Product Description
Every magician should have a few card tricks up his sleeve.
Hugard and Braue are the undisputed authorities on card tricks, and the Royal Road to Card Magic is the best introduction to card tricks. This value version of their book is a complete course, with easy to understand explanations with step-by-step illustrations.
'I just got this book and have read around 15 pages as well as skimming through it. It is excellent. I've already bought several complete course in magic type books that had basic sleights, but this one explains them SO MUCH BETTER!' Online reviewer.
The writers assume you are starting as a complete novice, so the first chapters teach you how to hold and correctly shuffle a deck of cards. The following chapters introduce you to simple and very useful moves, including the glide, the glimpse, false shuffles and false cuts. Anyone can do these moves with a little practice. Finally, you'll be introduced to the double lift, the pass and the palm. There are no dispiriting difficult sleights, no moves that require months of practice.
Each chapter introduces tricks you can perform with each move. After the first chapter, you will be able to perform a half-dozen astounding and entertaining sleights of hand.
'If you're a card magician who hasn't read this book, you're not a card magician. Every magician needs to read this book cover to cover, because it has many, many of the most basic sleights in card magic as well as routines and card tricks that are still used today. The book itself is very easy to read and the descriptions are easy to understand.' Online reviewer.
Royal Road to Card Magic teaches you over 100 mind-boggling feats of card magic, from close up magic for an audience of one, to card magic for a large audience, 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 drawings that make the explanations easy to follow, this exciting introduction to card conjuring will enable beginners to develop professional-level skill and the ability to perform tricks guaranteed to astound family and friends.
You will receive: the value edition of the Royal Road to Magic, printed in India, with 292 pages, 20 chapters and with 121 clear illustrations.
