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Royal Road to Card Magic
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
Royal Road to Card Magic is a classic book by Jean Hugard and Fred Braue with illustrations by Frank Rigney that was first published in 1948.
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
- INTRODUCTION by Paul Flemming
- PREFACE
- PART ONE
- I. "THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, I"
- II. THE RIFFLE SHUFFLE
- III. FLOURISHES
- IV. THE GLIDE
- V. THE GLIMPSE
- VI. THE KEY CARD
- VII. THE PALM
- VIII. THE BACKSLIP
- IX. "THE OVERHAND SHUFFLE, II"
- X. FALSE SHUFFLES AND CUTS
- XI. THE DOUBLE LIFT AND TURNOVER
- XII. THE PASS
- XIII. MISCELLANEOUS FLOURISHES
- PART TWO
- XIV. THE REVERSES
- XVI. THE CLASSIC FORCE
- XVII. TOP AND BOTTOM CHANGES
- XVIII. ARRANGEMENTS
- XIX. ROUTINES
- PART THREE
- XX. PLATFORM TRICKS
