Magic For Beginners by Harry Baron

Harry Baron performed magic for over sixty years and was a Member of the Inner Magic Circle with the coveted Gold Star. His books have sold around the world and have been translated into many languages. Apart from writing Magic for Beginners he produced instructions for hundreds of other tricks. He owned his own magic studio and manufactured apparatus for amateurs and professionals. As a result of managing the conjuring department of the famous Gamages store for nearly thirty years, he met most of the world's leading magicians. He lectured and taught conjuring to professional groups, as well as giving entertainment talks and demonstrations on magic to enthusiastic audiences.

This ebook is designed to inspire and guide beginners of any age and the information within its pages teaches the magic that any top professional magician would be happy to perform. The minimum of apparatus is required and many tricks simply draw upon the odds and ends that can be found in most homes; coins, cards, envelopes, pens, safety pins, ribbons, rope, rings and other simple items. Anyone with the desire to learn conjuring and prepared to practice is guaranteed to learn some quite baffling magical tricks from within the pages of this practical and useful ebook.

1st edition 1993, original 154 pages; PDF 112 pages.
word count: 34366 which is equivalent to 137 standard pages of text