A book trying to find the metaphysical connection between The Great Pyramids of Egypt and playing cards.
Nothing to do with “safety” here, but an interesting effect with handkerchiefs, and a demonstration of spirit reading.
A collection of card tricks and ideas, mostly using prepared or gimmicked cards. All effects herein have been thoroughly tested by the author.
Official Secret: The Remarkable Story of Escape Aids – Their Invention, Production – and the Sequel.
Arthur Setterington teaches you some of his Off-beat mentalism. Effects include: Headliner I Told You So The Burning Question Who Touched...
Here are a few cards tricks that the author had performed for the magic crowd from time to time with the result that some well informed magicians had...
Here are Mr. Christianer’s handlings for several classic effects that were very popular in their day. Routines for the Wandering Block and Flying...
Mr. Chambers has provided 26 effects, with a variety of objects, such as coins, balls, matches, confetti, and ash trays. A price list is conveniently...
Stanley Collins was a magical genius, and his Alpha Ace Trick is still performed today. This booklet contains 15 original and offbeat items, mostly...
Original Magic for All: A Series of Original Magic Problems Requiring No Special Skill for Their Performance.
Reminiscing on 60 years of magic and deception. A look into a magician’s life from learning his first magic trick, through to his eventual career. A...
Jasper Maskelyne, the famous illusionist, presents a practical book that enables the curious to become expert entertainers in the art of magic....
You will never have to worry about forcing a card again. Forces using regular cards, prepared cards, numbers, and a section on miscellaneous forces...
Ormond McGill presents twenty-one effects from his repertoire. The book opens with some of McGill’s thoughts on openers and finishes with his...
Anyone can learn to do magic and this book is a great start. Howard Thurston released a series of two books: 200 Tricks You Can Do and 200 More...
Here is a collection of 50 card tricks, none of them requiring any sleight of hand. Contributions from such names as Arthur Buckley, Paul Rossini, Ed...
William Francis (Rufus) Steele presents 52 Amazing Card Tricks. Always known for adding unique card material to the magic literature, Rufus continues...
Bibliography of Works in English on Playing Cards and Gaming is a bibliography of books on card magic, gambling, non-fiction books, fiction books,...
A Book of Marionettes is primarily a history book on puppetry and marionettes. Helen Joseph explores puppets of antiquity, puppets of the Orient,...
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Percy Abbott was an Australian magician, and a very clever one. This book contains many of his original effects using cards, thimbles, billiard...
Evolving from a series of original card effects devised in his spare time, Warren Wiersbe presents Action with Cards. It is a book of card magic with...
An overview of Magic, including a history of the Art from ancient to modern times, plus chapters on mind reading, famous illusions of the time,...
Henry Ridgely Evans tribute to Robert-Houdin, the great master of modern magic. This is a biography of Robert-Houdin; his life, adventures, and...