This is the Fresno Magic Club’s growing digital card catalogue of magic books, tables of contents, and indexes. It is designed to help magicians search across classic and modern magic literature by topic, title, author, routine, prop, or technique.
Search for subjects like Thumb Tip, Cups and Balls, Billets, Memorized Deck, Card Control, Coin Vanish, False Shuffle, and more. As the catalogue grows, this page will become the main entrance to the club’s digital library.
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Close-Up Cavalcade
SYNOPSIS: Close-Up Cavalcade is the first volume in Jerry Mentzer’s acclaimed Close-Up Cavalcade series and showcases a diverse collection of practical close-up magic contributed by many of the finest performers of the era. Unlike many close-up books that focus primarily on card magic, this volume emphasizes strong routines with coins, bills, rings, matches, dice, everyday objects, and other…
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Coin Magic
SYNOPSIS: CoinMagic is one of the definitive modern references on advanced coin magic. Written, illustrated, and edited by Richard Kaufman, the book compiles groundbreaking techniques and routines from many of the most influential coin magicians of the twentieth century, including David Roth, Geoffrey Latta, Sol Stone, Ed Marlo, Slydini, Derek Dingle, Dai Vernon, and others. More…
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Dai Vernon’s Tribute to Nate Leipzig
SYNOPSIS: CoinMagic is one of the definitive modern references on advanced coin magic. Written, illustrated, and edited by Richard Kaufman, the book compiles groundbreaking techniques and routines from many of the most influential coin magicians of the twentieth century, including David Roth, Geoffrey Latta, Sol Stone, Ed Marlo, Slydini, Derek Dingle, Dai Vernon, and others. More…
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Darwin Ortiz at the card table
SYNOPSIS: Darwin Ortiz at the Card Table is widely regarded as one of the finest books on advanced card magic for real-world performance. Drawing inspiration from Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table, Darwin Ortiz presents a collection of powerful routines built around gambling demonstrations, impossible card locations, Ace assemblies, poker deals, estimation, false shuffles, and sophisticated…
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Deck-Sterity
SYNOPSIS: Deck-Sterity is Harry Lorayne’s fourth major card magic book and continues his tradition of teaching practical, commercial card routines designed for real-world performance. The book contains more than forty effects, sleights, utility moves, and presentations, ranging from ingenious double-lift techniques and color changes to Ace routines, poker demonstrations, revelations, sandwich effects, and mental card mysteries.…
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Designing Miracles
SYNOPSIS: Designing Miracles: Creating the Illusion of Impossibility is Darwin Ortiz’s landmark work on the architecture of magical effects. Serving as the companion volume to Strong Magic, this book shifts the focus from presentation to construction, examining why some effects create genuine astonishment while others merely become puzzles. Ortiz explores how spectators think, remember, and reason, then…
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Drawing Room Deceptions
SYNOPSIS: Drawing Room Deceptions is widely regarded as one of the modern masterpieces of card magic literature. Written, illustrated, and designed entirely by Guy Hollingworth, the book combines elegant Victorian styling with exceptionally original card magic, sophisticated sleight of hand, and thoughtful theory. The material features Hollingworth’s celebrated creations—including the legendary Reformation torn-and-restored card—alongside gambling demonstrations, Ace routines,…
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Encore 3
SYNOPSIS: Encore 3 is the third volume in Michael Ammar’s acclaimed Command Performance Series, collecting audience-tested routines from Ammar and many of the leading close-up performers of the era. Rather than focusing on a single branch of magic, the book offers a diverse repertoire of professional material with cards, coins, bills, sponge balls, and everyday objects, emphasizing…
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Evidence of a Well Spent Life
SYNOPSIS: Evidence of a Well Spent Life is Helge Thun’s first full-length book in English and showcases the thoughtful, theatrical card magic that has made him one of Europe’s most respected performers. Rather than presenting isolated tricks, the book focuses on multi-phase routines that build steadily toward memorable climaxes, emphasizing structure, audience engagement, and impossibility. Alongside…
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Expert Coin Magic
SYNOPSIS: Expert Coin Magic is considered one of the most influential books ever written on coin magic and stands alongside Modern Coin Magic and CoinMagic as one of the three essential texts for serious coin workers. Written by Richard Kaufman to document the groundbreaking work of David Roth, the book presents Roth’s complete approach to modern coin magic, from foundational…
