Here are Jean Hugard's recordings of magic from 1937-39, from illusions to close-up: tricks with coins, cards, silks, cigarettes, cigars, billiard balls, matches, newspapers, thimbles, paper, the Egg Bag and Linking Rings. This is really a wonderful book with some clever and forgotten secrets of magic. Jean Hugard, co-author of Royal Road to Card Magic, published his magazine, The Magic Annual, from 1937-1939. Now the entire run is available to own in hardcover! A few of the items include: Cigar and Cigarette Manipulation, Impromptu Newspaper Tear, Hugard's Floating Ball, Hugard's Fire Eating, Spectator Stabs the Cards, and Cutting a Woman in Half. Hugard clearly explains tricks such as Paul Curry's "Touch", Sam Horowitz' "Knock-Out Card Trick", Hugard's "Floating Ball" and much, much more. Hardcover, 270 pages of magic from a historic time. Note: The accompanying image is not of the book.