Books: All Magic Books

This slim hardback contains eight brilliant effects. They are sure to be used by professionals and semi-pros for years to come. I am proud to have known Basil and very sad to have lost such a good friend. His memory will live on forever in the Magick he created.

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An Extended Explanation of the Magician's Application of the Psychology of Deception.

Magic By Misdirection applies the psychology of deception to the art of magic. The finest minds of magic have recognized it an important and monumental work on the subject. It makes clear the psychological devices and methods you can...

Complete Discussion of Audience Appeals and Fundamentals of Showmanship and Presentation

In 199 hardbound pages, Showmanship for Magicians takes up the subject of presenting of magic to gain the greatest audience response, including a detailed analysis of spectator appeals and how to incorporate them into the presentation of magic....

The Trick Brain was created as a tool to help magicians develop new tricks. It teaches you how to create the mechanics of an effect with the understanding that how an effect is accomplished is not as important as the effect itself.

The Trick Brain is no mere book of tricks. It incorporates one of the most amazing ideas...

The FIRST and ORIGINAL English books to contain material on magic costume changes ever published in the WORLD were written in 1911/1912 by Will Goldston. In 1911 he published "The Magicians Annual" and in 1912 in "Exclusive Magical Secrets" in which 5 different Quick Change methods were explained. In the last century Quick Changes have...

RELAXED IMPOSSIBILITIES is what result when an acclaimed master of card magic sets out to explore how advanced sleight-of-hand can be made far easier to attain through a perceptive study of economy of action married to efficient placement of cards. By applying a lifetime of study and ability, world-respected expert Ken Krenzel has...

Do you remember the first time you saw Paul Curry's "Out of This World" performed? Do you remember how badly it fooled you? Know now that you can own a book full of such magic by the only man who could imagine it.

In Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond you will find the original version of "Out of This World", which some...

Being a Collection of thrilling experiments in which the book itself, plays the part of the mind-reader!

This is the first ever book that can mind read. It is based on a completely new and unusual idea - you, the Reader, are the spectator, and the Book is the performer of a series of exciting mind reading tricks.

The...

A complete text on how to give brief cold readings to anyone and astound them with your accuracy.

THE CLASSIC BOOK ON COLD READING.

When the first edition of Quick and Effective Cold Reading was published, Bascom Jones, editor of Magick, wrote that it was "one of the all-time GREAT publications in...

In the author's words
Putting together this "compendium" of many of my favorite lecture items has not been the easiest of tasks. The material in this book dates from well over twenty years ago to some of my most recent ideas, and has been drawn from many different sets of notes, booklets, and pamphlets. I've tried to both...

The Dice Stacking Book is 104 pages of tips and advice covering all sorts of dice stacking variations. Well illustrated, including two flip books that show the basic stack and decapitation.

Look! Up in the sky. It's a Goshman. It's a Dingle. NO, it's – SUPER MAGIC! This book is about a strange being from the West Coast possessing miraculous skills and incredible ideas. SUPER MAGIC. Able to create innovative routines at a single bound. Faster than a speeding billet. More powerful than a gross of TV Magic Cards....

Hugards Annuals Of Magic (1937-1939)

Here are Jean Hugard's recordings of magic from 1937-39, from illusions to close-up: tricks with coins, cards, silks, cigarettes, cigars, billiard balls, matches, newspapers, thimbles, paper, the Egg Bag and Linking Rings. Hugard clearly explains tricks such as Paul Curry's "Touch",...

This book is filled with effects, moves, ideas, and sleights that bear the Marlo touch for directness, simplicity, and above all entertainment.

How to Make Money Providing Entertaining Readings for the Corporate Market

You can enjoy a lucrative part-time or full-time career as an entertainer who provides brief readings for clients and guests at corporate events. In this book, Richard Webster, who has worked in this market for almost thirty years, shares with you all the...

The second volume of Subtle Card Creations continues with a wealth of new material - effective and subtle card effects - designed to entertain and baffle spectators.

Much of the material - as in Volume 1 - was developed from ideas in a series of notebooks. Effects of all types are include here. There are 11 chapters. Here...

There are four issues per year, with 40 to 48 pages per issue, each in an oversized format designed to enhance your learning experience by more easily lying flat when open. Each issue will include commentary and conjuring from some of the sharpest minds on the magic scene. Antinomy is looking to set a new standard in quality for this kind...

The book covers alternative designs for concealing your assistant in a table or staircase.It goes beyond the traditional base by exposing more contemporary designs. The book does not contain specific construction plans but the illustrations are sufficient enough for a competent woodworker to turn the ideas into reality.

The first volume of the real world Cardician Trilogy, John Racherbaumer's Cardfixes is a thought provoking collection of fresh tricks and ideas for today's cardman. Designed for everyone who loves card magic, whether they perform, watch, collect or simply read about what's happening here and now in the field. There are tricks...

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...

Since 1965, Phil Goldstein has published over 1000 ingenious tricks and routines. From this huge body of work he has chosen 60 of his best card tricks, the cream of the bountiful crop. His criteria were clarity of plot, entertainment value, and high magical content. Focus contains all 60 of these choice effects, the very best from one...

Well, here we all are again, chaps and chapesses! Just when you thought it was safe to sneak back into your local magic emporium, another Lovell tome appears to shake the shelves and throw a bit of dust around! Within the pages here, you'll find some more thoughts on the performance of magic along with forty routines, bits and more....

This book is the ultimate consumer's guide to packet tricks. As such, it can save you both time and money. It will point you in the direction of some of the greatest packet tricks ever created. If you are interested in close-up magic you will find this book an essential reference.

In fact, if you are simply interested in magic,...

Two volumes of fine material from the master, Slydini. One volume contains all the text, the other contains all the photos. Includes cigarettes; coins; cards; paper balls over the head; and much more.
A beautiful hardbound set.

This is a visual transposition of two cards - one which is stapled on top of a card box. The routine is very well structured and includes a clever logic disconnect where the spectator clearly sees both cards far away from each other - one resting face up on the deck and the other stapled to the card box. And then in an instant they switch...