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The Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard & Fred Braue

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The younger generation of card magicians probably knows or has heard of Card College by Roberto Giobbi. The Royal Road to Card Magic is very similar but of older vintage and doesn't cover as much ground. It introduces the novice into the art of card magic one move and principle at a time, always with tricks accompanying the moves. It is therefore not a mindless list of moves but a well prepared and thought out textbook. It will take the beginner to an intermediate level. Once The Royal Road to Card Magic has been mastered one can move on to Expert Card Technique which requires a higher skill level.

Actually because Expert Card Technique did not sell well when it was originally published in the 40s, Hugard and Braue wrote The Royal Road to Card Magic to provide a stepping stone to the much harder and less accessible Expert Card Technique.

first published in 1951 by World Publishing Company in Cleveland; several reprints, ex. Dover 1999; 292 pages

Table of Contents

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Introduction by Paul Fleming Preface Part One I. The Overhand Shuffle, I Position of the Pack in the Hands Execution of the Overhand Shuffle Using the Overhand Shuffle Controlling the Top Card Controlling the Bottom Card Retaining the Top and Bottom Cards in Position Top Card to Next to Bottom and Back to the Top The Run The Injog The Undercut Overhand Shuffle Control Retaining Top Stock Overhand False Shuffle Overhand Shuffle Practive Routine Tricks with the Overhand Shuffle Topsy-Turvy Cards A Poker Player's Picnic A Pocket Discovery Telepathy Plus Thought Stealer Pinkie Does It A Card and a Number II. The Riffle Shuffle Riffle Shuffle Control Retaining a Card at the Top of the Deck Retaining the Bottom Card or Cards Riffle Shuffle in the Air Tricks with the Riffle Shuffle An Instinct for Cards Mirror of the Mind Ultra Card Divination III. Flourishes Displaying the Top Card The Ruffle The Click Spread and Turnover Gathering the Ribbon-Spread Pack Springing the Cards A Flourish Count Throwing a Card Waterfall Shuffle The Fan One-Hand Fan Thumb Fan Pressure Fan IV. The Glide Design for Laughter The Observation Test V. The Glimpse Bottom-Card Glimpse I Bottom-Card Glimpse II Bottom-Card Glimpse III Top-Card Glimpse I Fan Peek Tricks with the Glimpse Gray's Spelling Trick Round and Round VI. The Key Card The Key Undercut Key Undercut Shuffle Tricks with the Key Card Do as I Do The Three Piles The Twenty-Sixth Card A Meeting of the Minds The Non-Poker Voice Intuition with Cards Sliding Key Card VII. The Palm Top Palm I (Single Card) Top Palm II (Several Cards) Palm Glimpse Replacing Palmed Cards Tricks with the Palm Card in the Pocket Now You See It! Grab-Bag Card Good-Luck Card Do It and Fail Gathering of the Clan Spring Catch A Vested Interest Piano Trick VIII. The Backslip Backslip Force Backslip Control Tricks with the Backslip Lightning Card The Tantalizer Under Your Hat IX. The Overhand Shuffle, II Injog and Break Overhand Break Control Overhand Lift Shuffle Lift Shuffle Force Spread and Break Holding a Break Spread and Break Control Tricks with the Overhand Shuffles The Sevens Obliging Aces Leapfrog Spectator's Card Trick A Poker Puzzle		X. False Shuffles and Cuts Optical Shuffle Charlier Shuffle The Cut Palm Cut Tricks with the Shuffles and Cuts An Incomprehensible Divination Circus Card Trick Black Jack, Detective XI. The Double Lift and Turnover Double-Lift Glimpse Double-Lift Card Reverses Rapid Transit The Trey Ambitious Card Throughth and Consequences Insidious Dr. Fu Liu Tu XII. The Pass Riffle Pass Spread Pass Spring Pass Tricks with the Pass Off Agin, On Agin, Finnegin! Kangaroo Card Righting a Wrong Blindfolded Pack Double Speller XIII. Miscellaneous Flourishes Color Change Double Color Change The Changing Card Self-Cutting Deck A Pretty Cut Pop-Up Card A Bit of Byplay Charlier Cut Acrobatic Aces Part Two XIV. The Reverses First Method Second Method Third Method Fourth Method Reversed Location Tricks with the Reverses Spellbound A Tipsy Trick Double Reverse Mentalivity Mountebank Miracle XV. The Hindu Shufle and other Controls Hindu Shuffle Control Hindu Shuffle Force Hindu Shuffle Glimpse The Step Natural Jog Twelve-Down Riffle Tricks with the Hindu Shuffle All Change Here Ewephindit XVI. The Classic Force One-Hand Force Bottom Force Slide-Out Force Two-Card Force Riffle-Break Force Sliding-Key Force Double-Lift Force Cut Force Tricks with the Force Justice Card Trick Fours of a Kind Pulse Trick XVII. Top and Bottom Changes Top Change The Changing Card Top-Change Byplay Bottom Change Top and Bottom Changes XVIII. Arrangements Tricks with Arrangements The Selective Touch A Future in Cards Jacks Wild Think Stop Deal Away The Educated Cards Reds and Blacks XIX. Routines Routining Card Tricks A Table Routine Card-Discovery Routine Razzle-Dazzle Routine Part Three XX. Platform Tricks Conus Ace Trick Ladies' Looking Glass Everywhere and Nowhere Egyptian Pocket Cards to the Pocket Enlarging and Diminishing Cards Three Cards Across Everybody's Card I Everybody's Card II Index

word count: 94588 which is equivalent to 378 standard pages of text

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Reviewed by Robin Z
Rating: [5 of 5 Stars!] Date Added: Sunday 20 January, 2008
A classic in magic!
I can't accurately express how important this book is for a card magician. This book will teach all of the basic techniques for cards. This includes False Shuffles, Double Lifts, Hindu Shuffles, The Pass and many more. Along with the techniques you will find tricks that use the handling you have just learned.
If you really take the time to learn all of the techniques, as well as some of the tricks you will be better than most amateur card magicians.

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