101 Easy To Do Magic Tricks by Bill Tarr

This abundantly illustrated, easy-to-follow guide offers beginning magicians expert adivce for successfully performing over 100 tricks, each graded according to difficulty. Requiring neither sleight-of-hand nor complex props, these fascinating tricks can all be performed with everyday objects.

Step-by-step instructions, complemented with nearly 400 illustrations, show you how to master such all-time classics as The Inexhaustible Hat, The Cut and Restored Turban, Dyeing the Silks, The Chinese Rings and The Vanishing Bowl of Water. You'll also learn to perform the mystifying manipulations of The Rising Cards, The Telltale Card and The Impossible Location and to execute such quick tricks as The Invisible Lasso, Steel Through Steel and The Indestructible Handkerchief. With this book as your guide, you'll even master such baffling exploits of mental magic as Fingers That See, The Great Telephone Trick, Magic Squares, Super Memory and dozens more. In addition to complete instructions, the text includes a glossary of professional terms, notes on constructing the necessary props and a brief but fascinating section on great magicians, past and present.

Like many magicians, author Bill Tarr has been performing since an early age. In this book, his enthusiasm, knowledge and admiration for his subject are readily apparent. By following the expert advice and instructions he has put forth in this easy-to-follow guide, you'll soon be adept at a repertoire of tricks sure to dazzle friends and family alike.

Pages 224 - Softbound