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"I highly recommend this to all of you who are interested in learning a devilishly clever approach to TORN & RESTORED CARD" - Danny Orleans (Genii Magazine)

Hoodwink is not designed to replace, or to in any way compete with, the fine crop of "quarter by quarter" restorations that are making the rounds. Instead,...

Besides his own collections of his newsletters for magicians, he worked on the Tannen catalog, Tannen's Top Hat Topics, Sam Sharp's Mechanical Secrets, Genii Magazine, Richard Robinson's ALL MAGIC web site, David Roth's 3-Ball Trick lecture notes, two books for Doug Edwards, dust jackets and a few interior illustrations for Steve Minch's Hermetic Press, and he has helped build, sculpt, or decorate props for a number of working pros.

Gregg still invents magic, writes his newsletters, and occasionally still performs. His Zarrow Shuffle draws praise when seen from...

Inspired and learned from tricks bought by his father. Moved to Southern California in 1922. Criminal lawyer. Semi-pro mentalist and magician. Founder-editor Genii magazine 1936-53. In 1939 toured a full-evening show thru USA with wife Gerrie and sons Bill Jr and Milt. Owned Thayer Studio of Magic in Los Angeles 1942-1950 when sold to Clayton Jacobson. Retired from law practice in 1945 to give full time to magic. Founder of the Larsen magic dynasty. SAM Hall of Fame.

Co-invented (with T. Page Wright) Boudoir of a Dancing Girl (by 1928). Published several booklets jointly with his friend Wright, including The L.W. Mysteries for...

• ... transposition effect with a fun, unique presentation.
• NEAR-SIGHTED JACK SANDWHICH: A killer double sandwich routine using the two one-eyed jacks, but with a little difficulty. Eventually, the other two jacks make a surprise appearance.
• DALEY PLUS 2: An updated handling of John’s February 2012 Genii magazine effect. Dr. Daley's classic plot with the four kings, two selections, and an incredibly impossible card-in-box ending.
• HOLD UP: John's version of the famous "Ambitious Classic"; Ace, 2, 3, and 4 of spades rise to the top of the packet (even visually!). At the end, the ace vanishes...

Billy McComb, Genii magazine columnist, said of this monumental work, "Some of you will make reputations with this!"

1st edition 1988, revised 2015, 98 pages.

The effect is that the magician – using a borrowed deck of cards - predicts the past, the present and – in this version – even predicts the future!

This ebook gives you every line, joke, piece of timing, setup, move, rationale and nuance of the routine. The...

and how to accomplish the effects. Included are advice on booking, exploitation, a spook party in your home, spirit manifestations in the seance room, illusions with luminous properties and other information. Mr. Nelson's text seems to me to cover the entire subject effectively." - Dariel Fitzkee, Genii Magazine.

"Received your Ghost Book and to say that I am pleased would be a gross understatement. It is worth its weight in gold to me." - Cecil L. Henson

"Recently, I received your Ghost Book of Dark Secrets, and am well pleased. This book contains a wealth of usable information." - Bobby...

• ...New Twist on the Dime Through Table
• Snap It
• Comedy Card Rise
• Card in Pack of Cigarettes
• J. R. Method for Lapping a Card
• Okito Box Routine

"These ideas are tested, workable and usable. Not aimed at the uninformed, this is a friendly magician letting you in on some of his secrets. Well worth reading." - Lloyd E. Jones' (Genii magazine review)

1st edition ~1961, PDF 48 pages

Tossed Out Cube
When I share my ideas for using a Rubik Cube in a mentalism routine (Mind Stunts vol.1) it was not my original idea. The routine that will follow is the first ever idea I got with the famous puzzle. The routine was first publish in Genii magazine. It contain a possible patter for the presentation, but you may adapt it to fit your style.

1st edition 2013, PDF 13 pages.

• ... Magnetic Wand
• The Flighty Cigar Band
• Matches of Jinx
• A Match Box Melange
• He Watches the Matches
• The Protean Pack o' Cigs
• The Unlucky Strike
• The Traveling Cigarettes and Matches
• The Silken Adventure
• Here, Bango! — There?
• The Drum-Head Glass
• Glass Through Hat
• Straw Hats
• The Torn Magazine Cover
• The Surprise Reverse Torn Card and Cigarette Trick
• Watch—Ho!
• Your Tips
• A Test for Cigarettes
• A Test for Cigarettes - Method 2
• Can You Imagine?
• A Fantasy in Smoke
• Gagging the Sucker
• Just a Shadow
• Jealousy of Time
• About the Author
• Thank You
• Suggested Titles

2nd edition...

"I found this book interesting and the material practical." - Dariel Fitzkee (Genii magazine)

"There is a very effective coin routine [and] a rising card method ... which, to the best of our knowledge, has never been published. Having used it, we can guarantee its effectiveness." - Geo. Armstrong (The Magic Wand)

"Sound advice on effective presentations for both "flesh" and...

Elucidations of a classic card trick: The Biddle Trick

The basic plot is fairly straightforward: A card is selected and in the process of determining its identity it is winnowed down to five possibilities. Then, in a surprising act of differentiation, the selection disappears from this five–card packet and reappears elsewhere. In most cases, the selection ends up face up in the middle of a spread deck. This trick has been variously named but ultimately it was christened "The Biddle Trick", named after Elmer Biddle who published the trick in Genii magazine in 1947. It marks the first appearance of the well-known...

This effect was originally published in Gregg Webb's various newsletters as "Hit-and-Run" before landing in Genii Magazine as "Coins Across 2000." This Super Session is an improved and updated version. This ebook has hand-lettered text.

1st edition 2019, 5 pages.

(This idea was originally developed by Clayton Rawson in the 1930s and published in the Sphinx. Later Pete Biro unearthed it in a column in an old Genii magazine from the 80's.)

1st edition 2021, PDF + videos 3 min.

Originally written for Genii Magazine as a "one-handed Wild Coin," this effect is direct, startling, and fast-paced. It requires the following props:

• Three Chinese Coins
• A Copper/Silver coin
• One odd coin. (Gregg uses an Israeli Shekel, but any coin will work)
• An ordinary cup

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages.

The Freestyle Book Test is a powerful book test that you can make at home, with practically any book.

"This book test is unlike any other I have seen." - David Regal (review in Genii magazine)

"Wow, very, very impressive. I like the way so much information can be divulged, this info on the mnemonics certainly applies to many, many effects. I am guessing that even if someone does not use the book test, they will walk away with something from this. Good stuff." - Banachek

You display a book that you say you've had for a long time and have even written and doodled inside of it. Throughout the...

When this originally came out, magical reviewer Jamy Ian Swiss, said in Genii magazine, September 2005:

"Marko (Jose Antonio Gonzalez Campos) is a Panamanian who now lives as a professional magician in Barcelona, Spain. A frequent television performer there, in this excellent manuscript he describes his blindfold routine. This is his closer, with which he regularly...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster, Editor

641 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 14, Number 1 - January 1974 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Gale Martin & Harry Collins
7. Contents
8. In Profound Tribute - Cardini, November 11, 1973
9. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
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9. Magicians in May Coronet
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