Annotated Royal Road to Card Magic - Softcover

Lewis, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0986732974 ISBN 13: 9780986732973

Publisher: Mark Lewis Entertainment, 2025

Synopsis

My name is Mark Lewis. This is the book that changed my life. In fact I suspect it changed the life of a lot of other card magicians too. The Royal Road to Card Magic was first published in 1949 and 70 years later it is still considered the standard work in card magic. A terrific study plan which if you follow carefully (as I did) you cannot possibly fail to achieve proficiency as a card magician. You can start the book knowing nothing about card tricks but by the time you get to the end you will become an expert. Of course a lot of things have happened in card magic over the last 70 years since the book was first published so I decided to add some of my own ideas, variations and improvements to the material which I have performed for decades.

I have added new ideas, variations to this classic book first published in 1949. Lots of colour photos added to the original text. Bonus appendix section with five extra chapters. 400 pages. Foreword by legendary card magician and memory expert Harry Lorayne

About this title

About the Authors

Mark Lewis is a Scottish magician, psychic, hypnotist, palmist, tarot card reader and Svengali pitchman who worked in the U.K., Holland, Ireland, and the United States before emigrating to Toronto, Canada. He is particularly well known for his showmanship where card tricks are concerned. He is best known for his handling of the Svengali Deck, a trick deck of cards he has sold internationally. While working in Ireland he wrote astrology columns for Irish newspapers. On moving to Canada he became very active in performing magic at trade shows where he used his background as an exhibition pitchman to gather crowds and promote company messages as a trade show magician. He is considered to be one of the leading trade show performers in Canada. He is considered to be one of the most entertaining card magicians in the world.

Harry Lorayne (born 4 May 1926) is an American magician and a memory-training specialist and writer who was called "The Yoda of Memory Training" and "The World's Foremost Memory-Training Specialist" by Time magazine. He is well known for his incredible memory demonstrations and has appeared on numerous television shows including 24 times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. His book The Memory Book was a New York Times bestseller. His card magic, especially his innovations in card sleights, is widely emulated by amateur and professional magicians.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mark Lewis Entertainment
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986732974
• ISBN 13: 9780986732973
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400