Subject: Parlor Magic
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Latest Magic
SYNOPSIS: Latest Magic: Being Original Conjuring Tricks is Professor Hoffmann’s final major collection of practical magic. Unlike his earlier books, which often documented established material, Hoffmann presents this volume as a collection of effects and apparatus largely of his own invention. The book emphasizes ingenious mechanical principles, handmade props, concealed devices, and carefully arranged routines suited…
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Later Magic
SYNOPSIS: Later Magic is the third major instructional work in Professor Hoffmann’s classic series of Victorian conjuring books. It expands beyond sleight of hand into the practical machinery, clothing, hidden assistants, tables, servantes, pulls, clips, traps, changing devices, and other apparatus used by professional magicians of the period. The book contains extensive sections on the conjurer’s…
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Mark Wilson’s complete Course in Magic
SYNOPSIS: Mark Wilson’s Complete Course in Magic is a broad, illustrated introduction to the major branches of practical magic. Organized as a progressive course, it teaches fundamental techniques before applying them to a large collection of routines with cards, coins, money, ropes, silks, billiard balls, sponge balls, cups and balls, everyday objects, mental effects, and larger…
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Making Magic
SYNOPSIS: Making Magic gathers 60 of Martin Lewis’s favorite routines developed over roughly five decades of performing, creating, lecturing, and publishing. The collection emphasizes practical, audience-tested magic rather than experimental ideas, with most of the material designed for parlor and stage performance and a substantial closing section devoted to close-up magic. Lewis explains not only the…
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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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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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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…
