The Complete Encyclopedia of Close-Up Magic - By Walter B. Gibson / MAGIC MAKERS Pages: 426 - 7" x 10" - Softcover This definitive work features instructions for hundreds of classic, audience-pleasing manipulative and impromptu illusions. Entertain your friends, acquire magic skill and build your self-confidence by mastering tricks like these... COIN MAGIC

• Downs Palm

• False Drop

• Fist Vanish

• Palm-to-Palm Change  

BILLIARD BALL MAGIC

• Fingertip and Fist Productions

• French Drop

• Change-overs, Transfers and Flashes

• Two-Way Twirl

• Special Color Change  

THIMBLE MAGIC

• Color Changes

• Thumb and Thimble

• Four-to-Eight Production

• Productions and Vanishes  

MENTAL MAGIC

• Message Reading

• Through the Crystal

• Cards and Dice

• Number Prediction

• Sixth Card - Sixth Sense  

MATCHBOX MAGIC

• Modern Magnetic Matches

• Matchbox Vanish

• Penetrating Matches

• Turnabout Heads  

TABLE MAGIC

• Magic Sugar Lumps

• Coins Through Table

• Magnetic Pencils

• Salt Vanish  

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• Coin Through Handkerchief

• Triple-Knot Trick

• Okito Coin Box

• Restored Paper Napkin

• Color-Changing Silk