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A selection of 40 unpublished mentalism routines from the fertile mind of Ian Adair.

Table of Contents

• Foreword / Steve Short
• All Because of a Toy Box of Magic!
• Introduction
• Fourtell
• Winner/Loser Challenge
• Breaking News!
• Calendar Calculation
• Chinese Post Prediction
• Digging For Gold
• Rings & Ropes 'Just Chance'
• Birth Date-Data
• B-Line Prediction
• Baby Gag Key-Ring Fob
• Happy Holidays
• A Choice Between Two
• Any Page Number Book Test
• Easy-To-Make Thumb 'Pen' Writer
• Comedy Thought Transference
• IncREDible PREDiction
• Star Selection
• Dead & Alive Revised
• Heads Or Tails?
• Mind-Boggling...

• ...
  • ... Double Lift
  • The Top Change
• PART THREE Magic with Cards
  • A Gambler's Trick
  • Quicker Than The Eye
  • With A One-Way Deck
  • The Educated Card
  • A Four-Ace Trick
  • The Card And The Hair
  • Striking The Deck
  • Strange Affair
  • The Shadow
  • Through The Hand
  • The Perplexing Pack
  • Getting The Deck In Order
  • Knife It
  • Beneath The Foot
• PART FOUR Coin Magic
  • The Palm
  • Rotation Vanish
  • The Thumb Palm
  • Vanish From Below
  • The Travelling Coin
  • The Coin In The Lap
  • The Finger Palm
  • Up The Sleeve
  • The Secret Coin Fold
  • The Coin In The Ball Of Wool
  • The Automatic Vanish
  • Again The Sleeve
  • The Coin Roll ...

1. ...
   • ... and Disappearance of a Handkerchief
50. Magic - announcements and offers
50. Agents for "Magic"
50. The International Society of Conjurers
51. Explanatory Programmes
    • Leipzig, Palace Theatre, February, 1906
      • Handkerchiefs
      • Thimbles
      • Cards
      • Balls
      • Cards
      • The Mesmerized Knife
      • Cards
      • Coins
52. Facsimile reproduction of one of the early programmes of Professor Anderson, Wizard of the North, date about 1850 - selected from the portfolio of Mr. Arthur Margery
53. Queries - questions from readers
53. Replies to Queries
53. Correspondence
54. Advertisements & Personal...

1. ...
   • ... Rhodes
90. Magic for Youngsters - series by Wilfred Tyler
    • Rich Little Poor Girl - Len Belcher

97. Volume 15, Number 4, August, 1959, 24 numbered pages - cover picture: Murray
99. From The Gen Desk - comments from Lewis Ganson
100. Magic for the Pocket
     • Nicerco's Colour-Changing Knife Routine - Nic Niberco (Holland)
102. Liquid in Newspaper - Dennis Roberts
104. Mental and Spirit Magic
     • Book Test - Harry Stanley
105. Magic with Apparatus
     • Dandido - Douglas Francis
106. Card Magic
     • Vanish and Discovery of a Mentally Selected Card - Bernard Shaw
107. Variation...

• ...
  • ...Simple Mental Five
  • Faro's Simple Dream
  • Delayed Double Climax
  • Another Reflection
• Part Four Bonus
  • Pre-Lude
  • Clean-Up
  • Baffling-Impossibility
  • You Brain Me
  • Fechter's Fooler
  • Brain-Stack
  • Shuffle Off To Buffalo Miracle
  • Osrever S'ollag
  • Addition To Open Travellers
  • Stenquist's Mexican Money Gimmick
  • Once In A Knife Time
  • On Mother Kelly's Doorstep

1st edition 1976; 1st digital edition 2016, 54 pages.

• ...Torture of a Princess
• Fun with Inflatable Legs
• Theatre of Blood
• Spiderella
• The Exorcist
• Milo's Meat Market
• Snakes on the Loose
• Avalanche!
• The Vanishing Guide
• Cheap Devils
• How Not to Put on an Illusion Show
• Bloody Eyeballs
• Horrible Rubber Hand
• Exploding, Vanishing Fireballs
• Cut or Ripped Open Throat
• Blood Knife
• Haunted House Torture Room
• Sparks and Flashes from the Eyes
• Bathtub Murder Scene
• Rotting Corpse Effect
• Vermin-Infested Wall
• Last Date
• Appearing/Vanishing Floating Skull
• Wax Museum
• Maze to Nowhere
• Gift Shop

• ...
• IV.—Simple Tricks With Handkerchiefs
  • The Melting Egg And The Bewitched Handkerchief
  • To Undo A Knotted Handkerchief By A Shake
  • The Handkerchief And Egg Trick
• V.—Simple Tricks With Rings
  • The Penetrative Ring
  • The Ring And Glove Pillar
• VI.—Simple Tricks With Knives
  • The Obedient Knife
• VII.—Fortune Telling Tricks
  • Catches And Quibbles
  • Address On A Letter
  • Algebraic Squaring Of The Circle
  • A Bunch Of Anagrams
  • The Grammatical Word
  • Hanky Panky To His Nieces, With A Set Of Chessmen
  • The Alphabetical Fortune Teller
  • To Guess The Points Thrown With Dice
  • Arithmetical Fortune...

• Ola
• Riffs
• Natter and Chat
• Crimp Boats Are Coming
• Jerry Meandering / Abe Akers
• Fizz? Hmm... / Rod Ethtie
• There's a Place for Us
• U-Turn / Peter Duffie
• Read All About It / Bob Read
• Current Matters
• Bomdix II
• Braue Reverse
• Dentate Frogs / Ken Sharpies
• Photat / Paul Hallas
• At Knife Point / Wayne Dobson
• Classics

Number 11 (July 1994)

• Counting
• Riffs - Al's Manic
• Thoughts From the Underground / Rod Ethtie
• Time is Fleeting
• Si's Fours / Alan Francis
• Ace Paradox / Simon Dixon
• 1994 - The First Six Months
• PD - The Series
• Shirning / Ken Speckle
• Post Preparity...

1. ... or description of the Operator
7. Of the Play of the Balls
15. How to make a great Ball seem to come through a Table into a Cup
16. Other very pretty tricks with Bals
18. How to make a stone seeme to vanish out of your hand
19. How to make a Card vanish, and finde it again in a Nut
20. How to seeme to ease a Knife
20. How to rap a Wag on the knuckles
21. How to seeme to swallow a long pudding made of Tinne
22. How to seeme to cut ones nose halfe off
23. How to seeme to pull a rope through your nose
24. How to make a pile of Counters seeme to vanish thorow a Table
26. How to seeme to put a ring through ones checke
27. How...

1. ... a Barrel of Water (Burmese)
2. Sleights with Chickens (Port Said)
3. Yogi Gold From Fire
4. The Zulu Obedient Floating Log
5. Summoning The Scents (Indian)
6. Pulse Control
7. The Han Ping Chien Coins
8. The Hindu Talisman
9. Padlock Through Cheek (See 86, 20)
10. The Chinese "Chefalo" Knot
11. The Jumping Egg
12. Knife Through Nose
13. Silks From Mouth
14. Ring Changes to another Ring and Lump of Metal
15. Colour Changing Slips of Paper and Water
16. Escape from Ropes and Sack
17. Various Changes in a Small Box
18. The Indian Bow Trick
19. Water Frozen in the Hand
20. The Organ Pipes
21. The Animated Leaves
22. Long Paper Ribbon From a...

1. ... - by Rick Bednar
5. Contents
6. It's a Mystery to Me - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
10. Just for Us Young Guys - John Sherwood
    • Magician of the Month - David Allen
12. Johnstone's Column - By George [Johnstone]
    • card to bottle effect
15. Osoeasy Card Prediction - Bert Douglas
16. Double Faced Knife - Eddie Joseph
19. photo - Dick Williams and Ann Rogers
20. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Nick's "Stranger in Paradise"
20. Answer to Last Month's Photo Quiz
21. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • reviews
      • The Professional Technique for Magicians - James Reneaux
      • Reneaux's Rising Card From Pocket - James Reneaux
      • The Pill - Gene Gordon
      • Ladies in Black - Gene Gordon
      • Entertaining Children with Magic - lecture - Gene Gordon
      • Mason's Mental Miracle ...

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter I: "Initial Points"
• Chapter II
  • Juggling
  • Juggling With Balls
  • Plates
  • Bottles
  • Juggling Rings
  • Hoops
  • Knives
  • Forks
  • Knife, Fork And "Steel"
  • Clubs
  • Battle Axes
  • Revolvers
  • Lamps
  • Swords
  • Cigars
  • Hats
  • Billiard Cues
  • Umbrellas
  • Juggling Candle And Candlestick
  • Umbrella And Soda Water Bottle
  • Umbrella, Bag, And Hat
  • Eyeglass, Hat, Stick, And Cigar
  • Cannonball, Paper Ball, And Walking Stick
  • Cup, Saucer, And Teapot ...

This is number five of Jordan's Ten New Tricks Series with contributions by Dr. E. G. Ervin and Louis C. Haley. It includes some of the most popular effects formerly marketed singly by Jordan.

1st edition, 1920, Charles T. Jordan, Penngrove; 23 pages.

2. Preface
3. 1. The Mesmerized Alarm Clock
4. 2. A Silk Production From Empty Hands
6. 3. The Bewitching Umbrella
8. 4. The Vanishing Coin
10. 5. Paper Tearing Supreme
12. 6. New Coin Trick
14. 7. The Psychic Ring Release
16. 8. The Impromptu Mind Reader
20. 9. Up Your Sleeve
21. 10. The Mystic Knife

1st edition, 1934, Will Goldston; 256 pages.

Table of Contents

1. Inside cover
4. The Feast of Lanterns - Frontispiece
7. Introduction
9. The Disappearing Cloak
13. A Disappearing Walking Stick
14. Fire and Water
17. Catching a Card on a Knife Point
24. A Treacle Trick
25. Card Cricket
31. Magic Photography
39. A Transforming Card Table
43. Dyeing Silks
49. "Bunglo"
54. Dyeing Silks. Ne Plus Ultra
59. The Great Lemon
67. A Ring and An Orange
69. A Ring and A Dove
73. With A Watch
79. The Nest of Boxes
84. A New Method in the Smoke Trick
87. The Incorrigible Cigars
97. A Super...

• ...
  • ... Shell with Tongue
  • Vanish for a Ball
  • New Card Index
  • Torn and Restored Paper Strip Gimmick
• IMPROMPTU TRICKSTER
  • Impromptu Linking Rings
  • A Cigarette Interlude
  • A Cigar Vanish
  • A Match Divination
  • The Knee Thread
  • Wand through Hat
  • Somersaulting a Pack
  • A Rising Card
  • Egg Cups and Pellets
  • Knife and Egg Shell
  • A Surgical Operation
  • Concussion of the Brain
  • Shot in the Eye
  • Cutting the Thumb
• STAGE TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
  • Hugard's Floating Ball
  • Hugard's Fire Eating
  • Hindu Fire Eating
  • The Whole Art of Smoke Pictures
  • Ropes, Fan and Silks
  • Cords, Fan and Silks
  • XXth Century Spirit...

1. ...
22. The Message from Nowhere
23. The Riddle of the Red Rose
24. The Aztec Fire God
25. The Missing Palmist
26. The Ladder of Wealth
27. The Locked Book
28. The Deathless Shot
29. The Riddle of the Other Eightball
30. The Cellini Statuette
31. The Curse of Kali
32. Footsteps in the Night
33. The Voodoo Treasure
34. Four Keys to Crime
35. The Knife from the Dark
36. Death in the Crystal
37. The Hindu Sword Cabinet
38. The Face of Death
39. The Voice from the Void
40. The Bird of Doom
41. The Phantom Detective
42. The Riddle of the Seven Zombies
43. Crime in the Stars
44. The Devil’s Cauldron
45. The Ghost in the Crypt
46. The Accusing Corpse
47. Death Defying Death
48. The...

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  • ...
  • Count-er Point, Troy Hooser
  • Copper Silver Transmutation, Troy Hooser
  • Back Two-gether, Mark Fitzgerald
  • Spectator Cuts the Kings, David Williamson
• No 3
  • End Over Aces, Tom Craven
  • End Over Extra, Tom Craven
  • Mother Nature's Mistake, Vic Kulich & Daryl
  • Down Under, Again, Doug Canning
  • Folding Knife, Gazzo Macee
• No 4
  • Twilight's Last Gleaming, Dick Cook
  • Gone Fishin', Ray Witkowski
  • The Incredible Shrinking Rubber Band, Dan Harlan
  • Round in Round, Gordon Jeppesen
  • Now U Z It, Dan Harlan

1st edition 1989; 56 pages.

1. ... Shuffles and Cuts
32. - THE L. W. FALSE SHUFFLE
33. - THE RUN CUT AND SHUFFLE
34. - THE STEP CUT
35. - THE L. W. FALSE CUT

36. The Force
36. - THE CLASSIC SPREAD FORCE
39. - THE ONE HAND RIFFLE FORCE
40. - THE ONE HAND FAN FORCE
41. - THE SPRING FORCE
42. - A FAN FORCE VARIATION
42. - A FAN FORCE FROM THE TOP
43. - THE IMPROVED KNIFE FORCE
44. - THE RIFFLE FORCE
45. - THE CUT-AWAY FORCE
46. - THE NERVE FORCE
48. - THE CARD CASE FORCE
49. - OTHER METHODS OF FORCING

50. Changes
51. - TOP CHANGE FOR A NUMBER OF CARDS
54. - THE McMILLEN CHANGE
56. - THE THROW OUT CHANGE
57. - A ONE HAND TOP CHANGE

58. Color Changes
60. - A RISING CHANGE
61. - THE NEW BOTTOM CHANGE ...

Two effects are described, both with a 'Queen gets penetrated by another card' plot. The first effect can live inside a regular deck. The second effect is a small packet trick. Both effects require some preparation, but all you need is a knife and tape. The gaffed cards are very clever allowing for beautifully visual effects.

1st edition 1984, 1st digital edition 2012, 10 pages.

1. ... King
45. How the Trick Is Done

    LESSON 4. THE AFGHAN BANDS AND THE CUT TURBAN

50. How to Make the Afghan Bands
50. How to Work the Turban Trick

    LESSON 5. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, 1: FORCING

56. Forcing and Forcing Decks
57. The Svengali Pack
57. Forcing Sleights: The Fan
59. Forcing Sleights: The Slip
60. Another Knife Force
61. The Telephone Trick

    LESSON 6. FINDING A SELECTED CARD, II: LOCATIONS

63. False Shuffles
64. The Tap Location
66. The Glimpse
68. The Spelling Master
70. The Stripper Deck
71. The Long Card
71. The Double Card
71. The Short Card
72. The Pass, or Shift
76. The Red and Black Aces

    LESSON 7. ESCAPES

78. The Kellar Tie ...

Table of Contents

• The Chinese Rising Cards
• The Wrist Spiker Illusion
• Needle Thru' Body
• Doves To Poodle
• The Sword Maiden Illusion
• Visibly Sawing Thru' A Person
• The Girl Through Glass Illusion
• The Buzz Saw Illusion
• The Card Target
• Edwin's Sponge Ball Routine 'Roger The, Lodger'
• Beado
• Knife Thru' Girl Illusion
• The Middle For Diddle Illusion
• The Modern Cabinet Illusion
• The Vanishing Cage And Girl Illusion
• Slicing A Slave Illusion
• Cabaret Girl Vanish
• The Striptease Illusion
• The Girl's Gone Illusion
• The Revolving Broomstick Suspension
• The Girl 'N Gate Illusion
• Robert Harbin's...

• Impromptu
• No reset to worry about
• Can be repeated over and over with different people in the same venue
• 75% to 80% success rate
• An "out" that is just as spectacular for when this doesn't hit
• Let's see yer palm ... yet another out
• Both serious and funny presentations
• Not another card or coin trick
• Plus a bonus effect: break/knife: my switchless bill change (only taught in the PDF)