_EF Ed Marlo felt magicians have very short memory. We often use concepts without knowing where they originated from. I can testify to that fact because recently I met a magician who could not vocalize the proper terms for each sleight-of-hand technique he used. Whenever he wanted me to realize what move he was thinking …
Based on an idea by the New York group of magicians including: Dai Vernon, Dr. Jaks, and Martin Gardner known as the Friday Night Sodality called The Ruler that was published in The Phoenix December 1951. _EF Ton Onosaka’s version improves on the original idea. The stick is very nicely made out of molded plastic, with …
_EF Continuing on in the great tradition of The Jinx, The New Jinx was a tribute to the thinking of Ted Annemann. Monthly periodical for stage mentalists and magicians that ran from May 1962 to April 1968 for 72 issues. Bill Madsen used the pen-name “Arlecchino” as the editor (information from Genii’s Magicpedia). The entire …
_EF Written by Joe Berg, David Avadon, and Eric Lewis. Illustrated by Eric C. Lewis and Tom Jorgenson. A much sought after work on the life and magic created by or released by noted 20th century magic dealer and performer Joe Berg. Includes a chapter on the Okito/Bamberg material marketed by Mr. Berg and much …
_EF If you are looking for superlative rope magic from some of the finest minds in magic, then check out Give a Magician Enough Rope. You’ll find contributions from masters such as Peter Warlock, Anverdi, Faucett Ross, Van Rinkhuyzen, Martin Gardner, Edward Victor, Stanley Norman, Bill Shewan, H. Fernandes, and Lewis Ganson, just to name …
The Magic Magazine was a mass market monthly magic publication that was started by New York publisher Joseph Kardwell in 1974. There were 26 issues published with the first in December 1974 and the final one in September 1977. The magazine dealt with it’s fair share of publication issues and had four different publishers during …
These first came to the public’s attention via Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American (December, 1970). There, he discussed a set of four Efron Dice which were discovered by and named after, statistician Bradley Efron, for which: A > B > C > D > A … in the sense that each die …
_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 The Jinx is filled with incredible gems in bite sized pieces. Apart from a wealth of incredible effects, I love the commentaries by Annemann. The historical impact that The Jinx appears to have had is quite amazing. So much seems to have come from this publication. Contents: The Jinx – 51 – December 1938 …
_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 …
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