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Displaying 481 to 504 (of 678 products) $15 Numbers and MentalismRenzo Grosso In my methodical (and stubborn) search for effects to propose over the phone, numbers are the absolute protagonist. Except for some small stratagem, the final principle is always the consequence of one or more mathematical principles. Inspired by some well-known effects, I became curious and tried... ★★★★★ $6 Eyes of the GodsJohn Hamilton An exceedingly clever location of two cards using the Free Cut Principle by the inventor of this beautiful principle. Effect: The performer hands a deck of cards to one of two spectators with the request that he shuffle it, and then divide it equally with a second spectator. While this is being... $9 Half Hours of Scientific AmusementGaston Tissandier Practical physics and chemistry without apparatus. A collection of simple science experiments that anybody can conduct in their own home. In part based on the column "physique sans appareils" (physics without apparatus) in La Nature. Translated by Henry Frith from the French. Excerpt from the... $15 Science AmusementsGaston Tissandier Translated from the French by Henry Frith. The French original from 1880 is considered the very first title in the genre of books of simple science experiments that anybody can conduct in their own home. But this book is much more than a collection of kitchen sink science experiments. It is an engineering... ★★★★★ $7 Card Tricks You Will DoRufus Steele This is a collection of self-working and very easy card effects. Rufus Steele has released several other publications along this line. Check them out. Excerpt from the foreword: Tricks with a pack of cards afford one of the easiest and most interesting forms of entertainment in existence.... $8 A Numerological DestinationAnabelle & Mystic Alexandre Numerological Destination is a simple, direct, bold, and effective self-working playing card routine with no sleight of hand, no mathematical procedure, and no marked cards ... it uses a regular pack of playing cards, anywhere, anytime. You will surely find other uses for this method, but here's... $19.90 Quodlibet OmniaDavide Rubat Remond "Quodlibet" means "what you like", to mean the free choice on the part of a spectator, which is the fundamental condition for a successful magic effect. The classic mentalism effect 'Guess the Age' has been explained in all its main aspects. In this treatise, the principle of the binary system and... $15 Cards in ActionShaun Yee Excerpt from the introduction: This is a book on card magic. It is not for the all-thumbs newcomer as the effects and routines contained herein require the ability to execute smoothly, various sneaky sleights such as the deceptive buckle-count, the convincing false-shuffle, the confusing multiple-cut,... $5.99 Undercover JokersDavide Rubat Remond Undercover Jokers is a totally improvised and self-working card-magic effect that can be performed with a borrowed and freely shuffled deck, with the addition of the two Jokers. It tells the action of two investigative jokers acting undercover in search of a particular pair of cards, two figures... $15 Automatic Placement: a deep diveDustin Marks The Automatic Placement Principle, named and popularized by Ed Marlo, is a mathematical marvel that places the spectator's card into a known position in the deck, without sleights. I've created two amazing enhancements: First, the spectator shuffles the majority of the deck after looking at his... $14.97 The Reputation MakerDustin Marks Are you looking for an effect that will make spectators exclaim, "That's impossible!"? Look no further. This is the perfect closer for your show or to impress a client. Here's how it works: The magician cuts the deck and gives spectators cards to shuffle. After that, he never touches the cards... ★★★★★ $6 Enigmas and IllusionsSam Dalal Many magicians I know are as interested in both tricks and puzzles and integrate the two. While elaborate mathematical, logical, or chess puzzles or crosswords have little "performance value", there are many optical puzzles, geometric paradoxes, illusions, ambigrams, after-image generators, and... $6 Card ShapesFred Lowe Excerpt from the introduction: Although the following card effects will intrigue many magicians, the presentation and handling has been plotted with the lay audience in mind. To think as a 'layman' is not possible once one has been involved in magic for some time. The best we can do is to... ★★★★★ $14.95 Gilbreath with WordsDustin Marks Effect: The magician shows the spectator a unique deck of cards, each bearing a different word. The spectator riffle shuffles the deck. The magician turns away as the spectator takes the top five cards and creates a sentence using those words on the cards. Different sentences can be created by the... Topic: Mentalism & SpiritismMentalism (also called "Mental Magic") involves you demonstrating unusual, supernatural or highly-developed mental, cognitive or intuitive abilities. Performances may involve amazing acts of precognition, divination, clairvoyance, telepathy, mind control or psychokinesis. As a mentalist or psychic, you may also perform hypnosis, memory effects and lightning-fast mathematics. Ted Annemann is one of our most frequently-read authors...but don't forget to check out our other ebooks by important mentalists and psychic entertainers like Bob Cassidy, Leo Boudreau, Dale Hildebrandt, Al Mann, Larry Becker, Timothy Hyde, Burling Hull and a host of others. We're constantly adding new ebooks, so please... George Parker Bidder (1806-1878)
George Bidder was born in Moretonhampstead, became famous nationally as a boy prodigy at mental arithmetic, was sent to study mathematics at Edinburgh University, and then entered the Civil Engineering profession just at the time when his skills were valuable in the enormous development of the railway system and the docks. He prospered (and helped his Devon relatives to prosper), bought property at Dartmouth, and eventually retired there. He is remembered in Devon chiefly as an infant prodigy, and his status as Civil Engineer and successful business man is forgotten. ★★★★★ $6 Encyclopedia of Card TricksJean Hugard This book is indeed worthy the name Encyclopedia. Originally compiled by Doctor Wilhelm von Deusen in collaboration with Mr. Glenn G. Gravatt (published in two volumes Encyclopedia of Self-Working Card Tricks and The Second Encyclopedia of Card Tricks), and later rewritten by Jean Hugard. It has a... $3 Arithmetical ProdigiesE. W. Scripture Arithmetical Prodigies by E.W. Scripture is a remarkable paper about remarkable people. Published in 1891, it gives the first comprehensive account of those individuals who have displayed an astonishing capacity for mental calculation. The numerous and fascinating biographies alone make this work... ★★★★★ $19 PsimatrikaLeo Boudreau Leo Boudreau's books have been out of print for a long time. Now that they are available again electronically, a new generation of magicians can learn and study the subtle methods Leo developed to produce true miracles. Some have said that his effects are the next best thing to real mind reading.... ★★★★★ $29 Spirited PasteboardsLeo Boudreau Max Maven writes in the introduction to Spirited Pasteboards: There is an ancient Chinese curse which goes, "May you live in interesting times." Bearing this in mind, it is not without some playful malice that I inform you that you are now holding a tome which is extremely interesting. As with... Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (7th December 1805 - 13th June 1871)Born in Blois, France. Born Jean-Eugene Robert. Soon after his marriage to Cecile Houdin in 1830, he adopted 'Robert-Houdin' as his stage name and had it legalized on 10th September 1856. Apprenticed as a watchmaker in Blois, he learned magic c1827 from accidental purchase of the 2-volume 1792 edition of the Dictionnarie Encyclopedie des Amusements des Sciences, Mathematiques et Physiques, which included tricks copied from Ozanam, Guyot, Decremps, Pinetti, etc. Claimed he had received advanced lessons in 1829 from Torrini. Pro illusionist and sleight-of-hand artist. Founder-owner-director Theatre Robert-Houdin in Paris 1845-1852 when he passed it... ★★★★★ $3 Ten New Impromptu Card TricksCharles Thorton Jordan This is number one of Jordan's Ten New Tricks Series. It assumes you are familiar with some basic sleights like the Pass and the Palm. 1st edition, 1920, Charles T. Jordan; 24 pages.
Scott Cram Scott Cram is an enthusiast of magic, memory techniques and recreational mathematics, and is the author of the Grey Matters Blog.
He's published numerous original magic creations in Magic and Genii magazines, and is the author of Pasteboard Presentations II and the creator of the Sweetest Sound trick, among others. Barton Whaley (May 26th, 1928 - August 3rd, 2013)
Bart Whaley took his BA in Chinese Studies in 1951 from University of California, Berkeley. Then in the US Army Psychological Warfare Intelligence unit headquartered in Tokyo during the Korean War. He attended London University School of Oriental and African Studies on the GI Bill for four years, and in 1969 took his Doctorate in strategic deception analysis at MIT. By following his intellectual curiosity in deception and counterdeception he took to the study of conjuring as a deception operation. He's a magician member of the Magic Castle in Los Angeles and the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He produced four prize-winning books and articles... Displaying 481 to 504 (of 678 products)
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