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101 Amazing Magic Tricks with a Svengali Deck - £2.99
The Svengali Deck is one of the most devious tools ever devised for magical purposes. It allows you to perform - with a minimum of skills or sleight of hand - what appear to be virtual miracles! This book contains astounding tricks that can be performed with this special deck of cards. You'll learn how to: §Determine which card has been selected by touching the backs of the cards! ¨Change all the cards in the deck to match the selected card and then magically change them back! ªCause the spectator to pull the same card from the deck time after time! ©Transport the selected card from the deck to the inside of an inflated balloon! §Make the selected card rise and dance across the table! ¨Cause the selected card to appear at any position in the deck!
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101 Easy-to-do Magic Tricks, Bill Tarr - £14.99
This abundantly illustrated, easy-to-follow guide offers beginning magicians expert advice for successfully performing over 100 tricks, each graded according to difficulty. Requiring no sleight of hand nor complex props, these fascinating tricks can all be performed with everyday objects. Step-by-step instructions, complemented with nearly 400 explanatory illustrations, show you how to master such all-time classics as The Inexhaustible Hat, The Cut and Restored Turban, Dyeing the Silks, The Chinese Rings, The Great Telephone Trick, Super Memory, The Vanishing Bowl of Water and dozens more. In addition to complete instructions, the text includes a glossary of professional terms, notes on constructing necessary props and a brief but fascinating section on great magicians. 392 illustrations, 224 pages, size: 8⅜" x 11"

101 Tricks with a Thumb Tip, by Gabe Fajuri - £2.99
Learn how to become an expert Thumb Tip manipulator. This book provides all the basics, and more. Imagine having the power to vanish nearly any small object, in any situation, whenever you want. That's the sort of versatility a Thumb Tip can provide you with. Professionals find it indispensable to their work, with careful thinking and a minimum amount of practice; you can use the Thumb Tip in a number of diabolical ways to astound even the most hardened audience. The step-by-step instructions in this book give you all the details on how to work miracles with this secret device.
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Abbott’s Encyclopaedia of Rope Tricks for Magicians, Stewart James - £12.99
Enlarge your magic repertoire and amaze your friends with mystifying rope tricks you can easily learn from this legendary encyclopaedia of rope tricks for magicians. Containing over 150 tricks, many created by masters of rope magic, this book shows you step by step how to perform the best rope tricks ever devised. Grouped into nine chapters from knots and penetrations to cut and restored rope tricks and many more. 510 illustrations, 400 pages, size: 5⅜"x 8½"

All-Outs Think of a Card - £10.00
From the man who always succeeds, though not by playing with a full deck! In addition to being a delightfully direct discovery of a thought of card, this is the ideal way to learn to understand and master the basic principles of "outs" without the usual hazards. Milt Kort invariably used this stunt to secretly reveal the sophistication (if any) of strangers before trying riskier stuff. Use any deck; any time.


Annemann's Card Magic, Ted Annemann - £7.99
Here are 112 brilliant tricks, dazzling and fascinating manipulations - easily mastered with this step-by-step guide. For each trick, the author describes the effect to be produced, with clear descriptions and drawings of method. 48 illustrations, 188 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Arm Buster - £12.00
Andrew Mayne, creator of Bisection and author of Touching Sky presents a brand new shocking magic effect. - Armbuster! Place your arm into a "magic" cast that prevents you from being harmed. Then, bring out the wickedest looking drill you've ever seen. Proceed to drill a hole straight through your arm (blood is optional). Of course, when you remove your arm from the cast, it is unharmed. Thank goodness! The effect can be built in under a half an hour using £9 worth of materials and a £20 cordless drill.

 



Balloon Sculpture - Schindler - £8.99
Here is a 96 page illustrated book of easy-to-make balloon sculptures for children and adults. All of these simple animals can be made with a single balloon. Once you learn the basic twists and locks, you will have fun using your animals, hats, and designs for birthday parties...or as an entertaining act. You can even earn money at parties making colourful sculptures for the guests. Add a few other balloons and you can make a fruit basket; giant bumble bee, or party favours and other hanging or table decorations. There are even balloon games you can play alone or with friends. Each easy-to-learn instruction is accompanies by clear, step-by-step drawings so that you can follow along as you learn.
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Big Book of Magic Tricks, Karl Fulves - £13.99
Let an expert show you how to perform astounding feats with few or no props and minimum of sleight of hand. Amaze your friends with a tremendous diversity of tricks - using cards, coins and rope, comedy magic, mental dexterity and much more. Advice from this top-notch professional includes pointers on psychological misdirection and dramatic presentation. Even beginners can follow these clear step-by-step, illustrated directions. 196 pages, size: 8" x 11"

Card Magic for Amateurs & Professionals, Bill Simon - £10.99
Basic text on modern card conjuring describes for specialists and amateurs alike exact methods for perfecting the Instant Reverse, Three Queens Monte, The Ambitious Card, and many other sleights of hand. Also includes advice on manipulation, the art of presentation, audience participation, use of patter, and much more. Clear explanations and detailed drawings enable performers to add polish and excitement to any presentation. 96 illustrations, 182 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Card Manipulations Series 1-5, Jean Hugard - £9.99
In this five-book series, Jean Hugard, master performer on stage and with small groups, teaches the passes, palming methods, shuffles, arm spreads, colour reverses, sleights, flourishes, set-ups and tricks in the best professional versions. After showing the basic manipulations he develops a number of exceptional tricks where the manipulations are used. A number of illustrations and step-by-step explanations teach each detail, as the trick would be given in performance. By working through these tricks, from the simple to the complex, the magician learns his skills in a professional manner and also gains a wide repertoire of specific tricks. Throughout the book a great number of manipulations and over 165 tricks are explained. Illustrations, 163 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Charles Jordan's best Card Tricks, Karl Fulves - £10.99
Dazzling feats of conjuring created by legendary figure in the field of magic. Tricks newly updated and edited by noted contemporary authority. Over 190 mind-boggling tricks including: "long-Distance Mind-Reading," "Satan's Touch," "The Jordan Count," many more. Over 200 illustrations, 256 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Classic Card Tricks, Edward Victor - £7.99
Accomplished sleight-of-hand artist Edward Victor shows how to execute a variety of amazing card tricks using ordinary items such as a handkerchief, notepaper, drinking glass, piece of string, candle and a deck of cards. Simple, easy-to-follow instructions and drawings enable would-be wizards to perform amazing feats including The Third Card Trick, A False Riffle Shuffle, Magnetized Cards, An Invisible Palm and The Awkward Ace. 105 illustrations, 98 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Cyclopedia of Magic - Mark Wilson - £9.99
Here's a portable handbook for every aspiring illusionist. Master magician Mark Wilson provides the secrets to more than 200 classic tricks, with comprehensive, step-by-step instructions and illustrations. From sleight of hand to levitation, you'll learn: §Classic Coin Tricks, ©Remarkable Rope Tricks, ªImpressive Predictions, ¨Amazing Illusions and dozens More Incredible Tricks! With tips on stage patter and showmanship.
Mark Wilson's Cyclopedia Of Magic is a complete course recommended for beginners, but thorough enough to earn a place in the pockets of the most accomplished magicians!

FXWizard - Thread Wizard Booklet - £2.99
Imagine borrowing a dollar bill from a spectator, crumpling it into a ball, then floating it in mid-air! That is just one of the effects possible with the FXWizard - or any other ITR on the market. Floating effects are some of the strongest you can do. You'll be amazing your audience in no time with the tricks in this booklet. The step-by-step instructions in this book will give you all the details on how to perform amazing magic with an ITR. Inside this booklet you will find over one dozen effects, including: §The Floating Bill, ©The Floating Rose, ªRising Ring, ¨Psychic Pencil, §Rising Card, ©Spinning Card and much, much more!
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Great Balloons! - £34.99
The ultimate ballooning book. Jean Merlin has put every last detail into the production of this book. Inside, you'll learn everything from how to store and handle balloons to literally hundreds of designs and animals that can be made with them, under nearly any circumstance. Each balloon sculpture is lavishly illustrated by celebrated artist James Hodges.


Hidden in Plain Sight - £12.99
Hidden in Plain Sight is the most complete manual for marked cards ever published. Author Kirk Charles, a long-time professional magician, has written a book that explores this most powerful of all magical tools in great detail. From the history of marked cards to more modern developments in “reader” technology, Charles breaks down the advantages, disadvantages and nuances you’ll need to know. You’ll learn about commercially available decks as well as how to prepare your own custom-marked pack. Additionally, Charles delves into the psychology involved in performing with a marked deck. From strategies for misdirection to key cards, stacked decks, and mnemonics, Charles explores every angle of the tips and tactics that can enhance tricks with any marked deck. For the beginning card conjurer, an entire chapter of easy-to-do miracle material has been included. These tricks require little if any sleight of hand, yet pack a wallop when performed. Even amateurs, armed with a marked deck and these “Instant Miracles” will be amazing spectators in no time! Best of all, Hidden in Plain Sight details the workings of the finest marked cards on the market, the Boris Wild Marked Deck. A lengthy chapter, written by Boris Wild himself, details the nuts and bolts of his stellar system, and includes two blockbuster tricks that will fool not only laymen but magicians as well! For the serious student, a lengthy bibliography has been included, leading the reader to further information and uses for marked cards.
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Houdini on Magic, by Walter Gibson & Morris Young - £10.99
Harry Houdini’s fame is secure as the greatest magician of modern times. Many of his fabulous escapes, indeed, now sound more like legend than history, ye they really happened. He permitted himself to be thrown, manacled, into Hudson River; to be nailed into packing cases and lowered into the ocean; to be suspended by the ankles, straitjacketed, hundreds of feet above the ground – and in every case escaped easily. This book is Houdini’s own accounts of these exploits, supplemented with rare photographs and posters, first-hand material from periodicals and pamphlets, and behind-the-scenes revelations of some of the master’s most prized secrets: how he picked locks, how he sawed a girl in half to become twins, how he walked through a brick wall, how a girl can vanish from a sheet of plate glass without trapdoors, hoists, mirrors or other such apparatus. There are also instructions for performing 44 stage tricks. These are illustrated with diagram sequences that cover every step in performance. Finally, of special interest to many readers are Houdini’s accounts of great magicians of history and of Houdini’s own battles with spiritualists and fraudulent mediums. 155 illustrations, 280 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Hugard’s Magic Manual, Jean Hugard - £12.99
In “The Lemon & Note Trick”, three £5 notes disappear from the handkerchief they were wrapped in, and appear in the middle of a lemon when it is sliced in half. In “The Miser’s Dream”, the magician plucks eight coins from the open air or from spectators’ ears or collars. And in “The Watch in the Bread”, the magician smashes the watch he borrowed from a spectator. But then discovers it, intact and still ticking, inside a fresh-baked loaf. Other mind-boggling tricks include: Swallowing a watch, transforming a cigarette into a silk handkerchief, producing bouquets of real flowers from a borrowed hat and pulling a live rabbit (or guinea pig out of a hat. Clear comprehensive and enhanced with 240 detailed diagrams, this indispensable resource belongs in the collection of every would-be magician.

Learn Magic, Henry Hay - £10.99
If you want to delight and amaze friends and family, the “Card Nailed to the Ceiling” trick is a sure winner. And it’s just one of the 65 tricks, sleights and manipulations described in this book. Written for the amateur magician, Learn Magic will enable you to learn and start performing well known tricks that professionals use, offering a well-rounded repertoire on which beginners can draw. Emphasis is on tricks that can be performed informally for small groups. 92 illustrations, 285 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Magic Tricks & Card Tricks, Wilfrid Jonson - £7.99
Here are two excellent books for the beginner interested in performing magic and card tricks. Bound together in one convenient volume, both approach the art of conjuring in a business-like manner, grounding the novice in fundamentals and leading him gradually to a surprising mastery of some 80 different tricks involving cards, coins, matches, tumblers, handkerchiefs, rings and various other articles associated with legerdemain. 89 illustrations, 190 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Magician’s Magic, Paul Curry - £12.99
Among veteran magicians, Paul Curry was known for his invention of many new tricks and the imaginative twists he gave old ones. But this book is much more than just a compendium of classic legerdemain. It’s a page-turning commentary on the history of magic, along with descriptions of illusions that anyone can master. Presenting thoroughly engrossing material in a truly elegant style, this “magician’s magician” discloses the secrets behind more than 25 close-up marvels – including his own “Out of This World,” reputed to be the best card trick of the past century. The book also surveys the entire field of prestidigitation – from magic performed in ancient Egypt to tricks executed in modern times.

Modern Coin Magic, J.B. Bobo - £10.99
All the tested, traditional methods of coin magic are in this book. J.B. Bobo has added to these the best of the modern innovations, while eliminating all the out-of-date and impractical sleights of his sources. You will learn all about palms, holds, flips, switches, change-over, steals, cuffing, sleeving and other sleight-of-hand techniques; coin tricks requiring special devices are also included. The author guides you systematically from basic techniques, concealments and vanishes, through integrated tricks. To complete routine acts (18 in all). 510 illustrations, 358 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½" paperbound.

Pick a Card-Any Card? Card Forcing Techniques & Uses - £3.99
The ability to force a playing card is one of the most important techniques a magician can master. By making an unsuspecting spectator select a card of his choice, the magician creates for himself a colossal advantage. Thousands of tricks are made possible. In this booklet, you will be taught several natural methods of forcing cards, including some that are practically self-working, others that require sleight of hand, and even how to create gimmicks that will make forcing cards nearly automatic. Once you have mastered card forcing, you will be able to perform the following tricks - and many more - which are explained in detail: make chosen cards to rise mysteriously from the pack, which is out of your hands! Predict the word a spectator will select from a random book! Cause every spectator to select the same card from a borrowed pack! Transport a selected card inside a piece of fruit!

Practical Mental Magic, Ted Annemann - £13.99
Outstanding collection of nearly 200 crowd-pleasing mental magic feats (requiring no special equipment). Author offers insider's tips and expert advice on techniques, presentation, diversion, patter, staging and all else needed to make any trick a foolproof success. 100 illustrations, 310 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Self-Working Card Tricks, Karl Fulves - £7.99
72 spectacular and entertaining tricks: card location, coincidence tricks, mental magic with cards, tricks with double endings, tricks with two decks, predictions, tricks with borrowed decks, trick poker deals. Easy-to-learn, clearly illustrated, these tricks produce spectacular effects with the minimum of practice. 42 illustrations, 122 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

More Self-Working Card Tricks, Karl Fulves - £8.99
88 new tricks (no duplication with Self-Working Card Tricks): impromptu card tricks, telephone tricks, shuffle set-ups, telepathy with cards, gambling secrets, tricks with torn and folded cards, card-forcing secrets, card tricks with props, vanishing cards, tricks with Aces only, card deck that operates like a calculator, and more. 142 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Self-Working Close-up Card Magic, Karl Fulves - £7.99
56 foolproof tricks, Karl Fulves Crowd-pleasing tricks that are simple to master, require only a deck of cards and a few everyday objects, and offer beginners valuable close-up experience in handling an audience. Illustrated instructions. 128 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½" 


Self-Working Mental Magic, Karl Fulves - £7.99
67 sure-fire mental feats to delight and mystify: mind reading with cards, instant ESP, identify the owners of objects given to you in random order, number prediction, magically reproduce drawings on slates, book tests, handwriting tricks, mind-reading done from a room away, much more. 73 illustrations.


Self-Working Number Magic, Karl Fulves - £7.99
Clear instructions for 101 tricks and problems, many based on important math principles. Calculations have been concealed; tricks are carefully streamlined for quick understanding and flaw-less performance. Master such number phenomena as lightning Calculations, Giant Memory, Magic Squares, nearly 100 more. 128 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Self-Working Rope Magic, Karl Fulves - £7.99
70 of the best rope tricks ever devised using overhand knots, slipknots and square knots. Dissolve knots, cut and restore ropes, male ropes magically shrink or grow longer, rope escape tricks and flourish knots. 423 illustrations and clear, easy-to-follow directions make performing these startling feats foolproof. 160 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Self-Working Table Magic, Karl Fulves - £7.99
97 mystifying tricks done with ordinary objects that can be borrowed from the audience. Make coins appear or disappear; matchsticks jump into the air; classic cups and balls; pierce balloons without bursting them; plus tricks with dice, rubber bands, eggs, safety pins, pens and pencils, more. 185 illustrations. 128 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"


Slight of Hand, Edwin Sachs - £12.99
Beyond supplying you with tricks, this book is teaching you the techniques of pure manual dexterity known collectively as sleight of hand. It also specifically explains many basic techniques: the palm, pass, false shuffle, change, slide, force, vanishing and producing an object, exchanging articles; and using such essential apparatus as the specially prepared table and dress coat. 57 illustrations, 408 pages, size: 5⅜" x 8½"

Slush! Magic tricks with slush powder - £2.99
Slush Powder lets you do the impossible! Armed with this secret weapon, you'll be able to perform miracles. Slush Powder gives you the power to perform tricks that formerly required cumbersome gimmicks and apparatus with the greatest of ease, and very little preparation. For years, Slush Powder has been an overlooked accessory in the world of magic. Now, with this booklet, some careful thought and practice, you'll be able to perform a wide variety of tricks sure to stun any audience. The step by step instruction in this book give you all the details on how to work easy-to-do miracles with this secret substance.
You'll learn how to:
§Visibly morph a glass full of milk into a handkerchief! ©Vanish a bowl full of water! ªChange a glass of water into a snowstorm of confetti! ¨Vanish a shot glass full of liquid from your bare hands!
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Sponge Ball Manipulations £1.99
A classic paperbound book by Audley Walsh that teaches you all of the basics of how to manipulate sponge balls. Color cover, 32 pages of text.

 


Street Magic Book (Paul Zenon) - £12.99
Revealing the secrets employed by today's most successful magicians, Paul Zenon shares instructions for mastering impressive tricks using everyday objects while providing additional coverage of how to perform card tricks through a combination of sleight-of-hand and magician patter.
Topics covered include cards, coins, mentalism, and even gambling routines.
Nearly 100 tricks included with easy-to-follow diagrams and text. Great for beginners!