Books: All Magic Books

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...

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...

From the man who can't tell the difference between the name of the card trick and a weather forecast!

Due to the willingness of certain spiteful spectators to take advantage of their magician, you illustrate the value of your magic teacher's admonition that it's always wiser to cut the cards instead of classes. Learn...

From the man who needs to carry three lucky coins! A whimsical rationalization for carrying three half-dollars. With them, you win an intellectual battle with your audience by using repetition against them! (Of course, you don't reveal there's a battle until you prevail!)

Learn how to build to a climax and set-up the...

Hidden in Plain Sight is the most complete manual for marked cards ever published. Author Kirk Charles, a long-time professional magician, has written a book that explores this most powerful of all magical tools in great detail. From the history of marked cards to more modern developments in reader technology, Charles breaks down the...

From the man who's overconfident enough to be easy prey for any short con!

This is an entertaining way to show off your "sure-fire defense against short-change artists." First you take in an innocent bystander by showing him how you were once hornswoggled. Then, when you insist on gloating, he gets his revenge and you're...

Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volumes 1-4. Published from June 1943 to April 1965, Hugard's was one of the greatest magic magazines ever published - remarkable for the quality and quantity of the best tricks of the day as well as containing the most interesting information available on the magic scene of the day. More than 1,560...