Books

Introducing the card magic and flourishes of Kevin Ho, Smooth Operations is a 60 page book explaining an array of new material for both the curious student and seasoned pro with over a hundred photo illustrations for an enjoyable learning experience.

Kevin is a rising young Singapore-based magician with some serious talent. As a flourisher, he’s already earned a reputation as one of the best. His style is fresh, ultra smooth, and extremely visual. And his magic is no different. Learn 5 effects, 4 sleights, 3 productions and 2 flourishes in 1 kick ass manual on card magic.

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John Carey has a great reputation for coming up with practical, well constructed routines, and this hard backed book collects together about 70 effects from John and some of his friends in magic.

Running to almost 200 pages, hard backed and with photo illustrations, this book is a treasure trove of to-the-point card effects, plus a little coin magic included for good measure. There are premium effects chosen from John’s DVDs and earlier booklets, as well as new material and effects from some of John’s friends including Peter Duffie and John Bannon. In fact, in his Foreword to the book, John Bannon said of John Carey’s creations: “I pay attention to his work, follow it, enjoy it, and often find bits of inspired thinking I’ll incorporate in my own work.

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Impuzzibilities Series: (7) Unexpected Impuzzibilities

The seventh book, features Stairway to Heaven, the amazing book test which allows you to use any Bible as a forcing book. Also, Robert Ramirez’s Casting the Spell, an amazing Spelling routine, Four Card Monte (a classically Impuzzle interactive effect) and stand-up tricks the Awful words Trick, Fresh fish Now, and My Word! These are effect using purely cards with words, and carefully disguised mathematical principles. Pure Evil is an amazing hands-off effect in which the spectator freely chooses a number, and finds the card at that number; believe it or not, the spectator is

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A serie of booklets to share with you Think’s creative process through original and hard-hitting materials. Mostly based on card magic. Follow his journey into the deep and meaningful understanding of Magic.

Content :

ME/YOU-YOU/ME : when “do as I do” and the “out of this world” merge together, you get this routine. Impromptu, and feels almost hands off.

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olume 9 of Semi-Automatic Card Tricks (sans gimmicks).

Contributors include: John Bannon, Gordon Bean, Doug Canning, Mark Fitzgerald, Lionel Gallardo, Mahdi Gilbert, Bill Goodwin, Lewis Jones, Marty Kane, Max Maven, Lorenz Schar, Ben Train, Caleb Wiles, R. Paul Wilson, and Ron Wohl.

Includes chapters that represent the state of the art on Moracle, the Piano Card Trick, and the Losers (lost and found card tricks).  One-man chapters by Lewis Jones, R. Paul Wilson, and Marty

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TWO-TWO CARD MONTE : a new twist on the “two card monte”.

A POCKET GAME : after the spectator selects a card and shuffles it fairly. The cardman finds it with the help the spectator’s pocket. I am saying it again : WITH THE HELP OF THE SPECTATOR’S POCKET !

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“Jose has created something wonderful here; using a mixture of subtleties to achieve a clean, realiable piece of mentalism that your audience will remember for a long time!” – Peter Turner

“Jose has melded a neo-classic and classic method and has created a routine which opens the door to manipulating people’s memory about what actually happened (and when). This is a great example of a logical disconnect and a subtle presentation that maximizes the effect of both principles. A worker!” – Sean Waters

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