Semi-Automatic Card Tricks (Steve Beam) BOOK
$55.00

Since the first volume was published in 1993, the Semi-Automatic Card Tricks series has become the largest and most reliable resource for professional caliber, non-sleight of hand card magic. Full-time magicians and conjuring hobbyists alike have come to rely on the creative card magic stored in these volumes when they want to go for the jugular.

Calling on his 15 years editing the underground sleight of hand journal The Trapdoor, the author seamlessly blends diabolical methods with humorous presentations proving once again that it is possible to captivate an audience with only pasteboards and personality. In addition to fifty items of his own creation, the author has brought together over two dozen of his friends from around the world who have contributed fifty of their pet effects to this volume. This is high-octane, low-fat, innovative card magic built from the ground up. These effects feature the latest in card trick technology incorporating new principles and little-known subtleties.

Whether you want to out-magic your fellow magicians or fry the synapses of your lay audiences, this is real magic for the real world.

100 Effects featuring the magic of: Mick Ayres, Steve Beam, Doug Canning, Chastain Criswell, Luke Dancy, Dominique Duvivier, Juan Esteban, Cesar Fernandez, Tony Griffith, Chris Hannibal, Andy Hurst, Lewis Jones, Marty Kane, Nathan Kranzo, Antón López, Raj Madhok, Trevor McCombie, Reinhard Müller, Phil Ogden, Gianfranco Preverino, Ramón Riobóo, Scott Robinson, Allan Slaight, Dave Solomon, Camilo Vazquez, and R. Paul Wilson.

16 Chapters Including: The Rolly Polly Controlly, Telephone Tricks, Prediction Tricks, Counter Measures, Gambling Tricks, The Curiouser Count, Impossible Locations, Meet the Eliminator & The Exterminator, Singularities, Bait and Switch, Impossible Revelations, Mental Effects, Magic From Spain, The Magic of Ramón Riobóo, Updates, and the Utility Belt.

Specter Cabinet (Andrew Mayne) Book
$15.00

A single light within an open frame illuminates a darkened stage. The magician’s assistant lowers the cloth sides to the frame. A shadow begins to form. Slowly it takes shape. The magician’s silhouette can now be seen from inside the box. He rips away the front cover and makes his entrance.

The latest effect from Illusion Impact is a dramatic appearance that can be built in one afternoon for under $60. The Specter Cabinet packs down small enough that you can carry it in a duffle bag.

A sixteen page manuscript with photos and detailed instructions.

X Marks the Spot (Brother Paul West) BOOK
$10.00

Brother Paul West has been performing his unique style of magic for over 30 years (we have been friends for almost 20 years). While Paul performs for corporate clients, Renaissance Festivals, and private parties, his roots are in the streets. This is wonderful set of lecture notes which contains some excellent street magic material (also suitable for bars and restaurants) as well as some priceless advice from someone who has been there.

Impuzzibilities (J. Steinmeyer) BOOK
$16.00

Strangely Self-Working Conjuring. These do-it-themselves tricks come to you straight from the fertile brain of illusionary mastermind Jim Steinmeyer, the same magical genius who designed David Copperfield's reputation-making vanish of the Statue of Liberty! This 30-page booklet contains 13 self-working items including interactive tricks which are suitable for television or radio audiences.

Contains:

• The Nine Card Problem
• The Full Deck Problem
• Dimes & Pennies
• A Quarter to Nine
• The One O'clock Mystery
• The Three Mystery
• The King Mystery
• Understanding the Bermuda Triangle
• The "Ten Boys" Poker Deal
• The Five Card Mix
• Automatic Poker
• Three Card Monte
• Teleportation

Soft cover, staple bound, 30 pages

Making Real Magic (Richard Osterlind) BOOK
$20.00

In Making Real Magic, Richard Osterlind exhorts mystery entertainers everywhere to take magic beyond the province of tricks and storybook tales and to make it a reality in their own lives and also in the lives of their audiences. In this major new work, almost twice the length of Making Magic Real, Richard encourages magicians to seize the birthright of their craft and restore magic to its rightful place among the performing arts. To demonstrate the reality of his assertions, he has also included his greatly expanded version of the Amazing Memory Demonstration. Appearing in print for the first time, this routine is an anytime, anyplace showpiece that will make you a miracle worker in the estimation of your audiences.

Art and Ardor at the Card Table (J. Nuzzo/ E. Marlo) BOOK
$45.00

Written by Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo and Edited and Annotated by Jon Racherbaumer

200 Page Hard Bound Book with color dust jacket – over 200 photographs 19 new Jimmy Nuzzo techniques; Updated reprints of the highly collected Nuzzo Marlo manuscripts published in 1982, 21 st Century Card Magic; Unforgettable Wild Card and Plus Package. "Any pulse-checking, hard-core cardmen in the late 60s, knew about Jimmy Nuzzo. If they didn’t get to see him in person, they were familiar with the select ideas he published—ideas that probably seemed celestial at the time but were nevertheless interesting and enticing." - from Jon Racherbaumer’s Prologue.

In the Nuzzo Touch there is Jimmy’s audience-tested repertoire. It includes his fabulous Side Steal and lightning-fast Card to the Pocket. The book incorporates three hard-to-find, private manuscripts that Nuzzo and Marlo published in the 1980’s, Plus Package; Unforgettable Wild Card; and 21 st Century Card Magic. Jimmy invented the Hung Card, one of the most tightly held secrets in magic.

Dr. James (Jimmy) Nuzzo is a Podiatric Surgeon in the Chicago Suburban area. He is an expert in sleight of hand. He has performed for corporate events, medical conferences and private parties of famous actors. He studied sleight of hand with Edward Marlo and published with Marlo three manuscripts included in this book.

Jon Racherbaumer is a world famous magic wordsmith, publisher and lecturer who has written many of the most influential magic books in the last 30 years . A recipient of a Literary Fellowship from the Academy of Magical Arts and Science (Magic Castle), he also collaborated with Ed Marlo on the Hierophant, Kabbala, Marlo Without Tears, and Arcade Dreams. His bibliography is too long to list here, but currently he hosts jonracherbaumer.com, and is Parade Editor of the Linking Ring and Associate Editor of Genii Magazine.

Edward Marlo (1913 – 1991) was Jimmy’s inspirational teacher and mentor. His brilliance in card magic can be found is his prolific writings including the Revolutionary Card Technique, MINT, Riffle Shuffle Systems, the Marlo Magazines. Marlo was a legend only known closely by a select few students. Jimmy was one of his closest friends and students.

Art and Ardor at the Card Table Features:

THE NUZZO TOUCH – Jimmy Nuzzo

• Jimmy’s technique on the Side Steal to Rear Palm
• Shootist Coat Load – Fastest technique for card to pocket
• Palm Spread Reverse – This reverse fooled all the fastest company
• Hung Card routines – The hung card has been a secret known by few
• Rear Palm Production – The card looks like it appears out of thin air
• 21 st Century Card Magic – Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo
• Ungaffed Micro – Macro
• A Card Case with two decks in it
• Elasteroon – Marlo’s famous effect; the magician waves his hands over a rubber-banded deck and the face card changes to the selection
• Speedy Assembly – Four Aces are dealt on top of 4 packets; the packets are assembled and the 4 Aces appear on top of the deck
• Unforgettable Wild Card – Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo
• The Wild Card Effect as you have never seen it – no Gaffs Plus Package – Jimmy Nuzzo and Edward Marlo
• A convincing all blank wild card effect
• An updated All Backs Routine
• Spectator selects all the cards for 4 card Matcho
• Different methods to get signed cards to the wallet

Digital Effects- Magic of Joe Mogar (Steve Beam) BOOK
$45.00

Joe Mogar has specialized in thimble magic for the last fifty years. Here, for the first time, Joe parts with the secrets he has used to reinvent this branch of the art. In addition to diabolically clever sleights, effects, and methods, there are dozens of ideas on how to introduce thimbles into your act and how to present the material.

Thimble magic is extraordinarily visual. Thimbles appear, disappear, morph, change color, migrate, and penetrate. There is no dealing, signing, shuffling, memorizing, or counting. This is all magic, all the time. And, it is the best kind of magic, magic that must be seen to be appreciated. Multiple presentational hooks are included which can be interchanged with related effects. There is even an innovative Routine Builder which will help you bring the individual parts together into a cohesive and flowing act.

Hardbound, 230 pages, 200+ illustrations. Ninety items.

The Secret Art of Magic (Eric Evans & Nowlin Craver) BOOK
$40.00

The Secret Art of Magic is comprised of two sections, essentially two books:
Street Magic & The Art of War" and "The Secret Art of Dispersion."Separate, yet inextricably linked by the paradigm of ancient war strategy.

Street Magic & The Art of Waruses strategies from Sun Tzu's The Art of War to teach the intricacies of street magic—from trick selection, to the pitch, to stopping people, to handling hecklers, to building a crowd, to collecting the hat. Its most profound lessons, however, deal with controlling yourself and your audience—the most critical thing for all performers.

Though Street Magic and The Art of War is already being called "THE textbook" for street magic, ultimately the most important—and largest at 170pp—section of the book is The Secret Art of Dispersion. It provides a framework to understand, assimilate, and implement deception as never before.

Using an ancient Chinese manuscript of 36 strategies for deception in warfare, The Secret Art of Dispersion teaches a new and expanded approach to misdirection—dispersion. Based on the military concept of dispersing concentration, it not only encompasses the concept of directing/misdirecting attention, but unifies all the ways magicians control their audience's awareness—not just of what they see, but of what they think about (and conversely, and perhaps more importantly, what they don't think about). While misdirection is usually thought of as a tool just for sleight of hand or manipulation, The Secret Art of Dispersion uses a plethora of examples to show the applications of dispersion with apparatus, illusions, stand-up, doves, mentalism, and children's magic as well.

Practical Hypnotism (Ed Wolff) BOOK
$2.50

This is a re-issue of a 1956 booklet which was one of the first books written on hypnotism. This complete mini-course in hypnotism starts with the assumption that the reader knows nothing about the subject at all and then rapidly leads him, step by step, to the point where he can hypnotize perfect strangers. Learn how to perform basics tests like tying a subject's hands together, making them fall backward, etc. Diagrams and concise prose make it all clear.

31 pages.

Sankey Unleashed (Jon Racherbaumer) BOOK
$45.00

Jay Sankey creates and performs some of the world's most original magic. Sankey Unleashed, his newest book, is a testament to Sankey's unmatched creative abilities. The book features and astonishing 81 creations, making it a mother load of magical miracles.

In addition to powerful, direct card and coin magic, Sankey Unleashed details the work on tricks with keys, balls, pens, eggs, books, pencils, business cards, billiard chalk, markers, credit cards, and even tomatoes! With such a wide assortment of materials and such a staggering number of tricks described - at every skill level - Sankey Unleashed truly contains something for everyone.

Highlights include:

• Nightcap - After signing his name on a card, the spectator tries to put the cap back on the marker, only to find that it is now a solid, cylindrical tube!
• Back in Time - a seemingly ordinary pick-a-card trick becomes a time traveling experience. A reality-shaking effect for the lay-public, and incredibly easy to do.
• Stretching It - in which a borrowed finger ring is visibly stretched to three times its length. It then visibly shrinks back to normal, and is returned to its lender.
• Leaving Home - a modern classic, and one that comes as close to real visual magic as possible. Spectators witness the magician visibly plucking a house key off the center of a loop of cord. Just as easily, and perhaps more visually, the key is thrown back on to the cord!

These brief descriptions barely scratch the surface. Jam-packed with magic that you will do, Sankey Unleashed is an incredible value.
Written by Jon Racherbaumer, illustrated by Earle Oakes. 8.5" x 11", hardbound. 192 pages. A Squash Publishing release.

Professor’s Math (Aldo Colombini) BOOKLET
$12.00

A unique handling for the "Professor's Nightmare" Rope Routine. The magician cuts a length of rope into three pieces of different lengths; small, medium, and long. The three pieces are stretched until they appear to be all the same length. The three pieces of rope are then tied together. The knots vanish and apparently the rope is fully restored. At this point you have performed a pretty standard rope trick.

But wait... here comes the incredible finale! One knot is magically thrown back onto the rope, then jumps away leaving the rope completely re-stored... and it can be tossed to the audience! No fasteners. No magnets. No gimmicks whatsoever. Easy to do. Use any rope. Complete with patter presentation.

Miraculous Ploys (Kenton Knepper) BOOK
$30.00

I was fortunate enough to recently attend a lecture where Kenton performed much of the material from this new book. The material here is pure "Kentonism" ranging from the easy and simple to the bold and daring. The material can be performed as very realistic, intense, educational, weird, hypnotic or light if you prefer.

A small sample of the contents include:

• Stirring: A spectator suddenly cannot make a simple stir straw spin on a table. What once seemed easy is now impossible due to suggestion. No gimmicks, just some great secrets.
• The Spirit Pen: A pen stands up on paper and writes what a spectator thinks. The BEST and easiest version ever. Nothing to make. Costs next to nothing... You probably own the needed prop already. The FULL version finally explained here.
• Chill: The performer makes the spectator feel cool, and then colder still, by stroking his hand or face and using apparent hypnotic methods. This is a classic Kentonism effect and many variations are included. GREAT stuff.
• Touched in the Head: The performer mimes scratching above a spectator's head, and the spectator feels his head get scratched. No, no loops or gimmicks. The performer holds his hands over the spectator who swears he feels "something".

Weird magic and suggestion worthy of the real thing. Impromptu. And Many More!

Barry S. Schor • Presto Magic Studio
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