Surgery behind me. Recovery in progress. Performing shows again with no pain. Praise God for all of it! Autumn’s chorus spring musical ANNIE JR. a great success May 19th. Lynne & I surviving 42 years of married life! And a lot of suprises in our fi rst real newsletter since the Blackpool Sale in February! Let’s start with a NEW double DVD that appears this month —

Booked Beyond Belief consists of two distinct parts:

1. My ONLY 3 WAYS TO BOOK YOUR SHOW lecture (70 min) captured live before a convention audience, based on my book of that title. You’ll hear solid booking information based only my personal experience of doing shows for a living these 40 years through phone calls, mailings and in person interviews.

2. CIRCUS MAGIC LIVE SHOW (March 2011) — SITTING DOWN! Due to my leg pain of Feb/March, while seeing doctors, taking tests and preparing for April 1 back surgery, I made my living doing 39 shows sitting on a stool. This show runs 45 minutes at a church family night and includes several unpublished performance routines with props you’ve never seen! You’ll also see an unexpected toddler appear on stage during my rising card routine and how I fi nish the routine without her falling off the stage! Steve Taylor video taped the show and said, “David, two minutes after you start, the kids forget about the stool and ENJOY THE MAGIC!” This video is the only chronicle of this diffi cult period of my performing life. Watching it will teach you PLENTY!

Booked Beyond Belief + Circus Magic (Two-hour DVD) — just $15.00!

The Only 3 Ways To Book Your Show Here is the David Ginn textbook on how to get PAID JOBS as a magician, clown, or other variety arts entertainer. In 144 pages with lots of photos & art examples of publicity materials, David explains how HE has made a living at magic for 40 years: through mass and specifi c mailings, telephone calls, and in person interviews with potential clients. Contents include mailing pieces, the list, going for the long run, getting replies, direct contact & personal touch, advance book, who to call, in-coming calls, press book, how to interview, what’s the best answer? and lots more. In the second half of the book David explains 33 Self-Booking Tools you can use, from business cards and photos to press releases, FAX, ads, yellow pages and more. GOING OUT OF PRINT SOON! Still just $15.00.

Booked Beyond Belief DVD + Only 3 Ways book special — BOTH for only $20.00!

Blooming Blossom * For years I performed and sold the blooming bouquet made popular by Trevor Lewis famous routine, which he granted me permission to share. But the imported bouquets diminished in quality, and I stopped selling them. Now here’s an excellent single blooming blossom great for Trevor’s routine, which is included. Also, this BLOSSOM is easier to operate!

Show the bare stem with no fl ower. Try to make it bloom, but it won’t. Put it under your arm and turn to get a magic wand. Kids see the red fl ower has bloomed behind your back! Repeat several times, then fi nally make the blossom instantly appear in front of you. A simple up/down thumb switch works it all. See page 5 for what the Blue Monster does with it.

Blooming Blossom — only $10

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The Original Tarbell Lessons In Magic Complete! *900 pages! • 3100 illustrations! • 8 1/2 x 11 Hardbound! • Weight 5 lbs!

83 years ago Harlan Tarbell wrote, drew & produced his original lessons that became the published Tarbell Course in Magic. However, much was left out including Tarbell’s drawings & more explanation & LOTS more tricks & magic. Now here is the ENTIRE ORIGINAL TARBELL LESSONS as HE wrote & illustrated them. In the past these have sold for $150–500. Now you can have the 60 lessons (almost 20 pages each, 8.5 x 11 size) NEWLY TYPESET with the original Tarbell drawings enlarged. Everything from magic

philosophy to card tricks, rope, coins, thimbles, egg magic, silks, mindreading, billiard balls, rabbits & birds, oriental magic and illusions! So far I’ve only read the fi rst three chapters and LEARNED a great deal I never encountered!

Trust me, this book is a GOLD MINE of information and magical education. Retail price is $79.95, and many dealers are selling the book at $69.95. I love special prices here — so your price is only $59.00!Important TARBELL Note: If this is all you order I can ship it Media Mail in the USA for just $4.00, your total $63. Unfortunately due to its weight, shipping this book to Canada cost $30 and overseas $55.

Multiplying Flower Bouquet *Hide this cloth fl ower bouquet in any production devise or on your body. Make it appear, ta-dah — then you visibly split the bouquet into TWO bouquets for a double fi nish. Remember, it’s made out of CLOTH (not feathers) so that one bouquet fi ts easily inside of the other. Looks great fl uff ed up on stage. And it has a great Ginnville price — only $19.00!

Jelly Bean BagIckle Pickle has done it again! Remember SPOTTY? Measle Bag? This is the same idea but with a cloth bag covered with JELLY BEANS. Magically you make the jelly beans vanish and reappear on two plain hanks. When you turn the bag inside out, a picture of JELLY BEAN the RABBIT appears inside! Watch my YouTube video of “Measle Bag” and easily adapt my story to the Jelly Bean Bag. Expertly made in the USA! Just $30.00

$100 Bill Challenge Game * Last Chance!Show a large envelope. Ask the person to picture one of the four Queens. Tell him if his choice is not printed on back of the envelope, you’ll give him a $100 bill … your $100 telephone bill! So the man calls out Queen of Hearts, and you boldly turn around the envelope to show FOUR queens printed on the back, one being the Queen of Hearts! After the laugh, you tell the man that inside the enve-lope you have four cards, but only one has a red back and that one IS the Queen of Hearts. Finally, you give the man a “dinner for two,” which turns out to be Kraft Mac & Cheese!

Comes with Jumbo Parade of Queens trick (11 x 14 inches), envelope with signs front & back, a QWEST phone bill, and Steve Harmer’s wonderful routine. (You supply Kraft Dinner!) IMPROVED TYVEK ENVELOPE! Great Steve Harmer routine! Only 17 left in Giant Stage Size and NO MORE EVER! Final Price while they last — just $25.00!

Primary Colors Shoelaces *This is a set of color changing shoelaces in which YELLOW changes to BLUE, then RED pops out of your hand, and you reproduce the vanished yellow from your pocket. My patter with the trick is about teaching children the 3 colors that make all the other colors. HANDMADE in Snellville Georgia USA! Price $12.00

Popcorn Dye Box *Tommy Windsor’s great production or vanish prop made from a movie theatre POPCORN

BOX. After I used his, I duplicated it with a Kellogg’s ceral box when I was 14 years old. Hundreds of tricks possible. Example: I poured rice into the box and the rice turned into 3 silks, then I showed the box empty (it opens out fl at). Or show the box empty and pull out silks. Change confetti or rice into ping pong balls. Easy due to the secret built-in pocket. Once you own this, you’ll understand how to make more with other types of boxes. Popcorn Dye Box with instructions — only $5.00!

2 * = See David perform it live! Go to www.GinnMagic.com and click on menu item “David on YouTube.”

3-D Silk Transposition *Show a giant 7 x 10 inch Three of Diamonds and three little silks (red, yellow, green). Make the silks vanish in a Bang-Gone paper cone (supplied with the trick). Suddenly you tap the giant card against your palm and the three red pips visibly change to RED, YELLOW & GREEN! Wait! Aren’t those the missing silk colors? Of course they are, and when you pull them out of the “see-thru” pip holes, THEY ARE THE MISSING SILKS!You get 6 little silks, gimmicked 3-D card, and the cone vanisher with instructions — all for just $15.00!

Soft Coke — Van/Appearing Latex Bottle *Finally here is a 10-oz Coke bottle great for vanish or production. Put the full bottle in a paper bag and crush the bag. Gone! Or show a folded paper bag, unroll it and produce a bottle of Coke. Wet the bottle a little and it looks like glass. Better than the old rubber type and more durable because it’s made of latex. Not $35 or $50 … SOFT COKE is only $29.00

Six Feet Tall by Glen Bailey *Whether you’re working stage or close-up, here’s a cute gag you’ll use. Say you need a child to help in a trick, but he must be at least SIX feet tall. Invite a boy to help, but you’ll have to measure him. Pop open this vinyl printed banner with six feet printed on it and hold it beside him. Yes, he’s six feet tall, you exclaim, so he can help with the trick. Professionally printed in Hawaii by magician Glen Bailey, the vinyl banner rolls right up to fi t in your pocket. Six Feet Tall — only $12.00

Jumbled Numbers Silk * Like my color changing Shake Silk, this 4-ft streamer turns inside out. Purple in color, it has large white numbers printed on it in the wrong order: 4-1-5-3-6-2. I point to the numbers and read them as 1-2-3-4-5-6, but the kids tell me NO, wrong order! So I have them shout out the numbers as I point. They read them correctly. So I say “I thought it said 1-2-3-4-5-6” as I shake the silk and turn it inside out revealing the correct 1-2-3-4-5-6 order! Everyone is amazed when I do this in my money show. $15

Breakaway Fan *SHOW the fan together when open, fan yourself a bit, then ask a kid to do it too. When he or she opens the fan, all the sections come apart for lots of laughs. You the performer cannot understand it. So you repeat it sev-eral times and fi nally let the KID get

it right and YOU CANNOT! End up with the joke on you and make the child look the hero. Everybody wins! $10.

Shake Silk * Black 4-ft silk streamer instantly chang-es to rainbow colors when you shake it upside-down or wave back and forth. Pure China silk from Goshman. $15

Baffl ing Boomerangs *In the early 1900s John Petrie of P & L Magic invented an unusual take-off on the old boomerang trick, the optical illusion where one looks longer than the other. He presented the usual routine, then handed the boomerangs to a child and they WERE diff erent lengths, even after showing them the same! P & L manufactured this ver-sion, long off the market.

Several years ago I found a set made in wood. I used them in my Magic Down Under Australia show. Now I’ve found a few dozen more, machined in wood, painted red and blue. Do the standard routine, but when you hand the boomerangs to a child, you slip the two-inch gimmicked end piece OFF the red boomerang, making it really shorter.

I paid $30 for my set. Your bargain price — just $15.00!

Necklace Prediction *Show 3 colored hearts red/blue/green. Somebody picks one … it’s the one you have hidden on a gold chain in the case! Amazing! Only $5

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Crummy Cookie Trick *Place a penny on back of a spectator’s hand. Wave an oreo cookie over it, and the penny changes to a dime! Repeat with a 2nd penny—it changes to a miniature penny! Next toss the cookie into the air and it vanishes, then reappears in your pocket. Finally you take a bite from the cookie, then magically restore it! Easy, eff ective magic by Ron Conley! Crummy Cookie Trick — only $12.00!

Cool Magic For Cool Kids! A New DVD by Norm Barnhart

New & creative kidshow magic & original tricks from that Minnesota magic man, Norm Barnhart. You’ll learn routines straight from Norm’s library reading show, such as Color Changing Silk with a Kid, Egg to Dove, Funny Bone, Comedy Bottle Vanish, Snowman in Arizona, Spongeball Circus, Mis-Made Flag & Tarbell Cone, Stamp Album, Appearing Spider, Torn & Restored Newspaper (performance only) and Ball to Square. There’s comedy magic for family events & parties. Special Merit: Norm’s TOY DOG or FISH that fi nds a kid’s chosen card — EXCELLENT! Also his “Library Card” closing eff ect — you’ll make and use it! Running time 100 minutes.

Regular price $35 ... GINNVILLE SPECIAL just $25.00!

Big Surprise! *Hey, that’s the name of the trick! Have a spectator select a card from the deck and remember it. Tell the person you have that same card in your back pocket. Reach under you coat and pull out the fan of

jumbo cards that I’m holding. “What? None of those are your card? What about the one that is turned backwards? Would you be surprised if I turned it around and it really was your card?” I’ll turn it around on a three count: 1, 2, 3! So saying, YOU turn the whole FAN around and it changes into a GIANT 8.5 x 14-inch QUEEN OF HEARTS, the chosen card! This trick is so simple and mechanically well-made that all you have to do is force a card! And guess what else? Like many of my new and classic magic tricks, you can see me do this one on YouTube! Just go to #56 under “David on YouTube” on the website menu!

Big Surprise — just $8.00

Jumping Silk On Rope *Colorful rope with silk hanging on right knot of 3…behind your back silk jumps to left knot…turned it around?…then silk jumps to the middle. See demo on website (“David on YouTube”). Easy to do! Just $10

Cheat Blendo *Goshman make with Ginn instructions. Tutorial! Four 18” silks red/yellow/blue/green magically blend into a 36” Quad Silk of the four squares. Looks great and easy to do. Great for teaching anything with four parts or values. Watch video! $25

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Cotton Tail RabbitHe’s so cuddly! Tell kids that he lives in your backyard, basement or even bedroom! Bring him to life in front of the audience and let the kids pet him. Just don’t make him disappear! 18 inches long. Only $29

Little WolfCall of the Wild! White Fang? Black tooth? Soupy Sales? Have this little guy say “Woof! Woof!” since he IS a wolf. How can you use him to make kids laugh? They’ll think he’s alive! Maybe he is! 21 inches long. $29

Lop Ear RabbitIs this bunny puppet sad or happy? Whatever you make him! Great for hospital walk-arounds, letting kids pet him, and wiggling his cute little nose! 18 inches long. Just $29

Baby LionQuiet! The lion sleeps tonight! Make your own baby Simba appear from Disney’s “Lion King.” Have him growl at you, then you act scared. Kids will want to hold him too! 22 inches long. $29

Puppets in Ginnville!Blue Monster (He Eats Flowers)Kids adore this loveable monster puppet — especially when he repeatedly eats your blooming blossom fl ower. Did he do it? He says NO, but the audience kids say YES! But at the fi nish, he can even make the fl ower blossom reapppear on the stem! Also he loves to pull handkerchiefs out of your pocket to make the kids laugh. (He watched my Woof! Woof! DVD.) Lots more you can to with the BLUE MONSTER to make kids laugh & play!

Size: 18-in tall. Body 10-inch wide. Arms 12-in from body. Lightweight, packs small, plays BIG!

He’s NEW! He’s BLUE! He’s only $35 alone OR just $39 with a blooming blossom!

Rabbit Production PuppetWow—look at that HAIR! I mean the rabbit (HARE), not our friend Hannah’s golden locks! Call this little guy the new bunny on the block…a white, soft plush bunny puppet that looks like the real thing! Hey, already I am personally using him in my pre-school show: I make him dance around, then magically change him into Harry, my REAL LIVE RABBIT! The kids simply love it! Some kids even think he’s real! Just slip your hand into the back of him, into his arms and head. You can make him wave, pout, dance, say his prayers, hide his face, even lie down on his back. Except for the bowtie (remove it!) HE LOOKS REAL! And the price includes a 14-page book of uses, tricks & ideas! $15

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Frog PuppetKids go nuts about this cute FROG puppet because his eyes & tongue pop out for laughs. Watch that wand — you might change him into a FROG! Sorry, warts not included! 14 inches long. Only $19

Gecko PuppetHawaii 50! Hey, this gecko puppet can save you $100 on car insurance! Kids see him on TV — now use one in your magic or clown show! 13 inches long. Just $15

Lobster PuppetI lobster but never fl ounder! Pull this guy out of a book titled OCEAN ANIMALS and act scared. Maybe they should name a restaurant after him: How about Captain D’s? Red Lobster? Oh, that would never work! 16 inches long. Only $19

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The Magical Dog Arm PuppetHere’s new magical fun for children & family audiences — a life-size dog puppet who does magic and comedy! Since I brought my sheep dog home from England three years ago, I have used “Sherlock Bones” in hundreds of children’s shows to excellent results. Kids love this dog! He becomes REAL to them! When he magically fi nds his favorite food card while blindfolded, he even fools adults!

My 52-minute DVD teaches the entire routine, plus shares Jeremy LePoidevin’s British routine & tips as well. Additional material includes David Ginn comedy ideas like Hank in Pocket, Change Bag ideas, mouth tricks and a trip to Dog Obedience School. Get your own dog arm puppet and open a whole new chapter in your performing life!

Complete Dog Package with puppet, cards, blindfold & DVD:

Summer Special until August 15, 2011Only $75 + shipping

Routines, Tips and Ideas for the Dog Arm Puppetfeaturing additional materialby Jeremy Le Poidevin

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Golden Sand Frame *Show this beautiful picture frame empty. Cover it or turn it around, and magically a 5 x 7 photo, jumbo card, or message appears inside. Furthermore, you can easily change the picture via two back clips. The black sand is sealed inside between two pieces of glass. I’ve

used my same one for 3 years now. Hey, it works! $45!

Etherial Salt Shaker *POUR the entire shaker of SALT into your fi st. Show the shaker empty. Wiggle your closed fi st fi ngers and open them — the salt is GONE! Now, close your other hand around the empty shaker or cover it with a silk. In two seconds the shaker is FULL OF SALT again! Yes, it’s mechanical, it works great, and you can use it anywhere! $20

Topsy Popsy Wand *Squeeze this 18” long wand and the cap pops off . Add a 3-ft rope or silk streamer inside so you don’t have to chase the caps all over the fl oor. Includes a 40-inch silk streamer. See YouTube video #30. $18

Star of the Show! *New Better Design!

Magic By Gosh made exclusively for me.

Show a 2-inch yellow sponge ball and push it through your fi st. When you open your hand, it has become a big YELLOW STAR 6-8 inches in size. It can be the Star of Bethlehem for Christmas shows, or use in a child’s hand to open up, then pronounce the girl or boy “Star of the Show.” Star of the Show — just $12.00