The Square Circle is one of the most ingenious production boxes ever devised, and this booklet contains some very good ideas and suggestions, including a charming presentation for a children’s Christmas show about trapping Santa Claus by placing the trap (square circle) in the fire place. Also ideas...
This book is fascinating, and it has photographs, making it one of the first magic books to have them. Inside are effects with coins, cards, billiard balls, and thimbles (including a new way of palming a thimble that looks very natural). Plus some interesting work with Black Art....
This book contains a detailed description of Martin Chapender’s Diminishing Cards routine. This routine is said by many to be the finest, visual, and most practical handling ever devised, as the cards change visibly, and both hands are seen empty throughout the routine. Mr. Keene also shares his var...
A collection of magic pieces compiled by Percy Naldrett. Features all sorts of unique effects with contributors like Ernest E. Noakes and Stanley Collins....
Professor Hoffmann’s book, Modern Magic, changed magic as soon as it started to arrive serially in 1873. By 1889 the book had gone through many, many printings and was recognized as the standard authority on the subject. Hoffmann felt, however, that conjuring had been moving on in those years; that ...
A collection of card effects from Louis F. Christianer. Most of the card effects in this book are described as being presented or staged for a large audience, for example; a parlour or nightclub setting. The material contained within is quite unique and most of the effects use large props that can b...
1925 Cheating Expose. This books exposes the various scams used at the Monte Carlo casinos. Card Methods: Marked Cards Readers Paper Spot Shade Strippers Daubs Dents Luminus Pricking Crimping Denting Line Work Block Out Shading Washing Palming Holdout Overdraw Discard Capping Bottom Seconds Framing ...
A brand new version of the first edition of this amazing classic. All of it text based and with bookmarks. 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. E...
You wouldn’t know it from the title, but this little booklet contains a coin vanish by Mercedes Talma, the wife of Servais Le Roy, and the finest female coin worker of all time. Also included are sleights with cigarettes, thimbles, cards, and ribbons. A very baffling animated coin effect using false...