The Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue

This book will walk you through every sleight of hand a beginning card magician could hope to learn. You'll find plenty of helpful illustrations and thorough, informative text. Highly Recommended!!!
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.
Illustrated with more than 120 clear line drawings that make the explanations easy to follow.
Paperbound, over 300 5 3/8" by 8 1/2" pages