This is very good value for money. Carry the props in your pocket and you are set to perform any time, any place, for any size of audience.

• 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 magician's 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 its owner!

One of the favourite effects of the Master Magician David Devant was to produce a live rabbit from under a spectator's coat. The effect had tremendous potential, and Eddie Joseph first wrote the definite treatise on the subject.

This is a very detailed and elaborate treatise, covering the complete art of producing items from all parts of a volunteering spectator's body ranging from apparel like nylon stockings and underwear, through cards, coins and currency notes, to items like beer bottles, canes, fruit and even live stock like doves and rabbits.

Eddie Joseph has written with detailed descriptions and examples various techniques, methods of concealment, loading, and production under all possible performing conditions. This is a valuable book for performers interested in this branch of magic.

Dondrake, with the help of Gary Darwin and his friends have put together the first complete book on Black Art. For the first time in print, see Dondrake's Wizard's Window, a complete show where miracles happen at your fingertips. See playing cards instantly vanish! Or a paper bird which visibly turns into a live dove.

Dondrake shows you 15 new illusions that are easy to build and startling to the audience. Learn how to visibly push a steel rod through your body! From Gary Darwin's top secret notebook, learn how to pull off the fingers and thumb of one of your hands, and then magically reappear each one!

Learn how to build your own black art curtains, wizard's table and flying carpet illusion! All 15 illusions have easy-to-follow instructions and are fully illustrated. Absolutely nothing has been left out!

"It's about time that someone has written a book on black art. Anyone could take this book and build a million dollar act." - Lance Burton

"Finally a book which details the amazing world of black art." - Jay Scott Berry

"I use Dondrake's black art close-up." - Allan Ackerman

"Finally a beautifully descriptive book, well illustrated, that has practical, usable ideas in black art for the performing magician!" - Dixie Dooley

The author is possibly the only Indian magician who has contributed two One-Man Parades in the Linking Ring Magazine, the official house-journal of the International Brotherhood of Magicians (USA).

The six outstanding routines in the book are gems in close-up card magic and truly astounding to watch.

For the advanced card worker, willing to devote the time to practice, the material is truly priceless, six routines all with the Sreenivas touch, and a chapter on the Herman Pass with the Sreenivas variation. This book is an excellent introduction to what good close-up card magic can be like.

Coil Bound, 60 Pages.

Learn to think like a conjurer, and entertain your audiences! Using any deck of cards, you introduce and assist your chick, the cutest, sneakiest card-finding fowl ever with lots of action, laughs, and a stunning payoff.

You get the detailed, fully-illustrated 20-page booklet, necessary gimmick and high-quality, imported metal chick.

Every detail of these popular illusions is covered from complete building plans on several versions of these props to performance tips and detailed photos. Featured are plans for Tom Palmer's Candy Doll House, and the Don Rose Doll House, as well as several versions of the Sawing, Sub Trunk and Modern Cabinet, and Sword Cabinet, Super Suspension, Crystal Casket, Cargo Cage and Zig Zag.

This is the only book of its kind in the world and a must for every student of illusions and the serious illusionist's library.

These words were uttered by Max Maven shortly after reading David Regal's Close-Up & Personal. Fortunately, Regal has managed to escape prosecution, due not only to his inventiveness, wit and originality in magic, but also to his success as a comedy performer and television writer. David's magic twelve years ago so impressed Harry Lorayne, he wrote and published David's first book-Star Quality: The Magic of David Regal. Lorayne's title proved prophetic, and after seeing the contents of Close-Up & Personal, his comment was, "He'll fool the hell out of you."

David Regal is a popular performer at The Magic Castle, just one of the locations where he audience-honed the material presented in this volume. Close-Up & Personal contains, in the words of Ken Krenzel, "An abundance of novel, offbeat gems."

Close-Up & Personal contains seventy-two of David's best performance pieces, described with care and in detail, accompanied by hundreds of photographs. If you seek close-up trickery that surprises, entertains and amazes both the public and jaded peers alike, you must read Close-Up & Personal!

This revolutionary CD-Rom/Ebook includes routines straight from Michael's act at the Houdini Lounge in the Monte Carlo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

• The Luckiest Cards in Las Vegas
• The Shuffles Routine
• The Dumbest Casino in the World
• The Cheating Lessons
• The Trick that Lance Burton Showed Me ...and much more.

This ebook offers unparalleled instruction by allowing text, photographs, and video clips to do what they do best and can be printed out to produce a spectacular 8.5 x 11, 179-page book.

Each routine is described in complete detail in Michael Close's clear, easy-to-read style. It's almost like having private lessons with Michael Close.

BONUS: Three Essays on Magic Theory and Michael’s Presentation & Handling of: Dean Dill's Box & Gary Plants Magnetized Cards.

Note: This product is not a DVD, it is an E-Book.

Frank Thompson was widely regarded as a master at creating close-up techniques and routines even though he resisted publishing much of it. This booklet was a rare exception. As the original publisher explained, "Frank Thompson's Cold Deck routine was performed at a private lecture in the Boston area. Those present were so impressed they pleaded for detailed instructions on the methods involved? Frank Thompson agreed with me to publish this in manuscript form."

The routine is basically a multiphase gambling demonstration using an ordinary deck of cards. You begin by producing the four aces from different parts of the deck. The aces are lost back in the deck with a shuffle and cut but when you deal five hands of poker your hand contains the four aces. Both you and the spectator now shuffle the cards but when five more hands of poker are dealt? Amazingly the hand of poker you are now holding is a Royal Flush. As a kicker ending the deck is cut into four packets and they are shuffled face up and face down. When the deck is ribbon spread all of the cards are now facing the same way.

The writing style is a bit difficult but worth the trouble. A 24-page booklet with 10 illustrations by Guy VanDuser. Introductions by Herb Zarrow and Ed Voorhees.

It's all here: Card Magic, Coin Magic, Rope Magic, Mental Magic, Make-at-Home Magic, Sponge Ball Magic, Billiard Ball Magic, Cups and Balls Magic, and Magical Illusions. Mark Wilson devoted more than two years of research, writing, and technical preparation to this book. More than 50,000 still photographs were taken of the detailed execution of the tricks considered worthy to include in this course, and these photographs were edited and converted into hundreds of simplified line drawings. The straightforward text follows Mark Wilson's step method of magic instruction, the same method he has used to teach magic to Tony Curtis, Telly Savalas, Bill Bixby, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Faulk, Bernadette Peters, John Denver, and other professional entertainers. It's thoroughness makes Mark Wilson's Complete Course In Magic especially recommended for the beginner with absolutely no experience in magic. At the same time, its scope and depth has earned this book a place in the libraries of many of today's most accomplished magicians, professional and amature alike!

Softbound, 503 8.5 inch by 11 inch pages.

Ventriloquism is a Magical performing art with many advantages. The Act appeals to audiences of all types and ages. Even adults who do not normally attend magic shows can be entertained with a suitable Ventriloquist's act. The total monetary investment is much less than in a Magic Show. There is no problem involved in transport as the complete act can be carried around in a suitcase. In this systematic course in ventriloquism, Someeran, one of India's foremost contemporary Ventriloquists has covered in 13 chapters every aspect of the Art. Beginning with the History and the Psychology of Ventriloquism, what to practice and study, breathing exercises, developing the second voice, and lip control. The Ventriloquist's doll, trick effects, ventriloquial novelties, using the microphone, Do's and Don'ts to writing dialogues, and publicity and advertising.

Like any other art, Ventriloquism requires diligence, perseverance, and strong determination to master it. This book contains the author's 30 years of performing and teaching experience, hence anyone with the sincere desire and effort can learn the art by following this complete course in ventriloquism.