This is the only site where you can get twenty-six (26) free Jean Hugard books online.
All these free magic trick books are found online with the help of Google search.
I do not upload the books here, or link directly to the books, unless they are in the public domain.
This is another post from the Info Ruckus Free Books Google Search Results Page series.
Before you get to the really FREE magic books by Jean Hugard, check out a brief story of this Australian professional magician.
Before you get to the really FREE magic books by Jean Hugard, check out a brief story of this Australian professional magician.
Jean Hugard (actual name John Gerard Rodney Boyce) was one of the world’s great stage magicians of his time.
During his career, Hugard used various stage names, which include: “Oscar Kellmann”, “Jean Hugarde”, and “Chin Sung Loo” (陳生流).
Do not be confused with Jean Hugard’s “Ching Sung Loo” with the other two similar-sounding Oriental names: “Chung Ling Soo” and “Ching Ling Foo”.
They were all well-known stage magicians.
Chung Ling Soo
Ching Ling Soo is the stage-name of American magician William Ellsworth Robinson.
Robinson (Chung Ling Soo) is most known today for his accidental death due to a failed bullet catch trick on March 23, 1918.
Ching Ling Foo
Ching Ling Foo ( (金陵福) is the stage name for an actual Chinese magician Chee Ling Qua(朱連魁).
This Beijing-born magician is said to be the first modern East Asian magician to achieve world fame.
Read this free e-book about the Chinese illusionist Ching Ling Foo who became one of the highest paid and most popular acts in the United States back in his days.
Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar By Samuel D. Porteous
You can get this book free online from these three sites: zoboko.com, libgen.li or Z-Library.
It was said that Jean Hugard became interested in magic after watching the performance of Austrian Professor Louis Haselmayer aka “Prince of Prestidigitators”.
You can read more about this great Vienna-born magician of the nineteenth century Professor Louis Haselmayer over here.
Jean Hugard was also inspired by his first book on magic by Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, “The Secrets Of Conjuring And Magic” (Les Secrets De La Prestidigitation Et De La Magie).
The English translation was translated by Angelo John Lewis, or better known by his pen name “Professor Hoffmann”.
In 1915 Hugard moved to the USA and worked in vaudeville acts from 1916 until 1918.
One of his popular stage illusion act was called “The Birth Of The Pearl”.
Remember, it is not “The Birth Of The Sea Nymph”, which is popularly featured in posters, as the one shown below:
One source said it was created by American illusion builder Charles Catulle, who also built the Cremation Illusion prop for Harry Blackstone Sr.
But according to this site, “The Birth Of The Pearl” illusion was built by Phil Davies for Australian illusionist Maurice Rooklyn.
It was much later, he manufactured this illusion for Jean Hugard, who performed it for the rest of his career.
After Jean Hugard retired from performing, he wrote and edited more than 30 magic books.
Free Jean Hugard Books Online
Below is a big list of free Jean Hugard e-books readily available from the Internet.
I would tell you how and where to get all the free books of magic tricks by Jean Hugard.
The Encyclopedia Of Card Tricks Edited By Jean Hugard
To get the book free online, type: The Encyclopedia Of Card Tricks Edited By Jean Hugard pdf or The Encyclopedia Of Card Tricks Edited By Jean Hugard kupdf in Google search. It is also found in: PDFDrive, 1library.net, epdf.pub and Z-Library.
The Royal Road To Card Magic By Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue
To find the book free online, type: The Royal Road To Card Magic pdf or The Royal Road To Card Magic epdf.net in Google search. It is also found in: PDFDrive and Z-Library.
Miracle Methods: Casting New Light On The Stripper Deck By Jean Hugard And Fred Braue (Public Domain)
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Miracle Methods No. 1: The Stripper Deck By Jean Hugard And Fred Braue
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Show Stopper With Cards By Jean Hugard And Fred Braue (Public Domain)
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Expert Card Technique: Close-Up Table Magic By Jean Hugard & Frederick Braue
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Card Manipulations Series: 1-5 By Jean Hugard
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Card Manipulations No. 1 By Jean Hugard
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Card Manipulations No. 2 By Jean Hugard
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Card Manipulations No. 3 By Jean Hugard
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Card Manipulations No. 4 By Jean Hugard
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Card Manipulations No. 5 By Jean Hugard
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More Card Manipulations No. 1 By Jean Hugard
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More Card Manipulations No. 2 By Jean Hugard
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More Card Manipulations No. 3 By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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More Card Manipulations No. 4 By Jean Hugard
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Mental Magic With Cards By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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Thimble Magic By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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Silken Sorcery By Jean Hugard By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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Money Magic: A Complete Manual Of The Manipulation Of Paper Money By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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Modern Magic Manual By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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The Magic Annual For 1937: Magic And Illusion By Jean Hugard
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Close-up Magic For The Night Club Magician By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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Hugard’s Magic Monthly June 1956 – April 1957 By Jean Hugard
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Magic Without Apparatus: A Treatise On The Principles, Old And New, Of Sleight-Of-Hand With Cards, Coins, Billiard Balls, And Thimbles By Camille Gaultier, Translated By Jean Hugard (Public Domain)
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