Skill Level: Intermediate
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Approaching Magic
SYNOPSIS: Approaching Magic by David Regal is a collection of original close-up magic that reflects Regal’s creative thinking, practical construction, and entertaining performance style. The book features commercial routines using cards, coins, and everyday objects, along with insightful discussions on presentation, routining, and audience management. Blending clever methods with engaging plots and humor, Approaching Magic has become a…
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Hugard’s Magic Monthly
SYNOPSIS: How to Develop a Super-Power Memory by Harry Lorayne is a classic guide to memory training that teaches practical techniques for remembering names, faces, numbers, speeches, appointments, lists, and other everyday information. Using Lorayne’s association and visualization methods, the book demonstrates how anyone can dramatically improve their memory through practice. Although not a magic book,…
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Full Bloom Series
SYNOPSIS: The Full Bloom series is the definitive collection of the creative genius of Gaëtan Bloom, gathering more than 150 original effects, routines, utility ideas, essays, lecture material, and performance pieces developed over his remarkable career. Spanning close-up magic, stage, parlor, cabaret, mentalism, comedy, illusions, and inventive gimmicks, the two-volume work reveals not only Bloom’s ingenious methods…
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Evidence of a Well Spent Life
SYNOPSIS: Evidence of a Well Spent Life is Helge Thun’s first full-length book in English and showcases the thoughtful, theatrical card magic that has made him one of Europe’s most respected performers. Rather than presenting isolated tricks, the book focuses on multi-phase routines that build steadily toward memorable climaxes, emphasizing structure, audience engagement, and impossibility. Alongside…
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Encore 3
SYNOPSIS: Encore 3 is the third volume in Michael Ammar’s acclaimed Command Performance Series, collecting audience-tested routines from Ammar and many of the leading close-up performers of the era. Rather than focusing on a single branch of magic, the book offers a diverse repertoire of professional material with cards, coins, bills, sponge balls, and everyday objects, emphasizing…
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Dai Vernon’s Tribute to Nate Leipzig
SYNOPSIS: CoinMagic is one of the definitive modern references on advanced coin magic. Written, illustrated, and edited by Richard Kaufman, the book compiles groundbreaking techniques and routines from many of the most influential coin magicians of the twentieth century, including David Roth, Geoffrey Latta, Sol Stone, Ed Marlo, Slydini, Derek Dingle, Dai Vernon, and others. More…
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Coin Magic
SYNOPSIS: CoinMagic is one of the definitive modern references on advanced coin magic. Written, illustrated, and edited by Richard Kaufman, the book compiles groundbreaking techniques and routines from many of the most influential coin magicians of the twentieth century, including David Roth, Geoffrey Latta, Sol Stone, Ed Marlo, Slydini, Derek Dingle, Dai Vernon, and others. More…
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Close-Up Cavalcade
SYNOPSIS: Close-Up Cavalcade is the first volume in Jerry Mentzer’s acclaimed Close-Up Cavalcade series and showcases a diverse collection of practical close-up magic contributed by many of the finest performers of the era. Unlike many close-up books that focus primarily on card magic, this volume emphasizes strong routines with coins, bills, rings, matches, dice, everyday objects, and other…
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close up fantasies series
SYNOPSIS: The Close-Up Fantasies series represents Paul Harris at the height of his creative explosion during the early 1980s. Across the three volumes, Harris presents dozens of original close-up routines featuring cards, coins, bills, everyday objects, and unconventional props, all characterized by his signature blend of visual impossibility, playful humor, and imaginative thinking. The books challenge traditional…
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Close Up Entertainer
SYNOPSIS: Close-Up Entertainer is one of Paul Harris’s classic early works and a precursor to many of the ideas later refined in his acclaimed Art of Astonishment series. The book features twenty-nine inventive routines using cards, coins, bills, cigarettes, wax lips, and other everyday objects, all presented with Harris’s signature blend of offbeat humor, strong visual magic, and…
