The Royal Road to Card Magic

The Royal Road to Card Magic

by Jean Hugard
The Royal Road to Card Magic

The Royal Road to Card Magic

by Jean Hugard

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Overview

This antiquarian volume contains an easy-to-digest and novice-friendly guide to learning card tricks, with descriptions and instructions designed to teach the reader a number of shuffling techniques and related tricks. Written in clear, plain language and full of useful illustrations, this guide will appeal to the novice magician and those with an interest in learning card tricks. It is not to be missed by the discerning collector of such literature. The chapters of this book include: 'The Overhead Shuffle', 'Using the Overhand Shuffle', 'Controlling the Top Card', 'Retaining the Top and Bottom Cards in Position', 'Top Card to Next to Bottom and Back to the Top', 'Pinkie Does It', 'A Card and a Number', 'Displaying the Top Card', etcetera. This volume is being republished now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially-commissioned introduction on magic tricks.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781443734547
Publisher: Pomona Press
Publication date: 11/04/2008
Pages: 458
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.19(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword7
Preface9
Part 1
1.The Overhand Shuffle 115
2.The Riffle Shuffle37
3.Flourishes47
4.The Glide61
5.The Glimpse67
6.The Key Card75
7.The Palm87
8.The Backslip111
9.The Overhand Shuffle 2119
10False Shuffles and Cuts133
11.The Double Lift and Turnover143
12.The Pass155
13.Miscellaneous Flourishes167
Part 2
14.The Reverses177
15.The Hindu Shuffle and Other Controls189
16.The Force201
17.Top and Bottom Changes215
18.Arrangements223
19.Routines235
Part 3
20.Platform Tricks247
Index281
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