Billy McComb: The Professional Touch
McComb, Billy: The Professional Touch
©1987 William McComb, Martin Breese, England
Softcover, perfect-bound, 6.5x9.5", 129 pages

Also republished in hardcover
There was a revised edition in 2003
Billy McComb The Professional Touch
Image courtesy eBay seller Majuju

Comments: Originally transcribed by Own Griffiths. Edited by Martin Breese and David Britland. Cartoons by JAT.
Revised edition available from Lybrary.com.

Contents (from 1987 book ToC):

1 William's Words of Wisdom
5 McComb on Patter
12 McComb on Misdirection

16 The Professional Touch:
18 The Rice Bowls
21 William's Torn and Restored Newspaper
23 William's Presentation Wand
23 William's Fantastic Fez
25 William's Hot Book
26 William's Square Dancing
26 William's Fizzling Firework
26 The Eggs and Glasses Inertia Trick

30 McComb on Close Up:
30 Introduction
31 Cigarette Through Handkerchief
33 The Shrinking Napkin
35 Challenge Silk Vanish
37 Oliver MacKenzie's Drink Trick
38 George Blake's Recurring Card
38 Thoughts On The Pea Can
41 The End

43 McComb On Crusing

47 McComb on Opening Effects:
47 Six Card Repeat
48 Golf Ball Through Handkerchief
49 Torn and Restored Airmail Letter
50 Page Page's Easy Money
50 Leopard Silk
52 Just Chance
52 The Professor's Nightmare
53 Invisible Card Trick
53 Red and White Ropes
56 McComb on Cabaret
74 The Professional Nap Hand
97 The Professional Ring on Stick
112 The Professional Bill in Lemon


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