This is a digital version of an edition of Dai Vernon’s famous “Twenty Dollar Manuscript” that was put out without authorization in the 40s and 50s. At the time, the manuscript was super rare. Now is...
A collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads telling of the lives and misdoings of vagabonds, thieves, rogues and cozeners, and giving some account of the operation of the criminal law....
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an ardent spiritualist, and in this book he explains his reasons why. There are many examples of apparent psychic phenomenon described in this book that Doyle absolutely bel...
Flat out one of the greatest magic books ever written, and one of the first magic books to have photographs. This new edition contains magic with coins, cards, balls, handkerchiefs, and more. Extremel...
The Drawing-Room Entertainer: A Practical Guide to the Art of Amateur and Semi-Professional Entertaining, With Instruction in Conjuring, Ventriloquism, Vocal and Instrumental Mimicry, etc. Second prin...
3rd Edition. Printing information on title page is as follows: Printed for A. Clark, and are to be sold by Dixy Page at the Turks-Head in Cornhill near the Royall [sic] Exchange, 1665....
The basic trick is this: a dime and a penny are placed on the palm of a spectator’s hand, which is closed over the coins. When the hand is re-opened, the dime has vanished as completely as though it h...
The Book of Magic: Being a Simple Description of Some Good Tricks and How to Do Them, With Patter. A book from 1916 that covers a lot of ground. Magic with and without apparatus, with and without ski...
Walford Bodie takes you into his world to share his views on: Hypnotism and Mesmerism Stage Hypnotism Face to Face with the Public The Occult Scale The Art of Self-Suggestion How to Produce Sle...
The Bobo Lecture is interesting because it does not contain a single coin effect, for which Bobo was known. Despite this, Bobo produced a great booklet including routines with silks, a sound activated...
David Devant was the David Copperfield of his day, and this is a book containing some of his favorite effects. Inside you will find chapters on card magic, coin magic, ball tricks, and there are two c...
Another winner from Bruce Elliott, author of Classic Secrets of Magic. Chapters on coin and paper money magic, rings, rope, handkerchiefs, mind reading, and a chapter on self-working card tricks, all...
Translated from the French, this was the definitive work on pantomime in 1927. An impressive table of contents includes chapters on facial muscles, hand movements, passive expressions, accessories, mu...
During the war years the following simple card tricks were shown and taught to men in military hospitals. Because many of the men were physically handicapped, sleight-of-hand was purposely avoided. P...
An amazing look into early 20th Century Magic! Issued by Thomas Worthington from 1929 to 1943. It includes indexes printed at the time and, of course, is fully text searchable....
This book is an introduction to building physical strength. Strongmen were very popular as performance artists in circuses, sideshows, and later vaudeville performing seemingly impossible feats of su...
Super Magical Miracles: A Collection of Exclusive Magical Secrets Invented by John Booth John Booth was a magician with a lot of original ideas. Here are some off-beat effects with a variety of objec...
Here is the complete patter as used by Mr. DeLawrence for several classic card effects, including the slap aces, the card stab, and the twenty card trick. There is also his patter for some non-card ef...
Sleights: Being a Number of Incidental Effects, Tricks, Sleights, Moves and Passes for Purposes Ranging from Impromptu to Platform Performances. The title says it all. A collection of sleights, devis...
Here is a complete act with silk handkerchiefs that can be performed anywhere, while surrounded. Handkerchiefs appear, multiply, become knotted, and finally turn into 18 handkerchiefs- each one a yard...
Updated to a brand new and very beautiful Text over image PDF with bookmarks on 9-08-13! The Secrets of Conjuring and Magic is one of the classic instructional books on magic. Written by the father o...
This is a great classic course in magic from the UK. Not nearly as considerable or serious as Tarbell, which is certainly the reference standard in correspondence courses, the Rupert Howard course is...