Books: Card Magic

by Jim Steranko

Excerpt from the book:

"During the preparation of this book careful thought was given as to which routines should be included. The tricks are entertaining, the sleights are latent means to an end result. The articulate manner of text and illustration was due to our enthusiasm to thoroughly acclimate...

Magic Of Ascanio Volume 2 - Studies Of Card Magic
by Arturo Ascanio

The Magic of Ascanio offers you, in four volumes, the complete work of the Maestro who changed the direction of magic in Spain and influenced many successful performers. Learn all about the legacy of a true master of our art: his ground-breaking theories,...

Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo Collaborated on card magic that is visual and confounding because of sophisticated sleight of hand. It is these secrets that have formulated some of the most fooling magic ever created.

Any pulse-checking, hard-core cardmen in the late 60s, knew about Jimmy Nuzzo. If they didn't get to see him in...

Large format - 125 pages Spiral Bound
12 Chapters - 50+ tricks
150+ illustrations by Joseph K. Schmidt.

• Biddle Force: 26 Faces North; Double Knavery; 25 Faces North + 1 South
• Concealed Allerton Control: CAC Visitor; Only Joking; Anti-Matter; Anti-Matter Revisited; Final Control
• Cut...

For the card technician who appreciates the new moves and subtle touchesthat make card magic look impossible. Sleights explained include new passes,changes, cuts, turnovers, palms, switches, and innovative moves. Also a chapter on Marlo's Controlled Faro-Riffle Shuffle is included. Book concludeswith a selection of beautiful card routines....

Intended for the advanced card worker, this book is heavily illustrated to explain some of the more difficult sleights.You will learn; The Pass, Side Steal, Palming, Double-Lift, Changes, False Dealing, False Shuffles and more.

Paul then teaches many great tricks using these sleights. The book is considered one of the most valueable...

A Book of Basic Card Technique by Jerry Mentzer

This modern-day classic of card magic details the: Double Undercut, Biddle Move, Hamman Count, Oiram Subtlety, Downs Change, Elmsley Count, Jordan Count, Buckle Count, Ascanio Spread and much more!

Clear photographs and easy to understand descriptions make this an invaluable...

From the man who can't tell the difference between the name of the card trick and a weather forecast!

Due to the willingness of certain spiteful spectators to take advantage of their magician, you illustrate the value of your magic teacher's admonition that it's always wiser to cut the cards instead of classes. Learn...

Hidden in Plain Sight is the most complete manual for marked cards ever published. Author Kirk Charles, a long-time professional magician, has written a book that explores this most powerful of all magical tools in great detail. From the history of marked cards to more modern developments in reader technology, Charles breaks down the...

From the man who wants close-up magic to be as easy as stage magic!

You can make any deck of cards, yours or borrowed, appear to be a deviously designed device! A trick deck! Close inspection by the untrained eyes of your spectators reveals nothing, but you prove your claim by causing the deck to visibly find a freely selected...

In this outstanding new collection, an expert presents step-by-step, foolproof instructions for 65 of his most impressive card tricks, guaranteed to work flawlessly and to delight audiences. Mystifying, entertaining illusions include "Prediction Wallet," in which the card a spectator has chosen and signed is found in the magician's...

Simply Simon presents Simon Aronson's unique brand of Card Magic that artfully blends subtleties, stacks, gaffs, mental skills, sleights and new principles to create effects that are direct, entertaining, baffling and easy to perform. Magic magazine says, "This is one of the best books of 1995."

308 pages, 8-1/2 x...

From the man whose ancestor ALMOST invented Three Card Monte. He was just one card off!

#2 in the Ron Bauer Private Studies Series is a handling of "The Gypsy Curse" so clean and sharp, that there's no warning of the sudden and startling outcome!

Learn several techniques of powerful direction and misdirection...

In Simon Aronson's latest book, he invites you to Try The Impossible .

• A spectator freely names any card. A second spectator freely touches any card - and it matches the named card! The performer never even looks through the deck!
• Control two freely selected and replaced cards to virtually any two positions you...

Step right up! Ladies and gentleman, prepare to be amazed, amused, and astounded by the strange and wonderful curiosities found on the inside of a new book, Weird and Awesome Wonders by William V. Rauscher. A spectacular amalgamation of strange and bizarre exhibits has been assembled for your reading pleasure!

• Hardcover
• Color...

The 10 Year Anniversary Edition of If an Octopus Could Palm features all-new cover art illustrated by Jonathan Burton and a foreword by Tony Chang.

Learn over a dozen conceptual palming techniques designed to inspire new ways of thinking about the age-old practice of holding out. Beautifully printed and bound with a foil-stamped...

Inside Out is something special; a deeply personal tour de force of radical new approaches for creating powerful magic. This book will alter your thinking, challenge your assumptions and bring new meaning to the concept of audience involvement.

Told through story and beautiful imagery you will discover 16 effects and techniques...

John Bannon and Liam Montier present THREE absolute killer 'fractal' packet tricks in one small but deadly volume with 'Triabolical'! These are easy, examinable packet tricks at their VERY best!

"Bannon and Montier hit the trifecta with Triabolical. It's scary what you get when you combine Bannon's...

"Resigned to Miracles" by Peter Groning is one of the most exciting card magic books I've read in a long time. I'll never understand how he stumbled upon the brilliant method for obtaining duplicate signed cards - as you know, one of the Holy Grails of card magic. He explores many ways to exploit this concept, which makes new...

There is far more to a trick than its mechanics and presentation. In this book, best-selling author Roberto Giobbi discusses the essential ingredients of artistic magic, the hallmark of all successful magicians.

Never before have these closely guarded secrets been identified, named or explained in such a detailed yet succinct...

Featuring:

CHOP SHOP. Card trick? Chop cup? Both? Neither? Fractal!

PROXY SHOCK. Performer suddenly nails a truly thought-of card.

CUT AND RUN. An extended running cut finds four Aces (or whatever you desire).

HYBRID HOLDOUT. Participant shuffles and cuts. Top stock: Controlled.

STEALTH ASSEMBLY...

>Inside "Sleightly Out of Order" (a much anticipated second volume of the "Out of Order" series), you'll discover card plots, both classic and new. The magic routines range from spellers to triumphs. Tricks that tell stories to mentalism that messes with the audience's minds. You'll discover gambling demonstrations and...

I have three questions for you.

A fresh deck of playing cards usually comes out of the box consisting of fifty two playing cards and four "extra" cards. These four cards usually consist of two Jokers and two advertising cards.

Here's my first question: What do you do with these four cards?

Do you actually use them?...

The Phantom of the Card Table was originally a typescript that was written and circulated by Edward McGuire at the end of 1930 through about 1932. This became an instant underground classic and all the prominent card men of that time, including Dai Vernon, were entranced by it.

The reason this little typescript was sought after was...

After spending a decade producing more than 100 magic books for some of the biggest magicians in the industry, Andi Gladwin is finally releasing his own book. And it is quite possibly the most highly-anticipated book of the year!

While Andi has released numerous effects and many popular lectures, this is the first time he has ever...