Bücher von Al Baker

This book contains a practical and accessible guide to performing magic tricks, with a focus on illusion, mind-reading, and card tricks. This timeless guide is written in clear, plain language and includes many detailed illustrations, making it ideal for the novice magician and those looking to fool or impress their family and friends. Contents include: ¿First Lesson in Mind Reading Technique¿, ¿The Baker Switch¿, ¿Bill-epathy¿, ¿New Light on the Center Tear¿, ¿The Baker Method of Reading the Great Tear¿, ¿Co-Incidentally¿, ¿Telephone Masteries¿, ¿A Telemirakel¿, ¿Over the Phone¿, ¿Mental Magic Effects¿, ¿Baker¿s Eight Card Trick¿, etcetera. Al Baker (1874 - 1951) was a professional magician famous for inventing a large number of now-common magic tricks. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.