![]() Of course Card College itself is not complete, it isn't intended to be an encyclopaedia, Roberto Giobbi himself admits that he knows dozens and dozens of ways to control a card, or force a card etc etc, but he can only include a small sample of available methods in Card College or else it would be absurdly large in size. Royal Road To Card Magic contains instructions for sleights, tricks and routines suitable for beginners through experts. ![]() There's absolutely no point in trying to learn every sleight under the Sun when you may never need to use them. The Royal Road to Card Magic - Houdini Magic Shop Mark Wilsons Complete Course in Magic - Mark Anthony Wilson The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician, complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions. A compromise might be to buy vols one and two of card college (which cover the basics) to start with and then consider the other vols later if you feel you need them. I'd say go for card college when you've read some of the other books and are quite sure you want to go further with cards. Obviously Card College has a lot more material in it, but so it should as it is in five volumes and will set your bank balance back a bit. It also dates from the 1940s, so it isn't new, but if you combine it with 'Counts, Cuts and Subtleties' by Jerry Mentzer, which covers more recent material, you'll have a sound grounding at a reasonable price. ![]() Just look at the contents and you'll see what I mean:. ![]() If it is card technique, at an inexpensive price, you're after (as opposed to tricks) then I consider Anthony Norman's 'Basic Card Technique' a better source. I always found Royal Road rather disappointing as a source of sleights as there is so much missing from it that really should have been there. ![]()
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