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Magazine of Magic Volume 1 (Oct 1914 - Mar 1915)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 1 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 1, Number 1 - October, 1914 - 32 pages
- Contents
- To My Brother Magicians all over the World - Will Goldston
- A Word of Welcome - Louis Hoffmann
- Patter for the Turban Trick - Wolfe Clyne
- News Notes and Notices
- Arthur Price speaks on Ventriloquism
- My Tricks and how to Work Them - Stanley Collins
- The Stanley Collins Four Ace Experiment
- Our Views
- Success or Failure
- One of the Best - re: Stanley Collins
- Illuminated Address presented to Stanley...
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Magazine of Magic Volume 2 (Apr 1915 - Sep 1915)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 2 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 2, Number 1 - April, 1915 - 32 pages
- Contents
- Our Views
- News Notes and Notices
- De Biere's Appearing Billiard Ball
- The Cubitt Section
- The Malcolm-Movas Section
- The Dematerialisation of a Ghost
- Magical Mems - Professor Hoffmann
- Stage Sketching - Eric Stone
- My Tricks and how to Work Them - Stanley Collins
- Improved Penetrating Card Effect
- Gautier's Astral...
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Magazine of Magic Volume 3 (Oct 1915 - Mar 1916)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 3 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 3, Number 1 - October, 1915 - 32 pages
- Contents
- Our Views
- cartoon - Gordon Freeman
- News Notes and Notices
- The Theodore Bamberg Section - A Chinese Wonder
- The Production of a Marble Pedestal and Fire Bowl
- Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by "Alba", Woolf-Clyne, "Welshneck", E. E. Smith, Harry Exley
- Billiard Ball Squeezed from Thumb
- The Famous Drum Head Tube - Patter - Woolf-Clyne
- The Double Dissecting Boxes - "Welshneck"
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Magazine of Magic Volume 4 (Jun 1916 - Nov 1916)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 4 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 4, Number 1 - June, 1916 - 16 pages
- Contents
- Our Views
- Interview and Photograph - Theo. Bamberg
- News Notes and Notices
- Magicians of the Past
- No. 6 - Alexander Herrmann
- Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Chris Van Bern, Gordon Freeman, Stanley Collins, E. B. Cole, "Alba", Prof. Hoffman, Theo. Bamberg, B. B. Low
- The Ever-Full Glass of Wine - Invented by Chris Van Bern
- The "Freeman: Smoke Vase
- The Famous Vanishing Cage Trick - Patter
- Cravat to Sailor's...
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Magazine of Magic Volume 5 (Dec 1916 - May 1917)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 5 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 5, Number 1 - December, 1916 - 16 pages
- Contents
- Magical Questions & Answers - A. Ainslie
- Our Views
- Cartoon - "Carlton" Taking a Call - Will Scott
- News Notes and Notices
- Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by "Welshneck", E. E. Smith, Will Golston
- The New Production Chimneys - "Welshneck"
- The New Dove Pan - E. E. Smith
- New Patter for Popular Tricks
- Bundle of Wood from hat
- Reticules from hat
- Balls from hat
- Baby from...
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Magazine of Magic Volume 6 (Jun 1917 - Nov 1917)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 6 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 6, Number 1 - June, 1917 - 16 pages
- Contents
- For the Soldiers - An Appeal by Will Goldston
- Our Views
- Correspondence
- from Hugh Herring
- from G. Clayton
- News Notes and Notices
- The Perpetual Almanac
- The Dissolving Cigar and Glass
- My Magical Pupils - Will Goldston
- Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by C. Thompson, Anon., Will Goldston
- The New Four Ace Trick
- Telescopic Flag Rod
- The Tweezers Trick
- Humour as an Aid to...
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Magazine of Magic Volume 7 (Dec 1919 - May 1920)Will Goldston
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 7 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 7, Number 1 - December, 1919 - 24 pages
- Contents
- Our Views
- Magic Must Flourish Again
- Will Goldston's More Exclusive Magical Secrets
- Welcome!
- Recent Publications - Geoffrey Clayton
- More Miscellaneous Magic - Percy Naldrett
- Original Mysteries for Magicians - Brunel White
- News Notes and Notices
- Back to Life - Guy K. Austin
- Tricks, Tips and Talk - Contributed by Arthur Ainslie, "Delveen", "Karnack", G. W. Hunter, "Yettmah", Will Goldston
- The New Bangle Trick
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Magazine of Magic Volume 8 (Oct 1920 - Mar 1921)Will Goldston148 pages
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 8 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 8, Number 1 - October, 1920 - 24 pages
- Contents
- Our Views
- Oswald Williams - article & photograph
- News Notes and Notices
- The Magicians' Club
- Opening Night of the Season
- New Members
- Mediums and Magic - Harry Price
- Tricks, Tips & Talk
- The Newest Rising Cards - Invented by Will Goldston
- Silver from Copper
- Which Pencil is in the Box? - Charles W. Seers
- The Alan Adair Billiard Ball Stand
- The Mysterious Lemon -...
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Latest ConjuringWill GoldstonThis is an early publication by Will Goldston. It is a kind of smorgasbord of tricks, illusions, apparatus, hand shadows, plays, and advertisements for his Gamage Ltd.
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I
- Latest Method For Performing Soup Plate And Handkerchief Trick
- The Egg, Card, And Wand Balance
- A Novel Trick
- A Good Slate Trick
- The Wine Bottle And Card Trick
- The Latest Pip Card Trick
- A Neat Handkerchief Trick
- Mystic Canteen And Birdcage
- The Egg And Straw Balance
- Handkerchief Spinning Trick
- The Table Lifting
- A New Slate Trick
- Slate Writing
- Twenty-Five Balloons Produced From A Hat
- Rifle And...
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Secrets of MagicWill GoldstonThis was Goldston's first magic publication, a mix of magic, some juggling, and a bit of other variety arts such as shadowgraphy and chapeaugraphy.
From the Introduction:
To make this work more attractive than the general run of books on Magic, the following articles have been introduced: - Hypnotism, Smoke Pictures, Hand Shadowgraphy, Elocution, Art of Making-up, Hoop Rolling, Ventriloquism, Stage Illusions, Lock Tricks, etc., in conjunction with Conjuring.
- Introduction
- The Wedding Ring passed through a Handkerchief
- The Candle and Handkerchief Illusion
- The Devo Card Trick
- The...
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Great Tricks RevealedWill GoldstonFrom the introduction by Horace Goldin:
The present book is, I think, one of Will Goldston's best perhaps - the best. I am quite certain that the man who cannot learn magic from this book will never be a magician. All kinds of tricks are clearly explained and, to make quite sure that his readers will understand every word, the author has supplemented his clear explanations of tricks with numbers of equally clear illustrations. Looking through the book I find that in many places the letterpress is hardly necessary; the pictures "do the trick".
I should like to add a word of advice to any young man who... | ★★★★★ $10 to wish listPDF |
Will Goldston's Card System of Exclusive Magical SecretsWill GoldstonContents:
- CARD TRICKS
- A Forcing Pack which can be Shuffled
- The Card on Tape
- A Card Changing Stand
- A Trick with Giant Cards
- COIN TRICKS
- A New Coin Box
- A New Stack of Coins
- A New Coin Vanish
- The Travelling Farthings
- The Chinese Coin Trick
- The Linked Coins
- The Newest X-Ray Block
- CLOCK TRICKS
- The Tell-Tale Clock
- The Clock Maker
- The Vanishing Clock
- HANDKERCHIEF TRICKS
- The Burned and Restored Handkerchief
- A Handkerchief and a Bottle of Ink
- Thought Reading with Silk Handkerchiefs
- The Newest Matter Through Matter
- Improved Pistol to Vanish a Handkerchief
- A Mysterious...
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Exclusive Magical SecretsWill GoldstonThis is the first volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston. He writes in his introduction about his motivation to publish this book: "My aim from the beginning has been to gather together from all sources everything new and big in magic that has not been fully explained before." And indeed we have contributions from the finest magicians living at that time: Chung Ling Soo, Harry Houdini, Servais Le Roy, Conradi, Chefalo, Oswald Williams and Chris Van Bern and others. And don't forget that Goldston himself was a prolific inventor of illusions, many of which are included in this work.
The contents spans... | ★★★★★ $20 to wish listPDF |
More Exclusive Magical SecretsWill GoldstonThis is the second volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston.
1st edition 1921; original 492 pages; PDF 275 pages.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction to "More Exclusive Magical Secrets."
Part I. Pocket Tricks
- The Cut String Restored
- A Cigarette Trick
- The Improved Chinese Bat
- The Mysterious Coins
- The Travelling Handkerchief
- An Easy Way of Making Money
- The Elusive Scent Bottle
- The Cigarette Vanisher
- The Magical Knife
- The Mallet
- Think of a Card
- Will Goldston's Disappearing Knot
- The Missing Money
- The Match Through the Tube
- The Conjurer's Will Power
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Further Exclusive Magical SecretsWill GoldstonThis is the third volume in the famous series of locked books by Will Goldston.
1st edition 1927; original 362 pages; PDF 198 pages.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- WILL GOLDSTON An Appreciation
- Introduction
Part I. Pocket Tricks
- Shooting at a Match
- A Different Cigarette Paper Trick
- A Puzzle Box
- A Pliable Cigarette
- The Magnetic Thimbles
- A New Cut String Restored
- The Penny and the Pear
- The Changing Match Boxes
- The Coin Finder
- Goldin's Mysterious Rods
- Novel Thought Transference
- A String Problem
Part II. Sleight-of-Hand Pocket Tricks
- G. W. Hunter
- The Magnetic Match-box
- Pushing...
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Magazine of Magic Volume 9 (Apr 1921 - May 1922)Will Goldston144 pages
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 9 - bound volume cover and Index
- Index
- The Magazine of Magic - Volume 9, Number 1 - April, 1921 - 20 pages
- Contents
- Dr. "S."A.M. Wilson Objects!
- Cartoon - A. M. Wilson in Magic World
- Our Views
- The Great Maurice [with photograph]
- News Notes and Notices
- The Magicians' Club
- Magicians' Club Dinner to Compeer and Mrs. H. Rea Fitch
- Our Welcome by the Magicians' Club
- Who? - Mr. & Mrs. H. Rea Fitch
- Accepted for Review - Geoffrey Clayton
- The Magic Art - Donald Holmes
- Herbert Brooks Retires from Magic
- American...
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Who's Who in MagicWill Goldston
There are not many short biography compilations in magic and this one by Goldston is still one that is being consulted frequently. The most extensive one is by Bart Whaley (Who's Who in Magic) but while Whaley covers many more magicians he does not include portraits. Goldston includes many portraits of magicians and his biographical sketches can sometimes be much more extensive than in other such compilations. Goldston groups magicians as professionals, semi-professionals, and amateurs. He covers 90 professional magicians, 50 semi-professional magicians, and 69 amateurs.
1st edition 1934, 114 pages; PDF... | $20 to wish listPDF |
Sensational Tales of Mystery Men (used)Will Goldston
This is the Magico reprint of this classic title. Hardcover without dustjacket in excellent condition. For the content see the digital edition. | $20 to wish list |
Great Magicians' TricksWill Goldston
This is an interesting compilation of material - a mix of short portraits and Goldston's personal recollections of various magicians - some famous, some not, as well as some of their tricks and secrets. The result is a fairly extensive collection of tricks of all kinds and denominations. Includes many illustrations and photos of the contributors.
The first edition was issued in the same style as Goldston's famous Locked Books series, but without the clasp.
Excerpt from the introduction:
Great Magicians' Tricks is divided into two complete parts, "Magicians of the Past" and "Modern Magicians."... | $25 to wish listPDF |
Goldston's Magical Quarterly (1934 - 1940)Will GoldstonThis bundle includes all issues including the two page supplement from volume 5 which is missing in most files. This magazine was cut short due to the start of WWII. It is an eclectic collection of - at that time - completely new and innovative tricks, apparatus, and effects. It also covers the magic scene with reports, reviews and other newsworthy contributions. Will Goldston was very well connected and could draw contributions from the best magicians world-wide. | $35 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Latest Conjuring (used)Will GoldstonHardcover in green cloth stamped. Former retail sticker on back. For details on content see the digital edition. | $50 to wish list |
Magazine of Magic (1914 - 1922)Will GoldstonA total of nine volumes spanning the time from October 1914 to May 1922. | $65 to wish listPDF_facsimile |
Will Goldston's Easy Road to Magic: in seven lessons (used)Will GoldstonSoftcover hole punched. Probably had a string through the holes which is missing. On the cover the name Stanton Carlisle is written with a ballpoint pen. Likely this copy belonged to Stanton Carlisle at some point. Cover somewhat damaged and torn at the spine. For details on the content see the digital edition. | $150 to wish list |
Will Goldston's Card System of Exclusive Magical Secrets (used)Will GoldstonHardcover in landscape bound with string. This copy is in excellent condition. For details on the content see the digital edition. | $150 to wish list |