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This timeless material finally gets the treatment it deserves! The greatest collection of close-up tricks ever assembled between two covers, and Volume 1 has no card tricks included. Volume One's opening chapter, The Presentation of Close-Up Magic, embraces the whole approach to close-up performance. Hundreds of original illustrations by Dennis Patten. Volume Two features Phoa Yan Tiong's fantastic Cut and Restored Silk, Al Spackman's eerie and very baffling Miniature Rapping Hand, Rink's fabulous acrobatic Paper Clips and One Cup, Two Balls, Horace Bennett's Dissimilar Coin Thru Table, Bobby Bernard's terrific coin routine, Melted and Mirage, Jens Korth's brilliant Gambling Routine with Poker Chips, Lewis Ganson's tribute to Dai Vernon - Three Rings for Vernon. Hardbound, printed on acid-free paper, matching endsheets. [editor summary]

Great set of books on the magic of Slydini. The first volume contains 101 pages of text and the second volume contains 176 pages of photographs so you can follow step by step in learning Slydini's magic. Ten chapters on some of Slydini's greatest routines including his Close-Up Miracles, Slydini on Rope Magic, Cards in Close Up, Torn & Restored Newspaper, More Slydini Coin Classics, The Coin Clip, Slydini’s Silk Knots, Slydini’s Sympathetic Silks Routine, Close Up Classics, and the complete Slydini Linking Ring Routine.

Great set of books on the magic of Slydini. The first volume contains 101 pages of text and the second volume contains 176 pages of photographs so you can follow step by step in learning Slydini's magic. Ten chapters on some of Slydini's greatest routines including his Close-Up Miracles, Slydini on Rope Magic, Cards in Close Up, Torn & Restored Newspaper, More Slydini Coin Classics, The Coin Clip, Slydini’s Silk Knots, Slydini’s Sympathetic Silks Routine, Close Up Classics, and the complete Slydini Linking Ring Routine.

This magic volume series was originally designed as a correspondence course for budding magicians. Once they were collected and bound, the series has become an unparalleled reference standard for magicians. In its impact on the magic world, it is second perhaps in its influence on the art of magic only to Hoffman's Modern Magic, and many professional magicians have based their careers on the Tarbell Course.

The entire collection comprises more than one-hundred lessons in every aspect of magic including micromagic/close-up magic, escapology, mentalism and stage illusions. It is the most comprehensive literary work in magic history. The original five volumes contained sixty correspondence lessons with more than 3,000 illustrations.

In addition to teaching specific tricks, The Tarbell Course also teaches patter, marketing, the history of magic, ethics, advertising, routining, presentation, diction and elocution, magic theory, performance theory, acting, misdirection, timing and showmanship.

Volume 7 of the series was written by Harry Lorayne and compiled from contributions by other magicians; it is valued largely for its comprehensive index, subdivided by title, contributor, and properties, to the first seven volumes.

Volume 8 of the series was compiled and edited by Richard J. Kaufman and Steve Burton. It collected Harlan Tarbell's widely scattered and previously uncollected writings on magic, which Kaufman then fashioned into something resembling the first six volumes of the course. Since most of the book was written and illustrated by Tarbell, it is linked more closely to the rest of the course than Volume 7.