The Royal Road to Card Magic - all the card tricks you need now with Video Clip downloads: Handy card tricks to amaze your friends now with video clip downloads - Softcover

Jean Hugard; Frederick Braue

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0572045875 ISBN 13: 9780572045876

Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd, 2015

Synopsis

The bible of card tricks now with video clip downloads so you can see the tricks that other books only tell you about.

The Royal Road to Card Magic is the go to book for card magic. Confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings using just a simple pack of cards. With the help of this book you can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks.

This new videobook edition of the greatest card magic book, offers the budding magician a brilliant introduction to sleight of hand magic. It includes more than 100 video clips to demonstrate the principles and practice of card magic. You will learn how to shuffle and present some astounding tricks.

The Royal Road to Card Magic videobook:

• Includes QR codes for 110 video downloads that fully demonstrate the techniques that underpin the tricks
• Presents simple sleights of hand and shuffles that you can amaze your audience with
• Ideal for the amateur or a great refresher for the professional, this classic card magic reference book is written in an open style that teaches and entertains
• Packed with key detail on each card trick, taking you through each trick step by step in text and video clips revealling the hand techniques to help you master your art
• Foreword by Jack Delvin, President of the Magic Circle, the world's premier magical society.

From classic principles and practice, to the art of presentation and a collection of astonishing tricks, everything you need is here. Learn how to do The Overhand Shuffle, The Riffle Shuffle, The Glide, The Glimpse, The Key Card, The Palm, The Backslip, False Shuffles and Cuts, The Double Lift and Turnover, The Hindu Shuffle, Top and Bottom Changes.

Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue have inspired a generation of magicians with this classic card magic book. This new edition that includes the original text with new videoclips will inspire you to succeed in baffling any audience.

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Review

The shortest and easiest route to successful card magic is a careful study of this indispensable book --Michael Bailey, President of the Magic Circle

From the Back Cover

Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings? Mastering a few card tricks will allow you to do all that and more. With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks. In fact, mastery of just the first chapter will enable you to perform a half-dozen astounding and entertaining sleights of hand.
The authors, both noted authorities on magic, present complete, easy-to-understand explanations of shuffles, flourishes, the glide, the glimpse, false shuffles and cuts, the pass, the classic force, and many other techniques. These will enable card handlers to perform over 100 mind-boggling feats of card magic, including Thought Stealer, Gray's Spelling Trick, Do as I Do, Now You See It, Obliging Aces, Rapid Transit, Kangaroo Card, A Tipsy Trick, and dozens of others. Illustrated with more than 120 clear line cuts that make the explanations easy to follow, this exciting introduction to card conjuring will enable even beginners to develop professional-level skill and the ability to perform tricks guaranteed to astound family and friends.
Unabridged Dover (1999) republication of the work published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1951 (first edition, Harper & Brothers, 1948).

Edition details

• Publisher: W Foulsham & Co Ltd
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0572045875
• ISBN 13: 9780572045876
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 288