Books: All Magic Books

The fifth volume of Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations continues with a wealth of new material - effective and subtle card effects - designed to entertain and baffle spectators.

There are over 100 tricks in 12 chapters, including:
Gambling Tricks
Predictions
ESP Cards
Gilbreath Plays Poker, Part 2
More Pinochle...

The most unusual patter book ever published in the field of magic and comedy. Created from Gene Gordon's comedy notebooks he kept (handwritten) for over 40 years, this new hardbound book features 1300 jokes, gags, one-liners, quips, and bits of comedy wisdom for use by comedians, magicians, clowns, speakers, ministers, MCS, story-tellers,...

The Most Important Book On Magic Theory Since Strong Magic!

In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them.

Darwin has earned...

Illusionworks 4 - Insight Ingenuity and Innovation

This is a NEW book of original illusion concepts from Rand Woodbury.

This is the first new book of original illusions from Rand in 19 years. 34 illusions, 145 illustrations, 100 pages (less than $1.50 per new idea)

Woodbury says, "I love this book. It blows...

In 1949 magician Paul Curry proposed an effect with playing cards that seemed impossible. Despite the best efforts of the top minds of his day, the effect became known as The Curry Unsolved Card Problem.

For almost 60 years mentalists and magicians have wracked their brains trying to find the perfect solution for Curry's challenge,...

This booklet includes six fantastic routines hatched from Wayne Dobson's slightly Z wallet obsessed brain. Wayne has come up with a host of effects designed for the extremely versatile "Z wallet." Each effect is explained thoroughly, detailing; materials required, Set Up, and Performance.

Effects Included:

• - Improved...

Fasten your seatbelt.

You are travelling to a special province in the world of magic: Self-working card magic. Deceptive, automatic, and turbo-charged.

Join John Bannon on a twenty-five stop wide-ranging tour of self-working card magic. Not your typical non-sleight-of-hand tricks, Bannon has thoroughly analyzed these...

The third book in the series is also the largest, with thirteen new effects. All are strangely self-working and interactive. "The Magician Who Fools Himself" is a hands-off Card Across routine that Jim has featured in lectures. "The Password Fallacy" is an amazing, long-distance location of a card in the spectator's packet, a worthy...

French born Etienne Pradier is one of the UK's most successful professional magicians. In fact from London to Los Angeles people's jaws have literally dropped after witnessing him perform.

This is Etienne's first major book publication and contains many of the effects that have helped him achieve his success as a...

The Action Cop will change the way that you do Magic with Cards. From prolific author Thomas Baxter (The Nail Writer Anthology, The Open Prediction Project, A Card Merely Thought Of...), this 78 page hardcover book outlines a series of revolutionary methods for secretly and invisibly removing a single card or many cards from a pack in the...

In the world of magic literature, where there's an overabundance of the ordinary, every so often, a book comes along that clearly stands out from the rehashed and recycled norm. A book that, even on casual perusal, demands to be studied for a lifetime. A book that represents the life's work of one of magic's most gifted artists....

Drawing Room Deceptions did not become the publisher's fastest selling book ever just by chance. It was the direct result of a series of specific events. The first ingredient was a young English schoolboy willing to invest a full decade of his young life in the study and practice of close-up card magic. He was not satisfied to...

In Making Real Magic, Osterlind exhorts mystery entertainers everywhere to take magic beyond the province of tricks and storybook tales and to make it a reality in their own lives and also in the lives of their audiences.

In this major new work, almost twice the length of Making Magic Real, Osterlind encourages magicians to seize...

A bi-monthly publication by Gordon Bean and William Goodwin

Finally! The magic publication that you have been waiting for is here, and it was definitely worth the wait. What other magic publication can offer contributions from magicians like Stewart James, Phil Goldstein, Roy Walton, Ray Kosby, Michael Weber, Guy Hollingworth,...

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...

BACK IN PRINT!

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...