Also known as Al Baker's First Book, this work helped establish a reputation for this New York performer with its strong, entertaining effects.

And the tricks are just as good today.

For example, magicians, mentalists and psychic entertainers will want to put "Al Baker's Billet Mystery" and the "One Man 'Lights Up' Séance" on their programs right away.

And those are just two of the many baffling effects explained.

Al Baker, who would later become the Dean of Magic for the Society of American Magicians, set the magic world on fire with the 16 effects in this collection.

The tricks are well (and amusingly) illustrated by magician-mystery author Clayton Rawson.

Contents:

• Al Baker's Pack That Cuts Itself
• The One Man "Lights Up" Séance
• A Card and a Number
• Al Baker's Pet Hat Trick
• Al Baker's Rising Cards
• Feel My Pulse!
• The Al Baker Wrist Tie
• The Impossible Card Discovery
• Cards of Thought
• Al Baker's Addition Trick
• Another Rope is Cut — and Restored!
• The Finger Points
• The Matchmakers
• "Say When!"
• Al Baker's Billet Mystery
• The Self-Unknotting Handkerchief

Reviews:

"'Say When,' an effect with cards, has always made a hit and I know you will use it. Every effect [is] good and well worthwhile." (Max Holden) "A great book." (Annemann) "It is extremely doubtful whether any book, regardless of price, contains more professional material and truly valuable information than does this book." (Dunninger) "The first trick in the book, 'The Pack that Cuts Itself' is still perhaps the best trick one can do with cards." (David Regal)

Magic World revised and expanded edition includes two added chapters, an added illustration, and several edits.

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