With this guide, simple props and common household items, and some practice beginner magician can surprise his/her friends and family with cool parlor tricks and ventriloquist skills.

Leeming teaches tricks using simple props and household items. For children of all ages.

Fulves presents 101 baffling tricks that are so easy to do they practically work by themselves. Emphasis is on performing and perfecting the tricks. They can be learned quickly and put into operation immediately, and they really dazzle.

A fun and easy guide to making balloon animals, toys and games.

Compiled by Dick Williams. This booklet details more routines, tips and tricks with a haunted Ghost Key than you ever knew existed. Ghost Key is available separately.

Garner teaches over 80 science defying tricks.

A DVD presented by Andy Comic explaining the zig zag pencil.

A DVD presented by Andy Comic explaining the chinese sticks.

A DVD presented by Andy Comic explaining ball to square.

Learn over 100 tricks that utilize the thumb tip.

Learn nearly 75 tricks for which all you need is a standard deck of cards.

Magus teaches comedy magic for acts for both children and adults.

A metal ring that can be made to penetrate a wand, pencil, ruler or piece of rope which is held on both ends by a spectator. Includes instruction book with routines.

Fulves teaches card magic tricks specifically for children.

A book that includes over 200 gags, comedy bits, and stunts for magicians, Clowns, MCs or anyone with a sense of humor. 64 pages, illustrated.

Hugh Morris teaches 84 different card tricks of varying difficulty, with an explanation of the general principles of sleight of hand using ordinary cards.

Rumba teaches the art of basics of ventriloquism.

This DVD teaches 25 sponge ball magic tricks.

Racherbaumer teaches 14 card methods for performing the Universal Card plot: cards are chosen by a spectator, returned to the deck. Magician removes 1 card, shows it, but it is the wrong card. He then magically changes it to the chosen card.

This DVD teaches 25 magic tricks you can do with the classic Cups and Balls.

Learn magic using various trick decks.

The Great Ovette teaches a collection of his own easily built magic tricks and small illusions. Originally published by D. Robbins & Co. in 1944.

Learn how to master the three shell game. Profusely illustrated. 58 pages.

This book teaches the real secrets of magic with invisible thread. Thread with balls, silk, canes, hats corks, tennis balls, loops and more. Paperback 8.5" x 5.5", 82 pages with over 99 illustrations.

Learn all of the different tricks that require a regular deck of cards.

Novice magicians as well as veterans can learn these foolproof tricks quickly and easily with Karl Fulves' clearly worded instructions and over 400 step by step illustrations.

Fulves teaches over 90 of his best coin tricks.

This book teaches the art of becoming a legendary ventriloquist.

This entertaining how-to book was prepared especially for young, beginning magicians. Simple directions and clearly drawn diagrams enable beginners to master a host of dazzling deceptions.

A miniature book of magic that includes over 50 tricks that can be done with household objects.

A funny act written down for you, in which you present magical solutions to the issues facing the United States government. Always timely.

Hugard teaches manipulations and tricks with paper money. 59 pages, illustrated.

Magic using the principles and logic of math. More than 60 new puzzles and stunts based on the properties of numbers. Over 30 pages of magic squares, triangles, cubes, much more. Inexhaustible source of stimulating mathematical recreation.

A newly revised and updated informative book that focuses on the magic of the steel ball and tube. 31 pages.

Miller teaches magicians how to use linking rings, and ring and rope penetrations.

Soft cover 5.5” x 8.5” pocket book size, with 48 printed pages and 193 illustrations. Step-by-step instructions for 42 of the best tricks you can perform with rope. Book only.

This short, informative book covers 40 tricks using the hot rod.

Over 80 ideas, routines and variations with Floating Balls, boxes, bulbs, balloons, eggs, hands, horns and even water fountains, among other things. For beginners and experts. The 36 pages are jammed with information.

Milbourne Christopher teaches 50 tricks you can do using a thumb tip. Originally published by D. Robbins & Co. in 1948.

This is a full course on how to perform for children. Tested tricks with instructions, pointers, rules, hints and vital information. Bonus: conjuring for children. A remarkable work.

Walsh describes several tricks using dice magic. Dozens of large, clear illustrations combined with a meticulous text reveal every detail. 32 pages.

60 pages of simple and advanced cups and balls tricks.

A perfect stocking stuffer. Uses simple language to teach EASY to do tricks. None of the tricks require any special apparatus - use coins, watches, cards, cigarettes, mind reading tricks, etc. Each trick fully illustrated.

The card thought of by the spectator is made to appear in the exact same position in two different decks. Full routine taught by Paul Curry in 8-page booklet.

Rob Roy discusses over 30 easy-to-do card tricks.

This book covers basic cup and balls routines.

15 ways to juggle are taught in this hour long DVD.

Carroll Baker teaches viewers countless rope tricks.

This 24 page illustrated booklet covers all the basic moves for the classic Cups & Balls effect, and includes several routines.