Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic

It's called bible for magic. Truly recommended.It has everything ranging from simple to complicated. It justifies the price. Go for it.

Delivered before time. Fabulous book to start magic

Great book but can't perform 35% tricks (you need magic materials like invisible thread or deck of magic card etc)

So expensive

One of the very best magic books, and at the prices of secondhand volumes, it is amazing value. Useful to the beginner and to more advanced magicians, looking to add to their performance skills and repertoire.

I have the 'pocket' smaller version. This has all of that book's contents, plus a lot more; plus the same but much larger illustrations. This is good for the beginner (as I am).

Whilst this book is written for an audience from a long time ago the material within is still incredibly relevant. Starting from complete basics skills are developed at a good speed. Okay the presentation may not be suitable for today's Dynamo generation, but the skills you'll learn here are still the same skills modern performers use.

It really is a Complete Course in Magic...not that you will learn everything but you will learn a wide range of styles of magic as well as the standard sleights within each area of magic: cards, coins, balls, rope, even stage magic. It has many excellent diagrams taking you through step-by-step and easy to follow instructions and nothing looks overly scary.Learning a few tricks and sleights from each section will allow you to do magic from all areas and most likely allow you to find which style you enjoy and therefore move into buying more advanced books on those subjects.I've used a few of the tricks and the cup & ball routine is an absolute stormer and the final reveal knocks them dead.

A bit dAted, needs re-writing to provide a more modern feel to the tricks. Some of the stuff is a little bit pointless and I would consider them as fillers. However in all fairness it provides an excellent range of tricks across the different spectrums of mAgic and is well worth the time invested, but you will need to think of a more modern context for some of these tricks to make them 21st century appropriate in terms of the patter provided to link the tricks to some sort of modern context for the participant.