Mr. Electric Unplugged Book By Marvyn Roy

This book is unlike any of our previous history books. Instead of digging through old newspapers and magazines and writing about vaudeville theatres and music halls, this story is told by the man who lived it. During the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties, there was not a more successful magical team than Marvyn Roy and Carol.

Their act, Mr. Electric, appeared at Radio City Music Hall, the London Palladium, The Latin Quarter, Gorki Park in Moscow, on the Ed Sullivan Show, The Hollywood Palace and everywhere in between. Hotels, ice shows, floor shows, night clubs, theatres, arenas and amusement parks, they did it all. With their acclaimed light bulb act, and later as the Diamond Illusionist, they traveled for years with the Liberace show.

Now Marvyn has put his entire magical life into book form. Beginning with his early success as Marvyn the Silk Merchant and winning awards as a teenager at the PCAM conventions, to the time he spent working behind the counter at Floyd Thayer’s Studio, to the development of his world famous act and subsequent climb to the highest rung of the show business ladder. It is a story that only Marvyn could tell and you will recognize many familiar faces along the way. Anyone who ever dreamed of being a famous magician can now live that dream through the eyes and words of Marvyn Roy.

MR. ELECTRIC — UNPLUGGED contains 300 pages featuring more than 150 photographs and is hardbound with a beautiful dustjacket. To celebrate the publication of Marvyn Roy’s autobiography we have created a very special deluxe edition. Tipped into the front of the book is a full-colour photograph personally autographed by Marvyn and Carol.

Close Up File By  Jerry Mentzer

Six big chapters * 35 different effects * Table Hopping * Money Magic * Cups and Balls * Coins (two chapters) Three Shell Game * Magic with miscellaneous items CLOSE-UP FILE is a big book, 195 pages, hard bound with a two-color dust jacket.

The book contains many novel close-up effects. None use playing cards except as incidental props. Most are previously unpublished and are worked with simple props, which the reader can make up, or is likely to have on hand already. Richard Bartram Jr. did the illustrations and they really help the reader understand the magic.

The Commercial  Magic of  J.C. Wagner

Thirty-seven magical, audience-tested routines. Highlights include: SuperCloser, Entertainment Tax, Whispering Wagner, and the incredible, infamous Card Under the Drink—the real work revealed in print for the first time. (This fantastic routine alone is worth the price of the book.)

Softbound: 176 pages. Written by Mike Maxwell.

SEALED VISION by Will Dexter

A collection of fifteen diabolical blindfold methods using a variety of ingenious principles. From simple paper bags placed over the head, to leather masks, coins, adhesive tape and heavy cloth bags totally obscuring the performer’s vision. Also explained are principles, which use painted, magnetized, polarized and clear spot goggles. Part II details methods using the downward glimpse. Part III deals with subtleties that can be applied to the use of blindfolds and much more. Finally, Part IV describes the sensational publicity stunts that these blindfold methods can be used for. A definitive work on the use of blindfolds to entertain and BAFFLE your audiences. Finely printed and superbly illustrated.

CLOSE-UP SEDUCTIONS

18 Immaculate Creations of Sensual Sleight-of-Hand

READ ALL ABOUT: Bushwhacker, Seductive Switch, Sensuous Shuffle, Cab Fare, Limousine Service, Fan Dance, Air of Mystery, Deja Vu, Michael’s Proposition, “10” Looker, Blue Tattoo, Unhinged, Sleight-of-Ear, Bleached Blonde, Too Slick, Sweet Stuff, Wonder woman. ALL NEW AND ORIGINAL MATERIAL. HARDBOUND 153 PAGES BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED.

CARD FILE TWO is a big hardbound book with 184 pages. The 7 by 10 inch size matches the previous book in the series (Card File). Eight chapters and 58 top quality tricks and items by very clever card men. Profusely illustrated by Richard Bartram, Jr.

Some of the trick titles will whet any cardician’s curiosity: “Face Off”, “Cardician’s Dream Improved”, “Any Way”, “Deck Memorization”, “Hummer Clean-up”, “Nine Way Variant”, “The Wild Exchange”, “Triple Indemnity”, “Frontal-Attack Top Change”, “An-Out-Of-Deck Experience”, “Walton’s Ascanio Routine”, “Nine Card Monte” and many, many more excellent items! Most of the tricks can be done with a regular pack of playing cards.

Close-Up Entertainer

If you are acquainted with Paul Harris books and magic -you know that “Close-Up Entertainer” contains exciting, off beat, commercial and fun effects! Beautiful card and coin magic, fully routined, illustrated and well written.

Included are “Blackjack Challenge”, “Drop-Shot”, “The Silver Elevator”, “Quarter Caper” and lots more. There is a special section devoted to contributions by Paul’s Friends. Hardbound. 171 pages.

The Most Sensational Book in Years. It’s the greatest book for the mentalist-magician to see print in over a quarter of a century.

Between the covers of this cloth bound book are to be found the finest of modern day miracles by the leading performers in this field of pseudo-mentalism. Tricks that have baled thousands are clearly explained for your immediate use. Here is Annemann at his best! Tricks upon which he built his reputation. They’re all here, plus the better mental effects from his famous Jinx Magazine making in all a gigantic collection of up-to-the minute, audience tested effects that are in a class by themselves. It’s superb! 194 tricks, twelve chapters.

Effects with Billets and Pellets, Publicity Effects, Dead or Alive, Book Tests, Thought Foretold, Miscellaneous Masterpieces, Envelope Necromancy, Miracle Slate Routines, Money Mentalism, Blindfold Reading, Mentalism with Cards, and Psychic Codes. 310 pages. Edited by John J. Crimmins, Jr.

The Chronicles

In any magical publication the subject eagerly sought, and always difficult to obtain is high quality non-card material. The Chronicles were particularly fortunate because of the generous contributions made by many gifted minds. In particular, the reader who masters just the coin material in this journal will gain a reputation as an expert in the field. Two of the Dai Vernon contributions deserve particular mention because they rank among Vernon’s strongest stand-up coin routines. The first is “Spellbound For Experts” in collaboration with Frank Garcia, and the second is the coin material that appears under the title “Two Tricks by Dai Vernon”. This material was taught to students when Vernon lived in the New York City area. To see these tricks performed was to see true artistry.

“Midnite Coin”, attributed to Gus Davenport, “Hoax Coin”, invented by Howard Schwarzman, and Derek Dingle's “Flash Coins” are other examples of outstanding stand-up coin magic. In the realm of table magic with coins, the Max Williams “Subway Move” and Nick Van Setten’s ingenious “Swindle Box” drew praise from readers. The Chronicles also featured one of the most original coin tricks ever invented, Jack Miller's “King Koin”, a curious effect where the face of a coin is permanently altered in an amusing and very mystifying manner.

Herb Zarrow’s “Pendulum Knot” and “Unlinking Rubber Bands” were two tricks that elicited much reader comment, Frank Garcia’s “Bottomless Glass”, a highlight of his lecture, Slydini’s “Hank Gag”, performed for, among others, an amazed Sophia Loren, Steve Mathews’ “Gemini Rope”, which took conventions by storm, Steve Roth’s “Link Illusion”, James Randi’s “Hydrick Effect”, a spooky effect that stunned a nationwide television audience and Jack Mintz’s “Cigarette Go” drew high praise from readers. Both “Hypercard” and Matsuyama's “Paradox” inspired numerous marketed versions. Other card material that elicited praise included Stewart Judah’s “Oil & Water”, Elmsley’s “Parity Failure”, Roy Walton’s “Riffle Aces”, a beautiful handling of the interlock maneuver, J.K. Hartman’s “Band In Boston”, and David Ossip’s “Airborn Aces”, a trick that got a sensational reaction from a New York City audience. Special notice should be made of a Jack Avis trick in the final issue “Court Spell” is an ingenious solution to a challenging Dai Vernon card problem. Also included The Chronicles can be found, exceptional magic with cards, coins, Okito boxes, bills, rope, rings and self levitations!