Encyclopedia of Card Tricks (Dover Magic Books)
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008TVLXP8 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 385 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you could put together a collection of these magazines you would have almost a complete course on card tricks, by some of the world's greatest magicians. 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.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 u
protech said Comprehensive Reference for Card Magic. For card magicians aka cardicians, this is one of the most exhaustive books on all things card magic. Keep in mind there are only a few picture drawings throughout this book, but the effects are well explained. For magicians, this is one of several books I highly recommend, aside from Royal Road to Card Magic and the Card College series (Roberto Giobbi).. A must have card trick resource! I give this one five stars for the sheer wealth of knowledge it contains! I love how there are more tricks in it than I can find almost anywhere, and the descriptions of how to do the tricks are very straightforward. Some have said it's lack of pictures makes it difficult to learn from, but I didn't find it a problem given the simplicity and in-depth style of the wording. You can pick up a deck and perform some of t. "Five Stars" according to Audra. A classic that every card magician should have in their library.
Gravatt, this collection was thoroughly revised by Jean Hugard and completely rewritten. Wilhelm Von Deusen and Glenn G. 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. 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. 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. Based on a volume compiled by Dr. But where could you find these journals now that they are probably collector's items? And even if you could find them, how much would such a collection cost? Not very much. In addition, a chapter on technique explains th