Card Tricks Without Skill by Paul Clive

Card Tricks Without Skill

by Paul Clive

Faber and Faber, 1977, ISBN 0571089291, lightly illustrated with line drawings in text, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing to edges and corners, some creasing to covers, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“He describes over 120 tricks with cards, ranging from simple beginners’ magic like making four aces appear together, to complicated affairs needing an “identity pack” pre-arranged so that the conjuror knows every card in it… Mr. Clive, who is a member of the Inner Magic Circle, describes nearly all the known conjurers’ terms and artifices, false shuffles, knife-blade “forces”, “in-jogs” and other weirdly named didges which would make you worry about playing bridge or poker against  him.”