This is the book to have if you want to perform magic with ropes. The book is quite old now, but contains over 150 tricks, so you should be able to find something you like that you can perform.
Category : Rope
Skill Level : Advanced
This books contains details of many sleights that are very much for the advanced cardician, but there are about 300 photographs to help you learn this challenging but effective magic.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Advanced
This early book, by an acknowledged master of coin magic, contains numerous sleights and tricks using money.
Category : Coins & Money
Skill Level : Advanced
This is one of the classic works on sleight of hand with cards. The book covers over 340 sleights, and has over 300 illustrations to help you learn to perform them.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Advanced
Harry Houdini was the greatest escape artist in history, yet known to his contemporaries as a terrible stage magician. Nevertheless, in 1917 he performed a single illusion that has been hotly debated ever since: Under the bright spotlights of New York’s Theatre Hippodrome, he made a live elephant disappear. Where did he learn this amazing trick and how did it work? The answers lie in magic expert Jim Steinmeyer’s chronicle of illusionary innovation, backstage chicanery and espionage, elevated showmanship, and keen competition within the world of magicians. Steinmeyer has captured the cultural history of magic during its "Golden Age" in America and abroad. Readers will learn the secrets and life stories of the fascinating personalities behind optical marvels such as floating ghosts appearing onstage and interacting with live actors, disembodied heads, and vanishing ladies. The people and events surrounding each step toward "The Vanishing Elephant" reveal how simple principles, mixed with ingenious psychology, can entertain and deceive. Houdini’s great feat of invisibility was based on a secret passed onto him by Charles Morritt, and the trick remained their secret for more than eighty years. In this book, Steinmeyer reveals Houdini’s mystery and more.
Category : History
Skill Level : Advanced
If you are really interested in (and adept at) manipulating cards, then this book, originally four smaller booklets, is for you. It covers over 100 sleights, flourishes and tricks.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Advanced
Although a bit dated, this is one of the classic books on mental magic written by an expert in his field. It contains about 200 effects, using no special equipment.
Category : Mentalism
Skill Level : Advanced
Another of the classic books on sleight of hand card technique, my only criticism is that the style of writing, given the book's age, makes it quite difficult to understand. Having said that, mastery of its contents will enable you to perform some really good card magic.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Advanced
