John Bannon is one of Vanishing Inc's favorite creators. His playful artistry with a deck of cards has a youthful energy about it that makes his creations fun to perform. In Smoke and Mirrors, Bannon teaches 31 tricks; most of which are card tricks, but with a couple of coin tricks thrown into...
This magic book will make you question everything you think about magic. Let us say that again: this magic book will make you question everything you think about magic. We’re not saying you’ll agree with everything in this book—something would be wrong if you agreed with everything in ANY book of th...
Harry Riser was part of the magic elite in its heyday. He spent considerable time with magicians such as Edward Marlo, Dai Vernon and Charlie Miller. Their influence in his material is incredibly prominent in Secrets Of An Escamoteur. There are four reasons why we recommend this book to you: 1. The ...
Redivider is a booklet containing 24 tricks and routines with cards. All of the routines pivot around one principle: palindromic stacks (also known as mirror stacks or reflected stacks, in some circles). While still not widely known, Rusduck's Stay-Stack is probably the most famous output from this ...
At the 2004 MAGIC Live! convention, Levent gave a lecture on Roy Benson. The audience were awe-struck at the sheer amount of fantastic magic that Benson created and even more so by how well Levent performed it. It was evident that Roy Benson was a legendary performer: a brilliant magician whose inge...
Your first magic book is a treat. It opens your eyes to a world never before seen. A world of tricks, secret sleight of hand and clever methods that are easier to achieve that you had originally imagined. Most people recommend that Royal Road to Card Magic be your first magic book. We don't. For the...
Simon Aronson’s stack was the only game in town, so to speak, for many years. There was always talk of Juan’s stack, but until this book was released, it was never readily available. It made an enormous splash in the marketplace, and there has been a huge surge in popularity with memorized deck work...
This booklet is essentially a best of Daniel Garcia (second cousin, twice removed of Frank Garcia). It contains the material that he lectures on and relies on in many of his impromptu performances. Our favorite items are: Ego Change Daniel's amazing color change. Daniel has slowed down the Cardini c...
From 1955 to 1979, P. Howard Lyons and his mildly crazed but brilliant crew published 36 issues of Ibidem magazine. Those issues accumulated quite a reputation as the best source for avant-garde card magic and many other curious findings. In the intervening years copies of Ibidem have been much soug...
In Self Working Table Magic, Karl Fulves taught a little enigma where you folded a piece of card into an impossible shape. It's not magic in the ordinary sense, but it does create a conversational piece and the end result of the folded card is incredibly fooling. Tom Frame has added some magic to th...