_EF For more than twenty years, millions of British television viewers tuned in to watch a true wizard at work. As a panelist on What’s My Line? or as the host of It’s Magic and many other shows, David Nixon was not just a magician, but a peerless performer whose warmth and wit made him …
_EF Speaking of the Magic Circle centenary, in honor of that noteworthy milestone, the Circle has produced this beautiful book, providing a thorough accounting of the organization’s history, from its founding in London up to the present. Following lists of officers and honored members, the book opens with a section of pro-files of the 10 …
_EF In Stanley Collins-Conjurer, Collector and Iconoclast, master historian and author Edwin A. Dawes leads you through the life of happiness and heartbreak of this brilliant magician and collector. A great character of British magic during the first half of the 20th century, Stanley Collins was unique in that his tremendous conjuring skills were allied …
_EF Nothing expresses more about what kind of magician Charles Betram was than his presentation for de Kolta’s Vanishing Birdcage: Betram, noting that there is always the risk of hurting the bird, recitified this possibility by allowing the bird to escape from the cage just before he was about to vanish it. Betram was well …
_EF This is essentially a photo-book which should sparkle your eyes. There are photos which you will never have seen before of all sorts of performers. Allied to that there are “How-To” photos which are clear and highly professional looking. Eddie Dawes has the historical knowledge and Arthur Setterington is a good practical performer and …
_EF Most of us respond with thrill to feats of the impossible. Whether the tricks are small, as when four kings are found in the middle of the pack, or large as when a beautiful woman floats across the stage, the excitement is the same. It is difficult to pin down the reason. We know …
_EF Magic Magazines of the Second Millennium is a bibliography of English-language conjuring periodical literature spanning the period from 1791 to 2000. Picking up where Jim Alfredson and George Daily left off in their 1986 bibliography, this volume lists data for over 2000 Titles of magic magazines known to exist. Some of those new Titles …
_EF Almost a century in the making, appearing for the first time in book form… Kurt Volkmann’s A History of the Art of Conjuring is here. Kurt Volkmann’s complete “Geschichte der Zauberkunst” series has been fully translated into English by Lori Pieper and Maxwell Pritchard. Volkmann’s articles on magic history are considered by Steffen Taut …
_EF Perhaps the most detailed history of magic ever written, this massive new edition, edited by Edwin A. Dawes and Todd Karr in association with Bob Read, adds over 500 informative endnotes to Clarke’s monumental work, with many new discoveries. The new Annals also includes an introduction by Edwin A. Dawes and his biographical essays …
_EF In 1986 Ben Robinson wrote the cult classic about the bullet-catching stunt, Twelve Have Died, with a foreword by Harry Anderson. This book was immediately reviewed as a ground-breaking piece of scholarship, and one of the first hard-back books dedicated to only one trick. Ben Robinson was fortunate to receive the guidance of noted …
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