Help us get to over 8,749 articles in 2024.
If you know of a magician not listed in MagicPedia, start a New Biography for them. Contact us at magicpediahelp@gmail.com
Difference between revisions of "Royal Road to Card Magic"
From Magicpedia, the free online encyclopedia for magicians by magicians.
(→Contents) |
(→Contents) |
||
Line 46: | Line 46: | ||
− | [[Category:Close | + | [[Category:Close Up Magic Books]] |
[[Category:Books published in 1948]] | [[Category:Books published in 1948]] |
Revision as of 06:29, 11 October 2009
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
- 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
- Page 249: XX. PLATFORM TRICKS