BOOKS
ART OF ASTONISHMENT by PAUL HARRIS
A three-volume set of books from one of the most creative magical minds in the history of magic! You've heard rumors that the time was drawing near; and now those rumors are fact. These three great books on close-up magic have arrived. Three volumes make up the entire series.
Over 300 pages in each hardbound volume - 73 brand new effects - A Total of 222 effects in all! Over 2000 Illustrations! - Includes bunches of new and classic effects that are EASY TO DO! - includes many impromptu non-card effects!
BOOK #1
HIGHLIGHTS: The Light & Heavy Dime - A re-make of Robert Houdin's famous Light and Heavy Chest using a common dime which ends up permanently stuck in the most uncommon place. This will become the "Card-on-the- Ceiling" of Coin Magic.
Lip Balm - An organic, "naturally-gimmicked" coin box (a special brand of Lip Balm) that climaxes with a container full of Lip Balm.
Ultimate Rip Off or Dancing with the Last Piece - The ultimate bluff ending for Paul's Torn 'n' Restored Card twenty years later, a way to restore the last piece.
Creation - Patrick Martin's practical "workers" approach of producing a live moth to create maximum astonishment.
Shell Shock - Gregory Wilson's practical technique for blowing a hardboiled egg right out of its shell then finding a marked coin inside its yolk.
Tunnel Vision - A just-barely-possible way to make yourself disappear using a rolled-up paper tube and more nerve than most of us possess.
ITEM # BK0296 PRICE $45.00
HIGHLIGHTS: Counterfeit Spectator - On a borrowed dollar bill, the printed signature of the treasurer of the United States transforms into the spectator's name.
Swiss Movement - An ingenious P. H. discovery enables you to mysteriously animate an ungimmicked Swiss Army Knife. Completely impromptu and works with any Swiss Army Knife anytime.
Cincinnati Two Faced Blues - Two of those pesky advertising cards that clutter up your deck are accidentally selected and then transformed into an impossible object that was secretly already there.
Fizz Master - Cause the carbonation to travel magically from one soda to another. Absolutely killer completely impromptu.
McGimmick - You levitate a milkshake using only your finger then you completely vanish the milkshake leaving only its crumpled container.
Osmosis - European genius, Sylvain Mirouf's four-phase Linking Card masterpiece using just two single cards! An incredible new principle. Is it better than Immaculate Connection or Cardboard Connection! All three are in this book, so you can decide for yourself.
ITEM # BK0303 PRICE $45.00
HIGHLIGHTS: The Shape of Astonishment - The imprint of a quarter in a piece of foil instantly changes from heads to tails. Awesome and totally impromptu.
Hot Chocolate - You bring out a flat, folded Hershey wrapper out of your wallet and inflate it into the real thing.
The Anything Deck - Place a small packet of cards under the case ANY word or name is called out you spread the packet to reveal the exact same word, written in thick black marker across the backs of the cards. A completely new principle for releasing deep astonishment.
Peanut Butter & jellyfish - An anytime levitation of your favorite snack. Works just as well with burgers and fish fillets.
Bat Fishing - A spectator brings out any dollar and fairly selects eight cards. The number on the eight cards astonishingly match all eight serial numbers on the dollar and you never touched the bill or the cards!
Leaf - You tear a leaf off of someone's houseplant then press the torn stem back against the branch where it takes root and restores itself back into a healthy growing leaf.
The Shuffling Lesson-You sit back and enjoy the show while you induce a spectator to unknowingly stack, false shuffle, then false cut a deck all by herself so that she can deal herself the winning hand.
ITEM # BK0308 PRICE $45.00
BALLOON MAGIC BASICS by MARVIN L. HARDY
From beginning to end, Balloon Magic is filled with hours of creative fun. Authored by Marvin L. Hardy, the world's leading authority on tying balloon figures, Balloon Magic reveals the secrets of this fascinating and timeless art for everyone to enjoy and master.
Until now, balloon figure-tying was an art form known only by clowns, magicians, and other entertainers, with techniques orally passed down from one generation to the next. Balloon Magic is the first definitive volume that provides simple, step-by-step, illustrated instructions for more than fifty unique balloon figures, from the most basic to the most advanced. Novice and expert alike will be amazed at the variety of figures, from animals to toys to modern-day vehicles.
With Balloon Magic (and a little practice) anyone can soon create colorful, lively, and even original balloon figures that delight and entertain people of all ages.
ITEM # BK0534 PRICE $5.50
RADIO MAGIC: THE INTERVIEWS SEASON ONE by JAY FORTUNE
Own a piece of magic history! In July 2005, Jay Fortune and radio presenter Layman Steve hit the airwaves live from London with Radio Magic; a lively hour-long radio show dedicated to magic and magicians. Within weeks Radio Magic became the world’s number one radio show in this specialist area, with more and more listeners tuning in every week.
Radio Magic: The Interviews Season One is a hard-backed collection of the transcripts of interviews broadcast from July to December 2005. With a foreword by John Lenahan, this book of expert comment and advice is a gold-mine for the magician looking to improve their craft and offers a worldview of magic in the early 21st century.
Radio Magic: The Interviews Season One features hypnotist Matthew Stirling, sleight-of-hand expert Simon Lovell, world-famous magician Paul Daniels, dealer and creator Mark Leveridge, mentalist Luke Jermay, illusionist Russ Stevens, TV producer, creator and consultant Anthony Owen, manipulation expert Duncan Trillo, TV producer Andy Batten-Foster, and master magicians Eugene Burger and Jeff McBride. With a bonus chapter offering a new philosophy on magic by Walter Llewellyn McKone D. O. and a response by Eugene Burger, this book of expert comment will certainly set you thinking.
A huge amount of magic is covered in these pages from hypnotism and NLP, sleight-of-hand, magic book publishing, history of magic, starting your own magic business, mentalism, mind-reading, stage illusion, breaking into television with your magic, manipulation, famous magicians, creativity, bizarre magic, close-up, scripting, theory and philosophy.
John Lenahan says in his foreword to this book, "If you can’t get inspiration from these guys then you should go back to stamp collecting as a hobby."
REVIEWS...
'It's an original and stimulating book that will definitely inspire and gets our highest recommendation.'- MagicWeek
'Words cannot explain how good this is. Well, they can actually; you just need to read it!' - Wayne Dobson
'A great chance to read and mull over all those pearls of wisdom and bits of priceless information that may have flown past you as the spoken word.' - Noel Britten
Pages 100 - Hard Bound, with a Glossy laminated dust-jacket.
ITEM # BK0194 PRICE $50.00
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