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BOOKS - Close Up and Coin Magic
John Carney's
- CARNEYCOPIA
FINALLY BACK IN PRINT
After years of being out of stock, this popular book is available once again! Beautifully written by Stephen Minch, this book has been acclaimed by critics as one of the best books of the decade. Within these pages are taught the prized secrets of one of today's finest and most creative magical entertainers, John Carney. Here is the close-up magic of which he is proudest; magic that has won its creator the acclaim of his peers and the public alike. Each routine, trick and sleight is taught in painstaking detail. Here, waiting to amaze your audiences, is a compendium of close-up magic, formulated on the classic values of entertainment and baffling mystery. Within the 296 packed pages of Carneycopia are offered 43 items-29 tricks, sleights and routines with cards, including two complete acts, and 14 exceptional effects with coins, bills, glasses, matches, bottles, pens and sponge balls. 296 pages, 272 pen and ink illustrations by Kelly Lyles.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$40.00
SAMS
For the past 50 years SAM SCHWARTZ has been devising some of the most baffling magic and mentalism ever created. When Backfiip hit the scene it set off a whole new genera-tion of packet effects. Incredi-Box changed how magicians looked at coin boxes. And those in the know recognize that Sam's book tests were better than anything before.
At last, over 60 of Sam Schwartz's best tricks and routines have been gathered between hard covers to make SAM's, a book that spans a life-time of creativity and offers brilliant additions to the fields of Card and Coin Magic, Close-up Magic, Men-talism, Rope Effects and Rope and Ring Magic. SAM's, a book of 242 pages by ALLEN ZINGG, with over 200 illustrations by TONY DUNN, is a compendium of magic with methods attainable by the average magician and effects engineered to entertain while they astonish. Here is a book full of material you will use-because it's SAM's-because it's the finest!
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$40.00
WONDERFUL ROUTINES OF MAGIC-SECOND ADDENDUM
by Ellison Poland
The first two books were well received and soon went out of print. With the encouragement of several dealers, Wonderful Rou-tines of Magic was reprinted in October of 1992 The author is of the opinion that The Second Addendum is by far the best book of the series.
The effects are mostly cards and coins. There are two standout mental effects and two or three of the card effects can be presented as very strong mental effects. When "Psychic Pulse" was shown and explained to several magicians while on the way home from a convention, they said that it alone was worth the entire conven-tion trip.
It is firmly believed that applications of "Slough-off Con-trol," combined with "Slough-off Mathematics" can revolutionize one facet of card magic. If these two concepts are combined with John Quines handling of his "Quine's Keeper," even more mira-cles are possible. See the Magic of John Quine for an explanation of his concept.
This book consists of fifty-seven items, only twenty of which are by the author. The other contri-butors, listed alphabetically are: Aaron Black Tony Boon Peter Duffie Steve Hook Gene Maze Harry Milliken Charles Pecor Steve Pressley Dan Tong Gary Ward
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$40.00
WONDERFUL ROUTINES OF MAGIC
by Ellison Poland
This fine book of assorted magic has boon out of print for years. Finally re-printed as a hardbound book with dustjacket, it is again available to delight today's magicians who do not have their copy. Emphasizes coins, cards, and other close up magic, but also has some important club or stage effects. Hardbound, 251 pages, size 6 by 9 inches. 50 items!!
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$40.00
Fechter - The Magic of Eddie Fechter
AGAIN AVAILABLE!! LIMITED QUANTITY REPRINT
By Jerry Mentzer. Thirteen chapters, 265 pages. Including the full text of Magician Nitely, the original Fechter book. Loaded with great tricks by Eddie Fechter, the master bar magician. Plus page after page of stories, gags, shtick, photos and history. Out of print for years. Even used copies were difficult to find. Fechter the Magic of Eddie Fechter has finally been reprinted! Hardbound with dust jacket.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$45.00
IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF:The Legacy of Don Alan
This landmark work has finally been fully and dramatically captured! Not only are all of Don Alan's signature tricks explained in meticulous detail, but his unique format, important sub-text, psychology and presentation - the life-blood of what set Don Alan apart from the rest - is fully explained. These are the aspects which made his entertaining routines the prevailing paradigm of 20th Century Close-up Magic. You will get an inside look at what made Don Alan the most talked about and most copied close-up entertainer of all time. The first magician to make an impact on television and almost single-handedly popularized the Chop Cup. And you will learn the whys and hows of his synergistic routine-making and the all-important underlying themes: the Circle of Fun, the uses of environmental and personal spaces, picking players, timing, control, momentum, interrogation strategy, and much more! 309 pages. Many photos.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$49.95
RIGGS -THE MAGIC OF JOHN RIGGS
The Man with $1.98 Hands
Knockout mental magic fills one large chapter in this book. Stage magic fills another chapter including an easy and very effective newspaper tear. Three other chapters contain novel close up magic, coins, cards, cups and balls and various other close up stunts. John Riggs, is a clever magical performer from Knoxville, Tennessee and this is his first full- fledged book of magic. All of John's magic reflects his own unusual approach to magic. The effects are strong, and the methods, for the most part, are easy. The Magic of John Riggs is perfect bound with 89 pages size 8 1/2 by 11 inches. The text is typeset and illustrated with over eighty fine drawings by Richard Bartram, Jr.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE -$20.00
MAGIC FROM THE AMBIENT DOMAIN-John Riggs
The author is a professional entertainer; that means he entertains to eat! His magic, therefore, has to be clever and deceptive, and presented with an interesting plot. And John is enough of a pragmatist to want most of them to re-set easily, too. Magic from the Ambient Domain is crammed with that kind of magic! Included are professional routines with coins, cards, balloons, forks as well as other items. John at one time or another has used all of the routines in this book and he considered marketing several of the effects separately. Some are certainty good enough. If you use the magic in this book, you are guaranteed to transport your amazed audience to the Ambient Domain! The book is 8 1/2 by 11 inch size and perfect bound. There are 94 pages.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$20.00
PROFESSIONAL CLOSE-UP OF CURTIS KAM
Innovative high-tech close-up magic! Included are: Twisted Trio: A multi-phase visual fantasy with coins based on Gary Kurtz's seminal 'Trio', specifically designed to showcase 'The Twist'. More than just a move, 'The Twist' is a revolutionary new coin technique that will allow you to produce, switch, change, split, or shuttle a coin secretly from hand-to-hand. Kamnibal Cards: A highlight of Curtis Kam's professional act. At the climax, the Missionaries reappear; the Cannibals vanish, and the audience goes home happy and amazed! Also: Greensleeves, A Girl's Best Friend, Ring, Ring & Rope, Shrink A Card, Coercive Purse, Framed Wild Pocket, Chink-A-Chink, Coffee and Dough, and many other audience-tested routines. Nineteen routines. Hard bound, size 8 1/2 by 11 inches. 110 pages, with 149 illustrations.
SKILL LEVEL-Advanced
PRICE-$32.00
MAGIC WITH CREDIT CARDS by Jerry Mentzer
Magic with Credit Cards is a book full of tricks and routines with credit cards!! Several routines for destroying and restoring a borrowed credit card, routines for magical printing of credit cards, monte type effects, credit card repeat, several methods for credit card to wallet, and an assortment of gags and bits of business! Also included is a discussion of where to get credit cards, where to get duplicates, and how to make inexpensive but real looking duplicate cards. Imagine the fun you and your audiences can have when you borrow someone's credit card, frequent flyer card, or private membership card and destroy it or vanish it! Typeset and fully illustrated. Size 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches, perfect bound. 80 pages with over 50 illustrations.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$20.00
EFFECTIVE CUPS AND BALLS-by Jerry Mentzer
If you like good close-up magic, here is an easy-to-do, stand-up version of the classic cups and balls routine. This typeset booklet covers everything you need to know for a fast-paced routine in which the balls are produced from the cups, jump from cup to cup, pocket to cup, etc. You finish with the production of three large, solid balls or lemons, potatoes, etc.
The routine does not require difficult sleights. The only "palm" used in the routine is the finger palm and this basic palm plus a few fake transfers that are fully explained and illustrated make it an easy routine to perform. While written for use while standing at a close-up table, the routine can easily be adapted to use while seated.
Profusely illustrated and typeset, the book gives you all the details. Size 5 1/2 by 8 1/2, softbound.
SKILL LEVEL-Basic
PRICE-$8.50
BENNETT'S BEST-by Horace Bennett
The name, Horace Bennett, is well known to many close up performers and some of Horace's ideas have found their way to dealer's shelves as marketed items.
This book is LOADED with NEW routines that Horace devised, plus a few revised versions of tricks that initially appeared in the "Gen" magazine. Tricks with coins, cards, giant coins, Okito boxes, pearls, and other small items are described that will certainly intrigue the close up enthusiast. The strength of Horace Bennett's magic lies in the way he combines SIMPLE sleights and moves into strong and substantial ROUTINES that will really entertain an audience. Typeset and illustrated with line drawings. 115 pages, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch size. Spiral bound.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$15.00
ALTERNATE HANDLINGS-By Horace Bennett
Alternate Handlings is a book of finely constructed routines by Horace Bennett. Magicians who are familiar with Bennett's magic will immediately agree that he puts together some knockout magical effects by combining relatively simple skills with superb routining.
Alternate Handlings contains fourteen clearly described and fully illustrated routines. One hundred line drawings accompany the text. The tricks described are indeed "Alternate Handlings" of familiar plots re-routined by Bennett. Plots range from some of the "classics" of magic to plots published by some of the present day's top close-up performers.
The book is spiral bound, typeset and fully illustrated. 96 pages, 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch size.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$15.00
FAMILIAR THEMES-by Horace Bennett
We continue to be amazed at the ability of Horace Bennett to come up with clever routines, re-routines, and combinations of ideas! Everything he creates results in effective, easy to comprehend, close-up magic!
Familiar Themes is typeset and spiral bound, with 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch pages. Many line drawings illustrate the 111 pages. A sampling of the contents includes: "Vanished or Merely Invisible?", "Reverse Matrix-3 Versions", "The Detective Coin", "Departing Your Point of Departure", "Noon", "No Sword Card Sword Routine", "Drinking Straw Through Playing Card", "Sight Unseen- Another Brainwave". Over 25 items in all! Send for your copy today and enjoy some of Bennett's fine magic.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$15.00
BENNETT'S FOURTH BOOK-by Horace Bennett
Connoisseurs of top quality magic immediately recognize the excellence of routines by Horace Bennett. While his plots are strong, he stresses routining over difficult skill to accomplish his goals. Bennett's Fourth Book is an excellent collection of top quality close up magic with card and coins. Some tricks included are "The Improved Cheat", "The Spectator Does a Trick", "Big Coin Routine", "Not so Relentless" and many other routines. If you have read other Bennett books, you are sure to want this one. If you have never treated yourself to a Bennett title, try this or one of his other books to see what you have been missing. Bennett's Fourth Book is spiral bound with 70 pages size 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. Typeset and profusely illustrated.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$15.00
MAGIC AFOOT-by Horace Bennett
Close-up magic, which can be performed while standing, has had a rebirth during the past few years. As more and more magic performers find work performing in restaurants, lounges and at trade shows, they have shifted their attention away from routines that must be performed while seated at a table.
Magic Afoot by Horace Bennett is, appropriately, a book of magic that you can perform while standing. Included are many fine card and coin effects. All have the Bennett trademark of excellent routining. The book is typeset and profusely illustrated. 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch size, 121 pages, perfect bound.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$25.00
THE BENNETT TOUCH-by Horace Bennett
Over 30 tricks, sleights and routines are included in this fine book. There are forty-seven full pages of illustrations by John Caddy to show all the details of the magic. Coins and cards predominate, but Bennett also includes stuff with finger rings and rope. Illustrator, Caddy, revisits Bennett's "Pearl Routine" with a fine stand up version of the effect. Bennett's trademark is the way he tries to avoid complex sleights through clever routining. The reader will enjoy the plots! Included are socko effects such as: "Back and Forth Sandwich", "Reality, Illusion, and Magic", "The Chinese Wand", "The Glass Eye", "Fifty Years Practice", "Follow the Leader Coins-1985", "Nightmare in the Spaghetti Factory", and many more! The Bennett Touch is typeset and spiral bound with 136 pages. Page size is 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$20.00
CLOSE UP OF THE DAMNED-by Richard Bartram, Jr.
This is a VERY UNUSUAL magic book!!! While it is first and foremost a magic book, the style of Close Up of the Damned, is reminiscent of "Horror Comics". While the format is unusual, the book is loaded with good close up magic. AND BEST OF ALL, the tricks do not hinge on weird plots. You can present the magic as "straight magic". ALMOST NEVER has a magic book combined the magical innovations of a clever author with a unique and artistic style of presenting the magic on the printed page. Rarer yet are books which are fully illustrated and completely hand lettered by the author!! Close Up of the Damned presents the close up magic of Richard Bartram, Jr. and showcases his considerable ability as an artist and illustrator. We think you'll love the book!! 47 pages, 8 1/2 by 11 inch size.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$15.00
MYSTIFICATION by Richard Bartram, Jr.
MYSTIFICATION with its completely new selection of close up magic with cards, coins, etc. should be considered a must have book. If you are at all interested in puzzling and visual close up magic you will want it.
MYSTIFICATION is a 110 page book, typeset and illustrated with 150 plus line drawings by the author. Perfect bound. 34 complete tricks!Ready for shipment from stock.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$20.00
TREPHINE
A Collection of Magic by Richard Bartram, Jr.
During the last several years Richard Bartram has developed quite a reputation in magic as a creator of innovative magic and as an illustrator. Magic Methods is proud to present TREPHINE, his latest book, with more than twice the amount of magic as his previous book, Mystification. TREPHINE contains over 75 tricks, sleights, and ideas, and fills 170 plus large pages to overflowing with wonderful magic. Bartram's latest creations comprise most of the book, but he is joined in this book by some friends. TREPHINE is hard bound, 8 1/2 by 11 inch size and contains over 170 pages. Over 200 illustrations by Richard Bartram illustrate the effects. There is some truly wonderful stuff in TREPHINE, and you should get it before your friends start fooling you with the magic from this book.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$35.00
CLOSE UP CAVALCADE FINALE-by Jerry Mentzer
Close Up Cavalcade Finale contains a wide variety of tricks with ordinary looking objects such as paper money, matches, coins, finger rings, salt and saltshakers, dice, pens, etc. But no card tricks!! The working close up performer will find lots of things he can use. There is very little of the purely theoretical. Some of the tricks in Close Up Cavalcade Finale are totally impromptu. Others require a bit of preparation, but all routines use props that appear to be honest. If you are intrigued by close up magic without cards, you will want to own this collection of superb magic! Six big chapters with contributors the like of Duke Stem, Barry Govan, Roger Klause, Ray Mertz, John Murray, Steve Dusheck, Dan Tong, and more!! Over 25 complete routines! Tricks include such neo-classics as "Milliken's Transposition" and many others! Perfect bound with stamped cover and spine. 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inch size, 187 pages.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$20.00
CLOSE UP FILE by Jerry Mentzer
A big book with 195 pages, hard bound with a two-color dust jacket. The book contains many novel close-up effects. None use playing cards except as incidental props. Most are previously unpublished and are worked with simple props which the reader can make up, or is likely to have on hand already. Contributors include: Warren Stephens, Stephen Tucker, Peter Kane, Aldo Colombini, Horace Bennett, Scott Edwards, Mike Bornstein, Jerry Mentzer, Richard Bartram, Jr., David Neighbors, Rick Johnsson, Dan Tong, Ian Baxter, David Harkey, John Murray, John Riggs, Karl Norman and Ray Mertz. Six big chapters. 35 different effects. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawings by Richard Bartram, Jr.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$39.50
MAGIC WITH FINGER RINGS by Jerry Mentzer
A collection of incredible close-up effects with borrowed finger rings! Some in conjunction with the performer's own ring or other props. All are stunners! Every effect has been performed many, many times. With this fine collection of effects at your disposal, you can select one or several of them and perform magic that people will remember!
Magic with borrowed rings has special audience appeal because finger rings are important and valuable. You can create interest by using that very personal "personal" item-a borrowed finger ring!
Over twenty-five effects are described in this typeset book. Perfect bound. Size 8 1/2 by 11 inches.
SKILL LEVEL-Experienced/Medium
PRICE-$20.00
INTERMEDIATE AND ADVANCED COIN TECHNIQUE by Michael Rubinstein
This in an incredible book of coin magic! Beautifully illustrated, but best of all, most of the tricks represent novel and usable material.
Michael Rubinstein is a student of coin magic and after reading this book, you'll admit he is a darned clever guy! In this book he describes numerous technically unique moves as well as 30 deceptive tricks. The book is a top quality publication which includes tricks such as: Visual Coin Changes, Okito Box Tricks, Stand Up Coin Tricks, Sit Down Coin Tricks, Copper-Silver Tricks, Two Silver-One Copper Coin Transposition, and many more!
The book is hard bound with gold stamped cover. 157 beautiful line illustrations, 121 typeset pages size 5 1/2 by 8 1/2 inches. Send for your copy today!
SKILL LEVEL-Advanced
PRICE-$20.00
SUPER CENTS by Jerry Mentzer
A BOOK OF MAGIC TRICKS YOU CAN DO WITH HALF DOLLAR SIZED OR SILVER DOLLAR SIZED PENNIES OR OTHER GIANT COINS. SUPER CENTS contains a baker's dozen of routines with the giant Silver Dollar size penny or the Half Dollar size penny. Full routines as well as quickies! Thirty-five illustrations make the learning easy. Nearly all the routines in this 28-page book can also be done with giant coins of other denominations. If you do coin magic, you must have SUPER CENTS!
SKILL LEVEL-Basic
PRICE-$5.00
CLIMAX COINS by Jerry Mentzer
A number of years ago, when the dollar sized giant pennies first became available, the author put together a book of effects using the large coin. That book, Super Cents, continues to be a best seller. Since that time giant 3-inch size coins have become more and more popular with close up performers and their audiences!! Well folks, here is a whole book devoted to tricks and bits with either the silver dollar sized giant penny, or the half dollar sized giant penny! The book is soft bound with more than 30 line drawings by Richard Bartram. A small book but loaded with magic you can use as complete tricks or as "throwaways!"
SKILL LEVEL-Basic
PRICE-$5.00
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