Subject: Money
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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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Greater Magic Library
SYNOPSIS: The Greater Magic Library is one of the most comprehensive and influential works ever published on the art of conjuring. Based on John Northern Hilliard’s original manuscript and completed after his death by Jean Hugard and Carl Waring Jones, the work compiles the knowledge of many of the greatest magicians of the early twentieth century…
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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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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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carneycopia
SYNOPSIS: Carneycopia is widely regarded as one of the finest books ever written on practical close-up magic. Written by Stephen Minch and featuring the work of John Carney, it combines more than forty polished routines with thoughtful essays on presentation, psychology, timing, misdirection, and audience management. Rather than focusing solely on methods, the book teaches readers…
