 pages
1. Cover - Dr. Robert Albo
5. In This Issue - contents
16. The Genii Speaks - WWL (Jr)
17. The Vernon Touch - Dai Vernon
18. Custodian of a million legends preserves health of antique magic - re: Dr. Robert Albo - Amy Stevens
    21. The Albo Books: Keeping the history of magic alive
    24. The Albo Collection: Home to magic's history
26. Illusion Plans - Paul Osborne and Associates
    • Santazamm!
28. Cigarette Magic and Manipulation - Geoffrey Buckingham ...

1. ...
   • ... Brad Henderson
   • Classics - Effective Card Magic - Bill Simon - book - re-viewed by Jason England
   • Classics - It Takes All Kinds - Maurice Zolotow - book - re-viewed by Gabe Fajuri
   • Suzy Wandas The Lady with the Fairy Fingers - Miracle Factory - DVD - reviewed by Michael Claxton
   • Enigmaths 1, 2 & 3 - Werner Miller - 3 e-books - reviewed by Peter Duffie
   • I Dream of Mind Reading - John Lovick - effect - reviewed by Peter Duffie
   • Departure - Derek Roberts - effect with video CD - reviewed by John Lovick
   • Commentary - H + H = AoA on DVD - Gabe Fajuri
   • Vertical Plain - Brent Geris...

The performer takes the selected card...

"I do enjoy reading good writing and I enjoy reading your books. You sure are one heck of a funny guy! Started chuckling almost immediately and really laughed out loud at '...confused with a hat-rack'! Well done!" - Harry Lorayne

"Not all magic books are fun to read, but this is one that's fun to read and is as much fun to play with the pieces and create some antic fun for the audience." - Jon Racherbaumer

• ...The Rising Cigarette
• The Flame Prediction
• The Disappearing Coin
• Initial in Fire
• Sensitive Fingers
• The Liquid Tells
• Drinking Smoke
• Lightening Addition
• The Spiritual Glass
• Crossed Digit
• The Tricky Spoon
• The Talking Cards
• Scarne's Bank Night
• The Knotted Coin
• It's in the Ashes
• The United Shreds
• Three to One
• The Dollar That Wouldn't Burn
• Divination of Age
• Tricks with Sugar
• The Reappearing Match Heads
• Magic Dates and Days
• The Six-Cent Trick
• The Famous Penny
• Mathematics Plus
• Cut and Tied
• Two Minus Two Equals Two
• Up in Flames
• The Knife That Doesn't Cut
• Stringing a Ring
• Change for a Five-Dollar...

• ...
  • ... / Modellini Box
  • De Hempsey, Sydney / Practical Punch and Judy, The Punch Dialogue Cont'd
• No. 69
  • George Armstrong / Arthur Carter
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / Supersonicubes
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / My Favourite Card Prediction
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / Dupin's Directory Trick
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / One for the Bar Lexicon
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / Penultimate Prediction
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / Simples and Cheekiest
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / Sevens in Sympathy
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / The Longest Word, Slate Routine
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / My Soup Plates
  • Arthur F.G. Carter / Supersonic Chance
  • Sydney de Hempsey...

On the covers are

• Gerald Kosky
• Harry Clarke
• Robert Orben
• Fred Kaps
• David Berglas
• Ronald Haines
• David Nixon
• Jimmy Lake
• Les Aston
• Bobo
• Michael Bailey
• Hen Fetsch

1. Volume 9, Number 1, May, 1953, 32 numbered pages - cover picture: Gerald Kosky
4. Review - comments from Harry Stanley
5. More Routined Manipulation - series by Lewis Ganson
   • Charlie Edward's "Dissolving Knots" - Part 1
10. Tom Seller's Tit-Bits - series
    • An Easy False Shuffle
    • A Card Penetrates a Handkerchief
11. More Mystic Signs - Hedley Wilcox
12. Cards in Reverse - Bill Simon (New York)
13. Front...

• ... a Flexible Number Force
• Simon Lovell considers the Multiple Top Change
• Alan Ward's Baffling Bycyclette will cross your eyes
• John Rhodes rides into town with a posse of new news
• Al Smith considers the business of Art as he window watches this month
• Basic Card Sleights. This month we cover the one handed top palm
• Barrie Richardson shuffles a deck. Removes an unseen card and asks the spectator to name it. He does. Impossible? Not when you have read this month's offering.
• Professor Dawes with all that you missed in the rest of the mags.

• News and Reviews with Geoff Maltby ...

• ... Dawes collecting cinematography
• Peter Duffie Mixes Magically
• JJ Resists a sale to the toffs and retains his integrity and gains their respect
• Henrique sings for his luncheon
• Ali Cardabra undyes a silk
• Arun Bonerjee with mental card work from India
• Ian Keable describes a perfect gig - and one not so perfect
• John Rhodes travels far and wide for magical news in the layman's press
• Werner Miller mixes Fetsch and Hofzinser

• News and views with Geoff
• Barrie Richardson and Helicopter Coins
• Jim Breedon checks his notes and changes a pickpocket into a cutpurse
• Peter...

AN ERICKSONIAN READER'S OPENING: After you use 'Handshake Intuition' and greet the person in front of you, how do you open the actual session with your client? Find out one technique based on the work of Milton H. Erickson that will make it seem like you are interested without interfering!

THE BACKSLAP ANCHOR: An interesting, progressive technique that allows you to establish a magickal relationship with an individual and end with a Cold/Warm/Hot Reading that...

BONUS ROUTINE: Includes a sure-fire method where audience members call out names of famous people (no stooges) and one of these names is chosen. After doing the baby gag routine; for a climax, an actual ADULT photo of the named person is removed from the envelope. This is done with NO PRE-SHOW WORK and the full secret is included in this release. This alone is worth the price of the trick and will fool the smartest...

Volume XVIII (June 1960 - August 1961), Milbourne Christopher & Fred Braue, editors

144 pages

1. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume XVIII, Number 1 - June 1960 - 12 pages
1. New Wine from Old Cups - Fred G. Taylor
2. Backstage - Frank Joglar
   • Bits and Pieces
   • Grim Reaper - re: Dr. Harlan Tarbell
   • News and Notes
   • Memo from Morris
   • Jottings
   • Syldini
   • Goodliffe
   • Rope Trick
   • Dunninger on Hurkos
3. The Wizard's Variations - Al Stevenson
   • My Card on Ceiling
     • Variations
4. Milbourne Christopher's Column
   • Phone in Bag
   • Phone Production
   • Emcee Item ...