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This is a must have for all card magicians. With this information in your arsenal you can hardly go wrong no matter what terrible thing unexpectedly befalls you. Charles Hopkins was a Philadelphia legendary card man. Everyone serious knows that this book is a true must read. Now you can take...

A truly great book by a master magician. Advanced sleight of hand with cards, coins, and billiard balls. Dozens of photographs show the various moves, and Buckley explains them with the voice of experience. A chapter on magic theory is particularly informative. Highly recommended by David...

Will Goldston guides us through the lives of some of the greatest magicians who graced the stage. Stories abound from the lives of the Zancigs, Hanco, G.W. Hunter, Horace Goldin, the Cornells, Lafayette, Dante, Muller, Chung Ling Soo, Frank Van Hoven, Wishart, Raymond, Maurice, Murray, Carl Hertz,...

The inside scoop on magic from Sept 1929 to One of the great, and rarest significant magic magazines of the 20th century. Over 750? pages of gossip and history that you cannot find elsewhere. Includes the printed indexes and a digital one for ease of digital searching.

Houdini used Robert-Houdin’s life and career as a blueprint and rocketed himself to success by following in his footsteps. He even went so far as using his name Houdin but added an “i” because he was told it meant “to be like” in French. Robert-Houdin was a master of the art in his eyes and when...

A 78 page book that has 4 distinct sections: a section on cards, one on coins, another on rope, and one on magic with laces. All practical material created with the working performer in mind.

This astounding compendium of magic was originally published in the early 20th century and actually doesn’t have so much to do with Joseph Dunninger the famous magician and mentalist. It’s really a collection of secrets and pseudo-secrets. Even if you filter out the ridiculous and downright...

Part 1 of Expert Manipulation: Including an Accurate and Comprehensive Technical Treatise on the Expert Manipulation of Miniature Billiard Balls, For Manipulative Artists and advanced Students of the Art of Magic. De Luxe edition, 5th printing.

Part 2 of Expert Manipulation: Including an Accurate and Comprehensive Technical Treatise on the Expert Manipulation of Miniature Billiard Balls, For Manipulative Artists and advanced Students of the Art of Magic. De Luxe edition, 5th printing.

Updated August 20th, 2014 Mahdi Gilbert’s new TEXT based PDF of Hugard and Braue’s classic book on advanced card handling, including two additional chapters by Dai Vernon and Dr. Jacob Daley. They say that the best way to hide something is to put it in print. Expert Card Technique proves this rule....

A variety of magic including cards, coins and billiard balls. Mr. Eastman teaches the production of cards at the fingertips, as well as his variation of the continuous front and back hand palm. He also explains his handling of the pass, and his method of doing the back palm without using the...

Learn aspects of card handling and effects from the clever mind of Victor Farelli. Farelli’s Card Magic: A Practical Treatise on Little-Known Card Sleights, Including Numerous New Card Problems. A student of David Devant, Victor Farelli was born in Dublin, Ireland, and was the foreign correspondent...

The sensational memories of a man who spent forty years of gambling, drinking, loving, scrapping and hustling. A cabin boy in 1839; could steal cards and cheat the boys at eleven; stock a deck at fourteen; bested soldiers on the Rio Grande during the Mexican war; won hundreds of thousands...

A great mindreading piece will elevate most acts, choose one of these gems to add to your act! When the magician apparently can read a secret locked in the mind of a spectator, it becomes an astounding and impressive mystery. Such an effect has an especial appeal because a spectator, or one of...

Conjuring Art’s new scan of this seminal publication of the complete Goldston’s Magical Quarterly Will Goldston, (1878–1948), was one of England’s most popular conjurors and prolific authors of books on magic. In 1934, Goldston started the production of a quarterly journal devoted to the...

The amazing story of the Great Houdini who could walk through a brick wall, make an elephant disappear from the stage of the New York Hippodrome, escape from the most intricately locked handcuffs, prison cells, bank vaults or fetters ever devised by man. This fascinating story also tells...

Secrets & pseudo-secrets of some of the greatest magicians of all time! Will Goldston, (1878–1948), was one of England’s most popular conjurors and prolific authors of books on magic. Great Magicians’ Tricks by Will Goldston explores the lives and magic of both obscure performers and the...

Many of Houdini’s real secrets were published for the first time in this book. Many of Houdini’s real secrets were published for the first time in this book.  The author, an escape artist by the name of “Oudini” seems to have had intimate knowledge of Houdini’s act as many of the...

A look into the history and pioneers of hellstromism. This is a booklet about the history and pioneers of hellstromism, also known as contact mind reading. T. Nelson Downs and John Northern Hilliard were both extremely impressed with Mr. Newmann, and that alone makes this little pamphlet...

Learn the secrets behind classic Indian effects. Here are the history and explanations of several classic Indian magic effects, as performed by Indian street magicians. Some of the effects described are the Mango Tree trick, the Basket trick (still performed today by Western magicians), the...

Houdini and Conan Doyle : The Story of a Strange Relationship Houdini and Conan Doyle were friends, and had a mutual respect for each other, but completely disagreed when it came to spiritualism. Conan Doyle was a firm believer, and Houdini, to say the least, was not. This is the story of their...

During the last twenty or so years of his life, Houdini recorded his life, innermost thoughts and feelings in the form of diaries. After Houdini’s death, Harold Kellock wanted to share Houdini’s life-story with the world. Using the recollections of Houdini’s wife Beatrice, who spent more than...

This is a technical manual for magicians, complete with illustrations and diagrams, but it is also an astute analysis of the best of Houdini’s magic and readable biography of a man who turned himself into a legend. Incredible escape, fantastic sleight-of-hand – Houdini’s most challenging...

Full Color! Downloadable PDF of Hugard’s Magic Monthly, the Complete File! The incomparable Hugard’s Magic Monthly has more magic per page than almost any other periodical ever published. Completely new scan in full color (the toned paper makes it feel like a real magazine and not reading a...

The incomparable Hugard’s Magic Monthly has more magic per page than almost any other periodical ever published. Fred Braue said, “On the whole, I think there is more good material in Hugard’s than all the remaining magazines put together”. Edited by Jean Hugard, Hugard’s Magic Monthly was...