Sell Your Act with Posters
by Samuel Patrick Smith
Dynamic Ideas For Promoting Yourself!
25 Unique Advertising Examples Used by Full-time Professionals!
This book is a demonstration of posters and promotion. 24 actual, original posters by successful, professional performers are bound...
BACK IN PRINT!
An 18 page Vernoniana Portfolio by professional photographers Young & Robin opens the volume. Rare and interesting Vernon memorabilia photographed so you can enjoy it over the years. Over 50 Vernon routines, 27 historical photographs, 177 illustrations.
Pages 245 - Hardcover
by Rand Woodbury
Illusions, Ideas & Inspiration
If you're searching for brand-new illusion concepts, look no further than Rand Woodbury's Illusionworks series of books. Volume One features fifty-three illusions, including Torturtina, Shadow Dancer, and Body Transformer explained with the aid of understandable...
by Jim Steranko
Excerpt from the book:
"During the preparation of this book careful thought was given as to which routines should be included. The tricks are entertaining, the sleights are latent means to an end result. The articulate manner of text and illustration was due to our enthusiasm to thoroughly acclimate...
Danny Orleans' new book is destined to become the modern-day guide to performing magic for children.
Combining his classroom experience as a preschool and kindergarten teacher with over 40 years of performing magic for children in schools, museums, libraries, private parties and theaters, Danny Orleans finally reveals his "Masterplan"...
COMING JUNE 10th
Mike Powers's long-awaited new book, TESSERACT, is now out! TESSERACT follows on the heels of Mike's last book, Power Plays, which was voted "Book of the Year" on the Magic Cafe and runner up "Book of the Year" in the prestigious "Magic Industry Awards." You may know Mike from...
The Buena Vista Shuffle Club is unlike any other magic book you've read. It combines original methods, plots, and scripts with "jam sessions" between a fictitious group of magicians who analyze and deconstruct the effects in the book. Memorized deck aficionados will have a field day: there are nearly 100 pages devoted to effects...
The mad genius of card magic, Theodore DeLand, created over 100 tricks between 1904 and 1915. He was famous for his ingenious invention of specially printed gimmicked cards and marked decks, which for the first time allowed everyone to perform amazing tricks with no sleight of hand. He was among the most influential inventors of card magic...
Back in print for the first time in ten years, and now on Bicycle stock! The Ultimate Triple Kick Monte and The Red Herring. Plus, Four Card Fooler and a NEW version (for all languages) of Killer OMG.
Effect(s): The Red Herring is an easy examinable comedy "Find the Lady" type effect. The Ultimate...
Back in print for the first time in years, and now on Bicycle stock! Spectrum, Jim Nastic Cards, Six-Card Brainwave and Twisted Colours.
Spectrum is a multi-phase effect with a colour-changing kicker. Ends clean! Twisted Colours is a Twisting routine with two kickers. Jim Nastic Cards is a real puzzler...
Mark Chandaue's Harpacrown Standard Edition contains 260 beautifully illustrated pages of solid, practical material from the mind of Mark Chandaue. In this book you will learn many workable routines but more importantly you will learn the thinking behind every element of the routine. The effects are used to illustrate deeper principles...
Book more shows that pay more!
One of the biggest challenges that creative artists face is fully tapping the commercial potential of their skills and expertise. Maximizing earnings is often elusive for many performing artists and entertainers, regardless of the level of the act.
Have you ever felt:
by Jack Carpenter
The new routines, sleights and stratagems found in this ground breaking work will open eyes to what is really possible with a deck of cards. The methods employed in the card magic as well as in the gambling routines are about as diabolical as you can get-while at the same time, remaining very practical since...
Meet Tony Valentine--ex-cop, lifelong misanthrope, sixty-something freelance grifter-hunter. There isn't a casino pit boss alive in the U.S.A. who hasn't employed his special skills of flushing out greedy hustlers one time or another. Only this time, things are different. This time, what at first seemed like an easy job is getting...
Horror Magic is a fantastic resource for Bazaar Magic performers. Some of the effects included in this book are: Demonolastry, The Bottled Vampire, The Khaibit Serpent, Gargoyle, Shrunken Head, Hand of Kranus, Footsteps in the Dark, Goleum, The Hangman and, of course, Count Zartoff. Plus, much, much more. Very limited quantities available....
A new masterwork from Kenton.
Over 100 full size pages on the secret principle of Association and how Kenton and students use this long ignored and mysterious factor.
We simply cannot say enough about it, or what it will do for you.
Using association causes spectators to stop being spectators. Association...
Three Routines in One Book
This book has three very strong mental routines that will get you noticed whenever and for whomever you perform. Want to be in total control of your audience? Then these routines are for you.
The Nostrum Newspaper Test
What sets this newspaper test apart from all others is its impromptu...
You've seen the raves on the internet, and read the reviews. Now available by DEMAND as a beautifully printed booklet to add to your library.
PSI-POKER is the latest creation from Ben Harris (co-creator of 2010's hit "X-RAY").
This new effect is TOTALLY SELF-WORKING, requiring no skill or gaffs. The secret is ancient,...
Proximity Effects
by Dee Christopher
A collection of effects and routines straight from the underground.
Dee Christopher is making a name for himself in the magic 'underground' with his brand of mental and visual magic. Proximity Effects is a collection of powerful card routines that range...
This book contains a lot of rare effects. These, along with the instructions, are all very solid. These effects are SPECIAL -- you would not find them in most books. This book covers all arenas, including stage, parlor, and close-up magic. If you are looking for something different and some great ideas, then this book is for you.
Slate...
Routined Manipulation Finale is a very rare book containing a compilation of effects from some of the greatest magicians of its time. These include: Al Koran, Ken Brooks, Fred Kaps, Jack Chanin, Billy McComb, Gerald Kosky, Peter Warlock, Alexander Elmsley, Peter Burto, Hans Trixer, Douglas Francis, etc. This book also includes Lewis...
Fraser shares his ULTIMATE solution to the prop-less star sign divination.
EVEN if you own other star sign guesses from Fraser and his friends, you NEED this!
Fraser says it is his last word on this particular plot and doubts he will be able to improve on it.
He intended on NEVER releasing this latest break-through to...
This Manuscript is a collection of some of Larry Jenning's best effects.
Card Dupery
by J.K. Hartman
When Hartman meets your deck, first he will teach it to talk—then he will teach it to lie!
Seven years in the making! J. K. Hartman's newest collection of card magic—more than 90 tricks, routines and sleights—over 400 pages and 600 illustrations!
The published history of J. K. Hartman's card dupery began in 1969 and has continued unabated for thirty-eight years, producing along the way three large, significant, and widely respected works: Card Craft, After ...
Here's another treat for your audiences! Ron Bauer has just released #22 in his Private Studies series, "Jim Bergstrom's Hat Trick." It's an innovative, colorful comedy version of the Torn Tissue Papers to Hat that's a worthy feature effect for any close-up and stand-up adult audience. (It's not a kids' trick, but...