Varied Deceptions is jam-packed with magic! Some of the effects and topics include: close-up, stand-up, mentalism, television effects, third sight, telepathy, sponges, coins, lighters, glasses, ropes, knots, money, flowers, beer, card stabs, clocks, eggs, bowls, bags, boxes, light bulbs, and the list goes on for quite a while... you...
This illusion has been presented by top illusionists the world over. In this book you will not only find detailed plans for this extremely deceiving illusion, but multiple presentations as well. These are much larger than the typical themes performers tend to give. Limited quantities available.
Weston's Ways with Cards contains 37 solid, worker close-up card effects as well as 12 moves, controls, and sleights.
Hardbound
11" X 9"
Limited quantities
This book is an in depth examination of all the tools and tricks of the trade you will need to be an effective and successful Master of Ceremonies. Inside you will find show flow charts, ways to arrange and manage all the acts in the program, as well as time tested introductions and routines. These tricks, routines and bits have proven successful...
"Nothing packs smaller! Nothing plays bigger!"
- Bill Abbott
The Guaranteed Standing Ovation
Juggler, magician and humorist Steve Seguin closes every show with a standing ovation, and now YOU can too! Applying great staging, simple choreography and an age old circus/party stunt, Steve has audiences jumping to their...
"A New Angle is full of thoughtfully constructed routines that will not only entertain and fool, but will naturally inspire you with creative possibilities."
- Daniel Garcia
A New Angle is filled with magician foolers, hard-hitting practical effects for laymen, and off-the-wall new ideas to...
For the first time ever, every single one of Joshua Jay's iconic "Talk About Tricks" columns from MAGIC Magazine has been compiled into one stunning, two-book set. 868 tricks across 12 years of work have been combined into what is one of the most comprehensive collections of close-up magic ever offered.
During its more than a...
This is the deluxe reprint of Ellis Stanyon's Magic in 3 clothbound volumes housed in a slipcase.
Professor Ellis Stanyon was born in about 1871 and lived through many magical periods until 1951. He began publishing his Stanyon Serials in 1899, and in the following year he began the publication of this eventually massive collection,...
Jonathan Friedman is as strong a writer as he is a magician. And his background is an even split between magic and music. He has combined these passions for this sensational new book, The Magic of Jonathan Friedman: The Musical. Jonathan delivers 24 fully fleshed-out close-up routines using cards, coins, guitar picks (because, of...
With contributions from Michael Finney, Nathan Kranzo, John Archer, Scott & Muriel, Andy Reay, Alan Hudson, Teller, Jasper Blakeley, Randolf Tempest, Gary Jones, Graham Jolley, David Williamson, Graham Hey, Boris Wild, Jay Fortune, Bill Malone, Wolfgang Riebe, Mandy Muden, The Sentimentalists, Gene Peret, Gaetan Bloom, Chris Cox, Fay Presto,...
There has never been a book quite like this before. It is the first-ever encyclopedia collection of card forces. These forces don't make use of gimmicked cards of any kind. Many of them are well off the beaten track, and some are so new that they have never appeared in print before. Contains over 500 forces, 100 illustrations, hardbound...
Nick Trost's Subtle Card Creations series of easy-to-do card effects continues with Volume 8. As in the other volumes in the series these routines rely on subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand. Once again there are over 100 tricks, this time collected in 13 chapters covering Gambling Tricks,...
Beginning with the now out-of-print and much sought-after Card Craft, the release of each new book from J.K. Hartman has been welcomed by discerning card handlers the world over for his direct effects and deviously simple handlings. Now, spurred by an underground handling by Tomas Blomberg and a yearlong correspondence with Gordon Bean,...
A Day Book of Magical Secrets
Secret Agenda is your invitation to spend a year inside the head of Roberto Giobbi!
There, for every day of that year, you will open a fresh door in Giobbi's mind and have something surprising and enriching spring out to greet you-a new trick, sleight, technique, refinement,...
"F**k me!!! This is ridiculous! Mate it's so, so, so fooling! Even after knowing the original method and watching it play out countless times"
- Nathan Chandler
"Just watched the demo you sent for the Card At Any Number and I have no idea how it works"
- Dreygon Hibbler
"I can't...
Long out of print, we found some brand-new copies of this Hardbound release
Just look at the names of contributors, mostly heavy hitter and even so this is older material you find plenty that you will be able to use or adapt.
Clear illustrations throughout by Tom Gagnon.
This book was released for the 1984 New York Magic...
Long out of print, we found some brand new copies of this hardbound release
Just look at the names of contributors, mostly heavy hitter and even so this is older material you find plenty that you will be able to use or adapt.
Clear illustrations throughout!
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Featuring Influenced and the Modern ACAAN
In Meant To Be, we discovered the power and versatility of executing a shift while taking the cards out of the box. This particular project shares a completely different card case shift that is extremely practical, versatile, and deceptive. I have been sitting on this for quite some time,...
This limited edition, cloth bound set of 2 massive volumes comes in a deluxe cloth bound slipcase.
Finally! Magic Christian's final installments for his long-awaited magnum opus on one of history's greatest magicians, Johann Nepomuk Hofzinser. This set is a must-have for owners of parts one and two, or anyone interested in...
Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room.
The clearest, easiest-to-follow...
Historically, fortune tellers are perceived as turban wearing crystal ball readers.
Contemporary Western images of fortune telling grow out of folkloristic reception of Renaissance magic, specifically associated with Romani people. During the 19th and 20th centuries, methods of divination from non-Western cultures, such as the I Ching,...
Hardbound, 414 pages, second edition.
A compilation of seven of Lewis' softback booklets:
This Is Not Your Father's "Self-Working" Card Book!
From the author of Card College , the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill....
Propless mentalism is at its high peak right now and Perna came to seal the deal with this one.
In Bottoms Up you'll learn how to perfectly guess a thought-of drink the spectator was about to order.
Magic and Mentalism nowadays is primarily performed at bars and restaurants, making a drink divination the most organic...
The game marked a new generation of Magic Dream
The game marked than you expected ...
"Diabolically hidden and readable in the blink of an eye ..." Gaƫtan Bloom
"The game Ultimate is currently the best game scored for the magicians. It manages to be both easy to read and difficult to detect." Darwin...