_EF Photography by Lewis Ganson. This well produced book is a compilation of Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1959), More Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1960), and Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic (1961). Quite a few clear B&W photos help show the workings. A classic in card magic and highly recommended. (While the individual …
The Multiplying Bottles was created in Chicago by Arthur P. Felsman in the 1920’s (see here for more details.). Ken Brooke c. 1950 created one of the most popular and enduring routines which was packaged and sold with Harry Stanley’s nine bottle set around the same time. For decades these were the bottles to get. …
_EF A must have for all card magicians! This 47 page booklet is packed with great routines such as.. A Backward Effect, Spectral Clock, The Real Color Change, Rainbow Twist, Fiction Prediction, Marlo’s Rainbow Deck, The Upturned One, Prismatic Pack, Icing On The Case, These Cards Are Marked, Flashbacks, Randy’s Rainbow, Sleightless Switches, and Ned …
_EF This is volume Two of Edwin Hooper’s (of Supreme Magic in England) memoirs. It includes lots of great stories and anecdotes, as well as a lot of magic from the Supreme Magic days. Most of the effects are for the platform or small stage, but there is some close up magic as well. Lots …
_EF Roy Johnson wrote this scarce book to commemorate his silver wedding anniversary in 1982. But it was never published. Until seven years later when it ”mysteriously surfaced”. Great magic as you have come to expect from Mr. Johnson! A virtual treasure trove of baffling, practical and entertaining Roy Johnson material. Everything from close-up and …
Thomas Pohle started his magic manufacturing business around the same time as Eckhard Boettcher opened his Magic Dealership: Zauber Butike, and they worked closely together. As is often the case, the name of the dealer was featured and the name of the craftsman behind the magic was sadly neglected. So I’m trying to change that …
The vanish of a deck of cards vs the vanish of a card case are two different but related effects. In the first effect you vanish the cards themselves but not the deck and in the latter you vanish the whole card case including the cards. When referring to a Vanishing Deck on this page …
The Multiplying Bottles was created in Chicago by Arthur P. Felsman in the 1920’s (see here for more details.). Ken Brooke c. 1950 created one of the most popular and enduring routines which was packaged and sold with Harry Stanley’s nine bottle set around the same time. For decades these were the bottles to get. …
What an adorable version of the classic Thieves and Sheep or Cops and Robbers theme by the great German craftsman Tony Lackner, routined perfectly by Eckhard Boettcher. This is a good time to remember the producers of magic – so often we think of the craftsmen who make these wonderful effects, but often there are …
_EF A wonderful set of flap slates that fit neatly in the vest of jacket pocket. This version was first released by Ken Brooke’s Magic Place, and then carried over when Paul Stone took over c. 1982. They were well made and came with a very entertaining routine by Roy Johnson (who created many of …
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