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.

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)



