The best reference source for card tricks with any deck of cards, including a borrowed one. The reader is introduced to the mysteries of card magic progressively. Each chapter describes clearly a different sleight of hand followed by a selection of tricks based on the principle taught in the chapter. It contains 76 complete card tricks, each of which has been carefully chosen, and which shows how the dabbler performs a colourless trick, and how those who travel along the royal road to card magic are competent to present a brilliant tour de force. It is an excellent introduciton to card magic which every neophyte should read: the chapter which deals with the interesting and most important subject of routining deserves careful study by every performer who is anxious to improve the entertainment value of his act. 121 illustrations.

310pp