BOOKS
ALLAN HAYDEN'S FANCY RING ROUTINE
Some say that Allan Hayden’s Fancy Ring Routine may very well be the best ring routine in the world. But don't ask Allan, he'll just deny it. Of course, he wants to keep it all to himself. Watching the ring routine can be a very serious experience. There are many magicians who give this effect a lot of class. The Fancy Ring Routine is an exception. It is funny, baffling and allows you to interact with the audience, which makes it fun for them as well.
The book is professionally written and well illustrated, which makes it easy to follow. The routine utilizes five rings - one key, two singles and a chain of two. Included is the complete patter for the routine.
ITEM # BK0403 PRICE $10.00
For many years the United States has dominated the world of card magic through generations of expert and innovative close-up magicians. But during the last years of the twentieth century a fresh spring of artistry and inventiveness began spilling over borders from Spain, its fountainheads being Arturo de Ascanio and Juan Tamariz. With this work invigorating much of Europe's magic scene, a sudden new vortex of magical creativity arose from Germany, manifesting itself particularly strongly at the 1997 and 2000 FISM world-championship competitions.
As could be expected, this burst of invention soon began to make itself felt in Germany's literature, inspired and influenced by the Card College series by Swiss master, Roberto Giobbi. in Concertos For Pasteboard, Oliver Erens, the prize-winning editor and publisher of two of Germany's most acclaimed recent collections of quality card magic offers to English-language readers the best offerings of those volumes by magicians from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The result is an invigorating shot of fresh ideas, novel effects and clever methods by some of the most creative minds in card magic today.
Concertos For Pasteboard features a remarkable breadth of material for today's card magicians. The tricks, which are helpfully classified for skill level, range from nearly sleight-less to technically demanding, and their potential to surprise and amaze is consistently high.
Pit Hartling, Helge Thun and Jörg Willich, members of the innovative, FISM-prize-winning group The Flicking Fingers contribute tricks of astonishing ingenuity, frequently fortified by a touch of wild comic invention. In Helge Thun's "Captain Hook's Card Mick", for example, the famous book-handed pirate locates a chosen card in a miraculous manner; while Jörg Willich manages the same feat with a hand-held electric blender!
For those searching for more serious mysteries, there is Peter Grandt's method for doing a piece-by-piece restoration of a signed selection, achieving the effect of Guy Hollingsworth's famous "Reformation" with an unprepared deck and no loss in mystery or impact.
The tricks and techniques of older generations are also well represented, including a full, professional, television presentation by Wittus Witt and other treats by Magic Christian, Piet Forton and Reinhard Müller. In total, this substantial volume contains enough variety, quality, entertainment and ingenuity to please the most experienced readers and performers of card magic.
ITEM # BK0670 PRICE $35.00
This is the fourth of magic effects by Andrew Mayne. Where his first two books dealt with illusions on a large scale, this book is all about magic on a more intimate level. While many of the effects here can be done on stage, some of them fit equally well in the living room, nightclub, or even the beach.
Part of the fun of being a magician is being able to create a miracle anytime anywhere. Andrew said, "Part of the fun in this book is sharing with you some of favorite impromptu, almost impromptu, and impromptu looking effects. Changing wads of paper into paper airplanes, using a towel to make your head vanish, or convincing your friends that you're a vampire aren't things that are going to necessarily make the world a better place."
Also amongst the effects in this book are a few 'gags.' While purists might argue that they don't have any place in a serious magic book, the author has this to say; "This ain't a serious magic book." Andrew also points out that a gag done for a quick if not cheap laugh has just as much value as a serious effect involving countless hours of rehearsal.
This book has a number of effects that are explained in a very easy way technically. That is to say that the author has tried to offer the easiest way to accomplish the effect rather than a more complicated method that might be more deceptive. His reasoning behind this is that if your skilled enough to come up with a better, more challenging way to get the same result, you'll find a way to do so. On the other hand if you don't posses that kind of skill, you'll still be able to perform the effects in this book the way they are described. Andrew says, "Id hate to write a book that was full of good ideas that were too complicated for anyone to do. Yeah, I'm probably bucking the trend but if I put it into print, damn it, I like to see people performing it."
You will love this 87+ page softbound book.
ITEM # BK1028 PRICE $25.00
In the effect you drink your favorite soda in a cup, and at will, the straw goes through the cup.
From the book's introduction
The idea of this trick came to me in a fast food restaurant: I finished my soft drink by playing with my paper cup and I wondered what kind of trick I could do with it...
Tapping on my straw while I was thinking about it gave me the idea: the straw through the paper cup!
Conditions for this miracle
16 Pages
Very Visual
You begin and end up clean
No straw substitution
Easy to perform
ITEM # BK0532 PRICE $10.00
MAGIC OF ALAN WAKELING by JIM STEINMEYER
From the author of Hiding the Elephant and The Glorious Deception comes a collection of five essays that shows how the great stage illusions were integrally products of their time, based on the traditions and fashions of the people, and the offspring of the incredible, inventive personalities who brought them to the stage. Like no other author, Jim Steinmeyer gives us insight into the timeless appeal of magic. His human subjects include such characters as Steele MacKaye, Maskelyne, David Devant, P.T. Selbit, Horace Goldin, and Charles Morritt. Illusions he discusses include: The Mascot Moth, Sawing a Lady in Halves, and Morritt's Disappearing Donkey.
Pages 345 - Soft Bound
ITEM # BK0217 PRICE $20.00
or if your order page is open, just add to it.
