Books: All Magic Books

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,...

This booklet contains cool tricks and effects using only your body!

• Suspend yourself vertically from a pole in mid-air.
• Shrink yourself as you walk down a corridor.
• Vanish your head.
• Remove your fingers.
• Twist your neck in an impossible way.

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...

In Italy, the word "magic" is synonymous among the general public with the name Tony Binarelli. Throughout the continent, he is respected among his peers for his creative and entertaining magic. Now, for the first time, English speaking magicians can learn what Europe has known for years: the brilliant magical thoughts and innovations...

This fantastic manuscript details "the Cold Deck, " an incredible effect performed by the late great Frank Thompson.

The performer starts out by producing 4 ACES which are revealed from four different parts of the deck in a startling array. The aces are openly put onto the deck, then with a convincing shuffle and cut the...

Richard's Almanac was acclaimed as one of the finest newsletters ever devoted to close-up magic. Its publication from 1982 to 1987 was a highlight in the history of close-up magic periodicals. And now, all four hundred pages of the original newsletter, containing tricks from the greatest close-up magicians of our time, have been reprinted...

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...

The first book of Angelo Stagnaro's Psi-Books Series is aptly named "Conspiracy". It is a textbook on practical mentalism and concentrates on partnered codes and other secret arrangements between a mentalist and his confederate.

"Conspiracy" contains nearly one hundred effects and as many photographs in a glossy...

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.

In his first ever book, Ben Rayot reveals some of his most "deadly weapons," the routines that he has used time after time to get strong reactions from audiences. These are some of the finest mental effects released in some time. Contains:

• E.S.Pecially for You
• Eye Can See What You Are Thinking
• Magnas Veritas
• Off...

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...

In this text Jean Hugard has combined his great talent for exposition with the creative mind of Bill Simon.Bill has achieved an astounding mastery of his craft. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler movesand bold effects. Readers of this books will benefit from his thinking and experience. Bill will teach sleights.Some new,...

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...

We believe this work to be one of the very best on the subject of classic card manipulation. Expertly re-mastered photos and excellent descriptions highlight this great offering by one of Magic's greatest and most prolific writers, Lewis Ganson. Within the copy of the book, Lewis refers the reader to a book entitled "Exhibition Card...

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...