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The Royal Road to Card Magic Paperback – May 27, 1999

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Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings? Mastering a few card tricks will allow you to do all that and more. With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks. In fact, mastery of just the first chapter will enable you to perform a half-dozen astounding and entertaining sleights of hand.
The authors, both noted authorities on magic, present complete, easy-to-understand explanations of shuffles, flourishes, the glide, the glimpse, false shuffles and cuts, the pass, the classic force, and many other techniques. These will enable card handlers to perform over 100 mind-boggling feats of card magic, including Thought Stealer, Gray's Spelling Trick, Do as I Do, Now You See It, Obliging Aces, Rapid Transit, Kangaroo Card, A Tipsy Trick, and dozens of others. Illustrated with more than 120 clear line cuts that make the explanations easy to follow, this exciting introduction to card conjuring will enable even beginners to develop professional-level skill and the ability to perform tricks guaranteed to astound family and friends.
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The Royal Road to Card Magic

With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks.

  • confound your friends
  • amaze your acquaintances
  • amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings

Illustrated with more than 120 clear line cuts that make the explanations easy to follow

The Royal Road to Card Magic
The Royal Road to Card Magic

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Would you like to confound your friends, amaze your acquaintances, amuse and dazzle crowds at parties and gatherings? Mastering a few card tricks will allow you to do all that and more. With the help of this book, anyone can develop a versatile repertoire of first-rate card tricks. In fact, mastery of just the first chapter will enable you to perform a half-dozen astounding and entertaining sleights of hand.
The authors, both noted authorities on magic, present complete, easy-to-understand explanations of shuffles, flourishes, the glide, the glimpse, false shuffles and cuts, the pass, the classic force, and many other techniques. These will enable card handlers to perform over 100 mind-boggling feats of card magic, including Thought Stealer, Gray's Spelling Trick, Do as I Do, Now You See It, Obliging Aces, Rapid Transit, Kangaroo Card, A Tipsy Trick, and dozens of others. Illustrated with more than 120 clear line cuts that make the explanations easy to follow, this exciting introduction to card conjuring will enable even beginners to develop professional-level skill and the ability to perform tricks guaranteed to astound family and friends.
Unabridged Dover (1999) republication of the work published by World Publishing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1951 (first edition, Harper & Brothers, 1948).

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications; 1st edition (May 27, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486408434
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486408439
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 10 years and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.7 x 8.4 inches
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Customers find the book helpful for learning magic tricks. It provides detailed descriptions and examples of performance for beginners. However, opinions differ on the text quality - some find it clear and easy to read, while others find the explanations dense and hard to understand. The kindle version also has spelling errors.

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73 customers mention "Learning material"60 positive13 negative

Customers find the book's learning material helpful. It teaches techniques and tricks with clear descriptions and examples. They say it provides an excellent set of skills for effective magic performance. The book is described as a study guide or text book for magic, providing a good understanding of beginner techniques and tricks. Readers mention it's a classic with relevant tricks and routines that novice magicians need in their library.

"Classical work. You progress from the very basics through advanced techniques...." Read more

"...take this approach, it will seem dull at first, but it will make you a better magician, I promise you...." Read more

"...It's a study guide, or a text book, for magic, you don't go to it looking for a single trick, you learn everything you can...." Read more

"Great book. In depth descriptions of the tricks with plenty of examples for performance...." Read more

13 customers mention "Text quality"5 positive8 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the text quality. Some find it clear and easy to read, with properly printed pages. Others mention dense explanations that are hard to understand, spelling errors, missing or illegible text, formatting issues, and lack of enjoyment reading the book.

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  • Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2024
    Classical work. You progress from the very basics through advanced techniques. Explanations and images work well together to ensure proper form and technique
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2014
    As a beginner magician, I could not be happier that I have found this book. When one first begins his journey into prestidigitation, it is normal to be completely overwhelmed with the mass of sources that claim to teach you the magic you need. The latest culprit of this are the videos that make the promise of mastery of a particular trick within X minutes of watching. RRTCM takes this premise, and completely negates it, despite having been written much prior to the thought of such an idea. Hugard & Braue dispense of the notion that a good magician is one who knows a thousand tricks, for a thousand tricks equate none if you cannot perform them correctly. Each chapter introduces a feature of card handling, whether it be shuffles (overhand, riffle, hindu), flourishes, passes, glimpses, etc. Then, at the end of the chapter, the authors provide a handful of tricks that are performed due to that certain sleight you just learned. The authors instruct you to read the book in order, making sure not to rush ahead, almost as if you were studying for a college class. If you take this approach, it will seem dull at first, but it will make you a better magician, I promise you. To sum it all up, there is a reason this is called the Bible of Card Magic. Whether you're new to the field of card magic, or a seasoned veteran, this book should be the first in your library.
    11 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018
    Do not buy the kindle version, only buy the dover edition. Read it from cover to cover and you will have gone from laymen to practicing magician at an incredible pace. It's a study guide, or a text book, for magic, you don't go to it looking for a single trick, you learn everything you can. After you read this buy Expert Card Technique (not expert at the card table) also only get the dover edition. The double lift in this book isn't very good, and some of the other methods are a bit antiquated as well, but practice them anyhow and learn the proper versions from expert card technique. You will be able to perform a mind blowing effect within 15 pages, and you will have acquired a life long essential within 5.
    19 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2017
    Great book. In depth descriptions of the tricks with plenty of examples for performance. However, some of the explanations are dense and hard to understand in text. Also, at times, the text that continues a passage from a previous page gets mixed up across multiple lines, so it's hard to follow the explanations.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2024
    Very nice
  • Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2017
    Highly recommend. The number one go to book for learning card magic technique. If followed in order, one will have enough material to buld an impressive routine at the end of the book, though Each section teaches technique then tricks with those learned techniques to apply and lock that learned technique in to memory for future tricks.
    There's a reason this book is the number one mentioned book for learning card magic. The material within its pages will do one well as you progress. The key with this book as well as any other is Practice. But even though this was written in the 50's it is still THE BEST starting point to learn.
    Get this book, you will not regret it.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2021
    For learning card magic, this book is simply the best. I've studied it for about 40 years. All the necessary sleights for card magic are explained. (False deals excluded). The tricks that are explained are very good. If you can't learn to entertain an audience with card magic with the material from this book, try another hobby.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2022
    I will start by saying I have zero experience with card tricks. This book was great to introduce me to some terms and basic principles. I only gave it 3 stars because some tricks are very hard to understand based on the descriptions. I know a book can only do so much, but I had to use youtube a lot. Then I ended up just using YouTube all together because it was more simple. Overall, great resource to tell you how to get started
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  • Client d'Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Grand classique.
    Reviewed in France on January 2, 2025
    Grand classique de la magie des cartes.
  • Patrik O'nasty
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfecto para aprender a hacer magia con cartas
    Reviewed in Mexico on March 1, 2019
    Muy buen libro para aprender cartomagia, el libro llego en buenas condiciones y el envío fue rápido
  • Cliente Amazon
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muito bom
    Reviewed in Brazil on July 31, 2017
    Chegou rápido e em ótimo estado. Ótimo conteúdo e muito útil para quem estiver interessado em aprender mágica de uma maneira simples.
  • GackleBlax
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, perfect condition, potato quality cover
    Reviewed in Canada on January 12, 2018
    Great content, wtf cover.
    I mean seriously the cover looks like a thumbnail stretched to cover an entire book. Like, from amazon you can't tell, but when you get the book it's like the image is made of enormous pixels. Like, how do you screw it up that bad? The picture is easily reproducible, just take a picture like that with an ace in your sleeve on like any modern phone camera and it would be 100x better.

    The book itself is great, full of awesome info for card hucksters like myself, and the cover doesn't matter, which is why still 5 stars, but seriously how did they manage to make it that ugly? The pictures inside the book are all fine.
  • LH
    5.0 out of 5 stars Das wohl wichtigste Buch für Kartenspieler und Kartentrickser, welches je verfasst wurde
    Reviewed in Germany on May 8, 2018
    Das Buch liefert die wichtigsten und solidesten Misch- und Tricktechniken, auf denen sämtliche Karten-Fähigkeiten aufgebaut sind.
    Besser als alle Youtube-Tutorials und Online-Tricks zusammen, zeigt dieses Buch jedem Anfänger die wichtigsten Grundlagen.
    Klare Kaufempfehlung für jeden Trickser und jeden, der seine Ergebnisse in Kartenspielen verbessern möchte.

    Das Englisch ist manchmal etwas altbacken, aber dennoch mit Schulenglisch zu verstehen!