Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic

This is the first part of Vernon's famous Inner Secrets of Card Magic series. It includes notable work on color changes. In "Dai Vernon's Colour Changing Pack" Vernon provides the proper motivation for the use of the Hindu Shuffle: showing the back color of the deck. "Emotional Reaction" is an example of a subtle and cunning use of a key card. Probably the best effect in this volume is the "Notis Stop Trick".

1st edition 1959; original 76 pages; PDF 59 pages.

2. CONTENTS
4. FOREWORD
5. PREFACE
6. INTRODUCTION
8. CHAPTER ONE: TAKING THINGS EASY
8. - Emotional Reaction
10. - Cocktail Cards
11. - The Bent Corner Prediction
13. - Colour Separation
15. CHAPTER TWO: A LITTLE THOUGHT REQUIRED
15. - Repeat "Do As I Do"
16. - Four Of A Kind
18. - Matching The Cards
20. - Dai Vernon's Colour Changing Pack
22. CHAPTER THREE: HANGING BY A THREAD
22. - The Rising Cards
24. - The Pack That Cuts Itself
27. - The Walking And Jumping Card
29. CHAPTER FOUR: NOVEL KNOWLEDGE
29. - To Show The Top Card
29. - The Ginsburg Poke
30. - Jumbo Surprise
31. - Elastic Touch
32. - Time To Change
34. CHAPTER FIVE: COLOUR CHANGES
34. - 1 — Tenkai's Colour Change
36. - 2 — Al Altmann's Double Colour Change
37. - 3 — Dai Vernon's "Picking Off The Pip"
38. - 4 — Erdnase Plus Vernon
38. - 5 — Dai Vernon's "No Palm" Colour Change
39. - 6 — Dai Vernon's Pinch Colour Change
40. - 7 — Dai Vernon's French Drop Colour Change
41. - 8 — Bob Hummer's Visual Change
42. - 9 — Cliff Green's Visual Change
44. CHAPTER SIX: DEXTEROUS DECEPTION
44. - Production Of Cards With Fingers Interlocked
48. - Bob Hummer's Variation
50. CHAPTER SEVEN: THE NOTIS STOP TRICK
52. CHAPTER EIGHT: MEXICAN TRICKERY
52. - Sure Fire Showdown
53. - Bathroom Strippers
54. CHAPTER NINE: MIRACLES TAKE A LITTLE LONGER
54. - The Chinese Second Deal
56. - The Shooting Single Handed Deal
56. - Look Up

word count: 21847 which is equivalent to 87 standard pages of text