"I am excited about this book...This collection oozes style and substance from a true auteur." -John Bannon, from the foreword

John Guastaferro embodies everything one admires in a magician: he is smooth but not flashy, soft-spoken yet in control. And he is an expert at crafting intelligent magic tricks. For the first time ever    Read More ..

Ride the Wave...

Seven "Fractal" card tricks from John Bannon:

MEGA WAVE - Hocus Pocus and Mumbo Jumbo Hammers four-card Brainwave.

FRACTAL RE-CALL - JB popular "Call of the Wild" wild-card routine fractalized.

SHORT ATTENTION SCAM - A maximum magic minute. JB's hit "The Royal Scam" for the impatient.    Read More ..

The Legend of Poker Sam

This is the story of the very last hand.
Played by the gambler no one could stand.
Everyone called him Poker Sam.
His winnings were legend, his arrogance the same.
Poker Sam always played a perfect game.

All the players consipred to give Sam his comeuppance.
But they settled on payback    Read More ..

by Roberto Giobbi

Roberto Giobbi's newest survey of sleightless card magic, CARD COLLEGE LIGHTER, gives the famous Giobbi treatment to 21 baffling card tricks by some of the craft's greatest masters, including Vernon, Annemann, Leech, Maven, Fulves, Hummer, Vollmer and Krenzel. These tricks do not require sleights, but    Read More ..

This Is Not Your Father's "Self-Working" Card Book!

From the author of Card College , the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill.    Read More ..

Roberto Giobbi's Acclaimed Course On Sleight-Of-Hand Card Magic! Never before has a course in card magic been so thoroughly illustrated for clarity and ease of learning. Clear, engaging, detailed writing is coupled with over 1,200 professional drawings to aid the student in attaining mastery over a deck in the shortest possible time.
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If you are interested in Card Magic at all, you MUST have this book. Guaranteed to give you more useful, entertaining, audience preferred card effects, than any other book available.
272 pages, full of astounding effects, routines, ideas by Harry Lorayne and some of his friends, including some of the best minds in Card Magic: Dai Vernon,    Read More ..

This is one of the best books for the beginning card magician. Each chapter describes a different sleight followed by a collection of tricks using that skill. A total of 76 carefully chosen card tricks is explained. This book has been the starting point for many card workers.

hardbound

Featuring Influenced and the Modern ACAAN

In Meant To Be, we discovered the power and versatility of executing a shift while taking the cards out of the box. This particular project shares a completely different card case shift that is extremely practical, versatile, and deceptive. I have been sitting on this for quite some time,    Read More ..

Filled with history, stories, and, most of all, magic, Best of All Worlds pays tribute to one of the greatest card tricks of all time: Paul Curry's classic card effect Out of This World.

Best of All Worlds is not just a book about a 'Magic Trick". It is an extensive, in-depth look at what Dai Vernon called "the card trick    Read More ..

Three effects using a double face card. These fool bad. Chad uses these tricks in every paid gig.

Contents

Conditioned Transposition
A spectator places a selection in their back pocket. Instantly, the selection transposes with another selection a visual manner. The spectator places and removes the card.

Married    Read More ..

>Chad has devised three simple, easy and effective card controls for walk around and strolling magic.

The spectator squares the card to complete the controls.

Applications; force, switch.

Contents

• Peep Control
• Wonder Control
• Tip Control

Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room.

The clearest, easiest-to-follow    Read More ..

DE'VO'S SECRET BOOKS VOL. 2 ( Second Edition, Hardbound)

De'vo's Secret Books as a project is a 3 volume collection of De'vo's early underground material from the 1970s to current day.

Here is a listing of the contents:

Chapter 1
THE JOURNEY - This is the story    Read More ..

John Bannon's new lecture booklet:
A deeper, layered kind of surprise. A mathematical drive-by. Poker and more. Go all in.

Counterpunch
The Dunbury Delusion slams into the Biddle trick. It's not just a card trick, it's a con job.

Four Faces North
Bannon's "Last    Read More ..

Powerful Impromptu Mentalism with a deck of cards!

As part of a 5 comic book series, Square (preceded By Triangle & Heptagon), is a comic devoted to mental feats with a deck of cards. As usual, all of the material    Read More ..

The game marked a new generation of Magic Dream

The game marked than you expected ...

"Diabolically hidden and readable in the blink of an eye ..." Gaëtan Bloom

"The game Ultimate is currently the best game scored for the magicians. It manages to be both easy to read and difficult to detect." Darwin    Read More ..

This CD-ROM contains a 60 page e-book, over 25 videos, 12 versatile techniques, and 11 powerful effects for magicians wanting to take their card magic to the next level.

What's the Work?
Card techniques you will love and use: Forces, Switches, Displays, Counts, contributions from B.J. Bueno, Jack Park, Aaron    Read More ..

In the 19th Century Victorian British underworld slang, playing-cards were called broads. Playing a game of cards was known as "Spreading Broads." Cheating at cards was called "broading" and a card sharp was called a "broadsman". Tossing Broads is a gaffed game that cannot be beat; hence, the broad tosser plays a gaffed joint, or flat joint.    Read More ..

Lightest and Last!

Card College Lightest is the final volume of Roberto Giobbi's acclaimed 'Light' trilogy. In it are taught 18 thoroughly astonishing tricks of professional quality, complete with performing psychology, presentations, valuable tips and insights, all of which contribute to making these sleightless effects    Read More ..