Books: Card Magic

Boris Wild's new book with his latest creations

The routines explained in this book rest on the shoulders of contemporary or past magicians whose effects made Boris Wild want to create personal variations, whether in terms of method or presentation, with one goal in mind: have maximum magical impact on the audience.

Over...

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...

Ryan Matney has taken some modern subtleties, concepts, and principles, put them on the boil and simmered them down to their essence.

What's left is pure magic.

It's all new, previously unpublished. This is highly-evolved, professional, self-working card magic from the mind of Ryan Matney.

Featuring:

"Free...

A small dose of strong medicine. First publication anywhere presenting these five new card tricks from the mind of Ryan Matney.

Renumber and Forget: A version of Hofzinser's classic premise that has real impact and its own internal logic.

Slam Bang Universal: Need a quick, deceptive Universal Card routine...

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?...

Tony Griffith is truly gifted when it comes to routines and presentations. In An Invitation to Mystery, Tony shares some of his greatest effects and routines. Some very deceiving card magic is explained in detail.

Keep in mind, these are far from knuckle busting effects -- as a matter of fact, they are very easy to learn and...

Card College is a modern classic. It is without a doubt the most important work on sleight of hand with cards. This is the first volume in a series of five. The speciality of this electronic book are its 89 video clips, which show how Giobbi executes each and every technique described.

This ebook has also been nominated as a finalist...

Effects with the Card Index is a very hard-to-find publication that is focused around the card index. Weston goes into "out of the box" placements for the index, and readers come away with a new mindset on how and where the index can be used in performance.

Card Caprice contains two of Jack Yates' most coveted effects. Jack's Wallet is a combination Mental effect/Card to Wallet, where a selected card later appears inside an un-gimmicked wallet.

You may never want to purchase another gimmicked wallet after reading this method. Jack's Line Up is the second effect taught....

Jack's Pack is a devious stacking method for finding any card in a deck by way of using: numbers, names, words, etc. Highly Recommended!

This 31 page booklet contains 5 essays, each including a trick that uses the effects as examples to illustrate the various concepts.
One Two Twos Sandwich, Hold the Selection Please - A sandwich effect with a twist, and a beautiful flourish that teaches why a show of skill is not always a hint to method!
Neoteric Signed...

This book contains the late Patrick Page's handling and routine for the classic Cards to Pocket. Patrick's take on the effect is extremely direct and fooling. Plays from close-up, walk-around to stage.

This is a very hard-to-find booklet. Very limited quantities available.

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...

"The whole process is incredibly clean and works like a charm. It's a great step forward in prop-less mentalism..."
- Marc Paul

"Wow, what a tome you've created! I never imagined that this could lead to so many things..."
- Greg Arce

Banachek was certainly spot on the money when he said:...

This all-encompassing book contains everything you need to learn the secret methods of con-men and gambles.

Some of the secret card methods taught: mechanical methods: marking cards, sorts, deck switches, edge marking, daub, punch/nail marks, crimps, shorts, holdouts, shiners, strippers, false shuffling, seconds, bottoms, locaters,...

The Immaculate Card Magic of Walt Lees contains truly jaw-dropping effects for the close-up performer. There are four card routines explained in great detail and illustrated with photographs. This book does NOT disappoint. 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

Do you enjoy performing well thought-out card tricks? Bada-Bing! Ryan Matney is back with eleven all-new card tricks structured for the real world.

Contents include:

- Plan B Aces
- Metro Ltd.
- Jokus Locus
- Flush Exchange and seven more effects

Every item features the thoughtful construction,...

The Nine of Diamonds is a book of close up magic, a collaboration between some of the finest magicians in Scotland. Some are known, some are unknown, but all share a passion of close up magic and have bound some of their finest effects together in a beautiful hard backed book.

The book contains a variety of effects, mostly with playing...

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...