BOOKS
CARD TRICKS AND STUNTS by JEAN HUGARD
Jean Hugard, besides being a master performer, was also one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers on magic. Through his writing he brought the literature on magic up to a new professional level. This book, continuing the carefully worked out descriptions begun in Card Manipulations, adds another 120 flourishes, sleights, tricks, and manipulations to the magician's repertory.
Among the many manipulations and sleights are forces, passes, glides, color changes, top and bottom changes, the Herrmann pass, the "Cottone" snap production, the Grote instantaneous palm, the Carlyle false count, double lifts, false cuts, controls, shuffles, and much more. Tricks using these manipulations include story tricks, spelling and counting tricks, tricks for small audiences, tricks, used in the professional acts of such magicians as Frederick Braue, R. M. Jamison, Paul Curry, Walsh and Haber, and Joseph Cottone, and tricks perfected or first described by Hugard.
For each manipulation, sleight or trick, the author first describes the effect to be produced. Then, in a combination of clear, detailed descriptions and drawings, he tells the exact method needed to achieve the desired effect. Cross-references to manipulations and other advanced methods make them available even to beginners. Alternate methods, tips, histories, and a careful analysis of possible trouble spots make it easy to develop the tricks for a perfect performance.
The keys to these tricks and manipulations are not well known outside professional magicians' groups. But to the advanced beginner or semi-professional who has some degree of card skill, the manipulations and tricks, expertly described here by Hugard, will add to the dexterity of the performance, give hours of rigorous skill-developing practice, and help build a professional well-rounded repertoire with cards.
This is an unabridged, slightly altered, republication of the 1938-41 series with illustrations. It has 205-pages is 5" x 8" and is soft cover.
ITEM # BK0377 PRICE $9.00
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE MAGIC TRICKS/CARDS - ADAMS
I am sure you will enjoy learning the many card tricks in this book. You will find card tricks are the most convenient form of magic to do, because you can always have a deck of cards with you, no matter where you are. Also, in any home, bar or office, a deck of playing cards is to be found, and if you have a number of them learned, in your head, ready to do, you are immediately the most important person at that party.
ITEM #BK0429 PRICE $2.00
INVISIBLE THREAD REEL by DAVID BLEVINS
This is a how to guide for everyone who owns the ITR reel. It contains twenty-four pages and sixteen different effects. If you own an ITR get the book. If you don't own an ITR, buy one and get the book.
Interesting introduction on the history of the ITR by Chuck Kirchner of Magic City.
ITEM # BK0530 PRICE $3.00
AMAZING MAGIC WITH CRAYONS by JEFF BROWN
This
unique book teaches 36 great tricks with regular and jumbo size crayons. With
contributions by some of the best thinkers in magic, Jeff shows how you can
perform amazing feats for children and adults using both common and
gimmicked crayons.
You'll
learn how to make special crayons, which appear completely innocent but can do
the most incredible things-change colors, shrink, grow, float, vanish, and more!
Baffle your audiences with something they haven't seen before - Crayon
Magic!
Here's
What You'll Find: In addition to some fascinating background on crayons
(and even a formula for making them), you'll learn a whole series of ways
to manipulate crayons with sleight of hand. Then, with the help of eight c
contributors, Jeff Brown teaches dozens highly visual and effective tricks with
crayons, most of them easy to do or self-working.
Routines
included:
Any
Color You Name
Balancing
Crayon
Classified
Crayons
Color
Changing Crayon
Color
Changing Crayons
Color
Epic
The
Color of Money
Colorful
Thoughts
More
Colorful Thoughts
Complementary
Colors
Crayon
Through Quarter
Crayon
To Ball of Wax
Crayon
to Flowers
Crayon
to Sand
Crayon
to Sand 2
Crayon
to Silk
Disappearing
Crayon
The
Feeling of Color
Floating
Crayon
Junior
Artist's Dream
Label
Madness
Marked
Card
Pop-Up
Crayon/Color Filter
Immovable
Crayon/Color Sympathy
Mind
Reading Crayons
Ooops!
Too Sharp
Rainbow
Crayons
Rewrapped
Shrinking
Crayon
Soft
Crayon
Stretching
Crayon
Rising
Crayon
Vanishing
Crayon
Wax
Impressions
"X"
Marks the Card
Zig
Zag Crayon
ITEM # BK0591 PRICE $10.00
CIPHER SPEAK (TWO PERSON CODE) by R. T. STARK
A definitive two person code system based upon spoken SOUNDS, not specific words.
The book includes a simplified starter system, cautions, historical data, performance rights, detailed tables, and more.
Originally, this code system was known only to ONE OTHER PERSON IN THE WORLD! Now, revised, updated, and offered in this soft cover, 40 Plus page, stand alone, stapled monograph, we present Cipher Speak.
Cipher Speak is an innovative take on the two person telepathy act, traditionally done using a verbal or physical code. The downfall of MANY of those systems is that they locked you in to using a long list of previously memorized words that may or may not have suited YOU.
In Cipher Speak, a trail has been blazed in that only 13 separate codes are used, and these are not words but phonic sounds that can be woven inside ANY words that you choose. If you are familiar with many of the standard mnemonic systems out there you may already know a version of these phonic tools, and would be ahead of the game. If not, this booklet explains the basics of how the code works, offers you a series of sample tables which you can alter and build upon but MORE IMPORTANTLY this Cipher Speak system does something few others have done with the verbal code- it gives you a viable framework around which to do this routine.
In addition, the author offers you several alternative method that make learning easier. We include an entire routine suggestions with special throw away reveals AND a KICKER finale ending that is sure to build to a big "O". Plus the text invites you to examine your own motivations for wanting to do this sort of act.
Pages 43 – Softbound
ITEM # BK0220 PRICE $35.00
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