Books

Curtain Call by Barrie Richardson (PDF)

Once More into Their Minds, Dear Friends!

Ask working performers, who has created the most practical and impressive mentalism in recent times and one of the first names you will hear is Barrie RichardsonCurtain Call is Mr. Richardson’s third major collection of mentalism, and in it he has held nothing back. He opens with the

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A Secret Has Two Faces by A.BANDIT

A.BANDIT. Prestel Publishing (Hardcover)

A.Bandit is an experimental performance art group started by conceptual artist Glenn Kaino and magician Derek DelGaudio. Together they have exhibited and performed their work in venues that span a diverse range of cultural activities. The book introduces their pioneering work in the fields of art and magic, along with interviews and stories from noteworthy practitioners from both fields. It will be a generous access point into the normally

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A Choice of Miracles by Eric C. Lewis (PDF)

A Choice of Miracles by Eric C. Lewis – Martin's Magic Collection

Any time someone sets down in print their life’s work, it deserves your attention. When that person has spent some 60 years performing, writing, inventing and thinking magic, you can be sure it will be no ordinary book. Eric Lewis is just such a person, and there is certainly nothing ordinary about A Choice of Miracles.

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Machinations by Ben Harris (PDF)

“The Trapdoor Card” is one of the most unforgettable, yet often overlooked, plots in card magic. Popularized by Martin Gardner and Bob Neale, this effect features a small card with a “door” cut out, just off-center. Someone is invited to hold the card by this makeshift tab. The magician is then able to turn the card inside out while it is IN the spectator’s hands. This an unbelievable and impossible topological illusion that you can watch over and over and over again without ever figuring it out.

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