Jean Hugard
One of Magic's Greatest Teachers
Jean Hugard was a magician, teacher, and author of magic books. Born John Gerard Rodney Boyce in Queensland, Australia, he toured his native country and New Zealand with a full evening show for several years before immigrating to the United States. Once in the States, Hugard found work in Vaudeville and gained publicity with his dangerous "Great Rifle Feat," a modern rifle version of the bullet catch effect. He also performed as Chin Sun Loo, a silent pseudo-Chinese magician, at Luna Park, a Coney Island amusement park, for a decade while renting a magic theater there. Additionally, he had a stint on Broadway before retiring from performing.
In his later years, Hugard settled in Brooklyn, where he focused on writing magic books and giving private lessons. He authored or co-authored more than two dozen magic books, many of which were published by Max Holden, and self-published the popular magic newsletter, Hugard's Magic Monthly. Hugard also ghostwrote a number of works, including "Greater Magic" for publisher Carl Waring Jones, after John Northern Hilliard passed away with just one chapter completed. Hugard was the 4th Dean of the Society of American Magicians and one of the most exceptional magic teachers of the last century.
Please note, Jean Hugard's complete magic course, the "Modern Magic Manual," with 17 chapters has now been converted to HTML format by Trickshop.com and is available to be studied online by serious magic students. If you have a magic website or blog please feel free to link to these free magic lessons for your readers. The PDF is also available (see below).
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Hugard's Modern Magic Manual $7.00 $3.50 PDF
Jean Hugard's classic "how to" course on sleight of hand magic with Cards, Coins, Balls, Rings, Ropes, Cigarettes, Cigars, Bills, Linking Rings, and more. Essential sleights, moves and subtleties, along with the best effects...
Encyclopedia of Card Tricks $8.00 $3.00 PDF
The Greatest Book ever published on cards. Practically every known card trick is herein explained. TWENTY CHAPTERS of the finest card tricks known and containing every variety of artifice known to the subtle card worker, hundreds of choice secrets of...
Royal Road to Card Magic $7.00 $3.00 PDF
A must-have resource for anyone who performs with a deck of cards or aspires to do so. With The Royal Road to Card Magic by Jean Hugard and Frederick Braue, your sleight of hand skill builds progressively. Each chapter...
Show Stoppers with Cards $5.00 $2.50 PDF
This excellent Hugard and Braue pamphlet offers 11 items by Fred Braue, Bert Allerton, Stewart James, Bert Fenn, Neal Elias, and Bob Madison, including THE BRAUE DOUBLE LIFT. A move John J. Crimmins called, "beautiful and...
Mental Magic with Cards $6.00 $3.00 PDF
Whether you're new to mental card magic or an old pro, you'll find plenty of valuable information in this hard to find, "how-to" guide from one of magic's greatest writers and teachers, Jean Hugard. Loaded with practical...
Coin Magic $5.00 $2.50 PDF
Jean Hugard's complete manual of coin conjuring covers basic to advanced coin sleights - palms, vanishes, changes, switches, acquitments, catches, sleeving, cuffing, and more. Plus easy and advanced coin tricks, coin tricks with...
Money Magic $6.00 $3.00 PDF
Money Magic by Jean Hugard is a complete manual on the art of manipulating paper money - from sleights, switches and vanishes, to tricks, including such classic, reputation-building effects, as: The Bill in Lemon; Bill in Lemon...
Miracle Methods with Prepared Cards and Accessories $5.00 $2.50 PDF
A collection of over thirty feats of conjuring with cards, employing artificed cards and simple accessories. Number Three in Hugard and Braue's Miracle Methods Series, this booklet is dedicated to tricks with standard gaffs - mostly double backers...
Miracle Methods - Tricks and Sleights $5.00 $2.50 PDF
Over 20 card tricks along with 11 utility sleights. Material includes a fortune telling card trick (The Card of Destiny) with a presentation that really "sells" it, a card to sealed envelope (Opened by the Censor), an easy-to-perform...
Miracle Methods - Stripper Deck $5.00 $2.50 PDF
The stripper deck is one of the oldest and most versatile devices in card magic and yet, most magicians relegate theirs to the back of a drawer after they master sleight of hand card control techniques. In this excellent...
Miracle Methods - Miracle Shuffles and Tricks $5.00 $2.50 PDF
This volume from Hugard and Braue's excellent Miracle Methods series explains the Braue System of Cull, Stock, Odd-Number and Cull-Stock shuffling, bringing these useful stratagems within the reach of every performer...
Close-up Magic $6.00 $3.00 PDF
Originally published by Max Holden, Jean Hugard's book on close-up magic remains a must-have reference manual for every magician. You'll find a wealth of material for restaurants, walkaround, hospitality suites, bars/pubs, cafes, etc. Magic that is...
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