This is from a Private Estate in Good Condition. This is a hardcover book with the original dust jacket.  The dust jacket has the usual normal wear along the edges and is yellow from age.  There is a tear near the spine on the front cover of the dust jacket and an old price tag as well.  The hardcover book and pages are in great shape.

Copyright 1983

This innovative new book from John F. Mendoza, the author of The Book of John presents new and radically different approaches to close-up magic. The material herein is comprised of methods from some of the best close-up workers throughout Europe and the United States. Names like Geoffrey Latta, Jamy Swiss, Philippe Warein, Dan O'Donoghue, and Paviato Aurelio, perhaps unknown to you now, but real, working magicians here and abroad, grace the pages of this book. These people present for you some of the best material right out of their working repertories. 

Paviato Aurelio, of Milan, Italy, presents two of the effects he actually used in the F.I.S.M. competition in Lausanne, Switzerland where he tied for First Place in the close-up contest with Michael Ammar of the U.S.

In addition, John F. Mendoza, the author himself, presents three of his own items, tow which non-sleight of hand people will find refreshing and easy-to-do, yet still powerful and effective.

Sit back, study, learn, and enjoy for the material in these pages can make you look like a real close-up expert. Each routine has stood the acid test of performance before the paying public. Each routine has succeeded in that test. So, too, can you.