Seven years in the making! J. K. Hartman's newest collection of card magic—more than 90 tricks, routines and sleights—over 400 pages and 600 illustrations!
The published history of J. K. Hartman's card dupery began in 1969 and has continued unabated for thirty-eight years, producing along the way three large, significant, and widely respected works: Card Craft, After Craft and Trickery Treats. In the seven years since the appearance of the last Hartman tome, the creative mills have continued to turn, resulting in CARD DUPERY, a collection of more than ninety new card tricks, routines, and sleights. The well-known Hartman touch is ever-present in this new compilation of astonishing effects made possible by elegantly direct methods, extraordinary cunning, and moves within the skill range of the intermediate card-magician. What is more, the ideas and sleights embedded in these duperies have a utility that will inspire the reader toward fresh creations of his own. If this book feels heavy in the hand, it isn't just the paper; there is deep thought and high entertainment packed inside, all carefully and fully explained, with the aid of more than 600 drawings by one of magic's greatest illustrators, J. K. Schmidt.
In these pages you will have delivered to your hands such events as these—
• Someone is asked to separate a mixed deck into black cards and reds, dealing the cards face up—but with his eyes closed. When he opens them, he sees what everyone else has been watching: the piles he has created are a random jumble of colors and he has utterly failed. Or has he? The performer reveals that he has assembled the cards from two decks—and his helper has somehow perfectly separated the cards by their different back patterns!
• Two spectators are each asked to think of a card as the performer spreads through the deck. The cards are shuffled and held behind the performerís back. As he brings out one card at a time, one of the spectators silently spells the name of the card he thought of and slaps his hand down on the card dealt as the last letter of its name. When he turns it up, it is his mental selection! The cards are shuffled further and the second spectator pushes a cocktail sword anywhere into the deck, only to find it lodged exactly where his thought-of card lies!
• Anyone shuffles the deck, cuts it in half and gives one half to the performer. Both of them look through their cards and think of one. The performer shows his selection to someone else to keep things fair. He then deals the top card of his packet face down onto the table, after which the spectator deals his top card face up. They continue to deal cards, the performer always preceding the spectator. When the spectator deals his thought-of card face up, he announces it. The other spectator names the performerís card and, when the top card of his dealt pile is turned up—this card having been dealt just before the spectator dealt his—it is the performer's!
• The performer spreads through a face-up deck, showing it to be in completely random order. Then, without a suspicious move, he widely spreads the deck on the table, showing that the black cards have suddenly separated from the reds!
These effects are the scantest sampling of the wonders in CARD DUPERY to be discovered by you and enjoyed by your audiences.
Pages 400 - Hardbound with Dust Jacket
Kenton's new Ultimately Under does for hypnosis what Completely Cold has done for telephone psychics.
Literally overnight you will get spectators to close their eyes, levitate their arm, see imaginary balloons and all manner of things - without stooges, hypnosis, or tons of practice.
Spectator's hands get stuck to a table, they cannot move from a spot on the floor, their fingers seem glued together and more.
No memorizing special hypnotic scripts or fancy words.
No funny props required, though you may want to use your cell phone or make up a thing or two.
Most of the effects can be performed up close, in a living room or on stage.
Unlike what all the others teach you, Kenton tips how mentalists and magicians can use trance work TODAY without worry or failure.
Forget being taught how to be a clinical therapist or stage hypnotist when all you really want to do is apparently put people under INSTANTLY while doing your usual effects.
You learn how to do all of this and more right away. This work is for MAGICIANS AND MENTALISTS BY a renown MAGICIAN and MENTALIST. You don't need to be an expert in hypnosis when all you really want to do is show how you put people into a trance instantly.
No dangerous methods, no difficult work.
Read it today, perform trance effects with ease and complete confidence tomorrow!
No worries, and no fear required.
Pages 94 - Tape Bound
A card is selected and returned to the deck. The deck is cut or mixed. It’s NOT a card trick. It is a real demonstration of subliminal influence.
The spectator deal cards face up on to the table, stopping whenever they feel the need. They are not to think about when to stop, but rather to stop when they feel it is time to stop. In other words, the participant must stop dealing using only his or her own intuition.
The performer remains hands off as the spectator deals. The spectator deals using intuition, until they arrive at their own selected card. The spectator does not know how he or she deals to their own card. But they do. Really.
The effect may vary slightly, but in any case the effect is that the spectator is influenced by subliminal impression to stop dealing and find his or her own card.
The method is even more amazing than the effect, and that’s saying a lot.
This is as real as it gets to demonstrating intuition and subliminal influence, because this is in part how the effect actually works. Yes, we are very serious. It’s little wonder audiences are completely floored.
Kenton and Ben Highway have had everyone wondering whether or not they were “just lucky” when they performed this effect for mentalists and magicians in several countries. It isn’t luck, friends. It’s a devious secret you won’t believe until you try it.
Ben and Kenton have worked out all the angles so that you will never fail. It’s simple and easy to perform. The audience and participant will always be impressed with their ability to tune into subliminal influence or use their intuition.
No conscious cues, no stooging, no trick deck. The spectator is as impressed as the audience. Standard and basic sleights are required only, plus a secret bit of something that will blow you away when you read it.
Just wait until you try it a few times! This is unlike any other method on the market today. It will change how you look at spectator influence forever.
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Pages 14 - Stapled
THE ULTIMATE STREET MAGIC EFFECT!
Two of the World's Foremost 'Cloudbusters' Reveal Their Inner Secrets of Cloud Magic!
In this book the authors strip away the veil of secrecy, revealing cloud secrets only known to a select few. Learn to make clouds vanish and appear. Sculpture them into images of selected playing cards, thought of numbers, ESP symbols, faces, and even animals.
Nothing is held back! Apparently change the weather by delaying rain or snow or even by making it warmer. Believe it or not you can do a lot of this long distance by using a cell phone! With the material in this book you will be more than just a magician or mentalist. You will be a real miracle worker, who apparently has complete control over the elements!
Pages 132 - Softbound.
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Just Imagine that a volunteer from the audience can merely think of any item from a list that has been entirely created by the rest of the audience. She concentrates upon her selection as the you run through all of the named possibilities. When you get to the end of the list, you will be able to tell the volunteer exactly what she is thinking.
Just Imagine that a person can merely think of any one of the five standard ESP symbols—and you will be able to tell them which one.
And all of this (and more) can be accomplished on the spot. Nothing ever needs to be written. There is no advance preparation. No secret assistants. No gimmicks. No forcing. No pumping. No equivoque. And everything can be done without the performer ever touching anything—so there is obviously no sleight-of-hand. Simply put, everything here can look, and feel, like real mind reading. And everything can be done 100% impromptu.
But, there is a catch…
If you are the type of person that often reads something that is a bit different, and immediately believes that it will never work, then this manuscript will not be worthwhile for you. The material found between these covers is unusual, powerful, and certainly not for everyone. So be forewarned.
Pages 42 - Soft Bound
