3 Incredible Magic Books

PREVIOUSLY OWNED
CONDITION: VERY GOOD

Book 1
Magic Magic With Cards: 113 Easy-to-Perform Miracles With an Ordinary Deck of Cards
SOFT cover – 1975

Here are 113 easy-to-perform card tricks ... miracle card tricks that many professional magicians don't know. In these pages are secrets that have been closely guarded for years. Most are surprising, some are unbelievable, and all are fun.

The authors call these tricks "miracles," and, after you've mastered a few, you and your audiences will agree. The real miracle is how easy they are to learn and perform. All a beginner needs are this book, an ordinary deck of playing cards, and the desire to be an expert card magician. The rest is up to Frank Garcia and George Schindler, professional magicians who are also professional teachers.

Garcia and Schindler have mastered the art of turning amateurs into professionals. The illustrated routines in Magic with Cards, from start to astounding conclusion, are fully described and include performing patter.

• Foreword
• Playing Cards - A Brief History
• The Key Card
• Spelling Tricks
• Aces
• Poker Tricks
• The Force
• Reds and Blacks
• Mentalism
• The Pre-Arranged Cards (The Stack)
• One-Way Cards
• Mathematical and Self-Working Card Tricks
• Gags, Bets, and Stunts
• Card Miracles
• Card Handling
• Performing Your Magic
• Bibliography
• Index Of Tricks

BOOK 2

The Stein and Day Handbook of Magic - Marvin Kaye

PREVIOUSLY OWNED CONDITION: Very Good Sleight crease on binding from being read

This is a wonderful book for the serious beginner who wants to perform magic as a hobby or as a professional.

What I liked most about this book when I first read it 27 years ago was that it didn’t just focus on tricks and sleights. It did provide some great routines in each of the main areas of magic, including a wonderful section on Children’s magic which I was performing most of at the time, but it also had chapters on patter, style, preparing for the big Stage show, routining and all the other things that make up a real performance. These other aspects of magic are often overlooked by the beginner.

The book also ends many chapters with a brief description of commercially available effects and gives sources of dealers and magical publications. As a budding young magician these of course inspired me to want to save up my paper round money to buy more magic!

I found this book a wonderful entry into performing magic for real audiences and for many many years used ideas and magic directly from it. Soon I will read it again and feel sure it will still provide me with some useful tips and ideas that I have forgotten.

Contents:

11 Acknowledgments 15 Introduction

18 Chapter 1 Modern Magic — Its Rise and Fall

25 Chapter 2 Why Do People Like Magic?

31 Chapter 3 Fail-safe Magic 31 The Non-burning Handkerchief 33 Hidden Treasure 36 The Traveling Coin 40 The Penetrating Cup 41 Find the Ball 45 The Color-changing Pencil 48 The Floating Pencil 48 A Reliable Prediction 49 A Chronological Prediction 51 Invisible Flight 52 A Ring on a Rope 54 Two-tone Prediction 56 The Wise-Guy Turnover 58 Telepathic Tone 59 Olympian Vision 63 More Tricks

67 Chapter 4 What Do You Say and How Do You Say It?

78 Chapter 5 When Do You Move and Why Do You Do It?

88 Chapter 6 Essential Fingerwork 90 Card Spread 91 False Overhand 92 False Dovetail Shuffle 93 Three-pile False Cut 93 False Overhand Cut 95 The Palm 96 The Glide 97 Reverse Sliparound 98 False Card Count 99 Key Cards 99 The Thumb Pushback 101 Top Countoff 101 Cut Force 102 Behind-the-back Force 102 Deal-off Force 103 Basic Coin Palm 103 Thumb Palm 104 French Drop 106 Handkerchief Coin Vanish 108 False Coin Count 108 Billet Switch 110 False Knot

113 Chapter 7 Tricks with Sleights 113 Coin Flip 115 Serial-number Prediction 116 Center Tear 119 Kickaway Pip 120 Sucker Ace Change 122 Eliminating Cards 123 Two Reversed Cards 124 Stop Me Anytime 125 Card Pushup 125 Double-coincidence and Prediction Miracle 128 Impossible Location 130 Cut and Restored Ropes 138 More Tricks

140 Chapter 8 Stacking the Deck 141 Eight Kings 142 Si Stebbins 143 Two-card Divination 143 Basic Mnemonic Coding 147 Silent Card Coding 150 Paired-card Force Deck 151 Out of this Universe 152 Missing But in Good Company 155 More Tricks

157 Chapter 9 Controlling the Audience’s Attention

166 Chapter 10 In Search of Personal Style

170 Chapter 11 Putting Together an Act

179 Chapter 12 Magic of the Mind 182 ESP Card Location 183 Last-minute Message Reading 185 A Fast Prediction 186 One-ahead Message Reading 188 Indetectable-object Code 190 Code for Any Room 192 The Ultimate Premonition 194 Super Sucker Spirit Slates 196 The Free-choice Telephone Test 197 Ultra-mental Phone Code 198 Two-word Card Code 200 More Tricks

203 Chapter 13 Preparing for the Stage Show

215 Chapter 14 Assistants and Volunteers

222 Chapter 15 Tricks and Routines for Stage and Platform 223 The Drunken Magician 227 Election-day Blues 229 Impromptu Sawing a Woman in Half 231 Silk Escape 232 Underchair Escape 233 Comic Rope Tie 236 Knock-out Card Prediction 238 More Tricks

241 Chapter 16 Performing for Children

253 Chapter 17 Magic for Children’s Shows

287 Chapter 18 Other Special Audiences

296 Chapter 19 Do’s and Don’ts of Magical Entertainment

298 Appendix: Supply Sources of Magic Tricks and Literature 300 Glossary 308 Bibliography

• Publisher: Stein & Day Pub. Co., New York
• Pages: 310
• Location: New York, USA
• Date: 1975 - 2nd printing
• Binding: Softbound

BOOK 3

Magic and SHowmanship - Henning Nelms 
A Handbook for Conjurers

Like theatrical presentations, conjuring is an art of illusion. A magician skilled in the craft is able to convince an audience that he or she can read minds, communicate with the spirit world, make objects appear or disappear and perform other acts of of seemingly genuine magic.

Without having mastered the art of presentation or "showmanship" however, even the most competent sleight-of-hand artist can fall short in performance. With this in mind, noted authority Henning Nelms goes beyond the basics to show how techniques developed for the stage by playwrights, directors and actors can heighten the dramatic effect of a magician's performance.

In this instructive book, Nelms analyzes every phase of conjuring-from sleights, devices and illusions to misdirection, controlling the audience's attention, incorporating "patter" and the effective use of assistants. Of particular interest is a chapter on body language, posture-positioning and movement. Also included are some 60 original routines-from simple card tricks to such major illusions as having the performer suddenly appear at stage center.

Indispensable as an instruction manual for novices, this how-to-guide, enhanced with nearly 200 of the author's illustrations, will also serve as a lasting source of advice and inspiration for veteran conjurers.

Pages 322 - Softbound, Illustrated