By BILL TARR
1st Edition 1976
A simple learn-by-picture method that makes it easy for anyone aged twelve and up to perform all the classic sleights just as they are done by the world's greatest professional magicians. Long-time magician Bill Tarr has teamed up with Barry Ross, an illustrator famous for his instructional sports diagrams, for easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, so that with the help of more than 1,500 line drawings that capture each eye-fooling movement, you'll learn everything from simple sleights you can master in minutes to the great classics of magic. With ordinary objects -- a regular deck of cards, a coin from someone's pocket, a few balls of crumpled aluminum foil -- you'll soon be doing:
- Card Fanning
- Springing the Cards from Hand-to-Hand
- The Lit-Cigarette Trick
- The Three-Shell Game
- The Cups and Balls
- Three-Card Monte
- The Cut and Restored Rope
- The Miser's Dream
- Unbelievable Card Tricks
- Coin Vanishes
...and dozens and dozens of the world's greatest sleight-of-hand effects!
Obvious shelf wear, slight tear on the bottom of the front cover and spine; small ink smudge on the front cover where the serial number is printed; first page is separating from the binding at the top.