Books: All Magic Books

by Roberto Giobbi

Roberto Giobbi's newest survey of sleightless card magic, CARD COLLEGE LIGHTER, gives the famous Giobbi treatment to 21 baffling card tricks by some of the craft's greatest masters, including Vernon, Annemann, Leech, Maven, Fulves, Hummer, Vollmer and Krenzel. These tricks do not require sleights, but...

Eleven card tricks by the Mr. Gadfly columnist, Steve Reynolds. Celebrated for some time as an underground magician, Steve recently displayed his fantastic magic at numerous conventions and in the first online magic lecture. Now, Steve tips his methods on his card magic.

Spiral bound, includes: The Talonsman's Tune, Open-Scenario...

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He Fooled Houdini

this fourth volume of The Vernon Chronicles is a complete chagne of pace from the three thap preceded it. In the works since 1965, this enthralling anecdotal biography follows Dai Vernon from his birth to his coming to Hollywood's world-famous Magic Castle in 1963. As you read you...

The combined talents of these two writers bring you thirteen diabolical and simple-to-do mentalism effects in one incredible book! Most of the items use cards, and there is also a rope-tie and an interesting effect using coins. You'll learn Into the Mirror, Superman's Eyes, Bogus and ten other sensational routines! This easy-to-read,...

Innovative Material from Roberto Giobbi, Pit Hartling, Magic Christian, Wittus Witt, Piet Forton and many more!

Concertos for Pasteboard features a remarkable breadth of material for today's card magicians. The tricks, which are helpfully classified for skill level, range from nearly sleightless to technically demanding, and...

The Secret Life of Houdini by William Kalush and Larry Sloman is perhaps the most controversial book ever written about Harry Houdini. Experts are still debating the claims put forth in this groundbreaking biography. Did Houdini really work for the Secret Service? Did he sometimes rely on confederates to accomplish his escapes? Were ardent...

A few effects you can do with the Ultra Mental Deck AKA (Invisible Deck):

A deck of cards lies in full view on a table. Any spectator calls out any card. Upon running through the deck, performer shows that one card happens to be reversed faced down in the faced up deck. The spectator removes this card and to everyone's...

Several years ago, Mentalist Thomas Baxter offered an ebook version of his notes on the think-of-a-card theme for sale on a very limited basis, for a very short period of time. After that, the notes were withdrawn from sale. In the ensuing years these notes have become much sought-after by students and collectors, including some of the most...

Mentalists: This book is the one you've been waiting for. Jermay's routine 'Touching on Divination' - a prop-free mind reading routine - is finally explained in full detail and it's worth the price of this book alone. A 30 minute show all by itself, Jermay has been performing this phenomenon in his stage shows for years...

In the tradition of Eugene Burger, Robert E. Neale, Ariel Frailich and others, her is a collection of card tricks that will entertain your spectators as much by the magic as by the interesting presentations with which they are clothed.

The tricks are based primarily on prearrangement and most requite no sleight-of-hand; the ones...

Bound to Please contains the complete texts of Simon's first three books - The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson, A Stack to Remember, and Shuffle-bored, plus material first published in Kabbala and Hierophant. Includes Red See Passover; The Aronson Stack, Ad-jacent, Simon's breakthrough treatise on the memorized deck and much more. 183...

The Sense of Wonder is the second installment in Robert E. Neale's eagerly anticipated Trilogy of Magic. In these pages, Bob Neale sets out to expand our understanding of the human capacity to wonder beyond common notions of it. As he uncovers the widely different styles and subjects of wonder, he also shows how magicians...

BILLY McCOMB was a working magician and inventor of magic for more than 50 years. He was a prolific writer, a gifted illustrator, and could invent patter at the drop of a hat for just about any effect or circumstance. Join Billy and his friends Teller, Johnny Thompson, The Amazing Johnathan, Lance Burton, Simon Lovell, John Fisher,...

Psychological Subtleties by Banachek Banachek, first came to national prominence as one of two teen-age "psychics" validated by the Parapsychology Department at Washington University as part of Randi's "Project Alpha" experiment. Since then he has been buried alive on national television, caught bullets in his teeth (using his own technique,...

At the time, Psychological Subtleties 2 was written, Banachek had a large amount of additional material, including commercial routines and tips from friends, that in total would have made that book too large to fit the format of the series. Although Psychological Subtleties 2 was acclaimed as the "Best Book of 2007," we withheld some strong...

This is a Great Magician's Fooler:

Borrow a Deck of cards
Have it freely shuffled by your spectator (or your Magic buddy)
Ask him to spread the deck on the table and to have a card selected.
The card is placed back to the Deck.
And the Deck is cut several times.


Note:
At no point you have grabbed...

This booklet contains Tips, Ruses & Routines for the Out To Lunch principle.

Over a dozen routines that explore new themes for OTL. These themes range from mentalism, to coin and card magic, kid show tricks, 2D objects becoming 3 D and more. All are created with a pencil, this book & cards, & a very minor amount of drawing...

MindSight contains one of the most strongest and powerful mentalism effects Andreu has written until the present time.

You will find an amazing solution to the classical 'which hand' effect, along with his unique approach to binary, base 3 and base 4 systems applied to mindreading.

This is powerful and direct...

The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic is one of the classic instructional books on magic. Written by the father of modern magic, Jean Eugne Robert-Houdin. It covers the gamut of the classic and popular illusions of the day. You will be amazed at the effects contained within and the excellent instruction from one of magic's greatest and...

The complete, ultimate Paul Harris. The material is the best of the best. All of Paul's classics, updated and refined, as well as 73 BRAND-NEW creations! Over 900 pages of Paul Harris! In addition to the 73 new effects, Paul Harris' The Art Of Astonishment contains the very best of 13 previous Paul Harris books, many of the...

A remarkable collection of Trevor Lewis' professional children's magic and comedy, TREVOR LEWIS UNCUT: THE COMPLETE PARTY PIECES, contains an incredible eighty-five routines.

This material is perfect for schools, libraries, and parties. Each routine is carefully worked out for the most effective presentation. You...

"A Piece Of My Mind" is collection of mentalism routines, discussions and principles by Michael Murray developed over a ten year period. Known the world over for his unique approach to mentalism plots this is sure to become a classic text upon this subject.

This book will contain all of the following and more...

Pepper's Ghost was the remarkable Victorian invention which allowed three-dimensional ghosts to walk onstage with actors. A beautiful new edition of "Two Lectures on Theatrical Illusion," Jim's book combines his lectures, "The Science Behind The Ghost" and "Discovering Invisibility." The book is the only complete history of Pepper's...

Sixty different routines compiled by Paul Romhany and TC Tahoe, with additional routines by eighteen other magicians from around the world, including Banachek, Kenton Knepper, Gerard, Richard Webster, Joe Givan, and Wayne Rogers.

This book is a compendium of creative approaches to a single principle, a principle dedicated to...