You get the classic book EZ to learn magic card tricks you can use to entertain any audience                                                                               A compilation of 52 tricks selected from the early issue of Annemann's "Jinx" magazine, including effects by Baker, Vernon, Hugard, Daley, Judah, Hummer, Annemann and others. 78 pages, illustrated

Close Up Magic Book

For The Night Club Magician

By Jean Hugard

Herein Mr. Hugard has compiled a collection of close up effects with all information about this new line of magic. Most every magician of prominence at the present day is being featured in the new entertainment field: Cardini, Leipsig, Zingone, Vernon, Jarrow, Benson, Brooks, Swan, Martin, Thompson, Orloff, Larry Gray, Dave Allison, Haskell, Devant, Albenice, Carlyle, and many others. A book is full of ideas for the close-up worker. 57 pages well illustrated.

Contents Include:

Chapter 1: The Night Club Field and its Requirements

The Night Club Field and Its Requirements: article

Chapter II Introductory Tricks

4 M. Moreau's Opening: Moreau's method of approaching a table using cards

5 Another Opening Method: using coins or bills, with a method to get tips

5 - Another Mode of Entry: using cigarettes, bills, or a vanishing Whiskey

6 Introduction by Table Cards: and further suggestions on how to end

Chapter III Miscellaneous Tricks

7 Production of Wand: from sleeve

8 The Pear Trick:a bitten pear is restored, with the spectator's marked dime still inserted

9 Sugar and Coffee Mystification: writing sugar cube transfers to spectator's palm

10 Ring and Wand: borrowed finger ring is removed from a wand

12 Flying Ring: borrowed finger ring vanishes from hand covered in a handkerchief

13 Cut and Restored

13 - With Cotton Thread

14 - With String: another version

15 Pocket Knife and Bottle: knife dropped in bottle rises and lowers on command

16 Tearing a Button From a Spectator's Coat: and restoring it

Chapter IV Handkerchief Tricks

17 Wand Through Handkerchief

18 Pulling a Handkerchief Through a Wand

18 Cut and Restored Handkerchief: while wearing a jacket

19 - Another Way: after the center has been cut out

20 The Dancing Lady: a figure made from a handkerchief

Chapter V Tricks with Bills

22 Impromptu Drinking Cup: magician takes a drink from a rolled up bill

22 Tearing a Bill: and restoring it

23 Bill and Card Combination: card torn and restored and vanished bill found inside

25 Cigarette and Bill: burnt bill is later found in cigarette

26 Bill Change Over: a $1 and $10 Bill transposition with a vanish

Chapter VI Tricks with Cards

29 The Tacked Card: chosen card sticks to the wall

30 Torn Card: from mouth with matching corner

31 A Poker Deal

Chapter VII Tricks with Cigarettes

33 Rolling a Cigarette With One Hand

34 Migrating Cigarette: a broken cigarette joins others in the spectator's hand and more

35 The Four Hobos: an assembly routine with four cigarettes and four napkins

Chapter VIII Sponge Ball Tricks

36 Balls: how to cut them;

36 Routine: uses four small and four large balls

Chapter IX Tricks with Coins

38 Coin Rising From Glass of Beer: a metal coin rises in a beer glass and is examined

40 Coin Through Sleeve

41 Coin and Silver Boxes: coin in nested boxes

43 Coin and Glass of Water: vanishes

44 Coin and Two Cards: impromptu production of coin between two cards

44 Novel Vanish: coin vanish under handkerchief

45 Coin Found in a Dinner Roll

45 Best Coin Fold

46 The Coin and Harness Rings: a coin vanishes from the middle of a brass ring

47 Coin Through Hand

Chapter X Tricks at the Table

48 Vanishing Glass of Wine: while seated

49 Vanishing a Plate: similar to above

49 Swallowing a Knife

50 A Spoon or Fork Through a Glass: illusion

50 Plate and Bread Pellets: a sort-of cups and balls with plates and bread pellets

51 Vanishing Matches: bundle of stick matches vanish under a handkerchief

52 Cigarette Papers: torn and restored

52 Walnut Shells and Pea: not detailed, refers to a "recent publication" for details

Chapter XI Vesting and Sleeving

53 Vesting: vanishing articles under the vest

54 Sleeving: several methods briefly described

Effective Gags

55 Watch: apparently smashed

55 Flash Paper

55 Match Lighting Fake: producing a lighted match

56 Biting a Piece Out of a Plate

56 Care of the Hands

57 Conclusion You get both books, new!