From Bryon Walkers introduction: "If you would like to bring a dead fly back to life, make your companions appear hideous, pull off a persons shirt without undressing him, or make a virgins selected card jump out of the pack, youl find the secret here. It

A fascinating book about magic and the many odd places it can be found, with excerpts from books and magazines now practically unobtainable. The material was originally gathered for publication in a private, limited series: "Midget Magician." Only 50 co

In celebration of the recent Los Angeles Conference on Magic History Burton Sperber (along with a dozen of his fellow collectors) created A Checklist of Conjuring Catalogs. This is a comprehensive list of all the

A warm look at Chung Ling Soo, one of the world's great showmen who, in 1918, was shot to death on stage while performing the famous "Bullet Catching" trick. Written by Gary R. Frank, this is the compilation of the many

Each month in MAGIC magazine, Mike Caveney selects from the files of the legendary Egyptian Hall Museum a letter of historical importance. Sometimes the writer or recipient (or both) are well-known names while other

Classic Correspondence from Egyptian Hall Museum Volume 2 contains the second group of 24 annotated letters that appeared in MAGIC magazine during 2010 - 2011. As in the first volume, some letters were written by well-known

Book III is considerably larger than volumes I and II, coming in at 411 pages, packed with 333 photographs and posters, most of which have never been published. As before, it is printed in full color on matt art paper with the now customary

In 1981, Jim Steinmeyer produced Jarrett, but that was only part of the story... The Complete Jarrett is a spectacular new edition of the infamous Jarrett Magic, the controversial 1936 text on stage illusions. Guy Jarrett had constructed illusions for Th

Featuring original photography and rare memorabilia alongside a foreword by Guillermo Del Toro and text by Steve Cohen himself, Confronting Magic celebrates twenty years of Chamber Magic and the variety of guests that the lively,

So successful has been Dr. John Booth's series of conjuring volumes beginning with Psychic Paradoxes in 1984 that a fifth book, Conjurians Discoveries, was inevitable. Sometimes controversial, always informative, and written with the cooperation of the f