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Caffeine
Rush by Vincenzo Ravina “I
only can imagine the faces of the spectators. It's very slick, Great Thinking!”
–Peter Eggink, creator of Transferred and the Melt Change "This will blow
your spectators minds! They'll never look at coffee the same again!" -Yousif
Salhab, creator of Impression Card Prediction From Vincenzo Ravina (creator
of Division) comes a new take on the coffee to coins plot. A borrowed
cup of coffee is covered for an instant by a coffee cup lid. When the
lid is taken off again, the cup is filled to the brim with coins or bugs!
With another magical pass, the coins or bugs vanish, and the coffee is
back! * No Switching Cups * No Magnets Or Pulls * Use Anyone’s Cup Of
Coffee * Virtually Impromptu Booklet includes bonus ideas from Yousif
Salhab and Bernard Sim, as well as a bonus trick by the author.
$ 15.00
California BAR TRICKS by Jim Rosenbaum From
the wild bar scenes of Los Angeles to the renowned cuisine of the restaurants
in Napa Valley, California is known for its nightlife. Jim Rosenbaum has
worked in the California nightlife for many years and this book is a culmination
of his experience. California Bar Tricks contains a collection of 50 magic
tricks, mind teasers, and challenges using common bar and restaurant items;
guaranteed to amuse, confuse, and amaze. This fully illustrated book is
an invaluable asset for all bar magicians and restaurant performers; as
well as amateurs and laypersons alike. Jim gives you all the details for
performing these stunningly clever and entertaining routines. California
Bar Tricks is a must for restaurant professionals, or anyone looking to
shine at the next cocktail party. Tricks include: Balancing Silverware
Aqua Dime Electric Personality Dollar Bridge …and many more!
$10.00
Capricornian Tales by Christian Chelman Christian
Chelman is strange. How strange you ask? He is very strange. Christian
is strange, however, not simply for the peculiar notions he gets for effects;
not for the weird presentations he creates; and not for the odd and intriguing
effects he finds or builds for these routines. No. What sets Christian
Chelman apart is that he actually does this stuff; he performs it, in
the real world! He has created uniquely practical material of a very special
kind, and every moment you spend in learning it will be well rewarded.
$ 35.00
The Card Classics of Ken Krenzel by Harry Lorayne There
weren't as many magic books available back in 1978 as there are now. But
one thing was the same then as it is now - there weren't/aren't many magic
books published that contained/contain really great stuff. Wonderful stuff!
Usable stuff! "When Ken Krenzel performed the material in this book for
me I knew then and there how good it was, and what a great contribution
it'd be to the art I love - card magic. It took all my persuasive powers
to get Ken to agree to let me write, teach and publish all the material
he'd performed for me. I'm so glad that he finally did agree. What an
awful loss it would have been to anyone who does, or wants to do, card
magic, to the magic fraternity, if I hadn't persuaded him, if he hadn't
agreed. Yes, it was some time back. And if anything can be said to have
stood the test of time, passed the test of time, it can be said of the
ideas, effects, routines, in this book. They are as fresh and stimulating,
as clean and precise, as intriguing and clever, as exhilarating and important,
today as they were then, and have been through the years. And, you'll
fool (and entertain) magicians and laymen with them now just as you could
have done, or did, back then.Over eighty items broken down into nine exciting
sections. I've heard and read, many times, that there is no better handling
and description of the Classic Pass than there is in Section Seven of
this book. Along with eleven other passes, including the Mechanical Reverse,
which has become a standard of card handling, The K-E Pass (beautiful,
and so easy to do), The One-Card Middle Pass, The Dribble Pass, and more.
The Eerie Spin-Out which, if you'll forgive a rusty platitude, is worth
the price of the book even if you paid five times the established price.
As I say in my Last Word, you'll use it for the rest of your life; there's
no way you can put a price on it. You'll find easy-to-do sleights like
The Natural Double Lift, The Pressure Hideout, The Invisible Reverse Transfer.
The One-Card Double Lift is an exquisite fooler. So is The Optical Sandwich,
The Miracle Multiple Peek and, oh - The Magic Bullet! There's One-Hand
Stop - the spectator 'stops'at his own card, The Impromptu Haunted Deck
and The Front Tilt - and Force-Eps, The Fan Steal, The Squeeze Steal,
The Broadside Steal. Do you like to practice? Well, Section Eight includes
Bottom, Center, and Second Deals - Ken's handling, my teaching (if that
means anything to you). I've added my two or three cents with an idea
or two of my own and with my inevitable Afterthoughts. I could go on and
on, but I won't. I've had so many calls, requests, for this book through
the years, but it wasn't available. Aren't you lucky - it is now!" - Louis
Falanga Hardcover, full-color dust jacket, 256 pages. $ 40.00
Card
College Volumes 1-4 by Roberto Giobbi Recognized
around the world as the most remarkable course in sleight-of-hand card
magic ever offered, Card College features engaging, detailed writing with
many hundreds of clear drawings for gaining mastery over a deck. Teaches
up-to-date information and the best methods.
Card
College1
Volume
One Contains: The Overhand Shuffle, False Cuts, the Riffle Shuffle, Card
Controls, Forces, the Glide, the Double Lift, Flourishes, the Top Change
and the Spread Cull - 250 Pages $ 35.00
Card
College2
Volume Two Contains: Palming, Card Reverses, the Glimpse, the Pass, the
Crimp, False Counts, Advanced Double-lift Techniques and an eye-opening
major chapter on Misdirection, Psychology, Routining and Presentation.
Professional caliber tricks are taught all along the way, so that you
can put your new skills immediately to work. - 250 Pages $ 37.00
Card
College3
Volume Three Contains: Breaks, Steps and Jogs, Advanced Double Lifts,
Card Controls, Multiple Shifts, the Side Steal, Diagonal Palm Shift, Color
Changes, the K.M. Move, the Biddle Steal and the Faro Shuffle. - 300 Pages
$ 37.00
Card College 5 It's
finally here! In the fifth volume of the acclaimed Card College series,
Roberto Giobbi has prepared a graduation party! In previous volumes the
reader has been given a remarkable collection of tools for creating astonishing
card magic. In the same vein, Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of
new techniques and strategies, which include methods for covertly arranging
stacks during performance, obtaining a duplicate of a spectator's signature
with his knowledge, and secretly conveying cards to and from the deck-powerful
tools indeed. But then Volume 5 diverges from the established Card College
formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number
of tools in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with
tricks and routines that illustrate how various techniques are applied
to create world-class card magic. These effects, however, are not mere
constructions meant for teaching. Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's
professional repertoire-and because of this, even the classics of card
magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds refinements won from years
of performing experience. His choice of material is impeccable, featuring
not only original effects and handlings of his own, but tricks and routines
by world-masters as well. One finds such gems as Fred Kaps' presentation
for The Signed Card in Box, along with Giobbi's cunning treatment of this
modern classic, Henry Christ's fabulous Ace routine and a superb handling
of a forgotten masterpiece by Charlie Miller. And everything is taught
with the clarity and attention to detail for which the Card College series
has become known. Open this book and welcome to the party-prepare to graduate!
Some of the topics covered in Volume Five include: * Making Secret Setups
* False Shuffles * Obtaining Duplicate Signatures * Quick Tricks * Openers
and Routines with the Aces * Favorite Effects * Gambling Demonstrations
* Mental Mysteries All in all, Volume Five features 34 professional-caliber
routines that have astounded audiences the world over. $ 37.00
“I
only can imagine the faces of the spectators. It's very slick, Great Thinking!”
–Peter Eggink, creator of Transferred and the Melt Change "This will blow
your spectators minds! They'll never look at coffee the same again!" -Yousif
Salhab, creator of Impression Card Prediction From Vincenzo Ravina (creator
of Division) comes a new take on the coffee to coins plot. A borrowed
cup of coffee is covered for an instant by a coffee cup lid. When the
lid is taken off again, the cup is filled to the brim with coins or bugs!
With another magical pass, the coins or bugs vanish, and the coffee is
back! * No Switching Cups * No Magnets Or Pulls * Use Anyone’s Cup Of
Coffee * Virtually Impromptu Booklet includes bonus ideas from Yousif
Salhab and Bernard Sim, as well as a bonus trick by the author. 
Christian
Chelman is strange. How strange you ask? He is very strange. Christian
is strange, however, not simply for the peculiar notions he gets for effects;
not for the weird presentations he creates; and not for the odd and intriguing
effects he finds or builds for these routines. No. What sets Christian
Chelman apart is that he actually does this stuff; he performs it, in
the real world! He has created uniquely practical material of a very special
kind, and every moment you spend in learning it will be well rewarded.
There
weren't as many magic books available back in 1978 as there are now. But
one thing was the same then as it is now - there weren't/aren't many magic
books published that contained/contain really great stuff. Wonderful stuff!
Usable stuff! "When Ken Krenzel performed the material in this book for
me I knew then and there how good it was, and what a great contribution
it'd be to the art I love - card magic. It took all my persuasive powers
to get Ken to agree to let me write, teach and publish all the material
he'd performed for me. I'm so glad that he finally did agree. What an
awful loss it would have been to anyone who does, or wants to do, card
magic, to the magic fraternity, if I hadn't persuaded him, if he hadn't
agreed. Yes, it was some time back. And if anything can be said to have
stood the test of time, passed the test of time, it can be said of the
ideas, effects, routines, in this book. They are as fresh and stimulating,
as clean and precise, as intriguing and clever, as exhilarating and important,
today as they were then, and have been through the years. And, you'll
fool (and entertain) magicians and laymen with them now just as you could
have done, or did, back then.Over eighty items broken down into nine exciting
sections. I've heard and read, many times, that there is no better handling
and description of the Classic Pass than there is in Section Seven of
this book. Along with eleven other passes, including the Mechanical Reverse,
which has become a standard of card handling, The K-E Pass (beautiful,
and so easy to do), The One-Card Middle Pass, The Dribble Pass, and more.
The Eerie Spin-Out which, if you'll forgive a rusty platitude, is worth
the price of the book even if you paid five times the established price.
As I say in my Last Word, you'll use it for the rest of your life; there's
no way you can put a price on it. You'll find easy-to-do sleights like
The Natural Double Lift, The Pressure Hideout, The Invisible Reverse Transfer.
The One-Card Double Lift is an exquisite fooler. So is The Optical Sandwich,
The Miracle Multiple Peek and, oh - The Magic Bullet! There's One-Hand
Stop - the spectator 'stops'at his own card, The Impromptu Haunted Deck
and The Front Tilt - and Force-Eps, The Fan Steal, The Squeeze Steal,
The Broadside Steal. Do you like to practice? Well, Section Eight includes
Bottom, Center, and Second Deals - Ken's handling, my teaching (if that
means anything to you). I've added my two or three cents with an idea
or two of my own and with my inevitable Afterthoughts. I could go on and
on, but I won't. I've had so many calls, requests, for this book through
the years, but it wasn't available. Aren't you lucky - it is now!" - Louis
Falanga Hardcover, full-color dust jacket, 256 pages. 
Recognized
around the world as the most remarkable course in sleight-of-hand card
magic ever offered, Card College features engaging, detailed writing with
many hundreds of clear drawings for gaining mastery over a deck. Teaches
up-to-date information and the best methods.
It's
finally here! In the fifth volume of the acclaimed Card College series,
Roberto Giobbi has prepared a graduation party! In previous volumes the
reader has been given a remarkable collection of tools for creating astonishing
card magic. In the same vein, Volume 5 begins with a meaty chapter of
new techniques and strategies, which include methods for covertly arranging
stacks during performance, obtaining a duplicate of a spectator's signature
with his knowledge, and secretly conveying cards to and from the deck-powerful
tools indeed. But then Volume 5 diverges from the established Card College
formula. Judging that the reader now has more than a sufficient number
of tools in his grasp, Mr. Giobbi provides eight chapters filled with
tricks and routines that illustrate how various techniques are applied
to create world-class card magic. These effects, however, are not mere
constructions meant for teaching. Most have been drawn from Roberto Giobbi's
professional repertoire-and because of this, even the classics of card
magic are given a fresh gleam as Giobbi adds refinements won from years
of performing experience. His choice of material is impeccable, featuring
not only original effects and handlings of his own, but tricks and routines
by world-masters as well. One finds such gems as Fred Kaps' presentation
for The Signed Card in Box, along with Giobbi's cunning treatment of this
modern classic, Henry Christ's fabulous Ace routine and a superb handling
of a forgotten masterpiece by Charlie Miller. And everything is taught
with the clarity and attention to detail for which the Card College series
has become known. Open this book and welcome to the party-prepare to graduate!
Some of the topics covered in Volume Five include: * Making Secret Setups
* False Shuffles * Obtaining Duplicate Signatures * Quick Tricks * Openers
and Routines with the Aces * Favorite Effects * Gambling Demonstrations
* Mental Mysteries All in all, Volume Five features 34 professional-caliber
routines that have astounded audiences the world over.