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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Texas

Card Tricks

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#hardcover #harryhoudini #magician #nonfiction #childrens #childrensbooks #firstnamesseries #magictricks #illustrated #historical 

Mississippi

Discover the man behind the magic and see how Houdini pulled off his most daring escapes

 

Before Harry Houdini (1874-1926) became the greatest magician in the world, he was just little Ehrich Weisz, a Hungarian-born immigrant who moved to America with his family and performed stage tricks for a little extra cash. He started off with card tricks and then eventually began performing the escape acts that would make him famous. Known for his daring and death-defying illusions, he would do some of the greatest tricks ever: escaping from a milk can, being buried alive, and being locked inside a crate and thrown into a river. He conquered each of these seemingly impossible feats and showed the world the power of a little magic. Fun, fast-paced, and highly illustrated, Harry Houdini tells the story of the curious boy who became the world's greatest magician and reveals how Houdini did some of his most stunning escapes. It includes a timeline, glossary, and index.

 

Harry Houdini (the First Names Series)

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

The Vanishing Coin: Magic Tricks

Ohio

From the beloved, award-winning, bestselling author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, a beautiful, suspense-filled novel that uses the life and sudden death of Harry Houdini to weave a magical tale of intrigue, love and illusion.

     The Confabulist weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician's in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini's celebrity-driven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religion. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that love, grief and imagination can alter what we perceive and believe.

The Confabulist

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Former library book

#dragons #childrens #fantasy #ya #magical #magician #adventure 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

A Boy works for a Magician.
The Boy polishes the Magician's wands, and catches the rabbits that the Magician pulls out of hats. But the Boy's favorite job is operating the puppets for the Magician's famous puppet play, "Saint George and the Dragon" -- until one terrible day when, in the middle of a performance, the Boy can't find the Saint George puppet. The Magician is furious. He points a long magical finger at the Boy, and -- poof! -- the Boy is suddenly in the strange Land of Story, where he must find Saint George.
The Boy's hunt for Saint George is full of adventures with oddly familiar people. He saves the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe from losing her children; he spoils the wolf's plan to eat Little Red Riding Hood; and he narrowly escapes being eaten by the Giant at the top of Jack's beanstalk. But the Boy's last adventure is the most amazing of all -- and changes his life forever. No child who reads this delightful tale by master storyteller Susan Cooper is likely to forget it.

The Magician's Boy

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#bundle #ya #fiction #hardcover #magician #halloween #goodness #evil #harrymoon #markandrewpoe 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

& The Amazing Adv of Harry Moon

Bundle (2)  The Enchanted World of Honey Moon

©️ 1979 great condition for its age! See pics

Missouri

Little Golden Book

The Amazing Mumford Forgets the Magic Words!

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Washington

Volume III Of The Riftwar Saga

Silverthorn

Diane Zahler

Michigan

Eleven-year-old Mattie Marvelwood comes from a family of traveling performers. Her dad is an illusionist; her mom is a fortune-teller; her brother has a vanishing act; and she herself is a mind-reader. But the Marvelwoods have a deep secret.

The acts they perform at carnivals, fairs, and circuses are not just acts. Their powers are real. In all their wanderings, the Marvelwoods have never met another performer with gifts like theirs--until they join Master Morogh's Circus of Wonders! But it turns out that Master Morogh's true talent is stealing the gifts of others. When he steals Mattie's brother's vanishing ability, the family has a big decision to make. Do they run, leaving Bell's gift behind to save the rest of them, or risk exposure by trying to beat the duplicitous ringmaster at his own game?

The Marvelwood Magicians

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Maryland

A secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself-a 1990s love story with the grace and charm of a nineteenth-century novel” (Newsweek).

The Magician's Assistant

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Pennsylvania

Celtic mythology permeates a tale set in the world of Deverry, as magician Nevyn vows to make up for his past sins, but he faces the formidable Old One, his mortal enemy, in doing so.

The Bristling Wood

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The powerful wizard, Nevyn, vows to follow the woman he loves through each of her reincarnations but must confront his greatest enemy and the master of dark magic

The Dragon Revenant

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Michael Stroud

John Cassidy

Exposes the secrets of scores of tricks from professional magicians and comes complete with a silk scarf and four other props

The Klutz Book of Magic

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How I Made over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales

Penn Jillette's New York Times bestselling account of his "extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle...that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions" (The Washington Post).

More than three hundred and thirty pounds and saddled with a systolic blood pressure reading at dangerous heights, legendary magician Penn Jillette found himself at a crossroads. He needed a drastic lifestyle change if wanted to see his small children grow up. Enter Crazy Ray. A former NASA scientist and unconventional, passionate innovator, Ray Cronise changed Penn Jillette's life with his wild "potato diet."

In Presto, Jillette takes us along on his journey from skepticism to the inspiring, life-changing momentum that transformed the magician's body and mind. He describes the process in hilarious detail, as he performs his Las Vegas show, takes meetings with Hollywood executives, hangs out with his celebrity friends and fellow eccentric performers, all while remaining a dedicated husband and father. Throughout, he weaves in his views on sex, religion, and pop culture, making his story a refreshing, genre-busting account. Outspoken, frank, and bitingly clever, Presto is an incisive, rollicking read. In the end, it is "undeniably inspiring" (Booklist).

Presto!

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Daniel Stashower

North Dakota

Paul Galliard is a magician by training and heredity: his father died performing the Bullet Catch, an infamous trick that over the centuries has claimed the lives of more than a dozen magicians. A pragmatist, Paul confines his conjuring to commercials; he shows up often on TV screens, demonstrating the magical power of some brand of household cleanser. Then he gets a call. A producer wants to do a show highlighting his father's old cronies, those grizzled vets of the glory days of TV magic-acts. Their top-hats are moth-eaten, their rabbits have arthritis, but they're desperate for one last shot at the limelight. Paul would like to give it to them - these fellows all but raised him. But there's a catch - a Bullet Catch, to be precise. Either Paul does the trick that killed his father, or the show doesn't go on. Stashower works powerful magic of the literary kind . . . this is a model whodunit, expertly constructed and executed with real finesse - New York Times

Elephants in the Distance

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Great for adults too!!
Paperback book in very good condition.

In an England in which magicians are the aristocracy and run the government and ordinary people are beginning a revolt, apprentice magician Nathaniel is humiliated by a powerful government official, Lovelace, and devotes his life to revenge. Finding his master, Mr. Underwood, weak both in character and magic, he teaches himself from books and finds in himself a level of talent that no one else suspects.

To begin his revenge, he calls up a powerful djinn, Bartimaeus, and orders him to steal the powerful amulet of Samarkand from Lovelace and hide it in Underwood's study. But he's underestimated both the power of his opponent and the complexity of the politics involved, and he soon finds himself in far over his head, with only his captive, restive, and contemptuous djinn to protect him.

The Bartimaeus Trilogy: Book One

The Amulet of Samarkand

West Virginia

The Magician’s Lie autographed copy

Every kid has heard of Harry Houdini, the famous magician who could escape from handcuffs, jail cells, and locked trunks. But do they know that the ever-ambitious and adventurous Houdini was also a famous movie star and the first pilot to fly a plane in Australia? This well-told biography is full of the details of Houdini's life that kids will really want to know about and illustrated throughout with beautiful black-and-white line drawings.

Illustrated by John O'Brien.

Who Was Harry Houdini?

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Alex Stone

Tanned page edges. Rubbing and some wear overall to the jacket. 

New Jersey

Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks, and the Hidden Powers of the Mind

From the back rooms of New York City's age-old magic societies to cutting-edge psychology labs, three-card monte games on Canal Street to glossy Las Vegas casinos, Fooling Houdini recounts Alex Stone's quest to join the ranks of master magicians.

As he navigates this quirky and occasionally hilarious subculture populated by brilliant eccentrics, Stone pulls back the curtain on a community shrouded in secrecy, fueled by obsession and brilliance, and organized around one overriding need: to prove one's worth by deceiving others.

But his journey is more than a tale of tricks, gigs, and geeks. By investing some of the lesser-known corners of psychology, neuroscience, physics, history, and even crime, all through the lens of trickery and illusion, Fooling Houdini arrives at a host of startling revelations about how the mind works--and why, sometimes, it doesn't.

Fooling Houdini

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Ann Patchett

Cover is bent, inside is very good condition 

Book is in tack but binding is old - fun story couldn't throw out - #paperback #noraroberts #magician #doyoubelieve #romance 

Utah

This Magic Moment

California

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini

#paperback #fiction #juvenile #juvenilefiction #youngreaders #WW2 #WWII #magic #magician The sticker on front cover is the only real flaw with this book. 

Based on a true World War II story, Isaiah Campbell tells a charming mystery about a mishap at a magic show at a POW camp--featuring magic trick how-to diagrams throughout.

Try as she might, cheeky middle schooler Maxine Larousse (you may call her Max "La Roo" or The Amazing Max, if you'd like) has yet to learn the one magic trick she needs the most: how to reappear in New York City. That is where she used to live with her parents before her father, Major Larousse, was put in charge of a Nazi POW camp in Abilene, Texas. At least in this desolate wasteland she'll have plenty of time to practice her illusions, even if the only audience member is her ferret Houdini.

When she's tasked with entertaining the Nazi prisoners with a magic show, the pressure may be too much. But with the help of some classmates and an unexpected magic expert, the performance is a hit--until twelve Nazis escape during her final act. Will she be able to track them down before her reputation as a magician is destroyed forever?

AbrakaPOW

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#paperback #fiction #fantasy #magician #master #vintage #1991

South Carolina

As a captive slave of the Tsurani, warlike invaders from another world, Pug, an apprentice sorcerer, learns to control his awesome magical powers in order to battle an ancient Evil

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James Weir

Card Tricks

Kjartan Poskitt; Geraint Ford (Illustrator)

Harry Houdini (the First Names Series)

Kate Egan with Magician Mike Lane

The Vanishing Coin: Magic Tricks

Steven Galloway

The Confabulist

Susan Cooper; Serena Riglietti (Illustrator)

The Magician's Boy

Mark Andrew Poe/Suzanne Brooks Kuhn

Bundle (2) The Enchanted World of Honey Moon

Patricia Thackray

The Amazing Mumford Forgets the Magic Words!

Raymond A Feist

Silverthorn

Diane Zahler

The Marvelwood Magicians

Ann Patchett

The Magician's Assistant

Katharine Kerr

The Bristling Wood

Katharine Kerr

The Dragon Revenant

Michael Stroud; John Cassidy

The Klutz Book of Magic

Penn Jillette

Presto!

Daniel Stashower

Elephants in the Distance

Jonathan Stroud

The Amulet of Samarkand

Greer Macallister

The Magician’s Lie autographed copy

Tui Sutherland; Who HQ; John O'Brien (Illustrator)

Who Was Harry Houdini?

Alex Stone

Fooling Houdini

Ann Patchett

The Magician's Assistant

Nora Roberts

This Magic Moment

Sid Fleischman

Escape! The Story of the Great Houdini

Isaiah Campbell; Dave Perillo (Illustrator)

AbrakaPOW

Raymond E. Feist

Magician: Master