The original ad read:

Secrets for the tricks in this book, if purchased separately from magic supply houses, would cost well over $1000. Here, in non-technical language, are hundreds of tricks that require no special apparatus; tricks that can be performed with simple, common objects to be found anywhere. Tricks with coins, rope, handkerchiefs, cigarettes, rubber bands, pencils, playing cards - objects completely free of trickery. Includes complete routines for a close-up act, a mental act, a children's show, and a catalog of magic and merchandise.

• Hundreds of self-working tricks that require no skill
• Tricks for anytime, anywhere (at the dinner table, at the card table, at a party)
• Ice breakers for business dealings
• Easily constructed illusions
• Close-up routines with silks, cards, coins
• Mental magic
• How to buy tricks
• A gallery of legendary magicians
• Reproduction of the old classic The Black Art Exposed

Neil Foster wrote in the New Tops:

"Puts Magic in the Now! I recommend this book to everyone interested in the Art of Magic, be he amateur or professional. For the first time in decades a book has finally come along that puts Magic in the contemporary scene, all the dusty old myths have past into oblivion."

• About The Author
• You Can Do Great Magic Tricks
• The Ground Rules Of Magic
• Any Time, Anywhere
  • The Impossible Knot
  • The Instant One-Hand Knot
  • The Snap Knot
  • The Phantom Knot
  • Silk Through The Body
  • Take Your Choice
  • The Blow Knot
  • Triple Choice
  • Penetration
  • Instant Off And On
  • Pin-A-Ribbon
  • Impossible Penetration
  • The Indian Rice Mystery
  • Burned And Restored Borrowed Bill
  • Dollar Bill In Cigarette
  • The Great Coat Trick
  • The Priceless Cups
  • The Sponge Balls
  • The Vanishing Coat Hanger
  • Paradise Dice Routine
• With Dessert And Coffee
  • The Vanishing Spoon
  • Heads Or Tails
  • The Coin And Glass Illusion
  • Silver Through Glass
  • Borrowed Ring On Pencil
  • Woofle Dust And Ice
  • Knife Penetration
  • The Numerology Trick
  • The Magic Square
• At The Card Table
  • Mathematical Aces
  • "Your Choice" Four Aces
  • Choice Prediction
  • Miraskill, By Stewart James
  • Mental Card Sandwich
  • How To Force A Card
  • Super-Speller
  • Safety Check Speller
  • The Torn Deck Miracle
  • False Shuffles
  • Simplex Poker Deal
  • The Piano Trick
  • Think Stop
  • The Twelve-Card Count
  • The Golden Miracle
  • You Do As I Do
  • You, Card Manipulator
  • In Your Hat
  • The Card On The Ceiling
  • Al Baker's Impossible Card Location
  • Sheer Nerve
  • Another "Think Of A Card"
  • Follow-Up Card In Pocket
  • Countdown
  • Double Reverse
  • Stabbing A Card
  • Another Card Stabbing
  • Restoring A Torn Card
  • Simulcast
  • Dublo-Cation
  • Want More Card Tricks?
• At A Party
  • The Telephone Card Trick
  • Swindles
  • "Gag" Three-Card Monte
  • The "Glide" Find The Lady
  • The Australian Belt
  • The Shell Game
  • Thirty-One
  • A Ring, A Quarter And A Hankie
  • After-Dinner Mints
  • Find The Body
• Ice Breakers
  • Clipped For A Snappy Buck
  • Keep It Brief
  • Matching Pennies
  • Sympathetic Coins
  • A Knotty Problem
  • Print Your Own
  • The Indestructible Rubber Band
  • The Jumping Band
  • The Rubber Pencil
• You're A Mindreader!
  • The Sex Indicator
  • Think Of A Finger!
  • Mental Choice
  • One Chance In Ten
  • The Hoax "Think Of A Card"
  • Three-Way Prediction
  • The Three-Digit Test
  • Money Talks
  • Simple Book Test
  • Intermediary
  • Stopping The Pulse
  • Message Reading
  • Matchbook Mind Reading
  • The Window Envelope
  • A Clean Revelation
  • The Sealed Question Answering Act
  • "In The Dark" Mindreading
  • A Message From Zographos
  • Newmann's Numbers
  • Dowsing Rods
  • Pseudo-Psychometry
  • Par-Optic Vision
• Coin Tricks
  • The Classic Coin Fold
  • The No-Sleight Coin Vanish
  • The Han Ping Chien Coin Trick
  • The Miser's Dream
  • Coins Across
  • Coin Con
  • Mindreading With Coins
  • Breaking A Bill
  • The Bending Coin
  • The Sympathetic Coins
  • Chips Are Money
  • Heads Or Tails
• The Challenge 100-Foot Rope Escape
• A Spectacular Illusion
  • The Nest Of Boxes
  • Four Ads
  • The Gift Of The Magi
• A Close-Up Routine
• The Silk Routine
  • Double-Knot Vanish
  • World's Fastest Knot
  • World's Fastest Bow-Tie
  • Bracelet From Silk
  • Silk Through The Arm
  • The Silk Routine
• Impromptu Close-Up Routine
  • The Bill Switch
  • Bracelet Over Rubber Band
  • The Bracelet On The String
  • Threading The Needle
  • On Again, Off Again
  • The Paddle Trick
  • The Rapping Pencil
  • The Telephone Book Test
• Routine With Borrowed Cards
  • Magic Or Mindreading
• Card Routine With A Stacked Deck
• "Kit" Impromptu Table Routine
  • Square Knot Cut And Restored Rope
  • The Afghan Bands
• Close-Up Mental Routine
  • Living And Dead Test
  • Psychic Drawing
  • Spectator And Slate
  • The Rapping Cricket
  • Matchbook Mindreading
• A Routine For A Children's Show
  • Torn And Restored Paper Napkin
  • Allah Palooza
  • Hydrostatic Glass
  • Bananas
  • The Educated Snake
  • The Rabbit Tubes
  • Popping Corn In A Borrowed Hat
• You're On-Stage
• Club Act Routine
  • Rope-Stretching
  • Ropes Around The Neck
  • Block And Cord
  • Bananas
  • Heavy Water
  • The Needle Trick
  • The Card In The Orange
  • Great Performers
• Where Do We Go From Here?
• Let's Buy A Trick
• The Collector
  • Robert-Houdin
  • Harry Houdini
  • Okito
  • Alexander Herrmann
  • Harry Kellar
  • Maskelyne's Mysteries
  • Harry Blackstone
  • John Mulholland
  • Howard Thurston
• The Black Art, Fully Exposed And Laid Bare
• Acknowledgements
  • About The Cover