Books: Card Magic

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It's all new, previously unpublished.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 book featuring Meir Yedid's offbeat magic where he uses ordinary playing cards in extraordinary ways. All of these routines are visual, quirky and very memorable. Also taught are all of the techniques used within the routines. Written by Harry Lorayne and illustrated by Fred Kraus. Second edition published by Meir Yedid Magic in 2010....

This book revolves around one great routine that will give your audiences the impression of you having a super intellect and psychic powers.

The basic version was previously released in a private manuscript which debut at the 2009 Psychic Entertainer's Association's annual conference where it was a huge hit and an instant...

J.K. Hartman is back again with 60 brand-new effects in his latest book, Card Devilry. We invite you to revel in the wicked fun and mischief of these clever effects.

Known for short, clever routines, this prolific magician has long been a mainstay in the libraries of card magicians, and this new volume should not be the exception....

Game Changer is a sensational collection of magic and gambling effects with cards. This book picks up right where Jason's critically-acclaimed debut, Confident Deceptions, left off. Jason has once again raised the bar with 18 new, powerful effects, gorgeously illustrated with 225 stunning, high-quality, full-color photographs....

The Buena Vista Shuffle Club is unlike any other magic book you've read. It combines original methods, plots, and scripts with "jam sessions" between a fictitious group of magicians who analyze and deconstruct the effects in the book. Memorized deck aficionados will have a field day: there are nearly 100 pages devoted to effects...

This is a very special 2018 Madison Edition of The Expert at the Card Table by S.W. Erdnase...

Artist Neema Atri has taken every one of M.D. Smith's original drawings of Erdnase's hands and modified them by giving Erdnase the tattooed hands of Daniel Madison! It is the perfect addition to any Madison or Erdnase...

The mad genius of card magic, Theodore DeLand, created over 100 tricks between 1904 and 1915. He was famous for his ingenious invention of specially printed gimmicked cards and marked decks, which for the first time allowed everyone to perform amazing tricks with no sleight of hand. He was among the most influential inventors of card magic...

Back in print for the first time in ten years, and now on Bicycle stock! The Ultimate Triple Kick Monte and The Red Herring. Plus, Four Card Fooler and a NEW version (for all languages) of Killer OMG.

Effect(s): The Red Herring is an easy examinable comedy "Find the Lady" type effect. The Ultimate...

Back in print for the first time in years, and now on Bicycle stock! Spectrum, Jim Nastic Cards, Six-Card Brainwave and Twisted Colours.

Spectrum is a multi-phase effect with a colour-changing kicker. Ends clean! Twisted Colours is a Twisting routine with two kickers. Jim Nastic Cards is a real puzzler...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the marked deck but were afraid to ask!

Just think of the power you would have if you could find any face-down card in a shuffled deck in three or four seconds. What would you do? Yes, miracles!

All of the most amazing effects that Boris Wild has ever created with his...

You may be able to pull off an impressive card trick, but can you recruit new clients and tailor your show to different occasions? In the only guide of its kind, professional magician Magnus shows you the ins and outs of managing your career in magic. His tried-and-true methods will convert you - presto, change-o - into a successful professional....

Here is perhaps the easiest way to make people believe you're a master card cheat. First, show that you can get "jacks or better" whether or not you're the dealer.
Then, demonstrating an imperceptible "new move", you deal all four jacks to anyone you choose in a four-handed game. Finally, you garner laughter and applause...

Now in English - the book we've all been waiting for from THE master of magic, Juan Tamariz!

"The brilliance of Juan Tamariz, the greatest and most influential card magician alive, is the reason I can't wait to read this book, cover to cover."
- David Blaine

"I've waited more than twenty years...

Three effects using a double face card. These fool bad. Chad uses these tricks in every paid gig.

Contents

Conditioned Transposition
A spectator places a selection in their back pocket. Instantly, the selection transposes with another selection a visual manner. The spectator places and removes the card.

Married...

It's All Relative focuses on a card move called The Relativity Change. This versatile tool can be used to visually transform a playing card to another cards, to simulate the reversal of a stack of cards, to produce a card, and to secretly switch out one card for another.

Enclosed in this booklet are three different adaptations...

A New Method for Turning a Borrowed Deck of Cards Into an Automatic Killing Machine!

Docc Hilford has devised a simple yet highly effective system that can be applied to any borrowed deck of cards in minutes, making the free selection of any card or pair of cards instantly known! Here are just a few of the effects possible:...

Written by Alfred Trumble and first published in 1882, Faro Exposed was a landmark book on America's favorite crooked card game. It explains the origin, rules, and history of Faro, as well as the sophisticated methods used by card cheats to beat the odds.

Twenty years before Erdnase, Faro Exposed explained riffle...

David Solomon is one of the nation's most prolific card veterans, accumulating fifty three years of questioning and challenging magical thinking-always striving for the most interesting and fooling methods. From the last ten years of publishing more than 100 tricks online, in magazines and in DVDs comes a "must have" compilation of some...

Well, I know I said Quidnunc was to be my last book, but I just couldn't help myself! The last two years have been really creative ones for me and the result is Article 52. Excuse immodesty, but it really is chock-full of killers! Article 52 includes my new handling of my Head To Head Poker (from Gold...

The response to Gold Dust in 2012 was and is truly overwhelming. We received hundreds of letters and emails asking why we didn't include this trick or that trick. Well, it was down to space issues! We were reluctant to do Gold Dust 2, but Gold Dust Companion is really an extension of Gold Dust. The...

This final volume of the best-selling Gold Dust Trilogy contains 63 NEW tricks (as of 2015). Each and every trick is powerful and magical. 128 pages. Top-quality saddle-stitched cloth-covered hardback. Gold Dust Finale contains some real gems. It's been said (on The Magic Cafe) that Killer Mystery Card, Tenkai...

Gold Dust was four years in the making and was released in 2012. It's Paul Gordon's very best writing, very best production and very best magic. It's a big book! Each and every trick really is a startler! This is the very best of Paul's thirty-five years of creating; and all under one great-looking, foil-embossed...

Meet Ron Frost. He's the genius behind some of the most popular packet tricks of our time. Recently, however, Ron discovered that there are 46 more cards in the deck, and he hasn't slept a wink since! In this, Ron's first major book, he tips the card magic that has earned him both his reputation and his living for decades!...

In the tradition of such harbingers of doom and gloom like, The Pallbearer's Review, Epilogue, and Apocalypse, comes The End Times, a new journal of close-up magic.
This first volume features:

"Dislocation" by Ryan Matney, a quick, and amazing, single Card Across type thingy that is perfect entertainment...