Mr. Boyar presented this lecture to the Magicians Guild Of America in 1953, and these are his lecture notes. Effects with cards, billiard balls, thimbles, paper clips, and ribbon are explained....
The Second edition of this classic is larger and has more material than the original. Sleight of Hand is one of the classic introductions to the art, the material runs the gamut with many interesting sleights and routines in addition to a plethora of magical wisdom. This is the second and greatly en...
Here is a collection of card effects all based on the rough and smooth principle, or adhesive cards. The idea of roughing only one half of the card is put to excellent use in several effects, such as a poker routine, an impressive memory demonstration, a book test, and making any pack of cards, rega...
Al Koran was a superb magician and mentalist, and in this book he has released some of his pet routines. He not only reveals his handling for the classic Cap and Pence (where you can show both sides of the stack), he also teaches his rendition of the Card Stab, using a banknote instead of a sheet of...
"You who live your life in placid respectability know but little of the real life of the denizens of this world." – Houdini Houdini traveled the world interacting with the greatest police chiefs and the most famous detectives. In this book he tells of the criminal underworld, their misdeed...
Harry Canar teaches you a poker deal routine. From a shuffled deck the performer removes twenty high cards and deals them out in a pseudo game to four players. Every round the hands become more and more unlikely and lucky. The deal is automatic. No skill is required....
Tony Kardyro was a top card handler (the KM Move), and these are some of his favorite effects. All of the effects in this booklet can be performed with any deck, and only one requires a stranger card. There are transpositions, changes, forces, locations, and a wonderful handling of Vernon’s Follow t...
David Devant wrote Woes of a Wizard before he was England’s top magician and before he became partners with John Nevil Maskelyne. This well-known memoir tells of Devant’s successes and failures as he struggles to overcome the difficult circumstances of a working performer at the turn of the 20th cen...