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!