This is a totally impromptu card routine of various effects including locations, reverses, and changes, all accomplished with the aid of a single crimped card. Parts of the routine are even performed...
It is believed that this represents the first attempt that has been made to gather together in a single volume all, or nearly all, of the various crafts, knots, and other occupations and pastimes that...
This book is one of the first on its subject ever to be prepared specially for younger readers. It is an introduction to magic, but it is also intended to be much more than this, and to give the reade...
This Encyclopedia of Magical Patter contains over 125 sketches or routines. Also 1500 miscellaneous wise-cracks, action-gags that can be used by both amateur and professional that can be inserted anyw...
John Ramsay explains the comedic Four Little Beans routine. Ramsay explains in the preface that it was the first magic effect he ever learned. The effect, evolving with him throughout his career is a...
A book For Magicians Only. Charles Waller shows you: What Magic Is Presentation Patter Magical Introductions Paper Magic The Afghan Bands The Tale of an Elephant The Coin Fold The Princess C...
You are soon going to come into a lot of money, and… You will meet someone you will marry, and… You are going to make new friends who will greatly influence your life, and… Yes, it’s in the cards!...
If you are looking for latest tricks, big tricks, tricks with apparatus or stage illusion, dear reader, then, this is not your book. If you are in search of small tricks, puzzling and mysterious espe...
Howard Thurston was the last great magician of the golden age of magic to hold the stage. This is a book of mystery, magic and adventure, containing important events and experiences in the career of...
Who could resist an autobiography that boasts such chapter headings as “An Aristocratic Cabbage” and “The King of Pigs”? Not content with confining his hugely successful comedy magic to the stage, Sig...
In this book Milbourne Christopher tells you how to do almost everything but pull a rabbit out of a Thumb Tip. So take out your Thumb Tip, and get to work. If you don’t add a batch of new feats to yo...
Farelli’s Card Magic: A Practical Treatise on Little-Known Card Sleights, Including Numerous New Card Problems. A student of David Devant, Victor Farelli was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was the fore...
Reviews of the shows and photos of some of the most Famous Magicians of the World. Kalanag Dante Chang Lee Grabel Fu Manchu The Great Virgil Blackstone Richiardi Jnr. Ormond McGill The Grea...
The routine described will be found a thoroughly practical one, and it is one with which the originator has had conspicuous success. All the moves have been given in detail, supplemented by numerous i...
This is a list of 133 magic effects that can be performed while surrounded. It is not instructional, but it is certainly informative. An interesting bit is that the price of each trick is given at the...
The blurb for this comprehensive overview of the techniques employed by performers seeking to replicate psychic phenomena for entertainment purposes claims that it is “the first truly great book on th...
This is a book which prove of great assistance to those who desire to entertain by means of the fascinating art of conjuring, either at home entertainments or upon the public platform. It consists of...
The “Sympathetic Silks” is in Magic a classic effect which has been popular in the programs of some of our leading Magicians. Edward Proudlock’s Sympathetic Silks are a joy to behold, no less to the...
A 78 page book that has 4 distinct sections: a section on cards, one on coins, another on rope, and one on magic with laces. All practical material created with the working performer in mind....
Mr. Furman has written a book devoted entirely to magic with dominoes. You will learn how to make two different-colored dominoes change places, as well as reading the spots on dominoes that are spot-s...
A collection of diversions & pastimes to keep you entertained through the cold winter nights. Filled with easy problems and puzzles, match and coin games, strong man tricks, knots and string game...