This unique pack of magic cards and book allow you to perform over 100 tricks and tips. You can even change your whole deck into your chosen card!
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginner
Discover how to create good old-fashioned fun with hand shadows! Now you can use simple, step-by-step techniques to create a variety of fascinating hand shadows!
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Category : General
Skill Level : Intermediate
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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
Create magic wherever you go with Amazing Irv's Handbook of Everyday Magic - a sophisticated, hip, how-to guide to making magic with everyday objects in everyday situations. From how to levitate yourself to impress your kids and how to successfully read your boss's mind, to how to charm and disarm a potential mugger, you'll be able to amaze your family, co-workers, friends, and fellow commuters in no time flat. More than 40 tricks - complete with step-by-step instructions and detailed illustrations that focus close in on the sleight-of-hand - are divided into sections on creating magic at home, at work, on the go, and on the town. Each trick is introduced by irreverent, semi-practical anecdotes that teach you just the right time and place for performing them. With Amazing Irv's Handbook of Everyday Magic, you'll never again need to rely on a joke to be entertaining.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
Again, this is quite an old book, written by an acknowledged master in his field. The book primarily focuses on sleight of hand techniques.
Category : General
Skill Level : Intermediate
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 book, by one of the most prolific authors on card magic, contains instructions for over 100 workable but effective tricks. Also contains over 200 illustrations.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Intermediate
This book contains over 190 tricks, with 200 illustrations, covering a wide range of effects with playing cards.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Intermediate
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 books on card magic. There are over 600 tricks in this book, covering almost every type of card effect imaginable.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
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
Written by probably the most famous magician of all time, this books provides insights into Houdini's life, escapes, exploits and thinking.
Category : General, History
Skill Level : Intermediate
This relatively new book is a meticulous and almost definitive chronicle of Houdini's life and career.
Category : Biography
Skill Level : N/A
Many people now know how to create Magic Squares, including how to create one that adds up to a total specified by a spectator.
Magic Squares became somewhat of a speciality for me, when I wrote a book on this subject as my "entrance examination" to become a Member of The Magic Circle.
It was while I was discussing Magic Squares with David Berglas, who was the President of The Magic Circle at the time, that he told me about a routine he had performed whereby a person’s birthday was included within four cells of a 4 x 4 Magic Square. (David’s Magic Square routines are detailed in the recently published book by David Britland, "The Mind & Magic of David Berglas".)
This short eBook describes the method which I eventually discovered of creating such a Birthday Magic Square, where the top row of four cells forms a specific date (e.g. somebody’s birthday, anniversary, or perhaps Christmas Day).
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
Although this book does contain some tricks, its place in the history of magic books is assured because of the huge volume of useful and practical information about the performance of magic.
Category : Performance
Skill Level : Intermediate
This book contains many really great tricks that are easy to do, from over 35 of America's top professional magicians, and is the sort of book that I wish had been around when I started in magic back in 1976.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
This book explains about 25 magic tricks, including some that are suitable for close-up and stage, and using cards and ropes, amongst other items.
Category : Cards, General, Rope
Skill Level : Beginners
Described by one leading magician as "the definitive work on Magic Squares for years to come", this illustrated, 74-page, A4 comb-bound non-mathematical treatise on Magic Squares covers the following subjects:
- the history of Magic Squares
- general classes of Magic Squares
- various formulae for creating Magic Squares
- detailed analyses of 3 x 3, 4 x 4 and 5 x 5 Magic Squares
- variations on Magic Squares
- Magic Square routines, puzzles and presentations, including "one novel contribution by the author which combines origami (the Crossed Box Pleat) with a Magic Square, The Origami Magic Square, and a prepared sample comes with the book" (Eddie Dawes in The Magic Circular)
- references to approximately 40 other works on Magic Squares and mnemonics.
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
This is a magical new edition to the best-selling "Things to Make and Do" series. This title contains 24 magic tricks that will astonish any audience, including card tricks, disappearing coins and incredible shrinking wands. Each trick is clearly illustrated with step-by-step instructions, and full instructions for creating props from everyday items are also included. It includes over 180 stickers for use decorating props and scenery.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
A book that discloses the secrets behind a collection of close-up magic tricks, including the author's "Out of the World", reputed to be the best card trick of the past century.
Category : General
Skill Level : Intermediate
This is probably the best book from which to learn a wide range of magic - there is practically nothing that isn't covered, including a few illusions. There are over 450 pages with plenty of illustrations.
Category : Cards, Coins, General, Mentalism, Rope
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains over 60 puzzles, mathematical tricks and oddities (including Magic Squares).
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Beginners
Although this book is entitled "Mathematical Magic", you do not need to be a mathematical genius to benefit from the wide range of tricks contained therein.
Category : Cards, Coins & Money, General, Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
A well-known puzzle and mathematical expert explains the mathematics behind over 400 tricks that you will be able to perform.
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
Mind-reading, fortune telling, uncanny predictions and other paranormal activities continue to baffle audiences throughout the world. Marc LeMezma, a member of The Magic Circle, opens up the world of psychic magic and shows just how easy it is to "trick" your audience into thinking that you can read their minds, predict their futures and control their thoughts. This book contains 17 tricks that anyone with a little guile and patter can perform. It guides readers through a little history of the subject, moving into the realms of mind-reading, ghostly occurrences, fortune telling and mind control, creating atmosphere, stories and stunts to amuse and confuse. Including tips on what to wear, what food and drink to serve, and how to set up your room, Marc LeMezma also gives information on a growing interest - holding a paranormal party.
Category : Mentalism
Skill Level : Beginners
This is the classic book on coin magic, including all the sleights you will need to know and many tricks that use those sleights.
Category : Coins & Money
Skill Level : Intermediate
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
This books contains 88 new self-working card tricks, none of which duplicate those contained in the earlier book "Self-Working Card Tricks" (see below).
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
Written by one of the world's leading authorities on professional magic, this book contains illustrated instructions for performing scores of magic feats using many different props.
Category : Cards, Coins & Money, General, Performance
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains 65 of Karl Fulves' best self-working card tricks.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
In his long-awaited first book, David Blaine, downtown hipster and extraordinary illusionist, offers a unique exploration of the mysteries and history of the ancient art of magic.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
I know exactly what you are thinking! These mystifying mind reading tricks are more spectacular than magic, more enticing than card tricks, and much more fun than sleight of hand. Delight and amaze friends and family with your mastery of these spellbinding techniques. From simple icebreakers to dazzling demonstrations, this assortment of crowd pleasers will convince even sceptical onlookers that you have the power to read their minds. Once you learn the basics, a little practice and touch of showmanship will make you the hit of any party. Work alone or with a partner; ham it up or play it cool. Perform these incredible feats and leave them wide-eyed and slack-jawed wondering "How did he do that? How does she know?"
Category : Mentalism
Skill Level : Beginners
Another 95 self-working card tricks from this prolific author.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
Step-by-step instructions for sleight of hand tricks using cards, coins, ball and other common items.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
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
The first of what turned out to be quite a series of books on self-working card tricks, this one contains 72 easy-to-perform effects.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains 56 self-working card tricks that are all designed to be performed in close-up.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
There are 92 tricks, with over 250 illustrations, in this book of self-working magic with money.
Category : Coins & Money
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains 61 self-working tricks, with an amazing 500 illustrations, using a handkerchief.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains 67 self-working mental magic effects which will get you off to a good start in this unusual branch of magic.
Category : Mentalism
Skill Level : Beginners
This books contains just over 100 self-working tricks using mathematics and numbers, although you don't need to be a genius to perform them.
Category : Mathematics, Mentalism
Skill Level : Beginners
This book describes 81 self-working effects, with over 350 illustrations, using nothing more than paper.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains 70 of the best self-working rope tricks ever devised, with over 400 illustrations to help you learn them.
Category : Rope
Skill Level : Beginners
97 self-working effects using everyday items that can be performed at the table.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
Amaze and confound friends and family with 70 easy to learn - but hard to figure-out magic tricks. The detailed and abundant illustrations show every sleight of hand so that anyone can master each feat in a matter of minutes. All it takes is a minimum amount of effort, and everyday objects suddenly become charmed. Make a coin vanish just by tapping it three times with a pen. In Band on the Run, a rubber band jumps from one set of fingers to another, then back again. Predict what cards will turn up, read someone's mind, try telekinesis, and many more stunts. Equipment lists, difficulty ratings, and practice tips are all included, along with a special presentation section for budding magicians.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginner
This book, by one of magic's younger stars who may frequently be seen on television, contains instructions on how to make and perform over 20 magic tricks.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
This book, although somewhat dated, is still a valuable reference for learning all manner of sleight of hand effects, and is highly regarded as a teaching book.
Category : Cards, Coins & Money, General
Skill Level : Intermediate
Magic is an age-old art form, which has the power to amaze and amuse both children and adults alike. This illustrated guide includes over 100 amazing magic tricks to be used on a variety of different occasions. It offers simple tricks as well as some designed for the more advanced practitioner, all supported by step-by-step instructions and comprehensive definitions of terms.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
Containing over 40 tricks and sleights of hand, this is a must-have book for all budding magicians. Young magicians feature in the book, providing models that the reader can relate to. Close-up photography and 'hidden views' of the tricks give clear instructions as to how the tricks are performed. There are also individual chapters on the dramatic history of magic, including sections on close-up magic, comedy magic, dangerous magic, mind magic and silent magic. With fascinating anecdotes about some of the world's greatest magicians - from Harry Houdini to David Blaine - this book is an essential introduction to the mysterious world of magic.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
In a similar vein to "Magic For Dummies", this is another excellent and light-hearted book on magic for beginners.
Category : General
Skill Level : Beginners
Fail-safe tricks and illusions are combined with tips on performance and principles of showmanship in this complete guide to creating magic acts.
Category : General, Performance
Skill Level : Beginner
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
This is one of the classic works on the long and fascinating history of magic.
Category : History
Skill Level : Intermediate
When Harry Houdini died in 1926, he was one of the most famous men in the world. Having started out as a vaudeville magician, he soon began to specialize in the escapes for which his name remains a byword. In this biography, Ruth Brandon explains in detail the secrets of Houdini's most celebrated escapes, but more importantly asks, "What was Houdini really trying to escape from?" - and, searching for the answer, reveals a man more extraordinary than any of his audience could have imagined.
Category : Biography
Skill Level : N/A
This book, written by a 14-year old magician, contains over 50 magic tricks, using a variety of items, that you can easily learn to perform.
Category : Cards, Coins & Money, General, Rope
Skill Level : Beginners
This book contains about a dozen "interactive" tricks that anybody can do, and the book is really well put together - probably the best of the interactive, pop-up books that I have seen!
To date, I have ordered six of these - one for myself and the rest for friends, who have all received them both gratefully and enthusiastically!
Category : General, Performance
Skill Level : Beginners
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic where Americans found escape during the Great Depression. It has the nostalgic quality of an old-fashioned fable, but Karl Johnson's The Magician and the Cardsharp is a true story that lovingly recreates the sparkle of a vanished world. Here, set against the backdrop of America struggling through the Depression, is the world of magic, a realm of stars, sleight of hand, and sin where dreams could be realized - or stolen away. Following the Crash of '29, Dai Vernon, known by magicians as 'the man who fooled Houdini,' is tramping down Midwestern backroads, barely making ends meet. While swapping secrets with a Mexican gambler, he hears of a guy he doesn't quite believe is real - a legendary mystery man who deals perfectly from the center of the deck and who locals call the greatest cardsharp of all time. Determined to find the reclusive genius, Vernon sets out on a journey through America's shady, slick, and sinful side; from mob-run Kansas City through railroad towns that looked sleepy only in the daytime. Does he find the sharp? Well, Karl Johnson did - after years of research into Vernon's colorful quest, research that led him to places he never knew existed. Johnson takes us to the cardsharp's doorstep and shows us how he bestowed on Vernon the greatest secret in magic. The Magician and the Cardsharp is a unique and endlessly entertaining piece of history that reveals the artistry and obsession of a special breed of American showmen."
Category : General, History
Skill Level : Intermediate
Working on stage is one thing, but when you want to work in a more impromptu street enviroment, then the problem is with directing your audience away from your dodgy doings. This is especially important when the audience may be all around you. Hence it is vital to have a working knowledge of the sleight of hand and misdirection techniques in order to perform your tricks in public places. For anyone interested in street magic or "pub" tricks these techniques are invaluable. Also a great source of information for any magician.
Category : General
Skill Level : Intermediate
If you were to ask almost any magician which book on card magic they would recommend for a beginner, then this is the one that most would immediately name. It covers all of the sleights you will need to become an accomplished cardician, and each chapter then teaches you to perform a number of effects that use the sleight taught in that chapter.
Category : Cards
Skill Level : Beginners
This book reveals many of Houdini's closely-guarded secrets.
Category : General, History
Skill Level : Intermediate
Recounts the World War II activities and triumphs of British music-hall illusionist Jasper Maskelyne and his specially trained team, who fought their part of the war with an amazing array of illusions.
This is now being made into a film, starring Tom Cruise.
Category : Biography
Skill Level : N/A
For decades, magician Paul Daniels has captured the imagination of audiences throughout the world. Now, at last, his secrets are unmasked as the magician speaks frankly in his autobiography.
Category : Biography
Skill Level : N/A
