Category: Magic Ebooks

Darwin Ortiz – Lessons In Card Mastery

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Among Darwin Ortiz’ many fans, the only question is which of his card books is the best:  Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table, Cardshark, or Scams & Fantasies with Cards.  Now there is a new candidate:  the aptly-named Lessons in Card Mastery.

This time the accent is on uncanny displays of card control. You’ll display physical control by cutting to a selected card with just one finger, trapping two selections in a shuffled deck, displaying mastery at Texas hold’em, instantaneously producing an entire suit, making the deck sort itself into reds and blacks, and causing all fifty-two cards to rearrange into perfect suit and number sequence.  You’ll display mental control by diving cards under impossible conditions and memorizing a deck in a matter of seconds.

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Interpreting Magic by David Regal

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Where do we begin about Interpreting Magic? Theoretically, this book shouldn’t be good. David Regal is prolific and just ten years ago he published the outstanding Approaching Magic, which contained a lifetime worth of magic and wisdom. It’s almost unheard of for a magician to publish more than two books of top-quality material. There simply isn’t time in one life to road-test so much material. And yet…Interpreting Magic is here, and it’s exceptional.

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Gidon Sagher – Six Envelope Test

Six Envelope Test - Gidon Sagher - Vanishing Inc. Magic shop

This innovative mind reading effect builds on the classic mentalism plot “Fourth Dimensional Telepathy” and the “3 Envelope Test” popularized by mentalism greats like Theodore Annemann, Bob Cassidy, Colin Cloud and Luke Jermay.

It’s a true breakthrough that proves why this type of routine has stood the test of time. It feels like real mind reading.

You’ll be smiling from ear-to-ear after reading this ebook!

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John Kennedy – Haunted Die

Haunted Die by John Kennedy

Six cards are removed from any deck, then a spectator freely selects one. You shuffle them and lay them down in a row. “Perhaps you’re wondering why I’m using only six cards,” you say.

Reach into your pocket and bring out a small cloth bag, explaining “The reason lies inside this small bag where I keep the Haunted Die.” Dump a black die with white spots into a glass and continue, “Please concentrate on your card and watch the die.”

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John Kennedy – Flight Deck

Repeat it as often as you like. You can even let a spectator hold the glass when the coin appears! It looks impossible because you’re nowhere near the glass!

Flight deck works with practically any type of coin (even foreign coins), and any cup or glass.

The precision gimmick converts your own brand of playing cards into an instant “Flight Deck.” Slide the deck into its box and you’re ready to go. By the way, there are no holes in the box whatsoever!

No sleight-of-hand is needed because Flight Deck vanishes the coin for you and makes it reappear inside the glass automatically!

You will literally be using Flight Deck in less than two minutes! Just pop the companion CD into your computer and watch John teach this astonishing routine.

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John Kennedy – Flight Deck

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Spread a deck of cards face up on the table and ask a spectator to look at any card. No one could possibly know his card because he never touches or names it. You concentrate, then slowly but surely “read his mind” and name the card!

You can repeat it immediately and it will become even more baffling. In fact, even if several people simultaneously look at different cards you can read each person’s mind and name their card correctly every time! John Kennedy’s Mind Power Deck is so eerie, so impossible, your audience will be convinced that you possess a sixth sense.

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Frank Garcia – Close Up Magic 1 – 2 (Ebook)

The Close-Up Magic of Frank Garcia Parts I & II - Quicker than the Eye

Line drawings; 8vo 8″ – 9″ tall; 103 pages; Frank Garcia Published. Trade size paperback in pictorial card stock wraps. Boldly signed and inscribed (Best Wishes, from) by Garcia on the photo frontis page; inscription dated 1989. A separate catalog of Garcia authored titles is laid in at front. The catalog is also signed, “Thanks for your order, F. G. 1989 -” and the catalog has tha author’s penned note over certain of his titles – “Out of Print.” This 1st part/volume of Garcia’s close-up magic is in superb condition. It is bright, tight and very neat. Appears unread; no marks. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and diagrams. This copy is like new. Signed by author; 1st edition. Hard to imagine a copy in better condition. Fine; Signed by Author.

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Eric Mead – Tangled Web (Ebook)

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The world has been waiting for a book by Eric Mead for a long time and this is it. Mead is a fantastic bar magician who worked on alternating nights at the famous Tower Magic Bar in Snowmass, CO for 14 years (the other magician, of course, was Doc Eason). The Tower closed in April 2004 and Eric is now busy working corporate events.

This is a charming little hard back book. It’s small in dimensions, but big in page count. Within the 240 pages you’ll find some great bar magic, close-up magic, strolling magic, stage magic, mentalism and even a couple of things for kids. But, I think the things that you’ll take away the most will come from the essays. In particular, Mead’s essay on Vernon’s “Trick That Cannot Be Explained” is a must-read for anyone who has ever experimented with Vernon’s trick.

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Resigned to Miracles by Peter Groning (Ebook)

If you were secretly given a playing card that had the genuine signature of someone in your audience, and no one knew or even suspected it existed, would you have a use for it? We thought so. And what if the method for obtaining this signed card happened to be an incredibly strong, 100% practical card effect? And what if the only props you needed to do all this were playing cards and a normal marker? No expensive or soon-outdated high-tech. And what if this utility principle and trick came with a number of other incredibly strong, utterly impossible-seeming card tricks using spectators’ signed cards, just to get your own creative juices flowing? If all this sounds like something you could use, Resigned to Miracles is your book.

Resigned to Miracles introduces a method for secretly obtaining genuine signatures from one or two spectators on the backs of playing cards. No one suspects these signed cards exist, not even the people who signed them! The signatures are obtained in performance, without backstage technology or copying methods. They are originals, not copies. Armed with these signed cards, extraordinary effects can be yours, effects that no one will expect or can explain.

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