Skill Level: Advanced
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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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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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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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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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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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Repertoire
SYNOPSIS: Repertoire gathers twenty-one routines developed and refined by Asi Wind over approximately two decades of professional performance. Written with John Lovick, the book emphasizes Wind’s distinctive style of making highly structured magic appear unusually fair, direct, and almost effortless. Previously published pieces are revisited with updated methods, presentations, contingencies, and details developed through years of…
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Pure Effect
SYNOPSIS: Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry combines practical card magic and mentalism with Derren Brown’s early thinking about performance, spectator management, risk, psychological framing, and the theatrical appearance of genuine mind reading. Rather than treating mentalism as a sequence of predictions and revelations, Brown argues that the performer should make the process of reading or influencing…
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Paramiracles
SYNOPSIS: Paramiracles presents the professional mentalism of Ted Lesley, organized and written with Stephen Minch. The book contains more than three dozen routines, techniques, utility devices, and performance essays developed from Lesley’s working repertoire. Its material ranges from intimate billet and business-card demonstrations to predictions, psychometry, book tests, card divinations, metal bending, newspaper effects, and larger…
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Out of Control/Totally out of Control
SYNOPSIS: Totally Out of Control is Chris Kenner’s influential collection of original close-up magic, combining highly visual card and coin routines with an irreverent writing style, cartoons, puzzles, and unconventional presentations. The book documents Kenner’s practical, inventive approach: effects are designed to be direct and memorable, even when accomplishing that clarity requires demanding technique. The coin…
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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…
