Books: All Magic Books

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...

By Bruce Cervon. 52 prized effects straight form a top performer's routine. Lots and lots of explosive card routines with clear, crisp, black and white photos. Hard bound 178 pages and an absolute must for the close up or parlour performer. Also features pressure fan switches, one card coin matrix, two card controls.

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...

The author of Solo-X and Illusion F/X presents a brand new book of large illusions. Whether you're planning your club show or television special, there's something here for you. 220 Pages, 100 New and Original Ideas, 100 Illustrations and Diagrams
Here are just some of the effects included:

• Cut an audience member...

Andrew Mayne's new book on illusions
Learn how to build illusions for $1 to $10,000 by understanding basic illusion principles. Andrew Mayne's newest book features several new creations along with re-worked classic illusions that help teach you how to think like an illusionist.

In the first installment of the series you'll...

There has never been anything that equals the Jinx Magazine, Ted Annemann's own idea of a practical and inventive publication. The Jinx demanded and received every last bit of magical knowledge and psychological research that only Ted Annemann could give.

Every variety and type of magic is here. Ball Tricks, Bill Tricks, Billet...

Greg McMahon is one of the true professionals in magic and clowning. He's now revealing some of his best kid-show material in his new book, KIDS THINK IT'S FUNNY. In 27 unique and entertaining chapters, Greg teaches hilarious gags and routines to make you funnier than ever to your kid-show audiences! His tips on how to make a small...

Milt Kort is a legend of sorts: a magician who has seldom traveled outside the Detroit area, who rarely performs at magician's conventions or lectures, yet a man whom the professionals and greats in magic came to see; men like Paul Rosini, Dr. Daley, J.B. Bobo, Charlie Miller, Cardini, Dai Vernon, and many more sought out Milt Kort and...

As last a big book containing a collection of mind staggering demonstrations of ESP by one of the best creative mentalists. Here are easy to prepare mental feats using playing cards and other easily acquired props. Many of the special items you will need are included in the book for easy removal. This is highly practical and commercial...

From the man who made an unfortunate purchase!

Due to a manufacturing defect (accidental or deliberate), some handkerchiefs won't knot for right-handers. How can you recognize one of these radical rags? Well, unless you know how, it will only submit to left-handed tying!

Pocket-ready for close-up or stage...

Live Kidbiz sold out its 2100-copy first edition, but thanks to Sammy Smith the original Live Kidbiz book is now reprinted and includes a DVD!

Live Kidbiz 1 contains a dozen video cuts with a book explaining them all, as follows: Vanishing Coke Bottle, Magic to Rock Music (canes, silks more), Climax Egg Bag, Radio Rabbit (a production...

• Jungle Warm-up using rope tricks out of Tarbell
• No Bounce Ball with an audience helper
• Disbanded Arm Penetration with a girl from the audience
• Go Fish is a do-it-yourself routine with two children and fish pictures
• Snake Basket with 2 kids from my jungle show
• Easter Egg Count from a pre-school show, 2 kids,...

Some books are merely collections of tricks but M.I.N.T II blasts you intothe world of card magic. Over 50 great tricks. A must for every card worker.

After ten years and 60 issues, The Magic Menu ceased being "the international journal for professional restaurant and bar magicians" and became for one brief, shining volume "the professional journal for working close-up magicians."

Two hard-bound compendiums were issued that contained the initial 60 issues. It was announced...

Issue 64 is more of a "mixed bag" than previous issues, with various perspectives on a large variety of topics of interest to professional workers.

Coeditor Jim Sisti tackles the thorny issue of just what to call what it is that professional performers do. Alain Nu then begins a new series of columns discussing various ways...

"No recent book on magic . . . reveals so many inside secrets." - Martin Gardner

Known among veteran magicians for his invention of many new tricks and his imaginative twists of old ones, Paul Curry incorporated thoroughly engrossing material with a style that was truly elegant. This book by a "magician's...

There are no tricks in this book, but it�s loaded with secrets!

The most important secrets- techniques for mastering your audience!

• How to Be Your Own Director!
• How to climb the Hierarchy of Mystery Entertainment!
• How to target the "Big Three" Reactions!
• Discover the Six Pillars of Entertainment Success!
• Learn...

From the man who wants close-up magic to be as easy as stage magic!

You can make any deck of cards, yours or borrowed, appear to be a deviously designed device! A trick deck! Close inspection by the untrained eyes of your spectators reveals nothing, but you prove your claim by causing the deck to visibly find a freely selected...

Imagine ... extracting a two-inch contact lens from your eye and changing it into a pair of glasses ... causing a spectator's card to rise completely out of the deck and then hover in mid-air with a life of its own ... having the spectator's selected card develop right before their eyes like a Polaroid picture ... viciously tearing...

The inside buzz on this is very strong. The material here is pure "Kentonism" ranging from the easy and simple to the bold and daring. The material can be performed as very realistic, intense, educational, weird, hypnotic or light if you prefer.

• Stirring - A spectator suddenly cannot make a simple stir straw spin on...

Whit Haydn's comedy cut and restored rope routine, The Mongolian Pop-Knot, was developed on the street corners of New York in the late 1960's. Like his famous comedy routine with the linking rings, this routine of Whit's has become a standard. The routine flows from section to section, with each new part of the routine justified...