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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Repertoire II
SYNOPSIS: Repertoire II is Asi Wind’s second major collection of professional performance material and the sequel to his 2018 book Repertoire. It contains more than twenty-five techniques and routines developed after the first volume, including effects Wind has performed on television and in his Off-Broadway show Inner Circle. The book emphasizes polished, audience-tested card magic, with detailed attention…
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Reputation Makers
SYNOPSIS: Reputation Makers is a compact collection of Harry Lorayne’s strongest performance pieces, selected for one main reason: they are designed to create a big impression on lay audiences. Rather than functioning as a broad beginner’s course, the book focuses on polished, practical routines that can help a magician establish a strong reputation quickly. The material…
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Revelation
SYNOPSIS: Revelation is Dai Vernon’s detailed companion to S. W. Erdnase’s The Expert at the Card Table. Vernon worked through the Erdnase text page by page, adding explanations, corrections, refinements, alternate handlings, and observations drawn from his lifelong study of card technique. The book examines false shuffles and cuts, shifts, palms, bottom and second deals, changes, substitutions,…
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Revolutionary Card Technique
SYNOPSIS: Revolutionary Card Technique is Ed Marlo’s extensive technical study of advanced sleight-of-hand card magic. The modern one-volume edition collects the individual booklets Marlo published between 1954 and 1962, reorganizing them into fourteen chapters with updated illustrations and a detailed index. Rather than functioning primarily as a trick collection, it is a reference work devoted to…
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Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic Volumes 1-3
SYNOPSIS: Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic is the landmark reference work devoted to magic with silks and handkerchiefs. Harold R. Rice’s original three volumes gather an enormous range of techniques, gimmicks, apparatus, routines, historical information, and practical advice from Rice and many other prominent magicians. The material progresses from basic preparation and handling to elaborate parlor…
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Rim Shots
SYNOPSIS: Rim Shots is Harry Lorayne’s collection of original card routines, sleights, controls, palms, false cuts, and utility techniques intended for practical close-up performance. The title refers to the drummer’s “rim shot” used to punctuate strong material; Lorayne’s implication was that each item in the book deserved that response. The first chapter emphasizes cuts, forces, reversals,…
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Rune’s World
SYNOPSIS: Rune’s World: The Magic of Rune Klan is Joshua Jay’s presentation of the close-up and comedy magic of Danish performer Rune Klan. The book is intentionally unconventional: part instructional manual, part examination of Rune’s creative philosophy, and part graphic novel. Its unifying idea is that Rune develops each routine around the desired audience experience, allowing…
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Scams and Fantasies with Cards
SYNOPSIS: Scams & Fantasies with Cards is a collection of approximately thirty sophisticated card routines from Darwin Ortiz’s professional repertoire. The book is divided into two main sections: “Scams,” featuring gambling demonstrations and card-table effects, and “Fantasies,” containing magical plots designed to create more theatrical, impossible experiences. The gambling section includes poker deals, false-dealing demonstrations, culling, palming, and stacked-deck work.…
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Scarne’s Magic Tricks
SYNOPSIS: Scarne’s Magic Tricks is John Scarne’s large collection of 201 practical magic tricks designed to be performed without advanced sleight of hand or expensive professional equipment. The routines use familiar, easily obtained objects and are intended for informal gatherings, close-up performance, parlor shows, and occasional platform or stage presentation. Scarne streamlined many traditional methods so that beginners…
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Scripting Magic Series
SYNOPSIS: Scripting Magic, Volumes 1 and 2 is Pete McCabe’s two-volume study of one of the most important—and often neglected—parts of performance: what a magician says, why they say it, and how those words shape the audience’s experience of the magic. Rather than treating scripting as simply memorizing patter, McCabe examines how language can clarify an effect,…
