Subject: Cards
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Magic of Michael Ammar, The
SYNOPSIS: The Magic of Michael Ammar is a broad collection of Michael Ammar’s professional close-up and stand-up material from the 1980s, bringing together routines, techniques, essays, and practical advice that had previously appeared in sources such as the Command Performance series, Encore I, Encore II, and The Manual of Magic Psychology. Ammar’s goal is not simply to teach tricks, but to…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
