BOOKS
MIRACLE MATERIAL by MICHAEL KAMINSKAS
In this book you will find the kind of innovative close-up magic your audiences have been waiting for. It's astounding, powerful, startling magic created entirely by a brand new talent - Michael Kaminskas. Michael's first book, Next Victim Please...., established him on the magical map at an age when most performers are just getting their feet wet. Now, he shares with us more of his very effective commercial magic.
Michael Ammar said, "Those who are looking for new concepts, as well as new approaches to classics, will find plenty to work on between these covers. Congratulations are truly in order."
Imagine your spectator's reaction when the deck of cards you're holding begins to play music. You will learn how to extract a two inch contact from your eye and change it into a pair of glasses. You will cause a spectator's card to rise completely out of a deck and hover in mid-air with a life of its own. You will teach a whole new meaning to "cold hard cash" as a dollar bill visibly changes into a silver dollar at your fingertips. These are just a few of the miracles you will learn from this one hundred seven page hardbound book.
ITEM # BK0957 PRICE $30.00
IBIDEM
by P. HOWARD LYONS
Ibidem, published and edited by Howard Lyons and illustrated by his pro-artist wife, Pat, was issued from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, from 1955 to 1979, and was the only notable magic periodical in Canada's history. Ibidem was so far ahead of its time in the type of material it published, much of it still feels cutting edge. Ed Marlo, Alex Elmsley, Roy Walton and many other leading lights chose Ibidem to publish large amounts of their best work.
Michael Close wrote in Genii magazine, "As I have said before (but few people seem to be listening), some of the best card magic I've read is hidden in the pages of Ibidem." Yes, the emphasis was on card magic, although puzzles and recreational mathematics also appeared frequently in its pages.
Ibidem was an anomaly: an intellectual magic magazine, leavened with a unique sense of humor and self-parody, with no equal in its time, nor to this day.
Contains contributions by: Ed Marlo, Stewart James, Howard Lyons, Norm Houghton, Mel Stover, The Amazing Randi, Ken Beale, Tom Ransom, Francis Haxton, L. Vosburgh Lyons, Peter Warlock, Martin Gardner, Faucett W. Ross, Bill Simon, Tom Bowyer, Elmer Biddle, William Miesel, Alex Elmsley, Ravelli and Neal Elias.
This volume consists of Issues 1 - 16 from June 1955 through March 1959. The book is 352 large-format pages and hardbound.
ITEM # BK0639 PRICE $60.00
This volume of Lyons's widely acclaimed journal presents issues 17 through 28, from July 1959 to April 1963 and includes, along with the usual innovative assortment, special issues by Ed Marlo and Ravelli. The book is 352 large-format pages and hardbound.
ITEM # BK0649 PRICE $60.00
IBIDEM VOLUME 3 AND AZIZ & BEYOND
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 issue 29 to 37, August 1963 to March 1979 and more, 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 issues plus an unpublished issue of material from "crazy" Tom Ransom.
Tossed in for good measure is Howard Lyons' long-anticipated avant-garde magazine, Aziz, which Howard had begun assembling a few years before his death with the intentions that it would replace Ibidem. Unfortunately, Howard didn't live long enough to get Aziz out, but the material collected for the first issue survived, and it makes up the first section of Aziz & Beyond. Also included is additional material by Howard and others, gathered from his files and other sources, which might not have been included were it not for Max Maven having done such an extraordinary job of unearthing, editing, interpreting and organizing this material.
Ibidem 3 and Aziz & Beyond contain contributions by: Howard Lyons, Mel Stover, Peter Duffie, Allan Slaight, Ken Beale, Phil Goldstein, Robert E. Neale, Paul Swinford, J. K. Hartman, Ron Wohl and many others.
Over 140 pages of unpublished material, 360 pages in total plus 12 in full color. Hardbound.
ITEM # BK1085 PRICE 60.00
PSYCHOLOGICAL SUBTLETIES #2 by BANACHEK
Psychological Subtleties remains one of the best selling books in the magic and mentalism community and is considered a basic reference source for any complete library on our art. Psychological Subtleties offers ideas, tips and observations of natural human responses that can be inserted into performing situations to make the overall result of an effect much stronger, entertaining and memorable.
Several performers incorporated that knowledge into their acts and built whole routines around those clever ideas. Psychological Subtleties 2 picks up where the first book ends. Whereas Psychological Subtleties was not a book of tricks and routines, this book contains complete routines from professionals who understood the value and impact of those ideas in the first book.
Here you will find routines from: Peter Arcane, Greg Arce, Lance Campbell, Dr. Bill Cushman, Christian David, David De Leon, Paul W. Draper, Gerard, Jonathon Grant, Patrick Kuffs, Andy Leviss, Rick Maue, Mike Merchant, Ravi Johannes Pazhur, Ian Rowland, Leonardo Silverio, and Michael Sibbernsen as well as routines and more subtleties from the mind of Banachek.
Pages 203 – Hardbound
ITEM # BK0017 PRICE $55.00
LOST IN THOUGHT by GREGORY ARCE
Greg's new book is jam-packed with powerful, influential and easy-to-perform mentalism routines designed to be highly useable and commercial.
Within these pages of "Lost In Thought" you'll discover...
Sticky Pop - The whole audience decides on one card - no force - and that card is inside a balloon that has been visible throughout the routine. No equivoque. It uses a very sneaky method.
Add Sense - A spectator decides on one of many newspapers then tears down to one piece on any of the pages and you tell him what's on that piece. You are nowhere near the spectator and the paper is not gimmicked in any way. This is remote viewing at its best.
Hypno-Math - You are able to not only remove a piece of memory from a spectator, but change what he now remembers.
Pinhead's Roulette - The audience chooses 9 of 10 paper bags for you to smash - no force - yet the last bag contains a very menacing spike ball that would have impaled you if you had smashed that bag. Absolutely idiot-proof roulette. Look dangerous, but is very safe.
The _____ Book - A new book test that you can make yourself. Four spectators randomly look in their books and you are able to tell them what they are reading. This is just plain weird. It was planned as a marketed item, but now you can make it up yourself.
Sticky Dupe - Now you can redraw a spectator's hidden drawing using a few business cards, an envelope...and a little secret something you probably already own.
Hallmark Memory - A Derren-like effect where you know details of someone's past event.
Bizarre Dupe & Super Swindle Steal - Two mentalism takes on Paul Harris effects that even took Paul by surprise.
Plus - Various ideas, techniques, essays, rants, and bits of business...and two other roulette routines...and yes, even more.
"All the routines are solid and worth the attention of anyone. I can see how strong they would play with good presentation." - Richard Osterlind
"Several clever routines." - Chuck Hickok
"Loved it." - Larry Becker
"Killer material as usual, and I mean it!" - Paolo Cavalli
"You truly are a unique thinker." - Banachek
Pages 125 - Comb Binding
ITEM # BK0081 PRICE $25.00
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