Cutting Up Touches is the first book ever written on the history of exhibition pickpocketing. In it, David Avadon traces this light-fingered entertainment from its murky music hall beginnings to the largest showrooms in the world. He profiles Giovanni and...

Back in print and now shipping! Fasten your seatbelt. You are travelling to a special province in the world of magic: Self-working card magic. Deceptive, automatic, and turbo-charged. Join John Bannon on a twenty-five stop wide-ranging tour of self-working card...

Rope tricks are one of the classics of magic. While there are DVD's and Books by Flip, Tarbary and others, this is one of the basic books of magic. No library should be without this book because here are the basics....

Acclaimed television producer and author John Fisher has assembled an unparalleled cast in the pages of Heroes of Magic. Combining firsthand experience and behind-the-scenes stories with deep historical understanding, each profile captures the essence of its subject. Weaving together life stories,...

In 1896, Eugene Laurant became a professional magician. Twenty-one years earlier, as Eugene Greenleaf, he was born on the frontier, in the horse and buggy town that was Denver, Colorado. Billed as the "Man of Many Mysteries," Laurant spent almost 50 seasons...

“This stuff is fun to read, and fun to do.”-Max Maven In Mentalissimo, John brings his talents to bear on mentalism and mental magic with playing cards. “I do card tricks, have a keen interest in mentalism and am a...

"You have found magic. Now, what are you going to do with it it?" So muses Max Maven in the pages of Parallax, a collection of 61 influential, thought-provoking, and oftentimes controversial  essays he contributed to MAGIC magazine from September 1991 to August...

An inspiring, vivid volume like no other!  Sleightly Absurd is a journey through the mind of a mastermind—Charlie Frye. Within its pages, you'll find a slew of hard won secrets he has developed, refined, and performed over some four decades on...

David Solomon is one of the nation’s most prolific cardicians, having spent fifty three years seeking out, refining, and inventing the most interesting and fooling methods in the card magic. A confidant of Ed Marlo, and a stalwart of the...

Back in print and now shipping! Unreal By Bruce Bernstein Bruce Bernstein has spent over three decades creating, refining and developing some of the most devious feats of mentalism known to man. He's become a trusted, go-to source for many...