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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Mastering the Art of Magic
SYNOPSIS: Mastering the Art of Magic brings together seven influential booklets Eugene Burger originally published between 1982 and 1994. The collection includes Secrets and Mysteries, Audience Involvement, The Secrets of Restaurant Magic, Eugene Burger on Matt Schulien’s Fabulous Card Discoveries, Intimate Power, The Craft of Magic, and Rediscoveries. For this edition, the material was completely re-typeset and supplemented with new essays in which…
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Miracle Material
SYNOPSIS: Miracle Material: The Close-Up Magic of Michael Kaminskas is a collection of highly visual close-up routines built around playing cards, coins, bills, rope, and familiar objects. Kaminskas favors effects with striking physical transformations and unexpected endings: a selected card rises and appears to hover above the deck, a torn card visibly restores, a blank card…
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Mnemonica
SYNOPSIS: Mnemonica: Symphony in Mnemonic Major is Juan Tamariz’s comprehensive study of memorized-deck magic and the stack that bears the book’s name. Tamariz teaches the exact order of the Mnemonica stack, provides a structured method for committing it permanently to memory, and explains how to reach the stack from new-deck order through a sequence of faro…
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Modern Coin Magic
SYNOPSIS: Modern Coin Magic by J. B. Bobo is a comprehensive course and reference work devoted to sleight-of-hand magic with coins. It begins with foundational concealments, palms, holds, clips, switches, steals, and vanishes, then develops those techniques through a large collection of complete tricks and routines. The book covers quick coin effects, sleeving, Coins Across, coin…
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Modern Magic
SYNOPSIS: Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring is Professor Hoffmann’s foundational instructional work on nineteenth-century magic. Designed as a progressive course, it begins with the magician’s wand, table, costume, secret pockets, and basic principles of deception before teaching sleight of hand and complete routines with cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dice, cups…
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More Magic
SYNOPSIS: More Magic is Professor Hoffmann’s sequel to Modern Magic, expanding his course in Victorian conjuring with newer sleights, methods, apparatus, and complete routines. The book begins with additional advice on the magician’s wand, table, costume, servantes, and mechanical accessories before moving into a particularly extensive study of card magic. Its card chapters cover improved passes, forces,…
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My Best
SYNOPSIS: My Best: The Best Tricks from the Best Brains in Magic is a large anthology edited by J. G. Thompson Jr., bringing together 193 tricks and routines contributed by 115 professional and amateur magicians. Contributors include Theodore Annemann, J. B. Bobo, John Booth, Paul Curry, Dariel Fitzkee, Martin Gardner, Walter Gibson, Jean Hugard, George Kaplan,…
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My Favorite Card Tricks
SYNOPSIS: My Favorite Card Tricks collects fifteen of Harry Lorayne’s favored effects and routines using ordinary playing cards. The material was selected for practicality: the routines can generally be performed with a borrowed or shuffled deck, under informal conditions, and without relying heavily on specialized props. Only a small portion uses the conventional “select a card”…
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Now you see it, Now you Don’t!
SYNOPSIS: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!: Lessons in Sleight of Hand is Bill Tarr’s heavily illustrated introduction to practical manipulation and close-up magic. Using more than 1,500 step-by-step drawings by Barry Ross, the book teaches the hand positions, grips, transfers, vanishes, productions, flourishes, and switches needed to perform classic sleight-of-hand effects with ordinary or…
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Now you see it, Now you Don’t!
SYNOPSIS: The Second Now You See It, Now You Don’t!: More Lessons in Sleight of Hand continues Bill Tarr’s illustrated course with more advanced techniques for cards, coins, billiard balls, silks, cigarettes, and other small objects. Like the first volume, it relies heavily on Barry Ross’s sequential drawings, with concise text explaining each grip, movement, concealment,…
