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by Jim Rosenbaum

From the wild bar scenes of Los Angeles to the renowned cuisine of the restaurants in Napa Valley, California is known for its nightlife. Jim Rosenbaum has worked in the California nightlife for many years and this book is a culmination of his experience.

California Bar Tricks contains a collection of 50 magic tricks, mind teasers, and challenges using common bar and restaurant items; guaranteed to amuse, confuse, and amaze. This fully illustrated book is an invaluable asset for all bar magicians and restaurant performers; as well as amateurs and laypersons alike. Jim gives you all the details for performing these stunningly clever and entertaining routines. California Bar Tricks is a must for restaurant professionals, or anyone looking to shine at the next cocktail party.

Tricks include:

Balancing Silverware
Aqua Dime
Electric Personality
Dollar Bridge
…and many more!

More than just a magic book, Christian Chelman's Capricornian Tales takes the reader into strange, uncharted territory with presentations that will chill the heart and challenge the sensibilities of any audience.

Written in a narrative style that combines the effects, presentations and methods into compelling and highly entertaining stories, this book has become a neo-classic of bizarre magick.

Hardbound with dustjacket.

There weren't as many magic books available back in 1978 as there are now. But one thing was the same then as it is now - there weren't/aren't many magic books published that contained/contain really great stuff. Wonderful stuff! Usable stuff!

"When Ken Krenzel performed the material in this book for me I knew then and there how good it was, and what a great contribution it'd be to the art I love - card magic. It took all my persuasive powers to get Ken to agree to let me write, teach and publish all the material he'd performed for me. I'm so glad that he finally did agree. What an awful loss it would have been to anyone who does, or wants to do, card magic, to the magic fraternity, if I hadn't persuaded him, if he hadn't agreed.
Yes, it was some time back. And if anything can be said to have stood the test of time, passed the test of time, it can be said of the ideas, effects, routines, in this book. They are as fresh and stimulating, as clean and precise, as intriguing and clever, as exhilarating and important, today as they were then, and have been through the years. And, you'll fool (and entertain) magicians and laymen with them now just as you could have done, or did, back then.Over eighty items broken down into nine exciting sections. I've heard and read, many times, that there is no better handling and description of the Classic Pass than there is in Section Seven of this book. Along with eleven other passes, including the Mechanical Reverse, which has become a standard of card handling, The K-E Pass (beautiful, and so easy to do), The One-Card Middle Pass, The Dribble Pass, and more. The Eerie Spin-Out which, if you'll forgive a rusty platitude, is worth the price of the book even if you paid five times the established price. As I say in my Last Word, you'll use it for the rest of your life; there's no way you can put a price on it. You'll find easy-to-do sleights like The Natural Double Lift, The Pressure Hideout, The Invisible Reverse Transfer. The One-Card Double Lift is an exquisite fooler. So is The Optical Sandwich, The Miracle Multiple Peek and, oh - The Magic Bullet! There's One-Hand Stop - the spectator 'stops'at his own card, The Impromptu Haunted Deck and The Front Tilt - and Force-Eps, The Fan Steal, The Squeeze Steal, The Broadside Steal. Do you like to practice? Well, Section Eight includes Bottom, Center, and Second Deals - Ken's handling, my teaching (if that means anything to you). I've added my two or three cents with an idea or two of my own and with my inevitable Afterthoughts. I could go on and on, but I won't. I've had so many calls, requests, for this book through the years, but it wasn't available. Aren't you lucky - it is now!" - Louis Falanga

Hardcover, full-color dust jacket, 256 pages.

The first volume in this landmark course sets the groundwork for the rest of the series, beginning with lessons on the proper ways to hold, deal and shuffle the cards, then progressing through many basic sleights and techniques, including perhaps the most thorough and revealing discussion of the classic force ever offered. Along with the classics of card magic, Mr. Giobbi includes original ideas and refinements from his own repertoire, guaranteeing every reader, no matter how experienced, fresh techniques and insights into the performance of professional caliber card magic! Some of the topics covered in Volume One include:
The Tools of Card Magic
Fundamental Techniques
The Overhand Shuffle
The Riffle Shuffle
False Cuts
Transfer Cuts
Card Controls
Card Forces
The Glide
The Double Lift
The Hindu Shuffle
Flourishes
The Spread Cull
The Top Change
The Key Card
Auxiliary Sleights

Book sold individually.

Picking up where Volume One left off, Volume Two teaches such classic and invaluable sleights as the palm, the pass, the glimpse, false counts and much more. Volume Two concludes with a chapter on psychology, misdirection and presentation that's among the best treatments ever done on these important subjects. Throughout, Mr. Giobbi includes original ideas and refinements, guaranteeing every reader, no matter how experienced, fresh techniques and insights. Some of the topics covered in Volume Two include:
The Glimpse
Card Reverses
The Crimp
Palming
False Cuts
False Counts
The Pass
The Overhand Shuffle
Flourishes
The Double Turnover
Misdirection
Psychology
Routining
Presentation

Volume Three contains instruction on such invaluable sleights as the push-off double turnover, one-handed top palm, the Ascanio spread, gambler's cop, the Vernon addition, false displays and riffle shuffles, the convincing control, the Olram subtlety, and much more-including many powerful card tricks and routines. Mr. Giobbi includes original ideas and refinements, guaranteeing every reader fresh techniques and insights. Some of the topics covered in Volume Three include:
The Biddle Steal
The K.M. Move
Breaks, Steps & Injogs
Advanced Palming
Card Controls
The Zarrow Shuffle
Advanced Double Lifts
Multiple Shifts
The Pull-Through Shuffle
The Faro Shuffle
Color Changes
The Side Steal
The Diagonal Palm Shift
False Counts and Displays

Learn such invaluable sleights as the invisible pass, the turnover and spread passes, the Christ twist, second and bottom deals, the Jinx change, the Green angle separation, the cut force, the dribble force, and much more-including many tricks and routines by Mr. Giobbi himself. Some of the topics covered in Volume Four include:
Forcing Techniques
Card & Packet Reversals
Advanced Passes
Culling & Stacking
Half Passes
Tilt
Sandwich Techniques
More Flourishes
Lapping
Card & Packet Switches
Estimation
Deck Switches
False Deals
Structural Theory

It's finally here! In the fifth volume of the acclaimed Card College series, Roberto Giobbi has prepared a graduation party! In previous volumes the reader has been given a remarkable collection of tools for creating astonishing card magic. In the same vein, Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of new techniques and strategies, which include methods for covertly arranging stacks during performance, obtaining a duplicate of a spectator's signature with his knowledge, and secretly conveying cards to and from the deck-powerful tools indeed.

But then Volume 5 diverges from the established Card College formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number of tools in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with tricks and routines that illustrate how various techniques are applied to create world-class card magic. These effects, however, are not mere constructions meant for teaching. Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's professional repertoire-and because of this, even the classics of card magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds refinements won from years of performing experience.

His choice of material is impeccable, featuring not only original effects and handlings of his own, but tricks and routines by world-masters as well. One finds such gems as Fred Kaps' presentation for The Signed Card in Box, along with Giobbi's cunning treatment of this modern classic, Henry Christ's fabulous Ace routine and a superb handling of a forgotten masterpiece by Charlie Miller. And everything is taught with the clarity and attention to detail for which the Card College series has become known. Open this book and welcome to the party-prepare to graduate! Some of the topics covered in Volume Five include:

Making Secret Setups
False Shuffles
Obtaining Duplicate Signatures
Quick Tricks
Openers and Routines with the Aces
Favorite Effects
Gambling Demonstrations
Mental Mysteries
All in all, Volume Five features 34 professional-caliber routines that have astounded audiences the world over.

Practical Methods and Forty Original Card Experiments

This profusely illustrated book demonstrates, step-by-step, the astonishing card magic cultivated by one of the premier sleight-of-hand artists of the 20th century. It presents maneuvers that have left theater audiences amazed and that card-playing professionals have used to great advantage.

Card Control is not a book for beginners, but it will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance in their art. Among the moves included are shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans and steals. You'll learn how to do the false table riffle shuffle, how to deal from the bottom, how to know an opponent's hole card, how to "warm up a cold deck" and much more. In addition, the author presents 40 dazzling deceptions guaranteed to amaze your audience: Confusion, Birds of a Feather, The Ambitoous Card, A Brilliant Climax, Your Favorite Ace, A Quickie, The Obtrusive Queens and many more. Over 300 photographs show the practitioner's exact hand positions during each critical move.

Australian-born Arthur H. Buckley became well known in America for the magic he worked with cards on the major vaudeville ciruits of the 1920s. Schooled by the great sleight-of-hand artists he met in the entertainment business and by professional gamblers he met in his early years touring Australia, his absolute mastery of the most artful and demanding card-handling routines was legendary. In 1946, he wrote this practical guide revealing in detailed the secrets of his art. Any magician or card conjurer who aspires to the utmost proficiency in card manipulation will want to have this indispensable reference in his or her library.

Paperbound, 219 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages, 302 photographs.

Imagine....

You sense the colors of playing cards through a solid table.

You stack four Poker hands in less than ten seconds.

You kick any named number of cards off a tabled deck.

You put chaos to order.

You magically move cards to any positions in the pack at will.

You transpose a card from between a spectator's hands to under his watch.

You instantly memorize the order of a shuffled deck.

This booklet will not enable you to any of those things. Most of them are, after all, impossible. Fortunately, however, we can make our spectators experience these impossibilities anyway. We do that by creating fictions, In this case Card Fictions.

It may sound obvious, but it is this simple realization that makes magic as a performing art possible in the first place: Evoking the feeling of impossibility does not require actually doing the impossible. However, it will always require a team-effort. A fiction is created in somebody's mind. Equipped with those marvels called human perception and the human mind our spectators play a necessary and active part in the process. All that we performers do is to provide adequate input. Then we lean back and relax as the spectators themselves spontaneously and effortlessly complete the job and create fascinating, impossible - magical - fictions.

What People Are Saying:

"A triumph of brevity, creativity and quality from beginning to end."
– Eric Mead – (Genii magazine)

"High-caliber thinking at its best. Highly recommended"
– Michael Close – (MAGIC magazine)

"This stuff is beyond clever"
–Max Maven–

"Somebody like Pit Hartling comes along only once in twenty years – at best"
– Roberto Giobbi –

"Quite simply one of the best card books I've read in years"
– Simon Aronson –

Card File Two contains eight chapters and 58 top quality tricks and items by very clever card men. Profusely illustrated by Richard Bartram, Jr.
Chapters Include:

Great Packet Stuff
Assorted Card Magic
More on Hummer
Mostly Self Working
Newcomers
Sleights, Skills and a Great Card Routine
and more!

Hardbound, 184 Pages, Fully Illustrated, 7"x10"

Jerry Mentzer has written numerous books of magic including five "all cards" books, the well known Card Cavalcade series. That series of books contained some of the finest new card magic of the day.

CARD FILE is the largest, single collection of card magic so far by the author. 74 tricks, moves and ideas! 237 pages, profusely illustrated with clear line drawings.

CARD FILE emphasizes complete effects as opposed to moves and sleights. Where moves and sleights are described, they are used in the effects described. The card magic ranges from very easy, nearly self-working tricks through the gamut of tricks requiring standard skills, to advanced magic which requires skills which will be new to most readers. Most of the book»s content is previously unpublished. And most of the tricks in the book can be performed with ungimmicked playing cards.

The card magician should find many tricks and ideas of immediate interest,and use!

The centers of any two cards are openly torn out creating a pair of impromptu "rings." These cardboard rings, which can be signed, are instantly linked together! The two cards are actually seen to be connected through one another. The linked cards are then magically disconnected and are both immediately handed out for examination. A new principle in penetrations enables you to perform this close-up linking ring routine under test conditions without resorting to special gimmicks, gaffs, switches or key rings. Completely impromptu - can be done with any deck 32 pages with 31 illustrations

More than 50 items from "the thinking magician's magician," Jon Racherbaumer. With 156 crystal-clear photographs, Card Fixes combines top-quality production with professional, state-of-the-art card magic. If you enjoyed At the Table, Marlo Without Tears or Card Finesse, you'll love Card Fixes.

Hardbound with Dust Jacket, 200 Pages

In ancient Rome there was a horn from which the riches of the world flowed. Now, from the fertile mind of John Carney, magicians have a new source of magical riches at their disposal.

Within the pages of Carneycopia are taught the prized secrets of one of today's most creative and magical entertainers-John Carney. Here is the close-up of which he is proudest; magic that has won its creator the acclaim of his peers and the public alike. Each routine, trick and sleight is taught in painstaking detail. Here, waiting to amaze your audiences, is a compendium of close-up magic, formulated on the classic values of entertainment and baffling mystery.

Written by Stephen Minch
Hardbound, 266 Pages and Fully Illustrated

By Paul Harris. Continues with some 75 effects of which 16 are new. Hard back, 320 pages, 8-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches. fully illustrated.
Effects covered in volume 2:-
Counterfeit Spectator - On a borrowed dollar bill, the printed signature of the Treasurer of the United States transforms into the spectator's name.
Swiss Movement - An ingenious P.H. discovery enables you to mysteriously animate an ungimmicked Swiss Army Knife. Completely impromptu; works with any Swiss Army Knife...anytime.
Cincinnati Two-Faced Blues - Two of these pesky advertising cards that clutter up your deck are accidentally selected...and then transformed into an impossible object that was secretly already there.
Fizz-Master - Cause the carbonation to travel magically from one soda to another. Absolutely killer...completely impromptu.
McGimmick - You levitate a milkshake using only your finger...then you completely vanish the milkshake leaving only its crumpled container.
Osmosis - European genius, Sylvain Mirouf's four-phase Linking Card masterpiece using just two single cards! An incredible new principle. Is it better than Immaculate Connection or Cardboard Connection? All three are in this book, so you can decide yourself!

By Paul Harris. Continues with some 76 effects of which 14 are new and a master index to all three books. Hard back, 320 pages, 8-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches. fully illustrated.
Effects covered in volume 3:-
The Anything Deck - Place a small packet of cards under the case...ANY word or name is called out...you spread the packet to reveal the exact same word, written in thin black marker across the backs of the cards. A completely new principle for releasing deep astonishment.
Peanut Butter & Jellyfish - An anytime levitation of your favorite snack. Works just as well with burgers and fish fillets.
Bat Fishing - A spectator brings out any dollar and fairly selects eight cards. The numbers on the eight cards astonishingly match all eight serial numbers on the dollar...and you never touched the bill or the cards!
Leaf - You tear a leaf off someone's house plant...then press the torn stem back against the branch...where it takes root and restores itself back into a healthy growing leaf.
The Shuffling Lesson - You sit back and enjoy the show while you induce a spectator to unknowingly stack, false shuffle, then false cut a deck all by herself...so that she can deal herself the winning hand.

Magicians featured in this issue include: Paul Aberstat, Kostya Kimlat, Syd Segal, Mike Graham, David Nelson, Paul Cummins, Lee Asher, Kip Pascal, Eric Grossman, Daniel Garcia, Paul Chosse.

Effects in this Issue:

- PSIncerely Yours - Paul Aberstat

- Hofzinger's Aristocrat - Kostya Kimlat & Syd Segal

- Under Pressure - Mike Graham

- Beginner's Corner - David Nelson

- MC Hammer Change - Paul Cummins

- Quality Control - Lee Asher & Kip Pascal

- Sow's Ear - Eric Grossman

- Ego Slip - Daniel Garcia

- Chosse's Crossing - Paul Chosse

One of the legendary figures in the history of card magic, Charles T. Jordan (1888-1944) is known for the astonishing range of his inventive ability, the subtlety of his thinking and the fact that so many of his creations have become magic classics.

Although he did not perform in public, he profoundly influenced later generations of magicians and his writings embody many of the fundamental principles used in card magic today.

In this volume, one of today's best-known writers on magic has compiled a wealth of Jordan's most impressive card tricks-impromptu tricks, banded deck tricks, stacked deck tricks, sleight-of-hand tricks, prepared card tricks, shuffle systems, four ace tricks, tricks using stripper decks and one-way decks and many more. Now, you can learn amazing feats of card manipulation that not only baffle laymen but fool professional magicians as well. To aid the amateur performer, Karl Fulves has completely rewritten each trick, added explanatory details where necessary, and suggested simpler alternative techniques to complicated or advanced methods.

By following the carefully written and illustrated instructions in this book you can add these mystifying manipulations to your card conjuring repertoire: The Incomprehensible Destroyed Card, The Triple Escape, Psychic Prediction, Quadruple Concentration, Bewildero, An Impromptu Detection, Satan's Prophecy, The Demonic Color Change, Long-Distance Mind Reading, The Bewitched Aces, The Master Riddle, The Electrified Strippers, The Stabbed Pair and scores of others.

Paperbound, 272 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages, 265 illustrations.

In Italy, the word "magic" is synonymous among the general public with the name Tony Binarelli. Throughout the continent, he is respected among his peers for his creative and entertaining magic. Now, for the first time, English speaking magicians can learn what Europe has known for years: the brilliant magical thoughts and innovations of a master magician!

Written by Gary Ouellet, with hundreds of photographs, between these covers lies a world-class collection of close-up, stage and mental magic with cards, matches, whiskey bottles, movie posters, bills, novels, clothing and more, and a major section on Wallet Magic that is truly worth the price of the book!

All of this material has been tested live and on television! Included are such reputation-makers as:

RESURRECTION: A fabulously clean and easy destroyed-and-restored borrowed bill!
THE CINCINNATI KID POKER DEAL: Gary Ouellet calls it "The best poker deal ever published or sold, bar none, no exceptions!".
GHOST MATCHES: The magician, hands clearly empty, borrows a handful of matches and causes them to penetrate a table-top and fall onto a spectators’ open palm. This is really a fooler!


And much more! Plus the SLYDINI FALSE CUT and the SLYDINI FALSE SHUFFLE, two sleights that were an integral part of Tony’s F.I.S.M. award-winning act! Hardbound, full color dustjacket, 197 pages.

An Unabridged Reprint of "Modern Coin Manipulation"

The art of the coin trick is one of the fundamentals of legerdemain, and T. Nelson Downs was an unparalleled master of the craft.

In 1900 the self-proclaimed "King of Koins" published an extensive account of his new and original coin sleights and tricks, "Embracing Every Sleight and Subtlety Invented and Known."

That rare volume is now reprinted here. It features detailed explanations and diagrams of numerous feats with coins-most prominent among them the author's world-famous original creation, "The Miser's Dream," a much-imitated act climaxing in the production of a shower of half-dollars. In this complete manual of the art of conjuring with coins, Downs shares his secrets for scores of "fakes" and sleights, including passing a coin through the bottom of a hat, the money-producing cigarette, the mysterious claret glass, the crystal coin ladder, the obedient coins, and many more. He also offers a wealth of suggestions for stage "business" involving handkerchiefs, goblets, hats and other props, as well as helpful tips on presentation, patter and other techniques.

By following the clear, concise instructions in this book, both professional and amateur magicians can expand their sleight-of-hand repertoires to include a host of baffling and amazing tricks sure to dazzle and delight any audience. What's more, this volume offers a superb introduction to the wit and artistry of one of the acknowledged masters of the field.

Paperbound, 272 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages, 150 illustrations.

A new book from Paul Osborne that is a must for any real student of illusions. The ultimate resource book on building and performing these classic illusions.

Every detail of these popular illusions is covered from complete building plans on several versions of these props to performance tips and detailed photos. Featured are plans for Tom Palmer's Candy Doll House, and the Don Rose Doll House, as well as several versions of the Sawing, Sub Trunk and Modern Cabinet, and Sword Cabinet, Super Suspension, Crystal Casket, Cargo Cage and Zig Zag This is the only book of its kind in the world and a must for every student of illusions and the serious illusionist's library.

Paul Harris has created some of the most original magic effects ever invented, and Close-Up Fantasies (Books 1 and 2 combined together) contains 117 pages of classic Paul Harris material.

(Hardbound.)

19 vintage Paul Harris creations, including: The Vacuum Cleaner Card Case, Torn and Restored Deck, Thumb Break, Very Strange Exchange, Just Call Me Mr. Wonderful, The Incredible Shrinking Hand, Electric Aces and more.

Hardbound, 175 pages.

This is the magic routine of Daniel Cros direct from the Desert Inn Casino in Las Vegas. This booklet includes Daniel's lecture notes and eight of his best effects.

Effects Included:

Coins through the glass
The Paper Chase
Thimble Routine
The Three Shell Game
Silver Dollar and Penny Exchange
Half Dollars Pass Under Hands on Table
Silk to Egg Routine

Close-Up Seductions
by Paul Harris

Effect

Paul Harris has created some of the most original effects ever invented in magic and in Close-up Seductions Paul reveals many more of these fine routines. Another classic Paul Harris publication.

(Hardbound)
(152 pages)

"This stuff's so clever it's criminal!"

These words were uttered by Max Maven shortly after reading David Regal's Close-Up & Personal. Fortunately, Regal has managed to escape prosecution, due not only to his inventiveness, wit and originality in magic, but also to his success as a comedy performer and television writer. David's magic twelve years ago so impressed Harry Lorayne, he wrote and published David's first book-Star Quality: The Magic of David Regal. Lorayne's title proved prophetic, and after seeing the contents of Close-Up & Personal, his comment was, "He'll fool the hell out of you."

David Regal is a popular performer at The Magic Castle, just one of the locations where he audience-honed the material presented in this volume. Close-Up & Personal contains, in the words of Ken Krenzel, "An abundance of novel, offbeat gems."
Close-Up & Personal contains seventy-two of David's best performance pieces, described with care and in detail, accompanied by hundreds of photographs. If you seek close-up trickery that surprises, entertains and amazes both the public and jaded peers alike, you must read Close-Up & Personal!

This beautiful hard cover book is an in-depth look at David Costi's life and work as a magician. David's magic though not well known worldwide, is well regarded by his fellow magicians. The 144 pages of illustrations and explanations is a valuable resource for any magician.

What People Are Saying:

"I have discovered that you are my twin soul." -- Arturo de Ascanio

"Most men have two dimensions, they are tall and wide, Davide has the third dimension, he is deep!" -- Rene Lavand

"Davide Costi is a refined gentle performer. He prefers his puzzlements to be blown kisses rather than buffeting blows. There is something merciful in his manner and he truly wishes to share whatever mystery may occur, telling whichever stories ring most true. His climatic noble effect, where two cards matched, stunned even fastest company!" -- Jon Racherbaumer

CLOSE-UP FILE is a collection of magic which uses no playing cards. This larger collection of magic contains 35 complete routines in 195 pages and is profusely illustrated with line drawings.

Jerry Mentzer has written numerous books of magic including the well-known Close-Up Cavalcade and Card Cavalcade series. Previous books contained some of the finest close-up magic of the day.

CLOSE-UP FILE emphasizes complete effects as opposed to moves and sleights. Where moves and sleights are described, they are used in the effects described. The card magic ranges from very easy, nearly self-working tricks through the gamut of tricks requiring standard skills, to advanced magic which requires skills which will be new to most readers.

Most of the tricks described can be performed with props most magicians already have on hand. Much of the book»s content is previously unpublished.

The close-up magician should find many tricks and ideas of immediate interest and use!

This far reaching and influential work contains many magical masterpieces including Gary's Touch Force, his Paradise Counts, his remarkable work on the Kosky change, some unbelievable coin concepts, as well as many essays on the real work. No one who loves close up magic should be without this classic book, now in its third printing. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photos, this book raised the bar on what a good magic book should be. From easy to master gems to more advanced sleights and routines, Close Up Illusions was quietly introduced in the early 80's and went on to become a cherished collector's reference work. Now Gary Ouellet's genius is once again available to the magic fraternity. More importantly, it explains the philosophy behind close up magic, from the man who was selected as one of the century's 100 most influential magicians by Magic Magazine.


Hardbound - 350 Pages

The Stone Drop - A coin invisibly flies through the air and visually appears in the palm up, empty right hand! As purely stunning for magicians as it is for laypeople.
Card in 4 Coins - The magician removes a playing card from the pack and holds it between both hands. When he opens his hands the card has changed into four coins!
Surprise Index - Incredible and easy to do
False Clink Count - This utility coin move lets you get one ahead by being one behind.
Cocoon - Magically turn one coin into four!

This booklet contains over 200 jokes, cartoons, gags, visual stunts, and one-liners custom made for magicians and mentalists. These special hints and comedic gems will tighten up your act and make your next performance a barrel of laughs!

This third volume of Invocation and The New Invocation marks the end of an era of sorts in the short history of bizarre magick. One way of defining an era is through the actions of one or more persons who played a significant role in shaping it. The one figure that stands plainly at the head of the bizarre magick movement of the 1980's is the editor of these pages, Masklyn ye Mage. For fifty-five bimonthly issues, in something more than nine years, ye Mage energized and influenced the field; and considering the handful of readers and contributors who make up the microcosm of bizarre magick, one can only wonder at the devotion that was shown by this man. This book contains the final 25 illustrated issues that were archived.

This is a comprehensive depiction of Don Alan's theories, handling, and presentation of the Chop Cup. It's his way of doing it, not merely a replication of a single performance.

THE REAL WORK on how Don loaded, got the laughs and set up for doing his classic routine. This is the first time all the subtle work has been published.

The 28 pages, with fabulous photos and drawings of "The Complete Don Alan Chop Cup" is all you could ask for and MORE.

TIME magazine has called Derek Dingle, "...the greatest card manipulator extant," and from his television appearances with Tom Snyder, Dick Cavett, Barbara Walters, and Mike Douglas to his many contributions to Genii, Apocalypse, The pallbearer's Review, Epilogue and Innovations he has consistently proven TIME to be correct: there is no one else like Derek Dingle.

There are over 120 items with cards, coins, and cigarettes in The Complete Works Of Derek Dingle, his first book in over a decade, and it's really two books in one. While containing the 60 or so classic routines which have already appeared in print, most of which he has substantially improved (the originals unavailable in out-of-print magazines), it also has about 60 never before released sleights, effects, and routines. Among them:

Four Handlings of The Classic Pass
Deluxe Double Color-Changing Aces
Ultra Clean Slot Machine
Two-Fisted Deck Switch
World's Fastest Card Under Glass
Super Floating Card
Copper Silver Brass (The Silent Steal)
Post It!
Inflation
Complete Torn and Restored Card
A Case of Kings
The Restoration Assembly (as performed by Doug Henning on TV)
Every nuance of technique, every line of patter, every ingredient that makes Derek's magic so special is captured by Richard Kaufman, on of magic's most innovative writers and illustrators. With over 11,000 words of text and 800 illustrations the very essence of Dingle's magic is clearly taught as never before.

Hardbound and Fully Illustrated

Pages 219

Innovative Material from Roberto Giobbi, Pit Hartling, Magic Christian, Wittus Witt, Piet Forton and many more!

Concertos for Pasteboard features a remarkable breadth of material for today's card magicians. The tricks, which are helpfully classified for skill level, range from nearly sleightless to technically demanding, and their potential to surprise and amaze is consistently high. In total, this substantial volume contains enough variety, quality, entertainment and ingenuity to please the most experienced readers and performers of card magic.

29 Creations from German and Swiss Masters 246 Pages, Hardcover, Fully Illustrated