Books: All Magic Books

Dai Vernon'sTribute to Nate LeipzigOver 200 pages on the finest paper, beautifully bound in cloth with a four-color dust jacket. A real classic for the discerning magical enthusiast. PLUS--a newly added biographical chapter by David Goodsell. A skillful combination of fascinating biographical detail and carefully described magical secrets...

If you're a fan of any card at any number, 51 faces north, or even just simple hard hitting card magic, you'll want a taste of Applesauce. This book includes Patrick's much sought after secret to his Any Thought of Card at Any Thought of Number (Applesauce) along side twelve other routines that include Mind Reading, The Evolution...

Drawing Thoughts is a culmination of work by Christopher Rawlins, centered around Christopher's favorite premise within Mentalism... the drawing duplication.

Inside this fully illustrated, and professionally formatted, pocket book you will find six methods that have been carefully created and thoroughly tested by Christopher....

"Just finished reading.. and I LOVED IT. To me there's hidden information in this book. He takes you through the entire process how to get on stage, what tricks to do, and how to get off. Read every single word."
-Ryan Schlutz

"Card in lemon, and card stab.. worth the price of the book."
-John Guastaferro...

Psychology for the Mentalist is a well referenced graduate course in Social Psychology. The techniques and principles explored in these pages can help turn mere tricks into miracles.

This project is broken down in two sections. The technique and research section and applied applications of these principles in the form of effects....

From a star studded career on the biggest stages. Royal command performances and years in TV, Wayne Dobson finally reveals his top 50 golden rules of stagecraft.

Learn how to transform your performance with tried and tested advice and tips from the master.

An A6 pocket sized booklet containing 50 stagecraft tips that will...

"I am excited about this book... This collection oozes style and substance from a true auteur."
- John Bannon (from the foreword)

John Guastaferro embodies everything one admires in a magician: he is smooth but not flashy, soft-spoken yet in control. And he is an expert at crafting intelligent magic tricks. With over...

Originally published in 1902, The Expert at the Card Table is now considered the bible of card technique. It is the greatest book on card technique ever written and its contents are just as relative today as they were a century ago.

Today, it is a pleasure to present the EATCT Diary as a tribute to the legend S.W. Erdnase, a man whose...

This is Ultramodern.

A collection of tricks from some of the greatest creative minds in the field of magic. An antidote to current trends. Contemporary, practical, and magical.

All new, previously unpublished, magic from:
Robin Robertson, Martin Lewis, Paul Hallas, Marty Kane, Jozsef Kovacs, Steve Dusheck, John Carey, Al...

Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule we simply accept these tricks as "magic," we seldom recognize that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, theory of numbers, topology and other branches of mathematics....

Sit down with Jack Carpenter as he deals you in on the secret to a truly incredible gambling routine. The player shuffles, cuts, makes every decision along the way, and without fail, beats the odds for the Ultimate Hold'Em Demonstration.

An essentially self-working gambling demonstration, Ultimate Hold'Em provides...

Norm includes his stage magic for kids including:

• Snowflake Miser's Dream
• Car Repair Shop
• The Amazing Fleas
• Pirate Treasure Tricks

An up close and personal book by Steven Schneiderman, featuring seven detailed chapters on Rocco's unique style and talent which won him Siegfried and Roy's $20,000 Desert Magic Seminar "Complete Conjuror Challenge." Enjoy the full description to his award-winning act plus new effects utilizing sleeving.

For instance, cleanly...

Want to produce an iPad from an envelope skewered by pencils?

Make a hula-hoop mysteriously float around your body?

Perform a stunt with handcuffs that doesn't require any lockpicking skills or hidden keys?

Then check out Andrew Mayne's new magic book, Magic and Mischief, for all that and more!

Whether...

In this book Luca Volpe will take you on a journey in his mind, presenting a full stage show that will fit in a small box and will play really big! It is a show that Luca Volpe has performed on cruise ships for many years that has been tested through hundreds of performances. He selected his best material from his lectures and repertoire...

This is Britland's disguised version of the torn and restored card which he describes as 'Pure Stephen Tucker'. Fully illustrated 15pp.

A collection of eighty-five tricks selected from Stephen Tucker's magazine by David Britland. Many have been edited and re-written for clarity with additional illustrations. Other contributors include Gordon Bruce, Peter Duffie, Phil Goldstein, Basil Horwitz, Ted Lesley Bob Ostin, Jerry Sadowitz and others.

High quality...

Fabulous collection of card magic culled from the pages of The Pentagram, including an excellent chapter by Graham Adams.

Author: Mike Caveney

Mike Caveney Wonders
9 by 11.5 inches
456 pages printed in full color on heavy art matte paper
570 photographs
Foreword by Mac King
Printed end-sheets with a tipped-in color frontis-piece
3-color foil stamping on the cover

The Conference Illusions
9 by 11.5 inches
256...

The guys here at the shop have been performing this routine for customers as well as at strolling gigs. It gets our highest recomendation - Howard Katz

Still using electronics for coin in hand? Think again!

Mark Elsdon's Tequila Hustler is THE game changer.

• No electronics, no gimmicks,...

"Jheff has produced another awesome book which brings the classic magician's choice into the 21st century. It's the closest thing to real mentalism."
- Bob Cassidy

Using only your voice and no special apparatus, can you control participants to make the choices you want them to? Of course, you can! Magicians have always...

For the last two years, Colin McLeod has been off the radar. He's been working hard behind the scenes on his real world performances, both for TV and stages around the world.

What you'll learn in this book is the material he's been refining during that time. These are the real methods, concepts and ideas that he uses to...

How to create, promote and present a full scale magic show. Everything you need to know about putting a magic show into a theater or similar venue. Twenty-Two chapters with many helpful photographs provide information normally almost impossible to find. As a professional illusionist in his own theater, the author writes from personal experience...

Limited edition reprint of Stephen Hobbs' underground, and fabulous, magazine from the 1990s: Labyrinth. Less than 100 copies of each issue were originally printed, so the material will be new to virtually all of you.

The book is 456 pages, hardcover with a 3-piece binding, printed on acid free paper and Smyth Sewn for lay-flat...

In this long-awaited follow-up to Transformations: Creating Magic Out of Tricks, Lawrence Hass opens a path for magicians to reach toward better magic performances and shows.

Covering many topics of supreme importance to working magicians, Lawrence shares his practical thinking and inspirational ideas in 30 short essays. He...