Here's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing. Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques -- among them The False Shuffle, The Corner Crimp, Sensitive

DIVDiagrams and instructions for successfully performing The False Shuffle, Sensitive Finger Tips, Palming, The Glide, and 46 other techniques. 13 diagrams. /div

Revised with dozens of illustrations complementing this easy-to-understand classic, this guide to magic spans all age groups with tricks that have baffled both children and adults.

What is a self-working card trick? A trick that does not depend upon legerdemain or special abilities on the part of the magician, but a trick that works automatically because of the mathematics inherent in the card deck itself. Long practice and supernormal dexterity are not needed to perform these

Instructions and diagrams take aspiring magicians through thirty card tricks, arranged in increasing order of difficulty.