_EF Design & Composition by Andrew Pinard. In 1990 Jim Sisti began “The Magic Menu”, a magazine geared for the restaurant and bar performer. Each issue included tips, stories, product reviews, and effects all oriented toward restaurant, bar, and strolling magic. This type of magic must pack small, easily reset, and often play for family …
_EF Richard’s Almanac was acclaimed as one of the finest newsletters ever devoted to close-up magic. Its publication from 1982 to 1987 was a highlight in the history of close-up magic periodicals. And now, all four hundred pages of the original newsletter, containing tricks from the greatest close-up magicians of our time, have been reprinted …
_EF The Card to Wallet effect is one of the strongest possible close-up effects with cards. Properly performed, it is incomprehensible to spectators. Ungimmicked wallets are featured in one large chapter of the book. Other chapters are devoted to many of the fine gimmicked wallets available including Himber Wallet, Mullica Wallet and LePaul Wallet. Methods …
_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 In what is arguably the most beautiful and elegant magic book produced, Christian Fechner explores the amazing life and times of Robert Houdin – the French master magician and scientist. Christian Fechner has researched this fascinating magician and in doing so provides us with behind the scenes peeks into his life, and his magic. …
_EF Cyclopedia of Magic was written to provide the magician with a wide and solid background of magical knowledge. It provides definitions, descriptions, biographies and some routines on hundreds of magic topics. The “articles” are contributed by magicians such as August Roterberg, Charles Bertram, Eddie Joseph, Ellis Stanyon, John Mulholland, and many others. Contents: I …