Encyclopedia of Card Tricks

Encyclopedia of Card Tricks
Author: Jean Hugard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1974-06-01
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780486212524

Provides instructions for performing card tricks of varying levels of difficulty

Jean Hugard's Complete Course in Modern Magic

Jean Hugard's Complete Course in Modern Magic
Author: Hugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 467
Release: 2018-09-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 163158247X

A Comprehensive Magic Overview from a Master Magician Do you want to explore the vast gamete that is the world of magic? Learn from a master in Jean Hugard?s Complete Course in Modern Magic. Detailed step-by-step instructions for each trick, often accompanied by diagrams, fill the book?s pages for you to expand your magician?s repertoire. No, your eyes don?t deceive you. Through this book, you can learn mesmerizing tricks featuring: Balls Coins Playing Cards Mental Magic Flowers Ropes and Cords Rings And Much More! This book is perfect for anyone interested in magic. Whether you?re an aspiring amateur magician putting your act together or a seasoned virtuoso, there is a little hint of magic for everyone in Jean Hugard?s Complete Course in Modern Magic.

Stars of Magic

Stars of Magic
Author: George Starke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: Magic tricks
ISBN: 9780981916682

If you have not read and learned the magic contained in this book you have no business calling yourself a close-up magician. The magic by John Scarne, Dai Vernon, Bert Allerton, S. Leo Horowitz, Emil Jarrow, Francis Carlyle, Dr. Jacob Daley, Tony Slydini, Ross Bertram, Nate Leipzig, and Max Malini helped shape the art of close-up magic as we know it.It has often been said that mastering the magic in this book will make you an accomplished close-up and sleight-of-hand artist. In many ways, it contains all the magic you need to build a professional caliber repertoire. Many have earned a living performing these routines and now you can too.Includes: 41 incredible routines by 11 incredible artists, a historical introduction and a bonus section with private correspondence related to the Stars Of Magic.

Mental Magic

Mental Magic
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2010-01-14
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 048647495X

Offers a collection of math tricks using the magic of numbers in which the marvelous Professor Picanumba can seemingly predict random events in dozens of numerical exercises, along with answers at the end

Magic

Magic
Author: Milbourne Christopher
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1991-09-23
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780486263731

Most profusely illustrated history of stage magic -- from ancient Egypt to Houdini. Rare photographs, woodcuts, broadsides, advertisements, illustrations of costumes, stage settings, apparatus, etc. 295 illustrations.

Masters Track and Field

Masters Track and Field
Author: Leonard T. Olson
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2000-11-29
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780786450565

With some 50,000 men and women competing worldwide, and spectators numbering in the tens of thousands, Masters-level track and field proves that athletes of any age may be recognized by their passion for sports, their interest in fitness, and their skill. In this book-length account of track and field competition by men over 40 and women over 35, the leaders of the Masters program discuss its growth since 1968 and the role of the older athlete in the world of sport. The work also reviews the effects of aging on performance and explains the adjustments of standards and scoring.

Card Tricks Without Skill

Card Tricks Without Skill
Author: Paul Clive
Publisher: Rossetti Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2010-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1445515725

This early manual of tricks is an absorbing work which will prove of much interest to the enthusiast or historian of magic. Originally entitled Card Tricks Without Skill in Sleight-of-hand the author intended to provide a new approach to card magic for the beginner. Contents Include: Conjurers' Terms and Artifices - Beginners' Tricks - Impromptu Mysteries - Miscellaneous - Treated and Prepared Cards - Pre-arrangement - The Identity Pack - Contributions by Present-day Magicians. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.