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The Dai Vernon Book of MagicLewis Ganson & Dai Vernon 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.
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Dai Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card MagicLewis Ganson & Dai Vernon 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.
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER ONE: TAKING THINGS EASY
- - Emotional Reaction
- - Cocktail Cards
- - The Bent Corner...
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Early VernonDai Vernon & Faucett Ross The Professor brought up-to-date in this ebook of the original Twenty Dollar Manuscript, Three Dollar Manuscript, and ten new Vernon variations. Illustrated by Vernon, edited by Faucet Ross, with nostalgic photos of the great man's life.
- Three Faces Of Vernon
- How It Began
- The Manuscript Story
- The Prospectus
- The Twenty Dollar Manuscript
- Vernon Five Card Mental Force
- Vernon Miracle Card Location
- Club Version
- Vernon Super Count Down
- Vernon Super Card Prediction
- Vernon Poker Demonstration
- Vernon Automatic Second Deal
- Slow Motion Card Vanish
- The Vernon Card Puzzle
- The Vernon Four...
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Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card MagicLewis Ganson & Dai Vernon 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... | ★★★★★ $12 to wish listPDF |
Dai Vernon's Further Inner Secrets of Card MagicLewis Ganson & Dai Vernon The highlights in this third part of the Vernon's Inner Secrets of Card Magic trilogy are his teachings on the second deal including a one handed and a stud second deal, the chapter on the "Three Card Monte", and the chapter on palming.
1st edition 1961; original 72 pages; PDF 62 pages.
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER ONE: THE FOUR BLUE BACKED ACES
- CHAPTER TWO: BLINDFOLD POKER DEAL
- CHAPTER THREE: CARDS OF COINCIDENCE
- CHAPTER FOUR: THREE CARD MONTE
- - The Three Cards
- - The Throw
- - The Game
- - 1. The use of a short card
- - 2. The Optical Move
- CHAPTER FIVE: LARRY GREY'S "CARDS ACROSS"
- CHAPTER...
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Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate LeipzigLewis Ganson & Dai Vernon 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... | ★★★★★ $14.90 to wish listPDF |
Dai Vernon's Select SecretsDai VernonPaul Fleming wrote:
This little book contains 12 items in all. There are four tricks and one sleight with cards, two tricks with coins (including one by T. Nelson Downs, the late "King of Koins"), a close-up feat with matches (another Downs specialty, with which he greatly impressed the famous Buffalo Bill), a clever cigarette "switch," an improved method for passing a drinking glass through a table-top, one trick with silk handkerchiefs, and another with tissue paper.
Several of these feats (and particularly the card tricks) are hard to describe briefly, and we shall enlarge upon only three items which seem to... | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Dai Vernon European Tour 1955Dai VernonThis is truly a gem, an early Vernon publication, the lecture notes to his first European lecture tour in 1955. Explained are classics of card, coin and ball magic and Vernon's Thumb Tie routine:
- Three Ball Transposition
- Ball, Cone and Handkerchief
- Seven Card Monte
- Expansion of Texture
- A Chinese Classic
- The Thumb Tie
Text has been reset. Illustrations are from the original 1955 mimeographed edition.
1st edition 1955, 1st digital edition 2014, 14 pages. | ★★★★★ $15 to wish listPDF & EPUB |
Dai Vernon in Britain 1958Lewis Ganson & Dai Vernon 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
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Dai Vernon's Select Secrets (2nd edition)Dai VernonThis is the revised and expanded second edition. (The first edition can be found here.) In particular it includes two additional effects: "Follow the Leader", and "Vernon's Automatic Gambler".
- Introduction
- "Topping The Deck"
- The Royal Marriages
- "Follow the Leader"
- Vernon's Automatic Gambler
- Addition And Subtraction
- The Little Dictators
- Winged Silver
- Two Impromptus
- (1) Fallacy Of Vision
- (2) Matchless Digits
- A Cigarette Switch
- Heads Or Tails
- Twentieth Century Handkerchief Trick
- Snow Storm In China
2nd edition 1949, 41 pages; PDF 38 pages. | ★★★★★ $5 to wish listPDF |
Vernon's 1-2-3 RevisitedIan BaxterA perennial favorite in card magic: A chosen card is lost in the deck and the performer, showing the Ace, Two and Three of one suit, offers to change whichever is picked into the selection. That is exactly what happens, with Baxter’s smooth method making good use of The Ascanio Spread, achieving just that. Full instructions given, straightforward and easy to learn.
This revision of the Vernon classic not only underlines the all-important simplicity angle by using a shortcut display move, but dispenses with Vernon's need for Palming. Bruce Elliott briefly touched on this in the concluding lines... | ★★★★★ $4 to wish listPDF |
Vernon PassAllan AckermanThis is a turnover pass developed by Dai Vernon.
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Vernon Push Off Double LiftAllan AckermanYou will learn two more push off double lifts, one by Dai Vernon which is probably the most naturally looking one.
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Vernon's Two Shuffle ConceptAllan AckermanThis is a diabolic idea by Dai Vernon to improve on the Zarrow Shuffle. By doing the Zarrow twice he was able to eliminate the initial center block cut.
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Vernon's ATFUSAllan AckermanDai Vernon's version of the ATFUS achieves a much stronger illusion but is less versatile than Marlo's ATFUS.
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Vernon Shuffle ReverseAllan AckermanA wonderful way to reverse one or several cards during a riffle shuffle, developed by Dai Vernon.
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Vernon's TriumphAllan AckermanThis is an all time classic routine first published in Stars of Magic developed by Dai Vernon. A card is selected, lost in the deck, and then cards are shuffled together face-up and face-down mixing them into a big mess. Magically all cards turn back face-down except the one chosen by the spectator which is found to be face-up in the center of the deck.
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Vernon Top PalmAllan AckermanThis is a technique, developed by the Professor, how to move the top card into a magician's palm while maintaining a high arch in your palming hand.
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Vernon Tenkai ReplacementAllan AckermanReplace cards from Tenkai palm back on a partial deck while pushing it toward the spectator.
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Vernon Key Card ReplacementAllan AckermanThis is a sneaky way to get your key card in the fairest possible manner on top of a selected card.
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Vernon Add OnAllan AckermanThis move allows you to completely switch out a block for another set of cards, for example switch the four Kings for the four Aces.
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Vernon's VariantJohnny ThompsonThis is a wonderfully entertaining routine for two (or more) spectators. Each one of the spectators and the performer receives four cards. All go through the same actions of turning over cards and placing them on the top or bottom of their pack. In the end the performers cards are all face down, whereas the spectators cards have a face up card among them. This basic effect is done again two times in fairer and fairer ways.
Very easy to perform. All you need is any double lift and the Elmsley count. You can read the original description of this routine in Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic.
Recorded live at the Convention at the Capital 2000.
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Dai Vernon: L'Uomo Che Inganno' HoudiniMatteo FilippiniDai Vernon… Il Professore, The New York Card Expert, Cranky Old Man Of Magic ed altre numerose definizioni che amici, estimatori, colleghi, discepoli e avversari gli hanno dato nel corso dei suoi gloriosi 98 anni di vita.
L'UOMO CHE INGANNO' HOUDINI è il primo saggio bibliografico su Dai Vernon in italiano; un'opera dedicata a colui che è stato il punto di svolta epocale per lo sviluppo e la maturità della cartomagia e del close-up moderni. Il pioniere di una magia d'altri tempi eppure ancora così moderna: efficace, naturale e misteriosa. Proprio come dovrebbe essere.
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Ultimate Secrets of Card MagicLewis Ganson & Dai Vernon 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
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER ONE:...
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