First edition. Brown cloth with gilt stamping on spine, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, 202 pages. Cut to the jacket, else in good condition. A book describing "Marlo without cards," including his clever takes on many standard close-up tricks using common props. From the publisher: "While Ed Marlo was famous for his ingenious creations with cards, he also devoted a great deal of creativity to magic with other objects including coins, bills, cups and balls, silks, mentalism, dice, linking pins, sponge balls, chop cup, and various small tricks usually sold to kids such as the ball vase, magic frame, snapper, and much, much more. 67 effects and routines, some never before published." Out of print.