Skill Level: Intermediate
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Later Magic
SYNOPSIS: Later Magic is the third major instructional work in Professor Hoffmann’s classic series of Victorian conjuring books. It expands beyond sleight of hand into the practical machinery, clothing, hidden assistants, tables, servantes, pulls, clips, traps, changing devices, and other apparatus used by professional magicians of the period. The book contains extensive sections on the conjurer’s…
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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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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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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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Making Magic
SYNOPSIS: Making Magic gathers 60 of Martin Lewis’s favorite routines developed over roughly five decades of performing, creating, lecturing, and publishing. The collection emphasizes practical, audience-tested magic rather than experimental ideas, with most of the material designed for parlor and stage performance and a substantial closing section devoted to close-up magic. Lewis explains not only the…
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Magie Duvivier
SYNOPSIS: Magie Duvivier presents the distinctive close-up magic of French magician Dominique Duvivier, written and organized by Jon Racherbaumer. The book explores Duvivier’s unconventional approach to constructing magic, combining highly visual effects, playful presentations, unusual methods, and unexpected transformations. Although card magic forms the heart of the collection—including Duvivier’s celebrated “Printing” routine—the book also contains material…
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Magic by Misdirection
SYNOPSIS: Magic by Misdirection is Dariel Fitzkee’s systematic study of how magicians influence an audience’s attention, interpretation, expectations, and memory to create deception. Rather than treating misdirection as simply making spectators look elsewhere, Fitzkee examines the broader psychology behind magical conviction: establishing normal conditions, disguising method, controlling attention, encouraging assumptions, and shaping how an effect is…
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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
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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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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…
