Tarbell Course in Magic - Volumes 026-027 - Card Art 4

The basics of magic

Playing card magic is certainly the most extensive area of ​​magic. A deck of cards is the most versatile prop imaginable; the number of manipulations, effects, and routines that can be performed with them is enormous, and new ones are being added every day.

With a deck of cards in your pocket, you can keep any audience entertained for a long time .

In Lesson 26, you'll learn ten truly impressive tricks that require only a regular deck of cards. Look forward to "MARVELLO," a trick by the famous coin and card specialist T. Nelson Downs , Al Baker and Audley Walsh's " Telephone Mystery ," and other effects by such famous magicians as Dai Vernon, Richard Himber, George Kaplan, Percy Abbott , and others.

Following this, Lesson 27 is dedicated to the topic of card risers . Harlan Tarbell presents 18 different methods for achieving this effect.

The reader comes across the names of such legendary personalities as Howard Thuston, Cardini, Buatier de Kolta and others, whose versions of the rising cards and card fountains are described in detail in words and pictures.

80 pages