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A regular invitee at Fechter's Finger Flicking Frolic, and a frequent guest on David Acer's MagicWorks shows in Montreal, Michel Huot is one of the industry's best kept secrets. His material has appeared in Genii, Magic and Natural Selections, Vol. II, but this is his first solo collection, and it contains simple riches the likes of which are rarely seen!

Ultimate Aces: A strikingly visual change of four indifferent cards into four Aces using an astonishing new sleight!
Don�t Follow The Leader: The movement of two spectators becomes completely sympathetic with the movement of their cards... but who's controlling who?
Acid Trip: Your coffee engages in a blistering battle with your spoon, resulting in an impossible transfiguration!
Signed Quarter in Balloon: A signed quarter is tossed into the air by a spectator, but when it hits an inflated balloon, instead of bouncing off it, it drops inside! The quarter then rolls around in the balloon, whereupon the magician suddenly grabs it through the latex and tugs it back out, leaving the balloon intact!

And more! Seven By Michel Huot is the first in a new series featuring exciting close-up miracles from innovative magicians working on the front lines! Written by David Acer, with a foreword by Richard Sanders.

Paul Wilson's currently very busy at work as Technical Advisor for a new movie starring Sylvester Stallone, but he's not too busy to create more brand-new card and coin magic. 13 is a 32-page, beautifully illustrated booklet which contains:

Uprising You spread the deck between your hands and a spectator's selection mysteriously rises out of the spread
Threadbare A real-world working for the classic floating bill
1002.5 Aces Four aces are shown and one is selected. Three odd cards are placed onto the selected ace and the other three vanish, only to reappear on the selected ace
Through 3 Three ordinary coins penetrate a table one at a time before making the journey once again as a group-simple, practical and designed for the real world
Thief of Hearts The very heart of a selected card magically travels from one spectator's hand to another, leaving the couple with a romantic memento
Gone Wishin' Three coins materialize from an empty purse then vanish again only to be found where they seemingly didn't come from!
Fl-ash A piece of "magic paper" reveals a chosen card when ignited on the back of a Joker, then the Joker transforms into the selected card!
Hovercraft Any borrowed deck of cards defies gravity right under the audience's nose
The Back Four Four aces are lost in four different parts of the deck before being found again, each in a different manner.
A New Wave Three coins completely vanish from the right hand only to reappear in the left hand
Punch Too The magician sets out to ruin his own trick, but then corrects everything with just a snap of the fingers
Box-witch A new move with countless possibilities for the card magician
Blin-Pen A piece is torn off from a spectator's bill and vanished, only to reappear inside the pen itself

Professional Effects for the Stand-up Restaurant Worker

After his wildly successful Restaurant Worker's Handbook, Jim Pace now shares his favorite pet routines. This top notch material will make you the toast of dining rooms, bars and bistros and have your audiences eating out of the palm of your hand! This is the material Jim uses nightly and each bit has been honed to perfection over the last 20 years, presented with all the nuances and handling tips plus options for various endings.

Ultimate Card Trick - You locate a selected card...handcuffed!
The Miser's Dream - A close-up Miser's Drea, climaxing with a stream of coins from the spectator's nose and the production of a jumbo 6-inch coin!
For Way One Handed Cut - As opposed to a four handed one way cut.
Using Luck - Instantly locate any card called out. It involves luck, but you'll be surprised at the number of hits you get.
A Tear-able Trick - A torn and restored napkin - performed by the spectator!
The Vanishing Silk - An unconventional routine with many progressively amazing phases.
Three Coin Surprise - A beautiful three coin routine acts as smoke for a surprising card transformation.
Two Step Aces - A four ace production from a shuffled deck.
Floating Match - A match floats and inch off your hand barehanded!
Punishment - An arthritis producing stand-up coin routine.

Plus much, much more!

In Act Two, Barrie Richardson shows that he has lost none of his gentle thunder. His new book features 54 tricks, ideas and routines, with all the attributes for which his work has become known and admired. Most include full presentations that use humanity, humor and an unfaltering sense of drama, that culminate in feats that are clearly impossible and thoroughly amazing.

Along with some of his most prized routines, Richardson includes valuable examples taken from his professional repertoire of motivational talks for public and business audiences.

The scenes in Act Two amount to what might be called a modern "miracle play." Here is a scant sampling of the action:

Spectators name any card and a position in the deck. They count down to that position in an isolated pack and find their card at the precise number they chose. The performer never touches the cards, there are no forces or switches, and the deck is ungimmicked.
Remarkable new billet techniques are applied to ordinary business cards and Post-It notes to create astonishing effects of mind reading.
A deck of cards, shuffled by two spectators, mysteriously separates into reds and blacks in their hands, while the performer tells of mysteries experienced on Mt. Kenya at the equator.
Various feats of superhuman memory and rapid calculation convince audiences of the performer's extraordinary mental powers and their own.
A strange solid form materializes under an ungimmicked cloth napkin, and then just mysteriously melts away.
The true and complete method is revealed for the ancient Jar of Rice Suspension, presented to a tale of training and accomplishment in China.
Ground-breaking methods are explained for the divining of one or several mentally selected cards.
Also included are three new deck-switches, done while standing, that require no sleights or use of pockets; a deck that secretly unshuffles itself after being mixed by a spectator; and many more mysteries using coins, bills, magazines, marbles, rope and more.

Frequently, sequels fail to live up to their predecessors. That is not the case here. You won't want to miss Act Two. A quality hardcover, 382 pages of baffling and practical material, loaded with full presentations.

Amazing Miracles Of Shigeo Takagi
by Richard Kaufman

BACK IN PRINT!

"My friend, Shigeo Takagi, is an excellent performer who shows a keen knowledge of magic with all its subtleties. His work is direct and to the point, with no superfluous moves. Even if you are acquainted with the various techniques, he will still deceive you. I greatly admire this Japanese wonder worker."
- Dai Vernon, Hollywood, California - February, 1990

Contents:

Foreword By Max Maven
Devilishly Direct
Takagi's Coins Across
Wild Time
The Wild Blanks
The Solid Cup
Trans-Purse-Tation
The Ghostly Silk
Who Cuts First?
ScissoRope
The Leaping Silk
Total Triumph
Rising Triumph
Color-Shift Triumph
The Oriental Coins
The Double Thought
Convergence
Rope, Knots, and A Wand
Double Cut and Restored Rope
Monte With Four
Do As I Do Rope Routine
Chinese Rubber Band Mystery
A Beautiful Thumb Tie
Owan To Tama (Japanese Cups And Balls)
New Era Linking Rings

Pages 120 - Hardbound and Illustrated.

Yigal Mesika is an incredibly talented young magician from Israel. He has created many powerful new effects with the loop. He also found it necessary to improve the quality of the loop and so, for the past seven years, Yigal searched until he found a better way to manufacture the loop. The product can now be stretched up to 400% of it's original size and is perfectly suited, in strength and invisibility, for the routines found in this book. Until nowthere has been very little information available on the loop and that kept the subject relatively unknown and rarely used. The aim of this book is to guide you through the techniques of working with the loop, as well as to give you some applicable routines for stage, close-up and mentalism. Most of the effects were created by Yigal Mesika. The rest of the effects, as indicated, were compiled from the repertories of working magicians, Yigal's friends.
*** 10 Dynamite Routines! ***

Animated Fork - A fork is placed on a table and mysteriously moves.
Phenomenon Fork - A fork is placed on a hard surface and begins to spin rapidly as the magician waves his hand above it. It stops and spins in the other direction. As soon as it stops it can be picked up for examination by the audience.
Falling - An object is placed on the table in front of the performer. Passing his hands around it, he makes it fall.
The Floating Card - The magician, holding a deck of cards, takes one card with his right fingers and causes it to remain suspended from his thumb. He slowly removes his hand away and the card remains floating in mid-air.
Jumping Fork From Glass - The magician performs a little concerto with a fork on the rim of a wineglass. The fork is then placed into the glass. The magician conducts the fork, waving his hands over the glass. The fork begins to slowly climb out of the glass and suddenly jumps out, dramatically falling down to the table.
Mystery Glasses - A pair of sunglasses is placed on a table. Mysteriously they stand up on their own and, in some cases, the frame-arms fold shut.
Self Revealing Card -A card is freely selected and returned to the deck. The deck is squared and placed on any surface. The magician waves his hands some distance above the cards and the deck mysteriously separates. One card pops out of the deck. It is shown to be the selected card, and all may be handed out to the audience for immediate examination.
Matchical Magnetism - A match held by a spectator visibly jumps to join another match in the magicians hand.
A Touching Trick - The magician causes someone to feel he has been touched without any apparent contact. While the eyes of the audience are on him, and while his own eyes are closed, a spectator feels that his hand has been touched. The audience can plainly see that the magician did not touch the spectator.
The Floating Ring - The magician borrows a ring and displays it on his finger. The ring is suspended from his finger. The finger is moved away and the ring remains floating in the air totally unsupported. The magician plucks it from the air and hands it immediately back to it's owner!

Easy To Use!

Incredible Effect!

What is Apocalypse? Some of the best close-up magic of the lates 70's and early 80's. Apocalypse made its debut as a magazine in 1978. It was an immediate hit and the big-name contributorskept coming: Vernon, Marlo, Slydini, Garcia, Ortiz, Mullica, and the list goes on... This bookis the first of a series and contains the magic orignally published from January 1978 to December 1982. It is 720 jam-packed pages ---- 20 pages of indexes, over 250 card effects, over 140 coin effects, plus 145 other tricks, good tricks! When you consider the number oftricks explained in this book you'll realize what a tremendous value it is. Every magicianshould have this in their library.

While Ed Marlo was famous for his ingenious creations with cards, he also devoted a great deal of creativity to magic with other objects including coins, bills, cups and balls, silks, mentalism, dice, linking pins, sponge balls, chop cup, and various small tricks usually sold to kids such as the ball vase, magic frame, snapper, and much, much more. 67 effects and routines, some never before published.

The complete, ultimate Paul Harris. The material is the best of the best. All of Paul's classics, updated and refined, as well as 73 BRAND-NEW creations! Over 900 pages of Paul Harris! In addition to the 73 new effects, Paul Harris' The Art Of Astonishment contains the very best of 13 previous Paul Harris books, many of the effects refined, revised and updated. The Art Of Astonishment also contains the very best methods from 8 separately-marketed manuscripts. Taken together, these 8 effects alone cost nearly as much as the 3-volume set of The Art Of Astonishment. In addition, there is a groundbreaking essay where Paul reveals that astonishment is our natural state of mind. And.. six conversations about over-the-edge effects that are even too weird for Paul!

Volume 1 Highlights
The Light & Heavy Dime - A re-make of Robert Houdin's famous Light and Heavy Chest using a common dime which ends up permanently stuck in the most uncommon place. This will become the "Card-on-the- Ceiling" of Coin Magic.
Lip Balm - An organic, "naturally-gimmicked" coin box (a special brand of Lip Balm) that climaxes with a container full of Lip Balm.
Ultimate Rip Off or Dancing with the Last Piece - The ultimate bluff ending for Paul's Torn 'n' Restored Card twenty years later, a way to restore the last piece.
Creation - Patrick Martin's practical "workers" approach of producing a live moth to create maximum astonishment.
Shell Shock - Gregory Wilson's practical technique for blowing a hardboiled egg right out of its shell then finding a marked coin inside its yolk.
Tunnel Vision - A just-barely-possible way to make yourself disappear using a rolled-up paper tube and more nerve than most of us possess.

Volume 2 Highlights
Counterfeit Spectator - On a borrowed dollar bill, the printed signature of the treasurer of the United States transforms into the spectator's name.
Swiss Movement - An ingenious P.H. discovery enables you to mysteriously animate an ungimmicked Swiss Army Knife. Completely impromptu, works with any Swiss Army Knife ... anytime.
Cincinnati Two-Faced Blues - Two of those pesky advertising cards that clutter up your deck are accidentally selected ... and then transformed into an impossible object that was secretly already there.
Fizz-Master - Cause the carbonation to travel magically from one soda to another. Absolutely killer ... completely impromptu.
McGimmick - You levitate a milkshake using only your finger ... then you completely vanish the milkshake leaving only its crumpled container. Osmosis - European genius, Sylvain Miroug's four-phase Linking Card masterpiece using just two single cards! An incredible new principle. Is it better that Immaculate Connection or Cardboard Connection?

Volume 3 Highlights
The Shape of Astonishment - The imprint of a quarter in a piece of foil instantly changes from heads to tails. Awesome and totally impromptu.
Hot Chocolate - You bring out a flat, folded Hershey wrapper out of your wallet and inflate it into the real thing.
The Anything Deck - Place a small packet of cards under the case ... any word or name is called out ... you spread the packet to reveal the exact same word, written in thick black marker across the backs of the cards. A completely new principle for releasing deep astonishment.
Peanut Butter & Jellyfish - An anytime levitation of your favorite snack. Works just as well with burgers and fish fillets.
Bat Fishing - A spectator brings out any dollar and fairly selects eight cards. The number on the eight cards astonishingly match all eight serial numbers on the dollar ... and you never touched the bill or the cards!
Leaf - You tear a leaf off of someone's houseplant ... then press the torn stem back against the branch ... where it takes root and restores itself back into a healthy, growing leaf.
The Shuffling Lesson - You sit back and enjoy the show while you induce a spectator to unknowingly stack, false shuffle, then false cut a deck all by herself ... so that she can deal herself the winning hand.

QUESTION: What happens when you lock Steve Fearson, Dan Harlan, Gary Darwin and five underground magicians in a sealed room?

ANSWER: You get the best book ever written on floating effects!

Includes:

Fantastic Floating Ring: Steve Fearson's ultimate handling of a borrowed finger ring floating from hand to hand! It then floats into their hand and you're clean! Absolutely Deadly!
Total Suspension: Dan Harlan has invented the greatest card suspension of all time. A playing card floats inches above your hand and can instantly be examined! No threads, magnets or gimmicks of any kind!

You will also learn eight other dynamite routines that levitate ordinary objects such as rope, Tootsie Rolls and borrowed bills!

Includes Over 100 professional illustrations and Bonus Routine in which you will learn to make Fearson's thread reel in a matter of minutes for just pennies!

Volume 2 - No Strings
This volume focuses on methods and routines for floating objects without threads. Includes:

Floating a beer can
Impromptu Zombie
Impossible Deck Suspension
Balducci Levitation
Asrah Cup
and more ...

A wonderful new book of magic routines for restaurant performers by my Raymonde Crow. Included here is magic with cards, coins, candy, sponges and a borrowed finger ring. 17 fully routined items, carefully explained and profusely illustrated. In addition, Raymonde has included the RC Cop, an original move, and a Q&A chapter on the business of performing magic in a restaurant. Valuable advice from a working restaurant magician!
This book is 8.5 X 11 inches, comb bound, 99 pages with 281 clear photos.

From the man who will tip his hat, but not his thumb!

The old "dollar bill stunt" of folding and unfolding a dollar bill to turn it upside-down gets surrealistic when the magician defies certain secret rules of Origami, which temporarily turns the carefully creased currency inside-out!

BONUS: Features Mike Powers' Inverted Bill, so you don't need a Mismade Bill.

36-page staplebound booklet.

This short but sneaky version of the Cups and Balls is a good way to get acquainted with the essential handling and presenting of this classic of magic.

Although the following is designed as an introduction to Cups and Balls for the student of magic, it is a complete and audience tested performance piece as well. Ron Bauer has used this act since the very beginning of his magic career, and it is as amusing to the public now as it was back then. You can use it sitting or standing. With the main version of the trick, you never go to your pockets. And, that's just one of the reasons the angles used are so safe.

Although this technique takes more than a dozen pages to explain, this entire presentation runs fewer than two minutes. It's slick and quick. You'll have a lot of fun performing it. And, your audiences will, too.

Cups and Balls Principles Covered:

Secretly Substituting a Duplicate

Keeping a ball hidden in a cup as you place it mouth down onto the table

Applying a rhythmic pattern for style

Occupying the holdout hand to avoid suspicion

Surreptitiously making the final load (Innovative Approach)

Scores of beautiful, close up photographs along with concise descriptions take you through the world of sleight of hand magic. Drawing from years of experience, the author shares with you, routines developed by the masters of the art of magic.

Over 250 pages filled with magic you will love to learn.

by Harry Lorayne

20 Years in the making now yields volume 3 of Harry Lorayne's Best of Friends.

Some of the contributors in this volume are: Allan Ackerman, Richard Vollmer, Max Maven, J.K. Hartman, Peter Duffie, Michael Ammar, David Regal, Martin Nash, Joshua Jay, Howie Scharzman, Bob Farmer, Simon Lovell, Aldo Colombini, Doug Edwards, Jeff Altman, Nick Pudar, Sol Stone, Paul Gordon, Kostya Kimlat, Gregory Wilson, Ian Baxter, Bob King, Joe Rindfleisch, Justin Higham, Michael Vincent, Steve Cohen, Tony Noice, Tom Craven, Randy Wakeman, Harry Lorayne…and more!

Pages 522 - Hardbound

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