Penguin Magic NEW ARRIVALS

ALL NEW:Sell Your Act with Poster by Samuel Patrick Smith - Book

Sell Your Act with Posters
by Samuel Patrick Smith

Dynamic Ideas For Promoting Yourself!

25 Unique Advertising Examples Used by Full-time Professionals!

This book is a demonstration of posters and promotion. 24 actual, original posters by successful, professional performers are bound into the book with 40 pages of explanations and insights by Samuel Patrick Smith. This one-of-a-kind book provides examples of ways you can sell yourself and promote your act through posters.

You get the wisdom and comments of David Ginn, Fetaque Sanders, Dave Mayer, Tom Sikorski, John Pooley, Flip Richards, J. B. Bobo, and others.

There are even chapters on how to get your posters printed, how to mail them out, and how to stay within budget.

Pages 40 - Spiral Bound

ALL NEW:Dramatic Magic by John Booth - Book

Dramatic Magic
by John Booth

The Art of Hidden Secrets

A veritable parade of famous magicians marches through the exciting, informative chapters of Dramatic Magic. This fascinating book opens up for seekers of ideas and secrets, new vistas in theatrical conjuring often overlooked in textbooks, biographies and histories. The reader will discover curious tricks based on noise or sound, the routines of the pickpocket magic masters, the variety of escape feats before and after Houdini, a complete gambling lecture ready to use, and a multiplicity of other entertainment opportunities.

Two Mentalism effects taken directly form Dr. Booth's celebrity platform shows of 1942-58 are alone worth the book's cost. Adapt David Hoy's simple telepathy feat (with his wife) that amazed clients. A telephone prediction mystery that fooled Buffalo's Mayor. Unexpected evidence revealed linking elusive Erdnase's career to murder and suicide.

A simple plamistry system for amusing readings in close-up wizardry. How camera buffs can put tricks into their pictures. The best teaching is by examples: this volume is loaded with them via anecdotes, biography and history from the highest echelons of magic. An absorbing revelation you will treasure and refer back to repeatedly in your library.

Richly Illustrated, this limited edition book is published on fine 60lb. booktext Natural paper, with Smyth sewn signatures from permanence. bound in Holliston Mills fine cloth (vellum finish), it is a companion volume to Booth's Psychic paradoxes and Wonders of Magic.

Pages 240 - Hardbound with Dust Jacket

ALL NEW:Antinomy Magazine #13 - Book

Antinomy #13

There are four issues per year, with 40 to 48 pages per issue, each in an oversized format designed to enhance your learning experience by more easily lying flat when open. Each issue will include commentary and conjuring from some of the sharpest minds on the magic scene. Antinomy is looking to set a new standard in quality for this kind of publication.

Contents:

In The Artful Ledger, Jon Racherbaumer brings us "Shallow Graves" and digs up a few tricks from the underground.

Max Maven unites an entire family of Royalty in "Royal Reunion."

Aaron DeLong flips the top two cards of the deck with one hand. It's "Displaysia."

Bill Citino causes two coins to switch places twice, with a final bit of traveling in "Copper/Silver Transpo(tation)."

Jeremiah Xiufu Zuo illustrates a horror movie with playing cards in "Scary Movie Card Trick."

In this edition of The Honest Liar, Jamy Ian Swiss gives some scholarly thoughts on a card move in "A Dissertation on the Double Lift."

Pages 48 - Saddle Stitched

Dimensions Approximately 11" x 11" (26cm x 26cm)

ALL NEW:Jumper - Trick

Jumper
by I-Magic

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Effect

The magician spreads the deck of cards to prove that there is no gimmick.
Borrows two quarters and a clear glass from the audience.
The glass is placed on top of the deck.
The magician takes one coin, and slams it to the glass.
The coin magically penetrates the glass!

The magician takes the other coin, and slams it to the glass. The coin once again penetrates the glass!

Takes the glass and gives the two coins back to the audience. Spreads the deck of cards again to show that nothing is wrong.

Includes gimmick and instructions.

ALL NEW:Card Dice - Trick

Card Dice

Effect

Show the audience six small cubes. Display each one separately to show that each cube has six sides, each one showing one segment of a playing card. The faces are all different.

The cubes are now stack on top of each other forming two stacks of three dice each. Their faces are mixed up and do not yet show any particular card. The two stacks of dice are placed side by side and shown from all sides. Their faces are all completely mixed up.

You now cover up the dice with a handkerchief. A spectator selects a card from the pack. Let's say the spectator pics the Jack of spades. Explain to the audience that, for some reason, the cards feel drawn towards each other and remove the handkerchief from the dice set-up. Unbelievably, all six cubes are now rearranged to form a complete image of the chosen card, i.e. the Jack of spaces.

Tell the audience that you will once again repeat this experiment.

Cover up the cubes again with the handkerchief. another spectator is asked to select a card, but this time, the card is not shown.

"The cubes have once again rearranged themselves under cover of the handkerchief, thereby forming the value of the card you just chose", you say dramatically before removing the handkerchief.

At this point, the expected applause does not come. now you merely look at the card formed by the two stacks of cubes. The image on their face does not resemble any particular card. All six face have a different index and the image is thus completely muddled. Of course, the spectators, at this point, rejoice about your failed attempt at finding the card.

They will automatically assume that you have made a mistake.

The audience's attitude does not seem to affect you.

You then ask the spectator to look at his card and to now show it to everyone. He will realize together with everyone else, to their great surprise, that his selection matches exactly the image on the dice set-up both are identical. I.e. six different card segments in random order. This random order is identical to the random oder shown on the spectator's selection!

Important Points:

Beautiful effect. Completely inexplicable, even to magicians.
Easy to do. No sleight-of-hand necessary. The props are constructed in such a way that they do all the work for you. This lets you concentrate entirely on the presentation.
Very nice props, handmade by a master craftsman. A sixth of one playing card is glued each face of each die (36 faces in all). These cubes can be arranged and stacked in a completely random order you can always show your audience this before proceeding with normal-sized playing card for close-up work.

Total Dimensions Approximately 3 7/8" x 2 5/8" x 1 1/4" (9cm x 7cm x 3cm)

ALL NEW:Professor's Nightmare The Awakening by Ron Dayton - Book

Professor's Nightmare The Awakening
by Ron Dayton

The Professor's Nightmare- Everyone knows it and does it, and audiences STILL love it. One of the biggest challenges is finding a presentation that is both unique and interesting, particularly when you know of other performer's in your market using the same old patter.

Enter Ron Dayton and "Professor's Nightmare- The Awakening" Written By Ron Dayton, aka KOTAH with a Foreword by Ed Solomon. This 6 X 9 soft cover book is 48 pages, and 20 new routines for the tried and tested Professor's Nightmare. You won't find special slick moves, or any methodology in this book. You WILL find 20 new routines for the professor's nightmare everything from Gospel to Bizarre, Comedic to serious. Ron has variations using chains, Dr Frankenstein flowers, Dog leashes, Tape measures and more!

Ron Dayton is one of the treasures of magic. He has authored countless books and invented tens of dozens of tricks- many of which you may do today without knowing their origin.

Ron's interests are varied and wide, and he is a talented writer. He is also a deep thinker and deep person. Deep persons and deep thinkers are often moody and sentimental- Ron is no exception. You will see the moodiness within these stories not in anger or sadness but in variety of styles themes and tones. In this I was most impressed as I read these presentations.

Within the 20 routines contained herein, the brief directions or notes are given parenthetically, while all the rest of the text represents spoken words. Much of Ron's writing must be read aloud and approached as prose to get a feel for how it is to be delivered, where the pauses go, and how to tell the story for maximum impact.

Some of these routines will fit your tastes as is, others will be springboards for your creativity. One thing is certain, you will never look at the Professor's Nightmare the same way again!

Pages 40 - Softbound

ALL NEW:To Lure With Spectacle by Jimmy Talksalot - Book

To Lure With Spectacle and Our Mysterious Society
by Jimmy Talksalot

A Street Magician's Manual

So, ya wanna be a busker??? This is THE handbook for those ready to build a tip and pass the hat! Advice for working the street, and for working LIFE!

If you consider yourself a magician, then you're an artist and you belong to a tradition (Whether you like it of not.) with expectations from your peers and the laity. This form of art can only function gracefully if the operator works with perfection in his mind, otherwise it appears clumsy and transparent to the spectator.

Those words are directly from the pen of JimmyTalksalot- street performer and world traveller. Jimmy has busked the world over and learned through hard knocks and great teachers. Jimmy is a tremendously talented performer (You have to be to make a living on the streets- and eh DOES make a good living.) and more importantly SHARING! What does he share? In this book, Jimmy shares his bread and butter- not the routines he does, but the wisdom and information he has collected over YEARS of street performing in New Orleans, Europe, California, and around the globe.

Jimmy is a plain talking, straight shooter and he will tell you like it is. You will hear about the glamour and the NOT-SO GLAMOUROUS side of making a living passing the hat.

There are rules to street performing- it's like a special world and one where not knowing the rules will cost you MORE than money. Jimmy talks about those rules of the street. He also shares where to find the good pitches, how to draw a crowd, how to KEEP the crowd. He will tell you about various cultures and how they differ from American busking. He shares some of his magic Hat Lines to help you get fat hats. Jimmy also stresses ART, and the culture and tradition behind not only street performing but magic in general. He has a love of this art, and has strong ideas and opinions about where it needs to go and what needs to happen for it to survive. All this and more he shares with YOU! Rather than read this ad copy, I suggest you go near the bottom of this ad, and just look at the free preview.... I'll bet in those 20 pages you'll understand BETTER than anything I could tell you about this book.

It is a 6 X 9 170 plus page soft cover book, small enough to take with you on the street and read in between pitches. It is a manual intended first for careful study, and then for repeat review as your experience begins to catch up with some of the ideas and concepts you will read about. This $35 book will probably pay for itself the first time you step onto the street, but even before then, you will probably find yourself taking some of this advice and applying it to LIFE in general, and your MAGIC as a whole!

Peppered with snap shots and art based on Jimmys Busking adventure, there is little fluff left over in this booklet. I think you will find it a bargain and one of those books you read over and over and each time discover some new wisdom you had forgotten!

Pages 170 - Softbound

ALL NEW:Technical Dove Tosses by Dan Sperry - DVD

Technical Dove Tosses
by Dan Sperry

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In this whimsical DVD the infamously mercurial Dan Sperry takes you backstage to learn the inner secrets of return flight dove training. You will learn step by step how to properly train your birds for a near 100% successful return toss rate in literally any condition!

Dan begins by giving you a little background into the training process and his secrets to developing this method. He will then take you backstage to where he performs nightly in Las Vegas with two untrained return flight birds and you will see the steps he takes day by day to train his birds to return with incredible accuracy. Within one week Dan had two doves returning by day 8 you get to see him use them in a live performance.

Once you are ready to learn some new ideas in dove tossing Dan teaches his acclaimed tossing techniques for a more natural looking dove toss for maximum impact of your productions. You will also learn Dan's incredible handling of these eye-popping effects:

Dove in Balloon Technique.
Ball to Dove Technique.
Dove from Silk Toss Technique.

"Get this DVD Now! The effects would be killer to add to your act..." -Andy Amyx

Running Time Approximately 71min

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ALL NEW:Wonder Readings (6 CD Set) by Kenton Knepper with Rex Sikes - Trick

Wonder Readings (6 CD Set)
by Kenton Knepper with Rex Sikes

The Complete Course on 5 Audio CD's and More

The Classic Wonder Readings Course and System hailed by professionals worldwide, is at last on Compact Disc.

Honest, direct, with readings from psychological to psychic, for the psychic, mentalist or magician, this one blows all other systems off the map.

With experts in NLP, symbolism and The Mysteries, this system covers it ALL!

ALL NEW:Magic Menu: Years 1 through 5 - Book

Magic Menu: Years 1 through 5

Compiled and edited by Jim Sisti and now in its third printing, The Magic Menu - Years 1 through 5 (previously titled The Magic Menu -The First Five Years) contains everything you need to know about performing walk-around magic in real-world venues.

This best seller features contributions from Eugene Burger, Michael Ammar, Michael Close, Doc Eason, Bill Malone, Jamy Ian Swiss, Harry Lorayne, and many others.

Pages - 392 - Hardcover, full-color dust jacket.