Harry Leat designed and built ingenious apparatus, and this book has some of his finer creations. There is an improved card frame, a box that allows you to continually produce any prop required for your next effect, an improved Magic Funnel, and an impromptu method for making writing appear on your ...
Charles Jordan was a genius, and his specialty was card magic. His work with a pre-arranged deck was ahead of its time, as he allowed the spectator to shuffle the cards. There are also several super clean locations, divination effects, and a test condition card across with a deck encircled by a rubb...
The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe (1594) is a novel set during the reign of Henry VIII of England. Jack Wilton describes his adventures during the wars against the French, and his travels in Italy as page to the Earl of Surrey. Full of adventure, a great piece of classic literature....
Dr. E.G. Ervin was a dentist and amateur magician with a knack for coming up with clever methods for existing effects. Here you will find magic with coins, cigarettes, billets, eggs, as well glasses of water, bills, knives, and much more. With an impressive forward by T. Nelson Downs....
These are “The Senator’s” lecture notes, and contain several card effects, including a streamlined version of the 21 card trick. Don’t miss the very funny mini-lecture on “perseverance”....
The Red Demons were two young Americans who performed an incredible act all surrounding the use of heat and fire. Discover some of the secrets of swallowing fire, spitting fireballs, lighting lamps with your fingertips, and drinking boiling liquids....
This is an absolutely amazing card effect. Two thought-of cards, mates, appear in the same position in two different decks of cards. The cards are unprepared, and as they say in the catalogues, no skill is required. Ingenious....
There is more in this book than the story of the medicine man, the hypnotist, and the expert at shell games. The charlatan “was the foe of education, of anything that could disturb the uniform ignorance of the mass; in the place of education he offered propaganda.” He does business best when people ...