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AMAZING CIGAR by GIOVANNI LIVERA & JON RACHERBAUMER
Prepare yourself to take a literary joyride as you look at tricks you never dreamed of doing or thought possible with cigars, cigar bands, lighters, matches, matchboxes, cigar boxes, cigar ash, and smoke!
This book is a collection of the best-of-the-best stunts, from the simplest to the most challenging. This book is for everyone. Giovanni Liver and Jon Racherbaumer, both magicians and cigar aficionados, know the potential entertainment and amusement that lie at your fingertips by combining cigar smoking and magic. They know how to create memorable diversions and have now written a fun-to-read book for cigar smokers to create their own cigar smoking mystery.
It has been said there is something warmly chummy about a room full of cigar connoisseurs with the allure of marvelous cigars, exotic libations, lively banter, and venturesome men and women. What better setting for a little unexpected intrigue and mystery, the kind that tickles your imagination and makes you grin. So, permit this one-of-a-kind handbook to unleash the wizard within you. Become the smoker that smokes them with amazement, who suddenly turn heads, startle minds, and makes jaws drop.
If you love new experiences and are intrigued by novel and amazing things using commonplace cigar-smoking objects, cigars, wrappers, cigar bands, lighters, matches, match boxes, cigar boxes, cigar ash, and smoke. You will love the Amazing Cigar.
ITEM # BK0798 PRICE $24.95
MIND, MYTH, & MAGICK by T. A. WATERS
It's back and even bigger! Now fully indexed! Over 800 pages full of astounding and diabolic mentalism. All conceived by one man. T. A. Waters has for years been recognized as one of the most original and knowledgeable minds in Mentalism.
In the 1980s he released twenty-one booklets of his mental secrets, which sold to a select clientele for more than $300.00. This material was widely praised by many contemporary performers. Mind, Myth, & Magick gives you all this extraordinary mentalism and additional material revised, updated, and expensively illustrated in a fine hardcover edition.
This monumental work contains over 200 effects of Mind Reading and Bizarre Magick, along with extensive reexaminations of Psychometry, billet work, book and symbol tests, fortune telling, Tarot and other classic topics. This huge volume is a post-graduate course in Mentalism, as essential in the serious mentalist's working library as the works of Annemann and Corinda. With this book lies a wealth of material that will set you apart from the generic mentalist.
Get one while they are still available.
ITEM # BK0529 PRICE $60.00
Simon's largest collection of tricks to date. Simon Lovell is an expert at close-up magic. His performances not only fool the audience, but leave them laughing as well. He has performed all over the world, from the famous Magic Castle to the London Palladium. Simon is also a highly experienced television performer with over 100 credits to his name. Over 50 dynamite effects are included in this wonderful book including the following: Another Departed Point: A combination of Alex Elmsley's Between Your Palms and Point of Departure where a signed card appears under a spectator's hand, which even Mr. Elmsley himself gave his seal of approval to.
Give Me The Mayo: A three-level sandwich routine with a finish that will make your spectator's minds blow as the two kings travel instantly from opposite ends of the deck to trap the chosen card in the center.
Challenge Reverse: The first trick Lovell ever learned. Routined up to be a killer as a magician causes any number of chosen cards to reverse in the deck in under one second.
Who Killed Lilly Longlegs?: Lilly combines the strengths of all story decks. A story deck using all fifty-two cards and the card case for a monster applause pulling finish all to a logical story line.
The Lemming Ace Exchange: A classic Roy Walton plot line routined up to be a miracle. A normal, chosen card changes faces with a jumbo ace as part of a maniacally pattered routine.
Heartless: An ambitious card routine with a ruthless, heartless, ambitious card. The mates to the card are found and finally the deck is shown to be heartless with a huge hole right through the cards.
Three Card Pop: Three cards are shuffled into a deck by a spectator. Then they cut the deck into three piles. The magician waves his hands above the piles and the three chosen (signed) cards instantly appear, one on top of each pile, face-up.
Anticadge: A cigarette is removed from a flip-top box. The box is instantly seen to be factory-sealed and totally examinable.
Flashburn Two!: A signed card at the end of a weird experiment is found to be burnt and mutilated giving you a very cool giveaway souvenir for them to keep forever.
Elmsley Cut Elmsley: The magician demonstrates the amazing fourteen-card control where an entire suit and chosen card are dealt in order from a shuffled deck. Lovell considered this effect to be so strong that it is the routine he closed with when doing the Magic Castle close-up room.
This book is 8 1/2" x 11", has 264 acid-free pages, beautiful illustrations, and a full-color dust jacket.
ITEM # BK0605 PRICE $45.00
DRUGS STRANGERS AND OTHER DANGERS by RON CONLEY
This new book is destined to be one of the most influential kid-show works on the market. This detailed manual will teach you how to present a "Say No" magic show for schools, malls, and other venues. You can use the material from the book in virtually any kid-show.
After more than 1000 performances of the Magical Say No Show, Ron shares candidly how he gets the bookings, how much he is paid, where he works, who sponsors the show, and what messages he communicates during the performance. Reproductions of his advertising materials and giveaways, combined with his twenty-five years of show-business insights make this a must-have in every working performer's library.
Learn from Ron's mistakes as well as his successes. Look at his publicity photos, advertising flyers, sales letters, and other promotional pieces. Most of all, discover innovative ways to teach kids how to stay safe, happy, and healthy. Anyone who has worked with Ron will attest that he gives freely of his information and ideas with a genuine interest in helping others. This book accurately portrays his generous personality and will make you feel that you've had a personal consultation with Ron Conley. A large format book (8 1/2" x 11"), professionally typeset and illustrated, printed on acid-free paper, ninety-six pages, soft cover.
ITEM # BK0674 PRICE $25.00
MALINI AND HIS MAGIC by DAI VERNON
''I want EVERY magician to buy this book … for from this Great Feast of Tricks, Methods and Stories, one will GAIN A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE and INSTRUCTION." - Dai Vernon
The life and magic of one of the most extraordinary men in the entire history of magical performance, Dai Vernon, with the help of Lewis Ganson's masterful editing, has skillfully interwoven biography with fully-detailed explanations of the fabulous magic performed by this fabulous character. Max Malini (1873-1942) performed privately and publicly before Kings, Tycoons, and many Heads of State.
His performances were in enormous demand. The reasons why, are all explained in these exciting and informative pages! Dozens and dozens of tricks are explained, including the legendary Coin Game. This is one of the cutest impromptu tricks to fool magicians and laymen alike for many a long day! And you can do it immediately with no sleight-of-hand involved! Hardcover (6 x 9"), full-color dust jacket with 107 pages.
ITEM # BK0087 PRICE $30.00
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