BOOKS
PHOENIX by BRUCE ELLIOT
The "BIRD" as this well-known publication is called by its devotees is really an unusual contribution to MAGIC. Here are FIVE cloth bound volumes of FIFTY ISSUES, each containing the cream of close-up, impromptu, and subtle magic. The PHOENIX when first put out was in the magic shops every other Friday, as regular as clockwork, bringing the latest tricks. Not time-worn chestnuts that need a third hand, a black art well and four assistants, but subtle secrets that will fool your brother magi as well as lay audiences.
Each issue of the PHOENIX brought you from three to five tested practical tricks. The-cleverest brains in magic have contributed their best ideas to the PHOENIX and they are yours for the reading. Each volume has literally thousands of IDEAS, GAGS, TRICKS, and illustrations that you will put to good use amazing your audience.
| VOLUME 2 ARTICLES 51-100 | ITEM # BK0429 | PRICE $25.00 |
| VOLUME 4 ARTICLES 151-200 | ITEM # BK0431 | PRICE $25.00 |
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CIGARETTE TRICKS by KEITH CLARK
A shower of fire, presto, a lit cigarette in your hand! Toss it away, whoops, another cigarette, lit, and yet another. They keep coming. A burning lit cigarette is crushed in your hand and it vanishes into thin air. Cigarettes and more cigarettes. All this and more is yours with the purchase of "The Encyclopedia of Cigarette Tricks." Already an "Academy Award Winner." Literally everything in the world that there is to know about cigarettes and cigarette magic.
Complete with all the cigarette magic using sleights and without sleights, all cigarette magic with gimmicks and without. It's complete, all encompassing. Truly a labor of a lifetime. 318 pages, 120,000 words of text, 300 actual photos. 30 pages of routines All gimmicks revealed. Equal to personal instructions.
ITEM # BK0155 PRICE $20.00
SYMPATHETIC SILKS by LEWIS GANSON
The Sympathetic Silks is a classic routine that has been performed by both Houdini and Jane Thurston amongst others. Lewis Ganson explains the routine in the style that he has become famous for. There are sixteen pages of text with thirty-two photos.
ITEM # BK0539 PRICE $7.00
FANTASIO - MY CANES AND CANDLES
“Fantasio, you are one of my true
'inspirations.’" - David Copperfield
“Fantasio, thank you for what you have done for
magic.” – Lance Burton “Fantasio,
you levitated the stature of magic to an elegant art form.” - Siegfried and
Roy
“Fantasio, you are a very talented magician. My sincere
thanks for your many fine contributions to our art of magic.” - Mark Wilson
“Fantastic is the word for Fantasio.” - Walt Disney
Fantasio's innovative magical inventions have been used
for decades now by many of the world's most famous magicians. Now, for the first
time, the genius behind the magic explains everything about his brilliant
creations in My Canes and Candles. In this beautiful, fully-illustrated
volume, you'll learn everything you ever needed to know about Fantasio's
appearing and vanishing canes, candles and wands: their care and maintenance,
complete effects and routines, and innovative ideas that could only have been
thought of by their inventor.
Contents include
The Fantasio Canes and Candles - The appearing cane
tricks with the appearing cane. The vanishing cane tricks with the vanishing
cane.
The Vanishing Wand - Tricks with the Vanishing Wand.
The Vanishing Candle - Tricks with the vanishing candle.
The Appearing Candle - Tricks with the appearing candle.
Cane and Candle Combinations - More with canes and more with candies. Canes and candles encore. Canes and candles to bouquets. Tricks with feather bouquets and more! There are ideas here for all magicians, even for those who don't perform manipulative magic. What’s more, this is the very first time that all of this information has been collected in one volume, making it an instant classic and a must-have for every magician's library.
ITEM # BK0848 PRICE $40.00
BY FORCES UNSEEN by EARNEST EARICK
Rarely does card magic come along as strikingly original as that found in this book. Its creator, Earnest Earick, has refrained from publishing his groundbreaking material for years - until now! When you flip through the pages of "By Forces Unseen" you will encounter chosen cards that fly from the deck when you clap your hands, cards that materialize at your fingertips when someone concentrates on them, selections that pop from the middle of the pack with the flip of your wrist...and seventeen other extraordinary events.
ITEM # BK0199 PRICE $35.00
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