Books: Card Magic

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...

In the beginning, magicians created the Bottom Change, and they saw that it was good. Many years later they created the Top Change, and they saw that it was very good.

But many magicians in recent decades-ignoring the wisdom of countless past masters-perceive the Top and Bottom Changes as old-fashioned tools, and have substituted...

The Dream Card Revisited is a comprehensive guide to the ultimate Signed Card to Wallet routine (there is even a method included that does not require a wallet, so you can perform it out of your pocket). In this book, you'll learn literally every single strategy, nuance, and facet that will enable you to perform this effect (as...

When I was young, my uncle Peter fooled me badly with a simple X-Ray Vision stunt. It played serious havoc with my developing mind. Pete had been using his X-Ray Vision to "see through" the table top in order to identify how many fingers I was holding aloft. He hit it time and time again. I was later crushed, when dad explained that he'd...

Finally learn the Memorized Deck work you were afraid to try!

Vanishing Inc.'s new book shows you how to memorize any deck in less than an hour!

No prior memorization is necessary!

The Memory Arts is Vanishing Inc.'s most beautiful book to date. Full-color, with pictures on every page, this book...

Have you been looking for that perfect card force for a certain trick? Have you been using the same one or two forces over and over for years? If so, you may soon be caught. It's time to learn more!

The Encyclopedia of Impromptu Card Forces is the first encyclopedic book on card forces. Many of the forces have never appeared...

A hard-hitting, ten-card effect that's out of this world!

Small World is a powerful, three-phase card routine. It amazingly gives the audience the power to separate a small, shuffled packet of black cards from red while they remain face down. The routine concludes with the audience matching the numerical order of the black...

Woody Aragon is one of the most important modern card magic creators. His first book, A Book in English, was a bestseller that influenced top magicians. Names such as Penn & Teller, Eric Jones and Pit Hartling choose Woody's tricks for their shows. The reason? Woody's magic is strong, it's clever, it fools... and...

ARETALOGY-n. A narrative about the deeds of a miracle worker.

Who was Vanni Bossi?

He was an underground treasure.

He was the man the stars of magic came to for solutions to their hardest problems.

He was one of close-up magic's most original minds.

He was a performer top magicians...

A Cut Above is a joyful exploration of one-handed cuts created or documented by Msgr. Vincent Foy, a pioneer of the modern movement of card flourishes. His contributions on this subject that appeared initially in The Linking Ring and in Bertram on Sleight of Hand inspired a new generation of finger-flingers.

At...

Jean Hugard's Encyclopedia of Card Tricks. An incredibly rich resource for learning card magic. If you only can buy one book on card magic maybe this should be it!

Over 400 pages of magic. Includes sections on Impromptu Card Tricks, Spelling Effects, You Do As I Do, Card Subtleties utilizing Key Cards, 'Slick' Principles,...

Whit Haydn and Chef Anton's Notes on Three Card Monte is by far the most comprehensive book ever written on the history, psychology and sleights on this classic swindle. Whit and Chef also explore the games application to magic and include the School for Scoundrels complete three-card monte routine-Three-Card Gold. 

We also feature...

Hugard and Braue are undisputed authorities on card tricks and the Royal Road to Card Magic is the best reference source for card tricks with any deck of cards, including a borrowed one.

In 310 pages, with 121 clear illustrations, the book teaches you the basic techniques of card magic. 20 chapters cover effects ranging from close...

The Ultimate Ten-Card Poker Deal is for the serious performing magician who wants a professional gambling-themed routine. This is a featured showpiece that has been thoroughly audience-tested and is used as a closer in one of David Malek's shows, a spot he reserves for only the strongest material.

Effect: A game...

Lying in a dark undisturbed drawer for decades lay Harry Houdini's copy of THE DISCOVERIE OF WITCHCRAFT, a book written by Reginald Scot in 1584. It is the first book in the English language to describe sleight of hand tricks, and Houdini's copy was very special because it held the key to a mystery which fascinated magicians for...

The Magic of Ascanio Book Volume 4 "Knives and Color Blindness"
by Arturo Ascanio

Arturo de Ascanio y Navaz (1926-1997), is regarded as the father of Spanish card magic. A lawyer by trade and an amateur magician, he devoted a good part of his life to magic and was one of the founders of the prestigious Escuela Mágica...

If you're a fan of any card at any number, 51 faces north, or even just simple hard hitting card magic, you'll want a taste of Applesauce. This book includes Patrick's much sought after secret to his Any Thought of Card at Any Thought of Number (Applesauce) along side twelve other routines that include Mind Reading, The Evolution...

"Just finished reading.. and I LOVED IT. To me there's hidden information in this book. He takes you through the entire process how to get on stage, what tricks to do, and how to get off. Read every single word."
-Ryan Schlutz

"Card in lemon, and card stab.. worth the price of the book."
-John Guastaferro...

This is Britland's disguised version of the torn and restored card which he describes as 'Pure Stephen Tucker'. Fully illustrated 15pp.

"Blomberg Laboratories is not as good as I had hoped it would be ... it's even better."
- Michael Weber

Sweden's Tomas Blomberg is not like other magicians. He combines his background in mathematics, physics, and puzzles to create a style of magic that is uniquely his own. Many expert magicians have heralded Blomberg...

Over a period of years Thomas Baxter has published a number of startling and innovative contributions for creating mysteries with Playing Cards. These ideas have appeared in places such as Trapdoor and Antimony Magazines, and in books such as Ariel Frailich's CARD STORIES; Allan Slaight's THE JAMES FILE and his own books, THE ACTION...

Cardially Yours
by Ed Marlo

Volume Two of Magic, Inc.'s Marlo Trilogy. Cardially Yours is an anthology of card magic like no other.

Detailed Description

Between these covers you'll encounter classic works of legendary Chicago card magician, Edward Marlo including:...