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"In all the world of magic, I don't think you could find a fairer, squarer person than Lewis" - Dai Vernon, Genii December 1974.

"As I look at the literary scene of magic today, the name of one man stands out above all the rest and the owner of that name is my old friend Lew Ganson." - Peter Warlock, Genii, December 1974.

Martin Breese writes in the original description of these tapes:

The Story: ... Can't ... breathe ... feeling ... pain ... must ... survive ... The biggest mistake ever made in the land of Bicycle was the day that the Heart family sent the Jacks after the Joker. They thought he was dead, but they should have checked; after all he is a Joker. The Joker lay there in agony trying to recover from the brutal attack that is known on the streets as being "Jacked Up." That moment, something changed in him. His revenge was developing. He knew that this was the doing of the Heart family, more specifically, the Three of Hearts. I will get him. I will destroy him. I will...

This 5th issue of volume 1 of The Gimmick MagiZette is another magical salmagundi contributed by reputed magic personalities from east and west …

• Sorcar Senior aka TW'SGM has just trod on to his 100th Birthday – our homage and a nice photograph.
• "Captain Kirk and Star Tricks" by Loch David Crane, M. Ed. Loch gives his explanation on Torn and Restored Strings from his book.
• "Robert Olson on Ventriloquy" – Rev. Robert E Olson recites his Chipper (vent doll) and expresses the cardinal rules of ventriloquism in a nutshell.
• "Past Glory of India – Prof. Vazhakunnam," fondly referred...

Eighty-five tricks and routines from the pages of Spell-Binder Magazine. Everything from card and coin magic to the bizarre and the weird.

Effects explained are:

• Sandwich Box by Stephen Tucker -- Signed selected card appears between 2 previously selected cards within closed card case.
• Mark by Stephen Tucker -- Alternate version of previous effect.
• Demonology by Bob Ostin -- Spectator signs card. Flames cause occult symbol to change to slip of paper with name of signed card. Signed card then revealed to have singed corner & occult symbol on back.
• Esti-Mate-Ion by Joe Dignam -- Spectator looks through deck...

This ebook includes tricks with ribbons, silks, eggs, cards, tobacco, money, flowers, milk, magic colors and effects such as the Sympathetic Silks, the Cut and Restored Necktie and other routines of comedy magic. This ebook will provide you with many new tricks and allow you to make use of tricks...

Have you ever wondered how to make money with psychic readings?

In this reveal all interview series we cover the three main ways that you can make money from psychic readings as a mystery entertainer. It is all covered in over 1 hour worth of interviews.

We start with interview one that covers in detail the paid booth market - this includes: fairs, festivals, trade shows, psychic fairs and other paid venues for doing readings.

Next we head into the psychic house party market and cover how and why to do psychic house parties for profit! This can be a game changer for many mystery entertainers...

This is a rare collection of card secrets that U. F. Grant sold separately. These were listed in his catalog as single items or special props using cards. These were not part of his other card books. The complete directions for the prop tricks are included in this ebook. Many of these items can be made up from cards you may have around your home. If you have seen some of the effects in his early catalogs and wondered how they were done, then this PDF may satisfy your curiosity. A wealth of information that is hard to find elsewhere. This is volume 1 of a planned two volume set. You get all the...

Finally after nearly a decade, I've decided to release my version (with permission, of course) of Wayne Dobson's Big Revelation, Third Eye.

Effect:

The participant freely thinks of any card, then reveal the participant's thought of card as you unfold a sheet of paper with a series of jokes...

One of the first lessons I learnt in my performing days was that a tongue-in-cheek presentation could be as effective and possibly much more entertaining than one with pompous pretensions. And in pursuit of this, I spent as much on literature devoted to patter and one-liners as I did to books with new tricks and routines, sleights and subterfuges.

Robert Orben was the "guru" - one just had to have everything he put out for magicians. There were many others like Harry Allen, Ken DeCourcy and Val Andrews, who took their presentations with a pinch of salt, and...

In the spring of 2005 Jay Sankey sent out a world-wide request for audition videos featuring original material from unknown magicians. In response, performers from more than a dozen countries submitted more than 200 tapes and dvds! From this mountain of submissions Jay and his team unanimously selected...

Derek Lever's Magic Mag, Volume 1
Published by Derek Lever, Peter C. Woolley & Taurus Magic, Manchester & Bury, Lancaster, England
Volume 1 consists of 6 issues, 260 pages total

Volume 1, Number 1, October/November 1979, 36 numbered pages plus 4 unnumbered cover pages

1. Candid Comments by The Editor - Derek Lever
   • Are Magic Societies Out of Date?
2. drawing collage of Chung Ling Soo
3. Blast from the Past - Chung Ling Soo - personality
4. Kid's Entertainers Only - news and advice
5. On the Road with Michael Allport - series
   • Zurich, Switzerland
6. Well I'll Be Hanged - a new...

Number 1 (April 1931)

• Editorial
• Downs Greets Blackstone
• Men Prominent in Magic Welcome the I. M. C.
• The International Magic Circle
• The First Convention
• Sensational Magic
  • Word from the Spirits
  • The Penetrating Silk
  • The Best Diminishing Ball
  • The Bewitched Cigarette
  • Dollar Divination Test
  • Clear Through / Edward Massey
  • How to Tell What a Man Thinks Before He Thinks It / Frank W. Thomas
• Something New in Magic
• Around the Magic Circle
• Magic Notes from Detroit
• Stage Effects
  • The Message from Mercury
  • The Girl and the Ladder
• Around the Ice-Box with "Dom"
• Effective Card Tricks ...

These are 8 hours of personal video instructions from Roberto Giobbi. This is almost like taking private lessons from Roberto. It is a one-to-one coaching from one of the world's premier card experts, who is considered by his peers to be one of today's finest and most influential teachers of magic.

"I was extremely impressed. Giobbi is an excellent teacher, he communicates his ideas clearly, and he's passionate about card magic - this is one of the best card magic DVD sets I've come across in recent memory. It contains a tremendous amount of solid material for beginning and even seasoned...

Inside this ebook not only will you discover the fun and exciting history of the Bingo Shooting Device, but you’ll also find 115 Pranks, Games, Magic Tricks, Emcee Bits, and more that are all accomplished with this one tiny little device. Take the ideas. Make them your own. Prank your friends. Surprise your audience, and most of all watch out for things that go BANG!

• Learn the exciting history behind this explosive little device
• Over 115 pranks, games, magic tricks, emcee bits, and more
• Bingo shooting device...

This "Scrapbook" is a small, haphazard collection of some of my contributions to the Art of Magic, over the past 50 years. Since the late 1960's I have contributed hundreds of my ideas to over a dozen national and international magic magazines, run a magician's service producing over 2000 magic items, (some hundreds of which were my own creations and which sold over a million Dollars worth a year around the world at one time), and for which I wrote over 2000 "instruction sheets." Many of these instructions had "ideas" for the use of the props that enabled our customers to get the maximum mileage...

Twelve tried, tested and proven, practical tricks that you will delight in using in your club and stage shows.

The apparatus requires no complicated mechanical ability to produce. Nor is great skill required to perform. Previously sold for the equivalent of more than $16.00 in today's money.

Contents:

Silversion: A borrowed coin is passed into a hermetically sealed bottle. Both may be examined.

Cheerio Glass: A complete disappearance of a 4-inch tumbler. No trick tables or tubes.

Squaring the Square: A unique effect with a piece of paper and a pair of scissors.

Count of Monte...

1. The Wizard - Volume I, Number 1 - September, 1905 - 16 pages
1. Cover - Poster for Maskelyne & Devant's Mascot Moth
2. Hambley's advertisement
3. Notices
3. Introduction
3. Gossip
6. Maskelyne & Devant's Mysteries
7. A Card and Egg Trick
7. Editorial
8. Practical Prestigiation
   • The Incubator Canister
10. note - Maskelyne & Devant in the "Topical Times"
10. The Magic Circle
11. Professional Announcements
12. In London City
12. Correspondence
13. Scissors and Paste
13. The Funny Electric Pencil - Ornum's advertisement
14. Conjuring - Past and Present
14. Pars. From the Provinces
14. A North British Magician's Wooing - humor
15. Harry...

Timothy Hyde was invited to join the famed Psychic Entertainers Association in 1990 where he quickly became known as "Australia's Magician of the Mind". His "real world" mentalism routines have been honed over years of performance and some of this material has only appeared before in Vibrations the journal of the PEA. It will be of particular interest to Stand Up and Corporate performers. The material requires a certain skill level and knowledge of the basics of mentalism.

Some comments by working professionals:

"I'm extremely jealous, really top notch material. The book is excellent...

For those who have been looking for the first five books that Jerry Sadowitz and Peter Duffie published through Martin Breese - there is good news. All five books have been compiled in one ebook called Card Zones. These are:

• Alternative Card Magic (Duffie/Sadowitz)
• Contemporary Card Magic (Duffie/Sadowitz)
• Cards Hit (Sadowitz)
• Close-up to the Point (Duffie)
• Inspirations (Duffie/Sadowitz)

"I received Card Zones yesterday and just wanted to tell you what a beautiful piece of work it is. You've really done proud by Peter and Jerry. I love the cover, both color and illustration. The inside layout for all the tricks is...

As an executive coach in Nebraska's largest privately held company, my day is spent in back-to-back one-on-one sessions with managers. Although I would never call it cold reading (at least not out loud in a corporate environment), I consistently use the principles of cold reading to help a client get comfortable in opening up to me as we work together on their professional development.

This first in a series of scientific cold reading documents and videos explains the scientifically accepted and proven model I've used for decades to accelerate the process of getting to know someone and grow...

People who know comedy recommend Ken Allen's Pilfered Patter as the book to get. Don Lawton, Bill Larsen Jr., John Braun and other professional entertainers and comedy writers raved about the material in Pilfered Patter No. 1. But we didn't stop there. Introducing Pilfered Patter 1.5, the new and improved ebook of comic monologues, one- and two-liners, gags, jokes and funny stories to intersperse during or between effects in your routine.

Nothing is off limits - not even sex - which is why this ebook carries a warning that it may not be appropriate for those under 17 years of age. (There's...

This informative handbook provides expert, proven advice for booking and presenting a financially successful one-person traveling theater or school assembly magic show.

Not only that, but the author goes on to provide his exact patter for 25 standard effects as used in his program. This is an act that you, too, can present yourself. The emphasis is on performing for youngsters, and the author reveals why this age group is a financial gold mine for the alert performer.

Here's a quick look at what's included:

• A brief resumé of the author's career and experience in the booking and performance...