This is the Dai Vernon book to rule them all. Dai Vernon was the most influential magician of the twentieth century. His vision helped to define and raise the artistry of close-up magic to a degree unequalled by any other magician then or today. His thinking pushed magic into the modern era. His con...
For my generation (and yours), these videos serve two functions. Not only do they display classic routines with great presentations and emotional hooks, but they showcase an era of television we missed by forty years. These videos are not instructional, but rather a collection of a television series...
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 ...
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...
This is a great opportunity to see the world's greatest card magician perform in his heyday. Recorded at his Chicago home in 1971, the footage isn't professional (and was never designed for release), but that's not important. What is important is that you get to see Marlo execute some of his most fa...
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...
Rusduck was a Pennsylvania police chief who wrote one of magic's most articulate magazines, The Cardiste, before his early death at 49. The Cardiste was a wonderful magazine from the 1950s that was way ahead of its time. Its author, J. Russell Duck (known to everyone as Rusduck) famously had a passi...