This booklet is the perfect primer for budding card magicians. Since its first printing in 1976, hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold - and keep selling, year after year. A new full-color cover has brought this classic publication up to date. Inside are tried and tested tricks that can be performed with any deck of cards - and with little sleight of hand or special ability. These are tricks that literally be mastered in minutes!

You show your audience a small black plastic tube with two silver caps on the ends. You show the tube to be completely empty and hand it out to the audience to examine. You then show a small silk handkerchief and make it vanish! After showing your hands to be empty, you open the tube and remove the silk! Everything can again be examined.

The magician picks up the lighter he has been using his whole act and puts it at the end of a table or the edge of a glass. He then walks away, and begins to concentrate his psychokinetic powers on the lighter itself. After only a few seconds, the lighter starts to wobble until it finally falls from the table or the glass.

"I thought CDs were out as a way of learning about magic, but this one by Anthony Owen proves I was wrong. You just have to hear him speak to get the full inspirational effect of his amazing story. This is someone who consciously turned himself into a success, and I really enjoyed hearing him explain just how he did it. When he gives advice, Anthony is stimulating, exhilarating and motivating. But, above all, he is right!" Geoffrey Durham, star of TV's The Best of Magic and Countdown.

Borrow two bills of different denominations, say a One and a Five, or a Ten , or a Twenty, or a Fifty, or a Hundred! Each bill is folded into eighths. The bills are held together and placed in a spectator's hand, which closes around them. The performer reaches into the spectator's closed fist and removes the One Dollar bill. The bill is waved in the air and suddenly changes into the other borrowed bill. The spectator is directed to open her hand... only to discover that she has the One Dollar bill! The bills have magically switched places!!

The magician displays two jokers and places them on the table. Next, a spectator is asked to select a card and to sign it across the face. The card is then returned to the deck. The Jokers are picked up from the table, and one card is trapped between them-but it is the wrong card. Magically and visually, the wrong card changes into the spectator's signed selection! Of course the spectator may keep their card as a souvenir.