Nicely illustrated routines of a full-time performer.
From the introduction:
"Why don’t you write a book on Magic?" I have been asked this question hundreds of times in the past several years, and my answer has been that I am too busy, or that I wanted to be the only Magician who did not write a Magic Book!
However, I have taken the time from my hundreds of shows en route each season to conduct a monthly column in TOPS Magazine and to write many articles and tricks for the Sphinx, Genii and Linking Ring. So when I was requested to compile all the tricks I had formerly...
B.W. McCarron is a performing magician and mentalist, and a former board member for the Tacoma Ring of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. Aside from several articles on magic and mentalism he has written for Genii, The Conjuror's Magazine, B.W. has written articles for computer and music magazines, as well as authored books for magicians and mentalists such as Clearly Mental!, The Gambling Magician, VCR Magic, The Propshop, and The Solomon Principle.
Listed in Bart Whaley’s monumental Who’s Who in Magic, McCarron has also created mental effects for the fraternity, including The Only Good Apple Book Test and Strange Truths.
Aside from earning a living as a lead guitarist...
... has lectured at The Magic Castle six times and has presented his Close Up Magic there over 100 times.
He has written widely on the subject of magic and his articles have appeared in such magic magazines as The Gen, Magigram, New Tops, LaBal, Magicseen, The Magic Circular, Abracadabra, Magicana, Genii and The Linking Ring. He has appeared on the front covers of Abracadabra, New Tops, The Linking Ring and Genii.
Tony's publications are: Griff on Cards, 1964, Griff on Close Up 1967, Invitation To Mystery 1969, Science Fun 1991, The Magic of Science 2007, Reflections 2007, Further Reflecations 2008, Final Reflections 2009, Ultimate Reflections 2010.
These are the lecture notes for a lecture Charlie Miller gave at Magic Inc. in 1967. He offers great insight into the art of magic, presentation, routining and audience management. He also teaches several great tricks.
Also included is a six page essay by Roberto Giobbi titled "Charlie Miller's Wisdom". (This essay originally appeared in two installments within my column "The Genii Session" in Genii - The Conjuror's Magazine, May and July 2005. It appears here in a slightly revised form and in agreement with Richard Kaufman and his Genii Corporation.)
"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:
I made this recording because I wanted to meet magic's most respected writer. From an early age I followed Lewis Ganson's highly practical series in the Gen magazine and one by one I purchased every book that Lewis wrote including the Routined Manipulation series...
This is a collection of 30 semi-automatic effects (15 are card tricks the other 15 are non-card effects) that have appeared in various magazines more than a decade ago. There is no overlap with any other English ebooks by Werner Miller.
Two effects won the 1998 and 1992 Tenyo Magic Competition respectively!
The magic journals these effects have been published in are:
... But it is perhaps even more exciting to unearth less well known but equally deserving items. They are certainly here and awaiting discovery.
After Wright's untimely death, Mr. Larsen mined the manuscript for additional contributions to The Sphinx and, starting in 1936, for his own publication, Genii. But, reading the manuscript in its original form, in toto, gives us a portrait of Wright the performer, and for the era itself, we could not get from reading the articles piecemeal.
This edition is based on a complete carbon copy of the original typewritten manuscript, 275 numbered typewritten...
...Thabbatical (1994, 130pp), etc. Prolific contributor of tricks (over 1,000 since 1965), essays, articles, and reviews to most major international magic magazines, including Swami & Mantra. For all-Goldstein issues see Linking Ring (10 "Parades" since 1975), New Jinx, Magick, Richard's Almanac, Pabular, Genii, Mad Magic #27, etc. See also Richard Vollmer (compiler-translator), The Very Best of Phil Goldstein (1988, in French). Columns in Magigram since 1990 and Magic since 1991. Many TV bits plus hosting 8 specials in Japan. Video (1985).
... Francisco's Renaissance Pleasure Faire. A prolific inventor of magic, his creations include GagBag, the color-changing bag, used by wizards the world over. As a magical author, his writings include Weird Magic, the "How To Look Your Best...." section of Magic, Inc.'s Success Book, and articles in Genii, Tops, and the Linking Ring, magazines for conjurers.
Under the obvious pseudonym of Cleve Haubold, Ph.D., he has some two dozen plays published by Samuel French, Inc., New York, and produced worldwide. His most popular scripts include such unlikely titles as The Big Black Box and The Mice Have Been Drinking.
As a college professor Dr. Haubold has taught theatre arts and directed plays...
Wrote 5 booklets: The Impromptu Close-Up Card Rise (1968), Modern Close-Up Card Problems (1981, 88pp), R.C. Buff's Knot on the Square, The Best of Buff, Conrad Bush's Color Isolation, plus 6 on run-up systems. Articles in Hugard's Magic Monthly, Genii, Pallbears Review, Epilogue, New Tops, Talisman, Epoptica, and Magick.
Memoir is Fifty Years of Magic (3 vols: 1980, 1981, 1983, 213+254+237pp), informally known from their subtitles as "The Miracles Trilogy". Illustrator of his own books as well as those by others. Wrote over 200 articles for various magazines including Abra, Genii, and Linking Ring.
