Friends by Collectors’ Workshop

Created by Nick Ruggiero and Rich Bloch from an idea by Woody Pitman.  This is another of the amazing effects created by Nick and Rich in the early days of Collectors’ Workshop and for some reason has not been remade since George Robinson took over, and so they are quite rare now.  Although the effect …

Dusheck’s (#5) Close-up Magic by Steve Dusheck

_EF 36 original tricks from the brilliant mind of Steve Dusheck. Here is your chance to learn and perform some really different close-up magic. For his first effect, Steve explains how to tell a person’s fortune using numerology. When a spirit message successfully appears on your business card, people will want to keep your card. …

A Candle in the Dark by Thomas Ady

_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 …

Magician’s Home Companion – Vol. 2 by Jim Klein

_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 …

Magic and Methods of Ross Bertram by Ross Bertram, Lee Jacobs Productions

_EF In this volume, Ross Bertram, noted Canadian magician, gambling authority, and coin magic expert, gives magicians the best of his many years of performing experience. It includes over 400 photos to explicitly portray every detail of the text. Contents: vii Acknowledgments (Dai Vernon, Faucett Ross, others) ix Foreword by Ross Bertram xv Introductions by …

Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, Vol. 2 by Stephen Minch

_EF In The Collected Works of Alex Elmsley, the magic of this extraordinary inventor is brought together for the first time. Gathered here are his published tricks and an equal number of previously unpublished items. Much of this material has been guarded jealously by the privileged of magic, and some of it has been kept a …

Mahatma (Vols. 1-9) by George Little

_EF Mahatma was a monthly magic periodical founded by George Little, which was published March 1895 – February 1906 (issue 104).[1] According to Alfredson and Daily,[1] it was “the first English language magical serial of any substance”. With the September 1902 issue, it became the official magazine of the Society of American Magicians.[1] Mahatma was …

Strong Magic by Darwin Ortiz

_EF Creative Showmanship For The Close-Up Magician Why is it that some magicians get great audience reaction while others who are just as skillful leave audiences cold? The answers are in Strong Magic, the first-ever book on showmanship specifically for the close-up magician. As a successful professional magician for almost twenty years, Darwin Ortiz has …

Famous Quotations by Steve Dusheck

This is Steve Dusheck’s entry in the Book Test market and it was inspired by effects created by Phil Goldstein and Larry Becker. Very well produced, It is a little bold, but some of the best magic is. The book cannot be examined, but if you follow Steve’s simple suggestions and routine you have in …

Close-up Magic of Aldo Colombini by Aldo Colombini

_EF This book details 60 effects with cards, coins, cups and balls, ring & rope, Oktio coin box, and billiard ball production and including: Never Say Dice, Four Card Display, Ace-embly, Hiccup Coins, Super Link (rubber bands), Hopping Cups and Balls (short routine suitable for table hopping), Back and Forth Sandwich (cards) plus many more. …

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