Hugard, Jean: Close-up Magic
©1938 Max Holden, NY
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 57 pages plus ads

 Jean Hugard: Close-Up Magic
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Comments: An early book on restaurant magic, intended for night clubs, but quite adaptable to other venues. Available as e-book from Lybrary.com

Contents (from book, updated May 2019 with descriptions):

3 Chapter 1: The Night Club Field and its Requirements
3 The Night Club Field and Its Requirements: article

4 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

7 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

17 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

21 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

29 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

33 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

36 Chapter VIII Sponge Ball Tricks
36 Balls: how to cut them;
36 Routine: uses four small and four large balls

38 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

48 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

53 Chapter XI Vesting and Sleeving
53 Vesting: vanishing articles under the vest
54 Sleeving: several methods briefly described

55 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

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