ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CARD TRICKS E-BOOK
Edited by Jean Hugard
600 CARD MAGIC TRICKS & SLIGHTS
Do you want to learn how to PERFORM THE ULTIMATE CARD TRICKS?
Would you love to AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY WITH PROFESSIONAL CARD ILLUSIONS?
Ever wanted to KNOW HOW CARD TRICKS ARE PERFORMED?
Well here is YOURchance. This ebook is the definitive guide that teaches you everything you need to know about the latest and greatest card tricks. This is presented with a simple trick-by-trick guide which covers hundreds of amazing card tricks! This ebook takes the chore out of learning and gives YOU control. Learn at your own pace and in the comfort of your own home without expensive hourly tuition rates!
This EBOOK contains hundreds of card tricks, many with diagrams and illustrations and is aimed at the absolute beginner or someone who is already an expert and just wants to broaden their trick base!
Introduction:
In the early part 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 magic tricks, by some of the world's greatest magicians.
To find these journals now would take years, they have become collector's items? 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 ebook, containing nearly every practical card trick produced, invented and improved by magicians over a span of forty years and more.
A truly staggering collection, this ebook 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 Buddhha Whispers, and Inseparable Aces, and a final chapter on tricks using the famous Nikola Card System. In addition, a chapter on techniques explains the most important sleights-the overhand shuffle, riffle shuffle, false 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 magic tricks, and the clear style makes the instructions easy to follow. An indispensable ebook for the professional or amateur magician, it is a magnificent source for anyone who wants just the right tricks to mystify.
Contents:
Ch 1. Miscellaneous Impromptu Card Tricks
Ch 2. Spelling Effects In Card Magic
Ch 3. 'You Do As I Do' Card Mysteries
Ch 4. Card Subtleties Utilizing Key Cards
Ch 5. 'Slick' Principles In Card Magic
Ch 6. Card Mysteries Employing Diachylon
Ch 7. Double Back Mysteries In Card Magic
Ch 8. Magic Utilizing Double Face Cards
Ch 9. Card Mysteries Using A One Way Back Design
Ch 10. Mysteries Using 'Reversed' Ordinary Cards
Ch 11. Calculation Tricks With Ordinary Cards
Ch 12. Mysteries Of A Prearranged Ordinary Pack Of Cards
Ch 13. Magic With A Svengali Pack Of Cards
Ch 14. Magic With A Mene-Tekel Pack Of Cards
Ch 15. Magic With Stripper Pack of Cards
Ch 16. Magical Mysteries With Special Packs
Ch 17. The Use Of Short Cards In Magical Effects
Ch 18. More Miscellaneous Tricks
Ch 19. Indispensable Sleights
Ch 20. The Nikola Card System
Document length: 33 pages