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THIS site features products and information on card
magic by Justin Higham. See below for books and pdfs currently available from this address. (Dealer enquiries
welcome.)
While you're here, please see the archive page for some free articles on card magic by this author.
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NEW - JULY 2008 Dexterity Manual
by Justin Higham
£12.50
Add postage: £1.50 inland/£2.20
overseas surface/£3.50 overseas airmail
This is Justin Higham's largest card book since Collected Card Notes (1999), and contains an array
of moves, subtleties, and effects. Although the format is a technical manual - or rather, a 'dexterity manual' - most
items require only an intermediate level of manual dexterity.
CONTENTS INCLUDE:
- The Anti-Gravity Shift – A one-handed pass as featured on Benjamin Earl's 'Past Midnight'
DVD, explained here in full detail with eight 'covers', including two by Will Houstoun.
- Illogical Strip-Cut Force plus... – Those who liked the Illogical
Dribble Force will appreciate the Illogical Strip-Cut Force, Illogical Spread Force, Illogical False Throw-Cut Force,
One-Handed IDF and Illogical Riffle Force, all explained here (no knowledge of the Illogical Dribble Force is needed).
- Logical Strip-Cut Force – For those who prefer logicality, Benjamin Earl offers this
flexible and deceptive force of one or more cards.
- Fake Zarrow Shuffle – For those who haven’t mastered a real one. Two versions
are given.
- CO2 - A bold, no-palming version of C.O. Williams' popular card-to-pocket, with a patter
theme that justifies their thinking of a card at a number.
- Biddle Appearance Sandwich – Two buried Kings instantly and visually appear on top
of the deck with a selection sandwiched between them – no passes or difficult sleights.
- Jungian Poker – A spectator thinks of one of five random cards, and the thought-of
card is produced along with its matching straight-flush cards. No large stacks or false deals.
- Spectator Cuts a Run of Seven – A 'mega' version of 'Spectator Cuts the Aces' based
on Randy Wakeman's popular method.
- Digital Poker – A full house is pulled interlaced between the fingers from a shuffled,
pocketed deck.
- The Magician, The Fool, and The Wheel of Fortune – The names of three Tarot cards
are spelt in any chosen order to arrive at three playing-cards, one of which is selected. This matches a tabled prediction.
- Off-Center Coincidence – Two selections turn up together as cards are dealt simultaneously
from two tabled halves. Nothing special – except the spectator shuffled the deck after the selections were lost.
No palming or crimps.
- Pseudo Topper - An impromptu version of Marlo's 'Mental Topper', where a 'mental selection'
is revealed along with its three mates. Can be done straightaway with a borrowed deck.
- Intuitive 21-Card Trick – Identical to the classic lay person’s version...except
the entire trick is done with the cards face down.
ALSO INCLUDES: One-Handed Slip Pass, One-Handed Pull-Out, Around-the-Deck Reversal,
Svengali-ish Convincer, Up-the-Ladder Finesse, Multiple Undershuffle, Deal Shuffle, One-Handed Flip-Over Force, Third-Eye
Force, Tilted Fake Removal, Cognitive Transposition, Biddle-Appearance Collectors, Chinatown Bluff, Longitudinal Monte, Mini
Faro – Pseudo Centers, Subconscious Culling, Riffle-Shuffle Sandwich, Deal – Count – Spell, Sense of Touch
Location, The NoBo Lie Detector (including methods by Kevin Baker), and more.
Over three dozen items in all, 68 pages, 50 photos, saddle-stitched A5 booklet with card covers.
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Collected Card Notes
by Justin Higham
Price: £25.00
Add postage: £2.10 inland/£4.35 overseas surface/£7.80
overseas airmail
This work on advanced card magic contains sleights and effects for
the discerning amateur and professional card magician. See below for a full list of contents.
"Splendidly produced and very well illustrated.... Definitely something for card freaks everywhere."
- Abracadabra
CLICK HERE FOR CONTENTS OF COLLECTED CARD NOTES
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The Illogical Dribble Force
by Justin Higham
£10.00
Add postage: £1.50 inland/£2.20
overseas surface/£3.50 overseas airmail
‘Someday, perhaps, the average performer will have at his
disposal many...near perfect tricks devoid of illogical action and designed for...intelligent audiences.’ – Paul
Curry, The Phoenix.
There is, of course, illogicality and illogicality. Actions which
are illogical from an effect viewpoint are, naturally, to be shunned. But there are certain moves which, although illogical
or discrepant, pass by unnoticed. Examples include the Tenkai Optical Revolve, Through-the-Fist Turnover, Flushtration Count,
Olram Subtlety, So-Simple Force, and Jay Ose False Cut.
In this treatise on the Illogical Dribble Force, Justin Higham explains
a method for forcing one or more cards from either a face-down or face-up deck. Although illogical, the move is easy, casual,
and visually deceptive, and can be done in an instant with no get-ready.
20 pages, 15 photos, saddle-stitched with light card covers and illustrative
cover design.
> I have a few left in the larger A4 format.
Copies available from dealers are A5 (smaller).
"I've been playing around with the IDF and I like it a lot...." - R.F., Canada
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Clairvoyant and Related Effects
by Justin Higham
Price: £12.50
Add postage: £1.70 inland/£2.70 overseas surface/£4.60 overseas
airmail
In the early 1950s, Bob Hummer caused a stir with his rendition
of 'Think-a-Card' called 'Mind-Reader's Dream', in which a card merely thought of was discovered without any questions
asked. It's drawback - a fairly complex dealing procedure and a book of tables consulted by the magician - inspired
many card magicians to seek streamlined methods.
Three decades later Justin Higham devised a method
for the Hummer effect in which the dealing procedure was greatly simiplified and the book of tables eliminated. This
provides the basis for this new study of 'Clairvoyant' and related effects, including Marlo's seminal 'Mental Topper': an
effect where not only is a thought-of card produced, but also its three 'mates'.
The present ms. complements, and further examines themes previously
studied in, Jon Racherbaumer's 2004 ms., Dreamwork: Minding the Mindreader's Dream.
66 pages, over 50 variations on 'Clairvoyant', 'Mind-Reader's Dream',
and 'Mental Topper'.
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Tricks with the Side-Faro False Shuffle [e-book]
by
Justin Higham
£5.00
This is a pdf e-book not a hard-copy book
The Side-Faro False
Shuffle is a flexible, in-the-hands full-deck false shuffle as featured on the ‘Three False Shuffles’ DVD by Justin
Higham (also see Benjamin Earl’s ‘Past Midnight’ DVD disc 1).
Justin has been using this shuffle since the mid-1980s to not only fool top card magicians (Marlo, Vernon, Jennings, Elmsley,
etc.), but more important entertain lay people with routines requiring a partial or full-deck stack
The shuffle involves a simulation of butting two halves of the deck into each other in a sideways fashion – a form
of ‘sideways Faro’, but not requiring any perfect weaves. There is no waterfall or flourish/cascade at the end,
but a genuinely deceptive unweaving and square-up action. The shuffle could be likened to an ‘in-the-hands Shank Shuffle’
but with less spreading of the cover cards.
Angle-wise the shuffle is totally foolproof. Not even the operator him- or herself can clearly see the mechanics of
the shuffle. It can literally be done surrounded.
The present e-book explains the false shuffle in full detail, along with details on how it can be used as both a control
of a selected card (or cards) and a key-card placement. Over 15 effects are also given which specifically use this shuffle.
This e-book contains just over 10 pages (equivalent to A4 in size).
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The Simulation of Miracles [e-book]
by
Justin Higham
£3.00
This is a pdf e-book not a hard-copy book
This pdf e-book looks
into the thought processes used when devising new methods and effects. A dozen card effects are also explained in Part
2 which - while complete in themselves as usable effects - illustrate the theory in Part 1.
> Includes
'Mind-Reading In Reverse', where a specator cuts off a packet from a shuffled deck, fans it out, and thinks of one card -
the mind-reader slowly reading their mind from across the room and naming the card. As recommended by Luke Jermay and
Benjamin Earl.
Note that Part 1 in its entirety is available for viewing free of
charge on the archive page of this website. The pdf available here is for those who wish to purchase the effects in Part 2.
This pdf contains the complete, 34-page manuscript (Parts 1 and 2), the full contents of which is viewable in the link
below.
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Expansions and
Notes on Expansions [e-books]
by Justin Higham
£3.00
These are pdf e-books
not hard-copy books
The Expansions pdf e-book explains 15 effects,
sleights, and ideas, including 'The Money Eater', a coin-and-sponge routine where coins are inserted inside sponges, sponges
inside coins, and even coins inside other coins (based on a Gordon Bruce effect), and 'Crossover Coins' (as originally commended
by Jeff Busby in a review), a sleight-free, no-palming copper/silver routine for use at the table (no lapping).
Also included is the Step Double Undercut, a finessed handling
of the standard move, which gives the illusion of burying the selection somewhere below the centre of the deck while actually
controlling it.
This new electronic edition is a pdf scan of the original,
illustrated booklet. Other than a digitally modified cover and title page, the scanned images are reproductions of the
original pages from the booklet.
Notes on Expansions contains several additional ideas, notes,
and corrections, and comes with the main book.
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