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	1- Basic Card Technique For the student of card magic. In this 77 pages large size book the author has explained all the basic moves and sleights required for card tricks. Contains 20 chapters, which describe various methods of Pass, Location, Palming, Forcing, False Cut, False Shuffle, False Count, Double Lift, Top and Bottom Change, Glide or Slip, Glimpse or Peek, Reversing the Cards, Treating the Cards, Prepared Cards, Card Subtleties, Producing Chosen Card, Flourishes, Back and Front Palm, Fanning etc. There is also a complete chapter devoted to presentation. This will save the beginner much trouble and expense in acquiring the knowledge of basic card technique. Price: £6.00
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	2 - Invisible Thread Reel This is a how to guide for everyone who owns the ITR reel. It contains twenty-four pages and sixteen different effects. If you own an ITR get the book. If you don't own an ITR, buy one and get the book. Price: £2.50
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	3 - 40 Tricks with a Hot Rod The Hot Rod is one of those great items that can be used to perform dozens of very different effects. This book provides clear instructions and ideas for getting the most out of your Hot Rod or any colour-changing rod. 32 pages. Price: £3.50
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	4 - How to Force a card This book covers everything from basic to skilled, it has something for everyone. Classic Force, Forcing Decks, Svengali Deck, Slip Force, No Cut Forces, Reverse Cut Force, Hindu Shuffle Force, Forces For Finger Flingers, Locator Card Forces, Break Forces, Fan Forces, Numeric Forces, Magicians Choice. This is truly a great book for your learning or bettering your magic skills. Price: £4.50
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	5 - Take a Tip from me Most Magicians carry a tip (thumb tip) in their pocket at all times. "Don't leave home without it" had been a slogan among 'Tip' caring Magi for 70 years before that Credit Card Company coined the phrase. A nine-inch silk is generally carried inside a tip. They are colourful and compact well. Paper money, bits of string, ribbon and tissue papers are also frequently used. With this book you will learn many of the classical tip routines as well as instruction on fitting the tip, color of the tip, misdirection, etc. etc. The book is 34 pages long and has some illustrations. If you get only one idea from this book it is well worth the price. A must for beginners! A great book even for the experienced 'Tip' Magi. Price: £2.50
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	6 - Scotch & Soda - book 55 Coin Tricks, plus bonus sleights for the Scotch and Soda Price: £2.75
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	7 - The "How to" Book of the Chop Cup by Merlyn Shute 45 pages with introduction, history and routines. Price: £3.00
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	8 - 3 Shell Game book This wonderful softbound booklet is reprinted from the 1938 original. It starts with the history of the game, then details the equipment or props needed, then gives instructions on the sleight of hand moves (steals, turnovers, sucker moves, etc.) and then includes 33 full routines! Also includes a chapter on shills, the confederates that con artist's plant in the audience to get the crowd excited and involved. Fascinating! 58 pages. Price: £2.50
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	9 - Three Card Monte by Scarne, a treatise on the Three Card Monte This is a treatise on the sucker effects of the Three Card Monte. It starts with an intro by Nate Leipzig, includes a definition of gambling terms and goes on to explain moves, routines and schemes to work the Three Card Monte. John Scarne was a master in performing and demonstrating this sucker effect. Learn everything about it in this digital reproduction, either to be aware of the various ways this can be played and thus be protected, or to learn to perform it for entertainment purposes. 1st edition ~1930s, 42 pages. Price: £3.50
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	10 - Ultra Mental, Invisible Deck. Completely baffling! No slight of hand. 50 tips and tricks. 28 pages. Paperback. Impress your friends and family with these great magic tricks/illusions/slights of hand! Price: £2.00
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	11 - Thimble Magic by Jean Hugard One of the best books ever written on the subject. Contains 9 chapters covering sleights, finger practice, moves with one or more thimbles, and much more. 42 pages. Price: £2.75
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		13 - The Squeak Book by Chuck Leach Chuck has listed over 100 things to squeak with a squeaker and a few bits to go with them. Reading through it will make you go find your squeaker and start carrying it around. Soft cover, Stapled, 8 Pages. Price: £1.50
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	14 - The "How to" Book on the Zombie by Merlyn Shute The most complete coverage of the ZOMBIE every written. Many performers have difficulty in adopting the ZOMBIE into their repertoire. In this work MERLYN T. SHUTE has separated the handling into discrete moves which can be re-arranged by the individual into personal routines. FIRST, the apparatus itself, ball, gimmick foulard, etc. SECONDLY, several moves are described. FINALLY, a discussion on ZOMBIE routines. Price: £3.50
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	15 - Lickity Split or The Art of Splitting Cards by Martini Have you ever thought of a great card routine, but did not have any idea where to find the special gaffed cards you would need? Have you ever wondered how in the world those crazy cards were made? Now you can learn how to become a master splitter with this informative illustrated book. Price: £7.50
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	16 - Thread Reference Contains in-depth information on the various materials available to perform amazing floating, vanishing and metamorphosis effects. Learn the advantages and what to watch out for with Surgical Thread, Monofilament, Hair, Nylon, Elastic Thread, Loops, Wax, Plastic and more. Plus lots of information about props and hookups. In addition, learn to perform ten amazing close-up effects. This is the most up to date book on thread magic, truly a definitive text. Price: £2.50
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	17 - 50 Tricks with a Thumb Tip Milbourne Christopher's book tells you how to do 50 different tricks with the thumb tip. Here are just a few: Burning and Restoring a Handkerchief, Living or Dead Mental Test, Dollar Bill in Banana, Bank Night, Spirit Knots, and more. Each is clearly described and illustrated. Price: £2.00
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	18 - 110 Tricks with a Stripper Deck Easy to do Requires no special skills 40 page. Paperback. book. The WIZARD DECK is one of the most ingenious magic decks of cards ever invented. You can learn up to 110 amazing magic tricks using this apparatus. This book was written and edited by experienced magic teachers. You can amaze your friends or audience after a short period of practice. Price: £2.00
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	20 - 101 Tricks with a Thumb Tip by Darwin Price: £2.50
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	21 - 36 Tricks with FA-KO cards by R.Haines A 32 page booklet explaining the use of gaffed cards. Routines for over 30 tricks. Price: £5.50
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		22 - 64 Winning Betchas compiled by Terry Nosek How about a little fun and profit at a bar, coffee shop, or restaurant. Compiled by Terry Nosek, this includes betcha's with coins, bills, bottles, glasses, matches and bodies. Never give a sucker an even break. These bets are guaranteed to win and have fun at the same time. Of course you bet at your own risk, but what the heck it's only money, plus you didn't pay a lot for the book. Price: £2.75
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	23 - Haunted key booklet by Dick Williams Compiled by Dick Williams. This booklet details more routines, tips and tricks with the Haunted Key than you ever knew existed. . Price: £2.50
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	24 - Bicycle Poker Official Rules and Games Contains poker ethics, strategy and rules for more than 100 poker games. Price: £4.50
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	25 - Snap Deal By Lennert Green Learn one of the most visual manipulations in all of card magic. For the first time in print, Lennart Green finally reveals one of his most tightly guarded secrets-The Snap Deal. This fully-illustrated, 20-page booklet covers everything from the basic deal (with one and more cards) to misdirection tips. Of course this booklet couldn't be complete without Lennart's famous The Laser routine, exactly as he performed it on The World's Greatest Magicians television special. Price: £8.50
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	27 - Hold Out Miracles by Ed Mishell. The author Ed Mishell has captured the magic of Jack Miller and added many of his own ideas in the use of this small invisible gimmick known as the Hold-Out. The miracles you can accomplish with this device are legion. 64 pages, illustrated. Price: £3.25
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	28 - How to Pick Pockets for Fun and Profit by Eddie Joseph A magicians guide to pickpocket magic, basic principles, misdirection, tricks of the trade etc. Price: £6.50
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	29 - The String Book by Ralf Wichmann Floating routines for table and stage. 82 pages of thread work, ball, cane, silk, cigarette etc. Price: £3.50
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	30 - Tricks from the Wax Museum by Ron Frost This book is written for magicians who would like to know more about the many applications of wax. There are very few reference books dealing with the various uses of wax... so be our guest as you journey through the pages of the "Wax Museum." Price: £3.00
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	31 - Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard and Frederick Brane. The book that all magicians cut their teeth on. Probably the best book on card magic to get you started and then progress to greater heights ever written. A constant bestseller. 302 pages, 20 chapters, 76 tricks. HARD back. Price: £13.50
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	32 - Royal Road to Card Magic, description as above, but in paperback! Price: £9.50
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	33 - Encylopedia of Cigarette Tricks by Keith Clark Keith Clark's Encyclopedia of Cigarette Magic is by far the most complete book on this subject. Highly guarded secrets from seasoned professional's waits those that are interested in this almost lost art-form. The secrets gleaned from these pages can be used to vanish, produce, change etc.