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In the first decades of the twentieth century magicians filled the magic journals with articles on card tricks, giving improvements on classic tricks and inventing new ones. If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would almost have a complete course on card tricks, by some of the world’s greatest magicians.
But where could you find these journals now that they are collector’s items? And even if you could find them, how much would such a collection cost? As it turns out, not very much, because all the best of these tricks are available in this one monumental book, containing nearly every practical card trick produced, invented and improved by magicians over a span of forty years and more.
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 professional or amateur magician.
Introduced by Ted Annemann, Jean Hugard’s ambitious Encyclopedia of Card Tricks is exceptionally important. It contains between its covers nearly every practical card trick produced, invented and improved upon.
A truly staggering collection- over 400 pages, this book explains how to perform over 600 professional card tricks including:
Sections devoted to:
- Impromptu Card Tricks
- Spelling Effects
- You Do As I Do Tricks
- Card Subtleties utilizing Key Cards
- ‘Slick’ Principles,
- Diachylon (a paste for gluing cards together)
- Double Back Cards
- Double Face Cards
- One-way Back Designs
- Reversed Cards
- Calculation tricks
- Prearranged packs of cards
- Svengali packs
- Mene-Tekel packs
- Stripper decks
- Short Cards
- The Nikola Card System
- Sleights including the overhand shuffle, riffle shuffle, false cut, palm, simle pass, double lift, glide, and the force.
- And more!
Tricks Include:
- Everywhere and Nowhere
- The Case of the Four Kings
- Card in the Orange
- The Buddha Whispers
- Inseparable Aces
- And so much more!
The numerous contributors include:
- Percy Abbott
- T. Nelson Downe
- Howard Albright
- Al Baker
- Frank Chapman
- Charles Eastman
- U. F. Grant
- Leslie Guest
- Ralph W. Hull
- Charles T. Jordan
- William W. Larsen
- Charles W. Nyquist
- John Scarne
- Dai Vernon
and many others!
- Pages: 408
- Hardcover- 6.6″ x 10.6″
