Now You See It, Now You Don’t!: Lessons in Sleight of Hand

A new and simple learn-by-picture method that makes it easy for anyone aged twelve and up to perform all the classic sleights just as they are done by the world’s greatest professional magicians. Long-time magician Bill Tarr has teamed up with Barry Ross, an illustrator famous for his instructional sports diagrams, for easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions, so that with the help of more than 1,500 line drawings that capture each eye-fooling movement, you’ll learn everything from simple sleights you can master in minutes to the great classics of magic. With ordinary objects — a regular deck of cards, a coin from someone’s pocket, a few balls of crumpled aluminum foil — you’ll soon be doing …

Card Fanning

Springing the Cards from Hand-to-Hand

The Lit-Cigarette Trick

The Three-Shell Game

The Cups and Balls

Three-Card Monte

The Cut and Restored Rope

The Miser’s Dream

plus …

Unbelievable Card Tricks

Coin and Cigarette Vanishes

and dozens and dozens of the world’s greatest sleight-of-hand effects!