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Excerpt from the introduction:

The second part in Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic trilogy is the jewel in this series. It features such classics as "Twisting the Aces" (which includes the first publication of Alex Emsley's "Four as Four Count" - better known as Ghost count or Elmsley count), "Out of Sight--Out of Mind," "Oil and Water," "McDonald's $100 Routine," and "The Trick that Cannot be Explained" the ultimate jazz magic effect. You will also find a number of Vernon Touches on his riffle shuffle technique, crimps, Zarrow shuffle and others.

This ebook is absolute must read for any card magician. You should read...

The final book of the Routined Manipulation series. (Click here for Part 1 and Part 2.) More great hand magic for both close up and stage by some of the greatest magicians of all times.

• Anti Gravity Glasses: A feature of Ganson's act for years. Three glasses suspend from a clear sheet of plexiglass. Everything is examinable. This was a marketed item by Unique Studios for many years and now you can easily make this up at home and use it.
• Fred Kaps Coins and Glass Routine: This is the exact routine used by Fred Kaps throughout his career. One of the finest routines with coins ever!
• Peter Warlock's Take a Bow:...

Here is another classic magic book by Lewis Ganson with effects by Ken Brooke, Peter Warlock, Cy Endfield, Marconick, Tonny van Dommelen and others.

c1950, 59 pages

Table of Contents

2. Introduction
5. Chapter 1: Free Choice
11. Chapter 2: Cy Endfield's Card Penetration and Change
15. Chapter 3: Bags of Everything
21. Chapter 4: Eddie Ward's Zombie Card Rise
23. Chapter 5: Three Penetration Effects
23. (a) Bertram Millidge's New Move with the Jardine Ellis Ring
24. (b) Silk Through Ring
25. (c) Silk through Silk
27. Chapter 6: Ken Brooke's Knot-Out plus a simple routine for the Sympathetic Silks
33. Chapter 7: Ken Brooke's Presentation of the Vanishing...

This is a wonderful collection of some of the best mental magic published in The Gen.

CONTENTS:

Section One - Predictions

• The 100% Prediction (Punx)
• Total Prediction (Gerald Kosky)
• The Direct Prediction (John Rice)
• Note and the Jar (Tom Sellers)
• Phenomenal Forecast (Jack Cook)
• The One-man Full-Vu Prediction (Ken De Courcy)
• Mental Flashes (Dr. Stanley Jaks)
• The Patient Telepath (Peter Warlock)
• Novelty Dice Prediction (Tom Sellers)
• Predicted From the Papers (Tom Sellers)
• Super Forethought (Cyro)

• Unique Book Test (Harry Stanley)
• Magazine Test (Ali Bongo)
• Danson's Book Test (Ted Danson)
• A Telephone Directory Test (Eric...

This is a fascinating combination of biographical detail and carefully described magical secrets researched and recorded by Dai Vernon and Lewis Ganson.

Vernon was an intimate friend of Leipzig. Vernon not only saw many performances given by Leipzig, but Leipzig also explained Vernon in detail how all of his tricks worked and how they are to be performed. Vernon recorded this in his notebooks from which this publication was prepared by Ganson and Vernon. It is therefore fair to say that this is as close as you will ever get to learn from Leipzig.

Leipzig was a gentelman of magic who could...

This work was planned to be the last volume in Dai Vernon's Inner Card Secrets series. However, due to water damage caused by a fire the typed manuscript was lost. It took several years to recover from this mishap and therefore this last volume was originally published much later than the first three volumes (Inner Secrets of Card Magic, More Inner Secrets of Card Magic, Further Inner Secrets of Card Magic). The wait was justified because it was and still is one of the important works of card magic - now available as an ebook.

No serious card man can exist without reading and studying this work.

1st edition 1967; original 246 pages; PDF 156 pages

5. CONTENTS
7. FOREWORD
10. CHAPTER ONE:...

Some of the finest rope magic from Lewis Ganson, Peter Warlock, Van Rinkhuyzen, Anverdi, Faucett W. Ross, Jay Ose, Martin Gardner, Edward Victor, Stanley Norman, Norman Rashleigh, Harold G. Beaumont, C. F. Germelman, Horace E. Bennett, H. Fernandes, Bill Shewan and H. Fernandes.

• Give a Magician Enough Rope
• Cut-Knot-Join
• Impromptu Neck Penetration
• Rope Thru' Wrist
• Red and White Ropes
• A Remarkable Square Knot
• Stretching A Rope
• Equally Unequal Ropes
• Equally Unequal Variations
• More Variations
• Equally Unequal Patter Story
• Cut and Restored Rope
• Fast Cut and Restoration
• Variations on...

Four superb card routines.

From the introduction:

Stapled booklet in like-new condition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

I was lucky that I stumbled across this book very early on in my magic development. It had a huge impact on how I approached magic and how I think today about magic. The introductory chapter "The Vernon Touch" should be mandatory reading for every magician. I would go so far as to recommend re-reading it every year. Martin Breese wrote: "One of the most important books of magic ever written." Max Holden said: "I consider Vernon the greatest man with a pack of cards of the present day." Many consider Dai Vernon, the professor, as one who had probably the biggest impact on magic in recent times. ...

This book is part biographical, a history of Lewis Ganson - one of the most prolific authors of magic, and a lot of wonderful magic.

It is written in Ganson's usual well-written, well-articulated style. Cards, coins, money magic, mental magic, cups and balls, and much more.

1st edition 1982; 232 pages.

Table of Contents

4. Dedication
5. Bibliography
7. Contents
9. Index of Photographs
12. A Tribute to Lewis Ganson Evening (Edwin Hooper)
17. Introduction
19. A Tribute from Dai Vernon
21. The Music Room
24. Jess
24. The Burford Arms
26. A Magician at the Bar
29. The Cap and Pence
34. Ellis Stanyon's Limit Four Ace Trick
40. Moving On
41. My Start in Magic
46. Jack...

Originally published by Harry Stanley in three separate parts (1955, 1956, 1958) this ebook is a complete remake of all three parts in one volume with new photos taken by Martin Breese and posed by Paul Gordon. The card magic presented is exceptional. It also explains all the basic moves Cy used to perform the tricks described. This classic trilogy therefore can serve as a wonderful introduction to card magic or be a treasure trove for those who are looking for some beautiful effects. You will find many well structured classics like Ambitious Card or Three Card Monte as well as some unusual effects.

Among Cy's teachers...

Many effects from famous magicians such as Dai Vernon, Charlie Miller, Fred Keating, David Devant, T. Nelson Downs, Ross Horwitz, Nate Leipzig and of course Faucett Ross himself.

• PREFACE
• A Magician and his Magic
  • Faucett Ross
  • Letters to Charlie Miller
  • The Beginning
  • The Business Side
  • Rules and Common Sense
  • Practice
  • The Magician
  • Showmanship
  • A Bargain
  • Advice on Programmes
• Section One: HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC
  • A Glass and a Silk
  • The Colour Change
  • Handkerchief Box Routine
  • Cut, Burnt and Restored Handkerchief
  • Novel Addition
  • Handkerchief Cane
  • Producing a Silk
  • Fountain of Silks
• Section Two: AN ORIENTAL FLAVOUR
  • Snowstorm in...

A silent film record of Dai Vernon's visit to Britain in 1958.

If you have only read about the Professor Dai Vernon but never seen him in real life, then here is your chance for a glimpse into what he was like. You will see him sightseeing and you will see him perform several of his feature routines such as the Symphony of the Rings, card production, color change, wand spin vanish and more.

• Portsmouth: H.M.S. Victory and Dicken's Birthplace
• Polo at Cowdrey Park
• Stratford-on-Avon
• Fellow Magicians
• Leipzig's Card Levitation
• Card Production
• The Symphony of the Rings
• Colour Change
• Wand spin Vanish
• Jumping Jack
• Charlie Miller's Diminishing Cards ...

Probably the greatest collection of close-up tricks ever assembled. And no card tricks are included in this first volume. It is so important not only because of its size (see the humongous table of contents below) and quality, but because the author has gone beyond the mere explanations of tricks and routines. The opening chapter, 'The Presentation of Close-Up Magic', embraces the whole approach to close-up performance. Includes hundreds of illustrations by Dennis Patten.

1st edition 1967, 344 pages; PDF 254 pages.

Table of Contents

9. Foreword

   Chapter One: The Presentation Of Close-Up...

The second volume continues with more than 60 outstanding close-up routines from the best names in magic.

1st edition 1967, 300 pages; PDF 184 pages.

Table of Contents

6. Foreword

   Chapter 1: Destroyed & Restored

7. Cut & Restored Silk
9. Yarn Trick
11. Ten Shilling Note Trick
15. Torn & Restored Cigarette Paper
16. Bennett's Boner
17. Note In Cigarette

    Chapter 2: Three Rings For Dai Vernon

    Chapter 3: Mainly Mental

33. Seven Colours Of Wisdom
34. Elizabeth Arden
35. The Taste Tells
37. Mollusca Mental
39. Idento
40. Noted Number
42. Pseudo Psychometry
45. Transversale
47. Licensed Telepathy

    Chapter 4: Novel Necromancy

49. Miniature...

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some damage but is protected by a clear cover that has been folded over it. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

Hardcover book in fair condition, no dust-jacket. Harry Stanley edition. Top edges of front and back cover have a larger nick. Has name and address of prior owner handwritten on front fly-leaf. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

This is a classic book, probably one of the best books on close-up magic ever written. Now available as an ebook with an improved layout. The original book had 448 photos grouped together in full-page photo plates. This meant that most photos were removed from the text which goes along with the photos. We have corrected this error in this digital edition. All photos have been inserted in the text where they are referred to.

Slydini was a genius of misdirection. Every movement and every word is deliberately chosen to direct the attention of spectators as well as to produce a graceful and engaging...

First edition softcover stapled. Some pages have a tiny tear on the bottom edge. Published by Harry Stanley. Exlibris of Weirdo and Margaret Yates. For details on contents see the digital edition.

This is a compilation of all 17 Lewis Ganson Teach-In booklets. And as a bonus you will also get the 7 Know-How booklets which was the Series that was supposed to continue the Teach-In Series.

• Card Fans Teach-In
• Bernard's Lesson on Coin Magic Teach-In
• Mark Weston's Continuous Cigarette Production Teach-In
• Colombini's Cups and Balls Teach-In
• The Floating and Dancing Cane Teach-In
• Bernard's Lesson on Dice Stacking Teach-In
• Hindu Thread Trick and Gypsy Thread Teach-In
• Matching the Cards Teach-In
• Okito Box Teach-In
• Rings Supreme Teach-In
• Rovi Reveals Teach-In
• Sympathetic Silks Teach-In
• Three Card Monte Teach-In
• Three Chinese Rings Teach-In
• Two in the Hand Teach-In
• Werry's Fantastic Thimbles Teach-In
• Zombie Teach-In

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• Catching a Marked Bullet
• Knowing the Endless Chain
• Knowing the Chop Cup
• Knowing the Indian Cups and Balls
• Knowing the Egg Bag
• Knowing the Rising Cards
• Knowing the Ropes

Hardcover book with dust-jacket. Dust-jacket has some minor damage on the lower edge and some minor soiling. Dust-jacket is protected by a clear cover that has been folded over it. Harry Stanley edition. For details on the contents see the digital edition.

The Gen magazine was published by Harry Stanley just after the war. The first issue came out in December 1945. The magazine was published for 26 years with 303 issues covering a total of 8,685 pages. Lewis Ganson, one of the greatest British magical writers ever, was the editor until the magazine changed hands in 1971. It continued under the editorship of Val Andrews for a further two issues as the New Gen.

Virtually every known name in the world of post-war magic made a contribution to the Gen or was featured in its columns. Ken Brooke, for example, contributed 27 items and even the final issue, under...