This book teaches card tricks, and it assumes the reader is a beginner. It starts with basic controls, then moves on to forces, false shuffles, palming, changes, peeks, and flourishes. Next comes a se...
This is another book that contains a huge amount of material. Book one is entirely on card magic, and has some very clever items. The effect by Edward Victor (page 51) is worth the price of the book....
Professor Hoffman presents Miscellaneous Conjuring Tricks. The material presented in this volume is invaluable for the parlor and stage conjurer. It includes explanations for many classic magic piec...
This is a book by Harry Leat containing a variety of essays, poems, ideas, methods, and original tricks. It is very unique in it’s style and will give you quite a different experience than what you ar...
When Joe Karson invented Zombie he had no idea how popular it would become. This booklet has tips on adjusting the gimmick, as well as some great suggestions on presentation, handlings, and even a bri...
Here is a booklet with many practical ideas for this popular effect. There are patter suggestions, presentation variations, a way of combining the trick with the Twentieth Century Silks, and even a wa...
Howard Thurston’s masterful personality, witty speech, clever acting, and uncanny psychology, coupled with his love for children, had endeared him in the hearts of Americans. This books give informat...
Harry Leat designed and built ingenious apparatus, and this book has some of his finer creations. There is an improved card frame, a box that allows you to continually produce any prop required for yo...
Charles Jordan was a genius, and his specialty was card magic. His work with a pre-arranged deck was ahead of its time, as he allowed the spectator to shuffle the cards. There are also several super c...
The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe (1594) is a novel set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. Jack Wilton describes his adventures during the wars against the French, and his travels in...
Dr. E.G. Ervin was a dentist and amateur magician with a knack for coming up with clever methods for existing effects. Here you will find magic with coins, cigarettes, billets, eggs, as well glasses o...
These are “The Senator’s” lecture notes, and contain several card effects, including a streamlined version of the 21 card trick. Don’t miss the very funny mini-lecture on “perseverance”....
The Red Demons were two young Americans who performed an incredible act all surrounding the use of heat and fire. Discover some of the secrets of swallowing fire, spitting fireballs, lighting lamps w...
This is an absolutely amazing card effect. Two thought-of cards, mates, appear in the same position in two different decks of cards. The cards are unprepared, and as they say in the catalogues, no ski...
There is more in this book than the story of the medicine man, the hypnotist, and the expert at shell games. The charlatan “was the foe of education, of anything that could disturb the uniform ignora...
The object of this publication is to give the busy man an opportunity to quickly view the contents of practical spirit writings and ghost show mysteries together with the simple apparatus as used by t...
Tracing the gradual growth of religious drama in England. Covers a date somewhat subsequent to the Conquest to the time of the Reformation. An account of the manner in which the people at large ente...
If you ever wanted to make a light bulb float while lighted, then this is the book for you. Burling Hull was a genius, and very prolific. He invented this miracle in 1931, and it was a sensation. Ever...
“Who is Joseffy? He is Mr. Freud, an Austrian who was born in Vienna. He is a man with a scientific trend of mind, a splendid violinist, and a master of six languages and five trades… I am not at libe...
A magic book for magicians who are just starting out, but written in a very readable way, and with a lot of helpful advice for beginners. Effects with coins, matches, slates, marbles, and handkerchief...
“Luck Loves Skill. But it takes a great artist so to conceal his art that what is really an exacting performance appears quite simple to the crowd.” – Anon. Edward Victor presents The Magic of Hands...
Discover The Magic of Louis S. Histed. The book begins with a short auto-biography followed by the magic. Louis S. Histed describes and explains a variety of effects using cards, rings, reels, tables...