Joshua Jay

"Looks at the psychology of magicians and their tricks."--

"25 ... illusions for young magicians: perform a Houdini-inspired escape, vanish your homework, scare the pants off your parents, levitate your brother, command a crowd"--Cover.

"Predict cards by osmosis. Throw a card across the room at high speed. Find the four Aces by barely lifting a finger. Master the false cut, the bridge, the tabled riffle shuffle, the two-handed fan. Using concise, easy-to-follow directions and step-by-step photographs, Joshua Jay shows how to do 29 truly amazing things with a deck of cards." -- "Originally published as Joshua Jay's Amazing Book of Cards, now revised and abridged." --copyright page....