Books: Card Magic

A wealth of card routines with a new approach. Intermediate to advanced magicians will appreciate Kevin's approach. This book contains 31 routines and 29 new (vastly improved) moves that almost anyone can do. Contributors include Ed Marlo, Don England, Wes Schield, Harrison Kaplan, and Phil Hannes. Pages: 130 - Softbound, Photo-Illustrated.

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...

Self-Contained Card Delivery System "Man's mind stretched to a new dimension never goes back to its original position."

Few know the simple mechanics of the forgotten Mene-Tekel deck and even fewer know its real secrets. This book reveals the deck's true potential as a Self-Contained Card Delivery System, a Pseudo-Copying...

A fantastic book with 16 stunning routines, some are full acts!

The Seventh Floor is an amazing revelation of seven selected cards.
Grand Prix is an award winning routine and Hot Line is hilarious!
Meet Charlie is a funny routine that's loads of fun with a piece of rope and a deck.
The Dirty Dozen...

We believe this work to be one of the very best on the subject of classic card manipulation. Expertly re-mastered photos and excellent descriptions highlight this great offering by one of Magic's greatest and most prolific writers, Lewis Ganson. Within the copy of the book, Lewis refers the reader to a book entitled "Exhibition Card...

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,...

A card is selected from a borrowed deck, returned and the cards are shuffled. A rubber band is stretched around the deck, and the band visibly melts away! One card then emerges from the deck, it's the selected card with the rubber band around it! There is no preparation, no gimmicks and no forces.

"As a wise friend sharing love and guidance, Juan brings you into the fold with charm and warm words: showing his heuristic voyage with deep insight into some astonishing routines and philosophy. Each letter arrives with laughs and diverse ideas for the practical wonderworker. Having a pen pal has never been so exciting!"
- Paul...

( SUBTLECARDCREATIONSV3 ) The third volume of Subtle Card Creations offers another collection of brilliant card magic. The intent here is the earlier volumes - to present some of the most effective, yet easy-to-do card magic, avoiding all difficult sleights.

Over 100 tricks are carefully explained in 12 chapters. The...

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

Much of the material - as in Volume 1 - was developed from ideas in a series of notebooks. Effects of all types are include here. There are 11 chapters....

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...

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...

This effort was kicked off in Luka's "Thoughts On..." column which ran in The New Tops magazine from October 1993 to December 1994. John's column was for the majority of magicians who tend to do a lot of pocket and parlor tricks for small audiences and few shows. He knew that most magic shows are informal, sometimes spontaneous events,...

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 effects...

"As a wise friend sharing love and guidance, Juan brings you into the fold with charm and warm words: showing his heuristic voyage with deep insight into some astonishing routines and philosophy. Each letter arrives with laughs and diverse ideas for the practical wonderworker. Having a pen pal has never been so exciting!"
- Paul...

"52 Memories is one of the most important magic books to be published in the last ten years."
- Tomas Blomberg

Many magic books can be trivialized. They are, after all, just a collection of tricks. But, 52 Memories is more than that; it is the legacy of one of the most promising card magic creators of our time....

This is one of the best books for the beginner of card magic. The sleights taught in thisbook will give you a good foundation for card magic.

If you do card magic then you know how embarassing a single mistake can be. This can be an error by the performer or by the participant. This book will teach you how to overcome errors and emerge victorious. This 80 page book was published in 1940 and should be a partof every card magician's arsenal.

This is one of the best books for the beginning card magician. Each chapter describes a different sleight followed by a collection of tricks using that skill. A total of 76 carefully chosen card tricks is explained. This book has been the starting point for many card workers.

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This is the eleventh volume in the Library of Magic on Spring Flowers by Magic City. Within its pages you will find knowledge on how to perform quality routines and performances using Spring Flowers.

The Basics:
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The Classic Tricks:
Flowers from a Cone
Gloves...

Rarely does card magic come along as strikingly original as that found in this book. Its creator, Earnest Earick, has refrained from publishing his groundbreaking material for years - until now! When you flip through the pages of "By Forces Unseen" you will encounter chosen cards that fly from the deck when you clap your hands, cards that...

This book gathers together a part of my history with magic, in particular with card magic. Inside you will find a selection of what I consider to be some of the best and most personal material I have developed; in particular, you will discover practical and elegant approaches to the Card and Number effect, my sequence Back to the Future...

In this fourth volume of Subtle Card Creations, you will find the workings of more highly effective and easy-to-do card magic. In this volume, there are over 100 effects of wide variety in 12 chapters. Chapters in special areas of card magic include:

• Gemini Twins
• Cards and Dice
• Gilbreath Plays Poker, Part 1
• Special-Deck...

The top card men in the world disagree on many things. One thing they all agree on is that no other book in the history of card manipulation deserves careful study more than The Expert at the Card Table. After one hundred years, it is still considered the foundation upon which modern card magic is based. It contains some of the most perfectly...

The strongest card tricks most often depend on a stack or special deck. Unfortunately, if you start with a gaffed deck, as soon as you have accomplished the impossible feat, its very strength causes audiences to say, "Let me see those cards!" With a deck switch, they can, because you just switched the gaffed deck for a normal one, which...