Here's a portable handbook for every aspiring illusionist! Master magician Mark Wilson provides the secrets to more than 200 classic tricks, with comprehensive, step-by-step instructions and illustrations. From sleight of hand to levitation, you'll learn:
- classic coin tricks, including how to make a coin disappear and miraculously reappear inside a ball of wool;
- remarkable rope tricks, including how to escape instantly from ropes that bind your wrists and ankles to a chair;
- impressive prediction, including how to foretell what word a spectator will choose randomly from a magazine;
- amazing illusions, including how to make your assistant suddenly materialize out of thin air;
- and dozens more incredible tricks.
With tips on stage patter and showmanship, Mark Wilson's Cyclopedia of Magic is a complete course-recommended for beginners, but thorough enough to earn a place in the pockets of even the most accomplished magicians.
"Mark Wilson is probably the nation's leading authority on the subject."
-New York Times
