Magic Annual 1937 (Hugard'S Annual Of Magic) by Jean Hugard

In general magic books cover a certain subject area. Here a slice through time is offered. The 'Magic Annual' describes the best and most popular effects from one year. (There is a second volume in this series Magic Annual 1938-1939.)

Max Holden writes in the introduction: "Some of the items are new, some are old tricks given a novel twist, while other effects, although known in a general way, are now published in detail for the first time - among these latter, the Hugard Fire Eating Act, Hugard's Bullet Catching Feat and my own presentation of Smoke Pictures. Jean Hugard has given his best, as usual, and I am especially indebted to Daniel Dew whose contribution, 'Walking Through a String of Beads,' is one of the cleverest illusions to be brought out in many a day."

• Frontispiece
• Foreword
• CIGAR AND CIGARETTE MANIPULATION
  • Cigar Manipulation
  • Swallowing a Cigar
  • Pouring a Smoke
  • Just a Cigarette Paper
  • Cigarette Paper, Torn and Restored
  • A Cigarette Routine
  • Multiplication of Cigarettes
  • Routine with the Dropper
  • Vanishing of Cigarettes from a Glass
  • Cigarette Rising from a Packet
  • Magnetized Cigarettes
• MISCELLANEOUS
  • The Bill in the Envelope
  • Ashes
  • Ashes - Second Method
  • Thimble and Trumpet
  • Impromptu Newspaper Tearing
• COINS
  • The Flying Coins
  • Vanish of Coin from Trouser Fold
• CARDS
  • Do as I do-You Can't
  • Magician vs. Gambler
  • Touch
  • Touch - variation
  • G. W. Hunter's Twelve Card Transposition
  • The Knock-Out Card Trick
  • Maguire Card Force
  • Pack of Cards Change to Foulard
• SILKS
  • Silks and Soup Plates
  • The Knot in the Silk
  • G. W. Hunter's Silk Routine
• BILLIARD BALLS
  • Two Billiard Ball Moves
  • Billiard Ball Change Over
  • The Limit Multiplying Billiard Balls
  • Passage of Four Balls from Hand to Hand
  • Production of Four Balls Without Using a Shell
  • An Egg Production Climax
• SOME USEFUL GIMMICKS
  • The Silk Gimmick
  • A Card Holder
  • Ball Shell with Tongue
  • Vanish for a Ball
  • New Card Index
  • Torn and Restored Paper Strip Gimmick
• IMPROMPTU TRICKSTER
  • Impromptu Linking Rings
  • A Cigarette Interlude
  • A Cigar Vanish
  • A Match Divination
  • The Knee Thread
  • Wand through Hat
  • Somersaulting a Pack
  • A Rising Card
  • Egg Cups and Pellets
  • Knife and Egg Shell
  • A Surgical Operation
  • Concussion of the Brain
  • Shot in the Eye
  • Cutting the Thumb
• STAGE TRICKS AND ILLUSIONS
  • Hugard's Floating Ball
  • Hugard's Fire Eating
  • Hindu Fire Eating
  • The Whole Art of Smoke Pictures
  • Ropes, Fan and Silks
  • Cords, Fan and Silks
  • XXth Century Spirit Seance
  • Production of Real Cannon Balls
  • Walking through a String of Beads
  • Hugard's Bullet Catching
• THE NEW MAGIC CARTOONS
  • Blurbo and the Rabbit
  • Blurbo the Cut-up
  • Blurbo and Princess Astrid
  • Blurbo's Levitation
  • Blurbo's Putting on the Dog
  • Blurbo's Indian Rope Trick

1st edition 1937; 141 pages.
word count: 37923 which is equivalent to 151 standard pages of text