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Moves, routines, and stories around the Svengali deck.

"Okay, I'm impressed!!! Your book on The Long and the Short of It is wonderful. I'm still working on a few of the moves that I never dreamed were possible with a Svengali Deck. Excellent Routine!!! You've definitely put in the time and have the expertise with this trick to be called a Master. You get 2 big thumbs way up for your book." - Doug Howe

"Mark Lewis has spent a considerable amount of time pitching Svengali decks. He has written a useful and succinct manuscript on the subject. There is no padding. The routine Mark explains...

• Vorwort
• Ein kleines Kartenprogramm
  • Eröffnungstrick
  • Rot-blau-rot
  • Wild Card
  • Herz As-Story
• Besondere Kartenspiele
  • Above Suspicion (Blankospiel)
  • Ein 'besonderer' Kartentrick (gelegtes Kartenspiel 32 Blatt)
  • Perfekte Vorhersage (Blankorückenspiel)
  • Svengali Routine (Svengali Deck)
  • Karten-Telepathie (Drei Spiele mit verschiedenen Rückenmustern)
  • Die Macht der Gedanken (Rau-Glatt-Spiel und Svengali Deck)
• Trickgeräte und Trickkarten
  • Gitterkarte (Routine mit einem Blankospiel)
  • Eine unglaubliche Kartenwanderung in drei Aufzügen
  • Plexi-Gefängniskarte...

This ebook features 28 of Mel's mentalism ideas, each of which is commercial and entertaining.

It also has an interesting essay on getting the basics right as well as three further pages of great one-liners to use in your act. Mel's methods are practical and uncomplicated - he has a real gift for getting directly to the nub of what is needed to created any desired effect - and so there will be many ideas that you will soon be including in your repertoire.

• Introduction
• Svengali Postcards
• Any Time Impromptu Book Test
• My Drink Prediction
• Blackout Gag
• Minor Miracle with M&Ms
• The Magic...

The Svengali deck has been a pitchman item for years. Gerald admires the skill of the Svengali pitchman. They handle the deck and do amazing tricks to sell the deck to bystanders. But Gerald's writing is not a treatise on "pitching" the Svengali. His purpose in using the Svengali is different from the pitchman's.

In Power of the Svengali, Gerald explores how to handle the Svengali as an ordinary deck, not as a special gaffed deck to sell. The power of the Svengali comes from its ability to produce tricks not possible except by advanced sleight of hand. Even skillful sleight of hand can...

Here, Chris Wardle explores the use of long and short cards (Svengali Deck style) for mental magic presentations. Whilst initially he gives some background to the Svengali deck and how to make and handle one, some routines use variants on the deck and several don't use playing cards at all. There are thirteen routines from Chris plus some additional commentary and a bonus routine from publisher Paul Hallas. Chances are after reading this you'll not think of the Svengali deck in the same way again.

Since the appearance of this booklet (his third) Chris authored Magic For Everyone (2006) and...

This is a collection Dee has kept to himself for a long time, despite many, many requests for release. You'll see why very soon...

Sylla-code: A unique 2 person code anyone can learn.

Morse: A spectator is mind-reader effect utilizing the Sylla-code principal.

Svengali Toss - Remastered: Thoughts on the classic Hoy effect, 3 spectators merely peek a card from the deck in their hands and with no moves you are able to reveal each one with pinpoint accuracy.

Altered - Version One: A marked coin is placed in the spectator's own hands where they physically...

A specially-recorded hour-long interview of Don Driver (interviewer is the late David Alexander) that gives history, insights, and advice on how to make money selling the most popular trick deck in the world. Don also tells many stories and anecdotes of how he got into magic, side shows and ultimately pitching Svengali decks.

duration 1h 5min

• ... on entertaining the modern child
• Where is the Ring by Jim Breedon
• Letters. Your chance to have your say
• Competition. Your chance to win big prizes
• Cassette and other gags by Steve Jones
• Basic Card Technique: The Row Force by Phil Goldstein
• Tales from Tucker ... Stephen continues his musings
• Svengali Subtlety by Nigel Row
• Beer right on the night by Tony Richards
• The Card Challenge by Arthur Setterington
• News in and around the Studio with Geoff
• Snoops Scoops by our special correspondent
• Cigarettes from nowhere by Melvin Lehair
• Juggling Part six in this popular series
• Barrie Richardson...

• ... all the magic news that's nearly fit to print and misreported in the lay press
• Al Smith considers burning topics of the day
• Eddie Dawes saves you buying the other magazines, and tells you what they said
• Werner Miller with another cunning yet concealed stunt to fool you using of all things the Svengali deck
• Our own resident guru, mentalist, Barrie Richardson who would be canonised if he were not still with us! with yet another shattering effect
• Dr. Dawes with info, on what the squirrels are doing around the world
• Alan Ward considers the Queen of the Light
• Read why the Easter issue...

A specially-recorded hour-long interview of Don Driver (interviewer is the late David Alexander) that gives history, insights, and advice on how to make money selling the most popular trick deck in the world. Don also tells many stories and anecdotes of how he got into magic, side shows and ultimately pitching Svengali decks.

This ebook holds extremely valuable information for anybody who would like to become a pitchman or grafter who sells Svengali decks and other items. Even if you do not sell as a pitchman, but perform on the street or other public venues you will learn quite a bit from Walt Lees.

Some of the points discussed are:

• Which magic tricks are suitable for pitching?
• Types of pitching
• Earnings and rewards
• Requirements of a good pitchman
• Styles of pitching
• Choosing a good site
• Peek selling times
• What to have with you
• Dealing with complaints, hecklers, pilferers, non-buyers, aggro merchants,...

This exclusive book has now been republished as an ebook. Encyclopaedic in scope, with notes on making, handling, pitching, and performing in a variety of situations.

Contents

• Handling the Svengali Deck
• Pitching the Svengali Deck
• About the Tricks
• Impromptu
• Almost Impromptu
• Multi-Method Classics
• Novelty Revelations
• Things going wrong, and sucker effects
• Apparatus Required
• Special Decks
• Publicity, Promotion, Spectacle
• Using sleights and moves
• Miscellaneous
• The Last Word

1st edition 1999, 181 pages.

Vom Vorwort:

• Vorwort
• Rot — blau — rot
• Herz—As—Story
• Svengali-Routine
• Anhang: Hindu-Shuffle

Erstausgabe 1989, 19 Seiten; erste digitale Ausgabe 2018, 19 Seiten.

1. ... Magic - Clarence T. Hubbard
107. photo - Interior view of the Kratky Baschik Theatre, Prof. Ottokar Fischer performing
108. Mercedes Puzzles Newspaper Magnate and Governor Glynn
108. With the Press - notes on magazines

109. The Conjuring Record - Volume 2, Number 5 - July, 1914 - 8 pages
109. photo - Raymond
109. Svengali Claims Originality of Telepathy Act
109. The Magic of Memory - Tudor Jenks
110. The Editor's Column
110. Ventriloquist Makes Large Advertising Campaign
110. Illusionist Gets Three Year Sentence at Atlanta
110. Houdini Advertises by Another Sensational Escape
111. Ching Ling Foo Playing Moss Time in England
111. New Card Tearing Trick
112. Houdini at Victoria,...

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  1. ...
  2. Non plus ultra
  3. Jede berührte Karte sofort zu nennen
  4. Die verschwundenen Damen
  5. Die wandernden Karten
  6. Ein guter Fang
  7. Der Helfer aus der vierten Dimension
  8. Eine Liebestragödie
  9. Vorherige Bestimmung einer gewählten Karte
  10. Das unergründliche Rätsel
  11. Die Karte auf Reisen
  12. Eine Überraschung
  13. Die Svengali-Wunderkarten
  14. Die Brautschau
  15. Kolorieren en gros
  16. Die wandernden Points
  17. Die gehorsame Karte
  18. Von Tasche zu Tasche
  19. Cagliostros Vermächtnis

Erstausgabe 1921, 80 Seiten; PDF 59 Seiten.

• ... mit einer Hand
• 27. Die guterzogene Karte
• 28. Die überflüssige Karte
• 29. Non plus ultra
• 30. Die Planeten als Nothelfer
• 31. Der findige Dritte
• 32. Magische Zahlen
• 33. Karten-Changement
• 34. Grenzwächter und Schmuggler
• 35. Überall und nirgends
• 36. Magische Probe
• 37. Das Svengali-Wunder
• 38. Das Joghi-Wunder
• 39. Das Wunderspiel
• 40. Merkwürdiges Zusammentreffen
• 41. Verbesserte Kinematographie
• 42. Die Glückszahl
• 43. Der ausgeprägte Farbensinn
• 44. Überraschende Art, eine ins Spiel gemischte Karte zum Vorschein zu bringen
• 45. Neue Anwendung magischer Zahlen ...

An easy and effective multiphase routine with a Svengali deck. A spectator is correct continually in finding a previously selected card which the performer underlines with the punch line "How Right You Are."

From the introduction:

LAST CARD STANDING - A simple trick using three glasses.

FIRST CRUSH - A pair of swimming goggles act as X-Ray specs to reveal the chosen card....

This collection includes more effects and a fun balloon item to get some laughs. Remember, these are all self-working and if you have a Svengali deck, a few duplicates etc, you'll be able to do most of these straight away. Good fun, and great value at just ten bucks!

1st edition 2023, PDF 21 pages.

• Lassoo A Silk
• Playing Cards
• Follow-Up Lassoo A Silk
• The Talking Frog
• A Card Vanish From The Table
• A Card Turn Over
• A Mental Effect
• A Champagne Production
• A Cigarette Production
• Linking Silks
• Rising Cards A La Svengali
• A Silk Vanish Opening
• Variation Triangle Silks
• A Perfect Glass Balance
• A Floating Record
• Cutting A Rope In Three
• A Folding Table Screen
• Silks In Loop-Holes
• Bottles To Doves Transformation
• The High Light Of The Show
• A Dove Or Rabbit Vanish
• A Card Fan Production
• Two Silks From The Air

• ... by Danny Weiser

• From the editor - by Paul Romhany
• Making News - latest news of the month
• Magician's Crossword Puzzle - print this off and have fun
• Richard Webster Interview - sold over 1 million books this is an in depth interview with a true legend of mentalism
• Scryer's Svengali - Neal Scryer shares one of his favourite routines from his best selling book
• The Birthday Card Trick - Richard Webster shares his diary trick
• Extreme Inversion - Magic Babe Ning looks at her impossible escape
• Creating A Mega Stunt - JC Sum
• Bamboozlers - Diamond Jim Tyler's bar bets...

• ...
  • ...The Hypnotized Rope
  • Grant And Maillow's Ropes Of Bengal
  • Herman Hanson's Climax Rope Trick
  • Percy Abbott's "Easy-Do" Rope Trick
  • U. F. Grant's Amazing Rope Trick
• Chapter 9: The Hindoo Rope Trick
  • Rupert Slater's Moth And Rope
  • The Pocket Hindoo Rope Trick
  • The Vanishing Boy
  • Dunninger's East Indian Rope Trick
  • Svengali's Rope Climbing Trick Of India
  • J. K. Wright's Indian Rope Trick
  • David Devant's Hindoo Rope Trick

1st edition 1941, 498 pages; PDF 232 pages.

Terry wanted to be able to show a packet of cards, shuffle them and have someone just look at one and then he reproduces it. He didn't want to use marked cards or some sort of stack, but he wanted it to be sure fire. As a result he came up with Force This.

While the method is not new, it is known as the Siamese Svengali Pack (see for example Encyclopedia of Card Tricks or Greater Magic), the way Terry uses it in combination with business cards and a paper clip makes this a very practical and innocent looking method.

1st edition 2013, 5 pages.

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  1. ...
     • ...
       • ... Barlow
       • Reg. Jason - by Frederick Barlow
  26. Tryangle - Stewart James
  27. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
      • reviews
        • Light Ale - Supreme
        • The Long Hare - Supreme
        • Chicken-Egg - Supreme
        • 75 Tricks With a Svengali Deck - Al Stevenson
        • Trick Talk, Bonus Calendar Issue - Ireland Magic Co.
        • The Newsletter - The Magic Wand Club of Hamilton, Ontario
        • The New Phoenix No. 388
        • Hugrard's Magic Monthly, November
        • Genii, March
        • Top Hat, Volume Two, Number Four
        • Magic-Net
  28. From the Editor's Desk - Neil Foster
  29. Mentalism & Things Psychic - Bob Nelson
  30. Twenty-Five Years Ago in "Tops"
      • Pantomime and Patter - Ormond McGill
  32. Abbott's Magic For Magicians - Percy Abbott ...

An excellent work on the Svengali Deck, including drawings and photos.

• Mechanics Of Svengali Deck
• Handling The Svengali Deck
• Main Points To Remember
• Running The Cards
• Double Lift
• The Riffle Shuffle
• The Overhand Shuffle
• The Fan
• The Spread
• The Drop
• Effects With Svengali Deck
• Stabbing Trick No. 1
• Stabbing Trick No. 2
• Stuthard’s Svengali Subtlety
• Methods Of Switching Deck To Ordinary Cards
• Suggested Routine With The Svengali Deck
• Finally

1st edition 1948, 15 pages; PDF 13 pages.