Abundantly illustrated, easy-to-follow guide shows beginning and veteran prestidigitators how to successfully perform over 100 tricks, including The Inexhaustible Hat, The Cut and Restored Turban, The Chinese Rings, The Rising Cards, Steel Through Steel, Fingers That See and dozens of other remarkable feats -- each graded according to difficulty.

By Nicholas Einhor. Includes an illustrated history of magic and magicians, from the origins of the art in Egypt, through the nineteenth and twenthieth centuries to the magic of today, featuring magicians such as Siegfried and Roy, David Copperfield and David Blaine.

Clear diagrams and step-by-step instructions for performing 18 simple feats of prestidigitation: Strength Test, Untangled, Elastic Lock, Mystic Spinner, Rollaway, Heavyset, The Great Escape and many more, using such ordinary objects as coins, rubber bands and string.

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Every kid wants to be the best magician in school--and can be, with these 23 terrific, easy-to-learn tricks. Each one uses ordinary household stuff, like string and soda bottles, to create extraordinary effects, and they're all presented in easy-to-follow color illustrations and instructions. What feats can children achieve? They can make a saltshaker disappear, turn a pencil into rubber, or even trap a ghost in a bottle so it moves a coin up and down. And budding magicians will feel proud when their friends beg them to perform again and again. Best of all, no matter how many times the audience sees the show, they'll never catch on!

Read minds! Make objects disappear and then reappear! Induce hypnotic trances! You'll be able to perform these and many other classic maneuvers with the help of the advice in this amazing book by one of the greatest magicians of all time. 200 masterful deceptions can be performed without training or special equipment.

This book has (at least) two things going for it. 1) It's the first book ever to feature magic tricks using the head for a prop, and 2) it's way funny to read even if you have no plans to employ your head for the amusement of others, thank you.
Looking for new ways to amaze, disturb, perplex, impress, and occasionally gross out friends, dinner companions, coworkers, and totally innocent bystanders? Magician's magician Mac King has perfected the ultimate mix of head games (literally) in this clever illustrated volume that features such classic gags as:
The Headless Wonder
French Fry Up Nose
The Old Head-Bangs-into-the-Door Gag
And the one that's worth the price of the book all by itself...Eyescream (eeeeeewww)