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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Second Wind
SYNOPSIS: Second Wind: A Book of Old Magic Made New is Asi Wind’s compact collection of seven card routines built around a clever premise: return to the simple, often sleight-free tricks found in beginner magic books and rebuild them using the stronger methods, subtleties, psychology, and technical tools of an experienced magician. Wind deliberately gives the book the…
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Secrets of Brother John Hamman, The
SYNOPSIS: The Secrets of Brother John Hamman is Richard Kaufman’s comprehensive record of Brother John Hamman’s card magic, collecting the sleights, packet tricks, full-deck routines, transpositions, gambling demonstrations, visual changes, and original principles that made Hamman one of the most influential card magicians of the twentieth century. The book contains more than 140 indexed entries across…
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Sleightly out of Order
SYNOPSIS: Sleightly Out of Order is the second volume in Patrick G. Redford’s Out of Order series, expanding his work with memorized decks, stacked-deck systems, and the Redford Stack. Although it follows Temporarily Out of Order, the book is designed to stand alone and includes enough background for readers to begin without owning the first volume. Only a small…
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Temporarily out of Order
SYNOPSIS: Temporarily Out of Order is Patrick G. Redford’s foundational study of memorized-deck magic and the first volume in his Out of Order series. The book introduces the Redford Stack, a memorized order designed not merely to remain fixed, but to transform efficiently into other useful arrangements during performance. These include Si Stebbins, parallel and mirror or stay-stack configurations,…
