This abundantly illustrated, easy-to-follow guide offers beginning magicians expert adivce for successfully performing over 100 tricks, each graded according to difficulty. Requiring neither sleight-of-hand nor complex props, these fascinating tricks can all be performed with everyday objects.

Step-by-step instructions, complemented with nearly 400 illustrations, show you how to master such all-time classics as The Inexhaustible Hat, The Cut and Restored Turban, Dyeing the Silks, The Chinese Rings and The Vanishing Bowl of Water. You'll also learn to perform the mystifying manipulations of The Rising Cards, The Telltale Card and The Impossible Location and to execute such quick tricks as The Invisible Lasso, Steel Through Steel and The Indestructible Handkerchief. With this book as your guide, you'll even master such baffling exploits of mental magic as Fingers That See, The Great Telephone Trick, Magic Squares, Super Memory and dozens more. In addition to complete instructions, the text includes a gl