_EF Filled with history, stories, and, most of all, magic, Best of All Worlds pays tribute to one of the greatest card tricks of all time: Paul Curry’s classic card effect Out of This World. Best of All Worlds is not just a book about a ‘Magic Trick”. It is an extensive, in-depth look at …
An elaborate and exquisite book with vellum paper, gilt edges, leather binding, and ribbon marker, purporting to be the Complete Works of Shakespeare, but elaborately edited and gaffed for numerous reveals. Each page has been edited to sound and feel like Shakespearean language, but has specific words at specific locations. Each two-page spread has different …
_EF This is a book that not only justifies its existence by means of innovative material and original thinking, but which represents the mind of a thoughtful and tasteful creator who pays attention to myriad tiny details that can make all the difference between mediocre magic and beautiful illusions. (…) This is the way magic …
_EF Canadian Stewart James was the most prolific inventor of magic in the twentieth century. Where most magicians invent a handful of magic routines during the course of their life, Stewart James created over one thousand. His prodigious output has been recorded in two mammoth publications totally over 2,700 pages. James’ vast body of work …
This effect is one of Tommy Wonder’s most amazing achievements and truly one of his signature pieces – it is Tommy’s version of the Oswald Williams Hold-up premise*. There have been a number of versions of this effect over the years by various builders, but this one, by Ken Winters, is considered the best. Ken …
_EF Max Maven traveled from Hollywood to Lake Tahoe. He brought NOTHING but a nice suit. On the way from the airport to the studio, he stopped at a supermarket for less than ten minutes and spent less than ten dollars. Once in his room, he spent less than half an hour preparing, and proceeded …
_EF With Rafael Benatar, Stephen Minch, Juan Tamariz, and Miguel Gomez. The first volume of four covering Ascanio’s works. This volume includes much of Ascanio’s theory of magic and is not a book of tricks. The four volumes are: The Structural Conception of Magic; Studies of Card Magic; More Studies of Card Magic. Knives and …
Mini Zarra is the budget version of Pete Burrows (BloodyJack) Madam Zarra effect, which is a wonderful dressing up of the Stephen Minch effect Fortunes of a Wise Fool from his Book of Thoth (which Pete did get permission from Stephen to use) and which was also reprinted in Genii March 1997. Fortunes of a …
_EF For the past 50 years Sam Schwartz has been devising some of the most baffling magic and mentalism created. His “Backflip” set off a new generation of packet effects. His “Book Tests” have been widely acclaimed and now he brings us 60 effects of the best tricks and routines. Here is Card and Coin …
_EF An Adventure Into the Deeper Meaning of Magic First held in 1992, Eugene Burger and Jeff McBride’s Mystery School promised to be a magic conference unlike any other: a group of magicians dedicated to seriously exploring the deeper sides of the art of magic. This event would not be held in a hotel or …