Now do magic anytime, anywhere! Lets say you are at a party & invited to do a trick. You have nothing on you. In entirely impromptu manner, you place a glass of wine to your lips. The glass is half emptied. You throw the glass up to the ceiling but nothing is seen to ascend...the glass with the wine in it, has disappeared! The missing glass is discovered inside the coat of your immediate neighbor, with the wine in it unspilled! How is this startling trick performed? Find out in this legendary classic of legerdemain, regarded by pros as one of the finest magic books ever written. Clearly, steps are given for hundreds of astonishing tricks with coins, common objects, cups & balls, handkerchiefs & so on, including many fascinating card tricks: Traveling Cards, Congenial Aces and Stage magic: encompassing the more involved tricks with coins, handkerchiefs & cards, watches, livestock, clairvoyance. Plus an impressive array of miscellaneous tricks-Houdin's Die Trick, Shower of Gold, Chinese Rings, The Great Dictionary Trick & more. This book also teaches you the techniques of pure manual dexterity known as sleight of hand. Explains the most important basic techniques: the palm, pass, full shuffle, change, slide, force; vanishing & producing an object, changing articles, plus much more. Everything required is easy & inexpensive to make. The techniques are both basic & more advanced in this book. The best book on the subject that you can possibly own. This is the re-publication of the original 1885 edition, previously published in hardcover at $50.00. 408 pages, 57 illustrations. B062 |