The Royal Road To Card Magic

by Jean Hugard

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
Sales rank:	196,342
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.19(d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	7
	Preface	9
Part 1
1.	The Overhand Shuffle 1	15
2.	The Riffle Shuffle	37
3.	Flourishes	47
4.	The Glide	61
5.	The Glimpse	67
6.	The Key Card	75
7.	The Palm	87
8.	The Backslip	111
9.	The Overhand Shuffle 2	119
10	False Shuffles and Cuts	133
11.	The Double Lift and Turnover	143
12.	The Pass	155
13.	Miscellaneous Flourishes	167
Part 2
14.	The Reverses	177
15.	The Hindu Shuffle and Other Controls	189
16.	The Force	201
17.	Top and Bottom Changes	215
18.	Arrangements	223
19.	Routines	235
Part 3
20.	Platform Tricks	247
	Index	281