Magic Books

The Wild Card effect has been one of my favorite packet effects from as far back as I can remember and is indisputably one of the best card packet effects of all time. Unfortunately, in its original form, it does not meet my concept of good magic. It does not answer the basic audience dilemma … Read more

This “Scrapbook” is a small, haphazard collection of some of my contributions to the Art of Magic, over the past 50 years. Since the late 1960’s I have contributed hundreds of my ideas to over a dozen national and international magic magazines, run a Magician’s service producing over 2000 magic items, (some hundreds of which … Read more

Over 50 years, I have run a Magician’s service, producing and supplying several hundreds of thousands of pieces of over 2500 varieties of props to magic dealers and magicians worldwide, with retail sale value exceeding a million dollars a year over several years, so I figure we have been doing something right ! Many were … Read more

This is my third Scrapbook composed in this month (March 2023). Even though when I mull over my commercial effects and magazine contributions from the decades gone by, the volume of material seems ample for a few more. But everything I wrote or created is not worth recording or re-publishing in this collection.I found two … Read more

When I compiled volume 3 of these “Scrapbooks” I had mentioned it would be the last, unless I found some of my material in Abra and other periodicals I had no access to, along with a few of my earlier contribution and creations. Just two days after publication of Volume 3, I received an email … Read more

You can now get both the above magazines as a bundled offer, at a special savings. Please note these are not a clumsily scanned facsimile of the Kaufman edition, illegal and unauthorized copies of which are being sold on the internet. This is a fully searchable and authorized PDF version of the books, created by … Read more