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When I first sat down and con­sid­ered the value of the first vol­ume of this col­lec­tion I said:

There are many accepted clas­sic texts in card magic and this is almost cer­tainly one of them.

I’ll now take this state­ment fur­ther and say that vol­ume 2 has to be one of the 10 most impor­tant books on magic ever writ­ten. I have by no means read every magic book writ­ten, but I’ve seen enough to know qual­ity when I see it. This, the sec­ond and final vol­ume in Mr Elm­s­leys col­lected works, is qual­ity and cer­tainly deserves its place in my own per­sonal top ten.
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