Walter Gibson

This is volume 5 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

No 1:
• Speaking of Pictures: Richiardi, Chang
• Abracadabra by Arthur Buckley
• A Man Named Le Roy by George LaFollette
• The Atomic Gun by Eddie Joseph
• East Indian Rope Trick by Felix Korim
• Liquid Mystery by Andrew Smythe
• New Three Coin Trick by George L. Kier
• Chicanery by Chaudet
• GABBATHA by Walter B. Gibson
• On The Magic Bookshelf by G. E. T. and E. W. D.
• Light Up by Richard Gray
• Journeys Into Aladdinland by Glen E. Towns
• Blending by George Johnstone
• In The Hat by Don Jacobs
• Backwards by P. A. Dohm, Jr.
• Prediction by Martin Gardner ...

This is volume 4 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

No 1:
• SPEAKING OF PICTURES: George Johnstone, Betty Johnstone
• YOU'VE GOT TO USE "DYNAMITE" - Bruce Reynolds
• CIRCUS BANDS - Warren E. Simms
• THE GIRL AND THE LADDER - Harry Blackstone
• THE VACUUM IMPOSSIBILITY - George Johnstone
• SLIK SLEIGHTS - Bill Tarr
• TRICKS I LIKE - Bill Chaudet
• IN THE BAG - R. N. Menge
• OVER THE DEALER'S COUNTER
• ON THE MAGIC BOOKSHELF
• HUMOROUS PATTER - Burling Hull
• BURNT AND RESTORED BILL - John Scarne
• THE BOTTOM STEAL - Mike Tannen
• THE 17TH ANNUAL MAGI-FEST
• CHINESE FLAG VASE OF ALL NATIONS - Okito
• GAS...

This is volume 3 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

No 1:
• SPEAKING OF PICTURES: William Holden Maxwell, Ruth Dore
• A THANK YOU FROM CONJURORS' STAFF
• RIDDLE IN RED AND YELLOW: A Story about Chung Ling Soo by FULTON OURSLER
• GIVE ME A RING - Edward M. Massey
• CUPKAKES IN HAT - Burton Marks
• SWORD-SORCERY - "Hen" Fetsch
• FIFTEEN CARD TRICK - Stanley Beck
• TORTURE BOX - Jay Berggren
• ALONG WITH BLACKSTONE - Walter B. Gibson
• MAGICIAN - SOLDIERS WANTED - Julien J. Proskauer: Featuring Statements to Conjurors' Readers by PRESIDENT TRUMAN and GENERAL EISENHOWER
• TERRY LYNN - ON MAGIC
• IMPROVED...

This is volume 2 of The New Conjurors' Magazine.

No 1:
• SPEAKING OF PICTURES: George Karger and Audley Walsh; Give Conjurors' Another Scoop
• TRIPLE CUT LOCATION - Blackstone
• MAGIC'S BELOVED COUPLE Tess and Max Holden
• CHATS BY KOLAR
• A STORY BY DELL O'DELL
• SHORT CHANGE - Hornmann
• TRICK WITHOUT A NAME - Sgt. Schroeter
• REVIEWS - J. J. Proskauer
• COMEDIAN'S CORNER - Warner Perry
• MAGICIANS HONOR TREPEL
• VISIBLE COLOR CHANGE - Miaco
• HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE
• PRACTICAL PRODUCTION TRAY
• CUT AND RESTORED BILL - Marks
• YANKEE DOODLE HAT - A TOMMY WINDSOR CREATION
• MEXICAN TURN-OVER - McDermott ...

The first Conjurors' Magazine made its appearance in 1792 in London under the editorship of Henry Lemoine. This, the first monthly periodical ever devoted to the art of magic, featured "singular deceptions, philosophical amusements, curious experiments, mathematical operations and sympathetic secrets."

Then in 1906 Harry Houdini together with his brother Theo Hardeen revived this almost forgotten publication under the title of The Conjurer's Monthly Magazine (spelled with an 'e' instead of an 'o').

In 1945 Walter B. Gibson and Julian Proskauer gave this title another shot at life and started The New Conjurors' Magazine...

Number 1 (January 1934)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Stage Effects: The Mysterious Cocoanut Shell Fountain Illusion / Clayton Lowell Jacobsen
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Stand For Producing And Vanishing Cards / Signor Joseph Ovette
  • The Slide Discovery / Dr. Raoul Brochu
• European Section: A Rope And Ring Trick

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Number 2 (February 1934)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Grant's Four Ace Trick / U. F. Grant
  • Reverse Reverse
• Stage Effects: The Target Of Doom Illusion / Clayton L. Jacobsen
• European Section: Affinity of Letters And Numbers / Will...

Number 1 (October 1932)

• Editorial
• Why Is a Headliner? Harlan Tarbell
• A Talk to Card Enthusiasts / Eddie McGuire
• This 'n That / Mr. E
• Kansas City Notes / Dr. E. G. Ervin
• Manipulative Magic
  • The Lock Flap Jap Box / Glenn G. Gravatt
  • Monk Watson's Traveling Cigar Band
  • The Invisible Purse / Little Johnny Jones
• Sensational Magic
  • The Floating Wand / William Meyn
  • Balls Box and Cages
• U. F. Grant Says
• Nixonian News Shots
• Doings of The Society of Osiris / Ernest B. Marx

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Number 2 (November 1932)

• Editorial
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• With the Dealers
• Sensational Magic ...

Number 1 (April 1932)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Sensational Magic
  • Card Prediction / Dorner Scaramucci
  • Silk Production / Doc Nixon
  • Chemical Magic / Doc. Endlich
  • Silk-O-Drop / Clayton L. Jacobsen
• Amateur Contest: Robert Nelson
• Stage Effects
  • The Princess of Tepenac Illusion / Clayton L. Jacobsen
  • The Spooky Chair
  • Patriotic Finale / Ovette
• E. J. Moore
• Manipulative Magic
  • Vanishing Light Globe
  • Cigarette Vanish
  • Rub Away Coin
  • Perfection Coin Vanish
• The Nelson Cup
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Mathematical Card Mystery
  • Identical Thought
• Around the Ice-Box with...

Number 1 (October 1931)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle
• Sensational Magic
  • Bouquet to Fish Globe
  • The Chinese Rope
  • Large Coin Vanish
  • Divino
• Effective Card Tricks
  • Card Transposition
  • Improved Card Production / Dunninger
  • Car-Deck-O / Arnt
  • Improved Card Rising
• Stage Effects: The Tom Tom Illusion
• Around the Ice-Box with Dom
• Salo Ansbach
• Old Time Magicians No. 3 / A. F. Munroe
• Tricks and Travel / Robert G. Thrasher
• Magic for Pleasure or Profit
• Saginaw Meeting
• Color and Number
• The Odin Rings
• Poetic Patter

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Number 2 (November 1931)

• Editorial
• Around the Magic Circle ...

Number 1 (April 1931)

• Editorial
• Downs Greets Blackstone
• Men Prominent in Magic Welcome the I. M. C.
• The International Magic Circle
• The First Convention
• Sensational Magic
  • Word from the Spirits
  • The Penetrating Silk
  • The Best Diminishing Ball
  • The Bewitched Cigarette
  • Dollar Divination Test
  • Clear Through / Edward Massey
  • How to Tell What a Man Thinks Before He Thinks It / Frank W. Thomas
• Something New in Magic
• Around the Magic Circle
• Magic Notes from Detroit
• Stage Effects
  • The Message from Mercury
  • The Girl and the Ladder
• Around the Ice-Box with "Dom"
• Effective Card Tricks ...

Seven Circles was the official publication of the International Magic Circle (IMC). Editor-in-chief was Walter B. Gibson. In his first editorial Gibson wrote:

This magazine has a double purpose, as a perusal of its pages will show. First, it is a desire to give magicians a worth-while, readable publication, filled with items of value and interest. Second, it is definitely the magazine of a new organization - The International Magic Circle.

It is the editor's duty to produce a magazine that will be recognized as the best of all periodicals pertaining to the mystic art. There is only one...

Walter Gibson intended this book for the novice. All the tricks are quite easy to perform. And in the beginning under the heading "The Presentation of Card Tricks" Gibson gives very valuable advice of how to create a program and how to present it.

Nevertheless the book is so good that even the intermediate and advanced card magician will be able to learn a lot from its pages.

This book was originally written by Walter B. Gibson for Houdini. Houdini's death in 1926 prevented him putting it out, and Walter issued it under his own name. Ted Annemann considered it one of the best books in its field . . . it...

This is a lovely and unusual publication with more than 200 feats described. Walter B. Gibson had a magic column in the Public Ledger, a newspaper in Philadelphia. The entire run of his columns is collected in this publication.

You will find many simple magic tricks as well as some puzzles, stunts and brain teasers. While many will be familiar to most who have read similar collections of little tricks, there are a few real surprises I have not seen anywhere else.

1st digital edition 2013, 246 pages.

Table of Contents

11. Preface
13. The Balanced Egg
14. The Jumping Card
15. Coin In Handkerchief ...

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49. The Vanishing Brooch
    While attempting to get his...

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43. Crime in the Stars
    Astrology...hypnotism...and...

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37. The Hindu Sword Cabinet
    “Hello, Don. I’ll...

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31. The Curse of Kali
    “Rhoda” says Blackstone,...

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25. The Missing Palmist
    This episode begins with Rhoda...

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19. The Curse of the Yogi
    A yogi’s chimes haunt...