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 FanningSpringing the Cards from Hand-to-HandThe Lit-Cigarette TrickThe Three-Shell GameThe Cups and BallsThree-Card MonteThe Cut and Restored RopeThe Miser's Dreamplus ...Unbelievable Card TricksCoin and Cigarette Vanishesand dozens and dozens of the world's greatest sleight-of-hand effects!