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22. For the Owners of Silken Lady
23. £.s.Dice - A Close-Up Effect - Tom Barker
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24. £1 Note Penetration - Mark Weston
25. Sal Andrews' Cabaret Rope Routine - A Complete Act
30. Trophy - An Idea for the Ventriloquial Performer - John Roberts
31. The Challenge Torn and Restored Magazine Page - Tony Taylor
32. More on the Tyred Card - Lu Brent
32. Silk Softeners
33. Slate-ly Mysterious - Ian Adair
34. Pre-Breathalyser Test - Ken de Courcy
34. Grease-Paint Remover
35. Torn and Restored with a Borrowed Pack - Gordon Prunty
36. The Magic Birthday Chalks - Michael Pettitt
37. Clean-Cut Cigarette to Silk - Tony...

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  17. The Incredible Gold Robbery - Brian Newman
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      29. Tricky Teaser No. 20 - Derek Lawrence
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Printer-businessman. Amateur magician since 1909 and psychic investigator. Aka "Psycho". SAM President 1935-36. Headed the splinter group from the SAM that founded the Magicians Guild of America in 1944. Published The New Conjurors' Magazine 1945-47.

Wrote Spook Crooks! (1932, 300pp); How'd ja do That? (1934, 92pp), a piracy of Johnston and Sterling's Modern Card Miracles (1919); Suckers All! (1934, 318pp); Puzzles for Everyone (191pp); and The Dead Do Not Talk (1946, 198pp, ghosted by Walter B. Gibson). Articles in Sphinx and The New Conjurors' Magazine and tricks in Genii.

Besides his famous Card College series, Giobbi has authored multiple other bestsellers. Among them are titles such as Ask Roberto, Secret Twitter, and his excellent sleightless entry into card magic: Card College Light Trilogy. He has contributed numerous articles to journals such as Genii and Magic Magazine.

1. ...An Original Set Up Discovery
13. One in Fourteen
14. A New Thought Card Spelling Effect
16. Whichever You Please!
17. Count Your Card!
19. Telepathy in the Audience
20. The Red and Blue Back Mixup
22. The Gambler in Person
25. The Gambler is Back Again
27. Psychic Sympathy Method No. 1
29. Psychic Sympathy Method No. 2
30. The Four Pile Location
33. The Genii Cut Deck Location
35. The Mystery Card Reading Method
38. A New Apparatus for the Pellet Switch
41. Find the Lady
42. The Improved Magic Square Presentation
46. The One Man 'Genuine' Magazine Test
49. Mental Coloring - Telepathy with Silk
51. The Color-Tell Billiard Balls
52. Seeing in the Dark
54. Seven Keys to Baldpate ...

". . . I have found most uses of billets that I've seen to be painful exercises in self-deception on the part of the performer, as to what the audience finds convincing or entertaining. But when I saw Bob Cassidy do his billet routine for an audience of more than a thousand, those silly bits of paper were reduced to virtual non-entities. By the time the routine reached its conclusion he was on stage, standing back-to-back with a spectator, engaged in what was apparently a full scale drawing duplication - with no billets or envelopes anywhere in sight or awareness." - Jamie Ian Swiss, Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine, January 2005

Now available as a PDF ready for immediate download.

"Peter Duffie's The Magic Of Fred Robinson is a wonderful book containing a gold-mine of ideas, subtleties and secrets from one of magic's finest exponents and thinkers. ... The Magic Of Fred Robinson is an excellent book full of wonderful ideas, useful sleights, and powerful effects. More than that, it's a great read and takes me back to the feeling I had when I first read Vernon's Inner Secrets books." - R. Paul Wilson from his 2009 review in Genii.

"I state without fear of exaggerating that Fred was one of the all-time greats; especially with cards." - Dai Vernon

"Card magic and techniques...

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390. Tip-Tops - Ian Adair
     • A Word About Paper Tears
391. The Kellini File
     391. Dice Production
     392. Improved Version
     393. A Novel Way to Use Your Disappearing Cane
     393. Cards on Silk
     394. Mysterious Blocks
     395. Confusing Spot Cards
     396. Six Magazine Repeat
     396. Blendo Plates
     397. Card in Glass
     398. Some Ice Cream Productions
     401. Spiritism
402. cartoon
403. The Gospel Column
     • Routines for Odd Ropes - Peter Hodge
404. More Money - testimonial
404. Rootin' Tootin' Wand - Ian Adair
406. The Suspended Table - Dr. Heinz Niedermeyer
409. Harry Stanley Reminisces
411. At Homb with...

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11. News and Views from the Colonies - George Johnstone
14. Kennaugh's Kaleidoscope - Alan Kennaugh
    • Robert Harbin
16. Colombini's Rope Melange - Aldo Colombini & Will Ayling
    • introduction
    • First Cut and Restored Rope
20. Matching Page Magazine Test - Norman Norris
21. The P...D (Paul & Debbie) Trick Column - Paul Daniels
    • Slately Unusual
22. The Gospel Column - edited by Henry Smith
    • Fishers of Men - Dave Hendy
23. My Goodness - It's Geddes - The Magic of Johnny - Johnny Geddes
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Wrote 4 books on kid-show magic, including More Party Pieces (1985, 54pp) and Still More Party Pieces (1990, 50pp). Tricks in Abra, Pabular, New Pentagram, Magic Circular, Magic Magazine, Magigram, Linking Ring (+ 1978 one-man "Parade"), Genii, etc. Welsh TV series "Triciau Trevor" [Trevor's Tricks]. Audio Children's Magic. See Phil Willmarth, Trevor Lewis Close-Up (1981). Video (1990).

[Note that several of these essays appeared in Magic Magazine and Genii.]

1st edition 2009; 184 pages.

Rev Dr. John [William Nicholls] Booth, LittD, MIMC. Inspired at age 10 by a magic set. Learned at age 14 from W.J. Armstrong ("Armah"). Semi-pro at 15 (in 1927). Edited-published Canada's second (after W.G. Edwards's Edwards Monthly) magic magazine, The Canadian Magician's Digest (1929, 3 issues). Organized the first Canadian magic convention (Hamilton, Ontario) 18-19 Apr 1931. Pro 1934 - Mar 1940, as a prominent society, nightclub, and hotel magician. In 1938 also worked alternate venues as "Jancini". 1937 Sphinx Award.

Then an ordained Unitarian minister (1942 until retired in 1975). Part-time pro celebrity platform lecturer 1943 - 58, touring...

Invented over 11 marketed tricks. Wrote 9 magic books for children, including So You Want to Become a Magician (1972) and Razzle-Dazzle! (1987). "How's Tricks" column in Magic Manuscript. Magic editor of MUM. Tricks in Genii, MUM, Linking Ring, Mortimer's Magic Magazine.

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497. Shadow Magic
498. The Hi-Jackers - Paul Morris
498. Patter - Cliff Green
499. Hands Across the Sea - Peter Warlock
500. Book Profiles - John J. Crimmins, Jr.
     • What's New in Magic - Walter Gibson
     • Everybody's Book of Magic - Will Dexter
     • The Cut-Out Book of Magic - C.K. Shaw
     • Ibidem Magazine - P. Howard Lyons, editor
     • Marginalia
     • Trick Department
       • The Guillo Card - Irv Weiner
       • Flash Cig-O-Silk - Senor Torino
       • Kard-U-Reka - U.F. Grant
       • Influence - U.F. Grant
502. The All-Fair Coincidence - Edmund Balducci & Ken Krenzel
503. Magicana - bits of wisdom ...

Wrote Easy Juggling for Magicians [1975] and lecture notes. Articles in Magic Cauldron, Genii, Magical Bookie, Mystics Magazine, etc. See also Gene Anderson, Topper's Mad, Mad Magic (1974).

Invented Cig-O-Test by 1932, the build-it-yourself Card Castle in 1945, Two Into Ones (folded $2 bill opens into two $1 bills) in 1948, the Diminishing Bills in 1950, and Bill to Matches in 1961.

Wrote Novel Magic (1932; repr 1946, 43pp), Torn and Restored Magazine Cover (1939, 8pp; 2nd ed 1953, 9pp), Super Card Mysteries [1933], Five Star Card Effects (1943), Fifteen Star Card Effects (1956, 26pp), Totally Refreshing Ideas and Carefully Kept Secrets (1966, 38pp), and Lu Brent's Best Magic Tricks (2 vols, 1969, 1974, 42pp+45pp). Articles in Sphinx, Jinx, Tops, Phoenix, Ireland's YB:1952, Dope Sheet, Genii, Pallbearers, and Magigram.

McAthy appeared on the cover of Genii in 1944 and again in 1967. Abbott's Magic featured George on the cover of its Tops magazine in February 1944. He was also recognized by his peers in the International Brotherhood of Magicians, appearing on the cover of its monthly journal, The Linking Ring, in 1953.

McAthy's books include Smart Talk (1945); Smart Business (1946); Smart Tricks (1947); MagiComedy (1967); Magic from the Dope...

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     • You Too, Can Be A Hypnotist (originally Vaudeville Hypnotism) - David J. Lustig
     • Fifteen Star Card Effects - Lu Brent
     • Phantini's Mental Key
     • routine for the floating Cane - R. C. Buff
   • list of publications
     • Abracadabra
     • Genii, The Conjurors' Magazine
     • The Gen
     • Hugard's Magic Monthly
     • The Magic Wand
     • The Magical Digest
     • The Pentagram
     • IBIDEM
     • The New Phoenix
     • The Linking Ring
     • M-U-M
     • Tops
     • The Magnet
     • Hughes News
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1. The New Tops - Volume 30, Number 1 - January 1990 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Melanie [actually Melinda - see February Issue]
5. Contents
6. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
8. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
11. Counter Intelligence - reviews
    • Laugh-Makers Magazine
    • Club 71, Autumn 1989
    • Magickal Childe, Inc. - catalog
    • The Usborne Complete Book of Magic - C. Evans & I. Keable-Elliott
    • The Anthology of Card Magic - Gordon Miller, editor - re-issued
    • The Cabot St. Theatre News Sheet
    • Randy Wakeman Presents
    • Floating Bill - Michael Ammar
    • refill packet...