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This excellent guide to mastering dozens of mystifying acts of deception and manipulation will soon have you dazzling friends and family with professional-quality magic tricks. Martin Gardner, author of a host of popular magic and puzzle books, has compiled a clearly written manual that not only reveals secrets of the trade but also helps you perform tricks at a moment's notice with such common objects as cards, coins, napkins, matches, and silverware. Step-by-step instructions and nearly 200 easy-to-follow diagrams and illustrations provide all the information and advice you'll need to make cards vanish and reappear, get coins to pass through solid objects, make articles mysteriously travel from one location to another, and much more.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:048640403X
ISBN13:9780486404035
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.38 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"
Age Range:10 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 5 and higher
Customer Reviews
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Excellent for beginners or even old pros!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book has excerpted material also found in Gardner's mammoth "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic," and the material, as the title suggests, is limited to items performable in an after-dinner setting. This is the sort of magic, when one produces seemingly off-the-cuff miracles, that helped great magicians, such as Alexander Herrmann, Max Malini, Nate Leipzig and Dai Vernon become legends. For if you can do magic any time, anywhere, with anything, then the magic is not in the props, but in YOU!The most recent person to take advantage of the power of seemingly casual magic is, of course, David Blaine. He has created the illusion that magic happens wherever he goes. And David Blaine is the magician foremost in the public's mind.Do not be put off by the apparent simplicity of these magic tricks. Done well, at the right moment, they are reputation-makers. Gardner has a knack for finding excellent yet simple material. This simplicity is usually only achieved by rank beginners and hardened professionals. In this book, it can be yours.Just one thing: show the author the respect he deserves, and rehearse these well and perform them excellently.
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