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From the author of Card College, the world's most acclaimed course on sleight-of-hand card magic, comes Card College Light, Roberto Giobbi's first text focused entirely on professional caliber card tricks requiring no manipulative skill.

Card College Lightest is the final volume of Roberto Giobbi's acclaimed 'Light' trilogy. In it are taught 18 thoroughly astonishing tricks of professional quality, complete with performing psychology, presentations, valuable tips and insights, all of which contribute to making these sleightless effects into near miracles.

Card expert, Arthur Buckley, demonstrates tricks that have left theater audiences amazed, and that card-playing professionals have used profitably. It is not a book for beginners. But these shifts, palms, glides, false shuffles, cuts, fans, steals, and spectacular deceptions will help those with basic card expertise reach new levels of performance. Over 300 illustrations.

This classic book was originally published in 1952 as Effect Card Magic. It's considered one of the basic texts on card conjuring. In it you'll find many new tricks, sleights, shuffles and cuts and well as useful information on presentation, audience participation and patter.

With this incredible finger-bending trick, no matter who you show, you’re guaranteed to amaze, disgust and just freak them out! And believe it or not, it's only an illusion, which anyone can learn - it’s that easy! Once you know the secret, you’ll be getting great reactions in no time.

After nearly a year of planning and production, theory11 is proud to unveil the first installment in Andrei Jikh's highly anticipated three DVD anthology on the art of cardistry - GENESIS. This is volume one.

This book celebrates more than 500 years of the dazzling visual culture of the world's greatest magicians. Featuring more than 1,000 rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, engravings and paintings, this 650-page volume traces the history of magic as a performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s. Combining sensational images with lucid and incisive text, Magic explores the evolution of the magician’s craft, from medieval street performers to the brilliant stage magicians who gave rise to cinematic special effects.

This is the first book-length study of this fascinating branch of recreational mathematics. Written by one of the foremost experts on mathematical magic, it summarizes, with considerable historical data and bibliography, all previous work in this field; it is also a creative examination of laws and their exemplification, with scores of new tricks, new insights and new demonstrations. In this volume, for the first time, dozens of topological tricks are explained and dozens of manipulation tricks are aligned with mathematical law.

Mysterious Stranger allows readers to bring Blaine's unique magic directly into their own minds, demonstrating his belief that "you don't get into magic; magic gets into you." In this lavishly illustrated book you'll find...