Beginning with the now out-of-print and much sought-after Card Craft, the release of each new book from J.K. Hartman has been welcomed by discerning card handlers the world over for his direct effects and deviously simple handlings. Now, spurred by an underground handling by Tomas Blomberg and a yearlong correspondence with Gordon Bean,
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"The whole process is incredibly clean and works like a charm. It's a great step forward in prop-less mentalism..."
- Marc Paul

"Wow, what a tome you've created! I never imagined that this could lead to so many things..."
- Greg Arce

Banachek was certainly spot on the money when he said:
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From the foreword by Daniel Garcia: "Some of the most clever, modern card thinking I have ever seen."

Published by Vanishing Inc. Magic, Above the Fold is the debut collection from one of magic's most exciting new talents: Rich Aviles. In this intelligent, praiseworthy collection of card and close-up material,
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When I was young, my uncle Peter fooled me badly with a simple X-Ray Vision stunt. It played serious havoc with my developing mind. Pete had been using his X-Ray Vision to "see through" the table top in order to identify how many fingers I was holding aloft. He hit it time and time again. I was later crushed, when dad explained that he'd
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"I am excited about this book...This collection oozes style and substance from a true auteur." -John Bannon, from the foreword

John Guastaferro embodies everything one admires in a magician: he is smooth but not flashy, soft-spoken yet in control. And he is an expert at crafting intelligent magic tricks. For the first time ever
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Ride the Wave...

Seven "Fractal" card tricks from John Bannon:

MEGA WAVE - Hocus Pocus and Mumbo Jumbo Hammers four-card Brainwave.

FRACTAL RE-CALL - JB popular "Call of the Wild" wild-card routine fractalized.

SHORT ATTENTION SCAM - A maximum magic minute. JB's hit "The Royal Scam" for the impatient.
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The Legend of Poker Sam

This is the story of the very last hand.
Played by the gambler no one could stand.
Everyone called him Poker Sam.
His winnings were legend, his arrogance the same.
Poker Sam always played a perfect game.

All the players consipred to give Sam his comeuppance.
But they settled on payback
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Featuring Influenced and the Modern ACAAN

In Meant To Be, we discovered the power and versatility of executing a shift while taking the cards out of the box. This particular project shares a completely different card case shift that is extremely practical, versatile, and deceptive. I have been sitting on this for quite some time,
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Filled with history, stories, and, most of all, magic, Best of All Worlds pays tribute to one of the greatest card tricks of all time: Paul Curry's classic card effect Out of This World.

Best of All Worlds is not just a book about a 'Magic Trick". It is an extensive, in-depth look at what Dai Vernon called "the card trick
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Three effects using a double face card. These fool bad. Chad uses these tricks in every paid gig.

Contents

Conditioned Transposition
A spectator places a selection in their back pocket. Instantly, the selection transposes with another selection a visual manner. The spectator places and removes the card.

Married
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>Chad has devised three simple, easy and effective card controls for walk around and strolling magic.

The spectator squares the card to complete the controls.

Applications; force, switch.

Contents

• Peep Control
• Wonder Control
• Tip Control

Finally, here's how to do all those showy tricks and flourishes that card players are dying to know: how to send a deck cascading from one hand to the other. How to snap open two flawless fans. How to cut a deck with one hand. Choose four aces seemingly at random. Flick a card accurately across the room.

The clearest, easiest-to-follow
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DE'VO'S SECRET BOOKS VOL. 2 ( Second Edition, Hardbound)

De'vo's Secret Books as a project is a 3 volume collection of De'vo's early underground material from the 1970s to current day.

Here is a listing of the contents:

Chapter 1
THE JOURNEY - This is the story
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John Bannon's new lecture booklet:
A deeper, layered kind of surprise. A mathematical drive-by. Poker and more. Go all in.

Counterpunch
The Dunbury Delusion slams into the Biddle trick. It's not just a card trick, it's a con job.

Four Faces North
Bannon's "Last
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The game marked a new generation of Magic Dream

The game marked than you expected ...

"Diabolically hidden and readable in the blink of an eye ..." Gaëtan Bloom

"The game Ultimate is currently the best game scored for the magicians. It manages to be both easy to read and difficult to detect." Darwin
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This CD-ROM contains a 60 page e-book, over 25 videos, 12 versatile techniques, and 11 powerful effects for magicians wanting to take their card magic to the next level.

What's the Work?
Card techniques you will love and use: Forces, Switches, Displays, Counts, contributions from B.J. Bueno, Jack Park, Aaron
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In the 19th Century Victorian British underworld slang, playing-cards were called broads. Playing a game of cards was known as "Spreading Broads." Cheating at cards was called "broading" and a card sharp was called a "broadsman". Tossing Broads is a gaffed game that cannot be beat; hence, the broad tosser plays a gaffed joint, or flat joint.
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Lightest and Last!

Card College Lightest is the final volume of Roberto Giobbi's acclaimed 'Light' trilogy. In it are taught 18 thoroughly astonishing tricks of professional quality, complete with performing psychology, presentations, valuable tips and insights, all of which contribute to making these sleightless effects
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For over 30 years Mark Leveridge has gradually been creating a portfolio of card effects and routines where the accent is on practicality and entertainment value. In the first of four projected volumes The Collected Card Magic of Mark Leveridge - Volume 1 offers the reader 15 commercial effects, all of which should be within the capabilities
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Steve Reynolds is a card technician of the finest caliber, and in this anticipated collection, you will learn his finest original material, sought after by experts for years. Reynolds' effects are elegant, clean and extremely clever, and this collection is full of material you will use professionally.

"Steve Reynolds is one of
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De'vo's Secret Books as a project is a 3 volume collection of De'vo's early underground material from the 1970s to current day. This first release, Volume #1, is a re-release of four of De'vo's favorite early underground ideas from his early publications. Some of this material has been kept in the underground for
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