Visionary Card Effects by William P. Miesel

_EF An outstanding assortment of magic effects. This collection reveals creative thinking and new ways to achieve effects. Seven Chapters: Impromptu Routines, ten effects. Card Tricks Requiring Some Preparation, four effects. Handling The Classics, five effects. Tricks Using The Four Aces, three effects (no Ace Assemblies.). Gamboling With Gambling, five effects. Bringing “1835” Up To …

The Creative Card Magic of William P. Miesel by William P. Miesel

_EF This hardcover publication contains some very innovative and amusing card effects covering Ambitious Card routines, Four Ace effects and an elaborate Wild Card routine. Presented in this 177 page book you will find solid material to add to your repertoire. Edited by Ronald F. Zollweg and Philip R. Willmarth. Illustrated by Marshall Philyaw. Contents (from …

Kellar’s Wonders by Mike Caveney, Bill Miesel

_EF Harry Kellar is acknowledged as one of the greatest names in American magic but how did he rise to the pinnacle of his field? By combining Mike Caveney’s experience as a biographer of magicians (The Great Leon, Carter the Great and Servais Le Roy) and the vast resources of his Egyptian Hall museum with …

Ibidem – Vol. 3 by P. Howard Lyons

_EF At long last, the third and final volume of the magic magazine that was so underground, it’s just now coming up for air. From 1963-1979 Howard Lyons’ Ibidem was so far ahead of the pack in innovative card magic, we’re still catching up to it. Reprinted in this jumbo volume are the final eight …

ibidem – Vol. 1 by P. Howard Lyons

_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 …

Fork Full of Appetizers (Book 2) by Bill Miesel

_EF (From the Preface by Mike Hilburger) The huge hands scooped up a small pile of quarters, a deck of cards, a cigarette. No dramatic introduction was necessary. People quickly gathered ’round the legend, attired in his formal best of Banlon shirt and slacks soiled by an earlier bar clean-up. Spectator’s hands become like a …

Fork Full of Appetizers (Book 1) by Bill Miesel

_EF This book is the first I hope of a series on close-up magic by some of the people who have attended what I believe to be the world’s greatest close-up magic convention. “Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic” easily recognized by the Four F’s on the cover was started in April 1971 at the famous Forks …

Card To Wallet Book by Jerry Mentzer

_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 …

Vernon Chronicles Vol. 3 – Further Lost Inner Secrets by Stephen Minch

_EF (Omar Domenech): Illustrations and cover design by Tom Gagnon.  This is third volume of Dai Vernon’s material culled from Bruce Cervon’s legendary “Castle Notebooks”. This is arguably the last great installment of the Vernon Chronicles, since the fourth and final volume contains only a biography of The Professor. This volume, like the first in …

The FFFF Book by Obie O’Brien

_EF Over 20 years in the making! The FFFF Book is a collection of routines and memories from and about the Fechter’s Finger Flicking Frolic convention. Contributors include: Paul Gertner, Steve Beam, Pit Hartling, Ray Ben, Dan Garrett, Harrison Carroll, David Lederman, Steve Dushek, Doc Eason, Phil Goldstein, Tom Craven, Ray Mertz, Bill Miesel, David …

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