Magic by John Scarne, Dai Vernon, Bert Allerton, S. Leo Horowitz, Emil Jarrow, Francis Carlyle, Dr. Jacob Daley, Tony Slydini, Ross Bertram, Nate Leipzig, and Max Malini helped shape the art of close-up magic as we know it.
Gambling secrets through the mathematics of shuffling cards, explains the classic street-gambling scam of three-card Monte, history of mathematical magic & more.
Here are illustrated step-by-step instructions for rope tricks, money magic, mind-reading effects, stage illusions, tricks with everyday objects, and plenty of all-new card tricks. Readers will learn how to bend spoons, stretch handkerchiefs, levitate gla