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, Signor Blitz conjures up a tale of globetrotting adventure that’s best taken with more than a pinch of ...
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 your repertoire, I’ll eat my – Thumb Tip....
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 foreign correspondent for a number of magic magazines. Farelli’s Card Magic came out in 1933 in two parts...
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 Great Sorcar...
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 illustrations, and it is hoped that the reader will experience no difficulty in following the various...
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 end of each description, and these could be purchased from Burling Hull’s catalogue! And incredibly...
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 the inner secrets of mentalism.” The author, the great Bob Nelson, should know — he penned some sixty ...
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 a series of papers on conjuring, and a number of original magical effects, which have been either re...
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 Magician than to the uninitiated beholder. Anyone who could include Edward Proudlock’s version and wo...