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This booklet contains over 200 jokes, cartoons, gags, visual stunts, and one-liners custom made for magicians and mentalists. These special hints and comedic gems will tighten up your act and make your next performance a barrel of laughs!

Learn how to fascinate and entertain children with magic! Successfully change your hobby into a wonderful job. This book contains complete and easy to do magic - comic routines, extraordinary and original balloon magic, fully explained basic magic techniques and hundreds of detailed colored drawings.

This GIANT 472 page book has it all. It teaches both tricks and sleight of hand using cards, coins, ropes, cups & balls, silks, money, and more. You'll also learn how to construct some large stage illusions. A great book for all skill levels.

Written By Guy E. Jarrett and Jim Steinmeyer with an Introduction by John A. McKinven

In 1981, Jim Steinmeyer produced Jarrett, but that was only part of the story... The Complete Jarrett is a spectacular new edition of the infamous Jarrett Magic, the controversial 1936 text on stage illusions. Guy Jarrett had constructed illusions for Thurston, for leading Broadway shows, sideshows and world's fairs. He thought a lot of magic could be better and put his secrets and philosophies in his own hand-printed text, and he changed magic forever. The secrets were astonishing, the stories were insightful, and the book became famous as one of the best reads in magic-alternately hilarious, biting and just plain honest. For many decades the book was a highly-sought rarity. The Complete Jarrett is a completely new edition, reproducing every page of Jarrett's original work with over 250 photos and drawings, including many new diagrams for this edition. For the first time, Jim Steinmeyer has included newly discovered historical information on Jarrett, his Broadway shows, feature illusions and the secrets of his remarkable magic. It's a beautiful publication and an important, fascinating look at the art.
Hardbound, 288 Pages with Silver Stamped Cover

The Complete Jarrett is a delight on every level. Not only does GuyJarrett's original text offer marvels of ingenuity, Jim Stienmeyer'smasterful and scholarly aanotaions flesh out the world of early 20thcentury illusions. The Complete Jarrett is a book that I will return toagain and again. I give it my highest recommendation. Mike Close

Recorded during the recent Masterclass tour of the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, Paul Daniels reveals the secrets of how to succeed and profit in the world of show-business. Each topic is fully explained, and Paul also allows ample time to answer questions. Paul Daniels has performed more magic on TV than anyone else in history, he is widely considered to be one of the foremost authorities on magic, and his Masterclass events have been attended by the biggest names in magic. This audio set is the perfect way to improve your magic (and business) knowledge whilst driving in the car!
Subjects covered, include:

How to dramatically improve every trick you already own
How to develop your stage presence and persona
How to get on TV, radio, and in the news
How to double or triple your profits from every show you do
The real secrets of Publicity – how to promote your business for little cost
How to use business cards effectively
The importance of setting targets and goals
How to keep an audience attentive and win them back if you lose them
What to do when someone says, "I know how you do that"
Advice and practical guidance on putting an act together
How to get the best from agents
The differences between agents and managers
How to develop and promote yourself as a brand
Paul’s views on packet tricks
Paul’s favorite magic tricks and magic books
Paul’s favorite performers and why
The story of the Louis Theroux reality TV show
Tips on how to succeed in restaurant magic
What you can learn from Maurice Fogel and Al Koran
An explanation of the development of Paul’s chop cup routine
Advice on getting bookings for large stage shows
Working with animals
Using assistants
The story behind the famous chimpanzees’ routine on TV
The background to the Electric chairs routine
Comments about performing the national BBC TV shows every week

I had the privilege of attending Paul Daniel's Master Class in Las Vegas. In my opinion, it was the greatest sharing of a true professional's secrets of success, that any serious student or practitioner of the magical arts could ever hope to receive at any price. Solid gold all the way. All shared by one the most respected names and talents of the professional Theatre world. He did not duck or dodge any question fired at him by some of the biggest names of magic in the Las Vegas scene. All of this given at a tuition price which was considerably less than most of us have paid for a useless piece of junk that we have kept hidden in a cupboard somewhere gathering dust. Bravo.” - Peter Reveen, Manager of Lance Burton.
7 CD set in Quality Binder

This exciting manual could unlock a new career for you!

Learn "insider secrets" of selling and marketing shows to child care centers, kindergartens, pre-schools, and after-school programs. The Confidential Day Care Booking Manual will teach you exactly how to get started in the fun and profitable business of booking and performing these shows.

Step-by-step, Samuel Patrick Smith explains his complete system, developed over a 17-year period, which he has never before released. Learn the system and the philosophy behind the system which will keep you on the right track and help you avoid pitfalls. (A studio-recorded CD accompanies the manual so you can master these techniques even faster!)

Highlights of The Confidential Day Care Booking Manual include:
How I Got Started, Day Care Background, Day Care Philosophy, Variations on a Theme, What Type of Show?, Advantages of Day Care Shows, Disadvantages of Day Care Shows, The Day Care Audience, The $100,000 Possibility, Repeat Bookings, Put Your Competition in Time Out (Six Steps), Pricing, Contracts, Scheduling Procedures, Confirmation Calls, The Easiest Way to Get Started, Keeping Expenses Low,Referrals, Advertising, Other Ways to Get Shows, Life on the Day Care Circuit, Cooties, and much more!

Includes perfect-bound book with full-color cover-padlocked for security!-plus a studio-recorded CD!51 pages

In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them.

Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you've already performing.

If you've ever been puzzled by an audience's reaction or lack of it, this book will dispel the mystery. It gives you a new set of tools for understanding how magic works, why it sometimes doesn't, and how to make it work better. Never again will you be at a loss as to why an effect isn't playing well. Never again will you be at a loss as to what to do about it.

If your goal is to provide your audiences with an unforgettable experience of impossibility, you'll find Designing Miracles filled with insights to help you do so. It will teach you how to use the audience's own thinking patterns against them. It will show you how to turn puzzles into miracles. It will do something that few magic books can: change with way you think about magic.

Pages 200 - Hardcover

Back in Print From Aldo Colombini... A fantastic book with 16 stunning routines, some are full acts!

The Seventh Floor is an amazing revelation of seven selected cards.
Grand Prix is an award winning routine and Hot Line is hilarious!
Meet Charlie is a funny routine that's loads of fun with a piece of rope and a deck.
The Dirty Dozen will give you the fame of a great cardician. Also, Four Aces, Red and Black and many more including Aldo's B.S. Control (worth the price of the book!).

Pages 42.
68 Illustrations.

70 pages of original stage illusions from the creative mind of Rand Woodbury. Includes a directory of illusion builders.

The magician hands a spectator his laser pointer and asks them to 'slice' him in half with it. He then steps behind a blind and suddenly, his torso, with no legs attached floats on one side, and on the other side his his legs, jumping, with no torso attached!

The torso and legs float behind the blind and the magician walks out again, now fully restored!

No assistants
No thread/magnets
Inexpensive to construct
Looks impossible

Doug Edwards Packs A Wallop will enable you to "pack a wallop" in front of any kind of audience. There are 204 "wallop-packed" pages, 37 effects and routines - one Coca Cola bottle item, one scissor/rope item, one incredible bill change, and 34 doable, usable, reputation-making card items - separated into four sections for your learning convenience. Plus over 175 illustrations. And, the coup de grace - it's written in the enthusiastic, entertaining, right-to-the-point teaching style by the best writer/teacher in magic - Harry Lorayne. What more can you ask?! Hardbound, full-color dust jacket.

It is widely agreed that Robert Harbin was one of Magic's most innovative geniuses. He is the inventor of the Zig-Zag and other illusions that rank among the most performed stage effects of the twentieth century. However, this was merely the tip of Harbin's creative iceberg. In fact, he invented so many illusions, escapes and tricks of all types, they could not fit into one book. Hence, this handsome two-volume set.

Volume 1 is a brand new compilation, Early Harbin, edited and introduced by William Broecker, which for the first time gathers Harbin's many magazine contributions and 7 published books and manuscripts from 1929 to 1942, plus additional items never before in print.

Volume 2 is a reprint of the large 1979 collection, Harbincadabra, which offers his many contributions to Abracadabra magazine from 1947 to 1965. Over 600 pages of Harbin magic, fully indexed. no, you won't find the Zig-Zag illusion in these two large volumes; instead you will get a huge assortment of Harbin miracles that everyone else isn't doing. Let the Genius of Robert Harbin make your act both baffling and different.

Ideal for the illusionist who doesn't have much time to create a miracle. Paul Osborne's book features hundreds of new ideas, tips and techniques to help the weekend builder who is faced with that last minute show opportunity - and on a budget! Productions, vanishes and mutilations are all covered in this one-of-a-kind book.

For the first time in any publication, corporate illusions are covered, detailing some simple solutions to making the Chairman of the Board appear by magic at his sales meeting.

Also included at no extra cost is the out-of-print Illusion Planning book that Paul created for the beginning illusionist. This chapter reveals how to select, stage and position illusions within your show.

Detailed in this book are: The In & Out Box, the Fall Apart Box, Fast Make Sub Trunk, The Mummy Returns, The King of Clubs, Fast Make Tip Over, The Shadow of Life, Blueprinted and At the Beach.

Ideal for the illusionist who needs quick, fast and easy-to-build props!

The four-volumes of Rice's Encyclopedia Of Silk Magic books that were released between 1948 and 1993 contain hundreds of the most valuable and best magic that can be performed with silks and scarves.

All four books (Volume 1: 533 pages, Volume 2: 545 pages, Volume 3: 500 pages, Volume 4: 417 pages) have been scanned and saved as pdfs in their original format and included on this under priced CD. Volume One has 10 chapters, covering the Story of Silk, Dyeing your own Silks, Methods of Folding Silks, Single and multiple Silk Productions with or without Apparatus, Vanishes, Changes and Transpositions.
Volume Two with 7 Chapters covers Penetrations, Color Changes, Silk Dyeing effects, Reel Magic, Reel-less Magic, and 20th C Silk effects.
Volume Three in 8 chapters covers Sympathetic Silks, Blendo Effects, "Naughty" Silks, Silks and Eggs, Soup Plates, Candles, Openers, Jap Box, and apparatus props.
Volume Four , written several years after the original Rice publications contains modern adaptations and variations of all the effects published in the first 3 volumes, bringing this set up to date.

The 4 Volumes have a total of 1854 pages, and several thousand illustrations, plus a very comprehensive index of over 30 pages covering the entire Encyclopedia.

Finally back in print!

All the classic works of the great master of magic, Robert-Houdin, under one cover, lavishly illustrated with hundreds of beautiful prints, engravings, and photos. Robert-Houdin (1805-1871) revolutionized the art of magic with his incredible stage mysteries and lifelike automata, and he thankfully left a number of books recording his philosophy and techniques. In Essential Robert-Houdin, you'll find:

The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic:
Considered one of the finest magic books ever, featuring coin sleights and effects; card techniques including palming, false shuffles, cuts, and stacked-deck work, with twenty card effects; Cups and Balls methods and routines; stage effects including the the Linking Rings, and Robert-Houdin's performance theories and essays on gimmicks, stagecraft, and psychology.

Card-Sharping Exposed:
Robert-Houdin's pioneering work on card handling, with dozens of card techniques and routines. The Secrets of Stage Conjuring: A dozen great stage pieces plus the inside techniques of Robert-Houdin's theatre and optical theories.

The Memoirs of Robert-Houdin:
The most complete version of Robert-Houdin's wonderful autobiography ever published, with material previously omitted from earlier editions. You can now enjoy the complete work that Robert-Houdin envisioned.

The Priory:
The unbelievable secrets of Robert-Houdin's automated house, with remote-control gates and automatic timers.

Plus selections from Robert-Houdin's never-before-translated scientific writings, a complete bibliography, and full index.

Pages 664 - Hardbound
Over 350 illustrations

First published in 1805, The Expositor was the first American book ever published on the art of magic. Original editions of this classic are some of the rarest books in the annals of conjuring, but with this hardbound reprint, magicians may once again let William Pinchbeck shed light on many mysteries including the invisible lady and acoustic temple, seven feats of Mr. Ranie performing in America, the art of ventriloquism including the use of a figure and miscellaneous tricks and "optical delusions."

Hardbound.

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