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We have published many good Magic books over 40 years. Some of these are no longer in print, and some sell at exorbitant prices. We continue to get requests for some of these books.
We are now delighted to bring you many of these publications in collaboration with Chris Wasshuber of Lybrary.com, as eBooks, which you can instantly download and read (or even print out if you wish) at a very modest cost. And we hope to include some new publications, never in print before.
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Patterns of Perfection Revisited … Magic with an ESP Deck … Magic with a Marked Deck
Swami Magazine … Mantra Magazine … Swami+Mantra combined offer
Everything you wanted to know about CHANGE BAGS and 101 tricks you can do with them
42 Amazing Tricks and Stunts with Rope
Levitation Secrets … Sawing Illusion Secrets … Soumya’s Brainstorms … Designed to Deceive
Patterns of Perfection Revisited by Sam Dalal
This is a completely new, and easier method for compiling a 4×4 (16 cell) Magic square that totals to any number called by the audience in 52 different ways.
The original method from which this has evolved was first published in 1993. You can master this new method with just a few trials in less than an hour, and use it for a lifetime – with nothing to buy, nothing to replace!
With most magic square effects the method has two components. One component is memorization, the other calculation. For example, you memorize one particular magic square and then with appropriate calculations you can modify the memorized square to achieve other sums.
What Sam Dalal has created here with his Patterns of Perfection Revisited method is to significantly improve the memorization part. He has made the memorization so easy that it is hard to forget. I read the method once and I think I will never again forget it. It is that good. He also offers a number of other hints and tips on the calculation part. .. Chris Wasshuber
1st edition 2011; 20 pages. Click link below to buy
http://www.lybrary.com/patterns-perfection-revisited-p-121314.html
Magic with an ESP Deck by Sam Dalal
The original Magic With An ESP Deck was written in 1972 as an “instruction manual” to go with an ESP Deck marketed as a magic prop. The mimeographed manuscript contained a hand full of good self working effects with an ESP Deck, written and produced over a couple of days. Sam Dalal thought no more of this than the hundreds of similar manuscripts and instruction sheets he has written over the years for commercial magic items.
He was delighted when he found the book had achieved the status of a reference book on the subject. Republished by Micky Hades, references to this manuscript popped up in other books and magazines, and in 1977 a revised, enlarged and much better produced edition was published by Accent Products of U.S.A. This elevated it from an instruction manuscript for the files to a space of its own on the book shelf!
This third, again revised and enlarged edition (published 1995) contains everything in the original editions, and more.
1st edition 1972; revised 3rd edition 1995; digital edition 2011; 31 pages.
Table of Contents page
Introduction
A Brief Background
Moves & Terminology
– The False Hindu Shuffle
– Over Hand Shuffle
One in 14400
Ulti-Matchic
Forced Freedom
The Test
– Institute for Investigation of Paranormal Phenomenon
– Procedure for testing of Intuitional ESP
Predestined Choice
Thought Force
Do As I Do
Uni-Match
Coincidence
Timed Thoughts
Triple Match
Think-A-Card
My Favorite
ESP Stacking
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Swami Magazine – Complete
Swami is a fascinating mix of traditional Indian magic and contributions by international masters. Sam Dalal writes in his introduction:
…One of the reasons for the popularity of these magazines is that much of it is devoted to a branch of bizarre or geek magic, not normally covered in the regular magic publications….
I am delighted with the way Chris Wasshuber (Lybrary.com) has produced this electronic version of the Swami and Mantra magazines. When Chris Wasshuber asked me just a few weeks ago if he could produce the magazines as an eBook for circulation through his Lybrary.com, I was skeptical. I did not think the magazines could be converted into a legible and searchable eBook, because of the original format. I am very pleasantly surprised to see the final results. These editions of the magazine are as crisp and clear as the print editions, and combine a search facility that the print editions did not have. In fact when Chris sent me what he had done with them, I shelved my hard copy for the convenience of this fully searchable e-edition. .. Sam Dalal
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Warning: This publication reproduces some ancient Indian fakir stunts. They are only for your reading enjoyment. Do not do them at home! Do not under any circumstance whatsoever attempt to cut off your tongue, eat glass, swallow acid, walk on hot coals or glass, stick needles in any part of your body, or do anything that might cause yourself injury, harm or accident. The publisher of this digital reproduction assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any injuries incurred during any performance, practice, or any sort of experimentation with the effects and ideas described within.
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1st edition 1972-1974; reprinted 1997 by Kaufman; 148 pages.
Issue 1
By Special Delivery (Peter Warlock)
Clipped (Bill Dunbaugh)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
General Introduction
Glass Eating, Introduction
Editorial
Issue 2
Paddle Paddle (Arun Bonerjee)
“Jim Dandy” Rope Routine (Micky Hades)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Glass Eating, Your First Trial
Off Color Do As I Do! (Milt Kort)
Issue 3
Bingo! (Ken De Courcy)
Hallucination (Shanta Batra)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Glass Eating, Presentation
Clairvoyant Multiplication (Martin Gardner)
Issue 4
Surprise Surprise (Paul Marcus)
ORMAGIC (Price Orma)
Cut and Restored Silk
Selected Silk Vanish and Production
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Razor Blades for Breakfast
Moonrock Madness (Tony Shiels)
Issue 5
No Chance (Matt A. Lou)
One For Sam! (Nick Williams)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Acid-Test (1)
Hand Made (Bill Severn)
Tip Off (Sam Dalal)
Issue 6
Thought-O-Card (G. P. Appadurai)
Dr. Jaks’ Predi-X-ion! (Martin Gardner)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Acid Test (2)
Great Discoveries (Sam Dalal)
Issue 7
Recorded Delivery (Leslie May)
Dual-Transpo (Sam Schwartz)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Cooked Rice
Issue 8
Anyone Can Be Clairvoyant (Tan Hock Chuan)
The ‘Brainwave’ Bandwagon (Sam Dalal)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Steaming Tea!
Magic Amulets
Final Epic (Alan Shaxon)
Issue 9
Switchery (Sid Lorraine)
Numerology (Liao Shin Shan)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Ball of Paper Catches Fire
Lightning a Candle by the Touch of a Wand
Water to Milk
Presentation for Pavel’s “Travelling Knots” (Sam Dalal)
Magic by Pavel
Rope Circles
Silk in the Knot
Issue 10
Adidthots (Al Mann)
Hazzle-me-Puss (Subir Kr. Dhar)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Talking Skull
Dancing Dolls
Crawling Spiders
Diving Duck
Probably Magic! (Sam Dalal)
Issue 11
Your Card – My Card (Anton York)
About Face! (Anton York)
Select-A-News (Tan Hock Chuan)
ESP-ecially for You! (Sam Dalal)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Magic Wands
Mike Rogers Presents
Postal Delivery
Dial Delivery
Poor Man’s Card Castle
Issue 12
Push Down (Arthur Setterington)
The Pharaoh’s Palm (Al Mann)
Matchbox Magic (Bisad Bandhu Banerjee)
The Dream (Prince Orma)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Pulse Stopping
Index to Volume 1
Issue 13
End Game (Roy Walton)
Trans Writing (Subir Kr. Dhar)
The Pegasus Page (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Sensational Tongue Cutting Mystery (1)
Issue 14
Lift to the Future (Tony Chaudhuri)
Computer Dates (Sam Dalal)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Sensational Tongue Cutting Mystery (2)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Affinity (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Issue 15
Flight through Space (Eddie Joseph)
Liar’s License (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Colour Vision ESP (E. W. Bud Morris)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Sensational Tongue Cutting Mystery (3)
Issue 16
Foresight (Eddie Joseph)
Dinner at the Coven (E. B. Surty)
Swami Pictures Series No. 1: The Snake Charmer (A. K. Ganguly)
When Thoughts Collide (Al Mann)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Indian Basket Trick
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
More Brainwaves
Squaring the Circle
Issue 17
The Devil’s Disciple (Sam Dalal)
Introduction
Coincidence or Clairvoyance
Fifth Seat From Centre Aisle
No-Cost Headline Prediction
E.S.P. Extraordinary
The Invisible Stooge
Old Wine
The Final Word
Issue 18
A Juvenile Oracle? (Sam Dalal)
Four Silks to One (Pavel)
The Spectator Divines (Tan Hock Chuan)
Homing Cards (Bisad Bandhu Banerjee)
Another B&R Note (Nick Williams)
Presentation for the Afghan Bands (Sam Dalal)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Fire Eating Techniques (1)
Issue 19
Paper Fold Prediction (Martin Gardner)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Fire Eating Techniques (2)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Three of a Kind (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Crystal Thought Condenser (Sam Dalal)
Issue 20 – Editor’s Special
Personally Yours (Peter Warlock, The New Pentagram)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Fire Eating Techniques (3)
Third Down (Karl Fulves, The Pallbearers Review)
South of the Border (Kirk Stiles, Magic and Spells Quarterly)
Issue 21 – The Magic of Tan Hock Chuan
The ESPousal
Iknewits!!
Lucky Number
The Singapore Force
The Invisible Flap
E-Z C&R Rope
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Fire Eating Techniques (4)
Issue 22
The Mystic Circle (Arthur Setterington)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
More Fire Stunts
Mini-Wave? (Sam Dalal)
Psychic Identification (Eddie Joseph)
Issue 23
Beware the Fire Demon (Charles W. Cameron)
Little River Loading (Kirk Stiles)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
A $2.00 Levitation
Issue 24
International Coin Cocktail (Erhard Liebenow)
Clippo (The Amazing Randi)
so it was written…(Subir Kr. Dhar)
Index to Volume 2
Issue 25 – Whatiz From India?
Esdeem’s Silk Frame (S. D. Mukherjee)
OTL Illuminated (Arun Bonerjee)
Who’s Who (Shanta Batra)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
The Brahmo Thread Mystery
Visible Flight (B. B. Banerjee)
Issue 26
The Daruma (Roy Fromer)
Beyond the Veil (Charles W. Cameron)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Impromptu Aces (Anon.)
Issue 27
Slate Metamorphosis (Al Mann)
Telegirl (Arthur Setterington)
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Pins and Needles
One Man-Two Person Dictionary Test (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Really Yours (Sam Dalal)
Issue 28
Switch Tray (Sam Dalal)
Triple Cross (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Kwik Kut (Bill Dunbaugh)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Issue 29
Direct Do as I Do (Hamid Sayani)
Magic From Roy Fromer
Threading Razor Blades
Torn and Restored Cigarette Paper in the Mouth
The Miniature Magic Theater
Yoga Maya (Sam Dalal)
Needle from Eye to Eye (Courtesy K. C. Batra)
West’s Own Miracleman? (Sam Dalal)
Issue 30
Knotted (Sam Dalal)
Needle from Eye to Eye (K. C. Batra)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Issue 31 – Special Issue
Indian Cups and Balls Routine (Les Greenhalgh)
Issue 32
Hawkey (Eddie Joseph)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Yakity Yak Prediction (Donald Wallace)
Potpourri (Alex McKeown)
Addonis Book Test (Al Mann)
Impact 1 (Sam Dalal)
Issue 33
I Ching Oracles (Sam Dalal)
Issue 34
Wild Colour (Arthur J. Emerson, Jr.)
Free Choice ESP (Alex McKeown)
Magical Musings (Sam Dalal)
Women Can Tell (Sam Dalal)
Issue 35
Mon-Kiri (Isao Honda, Sam Dalal)
Two from Tan Hock Chuan
A Book Test
Threaded
Needle in Eye Simplified (S. Alam)
Matchsticks A-Go-Go (Arunkumar Shah)
Gellerism & Respectability (Sam Dalal)
Issue 36
Spin It Out (Alex McKeown)
Telekinetic Printer (D. Craig Daniel)
Hot Money! (Bisadhandhu Banerjee)
Swami Picture Series-2: The Human Ostrich (A. K. Ganguly)
Index to Volume 3
You can download the complete Swami magazine from the link below :
http://www.lybrary.com/swami-p-118286.html
Mantra Magazine Complete
Mantra continues where Swami left off with fascinating mix of traditional Indian magic and western style magic. Sam Dalal writes in his introduction:
…One of the reasons for the popularity of these magazines is that much of it is devoted to a branch of bizarre or geek magic, not normally covered in the regular magic publications….
I am delighted with the way Chris Wasshuber (Lybrary.com) has produced this electronic version of the Swami and Mantra magazines. When Chris Wasshuber asked me just a few weeks ago if he could produce the magazines as an eBook for circulation through his Lybrary.com, I was skeptical. I did not think the magazines could be converted into a legible and searchable eBook, because of the original format. I am very pleasantly surprised to see the final results. These editions of the magazine are as crisp and clear as the print editions, and combine a search facility that the print editions did not have. In fact when Chris sent me what he had done with them, I shelved my hard copy for the convenience of this fully searchable e-edition… Sam Dalal
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Warning: This publication reproduces some ancient Indian fakir stunts. They are only for your reading enjoyment. Do not do them at home! Do not under any circumstance whatsoever attempt to cut off your tongue, eat glass, swallow acid, walk on hot coals or glass, stick needles in any part of your body, or do anything that might cause yourself injury, harm or accident. The publisher of this digital reproduction assumes no responsibility whatsoever for any injuries incurred during any performance, practice, or any sort of experimentation with the effects and ideas described within.
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1st edition 1975-1977; reprinted 1997 by Kaufman; 118 pages.
Issue 1
That Fellow Art Emerson (Kirk Stiles)
Oil and Water (Ed Marlo)
Dinner Gong Silk Production (Sam Dalal)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 2
Suit Yourself (Horace Bennett)
Evaw Niarb (Sam Dalal)
Dollar Duplicity (Art Emerson)
20th C Misprint (Sam Dalal)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 3
Heart Beat (E. B. Surty)
Chuan’s Absconding Queen (Tan Hock Chuan)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
By George
S.O.S.
In Focus (Sam Dalal)
Issue 4
Card in Crystal (Roy Fromer)
Knots Away (S. Alam)
Ripoff: A Number Quickie (Roy Fromer)
Touch and Take (Peter Warlock)
Issue 5
Dice::ceptions (Stiles, Tenkai)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Tenkai via Stern
Once Over (Kirk Stiles)
The Nightmare Rope (Art Emerson)
Issue 6
Mind-Kaleido (Sam Dalal)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Ghost in the Graveyard (Tom Fitzgerald)
Issue 7
The Twist (George Blake)
The Absconding Queen Again (Tan Hock Chuan)
Eskow Aces (Prof. Seymour Eskow)
Anent Ripoff (Leslie May)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 8
What a Wonder: Kaprekar (Sam Dalal)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 9
Cinderella (Michele)
Give Me a Ring! (Terry Seabrooke)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
S.O.S. Triangle (E. W. Bud Morris)
Issue 10
Clairvoyant Calculator (Martin Gardner)
Umgowa! (Milton Kort)
Through a Glass, Brightly (Art Emerson)
Issue 11
A Block from the Wall of Jericho (Tom Fitzgerald)
Noitacol A (Sam Dalal)
Pseudo Graphology (Will Dexter)
Issue 12 – The Grand Old Man of Indian Magic: S. D. Mukherjie
Star Test!
Fifty Years Later…
Two Deck Impromptu
Easy Miser’s Dream
Project-ion
Easy Adder
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Index to Volume 1
The Magic Scene = 1975
Issue 13
Symbol Simon (Phil Goldstein)
Jadoo (E. B. Surty)
Bed of Nails
The Spectator Cuts to Locate Aces (Ed Marlo)
Issue 14
One Rap for Yes; Two Raps for No! (Will Dexter)
“Well I Never” Again (Gautam Guha)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 15 – Tony Chaudhuri Issue
Chung Foo
Phantom Card
Marlo Quick 3-Way Using 4 Cards (J. K. Hartman)
Elmsley Count
Monte Carlo Monte
Colorincidentally
Houdini’s Shoe (Tom Fitzgerald)
Issue 16
E. S. Pairing (Leslie May)
Tile Deal (Doc Maxam)
Calculatrix (Martin Gardner)
Editorial Note: Electronic Add-A-Number Device (Sam Dalal)
Issue 17
Lie Detector (Robert Schwarz)
God or Gollywog?
Jadoo (E. B. Surty)
Yogic Nail Thru Nose
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Someeran’s Publicity Bit
Issue 18
Gnosis (Rabbi Samuel Gringras)
Stoned (Sam Dalal)
Jadoo (E. B. Surty)
Dracula’s Ladder
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 19
Paper Linking Rings (George Blake)
Mindseye (Phil Goldstein)
Someeran’s ESP-elling Bee
Issue 20
Teddy Bears’ Picnic (Ken De Courcy)
Jadoo (E. B. Surty)
Biting Thru a Nail
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Colour-Vision Coin Box
Mental Die Miracle
Issue 21
Alchemy for Seers Only (Sam Dalal)
Ash-Tounding (Art Emerson)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Predicta-Flexagon
Pre-Symbolization (Leslie May)
Issue 22
13! (Subir Kr. Dhar)
Viva la Difference (Marlo, Chesbro, Dalal)
Twisting the Aces Again (Sam Dalal)
Issue 23
Product-ion (Sam Dalal)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Thumb Tell (Jack Bridwell)
Down the Tubes (Phil Goldstein)
Color-Voyance (Tan Hock Chuan)
Issue 24
Card Trio (Claude Kenny)
One Up
A Rough Guess
Ask Bobby
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Peek & Tell (Sam Dalal)
Jadoo (E. B. Surty)
Blind Leap
Scar Face
Issue 25
Mindburst (Jack Bridwell)
Someeran’s Sexth Sense
Ring Release (Claude Kenny)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 26
Odd Story (Sam Dalal)
The Homework
Pascal and Permutations
Finitely Speaking
If Or But And
Fun & Games
Dressing Them Up
Giltedge Gambits and Absurd Odds
Issue 27
Future Impressions (Sam Dalal)
Card in Wallet, Tony Griffith’s Presentation of Arthur Carter’s
Letter from Singapore: Napkin Rings (Tan Hock Chuan)
Climax Vision (Sam Dalal)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
Issue 28
Pick One (Sam Dalal)
Four Aces, What Again? (Claude Kenny)
Vis-Purse (Jack Bridwell)
The Backyard (Sam Dalal)
You can download the complete Mantra Magazine from link below :
http://www.lybrary.com/mantra-p-118287.html
Swami & Mantra – Combined offer
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 Lybrary.com
These editions of the magazine are as crisp and clear as the print editions, and combine a search facility that the print editions did not have. In fact when Chris sent me what he had done with them, I shelved my hard copy for the convenience of this fully searchable e-edition. – Sam Dalal
You can download both the magazines at the special combo price from link below :
http://www.lybrary.com/swami-mantra-p-118288.html
Levitation Secrets by B. Das
This is not an ebook of illusion blue prints, and it is not intended to be complete. As the title suggests, it is a book of “secrets”, illustrating how each levitation is performed. The illustrations and descriptions are sufficient for an experienced builder to translate into finished illusions. This ebook also satisfies the mere curious who would like to know how some of these illusions are accomplished.
Featured are:
INDIAN LEVITATION
FLOATING GIRL
MYSTERY OF LHASA
AGA
SWORD AERIAL
BED OF ARROWS
FAN ILLUSION
WALKING ON SWORDS
FLYING CARPET
ONE MAN LEVITATION
CHAIR SUSPENSION
BAMBOO AERIAL
TRILBY COUCH
GOLDSTON AGA
NIGHT CLUB LEVITATION
ANOTHER ASRAH
ASRAH
KELLAR’S ASRAH
1st edition 1999, 20 pages. Originally published by Electro Fun.
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Sawing Illusion Secrets by B. Das
This is not an ebook of illusion blue prints, and it is not intended to be complete. As the title suggests, it is a book of “secrets”, illustrating how each sawing is performed. The illustrations and descriptions are sufficient for an experienced builder to translate into finished illusions. This ebook also satisfies the mere curious who would like to know how some of these illusions are accomplished.
Illusions featured:
Sawing a woman in halves (Selbit’s Method)
Horace Goldin’s Method
Horace Goldin’s method (Using one girl)
Abott’s Method
Using circular saw and a plank
Vertical Sawing Illusion
Improved method (Suggested by B.Das)
Miss Boots (Ovette)
One Man Sawing Illusion
Sawing Illusion (Abbott’s Method)
Thin model Sawing
Buzz Saw Illusion
Super Magician’s Self Sawing
Homicide Illusion
Sawing a woman in halves (Torrini)
1st edition 2000, 26 pages. Originally published by Electro Fun.
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Magic with a Marked Deck by Sam Dalal
Most magicians have at some time or the other resorted to faked or trick decks to bring about some miracle or the other. And yet these same performers, who will pull out a Stripper or a Svengali deck at the drop of a pin shy away from a marked deck, presumably under the impression that everybody knows a Marked Deck.
That is, of course, a ridiculous notion. The truth of the matter is that not one spectator in a thousand can detect a good marked deck, and most of them are unaware of their very existence. For that matter, a number of demonstrations in our studios have convinced us that not more than four out of ten magicians can recognize a Mocker Deck, (sold in the toy shops) which is the most popular marked deck in this country. Other decks are far more subtly marked, and if you are lucky enough to possess one of these, you can fool anyone with these routines.
But please do not take the deck for granted. Treat it as you would a good tool, and put in the work required to qualify as a skilled craftsman. A little effort and care will go a long way in getting you the kind of reputation money cannot buy.
The finest Marked Deck we have encountered to date is the one designed by Ted Lesley of Germany, with a marking system you can decipher at a glance, even at a distance. So bold, and yet so subtle, it is a delight to use. The routines described in this book are little gems. We hope you will set them in the presentations they deserve.
Most of the space in the routines that follow has been devoted to the presentation. The Secret in all cases is The Marked Deck. Where additional subtleties have been incorporated, a brief description of the method is given.
1st edition 1972, 2nd edition 1985, 3rd edition 1992, 14 pages.
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Change Bags – 101 Tricks by Sam Dalal
To the average magician, a Change bag is a device like a collection bag, that changes a couple of silks, ribbons, rope or other similar items. Well, there are several varieties of those, with short handles for one hand operation, and longer ones for two hand operation, with single and double compartments (for a double change), with zippers to poke your hand through – I have made over a dozen varieties of this for our Magic service. But there are many other types of “change bags” like draw string bags and ladies’ purses, paper “pop bags”, mesh shopping bags and crystal clear bags, some of which are props that can create very strong magic, witout appearing like a magicians prop.
This booklet started out, (as have some of my other magic booklets), as an instruction manuscript to accompany the several varieties of Change Bags made by our magicians Service, (pictured on the covers of this book ), with some 3 dozen ideas for the One Hand, Repeat and Regular Change Bags.
Another “23 Deceptions with a Change Bag” were added by kind permission of Paul Fried of D. Robbins & Co. Inc., being sufficiently different to the original 36 to warrant inclusion.
Then I added descriptions of some of the other varieties of props we produce that qualify as “Change Bags”, and some of the very special tricks one can perform with these, and finished with over 100 presentation “ideas”. I decided to include some of the very special ideas I had, for the Mesh and Clear Change bags, which I had “saved” as potential stand-alone commercial products, (like Dream Holiday) and threw out some of the repetitive ideas, and this book is the end result, a handy, and reasonably comprehensive book of things you could do with most varieties of Change Bags.
There are varieties of “Change Bags” that a performer with average “Handicraft” abilities and resources could make up at home, so construction of these is covered in a little more detail than of those one would be better off buying from a dealer.
I truly believe the variety presented here would be of some use to any performer – beginner, amateur or pro, kid show performer, magician or mentalist, and in keeping with the objective of “good value for money”. Perhaps something here will prompt you to wipe the cobwebs off that bag in your collection of junk, and put it into your act ! Or perhaps a presentation angle will spark an application for another of your Change Props, like a Card Box, or a Change envelope, or … Sam Dalal
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42 Amazing Tricks & Stunts with Rope
48 Pages profusely detailed with 193 illustrations. An Electro Fun Publication
You can carry a piece (or more) of rope in your pocket, and use it to perform some amazing magic for an intimate audience of a couple of spectators, or on a stage for an audience of hundreds.
There are hundreds of tricks you can perform with a piece of rope. The most famous of these is the Cut & Restored Rope trick, where a piece of rope is cut into two or more pieces, and magically restored.
But there are many others, where knots magically appear or vanish from a length of rope, rings or handkerchiefs penetrate through a length of rope, or a rope penetrates through your knee or neck. There are two Encyclopedias of Rope tricks for Magicians published by Abotts, with 100s of Rope tricks of all varieties. Dover publications has an excellent book of Self Working Rope Tricks by Karl Fulves. You will also find many Rope tricks in any book of Conjuring tricks, like the Tarbell Course, or Mark Wilson Course in Magic.
The purpose of this compilation is to give you many tricks of an assorted variety with ropes, selected to get you started on one of the easiest, most effective, and most economical types of magic you can perform. An abundance of illustrations makes this easy to learn, and the effects are impressive to an audience. A piece of rope costs less than a good deck of cards, and a good rope trick can make a much bigger impact on a much larger audience.
Many of the tricks (except the C&R rope ones) can be easily adapted to a borrowed necktie, or a muffler or scarf, or even a piece of cord or string, making them impromptu in nature.
Learn the tricks that catch your fancy, and with a piece of rope in your pocket, you are ready to entertain and mystify any size of audience, any time, any place, and under any performing conditions.
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Soumya’s Brainstorms By Soumya Deb
Soumya Deb is one of the most prolific magic ideas-men it has been my privilege to come across. I have been inundated by contributions from him. He has regularly sent several contributions for every Electro Fun Update, although space and the requirements of variety restrict the publication to a small fraction of his ideas.
When I told Soumya we would put out his better ideas in book form, I again received twice as much material as we could possibly use. This book brings you the best and most practical of his “brain storms” spanning from novel card tricks to easy to make and perform illusions.
Soumya is not an arm chair dreamer, but a person who eats, drinks and sleeps magic. He performs round the year, six months in the Circus tent, and the other six on stage. He requires to constantly update his act, which is perhaps responsible for his prolific creativity. I do not think he can look at or read about a trick, without coming up with a couple or more ideas of his own. And his notions are novel and off the beaten track, the type of angles that would appeal to the average audience.
Soumya has performed with most of the big Indian Circuses, including Great Rayman Circus, Olympic Circus, Famous Circus, Gemini Circus, Moonlight Circus, Ajanta Circus etc.
Besides being an accomplished magician, Soumya is also an Artist with a diploma from Shantiniketan, a specialist on the Spanish Guitar, and accomplished at all orchestra instruments, drums, and the synthesizer. I could go on about this highly talented and versatile person, but that would take up a book the size of this one!
This book has over 30 of Soumya’s brain storms, as compared to the usual dozen we manage in a similar format. Soumya’s skills as an artist make the descriptions lucid, without much need for lengthy descriptions. The magic is novel and off-beat, and can be easily adapted to your individual performing taste. “Something for everyone” would be an apt description for this publication. – Sam Dalal
Contents :
King Of Kings
Corrected Choice
The 20th Century Card Trick.
Practical Palmhistory.
When The Magician Becomes A Photographer.
Magic In The Zoo.
Good Brushing.
Floating Match Box.
Shadow Identity.
Cigarette vanish in palm.
Cigarette vanish in mechanical way.
Cigarettetrix.
Silk Suspension.
Travelling Floating Silk.
Silk From Glass.
Colour Change Silk.
Balloon to cane.
Instant Mint.
X-Ray Pencil Vision.
Hot Wave.
Utility Finger Gloves.
Magnetic Disks.
The Long Short Rope.
Some Tips On Spring Flowers.
Catching Flowers From the Air.
Flowers From Tube.
Predict A Flower.
The Flower On Wand.
Lift Door Production Box.
Lady Production Box.
Surrounded Spectator Shadow To Life.
Nail Box Ilusion.
Original publication 1998. This eBook edition published 2011 – 26 pages
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Designed to Deceive by Ananta Deb Banerjee
Mr. Deb was initiated into magic at an early age. As a teenager, he was inspired by the Late P.C.Sorcar’s Magic Shows, and soon started performing his own magic shows in local clubs on many occasions. He developed an interest in the ‘mechanics’of tricks and started making his own props in his own small home workshop. He gained a wealth of knowledge by avidly reading a wide variety of books on this subject.
The eight effects described in this book are mechanical self-working props, that “do” the magic. The performer has little else to do, once the props are ready, than pull the correct “trigger” at the correct time. This will enable him to concentrate on the presentation aspect, to enhance the entertainment value of his performance.
While the apparatus required sometimes involves a degree of craftsmanship that may not be within every reader’s abilities, it would be easy to get a professional to assemble the item for you from the very clear detailed illustrations provided.
Or you can easily substitute, using board for wood and tin … improvisation being one of the more satisfying aspects of this great hobby.
The effects in this book are some clever and new magic props, something you would pay a fortune for if purchased from a Magic dealer. Now, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Deb, they are yours for the making.
Contents :
Introduction
Spirit In The Sand
Predetermined Destination
The Queens Return
Invisible Flight
Coin In Water
Mind In Unison
Spirit Cabinet
Something out of Nothing
20 pages
Originally published 1998.- eBook edition 2011
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