Card Tricks

With more than 120 illustrations to accompany instructions to more than 100 tricks, and a new foreword by Steven Cohen, a master of sleight of hand, this edition of Jean Hugards classic is an essential edition to any illustionists library. If you practice any sort of magicor plan on giving it a tryyou probably know that for most people, card tricks are often the starting point. If you have a deck of cards readily available, as many common households do, the only things required to wow an audience are a little sleight of hand and a magicians secrets. In spite of the timeless credo good magicians never reveal their secrets, renowned magicians Jean Hugard and Frederick Brau generously divulged theirs in Card Tricks: The Royal Road to Card Magic. Published originally in the 1940s, this classic guide contains more than one hundred spectacular tricks allowing anyone to pick up a deck and dazzle an audiencewhether their performance is in a theatre, at a party, or even on the street!