Wilfrid Jonson: 2 books

Here's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing. Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques — among them...

Two excellent books for beginners, bound together in a single volume, ground novices in the fundamentals and lead them to a mastery of 80 different tricks. These illusions involve cards, coins, matches, tumblers, handkerchiefs, and other articles associated with legerdemain. Particular emphasis on presenting magic for entertainment of spectators. 89 illustrations.