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Sinful - Graphic Novel and DVD
Sinful - Graphic Novel and DVD


Effect: A signed coin magically penetrates through a sealed can of soda or beer. The can is opened, the contents poured out and trapped inside is the initialed coin. The effect can be performed anywhere, at anytime with no special props, no switches, no gimmicks, and no setup. Both the coin and the can may be borrowed. In fact, the spectator can keep the can with their signed coin trapped inside.
 
 
$29.95
Joshua Jay - Magic, the Complete Course
Joshua Jay - Magic, the Complete Course

    Joshua Jay is not only one of magic’s brightest performers, but also one of its smartest gifted teachers. His writing is clear and methodic. His instructional performances are well-paced and direct. His props and gaffs are expertly engineered, crafted and printed to his personal, professional standards. Each item has been developed, performed, and packaged with precision and care.

 
 
$19.95
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic
From one of the world's premier practitioners of classic magic, with years of experience instructing younger readers in the magical arts, comes this new revision of his complete guide to learning and performing fantastic feats of prestidigitation. Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as "the text that young magicians swear by," it's full of step-by-step instructions. More than 2,000 illustrations provide the know-how behind 300 techniques, from basic card tricks to advanced levitation, along with advice on planning and staging a professional-quality magic show.

RATED: must-have

 
 
$24.95
Martin's Miracles
Martin's Miracles
Martin's Miracles has been one of our most consistent sellers for fifteen years and the reason for that is simple: Cardiographic. On Page 67, Martin Lewis describes an effect wherein a deck of cards is drawn on a large sketch pad and a drawing of a selected card rises up out of this cartoon. The page upon which this miracle has occurred is torn out and handed to the spectator. This trick has appeared on every show from your local magic club's to David Copperfield's TV special.

Martin Lewis started out as the resident magician at San Francisco's famous Magic Cellar and then graduated to revue shows in Las Vegas and Reno and finally cruise ships. The many close-up, platform and stage effects that were honed to perfection in these demanding venues have been collected together in Martin's Miracles. Succeeding in all of these areas requires an extraordinary amount of commercial material. His jumbo monte routine (Sidewalk Shuffle, Page 95) is another modern classic. Today, hundreds of full-time pros around the world are performing this knock-your-socks-off material.

Written and illustrated by Martin's Masters Fellowship winning father Eric Lewis and with a curious introduction written by Harry Anderson.

"I loved everything about the book and you will too if you like commercial, offbeat 'A' material."--Rick Johnsson - Linking Ring magazine

"A great book. Martin's Miracles deserves the highest recommendation."--Michael Weber - Inside Magic

 
 
$35.95
Essential Stewart James, The
Essential Stewart James, The
Canadian Stewart James was the most prolific inventor of magic in the twentieth century. Where most magicians invent a handful of magic routines during the course of their life, Stewart James created over one thousand. His prodigious output has been recorded in two mammoth publications totally over 2,700 pages. James' vast body of work has now been distilled to 50 of his "greatest tricks", The Essential Stewart James.

 
 
$39.95
110 Incredible Magic Tricks with a SVENGALI deck
110 Incredible Magic Tricks with a SVENGALI deck

     The Svengali deck is an ingenious magic deck of cards and with this book you can learn over 110 amazing tricks & routines. This book was written and edited by experienced magic teachers and demonstrators.

     Here are just a few of the 110 tricks YOU can learn from this book: Show a “normal” deck and then change ALL of the cards into the spectator’s chosen card.

  • Seal a card in an envelope and then have the spectator choose any card from the deck… When they open the envelope, the cards match!
  • Have your spectator choose a card and then place it back into the deck. They then slip a knife into the side of the deck and amazingly, the knife is exactly a their chosen card.
  • The spectator’s selected card vanishes from the deck and reappears in your wallet or pocket.

YOU MUST HAVE A SVENGALI DECK TO PERFORM THESE TRICKS!

Get a Svengali Deck here: http://www.grandillusions.com/product/svengali-deck/

 
 
$1.98
Annotated Erdnase, The
Annotated Erdnase, The
Regardless of your level of expertise or specific area of interest, The Annotated Erdnase is without doubt the definitive study of the greatest book ever written on sleight of hand with cards.

RATED: advanced-magic

 
 
$59.95
Apologies to Dickens
Apologies to Dickens
A brilliantly original plot and poem by Ron Giesecke. THE Christmas story trick!

RATED: advanced-magic

 
 
$19.95
Arch Triumphs - Racherbaumer
Arch Triumphs - Racherbaumer
Jon Racherbaumer – 1978
This book is a study and tribute to the classic card plot, the Triumph, in which cards mixed face up and face down magically return to an ordered state. This effect (which has perhaps thousands of variations) is credited by the author to Dai Vernon and is examined in great detail in the more than a dozen different effects contained in this book.
Available in limited number.
 
 
$29.95
Capricornian Tales
Capricornian Tales
So, you like your magic strange, spooky and weird? You think David Blaine is strange? My friend, you aint seen nuthin yet.
Meet Christian Chelman, the wierdest, spookiest magician ever. Sorcery, Tribal, Voodoo, Witchcraft...You name it and you'll learn to simulate it in this very unusual text.
Click below to read the introduction by T.A. Waters.
The following is an excerpt by T.A. Waters from the introduction to Capricornian Tales
 
 
$39.95
Card Magic of Nick Trost
Card Magic of Nick Trost
  Steve Says: FULL OF TREASURES!  Just the Automatic Lie Speller is worth the price of this book.

    Nick Trost is well known for his simple, easy-to-do brand of card magic. He uses subtle moves and principles rather than difficult sleight of hand to produce entertaining card effects.

     This book contains 122 of his best tricks, plus variations of these effects by fellow magicians. Among the tricks included are such gems as Double Pinochle with an Elevator Finish, Matched Picture Cards, Eighteen-Card Poker and Blind-Sight.

     A few of the areas covered - Coincidences, Court Cards, The Four Aces, Gambling Tricks, Revealments, Special Decks, Packet Tricks, ESP Cards.

Hardcover, 6 x 9, full-color dust jacket. 336 pages.
 
 
$44.95
Chris Randall 2008 Lecture Notes
Chris Randall 2008 Lecture Notes
Chris is a busy Las Vegas Pro. In This lecture you'll find magic with business cards, coins, playing cards, pens; there’s “something for everyone”, ranging from a new deck switch to an offbeat ending for the “Ninja Rings”. Material for stand-up, restaurant table-hopping, even working behind the bar.
 
 
$27.95
Designing Miracles - Darwin Ortiz
Designing Miracles - Darwin Ortiz
In Designing Miracles, Darwin Ortiz continues the task he began in Strong Magic: to explore and raise the level of craft in magic. This time he presents a groundbreaking study of how laymen think and what it takes to amaze them.

Darwin has earned a reputation for creating some of the strongest card effects in modern magic. In Designing Miracles, he reveals for the first time the principles and techniques that he follows in doing so. These insights will help you choose stronger effects, create stronger effects, and strengthen those effects that you've already performing.
 
 
$44.95
Drawing Room Deceptions
Drawing Room Deceptions
Guy's book, Drawing Room Deceptions contains all of his best original card material, including routines from his lectures, videos and television performances, as well as a full description of his torn and restored card The Reformation. Although the material is of a variety of levels of difficulty, with some virtually self-working ideas, it does presume a certain amount of previous experience, so it is more suitable for amateur and professional magicians than those wishing to try magic for the first time.

RATED: advanced-magic

 
 
$34.95
Fast and Loose Notes
Fast and Loose Notes
This is the definitive text for learning Fast and Loose, a centuries-old street hustle.

RATED: advanced-magic

 
 
$29.95
FISM Notes - 2003
FISM Notes - 2003
Fism 2003 explains the double color change everyone’s been asking about from Lee Asher and Paul Wilson’s Hit the Road DVD this year (No, there weren’t gaffed cards!), and about ten other explorations in mind splitting card magic. The FISM 2003 manuscript is 48 pages of serious card work that will fool your soberest audience.

FISM was the wildest, most incredible magic convention I have ever seen. I spent the convention watching, and getting fooled by the most incredible array of magicians I’ve ever imagined. And I spent the rest of the time doing card tricks from The Paper Engine for people. I love helping people soften their card work – it helps them to really affect people with their magic. - Aaron Fisher

 
 
$22.95

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