Subject: Everyday Objects
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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…
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best of friends
SYNOPSIS: These pages are crammed full of good to great to terrific magic. By great people. Over 120 card effects, routines, ideas-including Ace Sandwich, Future Change, Fast Stack, Sum Hummer, Fascinating Pair, Sweet Four-Card Change, Vanishing Aces, Strategy, Unshuffled, Reversatility, Thats Incredible, Miracle Time, Force Feed…from people like Tom Mullica, Martin Nash, Larry Jennings, Charles…
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Art of astonishment series
SYNOPSIS: Paul Harris’s The Art of Astonishment is a three-volume collection showcasing some of the creator’s most imaginative and influential magic. Blending inventive methods with memorable presentations, the series explores visual magic, offbeat plots, and audience-centered performance, featuring effects with cards, coins, mentalism, everyday objects, and impromptu magic. Considered a modern classic, the books have inspired countless…
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Harry Lorayne’s apocalypse series
SYNOPSIS: Harry Lorayne’s Apocalypse is a five-volume collection compiling the complete run of one of the most influential magic magazines ever published. Spanning over two decades, the series features thousands of tricks, sleights, routines, essays, and performance ideas contributed by many of magic’s greatest creators. Covering virtually every branch of close-up and stand-up magic, Apocalypse is widely regarded…
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Anthony Owen’s secrets
SYNOPSIS: Anthony has created magic and mentalism with business cards, playing cards, borrowed objects, and more. The focus in Secrets is on parlor material, which should be a refreshing surprise for those of us who are constantly in search of good material for large groups. Anthony’s material is almost always interactive, and focused on premise…
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absolute madness
SYNOPSIS: Featuring 18 effects, 4 essays, dozens of photographs, and 182 pages, this is some of the most hard-hitting magic Craig has ever released. This hardcover book is the culmination of thirty years of performing in front of real audiences and features a special link to a show filmed in the P3 Magic theater of…
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a close up kinda guy
SYNOPSIS: What the heck is a Close-up kinda guy anyways? On the one hand you’ve got your asic skilled Close-up artist, well-versed in bold bluffs, cheap shots, and other pseudo strategies of deception. While on the other hand (the clean one) you’ve got your basic fun kinda guy, genetically compelled to provoke verbal warmies, mental…
