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Card magic for everyone, from the self-working, hands off Self Control Lie Speller and the two-deck Mix and Match, to the commercial (and ribald) Under Her Spell. Paragon Poker offers a three-phase card cheating demonstration (with an unexpected double climax). Bait and Switch and Four Part Harmony are memorized deck masterpieces, and in his essay Memorized Math Simon continues his trademark in-depth analysis of memorized deck principles. Mark-a-Place Mates offers a flexible utility move, while Active Aces efficiently combines a visual vanish of the Aces with the Henry Christ Fabulous Ace reproduction. The 50 page treatise on the mental blockbuster Simon-Eyes is worth its weight in gold to the performing mentalist...plus Two Minds and a Mate, and lots more. 173 pages

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 person, they were familiar with the select ideas he published—ideas that probably seemed celestial at the time but were nevertheless interesting and enticing.” - from Jon Racherbaumer’s Prologue

In the Nuzzo Touch there is Jimmy’s audience-tested repertoire. It includes his fabulous Side Steal and lightning-fast Card to the Pocket.

The book incorporates three hard-to-find, private manuscripts that Nuzzo and Marlo published in the 1980’s, Plus Package; Unforgettable Wild Card; and 21 st Century Card Magic. Jimmy invented the Hung Card, one of the most tightly held secrets in magic

The author is one of the most entertaining and prolific inventor of card effects ever to grace the magical scene. He was persuaded to gather his best material together and add a host of new, previously unpublished works in a set of volumes which takes the reader through his years as a performer. Interspersed are new items and all are superbly illustrated by Tony Dunn. If you are a Paul Harris "junkie" then these are for you, and if you are not, then these works will make you one! This first book contains some 80 card effects of which 7 are new! Hard back, 310 pages, 8-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches, fully illustrated.
Effects covered in volume 1:-
The Light and Heavy Dime - a remake of Robert Houdin's famous Light and Heavy Chest using a common dime...which ends up permanently stuck in the most uncommon place. This will become the "Card-on-the-Ceiling" of Coin Magic.
Lip Balm - An organic, "naturally-gimmicked" coin box (a special brand of Lip Balm) that climaxes with a container full of Lip Balm.
Ultimate Rip-off - Dancing with the Last Piece - The ultimate bluff ending for Paul's Torn N' Restored Card ...twenty years later, a way to restore the last piece.
Creation - Patrick Martin's practical "workers" approach of producing a live moth to create maximum astonishment.
Shell-Shock - Gregory Wilson's practical technique for blowing a hardboiled egg right out of its shell...then finding a marked coin inside its yolk.
Tunnel Vision - A just-barely-possible way to make yourself disappear...using a rolled-up paper tube and more nerve than most of us possess.

One of the best books ever written on floating effects!

QUESTION: What happens when you lock Steve Fearson, Dan Harlan, Gary Darwin and five underground magicians in a sealed room?
ANSWER: You get the best book ever written on floating effects!

Includes:

Fantastic Floating Ring: Steve Fearson's ultimate handling of a borrowed finger ring floating from hand to hand! It then floats into their hand and you're clean! Absolutely Deadly!
Total Suspension: Dan Harlan has invented the greatest card suspension of all time. A playing card floats inches above your hand and can instantly be examined! No threads, magnets or gimmicks of any kind!
You will also learn eight other dynamite routines that levitate ordinary objects such as rope, Tootsie Rolls and borrowed bills!

Includes Over 100 professional illustrations and Bonus Routine in which you will learn to make Fearson's thread reel in a matter of minutes for just pennies!

For the magician who has learned the basic sleights of cards and coins, and who wants to make his act both mystifying and entertaining, the undisputed all-time best guide is T. Nelson Downs' The Art of Magic. Downs was one of the greatest sleight-of-hand performers who ever lived, and his name is associated with many of the most famous card and coin manipulations.
In this classic volume he's compiled a selection of the finest tricks by other magicians, new methods of his own for many tricks, and several tricks that he invented. Beyond giving excellent instructions for all these tricks, Downs often includes complete transcriptions of appropriate patter-a vital part of many tricks that is often missing from other books of magic.

Approximately two-thirds of the book is devoted tro tricks with cards:

Everywhere and Nowhere (2 methods)
Houdini's Torn Card Trick
The Flying Cards (2 methods)
Cards Up the Sleeve (2 methods)
The Card Through the Handkerchief
The Rising Cards (6 versions)
The Four Ace Trick (7 methods)
and many others
The remainder of the book contains over 20 unbeatable coin tricks (one of Downs' specialties), including the latest methods for the trick of which he was the supreme exponent-The Miser's Dream, tricks with eggs, tricks with balls and miscellaneous tricks, including The Cigarette Paper Trick, The Torn Bank Note, The Vanishing Knot, and-the king of all rope ties and the most mysterious release ever invented-The Jacoby Rope Tie.

Many of the outstanding methods and sleights in The Art of Magic cannot be found in any other standard books. The Art of Magic can be recommended as an indispensable book for all intermediate and advanced magicians.

Paperbound, 348 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages, 68 illlustrations.

I am proud to offer "As the Crow Flies", a new book of magic routines for restaurant performers by my pal Raymonde Crow. I edited and produced the book as well as shooting the photos for it (lots of 'em!). I have also seen Raymonde perform this material in restaurants for lay-audiences, and it is, indeed, powerful magic! Included here is magic with cards, coins, candy, sponges and a borrowed finger ring--17 fully routined items, carefully explained and profusely illustrated. In addition, Raymonde has included the RC Cop, an original move, and a Q&A chapter on the business of performing magic in a restaurant--valuable advice from a working restaurant magician! This book is 8.5 X 11 inches, comb bound, 99 pages with 281 clear photos. Each photo is always on the same page as the text referring to it

Automata is a collection of effects based on self working magic. WAIT - I know what you’re thinking... Counting and math, OH NO!!!

No Indeed!!! Yes, the principles behind most of these are based on tried and true mathematical principles which, in their original form, are not particularly performable, but take a look at what R. Shane has done with them!

The subtitle of this book is Self-Working Miracles With A Sense of Humanity! That says it all. Here are simple methodologies enshrouded in awesome presentations that make the "tricks" into magic theater that entertains, amazes and inspires. R. Shane begins each effect with a treatise on the original method and effect and then explores variations on the theme. R. Shane is also a master at finding a hole and plugging it up. He finds the "flaw" in a method that prevents it from being a masterpiece, and finds a way to seal that hole so the mystery won't escape.

In this book, you will find complete performable routines and literally DOZENS of variations on each one. This is NOT ONLY a book of effects ready to perform, but an exploration in creativity and adaptation.

Automata takes the effort out of the method and allows you to focus everything on presentation!

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Banquet or "after dinner" shows offer one of the most lucrative fields to the working magician In every town or city, every day, banquets are held where entertainment is needed In this book, David Charvet and a panel of experts share the real secrets of how to succeed in this market.

**You Will Learn...**

•Contracts
•Choosing tricks & routines
•Before you arrive
•Pre-contract questions
•Follow-up & repeat bookings
•Audience anticipation
•Advertising and booking
•Using agents
•What clients look for in an act
•Illusions for banquets
•The show site
•At the show
•Theming effects
•Lighting & sound
•Types of banquets and which ones use entertainment
•AND MORE!

This short but sneaky version of the Cups and Balls is a good way to get acquainted with the essential handling and presenting of this classic of magic.

Although the following is designed as an introduction to Cups and Balls for the student of magic, it is a complete and audience tested performance piece as well. Ron Bauer has used this act since the very beginning of his magic career, and it is as amusing to the public now as it was back then. You can use it sitting or standing. With the main version of the trick, you never go to your pockets. And, that's just one of the reasons the angles used are so safe.

Although this technique takes more than a dozen pages to explain, this entire presentation runs fewer than two minutes. It's slick and quick. You'll have a lot of fun performing it. And, your audiences will, too.

Cups and Balls Principles Covered:

Secretly Substituting a Duplicate
Keeping a ball hidden in a cup as you place it mouth down onto the table
Applying a rhythmic pattern for style
Occupying the holdout hand to avoid suspicion
Surreptitiously making the final load (Innovative Approach)

Basic Skill with Cards
by Jerry Mentzer

Effect

Basic Skill With Cards A basic reference book for people who want to learn fundamental card handling skills! It contains no tricks, but includes chapters on topics such as "Forcing", "False Shuffles”, "Palming", etc. Each chapter contains methods that combine simplicity of working with maximum usefulness. Even if you know a lot about card magic, you will want this book for you reference shelf! Profusely illustrated with photographs, soft-bound, 76 pages in length.

These 560 pages are crammed full of good to great to terrific magic. By great people. Over 120 card effects, routines, ideas-including Ace Sandwich, Future Change, Fast Stack, Sum Hummer, Fascinating Pair, Sweet Four-Card Change, Vanishing Aces, Strategy, Unshuffled, Reversatility, That`s Incredible, Miracle Time, Force Feed...from people like Tom Mullica, Martin Nash, Larry Jennings, Charles Hudson, Terry Lagerould, Tom Craven, Ed Marlo, Allan Ackerman, Ken Krenzel, Phil Goldstein, Herb Zarrow, J.K. Hartman, Jim Swain, Paul Gertner, Jon Racherbaumer, Bob Farmer, Bernard Bilis, and many more. You`ll even find some effects and routines of my own. And you`ll enjoy the short biographies of some of your favorite people. - Harry Lorayne

The combined talents of these two writers bring you thirteen diabolical and simple-to-do mentalism effects in one incredible book! Most of the items use cards, and there is also a rope-tie and an interesting effect using coins. You`ll learn Into the Mirror, Superman`s Eyes, Bogus and ten other sensational routines! This easy-to-read, easy-to-do mentalism book will be a great addition to your magic library! 51 Pages, Staple-Bound

Big Laughs for Little People gives readers an opportunity to go backstage with a real pro and watch the show from behind the scenes. In a word, the book is tremendous." -Fetaque Sanders

This book features 15 complete routines of magic and comedy, guaranteed to get great audience reactions. You'll read Sammy Smith's complete patter, word-for-word, from start to finish for each effect. You'll learn how to say the patter -- when to pause and what tone of voice to use -- to get the best response. Of course, you'll want to adapt these routines to fit your own personality, but learning from the author's more than 20 years' experience in entertaining children will save you valuable time and give you crucial information on how to get big laughs from little people.
Routines range from original effects to new presentations of classics. You'll read Sammy's handling of time-tested classics such as Cut and Restored Rope, Multiplying Billiard Balls, and Miser's Dream. And you'll find his original effects such as Headband Blendo, all updated from the first edition of Big Laughs for Little People with the latest improvements for the 21st century!
In addition to the kid-show routines, Sammy shares his best tips and advice for entertaining children, learned from literally thousands of performances. This is a textbook on entertaining children with comedy and magic which every kid-show performer should own and use. The comments which a prominent children's performer made about the original edition of this book are even more valid with this newly revised and updated edition.

Routines include:

Headband Blendo (new version)
Super Frog
Vanishing Candle
Snake Cake Bake
Jasper the Friendly Ghost
Skip It! (Cut and Restored Rope)
The Magic Knot Tube (updated)
The Extra-Celestial (hilarious puppet routine)
Tricky Bottles (updated)
Invisible Flying Silk Scarf
Polar Thermometers
Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus (Strat-O-Sphere)
Maxwell the Monster (Soft Soap)
Multiplying Billiard Balls
Cash Surprises (coin routine)
...and more!

This booklet covers every nuance of billet work. Allen Zingg not only covers peeks, but several other billet techniques.

Also included with Allen's general explanation of billet work are several routines, so you can get to work right away.

Contents Include:

- The Natural One-handed switch
- Driv-In Movie
- Coordinated Two-Hand Switch
- The Automatic Fold Switch
- The Power of Imagination
- Suggestion!
- Five Important Questions


Bonus Techniques and Routines:

- Pivot Billet Switch
- The Pivot Pass
- Personality Palm
- Psychometric Palms

Bird's Eye
by Raymonde Crow

Effect

From the Author of, As the Crow Flies comes another great book. Not being the biggest name in the magic world Raymonde Crow is continuing to sell several copies of his books and he continues to received outstanding reviews from all that have critiqued them. this new book is great for emphasizing the entertainment and amazement factors of your act, without any real difficult sleights or maneuvers. For the more advanced magicians this could be used as a great teaching aid, also... in short this is a truly versatile book for magicians.

The new, revised edition of the Birthday Magician's Handbook-totally redesigned, edited and illustrated, updating Dave's original material as necessary in light of current developments. Completing the final details of this new edition is an up-to-date listing of the best available books, video and cassette tape resources about the business of performing for children, recommended by "whiz-kid" magicians, David Ginn and Samuel Patrick Smith.

Vanish Half Your Body In the Blink of an Eye

Andrew Mayne presents a brand-new effect for the solo illusionist. At any time during your show you make half of your body completely disappear in the blink of an eye, then just as quickly you return to normal.

You can perform this effect any time and anywhere, there's even a method included to perform it surrounded. The 12-page, fully photo-illustrated booklet contains step-by-step instructions for building the apparatus and performing the effect.

Have you ever been in the middle of a routine and just wish you had a quick zinger to throw in while mentally preparing for your next feat? How about awkward silence or room-full-of-strangers tension? Whatever the reason or no reason at all, this latest offering from the mind of Bill Goldman is sure to get a laugh. This short booklet is packed with gags using extremely simple props (if any) such as an Elmer`s glue bottle, or simply snapping one`s own fingers!

This booklet contains cool tricks and effects using only your
body! Andrew Mayne presents a collection of tricks, effects
and stunts using only your body. Suspend your body
vertically from a pole in mid-air. Shrink yourself as you
walk down a corridor. Vanish your head. Remove your fingers.
Twist your neck in an impossible way.

Also included is Footloose

make one leg pass through the other.
Never be caught unprepared!

Never has there been a more articulate manifesto declaring magic a true art. And never has one man offered a more detailed and coherent plan for achieving art by the practice of magic.

Through a series of tricks, routines and essays, Tommy Wonder provides a clear blueprint for an uncompromising brand of magical theater. Along the way he explains his professional routines for Close-up. Stand-up, Walk-around and Stage.

Among them are...The Updated Two Cup Routine; Watch in Nest of Boxes, 3 methods; Wild Card Tamed; The Watch, the Ring & the Wallet; The Well-tempered Birdcage; and 50 other card tricks, routines and sleights.

The Books of Wonder is a set of two luxuriously produced, matched volumes, each containing approximately 340 pages of extraordinary material with 630 professional illustrations by Kelly Lyles.

Never has there been a more articulate manifesto declaring magic a true art. And never has one man offered a more detailed and coherent plan for achieving art by the practice of magic.

Through a series of tricks, routines and essays, Tommy Wonder provides a clear blueprint for an uncompromising brand of magical theater. Along the way he explains his professional routines for Close-up. Stand-up, Walk-around and Stage.

Among them are...The Updated Two Cup Routine; Watch in Nest of Boxes, 3 methods; Wild Card Tamed; The Watch, the Ring & the Wallet; The Well-tempered Birdcage; and 50 other card tricks, routines and sleights.

The Books of Wonder is a set of two luxuriously produced, matched volumes, each containing approximately 340 pages of extraordinary material with 630 professional illustrations by Kelly Lyles.

This manuscript details the use of one of the most storied and effective magic marking systems available, the boon. From the construction of a boon to the proper uses and routines, this booklet has it all. The magic that can be achieved with this little item is truly breathtaking. You can perform high-level mentalism and impossible predictions that will get people talking.

Simon’s collected early works, compiled in one volume. Contains the complete texts of his first three books, The Card Ideas of Simon Aronson (1978), A Stack to Remember (1979) and Shuffle-bored (1980). Includes Red See Passover, Simon’s Favorite Card Trick, Mis-mate, Simon’s underground treatise on the memorized deck principles (that started the current wave of memorized miracles), an entire chapter on subtle uses of the advertising card, Under Cover Four Play, Ad-Jacent, and the original presentation of the Aronson stack (with three different poker deals, a perfect bridge hand, spelling combinations, a blackjack deal, and more). Shuffle-bored presents Simon’s self-working, totally hands-off card miracle: without any questions, outs, gaffs, ambiguities or moves – and without ever touching the cards – the performer announces exactly how many cards are face up, in a spectator freely shuffled deck! plus additional effects published in Kabbala and Hierophant. 183 pages

Feed Your Head... Feed Your Magic!

Full-time professional David Parr opens his mind to present you with eight complete routines, seven close-up, one stand-up, concocted and refined in the kitchen of real-life, professional performance.

Ingredients: Bills, Coins, Cards, Werewolves, Poison, Psychology, Deviousness, Humor, Weirdness, Entertainment

Fourteen Thought-Provoking Essays: Experience, Insight, Artistry, Practicality, Sound Advice.

This book contains 136 pages of recipes for great magic that your brain and your audience will enjoy! Hardcover with 60 illustrations by Kelly Lyles.

Includes Introduction and Commentary by Eugene Burger

Based on the number of editions published, Breslaw's Last Legacy ranks as the third most popular antiquarian magic books ever published in English. This 144-page hardbound book is an exact re-print of the original 1975 edition and includes Breslaw's magic with rings, sleeve buttons, purses, swords, cards, dice, thoughts, watches, numbers, even a leg of mutton!

13 Incredible Routines by

Jon Jensen
Gary Darwin
Paul McVee
Brian Callerame
Phil Kannen
Frank Zak
and a bonus routine by Dan Harlan!
Business cards can make a great first impression. It will make a lasting impression if the recipient keeps it and shows it to all his friends! What Jon Jensen has done is collected a whole mess of original business card effects from working professionals so that you can actually entertain people as you give out your card!

by KOTAH and Ronald J. Dayton

A unique and varied collection of magic, this 121-page book is best described by the following excerpt from the book's Foreword:

...

Though oceans of material flood from Mr. Dayton's prolific mind, the magical ideas he puts forth are always sound in method and straightforward in application.

With his combination of historical knowledge, concentrated ability to work out magical gimmicks, and a focused creativity which allows wonderful stories to unfold magically, one encounters a rare commodity in the Magical World indeed: A "thinking-magician's magician."

You're holding in your hands a thoughtful volume of some of Ron's (and Kotah's) most prized work.

In this book you'll find a range of magic you can actually perform... close-up, cabaret, parlor, even on stage. You'll find concepts and ideas that will inspire you and transport your imagination to new places.

You'll discover that the magic genre known as "Bizarre Magic" is not just for a chosen or peculiar few, but consists of emotionally satisfying stores, presentations, and magic... each and every magician can incorporate into his repertoire to refresh his show and elevate his art.

Like any raging fire, Ron thrives on fuel... and that fuel is often in the comments and feedback he receives from other performers, so if anything... or everything... if this volume moves you, excites you, or motivates you to change and improve the way you do your Magic, write him and let him know.

Dear Reader, the future of Magic is yours, and the Art is within your own hands!

Magically,

Walt Anthony

Spellbinder Entertainment

San Francisco, Summer 2005

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 materialize at your fingertips when someone concentrates on them, selections that pop from the middle of the pack with the flip of your wrist...and seventeen other extraordinary events.

Roy Benson By Starlight
by Levent and Todd Karr

Roy Benson was a legendary performer: a brilliant magician whose ingenious techniques baffled his peers, a superb manipulator, and a daring comedy magician considered far ahead of his time. In Roy Benson by Starlight, you can finally learn his most sought-after secrets.

The book includes over fifty incredible effects and sleights, including the famous Benson Bowl Routine, Long Salt Pour, Billiard Balls, Linking Rings, Miser’s Dream, card moves, coin effects, stage magic, close-up, and comedic routines.

You'll also learn from Benson’s essays on presentation and showmanship and the complete text of Benson’s lost book The Second Oldest Profession and his scarce Benson on Magic booklet.

Roy Benson by Starlight also features a complete biography of Roy Benson and an entire section on Benson's teacher, Nate Leipzig, with twenty Leipzig effects, Leipzig's autobiography, and dozens of rare Leipzig photos.

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