37 selected card tricks, 23 professional coin tricks, 25 mystifying effects with vanishing silks, 27 tricks with billiard balls, and 15 famous stage tricks with linking rings, Chinese rice bowls, goldfish bowls, tubes, wands, etc. Equipment, accessories, clothing, patter. Over 100 step-by-step illustrations. 9 rare photos of the greatest names in magic: Houdini, Thurston, Blackstone, Goldin, Chung Ling Soo, Madam Herrman, etc. 128 pages.