Subject: Everyday Objects
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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…
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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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Flamenco
SYNOPSIS: Flamenco is Juan Tamariz’s long-awaited third volume in his celebrated Bewitched Music series, following Sonata and Mnemonica. Written by Stephen Minch and refined over nearly three decades, the book presents some of Tamariz’s most cherished professional repertoire, featuring routines that have evolved through countless performances. The material spans cards, coins, color-changing knives, and interactive effects for both live and broadcast…
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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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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…
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books of wonder
SYNOPSIS: The Books of Wonder by Tommy Wonder is a two-volume masterpiece that blends ingenious original magic with thoughtful essays on performance, psychology, misdirection, and the art of entertaining. Covering close-up, parlor, and stage magic, the books present both practical routines and the philosophy behind them, making them an essential resource for magicians seeking to elevate…
