_EF Ibidem magazine. It ran from 1955 to 1979, during which time its editor P. Howard Lyons produced 36 issues. And those issues accumulated quite a reputation. For its long unperiodic existence Ibidem became recognized as the best source for avant-garde card magic and diverse curious pursuits of Lyons and his diabolically inventive crew. In …
_EF The best card magic from the pages of The Pentagram magazine (1946-1960) Contents: (updated Sep 2018 – only had first page of Contents!) 1 Super Speller (George Blake) 6 The Nonsuch Card Prediction (Francis Haxton) 8 A Legacy From Jordan (Francis Haxton) 10 An Ace Change (Roy Walton) 12 Double Stop (Franklin V. Taylor) …
_EF During the last three decades Phil Goldstein has published over 2000 remarkably clever tricks. We asked him to choose some of his best card magic from this huge body of work. The result is Focus, 60 exceptional tricks and routines that focus on Simplicity, Directness, Practicality and Maximum Magical Effect. Included is “Impressions”, an …
_EF Volume 6 of 8. Some of my favorites include:17 Billiard Ball thru hanky (shell); 21 Balls from the Air; 39 Cup and Balls; 55 Jump Up Card (use slit card case); 58 Quick card in sealed envelope; 61 Ghost Cards: 10 cards under hanky, 1 thought of, 2 removed, all gone!; 61 3 card …
Another great effect from the from the creative Japanese Magic Inventor and Owner of Tricks Co., Inc.: Toshio Akanuma. This effect uses Jack Avis’ gimmick idea used in Poker Pot and creates some wonderful magic. The move is easy to do and you will quickly be making the dice vanish and penetrate quite magically. The …
_EF Enlarge your magic repertoire and amaze your friends with mystifying rope tricks you can easily learn from this legendary encyclopedia of rope tricks for magicians. Containing over 150 tricks, many created by masters of rope magic, this book shows you step-by-step how to perform the best rope tricks ever devised. No matter how often …
_EF This adds to material previously presented in Classic Secrets of Magic (1953) and The Best in Magic (1956) and gathers together inventions of many magicians. Again the tricks are graded from performances geared to beginners on through those to be used by advanced amateurs and experts, and from acts requiring little skill or preparations …
_EF The final book of the Routined Manipulation series. More great hand magic for both close up and stage by some of the greatest magicians of all times. Anti Gravity Glasses-A feature of Ganson’s act for years. Three glasses suspend from a clear sheet of plexiglass. Everything is examinable. This was a marketed item by …
Gambling Collectibles – A Pictorial Journey presents the stories behind the evolution of dice, playing cards, chips, tables and layouts, games, cheating, and more. The informal narrative is designed to be historically interesting, not pedantic, and the research is supported with over 2,600 color photographs of the Steve Forte Gambling Collection, making the work colorful, …
_EF The Ultimate Okito Encore completes Dr Robert Albo’s trilogy of books devoted to Okito and the Bamberg Dynasty. This is a deluxe volume, HB in acetate jacket with 56 pages in lavish full color of apparatus, photographs, letters and other memorabilia associated with Okito and the Bamberg Dynasty that have not been published previously. …