Books: All Magic Books

The Three Shell Game is a compilation of all the equipment, moves, and routines used by the shell game pros over the years. After you learn the basic moves, the book describes 32 different routines that will always keep you 3 steps ahead of any audience. The final section of the book describes the methods of "shills and sharpers". These...

A Compilation of Tricks and Effects with Wax

Wax is one of the magician's greatest secret gimmicks and this is the first booklet ever written on the subject. It was originally released in 1953 by Ted Collins and Ed Mishell and has not been readily available for more than 20 years.

Subjects and routines covered:...

A modern treatise of ways to conceal, produce, alter and multiply coins from the empty hands, being hte first complete explanation of methods for doing so since 1900.

THE MOST COMPLETE MANUAL OF COIN MAGIC EVER PRODUCED.

Bob's Modern Coin Magic brings a new form of entertainment to the magic world. Coin magic...

by John Luka

Uncovered is a compilation of first class practical card magic, including some powerful non-card items, written for the serious magician. Featured are several commercial creations that John has had the pleasure of performing in restaurants, at magic get togethers, and at parties for friends. You will find magic...

Psychological Subtleties remains one of the best selling books in the magic and mentalism community and is considered a basic reference source for any complete library on our art. Psychological Subtleties offers ideas, tips and observations of natural human responses that can be inserted into performing situations to make the overall result...

Why is it that some magicians get great audience reaction while others who are just as skillful leave audiences so cold? The answers are in Strong Magic , the first -ever book on showmanship specifically for the close-up magician.

As a successful professional magician for almost twenty rears, Darwin Ortiz has appeared...

This short but sneaky version of the Cups and Balls is a good way to get acquainted with the essential handling and presenting of this classic of magic.

Although the following is designed as an introduction to Cups and Balls for the student of magic, it is a complete and audience tested performance piece as well. Ron Bauer has...

Magic Of Ascanio Volume 2 - Studies Of Card Magic
by Arturo Ascanio

The Magic of Ascanio offers you, in four volumes, the complete work of the Maestro who changed the direction of magic in Spain and influenced many successful performers. Learn all about the legacy of a true master of our art: his ground-breaking theories,...

David Pogue is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and has performed magic at parties, special events, on TV, and even over the radio for 25 years. He created and taught the beginning magic programs at the New School for Social Research and the Learning Annex. He has been known to mesmerize audiences with his magic tricks...

The 8 illusions in the book include:

• STEAM - The appearance of the Magician from steam coming from a network of pipes.
• R/C CAR VANISH - A radio controlled car vanishes from its box and reappears on the far side of the stage.
• COMPACT DECEPTION - The Magician turns a CD player into his assistant.
• HEADZ...

Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo Collaborated on card magic that is visual and confounding because of sophisticated sleight of hand. It is these secrets that have formulated some of the most fooling magic ever created.

Any pulse-checking, hard-core cardmen in the late 60s, knew about Jimmy Nuzzo. If they didn't get to see him in...

A collection of 19 of the best effects originally published in Beckers 1979 limited edition book. This book contains 216 pages of top material for the discriminating performer.

Andrew Mayne presents a brand-new effect for the solo illusionist. At any time during your show you make half of your body completely disappear in the blink of an eye, then just as quickly you return to normal.

You can perform this effect any time and anywhere, there's even a method included to perform it surrounded. The 12-page,...

Philip Breslaw was a German conjurer who came to England in the early 1760's. Houdini, in his unmasking of Robert Houdin, quoted newspaper clippings in his collection, dated 1781, showing that Breslaw featured the "Cabalistic Clock" and demonstrations of "Second-Sight," both later claimed by Robert-Houdin as his originations....

Large format - 125 pages Spiral Bound
12 Chapters - 50+ tricks
150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

• Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
• Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
• Cut...

For the card technician who appreciates the new moves and subtle touchesthat make card magic look impossible. Sleights explained include new passes,changes, cuts, turnovers, palms, switches, and innovative moves. Also a chapter on Marlo's Controlled Faro-Riffle Shuffle is included. Book concludeswith a selection of beautiful card routines....

Intended for the advanced card worker, this book is heavily illustrated to explain some of the more difficult sleights.You will learn; The Pass, Side Steal, Palming, Double-Lift, Changes, False Dealing, False Shuffles and more.

Paul then teaches many great tricks using these sleights. The book is considered one of the most valueable...

A Book of Basic Card Technique by Jerry Mentzer

This modern-day classic of card magic details the: Double Undercut, Biddle Move, Hamman Count, Oiram Subtlety, Downs Change, Elmsley Count, Jordan Count, Buckle Count, Ascanio Spread and much more!

Clear photographs and easy to understand descriptions make this an invaluable...

The most intense book David has ever produced on the subject of Kid Shows. Inlcudes 13 routines David uses in his own shows. Pom Pom Pole, Big Red Hand, Jumbo Card On Back, McCombical Deck and much more...

If you do kid shows or are thinking about performing for kids this is money well spent.

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

This is a comprehensive depiction of Don Alan's theories, handling, and presentation of the Chop Cup. It's his way of doing it, not merely a replication of a single performance.

THE REAL WORK on how Don loaded, got the laughs and set up for doing his classic routine. This is the first time all the subtle work has been published....

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...

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...

By Marian Chavez. A beautifully produced book about dove magic and all those extra things you need to know: care and feeding of doves, types of cages, presentation pointers, conditioning the audience, etc. Along with many fine dove effects such as The Floating Dove, Dove Tray Production, Egg to Dove, Production Dove Cage. There is an...

An essential title for every magician, The Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks is the only book of its kind.

Magical genius Stewart James, over the course of 40+ years, compiled three volumes of the Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks. Now, for the first time, these classic works have been collected, newly edited, and combined in a single hardbound...