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Automatic Gambler
Created in October 2000 (along with Klectors that is elsewhere in this book) as an impromptu performance piece for the International Magic convention in December of that year. You demonstrate how to stack 4 Aces for a four-handed game. Then, you drop the Aces face up on top of the deck and they instantly vanish. You immediately give the deck to a spectator who now deals, not 4 but 5 hands this time. The face up Aces fall to his hand!

Satanic Writes
STAGE 1 – THE IMPOSSIBLE
You give out a diary to spectator 'A' for close examination. There are playing cards entered throughout...

A Magical Upbringing brings Henry Hay closer through his letters, early articles and unpublished photos, and...

On the covers are

• Val Andrews
• Ron MacMillan
• Dr. Raymond L. Beebe
• Frank Garcia
• Sydney Lawrence
• Eddie Dexter
• Jack Gillespie
• De Vega
• J. A. M. Howie
• Roger Klause
• John Booth
• Dino

1. Volume 19, Number 1, May, 1963, 28 numbered pages - cover picture: Val Andrews
3. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
4. Magic with Apparatus
   • Presentation of Cylindro - George Durant
7. Magic for the Pocket
   • I.O.U. - An Original Pocket Trick - Edward Victor
9. Mental and Spirit Magic
   • Murray on Mentalism
10. Psychojazzology - John Bragoli
12. Just a Few Words and Bits and Pieces...

Losing Control is a move that allows you to easily bring a selection to the top.

"So simple, yet so brilliant!" - Dave K.

How long have you been practicing a move like the classic pass? It's been over twenty years, and Lee is still working on his! One day he will master it, but until then, the Losing Control is his preferred way to control a card to the top.

This clever maneuver gives you the ability to have a card selected, plainly and cleanly placed back into the middle of the deck and yet have the card secretly remain on the top of the pack.

The Losing Control technique does...

September 1952 - August 1953
Mr. & Mrs. William W. Larsen & Milton Page Larsen, Editors

507 pages (9 double pages)

1. Genii - Volume 17, Number 1 - September 1952 - 44 pages
1. Cover - The Merv Taylor Company
7. Dealer's Directory
9. On With the Show - editorial - Bill Larsen
10. The Editors Problem
    • By Gerald Kosky
11. Easy Does It - H. Fernandes
12. A Novel Coin Bag - Lu Brent
13. The Magical Traveler - Alan Wakeling
    • Scotland
14. The Alcoholic Animal - Johnny Geddes
15. The Artful Dodges of William W. Larsen
16. Your New Act From Genii - Ray Muse
    • Pocket Close-Up Act (No Cards)
    • Impromptu...

A couple of very cool and clever 'no memory' methods to calculate day for a given date in just a single step are built in and included. Finally, the performer will be able to leave some fantastic souvenirs with the participants which they will remember for a very long time.

Peculiarly, the 'Introduction' is given at the end of the manuscript and there is a good...

The Trick that Lance Burton Showed Me demonstrates what happens when you live with a trick for 15 years. This is my handling and presentation for Dan Garrett’s Four Card Reiteration. I discussed this trick on one of the Very Very Close videos, but there is new work in this ebook.

Presentation for Gary Plants’s Magnetized Cards is my handling of this superb marketed effect. Many professionals have asked permission to perform this, but until now I have selfishly kept it to myself.

The Luckiest Cards...

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. It is a magnificent book featuring tricks from Germain, Conradi, Goldston, Okito, Elliott, and others. It is very difficult to get a hardcopy these days. Other books in this top 10 list are

• 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
• Later Magic by Prof. Hoffmann
• The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil
• Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant
• Tarbell Course by Harlan Tarbell
• Greater Magic by John Northern Hilliard

Paul Fleming wrote:

This is the piece that Kenton Knepper called "Brilliant". Alain Nu and Luke Jermay both gave this the thumbs up. Craig Browning flipped over it. But what exactly is it?

This is not a magic trick. This is real mind control. Yes, seriously.

First Impression(s) was written for anyone that uses business cards to promote their magic or mentalism business. First Impression(s) will teach you a special way of designing your card that will influence others to show it to every one they know. This is not a "Magic trick" as you would typically think of it.

This is the business card layout, powerful cold/warm reading script, and influence...

1. ... with this remarkable effect, which spawned Mental Epic! Paul has re-worked this triple revelation effect (unlike any of the other versions) so that it is now COMPLETELY impromptu. You can use any deck of cards. Very easy to do, spectator-friendly and is a magician-fooler. DO NOT PASS THIS ONE UP!

1st edition 2012, 29 pages.

The owners of this ebook can get Advanced Brain Knewmerology for half price.

This is a unique mind reading routine. It possesses a rare set of qualities. It is absolutely prop less and it can be done totally impromptu. Also, you can read 2 minds at a time. This works equally well one-on-one, close-up group, parlor, walk around, street, platform or even remotely on phone or skype.

This is completely self working and instantly repeatable with a different outcome each time. Very easy to perform. You can perform it within 10 minutes of reading the instructions. No electronics, no stooges, no preshow and no sleights. ...

A spectator freely selects a card (no force) the card is pushed into the center of the deck. The magician gives the deck one cut and immediately spells to the card. A No Memory Self-Working Miracle.

Effect: The performer shows a deck of cards to be well mixed and hands the deck to a participant to cut as many times as he likes. The performer tells the participant to stop cutting whenever he wants and that the top card of the deck will be his selected card. The performer asks the participant to look at the top card of the deck while he looks away. The participant is then instructed to take...

This sounds like an incredible feat, if the envelope contains the same amount of change that matches a number he creates, it would be amazing.

Have the person open up the calculator on his phone. Have the person choose any number from 1 to 10 and enter it into his calculator. There is no force; he may choose any number he chooses. Then after a little by-play, he totals his answer. You remind him, had he chosen a different number, the answer would be different.

You ask the spectator what his total is. He says 2 ½. You appear to...

• ... can also make it turn into another car or change in some way. For example you can cause the doors or hood to magically open, the windows roll down and so forth.
• If you happen to be buying someone a car (Anniversary, birthday, etc.) you could do this trick to make their old car turn into their new one.
• Do the trick in reverse to make a car appear in the driveway.
• If you want to pull a "Pimp my ride" on your buddy and give their car a make over before they head off to college or overseas. You can use this method to present it to them.
• A mean joke would be to turn their car into a ten-speed...

Spell-Binder Magazine was one of the most radical and different close-up magazines of the 1980s and it was illustrated throughout by Stephen Tucker and along with Pabular was considered to be an important contribution to the art of close up magic in Britain. The magazine was produced mainly during the period when Stephen Tucker...

WINNING PRODUCTS - A GUIDE is filled with the sort of detail that will allow the market place to embrace you and your product with enthusiasm. (And that's half the battle. Look at all the one night stands out there now! Gold today GONE tomorrow) You'll learn how to make it all easy by ensuring the correct pricing and distribution, by advertising in the correct manner, while promoting and building a reputation as someone who cares about the details of getting it right! Then you'll be...

Paul A. Lelekis is one of the most experienced table-hoppers on the planet. He has performed in many restaurants from Hot Dog Stands all the way up to 5-Star restaurants for over 25 years. He has often table-hopped in restaurants 6 or 7 days a week - for many years.

Paul has been asked to record an all-inclusive e-book of Table-Hopping and so decided to write this e-book, The Business of Table-Hopping. Included are a few photographs of Paul, explaining magic.

Table-Hopping is not only a very lucrative business, but you will be asked to perform for many other engagements and hundreds of...

If you already own Karma Deck Pro or buy along with this, you can get this ebook for half price.

Are you alone and deckless? No problem. Now "deckless" does not mean "powerless" anymore. Just have this one single Kommando Kard with you in your wallet or pocket and you are set to perform these 15 amazing routines, without ever needing a deck of playing cards.

Yes, this is deckless stack magic and deckless card mentalism rolled into one. A path breaking style and refreshingly new way of performing card mentalism using the Karma Deck stack (you will need to be familiar with the Karma Deck), but without having a...

1. The Magical Bulletin - Volume 9, Number 1 - January, 1921 - 16 pages
1. cover photo - A. H. Shirk
3. Editorial and notes
4. cover photo article - A. H. Shirk
4. A Tribute - to Trewey - Harry Kellar
4. Trewey - poem - Adam Hull Shirk
4. Literature
   • The Sphinx - December
   • The Magic Wand - December
   • Felsman's Magical Review - December
   • Hutchinson's Chronicle - December
   • The Magic World - December
   • The Astrological Bulletin
   • The Magic Art - Donald Holmes
4. magic note re: E. F. Rybolt
5. Magician Bell Chased by South Sea Cannibals - David Bell
6. Magical Dreams of Tomorrow - Adam Hull Shirk ...

1st edition 1989; 24 pages; 28 illustrations.

Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again.

Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and...

"Much more than a mere gambling expose, Catch 33 is almost an act in itself! Twenty-first Century magic needs more brains like yours." - Guy G.

3 cards. 2 of them lose. 1 wins.

"..simple! "... Or so your audience thinks.

Each time he plays the game with you, your spectator falls into subtle traps you've set. He receives an authentic lesson on the con game that is not a game at all. Using beautifully choreographed sequences, you continually manipulate your spectator into choosing the wrong card. He just can't help himself.

Perform this routine surrounded; at a restaurant, trade...