The book has lots of tricks, mostly sleight-free and apparatus-free, and emphasizes misdirection. I wish I'd had it when I as a beginner, but I'm glad to have it now. It's a Dover book called Big Book of Magic Tricks (1994). It's a reprint of the 1977 book, A Magic Book: A Conjurer's Collection of Dazzling Effects for Parlor and Platform. (I don't understand this last title, because most of the tricks seem to me to fall into the close-up category.)


I'm learning a lot from Fulves's book. The tricks are fun, and his take on misdirection is concrete, clearly explained, and somewhat unusal; for instance, he shows how routining tricks together appropriately can be a form of misdirection.


I hope this helps someone.


Bob

If I remember correctly there's an effect where you have a hat full of paper slips with trivia questions on them and you have two spectators take turns grabbing a slip and answering the questions. One spectator keep getting super easy questions and another get the toughest most impossible questions ever. Such a hilarious effect to do.