HUGARDS ANNUALS OF MAGIC (1937-1939)

Here are Jean Hugard's recordings of magic from 1937-39, from illusions to close-up: tricks with coins, cards, silks, cigarettes, cigars, billiard balls, matches, newspapers, thimbles, paper, the Egg Bag and Linking Rings. Hugard clearly explains tricks such as Paul Curry's "Touch", Sam Horowitz' "Knock-Out Card Trick", Hugard's "Floating Ball" and much, much more.

Hardcover, 270 pages of magic from a historic time.

AROUND THE WORLD WITH A MAGICIAN AND A JUGGLER


Burlingame's Around the World with a Magician and a Juggler has become a genuine rarity. An important work containing the only attempts at full biographies of Professor (Hartwig) Seeman and William D'Alvini, with further scarce information on the lives and performances of Ernesto Patrizio and Bellachini, all prominent and successful magicians of their day, and now largely forgotten. Also included is Bellachini's presentation and method for the classic Eggs from Mouth, and Dr. Max Dessoir's seminal study on the Psychology of the Art of Conjuring. Hardcover.

Price........$45.00

FLASH PAPER TIPS  by Stuart Robson & Ralph W. Read

Tricks and gags with Flash Paper are becoming more and more popular. Once you have used Flash Paper in a trick you will understand why. The unexpected flash of flame, no matter how it is used, adds a dramatic touch or “punch” to any trick or gag.

In this revised book you have 56 pages full of FLASH PAPER TIPS.

LAUGHTER LEGACY by magic man, book writer, funny talker DAVID GINN

David started with the comedy notebooks of Gene Gordon who had collected jokes, lines, gags, patter bits and stories for forty years and worked to put them into one collection. Many lines and jokes are used ver batim. Others were changed, updated and re-wriiten. Do you want to make people laugh? Are you a talker? Public Speaker? Comedian? MC? Magician? Clown? Ventriloquist? Toast-Master? Humorist? Are you anyone who wants to affect other people with your words? If you answered YES to any of the above questions, here’s your chance to add a powerful, brand new book to your WORKING performer’s library—a book packed with over 1300 jokes, gags, one-liners, quips, remarks, and bits of COMEDY WISDOM that you can use in dozens of situations when you are TALKING to people! Not until you have your own copy will the book really make sense! 

SILKEN SORCERY by Jean Hugard

Includes a wide variety of methods for producing and vanishing silks, dyeing silks, 20th. Century Silks, 23 tricks with silks, knots and flourishes, useful accessories, sleights, etc.

The silk enthusiast should certainly have this book and learn the large variety of beautiful effects possible with silks. 83 pages—illustrated. 

Practical Magic

Eighty large pages of easy to do tricks, for parlor and stage. Tricks with cards, ropes, cigarettes, coins, etc. Also clever mind reading effects. Contains complete course of instructions in Ventriloquism. Greatest value ever offered! 

THE ROYAL ROAD TO CARD MAGIC

Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue

This is the book you should start with if you are determined to enjoy the fun and learn the skills of card magic. A wonderful book for the beginner, an excellent reference book for any magical library. It describes the sleights, moves and routines you must understand for getting into effective card magic.

Learn how to do shuffles, flourishes, glide, key card use, glimpse, palm, back slip, lifts, passes, reverses, forces, and top and bottom changes. Then move on to routines and platform tricks. Your reward will be the capability of performing a hilarious “Conus Four Ace Routine,” a delightful “Ladies Looking Glass,” showing the rapid appearance of pairs at the top and bottom of the deck, an amazing transformation of one card to another in “Everywhere and Nowhere,” a polished Herrmann’s “Egyptian Pocket,” four card rediscovery, the great feat of “Cards to the Pocket,” and finally David Devant’s favorite “Three Cards Across.”

Yes, you can learn to do them all, and well. 

CORINDA’S THIRTEEN STEPS TO MENTALISM

A STEP BY STEP COURSE ON MENTAL AND ALLIED MAGIC The thirteen parts make a volume of over 300 pages, which will be a valuable addition to your Magical library. Printed on gloss paper, indexed and covered individually. Readers have been delighted with the scope, knowledge and freshness of the material in the “Steps.” HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO MIND READING...