Card Forcing Techniques & Uses Compiled and Edited by Gabe Fajuri The ability to force a playing card is one of the most important techniques a magician can master. By making an unsuspecting spectator select a card of his choice, the magician creates for himself a colossal advantage. Thousands o...
Performing Magic: A Handbook on Performance for Magicians I've been reading magic books for almost 50 years, and I can categorically state that Performing Magic by Tony Middleton is the most important magical publication of them all to date. It's a masterpiece, and long, long overdue. Congratulation...
Anyone who has seen Paul work will know that he is first and foremost an entertainer. This book contains commercial routines he has used professionally for many years. Includes: The Hysterical Paul's ESP Trick Flying Eagles Travellers Diamond Aces Mandarin Coins And More! Top Magic!...
The classic paradox but in a box = Parabox. Your assistant enters a small box only just big enough to hold them, then the box is filled with another box, spears and finally opened up completely to show there's nothing inside - no two objects can occupy the same space! Utilizing a principle I have be...
Doug Edwards Packs A Wallop will enable you to pack a wallop in front of any kind of audience. There are 204 wallop-packed pages, 37 effects and routines - one Coca Cola bottle item, one scissor/rope item, one incredible bill change, and 34 doable, usable, reputation-making card items - separated in...
Note: this is the paperback version. Written by the late Roger Omanson, Out of My Hat contains some of the magic that has made David Garrard popular with audiences throughout the United States for almost 50 years and garnered him appearances at several major magic conventions. Out of My Hat includes...
Effect In the tradition of Eugene Burger, Robert E. Neale, Ariel Frailich and others, her is a collection of card tricks that will entertain your spectators as much by the magic as by the interesting presentations with which they are clothed. The tricks are based primarily on prearrangement and most...
J.C. Sum, in reviewing this book, says, It is a book I would have read cover to cover one hundred times at the start of my illusion career. He also says, If you are considering performing illusions, or already do a small-scale illusion show, but are thinking of creating a full illusion show, this bo...
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-...
The 44-page booklet that Darwin Ortiz has stated as the definitive work on the endless chain scam. A must-have for anyone interested in performing this classic swindle, Chef Anton and Whit Haydn detail the history, psychology and applications to magic in this fully-illustrated booklet....