Royal Road to Card Magic

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Royal Road to Card Magic is a book written by Jean Hugard in 1948 (published by Harper & Brothers) with Fred Braue and illustrations by Frank Rigney.

They wrote this book to provide a stepping stone to the much harder and less accessible Expert Card Technique (1940).

Editions

• First edition, Harper & Brothers, 1948
• World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio 1951
• Dover 1999 (based on 1951 edition)

Contents

• Page XI: INTRODUCTION by Paul Flemming
• Page XV: PREFACE
• PART ONE
  • Page 003: I. "THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, I"
  • Page 028: II. THE RIFFLE SHUFFLE
  • Page 037: III. FLOURISHES
  • Page 053: IV. THE GLIDE
  • Page 059: V. THE GLIMPSE
  • Page 068: VI. THE KEY CARD
  • Page 082: VII. THE PALM
  • Page 109: VIII. THE BACKSLIP
  • Page 116: IX. "THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, II"
  • Page 131: X. FALSE SHUFFLES AND CUTS
  • Page 141: XI. THE DOUBLE LIFT AND TURNOVER
  • Page 153: XII. THE PASS
  • Page 166: XIII. MISCELLANEOUS FLOURISHES
• PART TWO
  • Page 177: XIV. THE REVERSES
  • Page 190: XV. THE HINDU SHUFFLE AND OTHER CONTROLS
  • Page 201: XVI. THE CLASSIC FORCE
  • Page 216: XVII. TOP AND BOTTOM CHANGES
  • Page 224: XVIII. ARRANGEMENTS
  • Page 236: XIX. ROUTINES
• PART THREE
  • Page 249: XX. PLATFORM TRICKS
    • Conus Ace Trick
    • Ladies' Looking Glass
    • Everywhere and Nowhere
    • Egyptian Pocket
    • Cards to the Pocket
    • Enlarging and Diminishing Cards
    • Everybody Card I
    • Everybody Card II
  • Page 289: Index

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