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This is the third in a series of download DVDs dedicated to tricks and routines using ESP cards. This volume 3 features routines by Howard Adams.

Cidentaquin is one of my favorite ESP routines. In volume 4 you will find a variation that adds yet another climax. Also, remember that you do not have to use ESP cards for these effects. You could use sets of identical business cards (even possibly impromptu after a business meeting where most people have a stack of business cards with them). Or perhaps use postcards - sets of five cards from well-known cities such as Paris, New York, Sidney, Moscow, Rio -...

The amazing card magic of Richard Vollmer. Richard Vollmer, from France, is very well known to produce card magic based above all on subtleties rather than difficult sleight of hand. In this collection, Richard gives us ten of his best routines. Study them and you will have incredible magic in your repertoire. All the effects are performed with a regular deck of cards and most of them are totally impromptu.

CONTENTS:

• DOUBLE CHAMELEON: You show four blue-backed jokers. A card is selected from a red-backed deck (say the KC). The jokers all become four red-backed KS's and then go back to...

All these routines are performed with no sleight-of-hand. Except for the last effect, the routines are totally impromptu and use only a packet of cards.

Contents:

• STAKATE: A revelation of two freely selected cards and a final effect with a prediction.
• SYMPAMATES: Five cards are torn in half and two spectators find two matching symbols.
• COLOR QUARTET: Four selected cards are found after the packet has been shuffled.
• EZ GAMBLE: You win in a game of poker with ten cards and three spectators.
• BASICDU: A spectator picks a card from a packet of red-backed cards and you pick a card a blue-backed...

Werner Miller is one of the most prolific creators with regards to ESP cards. All these routines are self-working with no sleight-of-hand whatsoever.

CONTENTS:

• ESP TWIZZLER: A symbol is selected and you find a duplicate in a packet of cards.
• MEETING ONE’S MATCH: A card is selected. Two packets of cards are dealt at the same time and only two symbols match and they also match the selection.
• QUAD-CUT VARIATIONS: A beautiful routine (totally impromptu) where you and the spectator find five matching symbols from a shuffled deck.
• AEOLIS PRELUDE: Using a compass you find five different symbols in...

An exploration of the origins and early development of the "perfect little pocket trick" known as "Chink-a-Chink", the non-coin prototype of the Matrix effect; with how-to and performance tips, and advice on custom-made sets and "impromptu" sets as well (with photographs).

Three types are covered:

1. mechanical chinck-a-chinks utilizing a shell
2. chink-a-chinks with only the hands utilizing a spare object
3. four objects and two covers

1st edition 2012, 38 pages.

Volume I (June 1943 - May 1944), Jean Hugard, editor

53 pages

1. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume I, Number 1 - June 1943 - 4 pages
1. The WAACS and the Doughboys - story trick
1. Editorial
2. Presentation - column
2. Torn Newspaper to Bouquet
3. Torn Paper Classic
3. Repetitions
3. Striking Experiment - John Batton
4. Hu-gardenias - kudos to performers
4. Classified Advertisements

5. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume I, Number 2 - July 1943 - 4 pages
5. Spectacular Flash Opening
6. Linking Ring Climax
6. The Long and the Short of It - A Sure Force
6. Jean-eralities
7. The Flap Slate
7. Editorial
8. Hu-gardenias - kudos...

Tarbell Course contributor Nick Conticello follows his debut The Shadow Placement with three more sensational new effects requiring only an ordinary deck of 52 cards and a clear head to perform. One sleight is required; we include The Widdershins Cut, an effective and simple false cut.

Contents include:

1. THOUGHT CAUGHT: An unprepared deck is shuffled by the performer and cut by the spectator. Two piles of cards are dealt out. The spectator thinks of a card in one of the piles and buries the selection in the deck himself. The performer scans the cards quickly, and removes one card, which turns out to be the selection. No...

Contains over 100 ideas, tricks, routines, and novelties with the Cups and Balls. Contains over 40 illustrations, engravings, and photos. Includes the original Mohammed Bey routines and three authentic Easy Indian Cup routines. For beginners and experts alike.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Publisher's Note
• Introduction

  About 'The Cups'

• The Basic Routine

  My Cup Runneth Over

• Pot Holes
• The Society Cups And Balls
• The Traveling Skulls
• Emergency Cups
• Close-Up Cups
• Impromptu Close-Up Cups
• Avant-Garde Cups
• Thimblerigging
• Mechanical Cups
• The Foo Cup
• The Walking Cups
• ...And Talking...

In this eBook, you get 50 feats of mental magic from the legendary U. F. Grant. Written by Don Tanner, contents include book tests, various design duplication methods, Grant's original Prediction Chest, Q&A acts and methods, mental card miracles, blindfolds, and much more. Many of these items are worth far more than the price of the manuscript; including Grant's "Mental Epic" style triple prediction effect, called "Citation," that uses a large regular slate or dry erase board. You get all this for just $4.00, one of the best bargains in magic.

• See-All Telephone Book Test
• The Clear View Test
• Magazine...

Il collaboratore del Tarbell Course Nick Conticello segue il suo debutto "Il posizionamento fantasma" con altri tre nuovi effetti sensazionali che richiedono solo un normale mazzo di 52 carte per esibirsi. È necessario un piccolo maneggio; includiamo The Widdershins Cut, un falso taglio efficace e semplice. I contenuti includono:

1. THOUGHT CAUGHT: un mazzo non preparato viene mischiato dall'esecutore e tagliato dallo spettatore. Vengono distribuite due pile di carte. Lo spettatore pensa a una carta in una delle pile e disperde lui stesso la selezione nel mazzo. L'esecutore scorre rapidamente...

• The Spirit Guide
• A Paddle Routine
• The Impromptu Rising Card
• The Elongated Cigarette
• New Rising Cards
• Flip Flap
• The Tell Tale Scytale
• The Ribbon Pyramid
• Two Silks Vanish
• Off And On Again
• Change Over Cards
• The Jumping Ring
• The T.S. Find The Lady
• Winged Cigarettes
• On Again - Off Again
• Balls And Pillar
• An Old Trick Simplified
• The Winner
• It's Just Chance
• The Name On The Slate
• Living And Dead

• Preface
• The Vanishing Fan
• The Fountain Of Fire
• New Candle And Handkerchief Illusion
• New And Novel Watch Manipulation
• A New Impromptu Card Trick
• New Handkerchief Illusion
• Novel Transformation Of A Billiard Ball To A Bouquet
• A New Vanish For Coins
• A New Tub For The Production Of Live Stock
• Soup Plate And Handkerchiefs
• The Great Slate Mystery
• An Improved Coin Holder
• A New Card Trick
• A New Coin Trick
• Novel Change Of Handkerchief To Streamer
• Sensational Flag Production
• Anti-Gravity Ball
• New Card And Bird Trick
• Latest Omelette In Hat
• Billiard Ball Manipulation
• A Few Wrinkles ...

"One of my signature routines uses a length of ungimmicked rope that is neither cut nor restored ... I created it 40 years ago and have performed it probably 10000 times. So I am pretty qualified to judge Daniel Rowan's new book on rope magic. And I like it." - Jim Kleefeld (MUM December 2020)

Pure Magic with Rope is Daniel Rowan's fourth collection of new ready-to-work rope and string tricks. Most of the effects do not require an on-stage assistant. All of the tricks are impromptu, play big, but can be done close-up and surrounded. The ebook is a collection of tricks with a 5/8 inch piece of rope...

Excerpt from the Introduction:

A nice collection of five more entertaining effects for psychic entertainers that will leave audiences thinking that they have just witnessed genuine mind reading. You get:

Musical Mindreading - A spectator selects one of twelve songs, without revealing it to anyone else - and the medium (seated at the piano or CD player) is somehow able to play that very selection. Most musical mindreading acts have required long study. This can be learned in less than fifteen minutes. Little or no expense. An excellent, apparently impromptu item for the home, club or stage.

Distant Card Reading - A number...

"Well, I have to say this is one of the best and cleanest methods I have seen in a long time for gathering unknowable information. I WILL use this and will have a blast doing so. I must thank Nefesch for releasing this as it is absolutely impromptu, and gives me a tool to use when someone asks me to perform some mentalism on the spot. I am a magic creator who loves psychokinetic, fire, and obviously supernatural looking effects, and this will join the ranks of those illusions. The spectator will feel it is absolutely impossible. That launches it into the realm of the supernatural...therefore...

As the title says, this is an overview of the subject, impromptu and otherwise. For the really sincere mentalism worker, a carefully worked out ebook on the subject. Several spectators are asked to choose numbers at random, which are then added together in a totally random manner. Yet in spite of the fact that the mentalist could have no idea what numbers would be chosen, and couldn't control what order they would be added up in, when his prediction is shown, it is seen that he was somehow able to predict the exact total!

From the early methods of accomplishing this miracle, to the most recent...

Dinner's over, so now what? Entertain your guests, that's what! Here's a clever collection of after-dinner magic to entertain friends, business associates, and even total strangers.

Written by a famous Chicago magic dealer, the effects run the gamut from close-up miracles to routines for club and platform. You'll find entertaining matrix effects, cut and restored mysteries, mindreading experiments, and much more. Includes a very nice two-person mental act that could be the hit of your next corporate show, banquet, or awards dinner.

Some of these effects were sold individually by magic...

1. ...
   • ... Say So - John J. Bogorae
15. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - 40th - Sid Lorraine
    • Browsing Among the New Books and Tricks
      • Just for Laughs - Don Bridwell
      • Magician at the Casino - Sam Dalal
      • Climax Vision - Sam Dalal
      • Rainbow Poles - Mariano Palhinha
      • Chinese Miracle - Magic Ronnay
      • Ultrasensory Connection - Magic Ronnay
      • How to Entertain Children - Wilfred Tyler - Magicassette
      • Now You See It - Ken de Courcy
      • I Scream - Ice Cream! - Supreme
      • Tele-Frame - Supreme
      • A Magician's Approach To Advertising - Mike Schirmer
      • A Measure of Fun - Daren Dundee
      • The Card Expert...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

631 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 23, Number 1 – January 1983 – 52 pages
1. Cover – Terry Seabrooke
7. Contents
8. This Business of Magic – Thomas Zoss
   • Another Working Pro Who Deserves Attention – re: Danny Orleans
9. More Information on Marlo’s Controlled Table Riffle Faro – Ed Marlo
15. Sucker Jap Box – Earle J. Coleman
15. cartoon – The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
16. Sid Lorraine’s Chatter – Sid Lorraine
    • miscellaneous
      • Martin Breese’s Convention Special No. 9 News Letter
      • Catalog No. 32...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

642 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 24, Number 1 - January 1984 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Tommy Wonder [Jos Bema]
5. Contents
6. Sawdust-Sorcery - Clown Magic For Professionals - Gerald Burns - continued
10. Forum - Bruce Posgate
12. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
14. Magical Mexican Weekend - Frances Marshall
16. Jeanne Vernon - A Remembrance - Frances Marshall
17. Wacky Words with Answers - Ed Harris
17. Sid Lorraine's Tip of the Month
    • "Amazing 6-Second Solder"
18. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • Books, Tricks, Tapes and Things
      • Gary Oullet's...

Greg Bordner, Publisher
Gordon Miller, Editor

677 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 33, Number 1 - January 1993 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Hal Diamond
5. Contents
6. Cover Story - re: Hal Diamond
7. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
   • D'Alvini I
10. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • Goldi-Bear and the 36 Locks
11. Riddle Rebus - Ed Harris
12. Clowning with Dune Buggy [Col. Jim Russell]
14. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
15. cartoon - Chalk Talk - Ed Harris
16. Vent Views - Bill Boley
    • Girlfriends - Ed Cherney
18. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach
22. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
23. Comic Trickartoon...

January 1937 - December 1937
Abbott's Magic Novelty Company
Percy Abbott, Publisher and Editor

649 pages

1. The "Tops" - Volume 2, Number 1 - January 1937 - 52 pages
3. Index - Contents (including advertisers)
4. Editorial - Percy Abbott
5. New Magic Club - The Keystone Ring of Harrisburg
5. Harlan Tarbell's Health
6. The "Tops" Policy
6. Is This A Pipe Dream? - letter from Julius Hopkins
7. Sid Lorraine's Chatter
   • Thoughts About a Year of Tops
   • Questions and Answers
9. Variation of Rope Trick - Erwin Forsythe
10. The Drop Cigarette Move - Percy Abbott
10. Continuous Front and Back Palm With Lighted...

Welcome to a collection of insights designed to elevate your close-up magic performances to new heights. As a close-up magician, I've had the privilege of working with some of the most iconic tools in the craft - gimmicks like the thumb tip, dye tube, Sanada, and Swami writer. These timeless props have been used for generations and continue to be a foundation for magicians worldwide. However, mastery of these props alone is not what sets great magicians apart. What truly separates the skilled performer from the rest is the art of presentation, timing, and conceptual thinking.

In this ebook,...