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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Flamenco
SYNOPSIS: Flamenco is Juan Tamariz’s long-awaited third volume in his celebrated Bewitched Music series, following Sonata and Mnemonica. Written by Stephen Minch and refined over nearly three decades, the book presents some of Tamariz’s most cherished professional repertoire, featuring routines that have evolved through countless performances. The material spans cards, coins, color-changing knives, and interactive effects for both live and broadcast…
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Full Bloom Series
SYNOPSIS: The Full Bloom series is the definitive collection of the creative genius of Gaëtan Bloom, gathering more than 150 original effects, routines, utility ideas, essays, lecture material, and performance pieces developed over his remarkable career. Spanning close-up magic, stage, parlor, cabaret, mentalism, comedy, illusions, and inventive gimmicks, the two-volume work reveals not only Bloom’s ingenious methods…
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Greater Magic Library
SYNOPSIS: The Greater Magic Library is one of the most comprehensive and influential works ever published on the art of conjuring. Based on John Northern Hilliard’s original manuscript and completed after his death by Jean Hugard and Carl Waring Jones, the work compiles the knowledge of many of the greatest magicians of the early twentieth century…
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Harry Lorayne’s apocalypse series
SYNOPSIS: Harry Lorayne’s Apocalypse is a five-volume collection compiling the complete run of one of the most influential magic magazines ever published. Spanning over two decades, the series features thousands of tricks, sleights, routines, essays, and performance ideas contributed by many of magic’s greatest creators. Covering virtually every branch of close-up and stand-up magic, Apocalypse is widely regarded…
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How to Develop a super-power memory
SYNOPSIS: How to Develop a Super-Power Memory by Harry Lorayne is a classic guide to memory training that teaches practical techniques for remembering names, faces, numbers, speeches, appointments, lists, and other everyday information. Using Lorayne’s association and visualization methods, the book demonstrates how anyone can dramatically improve their memory through practice. Although not a magic book,…
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Hugard’s Magic Monthly
SYNOPSIS: How to Develop a Super-Power Memory by Harry Lorayne is a classic guide to memory training that teaches practical techniques for remembering names, faces, numbers, speeches, appointments, lists, and other everyday information. Using Lorayne’s association and visualization methods, the book demonstrates how anyone can dramatically improve their memory through practice. Although not a magic book,…
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If an Octopus Could Palm
SYNOPSIS: If an Octopus Could Palm by David Buck is a collection of inventive close-up magic that blends clever construction, strong sleight-of-hand, and practical performance thinking. Drawing on decades of professional experience, Buck presents original routines, refined handlings, and creative techniques that emphasize naturalness, audience engagement, and deceptive methods. The material encourages magicians to think beyond…
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Interpreting Magic
SYNOPSIS: Interpreting Magic is David Regal’s highly anticipated follow-up to Approaching Magic and represents far more than a collection of tricks. Combining over sixty polished routines with insightful essays and more than thirty in-depth conversations with many of magic’s leading performers and creators, the book explores how magicians transform methods into memorable experiences. Regal presents commercial material for…
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Korem Without Limits
SYNOPSIS: Korem Without Limits is a 1985 collection of 25 original magic effects and techniques by professional magician Danny Korem. It emphasizes practical, performance-ready routines for close-up and stand-up magic, including the influential Omni Deck routine. The 181-page book also discusses stand-up performance and Korem’s exposure of alleged psychic James Hydrick. Book Details: Author/Creator: Danny KoremPublisher:…
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Letters from Juan Series
SYNOPSIS: Letters from Juan is a six-volume series in which Juan Tamariz writes conversationally to the reader as though addressing a close magical friend. Drawing on roughly fifty years of performing and developing magic, Tamariz explains previously unpublished routines alongside their presentation, construction, variations, history, and underlying theory. The series is intimate and informal rather than a conventional encyclopedic course, combining personal reflections with material designed to astonish both lay audiences and knowledgeable magicians. The English editions were translated from Spanish by Rafael Benatar. Book Details: Author/Creator: Juan TamarizPublisher: Penguin MagicEdition: 1stPublication Year: 2022Subjects: Cards, Knives, MemoryPages: 256Skill Level: IntermediateAvailability: Penguin Magic
