Now you see it, Now you Don’t!

SYNOPSIS:

Now You See It, Now You Don’t!: Lessons in Sleight of Hand is Bill Tarr’s heavily illustrated introduction to practical manipulation and close-up magic. Using more than 1,500 step-by-step drawings by Barry Ross, the book teaches the hand positions, grips, transfers, vanishes, productions, flourishes, and switches needed to perform classic sleight-of-hand effects with ordinary or easily obtained props. 

The material includes card handling and flourishes, coin vanishes and transpositions, Three-Card Monte, the Three-Shell Game, Cups and Balls, Cut and Restored Rope, Miser’s Dream, cigarette vanishes, thimble work, and a basic billiard-ball routine. Rather than functioning only as a trick collection, it concentrates on teaching reusable techniques and then demonstrates how those moves can be applied in complete effects. 

Now you see it, now you dont!

Book Details:

Author/Creator: Bill Tarr
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Year: 1976
Subjects: Cards, Coins, Ropes, Billiard Balls, Everyday Objects, Close-Up Magic
Pages: 224
Skill Level: Beginner
Availability: Amazon

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• introduction (p. 9)

• how to use this book (p. 11)

• cards (p. 18)

• about cards (p. 20)

• palming (p. 22)

• the pass (p. 24)

• “say when” pass (p. 26)

• pass flourish (p. 28)

• double-lift (p. 30)

• false shuffle one (p. 32)

• false shuffle two (p. 33)

• false triple cut (p. 34)

• hindu shuffle (p. 36)

• force (p. 38)

• riffle force (p. 40)

• glide (p. 42)

• a quicky card trick (p. 43)

• card transposition (p. 44)

• five card trick (p. 46)

• spelling trick (p. 48)

• upside down card (p. 50)

• the changing card trick (p. 52)

• three card monte (p. 54)

• card flourishes (p. 56)

• riffle shuffle (p. 58)

• weave shuffle (p. 59)

• tips on fanning (p. 60)

• thumb fan (p. 62)

• spring fan (p. 63)

• reverse fan (p. 64)

• one-hand fan (p. 65)

• one hand reverse fan (p. 66)

• diminishing fan (p. 67)

• twin fans (p. 68)

• giant fan (p. 69)

• peel away fan (p. 70)

• peel away fan in reverse (p. 71)

• fan away pack (p. 72)

• water fall (p. 74)

• springing the cards (p. 75)

• charlier pass (p. 76)

• knuckle cut (p. 78)

• new changing card (p. 80)

• card bits (p. 82)

• boomerang card (p. 84)

• card throwing (p. 85)

• card spreads (p. 86)

• back and front palm (p. 88)

• coins (p. 90)

• palming coins (p. 92)

• coin gimmicks (p. 94)

• toss vanish (p. 96)

• flick vanish (p. 98)

• multiple coin vanish (p. 99)

• coin switch (p. 100)

• pocket vanish (p. 101)

• thumb palm vanish (p. 102)

• thumb palm switch (p. 103)

• sleeving (p. 104)

• coin production move (p. 106)

• rising coin (p. 107)

• coin roll (p. 108)

• fingertip coin production (p. 109)

• impromptu coin routine (p. 110)

• come back coins (p. 112)

• coins through table (p. 114)

• misers dream (p. 116)

• balls (p. 118)

• balls and ball gimmicks (p. 120)

• palming balls (p. 122)

• french drop (p. 124)

• top-of-fist-vanish (p. 126)

• bottom-of-fist-vanish (p. 127)

• palm vanish (p. 128)

• finger tip production (p. 130)

• palm roll vanish (p. 131)

• recoveries (p. 132)

• ball acquitment (p. 134)

• color change (p. 136)

• bill tarr continuous ball production (p. 138)

• ball roll (p. 140)

• elevator (p. 141)

• basic multiplying ball moves (p. 142)

• basic billiard ball routine (p. 144)

• shell color change (p. 146)

• shell vanish (p. 147)

• basic sponge ball vanish (p. 148)

• fist vanish (p. 149)

• mini sponge ball routine (p. 150)

• cups and balls moves (p. 152)

• a cups and balls routine (p. 154)

• thimbles (p. 156)

• thimble palming (p. 158)

• thimble gimmicks (p. 159)

• basic thimble vanish (p. 160)

• see-through vanish (p. 162)

• thumb vanish (p. 164)

• push vanish (p. 165)

• thimble hop (p. 166)

• pop thimble recovery (p. 167)

• the jumping thimble (p. 168)

• cigarettes and silks (p. 170)

• palming cigarettes (p. 172)

• cigarette gimmicks (p. 173)

• basic cigarette vanish (p. 174)

• palm vanish (p. 175)

• thumb tip vanish (p. 176)

• impromptu production (p. 178)

• mini-routine (p. 180)

• tap vanish (p. 182)

• cigarette roll (p. 183)

• lit cigarette production (p. 184)

• silks (p. 186)

• silk gimmicks (p. 187)

• vanishing knot (p. 188)

• instant knot (p. 189)

• untying silk (p. 190)

• color-changing silk (p. 192)

• pocket vanish (p. 194)

• bare-hand silk production (p. 196)

• tricks (p. 198)

• torn and restored paper (p. 200)

• torn and restored cigarette paper (p. 202)

• bits and tricks with matches (p. 204)

• changing spots (p. 206)

• cut and restored rope (p. 208)

• three shell game (p. 210)

• the stretching-thumb trick (p. 212)

• upside down george (p. 213)

• magical stunts (p. 214)

• vanishing salt shaker (p. 216)

• stretching a rope (p. 218)

• glossary (p. 220)

• a few magical references (p. 222)

• about the author (p. 224)

• about the illustrator (p. 224)

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