Encyclopedia of Card Tricks

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD TRICKS
EDITED BY
JEAN HUGARD
In the first decades of the twentieth century magicians fiiled the magic journals with artides on card tricks, giving improvements on classic iricks and inventing new ones. If you could put together a collection of these niagazines you would have almost a completc course on card tricks, by sonie of the world's greatest magicians. But where could you find these journals now that they are probablv collector's items? And even if you could find them, how much would such a collection cost? Not very much. Because all the best of these tricks are available in this one monumental book, con-taining nearly every practical card trick produced, invented and improved by magicians over a span of forty years and more.
A truly staggering collection, this book explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks: impromptu card tricks, spelling tricks, "you do as I do" tricks, diachylon (a paste for gluing cards together) tricks,... Tovább

Fülszöveg

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD TRICKS
EDITED BY
JEAN HUGARD
In the first decades of the twentieth century magicians fiiled the magic journals with artides on card tricks, giving improvements on classic iricks and inventing new ones. If you could put together a collection of these niagazines you would have almost a completc course on card tricks, by sonie of the world's greatest magicians. But where could you find these journals now that they are probablv collector's items? And even if you could find them, how much would such a collection cost? Not very much. Because all the best of these tricks are available in this one monumental book, con-taining nearly every practical card trick produced, invented and improved by magicians over a span of forty years and more.
A truly staggering collection, this book explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks: impromptu card tricks, spelling tricks, "you do as I do" tricks, diachylon (a paste for gluing cards together) tricks, calculation tricks; tricks using key cards, slick cards, double-backed cards, reversed cards, short cards; tricks based on a one-way pack, prearranged pack, Svengali pack, Mene-Tekel pack, stripper pack, special packs; miscellaneous tricks including Everywhere and Nowhere, The Case of the Four Kings, Card in the Orange, The Buddha Whispers, and Inseparable Aces; and a final chapter on tricks using the famous Nikola Card System. In addition, a chapter on technique explains the most important sleights—the overhand shuffle, riffle shuffle, falsé cut, palm, simple pass, double lift, glide, and force.
Based on a volume compiled by Dr. Wilhelm Von Deusen and Glenn G. Gravatt, this collection was thoroughly revised by Jean Hugard and completely rewritten. It is easily the finest single compendium of classic card tricks, and the clear style makes the instructions easy to follow. An indispensable book for the pro fessional or amateur magician, it is a magnificant source for any-one who vvants just the right tricks to mvstify his friends or delight his children.
Unabridged, corrected republication of the 1937 edition. Introduc-tion by Theo Annemann. 66 illustrations by Nelson Hahne. 402pp. 53/8 X 8!/2. Paperbound. Vissza