Mark Wilson’s Complete Course in Magic

Description

This is a pre-owned book. Softbound; 503 pages; page size: 8.5″ by 11″. Some light wear and creases to the covers. Some of the first few interior pages have a very small crease at the upper right hand corners. All interior pages are clean and unmarked. Still a great reading copy.

The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician, complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions.

Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “the text that young magicians swear by,” it’s full of step-by-step instructions. Master illusionist Mark Wilson has compiled the most comprehensive magic “teach-in” ever assembled. More than 2,000 illustrations provide the know-how behind 300 techniques, from basic card tricks to advanced levitation, along with advice on planning and staging a professional-quality magic show.

It’s all here: Card Magic, Coin Magic, Rope Magic, Mental Magic, Make-at-Home Magic, Sponge Ball Magic, Billiard Ball Magic, Cups and Balls Magic, and Magical Illusions. Mark Wilson devoted more than two years of research, writing, and technical preparation to this book. More than 50,000 still photographs were taken of the detailed execution of the tricks considered worthy to include in this course, and these photographs were edited and converted into hundreds of simplified line drawings. The straightforward text follows Mark Wilson’s “step method” of magic instruction, the same method he has used to teach magic to Tony Curtis, Telly Savalas, Bill Bixby, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Faulk, Bernadette Peters, John Denver, and other professional entertainers. It’s thoroughness makes Mark Wilson’s Complete Course In Magic especially recommended for the beginner with absolutely no experience in magic. At the same time, its scope and depth has earned this book a place in the libraries of many of today’s most accomplished magicians, professional and amature alike!