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Check these two links at Amazon:

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic, 1991, 472 pages, £2.73 from US

Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic, 2003, 472 pages, £10.49 (or £8.17 from US)

Does anyone know if the two books are any different? I mean, it'd be silly to buy the latest one if it's the same as the first one, surely?

...and I didn't mean to call you Shirley...

The top link is a pocket size version, which has less detail, but is still a cracking book!

boywonder wrote:The top link is a pocket size version, which has less detail, but is still a cracking book!

No it's not - I'm assuming you mean the cheaper one is Mark Wilson's 'Cyclopaedia' - it's not. It's simply an earlier published version of the same 'Complete Course in Magic.'

I'm reckoning both books are near enough identical because they both are 472 pages - can't be coincidence... can it?

Even allowing for P&P (which I think is £2.16 according to Amazon), you'd be getting the 1991 book for less than a fiver.

It must be worth it, I'd go for it.

Aside from the quality differences (the earlier edition being more thumbed through, possible torn pages, breaks in binding, etc.) these two books are exactly the same.

Mike.

Thanks Michael... the confirmation I was looking for.

Gonna place the order right now!!!

I'm amazed its being sold at that price - it's almost obscene. Are you sure that it is't the mini version. That mini book does seem to be just as thick.

I think it's that cheap purely because it's out of date. I'll let you know when I get it.

I'm basing my opinion on the pictures - they're both of the big book. Also, the older edition should be hard bound...I don't know if the newer edition is or not. Also, it's a matter of who's viewed it. More people are bidding on the one, but the other may have remained under "the radar." You never know...

Never the less, the pictures both appear to be of the big edition, and not the little book. Also, I'm positive that they have different amounts of pages.

Mike.

In July this year I bought the Mark Wilson Complete Course in Magic from Amazon it cost me £10.49 and I also bought Mark Wilson's Cyclopedia for £4.87.

The Complete Course has the publishing date 2002 and has 503 pages it is also a soft back cover. They also list the ISBN numbers as

Paperback 0-7624-1455-3
Hardback 0-7624-1532-0

Hope this helps

I thought the Cyclopedia was just a smaller version of the Complete Course in Magic and there was no point in having them both or is it a totally new trick book? because I like the complete course so if the cyclopedia has different tricks I might buy it.

Jon wrote:I thought the Cyclopaedia was just a smaller version of the Complete Course in Magic and there was no point in having them both or is it a totally new trick book? because I like the complete course so if the cyclopaedia has different tricks I might buy it.

Cyclopaedia is just a smaller version I bought both as Cyclopaedia is easier to carry about and read on the bus or while at work.

Also Amazon were doing a deal buying both saving me £7.76 on the cover price of the books

The smaller version is almost the same, but there is some editing to fit it all in that small size. It's much a digest.

Mike.