Magic Book

The complete beginnerÃs guide to anytime, anywhere, sleight of hand magic. With characteristic wit and directness this great teacher of magic Harry explains the secrets of these simple techniques which will make it so easy for you, even if you are a beginner, to learn to do dazzlers.There are hundreds of tricks in this 306 page book, which begins with tips and techniques on card work, including card flourishes, and then into card handling and sleights. The way Harry Lorayne teaches it, you will learn it -- quickly and well. Once he has you well started, you are off into sleight of hand card effects and routines - some of the finest he knows. Then, to make it easy for you to do some right away, without much practice - he furnishes you with a dozen self working card tricks.Lorayne takes up coin tricks and routines in the same way, from basics into tricks that will have your friends admiring you mightily. Following that, you are taught some baffling number effects and mental tricks - and then a couple of dizen miscellaneous effects combining basics you learned earlier, and some you just now received. Recommended for the newcomer to our art - but old timers could learn a lot from The Magic Book, too. A bound book, illustrated, dust jacket.