Books: All Magic Books

Originally published in 1982, For Your Entertainment Pleasure helped set the tone for what card magic would look like in the Eighties, and beyond.

FISM Champion Daryl, "The Magician's Magician" detailed some of his finest original material here for the first time. There are classics like the Rising Crime Display,...

Effects

Hypothetical Possibilities
Inside/Outside
Constant Return
Attraction
Wishful Thinking
Split Decision
Body Heat
Four Fisted
Special Delivery
Orange
NAme It!
The Anticipator
The Empty Hand
Interchange
Coming Out Ahead
Artistic Licence
Trio
All Together
Cigar
Mirror...

Grips, Lines and Looks is the definitive work from FISM award winner Marc Oberon, finally revealing his complete system for choreographing and structuring performances to elevate them from simple tricks to powerful moments of real magic.

If you have ever wondered how to increase the impact of your existing repertoire of material,...

The Art and Business of Magic

The Magical Arts Journal is a ground breaking magical publication devoted to both the art and business of magic that was published and edited by FISM world champion magician Michael Ammar and magic publishing and event production innovator Adam J. Fleischer.

You'll find...

If you already use a marked deck, all of the routines described in this book are workers and if you don't already use a marked deck? You Should!

Wayneman: If you like the idea of a spectator shuffling a deck of cards and thinking of any number between one and 52 and you instantly name the card at the position chosen? This...

This masterwork encapsulates not only some of world champion Daryl's finest work, but also some of the most influential material of the 1980s. Here we see Daryl's now legendary Cutting Display for Triumph, his stunning, perfect "Mysterious Cross of India" Coins Across, and "The Boomerang Card of Mystery." There are also some forgotten...

Imagine the power to make almost anything in your hands disappear.

Being able to make almost anything disappear, probably more than anything else, makes me feel like a magician. With the Topit I can amaze a person with anything he puts in my hands! Without warning or need to prepare.

The Topit is a powerful, elegantly...

This book is a tribute to one of the world's greatest escape artists. He traveled the world defying police authorities to shackle his body in handcuffs and leg irons, or to lock him in the darkest jail cells, none of which could hold him. He nightly escaped from a giant padlocked and water-filled milk can. During the day he freed himself...

Have you been looking for that perfect card force for a certain trick? Have you been using the same one or two forces over and over for years? If so, you may soon be caught. It's time to learn more!

The Encyclopedia of Impromptu Card Forces is the first encyclopedic book on card forces. Many of the forces have never appeared...

An impossible prediction effect
A clear wine glass is seen on a table center stage, containing a black envelope with a prediction. The spectators are asked to concentrate on a single thought, write it down on a card and seal it in an opaque envelope. At your command, they all throw their envelopes onto the stage. A random spectator...

To have watched Colombini's Cups and Balls performance was like watching water flow. This award-winning routine was the talk of FISM back in the 1970's. Every move was thoroughly thought out and executed with a casual yet precise manner. Very highly recommended for any cups worker. Very limited quantities available!

When Scripting Magic was first released in 2007, it was an immediate, surprise sensation. Magicians around the world, hungry for ways to improve their magic, were thrilled to have a volume dedicated to the vital question: what do you say when you perform? Written by Pete McCabe and including contributions from 26 of magic's...

This is the highly anticipated sequel to the smash success, Scripting Magic. Pete McCabe-with help from 25 of magic's best-digs deeper into the most powerful tool in magic: the words you say when you perform. This powerful book will show you how to get more out of the tricks you already do, and develop new presentations...

by Jerry Andrus

Long out of print! Andrus Deals You In is finally available again! This classic of card magic is considered by many to be as important as his famous Andrus Card Control books. This 160 page booklet has dozens of Andrus sleights, flourishes and routines, all illustrated by hundreds of drawings by the author. Updated,...

Alongside the double lift and the pinky break, the cull is perhaps the most important move in card magic. Few people do the move correctly, and even fewer use the move for anything other than secretly sorting cards. That all changes with Close Culls.

Singapore's Harapan Ong is a leading expert on all things cull, and here he...

In this brand new audiobook Losander gives you some simple tools that will show you how you can improve your existing magic and bring it to a new level of entertainment.

Build security and confidence, don't try to play a magician, become one and live it 24/7.

Audio Book on CD.

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The book includes the complete collection of stage and close up mentalism routines, previously published as a single manuscripts, by Luca Volpe. Also included, as a bonus, new routines and ideas from some of the world's top mentalists.

Pages: 205 - 6.5" x 9.5" - Softbound - Black and White photos.

by Jerry Andrus

The Classic Book of Safety Pin Magic is back in print! Safety Pin-Trix by Jerry Andrus has the best selection of tricks & routines for gaffed & non-gaffed safety pins! J.B. Bobo said in his introduction that many of the effects look like real magic! This is realized by performing many of the effects in a spectator’s...

With 2001's Shattering Illusions, Jamy Ian Swiss cemented his role as magic's preeminent essayist. Perhaps no book ever written on the subject of magic has been so controversial and debated as Shattering Illusions, and it remains relevant and topical today. This book is a neo-classic and worthy of careful...

Escapes by Percy Abbott is a very hard-to-find book. Not only are the escapes practical and fooling, but they scan the wide range of escape entertainment. Chain escapes, Wrist & Padlock Escapes, Straight Jacket escapes, Spirit & Platform Escapes, Coffins, Collars, Jail Breaks plus much, much more!

This book is entirely dedicated to the classic Rising Card effect. An encyclopedia-style collection of methods, from gimmicks to handlings.

Some of the topics include: Thurston Rise, De Kolta Rise, Sybil Rise, Psycho Rise, Card Box Rise plus much, much more!

The name, Chris Congreave, is synonymous with commercial close-up routines and ideas. As a full time, close-up pro for over a decade, he has learned how to hone his magic in order to make it totally practical for performance to lay people in the real world. This new book brings together a collection of 40 of his best ideas, as well as providing...

Ian Adair's Conjuring as a Craft is FILLED with material for all genres of magic. Stand-up, close-up, illusions, mentalism plus MUCH more. Some of the topics included in this book are: The Linking Clips, Ghostly Cards, The Four Aces, X-Ray Machine, Final Forecast Prediction, Vanishing Radio, Eggs, Take away Vanish, Escapes, Color...

Lewis Ganson exposes all the secrets to this classic effect. Not only the basics like tying and untying, but also covers hiding knots, the use of rubber bands, the reef knot, etc.

If you are interested in performing this classic that has stood the test of time, there is no better source than this book.

A hard-hitting, ten-card effect that's out of this world!

Small World is a powerful, three-phase card routine. It amazingly gives the audience the power to separate a small, shuffled packet of black cards from red while they remain face down. The routine concludes with the audience matching the numerical order of the black...