Card Tricks for Beginners (Dover Magic Books) by Wilfrid Jonson - Paperback

Here's an excellent guidebook for people who want to learn how to perform card tricks without having to spend wearisome hours practicing.

Thirteen diagrams and easy-to-follow directions provide the novice with fundamentals for successfully mastering more than 50 impressive techniques — among them The False Shuffle, The Corner Crimp, Sensitive Finger Tips, Palming, The Glide, The Slip Force, and Reading the Pack. No special dexterity is needed to successfully complete any of these methods.

With its special emphasis on presenting magic for the spectator's entertainment, Card Tricks for Beginners was acclaimed by Hugard's Magic Monthly as "extremely well done."