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Purporting to be written by a six-hundred-year-old wizard, this tome offers novices instructions for creating their own props and performing sleight-of-hand illusions; the nine chapters include "Transfiguration and Shape-Shifting" and "Flying, Levitation, and Escapology." Considerable work went into this production, which features spot and full-page art. Unfortunately, the book's small print sometimes hampers legibility. Ind.