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Volume 3, Number 5 - Volume 4 Number 4
January 1994 - December 1994
Stan Allen & Associates
Stan Allen, Editor

996 pages (4 double pages)

1. Magic - Volume 3, Number 5 - January 1994 - 72 pages
1. Cover - John Gaughan
5. Contents
7. From the Editor - Stan Allen
   • A Class Act
9. Letters
14. Parallax - Max Maven
    • Cold Lang Syne
      • Snow Koan
16. Questions - Paul Gertner
    • Classic Seasoning
17. Editorial - Let's Set The Standards - Marcelo Contento
19. On The Road
    • Stakedrivers And State Police - Barry Yiengst
21. Inside Conventions - Scott Wells
    • Didn't...

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      • ... Volume 1-4 - Richard Osterlind
      • The Cassandra Deck - Docc Hilford
      • Romaine: The Monarch of Manipulators (2 DVD set) - Romaine
      • Sleight of Dave - David Williamson
      • Dave 2 - David Williamson
112. Advertisers Index
112. Subscription Information

1. Genii - Volume 68, Number 3 - March 2005 - 112 pages
1. Cover - Rafael Banatar
5. Contents
10. Genii Speaks - Richard Kaufman
11. Now Performing - The Magic Castle - Las Vegas
12. On the Slant - Jon Racherbaumer
    • The Tricks One Collects
    • Probes for Post-Modern Conjurers
    • Casting Spells That Work
15. Max Maven's Monthly Inquisition ...

This booklet was most likely published around 1920 and describes a number of games of chance and how they are being rigged or operated to cheat:

• Dice
• Three Card Monte
• Shell Game
• Faro
• Drop Case
• Paddle Wheel
• The O'Leary Belt
• The Striker
• Upright Roulette Wheel
• Bee Hive
• Spindles

• Preface
• Materialized Ball
• That "Shell Game" Again!
• Burling Hull Twirl
• Perfection Twirl
• "One On You"
• "The Ball That Went Out Of Sight"
• Lightning Ball Vanish
• "Chapender's Change"
• The Invisible Trap
• Interlocked Finger Acquitment
• Some Billiard Ball Stands
  • The Three-Cup Stand
  • Cluster Stand
  • The Burling Hull Swing Stand ...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster, Editor

597 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 18, Number 1 - January 1978 - 52 pages
1. Cover - Harry Blackstone, Jr.
7. Contents
8. Cover Portrait - The Blackstone Magic Show - The Torch is Passed - Neil Foster
10. Tops Salutes Sid Lorraine on the Start of His 39th Year of - Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
    • In the Magazines
      • The New Pentagram
      • Mantra
      • Magic Thesaurus
      • Periodical for Collecting Conjurers
      • New Image L'Majik Satirica
      • The Pallbearers Review, final three issues
      • The Chronicles - new periodical
      • Magicana ...

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      65. Ink - Frank Fogg
      66. Transcollectors - Frank Fogg
68. Directions - Joanie Spina
    • Real Time Reactions
70. Coffeehouse Conjuring - Gregory Wilson & David Gripenwaldt
    • Coffee Break
74. Marketplace - Gabe Fajuri, editor
    • Darwin Ortiz: Noting But the Best - Darwin Ortiz - 3 DVDs - reviewed by Francis Menotti
    • Frappe Encore (Intimiste 2) - Dominique Duvivier - 4 DVDs - reviewed by Peter Duffie
    • Travelogue - Richard Pinner - effect with DVD - reviewed by John Lovick
    • The Test Book - Book Test - Mental Voyage - effect - reviewed by Brad Henderson
    • The Origami...

• ... Box Illusion
• EXCLUSIVE FEATURE: Escapes—Special Form of Magic
• GENERAL FEATURES
  • About Magic
  • Magic Black-Art Table
  • Magical Appliances
  • Present Your Own Magic Show
• 40 MAGIC PROJECTS TO BUILD AND PERFORM
  • Sliding Die Box
  • Cabalistic Cube
  • Wrist Chopper
  • Baffling Blocks
  • Cake in a Hat
  • Three Silk Tricks
  • Card Found in a Balloon
  • Candle from the Pocket
  • Crystal Casket
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  • Mental Pack
  • Flash Production Tube
  • Glass Balanced on Card
  • Penetration of Solid Through Solid
  • Appearing Card in a Frame
  • Chemical Magic
  • Vanishing Glass of Water
  • Tube and Ropes ...

1. ... George [Johnstone]
38. Invitation to Mystery, 3rd Series - Stewart James
    • Love's Labor Lost
39. The Aldini Connection
    • Zodiac - Finale
40. Magical Whirligig - Walt Hudson
42. For Women Only - Frances Ireland Marshall
47. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway

1. The New Tops - Volume 27, Number 3 - March 1987 - 60 pages
1. Cover - Welcome Spring
5. Contents
6. Sid Lorraine's Chatter - Sid Lorraine
   • miscellaneous
     • Rabbit in the Hat Ranch Newsletter
     • dictionary book test - The Amazing Randi
     • "King Arthur and His Knights" book test - The Amazing Randi
     • Magic for Everyone - Bill Severn
     • Lee Jacobs -...

• Preface
• A Brief Sketch Of The Author
• The Three Stages Of A Gambler's Life
• Poker
• Holding Out
• Shiners
• Stud Poker
• Faro
• Rouge Et Noir; Or, Red And Black
• Diana Game
• Three Card Monte
• Tipping The Hand
• Roulette
• Social Card Playing: The Kindergarten To The Gambling Hell
• The Upward Way
• The Downward Way
• Gambling At Wiesbaden
• Wheel Of...

1. ... - The Costumer - Philip Morris & David Lady
28. Magic-Up-Date - Richard & Nancy Greeno
29. Pets 'N Prestidigitation - Hal Diamond
30. Magic - Madness and Merriment - Dean Montalbano
    • Sugar And Spice
31. Vent Views - Bill Boley
33. The Egg (Bag) And I - Kenny Woodward, Jr.
38. Men of Magic - Robert Olson
41. Three Magic Words - Rick Fisher
43. Conjuring with Cards - Nick Trost
    • Double Whammy Prediction
44. Astro/Twins - Phil Goldstein
45. Tony Kardyro's Magical Highway

1. The New Tops - Volume 32, Number 2 - February 1992 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Johnny Carson
5. Contents
6. Subject: Illusions - David Seebach ...

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   • David Williamson's Magic Farm - David Williamson - DVD
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   • Money Menagerie on DVD Volumes 1&2 - Sterling Dare - 2 DVDs
   • The Desert Brainstorm Series Volumes 1-3 - Arizona 6 - 3 DVDs
   • It's Not Magic, But - Masters of Deception - Al Seckel
   • Know It? I Wrote It!
   • hemidemisemiquavers
     • Kids Kards - Richard Pinner - prop
     • Show Biz Card - Guy Bavli - effect
     • Magic Smart Coin - Hershey Magic - effect
     • Fan-2-C - Paul Wilson Manuscript...

No. 1

• Magneskill / Tan Choon Tee
• Triple Divination / Tan Choon Tee
• Cards to Pocket / Peter Warlock
• Fortunato 5 / Peter Warlock
• Venue, Date and Resources / Ian Adair
• The Albakarlisle Card-Stab Routine / Stanton Carlisle

• Ian Adair Issue
• Flashback over the Years
• News Bits
• Polo Mint Just Chance - Again
• Backward Vision
• Twin Book Test
• Time Factor
• Another Last Card
• Ten Out of Ten
• Slately Mysterious
• Circular Colour Force

• Eddie Malcolm Davison - Biographical Notes
• Six Coin Repeat
• Scientific Sorcery Jr.
• Crystal Aide Memoire
• Selling the Act
• Improved Masterpiece ...

1. ...Why Not Get the Pentagram Too? - Richard Mark
87. Edwin's Magi-Go-Round - comments from Edwin Hooper
89. Colombini's Card Magic - Lewis Ganson
    • Fabian's Homing Card
      • Jennings Count
96. Fabian's Wild Roses - Aldo Colombini
99. A Thank You - testimonial
99. Unforgettable - testimonial
100. The Professor's Other Nightmare - Joel Simkins
101. Three Tricks - Gerry Walker
     • Flowering Umbrella
     • Scissors Gag
     • Muppet Magic - Vanishing Kermit
102. Worriers - puzzle - Alan Ward
103. Phenomenal Photography - John Richard Pellatt
106. Testimonials in Every Mail!
107. Alan Kennaugh at Hastings
109. I'll Always Remember - Peter Warlock
111. George Johnstone in Bidfeford
112. The Hastings Tea-Party - Ken de...

Table of Contents

9. Foreword

   Chapter One: The Presentation Of Close-Up Magic

   Chapter Two: Bangle Dangle

29. Bangle Delight
32. Travelling Ring - Raymond Hafler
33. Glen Gravatt's Magic Rings
34. Ring Transposition
37. Two Rings And A Silk
39. Ring, Rope And Silks - Ravelle And Andree

    Chapter Three: Boxes And Brass

42. German Box Routine - Jack Ganson
44. Coins Through
45. Tea For Two - Ken Brooke
46. Okito Box Routine - Ken Brooke
52. Boston Three Step - Fred Lowe
57. The New Pocket Coin Trick - John Ramsay

    Chapter Four: It's A Gamble

60. The Figure Eight
64. Two Novel Moves
65. Outline Of A Routine
66. Triple...

1. ... Balls in HMM - A reference Guide for Contest Entries
7. Dr. D'Gahalene's Floating Table - Arthur "Francisco" Bull
7. A Patter Line
7. "Taking It Easy" - announcement
8. Patter Line - Cliff Green
8. Endorsed Dealers Offerings

9. Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volume XXI, Number 2 - October 1963 - 8 pages
9. "The 3 Club" Revisited - Ed Marlo
   • The Method
10. 2/3 Fiction - Slip-cut Botto0m Force - Art Lyle
10. Trick Tip - Silk Winder - Art Lyle
10. Editorial Notes - Blanca Lopez
    • The Immortal Magician
11. Sid Lorraine's Variations-Presentation-Chatter for Harry G. Franke's "My Uncle the Inventor" ...

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   • The Mike Passe - Holmes
   • The Linking Ring, September
   • The Sphinx, September
   • Te Tohunga, August - New Zealand Society of Magicians
   • The Dragon, August
   • The Jinx, September
   • Funny Talk, September
   • The Tops, September
   • The Goofus, September

65. Genii - Volume 4, Number 3 - November 1939 - 40 pages including a four page insert
65. Cover - W. R. Walsh
69. Russ Walsh - biographical notes
69. We Hope You Are Like One of These - testimonials
69. In This Issue - Contents
70. Genii Speaks - editorial comments
71. With A Phone Book - Hubert T. Brill
72. Card Flight - Jon Kirby
73. The Little Star Prediction - Oscar...

An unusual magical murder game. All the necessary cards are enclosed in the PDF and you can immediately print them and perform the trick.

An unusual and exciting effect for your mental act or magic show. It has much audience participation. Each of three spectators, invited up, plays a part in the enactment of an 'Orrible Murder, one being the body, one the witness and one the murderer. Each "chooses a weapon" - printed on large cards. (But you could use real articles: rope, dagger, gun, poison bottle, hammer). Cards or weapons are hidden. While this is afoot you have your back turned or...

Senor Mardo brings you a complete analysis of the manipulation, routining, and presentation of that magical classic, The Cups and Balls. Seven beautiful routines devoted to classic close-up and night club magic effects.

We've wanted to offer this hard-to-find title for years and are now able to do so... and at a price that won't break the bank (originally sold for the equivalent of $35.00 in today's money when first released).

Four complete routines are presented in this book, with more than 30 illustrations:

• One cup routine
• Two cup routine
• Three cup routine
• Mardo's "Impromptu...

This is a variation for the shell game using various sizes of fez. A bonus effect with three ball vases is also included.

1st edition 2018, 16 pages.

No. 1

• The "Hey Presto" Caper / Jack Avis
• Bolivian Chance / Peter Warlock
• The Body Snatchers / Lyndon B. Wainwright
• Out of Cards? Way Out! / Stanton Carlisle
• Scientific Rope / John P. Hamilton
• More Magic Ian's Ideas: Little and Large / Ian Adair
• Mark Your Words / Ian Adair

• Two from Jack / Jack Avis
• Unites States of Magic / Stanton Carlisle
• Japanese Magic / Ishi Black
• Rescue to Rescue / Peter Warlock
• Button-Up / Ian Adair

• A Poker Player's Picnic / Stanton Carlisle
• Cut Throat 2 / Peter Warlock
• Adair-Ities: Every Word - Every Page Book Test / Ian Adair ...

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   • ... Bill Spooner
   • Silken Symphony - Mello Magic Creations
   • Yo-Yo - Supreme
   • Portable Servante - Tannen's
   • Knives - Jose De La Torre
   • Multiplying Balls - Accent Products
   • Multiplying Pipes - Accent Products
   • Multiplying Bottles ("Bottles Galore") - Peter Diamond
   • Art Cards - Tannen's
   • 3 Ropes on a Plastic Bar - Jean Merlin
   • Australian Gambling Game of 31 - Ken de Courcy
   • Top Chop - Supreme
   • Sequacious Aces - Ken de Courcy
   • The Koran Newspaper Prediction - Al Koran
   • Eddie Gibson - coin effects
     • Kangaroo Coins
     • Baby Kangaroo Coins
     • Crystal Prison ...

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   113. The Screened Leipzig Pass - Ron Bauer
   115. Intermission - Charlie Miller
        • Bamberg Letter - continued
116. Cartoon - Paul Butler
117. Knights at the Magic Castle - Peter Pit
118. Las Vegas' Johnny Paul
122. The Reel Works - Pete Biro
     122. Super Walking Knot
     122. Fechter Frolic
     123. The Real 3-1 Rope Trick
123. cartoon - Anthony Dunn
124. Lines From Lawton
125. Chicago - Frances Marshall
126. The East Coast Danny Who? - Dan Driscoll
127. 25 Years Ago In Genii - Gerrie Larsen Jaffe
128. Tricks of the Trade - Ed Mishell
     • Rhine "2000" - Magic Makers [PA]
     • The Magic Dealer, Volume 2, #6
     • It's a Snap -...

Recil Bordner, Publisher
Neil Foster Editor

682 pages

1. The New Tops - Volume 8, Number 1 - January 1968 - 56 pages
1. Cover - Edward Marlo
6. Cover Portrait - Edward Marlo ... The Man - by Jimmy Nuzzo
1. Harold Martin Testimonial - J. Gary Bontjes
1. Contents
2. It's a Mystery to Me - Clarke "The Senator" Crandall
6. Deep Sleight Technique - Edward Marlo
   • Double Stop (Marlo Drop Sleight)
   • The Four Ace Stop
   • An Observation
7. Tops Sends Get-Well Wishes To
   • Don Sweet
   • Thomas P. Molloy
8. Fox Tales - Karrell Fox
   • 5 to 2 & 3 Dollar Bills gag
9. For Women Only - Frances...

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   • ... Reverse
374. Puzzle Corner
375. Trickster Monthly (report from B.A.T.)
     • April selection - Optogramma - Val Evans
     • May selection - Karson's World's Fastest Card Trick
     • push for subscriptions
     • Hit The Jackpot 25
375. Recent Library Acquisitions
375. advertisements

377. The Bat - Number Fifty-Three - May 1948 - 8 pages
377. The Peregrinating Halves - J. B. Bobo
378. Bat's Belfry - editor's comments
378. The Gag Bag
380. Puzzle Corner
380. My Favorite Trick - Thurston, Houdini, Dante & Nicola
381. Great Card Tricks - Glenn G. Gravatt
     • Certain
     • Inevitable Discovery
     • 22 Discovery
     • Shuffled Discovery ...