Mark Wilson's Greatest Close-Up Magic Tricks: More Than Forty Amazing Illusions for Close Examination

by Mark Wilson

Offers instructions for a variety of hand tricks that can be performed in an intimate setting, including the "Triple Rope Trick," the "Broken and Restored Match," and "Bill in a Lemon"

Genres: Magic

96 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

James "Mark" Wilson (born 1929) is an American magician and author. He is widely credited as becoming the first major "television magician" and in the process establishing the viability of illusion shows as a television format.

Reviews

[Grant Mccormick]

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Author's purpose
The Author's purpose for writing this book it to entertain the public in a way of magic. Mr. Wilson is a very skilled magician and has many amazing tricks and illusions that he wants to inform the public about. He really focused on the aspect of people being able to understand the tricks. This makes his book more interesting and fun to read.

Theme
The theme of this book is practice makes perfect. Mr. Wilson wasn’t just born good at magic. The point is if you practice the tricks and illusions and you too will be as good as Mr. Wilson Himself.

Style
The Style of this book is informational. Mr. Wilson writes his book so anyone can learn how to do magic tricks.

My Opinion
My opinion of Mr. Wilson's book is good because i like magic and for someone to use their time writing a book for people to have doing tricks is very nice and unselfish. i would recommend this book to people who like reading books about magic and likes to do magic tricks themselves.

[Afrojack · Rating 2 out of 5]

I think this book will be pretty good to me to learn tricks