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

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It's great!
Beautiful, Clear Illustrations
Good, but there are better.
Now I know how it's done!
Good but sometimes incomplete

Now You See It, Now You Don't!: Lessons in Sleight of Hand
Bill Tarr
Manufacturer: Vintage
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0394722027
Release Date: 1976-10-12

Book Description

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!

Customer Reviews:

It's great!.......2007-01-12

This is one of the best sleight of hand books ever written! The pictures are very helpful and one accompanies every single trick. Inside you'll find card sleights, flourishes, coin tricks (including simple routines), and other various sleight of hand tricks. One of my personal favorites is the thimble magic and changing spots trick. The rating system is especially helpful for beginning magicians as they attempt things like the French drop and simple coin vanishes.

I always recommend this book to anyone interested in magic, even children can follow along! I think every amateur magician or magic enthusiast should own a copy.

Beautiful, Clear Illustrations.......2006-07-29

This is a good instructional book with several close-up manipulation mangic tricks. I like the illustrations

Good, but there are better........2005-07-01

I recently purchased this book thinking that I would be getting some new tips in sleight of hand, which I did, but with much aggrevation. If you are a beginner I would not recommend this book. It's books like this that will make people turn away from magic. The concepts are good in this book, but the drawings are difficult to match with the instructions. The drawings and the explanations can cause a great deal of frustration and make one want to pass on tricks all together. Most of the stuff in this book is covered in Mark Wilson's book (which has 10 times better pics and explainations), so if you want just a few more tricks then get it, but altogether I wish that I hadn't bought it.
The only real good thing about this book is that it has some good cigarette vanishes and a good routine, but it may take you 10 hours o decipher what you are actually looking at. For beginners...not really...if you are a beginner...go to Mark Wilson. Cheers

Now I know how it's done!.......2005-02-19

I'm not one of those people who can figure out how tricks are done just by watching. I have to read a book! This book is great, full of very easy to understand illustrations.

Besides card tricks, it covers tricks with money, the three shell game, torn paper (magically whole again), vanishing salt shakers, etc.

This book alone is enough to make a great magician out of anyone! Enough tricks here to entertain an audience for a very long time.

Good but sometimes incomplete.......2004-09-28

This was one of the first magic books I read. I put it down, read a few more, watched a few videos and then picked it up again. It made more sense with a little bit of background information. The tricks are rated as to difficulty, but the rating scale is a little inconsistent. Some of the harder tricks I find to be easy and vice versa. I like the diversity of the book and think it is a great addition to anybody's library.

Now You See It, Now You Don't: Lessons in Sleight of Hand (ISBN:0394722027)

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Now You See It, Now You Don't: Lessons in Sleight of Hand (ISBN:0394722027)
Bill; illustr by Ross, Barry Tarr
Manufacturer: Vintage Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000LC2SIO

The second Now you see it, now you don't! More lessons in sleight of hand

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The second Now you see it, now you don't! More lessons in sleight of hand
Bill Tarr
Manufacturer: Random House
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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