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101 CLASSIC MAGIC TRICKS by GUY FREDERICK
Performed by magicians from Harry Houdini to David Copperfield, there are some magic tricks that have been baffling audiences for decades. Now you can share in the secrets of prestigious prestidigitators.
Perform card and coin tricks, mind-reading feats, rope, ribbon and ring tricks, and more--all-using materials you can probably find in your house. Cut a rope and put it back together. Make a coin vanish into thin air. Predict the answer to a complicated series of math equations. Free your hands, which have been securely tied together. Make an egg stand on its end, and produce a silk handkerchief from a piece of paper. Master basic techniques like the dissolving knot, the forced card, palming, and the French Drop coin vanish that will allow you to amaze your audience with dozens of astounding tricks.
Magic is not so hard to do when you’re "in the know." With a little practice, you’ll be able to fool your friends like a pro!
ITEM # BK0990 PRICE $6.00
In this book you will read the author's unique brand of Card Magic. It artfully blends subtleties, stacks, gaffs, mental skills, sleights and new principles to create effects that are direct, entertaining, baffling and easy to perform. The book includes a Point Spread where you repeatedly predict the point spread in a simple card game. Fate, the ultimate birthday card routine is a great effect in the book. This Side Up which is an effect where spectator's signed card becomes the opposite side on an Instruction Card. Everybody's Lazy, a triple climax, no-touch routine. Moves and Removes, the classic 3-by-3 elimination game. The Aronson Strip-out, a straightforward procedure that will delight technicians and cardmen is also included in the book. Suit Yourself, a two-deck miracle, Two Possibilities, Simon's solution to the classic Open Prediction plot, plus much more.
There are lots of comments, tips. ideas, lead-ins, routines and sequences, presented in Simon's readable, teachable and enjoyable style. John Bannon says, "There are two hallmarks of Simon's tricks. First, they are totally fooling. Second, they are intrinsically interesting..." The book is hardbound and contains 308 pages.
ITEM # BK0412 PRICE $40.00
EXTENDING MAGIC BEYOND CREDIBILITY BY JOHN BOOTH
John Booth, in Extending Magic Beyond Credibility, his thirteenth (and possibly best) book on magic, looks back on his more than 70 years of experience with the conjuring arts and considers some of its most enduring mysteries, intriguing questions and fascinating personalities.
From legendary effects such as Robert-Houdin's Light & Heavy Chest and the Indian Rope Trick to the origins of dove magic, ventriloquism and automata, Extending Magic Beyond Credibility has the famous Booth blend of secrets, biography, philosophy and romantic history.
Whether you're a student of magic history or simply one fascinated with the art and its many facets, you'll find Extending Magic Beyond Credibility is more than just a book of magic history. It's a captivating read you'll find difficult to put down, written by a man who not only knows his subject...but who lived it as well.
Hard bound, cloth clover with gold foil stamping on spine and cover. 272 acid-free pages and a striking full-color dust jacket.
ITEM # BK0698 PRICE $40.00
RARA AVIS (JACK AVIS) by ANTHONY BRAHAMS
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Sixty Years of Magic from the Private Notebooks of Jack Avis! After Jack's death in 2004, 28 notebooks were discovered among his vast collection of manuscripts, books and other publications that contained his collected thoughts over the past half century. Also it contains some original, some of his own handlings of effects of his friends, some sleights, some tips and ideas but all bearing the stamp that earned him a world reputation for simple, baffling, natural magic. This new, important volume contains much of Jack's original thinking and ideas as well as rare photographs and notes from throughout his sixty years in magic. If you are a serious card person, close–up worker, historian or a magic enthusiast you will want to own this valuable record of the work of a man who devoted every moment of his spare time to the pursuit of magic at its highest level and is honored wherever a deck of cards is shuffled.
Pages 220 – Hardbound
ITEM # BK1280 PRICE $51.00
MARMADUKE THE WONDER MOUSE (WITH MOUSE) by MARK LEWIS
This is the pocket trick of the universe! And this is the best book ever written on it! You may have seen this performed by a carnival pitchman or magic demonstrator at a fair or exhibition. Briefly the effect is that a tiny little mouse scampers all over the place! It walks along the hand; it turns left, right and even rolls over! It will scamper out of a glass and hop from one deck of cards to another. It is a sensation!!!
Also included in this booklet is a description of the Magic Coin trick and the Spooky Pencil trick. The pencil trick in particular is a fabulous trick in it's own right and was made famous by the inimitable Johnny Neptune a famous Scottish magic pitchman who sold thousands of them.
The pencil will defy the law of gravity, move along the hand up down and sideways finally rising out of a bottle in the most mysterious way.
As a special bonus section we have also included a description of Marmaduke the Mouse's cousin in operation. The cousin is the famous squirrel, which walks, crawls and rises out of a glass. It is a furry, fuzzy little creature which looks like a giant worm. Really attention getting.
Pages 19
Mouse Length Approximately 1 3/4"
ITEM # BK1281 PRICE $20.00
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