Subject: Silks
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Scarne’s Magic Tricks
SYNOPSIS: Scarne’s Magic Tricks is John Scarne’s large collection of 201 practical magic tricks designed to be performed without advanced sleight of hand or expensive professional equipment. The routines use familiar, easily obtained objects and are intended for informal gatherings, close-up performance, parlor shows, and occasional platform or stage presentation. Scarne streamlined many traditional methods so that beginners…
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Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic Volumes 1-3
SYNOPSIS: Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic is the landmark reference work devoted to magic with silks and handkerchiefs. Harold R. Rice’s original three volumes gather an enormous range of techniques, gimmicks, apparatus, routines, historical information, and practical advice from Rice and many other prominent magicians. The material progresses from basic preparation and handling to elaborate parlor…
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More Magic
SYNOPSIS: More Magic is Professor Hoffmann’s sequel to Modern Magic, expanding his course in Victorian conjuring with newer sleights, methods, apparatus, and complete routines. The book begins with additional advice on the magician’s wand, table, costume, servantes, and mechanical accessories before moving into a particularly extensive study of card magic. Its card chapters cover improved passes, forces,…
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Modern Magic
SYNOPSIS: Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring is Professor Hoffmann’s foundational instructional work on nineteenth-century magic. Designed as a progressive course, it begins with the magician’s wand, table, costume, secret pockets, and basic principles of deception before teaching sleight of hand and complete routines with cards, coins, watches, rings, handkerchiefs, dice, cups…
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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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Maelstrom
SYNOPSIS: Maelstrom is an expansive collection of Tom Stone’s original magic, creative experiments, performance pieces, and theoretical thinking. Drawing on his experience as a full-time professional, Stone covers both close-up and stage work, moving between polished routines, technical studies, short ideas, and explicitly identified works in progress. Rather than functioning simply as a trick manual, 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…
