BOOKS
CARD MAGIC OF LEPAUL, THE by PAUL LEPAUL
Accomplished card professionals ail recognize that Paul LePaul was one of the greatest manipulative magicians in advanced card work. No advanced cardman, or any less experienced magician aspiring to that status, can afford to be without this great book of Paul's outlining his approaches to his effects. Paul's book starts with a beginning section providing expert grounding in sleights and flourishes including: The Pass, The Side-Steal, Palming, Acquitments, Double Lifts, Changes, False Dealing, Controls, False Shuffles, and Flourishes. Paul then provides detailed descriptions of approximately two dozen of his finest magical sequences under the heading "New and Different Magical Effects": including such delightfully titled ones as One-Eyed Jacks, Bashful Queens, Gymnastic Aces, and Rising Cards, to name just a few.
The book, therefore, is particularly recommended not only to top card professionals, but also to the newer serious student of this field of magic. There is something for everyone who does card magic in this book.
ITEM # BK0067 PRICE $11.00
REEL MAGIC by ALBENICE
Here is "real magic" with a "reel," that tiny little device that makes possible some of the smartest, most beautiful and mystifying effects in the entire category of the magician's art. Albenice reveals the secret of his famous "Serpent Silk" wherein a silk handkerchief twisted rope fashion, is tied with a knot at its center, held by one free end in full view. The lower end of the silk is seen to slowly rise like the head of a serpent. This "head" slowly moves on up and through the knot thus untying it before your very eyes!
Among the twenty-five ultra effects described are a great many more original novelties such as: Penetration Effects wherein a hanky held by both ends, in full view, seemingly passes right through a wand, a person's arm or other solid objects; Knot Effects; Color Changes with Silks; Visible Self-tying Silk; The Dancing Hanky; effects with cards, cigarettes, bills, etc. includes Spalding's Penetration Book. Beautifully printed, 83 pages with 66 illustrations. This is a book every magician should possess.
ITEM # BK0452 PRICE $5.00
BASIC CARD TECHNIQUE by ANTHONY NORMAN
From England comes this wonderful book on card sleights. It is profusely illustrated and very clearly describes all basic card moves and many specialties. Twenty chapters deal with subjects such as: The Pass, Location, Palming & Forcing, False Cuts, False Shuffles, False Counts, The Double Lift, Top and Bottom Change, Glide and Slip, Glimpse and Peek, Reversing Cards, Flourishes, Fanning, Front and Back Palm, etc. Learn the right way to do these sleights.
Other chapters deal with Presentation, Card Climaxes, Patter, Color Changes, Mental and Gambling Effects. Hundreds of moves, sleights, tricks, flourishes, and methods are given. A comprehensive volume on CARD TECHNIQUE, well written and well produced with over 200 illustrations. Take our word for it, this is a book well worth the price and one that will teach you sleight of hand.
ITEM # BK0034 PRICE $5.00
HOUDINI A PICTORIAL BIOGRAPHY by MILBOURNE CHRISTOPHER
Houdini, the name is still magic. The most popular vaudeville performer of his era, Harry Houdini died during the stunt-crazed Twenties-on Halloween in 1926. His reputation and legend have continued to grow in the years since.
Dynamic and enormously talented, he was famed in his own time as a master magician, a man who could walk through a solid brick wall or make a live elephant disappear ... as a daring performer, unfazed by the prospect of leaping, chained, into an icy river ... as a pioneer aviator (the first to fly to Australia) ... as a daredevil actor in the days of silent films ... as an unrelenting crusader against fake spiritualists ... and as, above all, the greatest escape artist the world has ever seen. He could get out of anything, from manacles and straitjackets to coffins and jail cells.
Today Houdini is a folk hero. Myths and legendary tales have collected about him. It was said that he would be able to overcome death, sending back a message to the living; that he left his secrets in a safe-deposit vault, to be opened on the anniversary of his death; that he used psychic powers to perform his feats; or, most bizarrely, that he had a pocket in his skin in which he hid his picklocks. Even late in the century, Houdini continues as a prominent presence, a featured character in E. L. Doctorow's famed novel (and film and Broadway musical), Ragtime.
For this fascinating pictorial biography of Houdini, noted magician Milbourne Christopher drew on his immense collection of magic posters, photographs, drawings, and other memorabilia to recreate the life and times of his wonderful predecessor. Most of the information and rare illustrations are completely unique to this book, shedding new light on Houdini's spectacular escapes, his career in movies and as an author, his daring airplane flights in 1910, and his investigations into the supernatural. As a special added attraction, this pictorial biography includes, as an appendix, a facsimile of an autobiographical sketch, The Marvelous Adventures of Houdini, the Justly Celebrated Elusive American, originally published by the magician himself in 1917.
Houdini adds a new dimension to the great magician, making his accomplishments seem even more remarkable. For magic and theater buffs, for lovers of nostalgia, and for all those intrigued by true stories of larger-than-life legends who have recently been among us, Houdini is a magical book.
Milbourne Christopher was one of the best known magicians in America up until his death in 1984. He appeared frequently on network television, including in his own specials, and he had a one-man show on Broadway in 1965. An avid magic scholar and collector of memorabilia (including much on Houdini), Christopher authored twenty books on the subject. He performed as a magician all over the world and served as president of the Society of American Magicians. His spectacular collection of magic books, letters, posters, and other ephemera was the basis for a well-publicized recent auction at Swann Galleries in New York and among the priceless treasures was an unpublished Houdini book manuscript.
This book was previously publishes as Houdini: A Pictorial Life.
ITEM # BK0776 PRICE $20.00
That's Magic! provides endless hours of fun and entertainment for both adults and children alike. With just a few simple household props and a little practice, beginners will soon be amazing their friends and families.
40 astounding tricks with over 100 different permutations.
260 clear and precise step-by-step color photographs.
Anecdotes about magic in history and modern conjuror's jargon.
Wide variety of tricks using string, cards, coins, elastic bands and handkerchiefs.
Author Richard Jones is a member of England's prestigious Magic Circle.
ITEM # BK1092 PRICE $13.00
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