_EF Revealing the secrets of favorite tricks and illusions performed by the world’s greatest magicians – plus three dozen new easy tricks you can do. Contents: 1 Foreword 5 Contents 7 Chapter 1 – Twizzlers: Puzzles and stunts, mostly. 8 Coin and Saucer: Pick up coin from water-filled saucer without getting fingers wet. 9 Dimes and …
Spikes Thru Balloon was invented by Bob Gurtler (Andre Kole) c. 1956 and marketed by U.F. Grant c. 1958. _EF Here’s one that will make their eyes pop! Show an empty cylinder and an unprepared balloon. Inflated, it is inserted in the cylinder like a hot dog with both ends showing. Now two spikes are …
_EF New Tricks for Amateur Performers. Illustrated by L. Vosburgh Lyons. Another good volume by Bruce Elliot. Bruce writes in a more narrative fashion, and many of the effects are “run together” in the text. This makes it more difficult to find what you are looking for, but provides for good reading. This volume seems …
_EF A fascinating showcase of many classic magic tricks including the famous Indian Rope Trick. Contents: 7 Introduction 9 That Wonderful Wand 10 This Is A Magic Wand 11 Who’s Knocking, It Must Be Spirits 12 Big Wand From Tiny Purse 13 Presto! It’s Gone 14 The Ghostly Pencil 15 The Lazy Match 16 Where …
_EF (Werner): Illustrated by Louis Ravielli. Published in the US as The Best in Magic, in the U.K. as Magic: 100 New Tricks. From the Cover: “One of the most popular experts writing on magic today here presents over a hundred brand-new tricks. They are subtle, easy to do, and require little or no apparatus. The …
The Travelling Blocks, Baffling Blocks, or ABC Blocks began life as The Filtering Block Illusion manufactured by Floyd Thayer c. 1929 and invented by William Wisnewski c. 1928. It has been a popular item with many craftsmen and dealers ever since including: Conradi-Horster, Okito, Abbott’s, Mel Babcock, and Viking Mfg. This set was built by …
_EF The New Phoenix from 1954-1965 with over 420 pages of great magic effects complete with instructions and illustrations. Edited by Jay Marshall, Don Tanner, and Karl Fulves. The original Phoenix is here. Publisher: Magic Inc. Pages: 430 Location: Chicago, IL, USA Dimensions: 9″x11″ Date: 1954, Binding: softbound
_EF In this text Jean Hugard has combined his great talent for exposition with the creative mind of Bill Simon. Bill has achieved an astounding mastery of his craft. His mind is constantly probing for new and subtler moves and bold effects. Readers of this books will benefit from his thinking and experience. Bill will …
_EF This is a compilation of two of John Scarne’s books. Scarne on Card Tricks: Contents: Each trick is numbered. The first number below is the page number, the 2nd is the trick number. 1 Publisher’s Introduction 3 A New Era In Card Tricks, John Scarne, 1950 7 1) Calling the Cards: Spectator points to face …
I’ve often appreciated the extra effort that Jim Sherman’s National Magic Company put into their instruction sheets, the N.M.C. Presentation Routines, as they were called. They are consistently formatted, with tips, ideas, and details, and much better than many magic dealers and manufacturers. So imagine my surprise when I found these three volumes of well …
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