_EF Tony Corinda should have been given a special award for this book. There is nothing in the world of Magic or Mentalism that comes close to this ‘essential reference’ for completeness,organization,accuracy and all around excellence. Several books have been called “The Bible of Mentalism” but there is really only one … Corinda’s 13 Steps …
_EF This timeless material finally gets the treatment it deserves! The greatest collection of close-up tricks ever assembled between two covers, and Volume one doesn’t have a single card trick! Volume One’s opening chapter, The Presentation of Close-Up Magic, embraces the whole approach to close-up performance. Hundreds of original illustrations by Dennis Patten. The host …
_EF The Complete, Ultimate Paul Harris Collection. This three-volume set of books contains all of Paul`s classics, updated and refined, as well as 73 brand-new creations! All in all, these books contain over 900 pages of Paul Harris including a ground-breaking essay discussing the feeling of astonishment as our natural state of mind. There are …
_EF (From the introduction to Vol.1): My previous major publishing venture was Mortimer’s Magic Magazine. This was a series of 13 spiral-bound publications, averaging 50 pages each and put out quarterly. Magician’s Home Companion is using Mortimer’s, with its excellent contributors, as the base on which to build. That probably makes us the “newest old …
_EF In 1584, Reginald Scot – a country gentleman and MP from Kent – published The discoverie of witchcraft, a sceptical treatise recording and debunking popular and scholarly beliefs about witchcraft, magic and other superstitions. Scot argued that belief in magic was both irrational and un-Christian. He suggested non-magical reasons and causes for both magical …
The coin tray has been a common dealer item since the mid-1800’s. The great Robert Houdin in his Secrets of Conjuring of Magic c. 1868 (pg. 108-115) describes the basic effect in The Multiplication of Money using golden coins – and just in case you were thinking otherwise, he wisely reminds you not to use …
This is Terry’s most famous effect and it received rave reviews when he debuted it at The Magic Castle and at the San Diego Zoo. Apart from Nick Wenger’s beautiful Shake ‘n’ Snake, this effect provides some of the most fun from a snake in basket effect, and although Collectors’ Workshops’ Khyber Kobra is mechanically …
Jack Hughes invented the Clatter Box and it appears in his World of Magic Vol. 2. _EF Performer removes a silk from a decorated box, which is then given to a spectator to hold. Performer vanishes the silk, claiming it will reappear in the box. When spectator opens the box, if falls to pieces, leaving …
A very rare piece of mentalism from the New Jersey Devil Bob Solari. Bob mostly works with cards but this non-card mentalism effect is a beauty that even Bob has forgotten what the effect is. _EF Five black vinyl wallets with the five ESP symbols printed on each wallet. Spectator is asked to merely think …
_EF A new reprinting makes available one of the rarest books ever written on magic. This book contains one of the earliest histories and explanations of the word “Hocus Pocus”. You will find the account on page 29. Quite possibly, this could be where the word originated 339 years ago. Through the benevolence of Etienne …
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