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SELF WORKING PAPER MAGIC by KARL FULVES
This book is packed with magical mysteries. Karl Fulves knows how to pack a lot of information into a book. There are approximately 80 different effects contained within. Written in easy to understand language, and very well illustrated. Chapters include Magic with Paper, Amazing Animals, Money Magic, and much more. There are 367 illustrations in this softbound book. It is a very good value for the price.
ITEM # BK0487 PRICE $7.00
This is a wonderful book filled with a variety of original ideas and routines of John's. You get a total of fifty-four magic effects using: Coins, Cards, Silks, Sponge Balls, Rope, Wallets, Beads, Card Boxes, Flashlights, Chains, Envelopes, Matchboxes, Wands, Bills, Wooden Blocks, Spot Cards, Chop Cups, Cups and Balls and much more.
Included are effects for parlor, stage and close-up. There is truly something for everyone in this book that contains eight chapters. There are one hundred fifty-two professional illustrations by Tony Dunn. The magic in this book ranges from self--working to advanced skill levels. All the magic in this book is very sensible. John has tested every effect on audiences many times in his career. The book is hardbound and has a beautiful dust jacket.
ITEM # BK0944 PRICE $45.00
This book is a complete guide to performing magic for children. New York's top kid show magician, featured on television, in newspapers, and magazines, shares his secrets of success. Featuring six never-before published routines, 27 secrets of funnier routines, 7 essays, plus 21 tips to keep parents from talking during your show, and more! With this book you will work more and make more money!
Turn your show into non-stop laughter with the techniques you'll discover only in this book.
Learn the psychology behind children's behavior and how to apply that to a successful show.
Unlock the top 10 keys to performing memorable children's magic.
Get the secrets to making parents laugh, too, so you get hired again and again.
Discover simple steps that make kids demand you for their party.
Understand the differences in performing for different aged children.
Six steps to getting the most entertainment from a child volunteer.
Solving the top 10 problems of performing for children.
This is the first time David has released his routines to the magic community. These are his favorite routines from his hugely successful show. These will be the funniest routines you have ever performed. Illustrated with dozens of photographs.
Five minutes with a Milk Pitcher that will change your show completely.
The funniest Mis-Made Flag routine you have ever seen.
Win your audience over with a charming routine to perform with very shy children, even 3-year olds can be stars with this trick.
Step by step instruction on how to create your own hilarious routines.
David Kaye is a full-time professional magician and writes a monthly column about performing magic for children in MAGIC. His shows have been featured on ABC, CBS, NBC, The Late Show with David Letterman and he's been quoted in the Wall Street Journal. He performs more than 300 shows every year. He lectures on kid show magic and how to be a successful performer in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
You've seen David present a full day of lectures at the national SAM convention and at Magic Live! And he is a regular lecturer at the annual KIDabra conference. Now you can have his secrets to successful kid show magic in one idea-filled, easy to read volume. The book is hardcover, contains150 pages with Dustjacket It is printed on Acid-Free Paper.
ITEM # BK0903 PRICE $50.00
INDESCRIBABLE PHENOMENON by BARRY H. WILEY
She was one of the most famous and successful mediums and mentalists of the twentieth century. She fooled the best minds of her time. She was, in the words of J. N. Maskelyne... "...a fascinating little blonde."
After devoting twenty-eight years of research to her, Barry Wiley has written a biography that is both highly entertaining and thoroughly documented, weaving a story that includes a cast of magicians, mind readers, mediums, scientists, private detectives, frauds, suicides and murderous autopsies. It is a chapter of magic's history not to be missed.
On March 31, 1848, a new religion called Spiritualism was born. Less than three years later saw another birth, that of Ann Eliza Heathman to a simple cobbler in Southington, Ohio. While still a child, Annie was told she was a medium for the spirits of the dead, and from that point on she never looked back.
Her ability to make people believe she could summon the shades of the departed brought her to the attention of H. Melville Fay, an unscrupulous fraudulent medium (or one who exposed fraudulent mediums--whichever was paying best at the time). Under his guidance, Annie conquered America and then Europe, becoming Anna Eva Fay, the girl who baffled William Crookes, one of the most respected scientists of the age.
When the star of Spiritualism finally waned, Anna adapted, conjuring thoughts, rather than ghosts, from the minds of theater audiences, to become one of the most famous and successful stage mentalists of the twentieth century. Barry Wiley has spent twenty-eight years researching the astonishing life and career of Anna Eva Fay, and chronicles it with the touch of an experienced storyteller, while fully documenting his tale, the nature of which might otherwise be doubted. Along the way, he uncovers facts about other famous mediums and mystery performers of the heyday of Spiritualism, including the story behind how Washington Irving Bishop, one of America's greatest "muscle readers", got the nickname "petticoat Bishop", and how Charles H. Foster, the famous billet-reading medium, met a face-to-face challenge from Bishop on a New York stage and beat him in a battle of dueling frauds.
Wiley trots out long-buried facts, explodes fables, and leads the reader through the exploits of a cast of characters worthy of Dickens. From the underbelly of Spiritualism to the peak of the world's stages, he follows Anna Eva Fay and a lifetime of strange acquaintances. She was a celebrity, an enemy of J. N. Maskelyne, a close friend of Houdini, Kellar and Karl Germain, and one of the last century's greatest mind readers. She was "The Indescribable Phenomenon" and this is her story.
A quality hardcover, 454 pages, printed on coated paper, including two sections of color plates.
ITEM # BK1141 PRICE $65.00
This issue's quartet of entries shows each creator taking a different path to inspiration.
The Sound Of One Coin Clinking shows David Gripenwaldt setting as unlikely goal—an impromptu, hands-off visual—and bumping into an intriguing new concept.
Perfect Order show Shoot Ogawa examining the strong Triumph handling he recently published in Genii and finding an additional, unexpected bonus lurking inside.
Roy Walton's Triple Alliance, meanwhile, shows the master pasteboard-composer returning to a favorite theme—the use of the classic pass to create an effect otherwise out of reach. (Past examples of his explorations are issue 2's Pinkerton's Ladies, and issue 7's Acorn's Progress.)
Speaking of acorns, Ron Wohl's treatise Color Shuffles—which will conclude in our next issue—shows an idea growing from its most elemental form into a thicket of sturdy, advanced structures. Readers of Ibidem, one of the great magazines of the last century, will find distinct echoes of similarly detailed studies published there by Ravelli of Switzerland—a correspondence that becomes less surprising with the knowledge that Ravelli and Wohl are one and the same.
ITEM # BK0037 PRICE $10.00
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