BOOKS
ART OF MAGIC, THE by T. NELSON DOWNS
This classic book of magic was written over seventy years ago and is still referred to by many great magicians today. The art of sleight of hand is thoroughly discussed pertaining to playing cards, coins, eggs, balls, and other everyday items. Different types of apparatus are also explained with detailed illustrations. This book is considered to be one of the ten basic books for a working library of conjuring!
Contains 348 pages.
ITEM # BK0018 PRICE $9.95
PAUL DANIEL'S ADULT MAGIC by PAUL DANIEL
In Adult Magic the world's most popular magician presents the first magic instruction book aimed at the modern adult. In it, Paul Daniel's has produced a dazzling collection of magical wonders and tricks, which you can and will do. Magic is the most charming and challenging subject to those who know it and Adult Magic can be your guide to that charmed circle.
Paul Explains tricks that can be performed at home, in the office, at the lunch table, in the pub and at the card table. There are tricks aimed at amazing adults or for baffling children; for impressing business clients or for entertaining your friends. The reader of Adult Magic is soon aware of the tangible value and potential personal benefits that come with the ability to perform magic.
Illustrated throughout with original photographs and drawings, Adult Magic can make a magician of you in a very short time. From Paul Daniel's you learn a typical magic routine and the patter to use while performing tricks. He will show you how to break the ice with magic in any business situation, how to deal a perfect bridge or poker hand from a shuffled deck and much more. You may never play the Palladium but you will have more fun than you ever thought possible.
ITEM # BK0821 PRICE $20.00
SEMI-AUTOMATIC CARD TRICKS by STEVE BEAM
In Steve Beam's Semi-Automatic Card Tricks 2 you will find more professional card tricks and routines. These are not your typical self-working card tricks. Most come complete with the patter and presentation to show exactly how the inventors of the tricks present them. This enables you to astound and entertain any audience with top quality card magic. Clever principles and devious subtleties have supplanted sleight of hand. Unlike many self-working tricks, these do not appear to be self-working to the audience.
The latest technology has been used to eliminate superfluous dealing and counting. Magicians and non-magicians alike will give you credit for great skill when you present the miracles between these covers. The humorous presentational ideas and patter will ensure that you are also credited with being a complete performer. It is a beautiful hard-covered book that is well illustrated.
ITEM # BK0908 PRICE $40.00
MATHEMATICS MAGIC and MYSTERY by MARTIN GARDNER
Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule we simply accept these tricks as "magic"; we seldom recognize that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, theory of numbers, topology, and other branches of mathematics.
This is the first book-length study of this fascinating branch of recreational mathematics. Written by one of the foremost experts on mathematical magic, it summarizes, with considerable historical data and bibliography, all previous work in this field; it is also a creative examination of laws and their-exemplification, with scores of new tricks, new insights, new demonstrations. In this volume, for the first time dozens of topological tricks are explained, dozens of manipulation tricks are aligned with mathematical law.
Non-technical, detailed, and clear, this volume contains 115 sections discussing tricks with cards, dice, coins, etc; topological tricks with handkerchiefs, cards, etc; geometrical vanishing effects; demonstrations with pure numbers; and dozens of other topics. You will learn how Sam Loyd could make a Chinaman vanish from a printed card; how a Moebius strip works; how a Curry square can "prove" that the whole is not equal to the sum of its parts.
No skill at sleight of hand is needed to perform the more than 500 tricks described. Mathematics guarantees their success; they work for anyone. Detailed examination of laws and their application permits you to create your own problems and effects. There are 135 illustrations in this softbound book.
ITEM # BK0255 PRICE $8.00
For those of us who had the pleasure and privilege of close association with Slydini, the present volume is a reference work to his exquisite artistry. Those of you who knew "Tony" only through the pages of The Magic of Slydini, will find this book, which is on CD-ROM an excellent opportunity to renew the acquaintance. It is, however, much more.
In this CD-ROM, Slydini discloses for the first time a devilishly original sleight which opens the door to performing seeming miracles. It has been aptly named, "The Imp-Pass." Take it from a sophisticated eye witness: In the Imp-Pass, Slydini has given Magic a tool of almost limitless application, a basic sleight, which when properly executed, will make your audience gasp in sheer amazement. Whether you use it for coins, cards, cups and balls, cigarettes, or what have you, the effect is incredible.
Among many other select items, this CD-ROM also contains one of Slydini's choice tidbits: the "Revolve Vanish." These sleights and effects are described in minute detail, supplemented with illustrations. The next best thing to having Slydini personally showing you, is this CD-ROM.
EFFECTS INCLUDED
Imp-Pass, Revolve-Vanish, One Coin Routine, Prediction in Red, Capricious Cornucopia, Ball Vanish in the Hands, Purse of Aladdin, Long and Short of It, Wrong Way Coins, Sweet Salt, Interlude with a Paper Napkin, Cigarette Re-Incarnation, Two Cigarettes from One, Unpredictable Coins, Postscriptum, & Thumb-Tipping.
This extraordinary CD-ROM contains 157 pages of some of Slydini's best effects searchable by keyword. Each effect has step by step instructions along with over 200 photographs to help guide any magician through each effect.
ITEM # CDR001 PRICE $12.95
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