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A treatise on how to determine a thought of card.

• Out of Sight - Out of Mind (Dai Vernon)
• Streamlined Discernment (Edward Marlo)
• Mental Discernment Improved (Ken Krenzel)
• Mental Selectivity (Charlie Miller)
• Far Out Of Sight (Bob King)
• No Questions Asked (Randy Wakeman)
• The Spectator Seems to Really Think of any Card (Bob Farmer)
• A Card That Lies = A Deck That Tells The Truth (Bob Farmer)
• Unambiguous Discernment (Edward Marlo)
• Fish-Fry For Two (Robert Baxter)
• Fish (Lewis Jones)
• The Discerning Mentalist (J. K. Hartman)
• Mental Schemental (J. K. Hartman)

1st edition 2011; 52 pages....

You will learn the following moves:

• T. Nelson Downs' Method
• Avis Center Double Lift
• Double Lift from Fan (Dai Vernon)
• Marlo's Double from a Fan
• The Center Lift (Larry Jennings)
• Double Lift from the Center (Karl Fulves)
• Spinout Center Lift (Martin Nash)
• Lift-Out Center Lift (Martin Nash)
• Center Double (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Center Double Lift (J. K. Hartman)
• Push Pair (J. K. Hartman)
• Daley's Center Double ...

The Twisting craze has mercifully abated, but Vernon's "Twisting the Aces" is still performed. Marlo's Upside-Down Syndrome is based on a "buried" Larry West trick and is an example of getting maximum effect using only a few cards.

Leipzig Would Have Loved This! is a tribute to Nate Leipzig's classic version and is based on a Herbert Milton...

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  • ... Diable
  • Notes on the Vase(Hurley)
  • Marlo's "Pitch" Routine
• The Satiricon
  • Lester Overton: Tragic Hero
  • Excerpt from the Adventures of Harry Inane
• Estimations
  • Albert Goshman: Boob on the Tube?
  • Last Word on the Fields' Book
  • 13 Ways of Looking at Criticism
  • An open letter to Nick Trost
  • Vernon, Gibson, and Sharpe
  • Aftermath
• Postscript

1st edition 1969, reprinted 1976, 1st digital edition 2016, 111 pages.

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
FRONT ROOM FINESSE

• The Two-Second Side Steal
• The 380-Degree Tilt
• The Bomb Door Card
• The Marnase Bottom Deal
• The Hittop Change
• For Crimp's Sake

• The Money Card
• Bite The Bullet
• Non-Saliva Vanish
• Vernon Mental Force Handling
• Barroom Poker
• False Count Spell

• Double Underpeel Cut
• The Olram Bottom Slip Cut
• Combi-Null Cuts
• From The Mind Of A Cardician

• Devilish Miracle Redux
• Leipzig Would Have Loved This!
• A Hull Of A Trick
• Less Cards Marlo
• Future Classic...

• Introduction
• Contributors
• The Hamman Twist (Brother John Hamman)
• Krenzel's Tunnel Change (Ken Krenzel)
• Dingle's Tunnel Change (Derek Dingle)
• No Force Vanish & Recovery (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Off-Sho Ot (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Jump-Jump Aces (Edward Marlo)
• The 999 Miracle (Edward Marlo)
• Pineapple Twist (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
• Sober Slop Poker (Edward Marlo)
• Breakless Curry Change (Edward Marlo)
• The Four Ace ... Er ... Queen Trick (Edward Marlo)
• Flash Sandwich (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Fair On All Points (Edward Marlo)
• The Missing Hour (Edward Marlo)
• The Viet Nam Trick (Bruce Cervon - Dai Vernon)
• A Quickie (Edward Marlo)
• Exhibitionism (Edward Marlo) ...

• ... Hardin Version (1946)
• The Improved "Princess" Card Trick
• Improved Princess
• Princess Card Trick (George Kaplan)
• Dogging the Princess (Jon Racherbaumer)
• People's Princess (Edward Marlo)
• Spots Before Your Eyes (Edward Marlo)
• After the Princess (Edward Marlo)
• Pocket Princess (Roy Walton)
• On Vernon's "Mental Card Miracle"
• Princess Anytime (Anthony Brahams)
• Surprising the Princess (Jon Racherbaumer)
• Three-Card Princess (S. Leo Horowitz)

1st edition 2018, 40 pages.

Unpacking Dai Vernon's Pact

When Vernon's trick appeared, its puzzling aspect centers on the fact that the spectator chooses one of three cards and the one chosen changes into his selection. In other words, the spectator is permitted to make two decisions. He selects any card. Then he selects one-of-three cards, which changes into his selection. It is essentially a quickie.

• Introduction
• 1, 2, 3 Dai Vernon
• RECOUNTING ON 1-2-3 Dai Vernon
• LASSO-DOE-TRE Edward Marlo
• THE PROMISE II Edward Marlo
• STICKY ACE, DEUCE OR THREE Dave Solomon
• STICKING TO THE PROMISE Jon Racherbaumer
• ISOLATED 3-2-1 Jon Racherbaumer
• 1-2-3 INFINITY Jon Racherbaumer ...

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• FOREWORD
• DETECTED BY FINGERPRINTS (Jean Hugard)
• DICK TRACY CARD TRICK (Clyde F. Cairy)
• BREATH CONTROL (John Scarne)
• DETECTED BY PULSE (Conrad Rheiner)
• FINGERPRINT CARD TRICK (Harold Martin)
• FINGERPRINT TRICK (Paul Swinford)
• THE THUMB PRINT CARD (Edward Marlo)
• THE FINGERPRINT CARD TRICK (Dai Vernon)
• THE FINGERPRINT TRICK (Tony Giorgio)
• THE FINGERPRINT TRICK (Dave Solomon)
• MODERN FINGERPRINT TECHNIQUE (Dominic Spadone)
• DIGITAL IMAGE (J. K. Hartman)

1st edition 2019, 39 pages.

• ... ANALYSIS
  • Deck In Parvo
  • Micro-Macro Handling
  • Spirit Production and Transposition
• TWISTS
  • Pineapple Twist
  • Pineapple Preserve
  • Twist'In
  • Turning Up
• ROUND-UP FOR ROUNDERS
  • Second Power Poker And Lead In
  • Sloppy Drunk Poker
  • Super Stoned Poker Deal
  • The Sting
  • Up The Sleeve Again
  • Vernon's Aces Plus Kings
  • Magician vs. Gambler
  • Monte Mingle Move
  • Deal Dodge
• NODS TO HOFZINSER
  • One Spectator D.M.
  • Mini-Observation Test
  • Last-Minute Departure
  • Kung-Fu Card
  • York's Surprise Stab
  • The Lady Stretches
  • They're All Alike
  • Tabled Riffle Shuffle Control
  • Recall and Neglect
  • Double...

A retrospective look at Dai Vernon's Five-Card Mental Force.

• Introduction
• The Prototypal Version From Early Vernon
• A Woolgather's Aside
• My Skirmish with the Five-Card Mental Force
• 30 Years Passed
• Five Card Mental Farce / David Acer
• Max on Five-Card Mental Force / Max Maven
• Outtings
• Rescuing the Five-Card Mental Force / Allan Slaight
• The Ultra Effect / Paul Rylander
• Dai-Cipher / Phil Goldstein
• I Have It / Edward Marlo
• Psyboards / Tom Frame
• Indisputably Predictable / Jon Racherbaumer
• Post Mortem

This manuscript is about one trick that incorporates a seminal sorting procedure now given the name Belcho's Disbursive Deal. Over the years the trick eventually morphed into an organized compilation that shares the same identifiable title: "Poker Player's Picnic."

It begins with Vernon Lux, an enterprising amateur who founded the International Society of Junior Magician in 1931 and began a magazine called The Dragon in 1932. Therein Oscar Weigle had a column called "Themes and Schemes" where he explained a trick called "The Million to One Trick." (Later it was changed to "Belchou's Aces.") It's unclear...

'Mexican Joe' refers to a specially crimped card or deck, one that is crimped at diagonal corners in opposite directions.

The first person to publish anything on this crimp was Victor Farelli when he published Farelli's Card Magic. Several years passed before another mention is made. This time it was explained in Dai Vernon's More Inner Secrets of Card Magic. Racherbaumer collects a number of routines and ideas with this crimp. In so doing he weaves his way through some interesting nooks and crannies of card magic history.

• Prologue
• Introduction
• Origins
• The Double Crimp
• Mexican Joe's Crimp: Dai Vernon
• Applying The Work
• Marlo Dead...

The All Backs Motif is odd. For one thing, it casts a revealing light on we magician's claim (when it suits our purpose) that we use ordinary cards. That is our decks, which we prefer to borrow, consist of cards that have faces and backs on both sides. Therefore, if we show a deck that consists of all backs and faces we are admitting that such anomalies exist and the cards being used are probably gimmicked in some way. Why do this?

A better question may be - What motivated someone to create such an effect using this kind of deck? That "someone" was Dai Vernon and my guess is that he wanted to...

• PREFACE
• SECRET REVERSE ON TABLE / Russell Barnhart
• REVERSAL OF BOTTOM CARDS / Dai Vernon
• THE ACTION CENTER REVERSE / James Steranko
• APPLIED TABLED REVERSE & EFFECT / Edward Marlo
• NO FRILLS TRIUMPH / Edward Marlo
• FINESSED TABLED REVERSE...

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  • ... COAST HAPPENINGS - Hayman
  • NEW YORK GOSSIP - Gimco
  • CHICAGO NOTES - Chinot
• No 3:
  • SPEAKING OF PICTURES: Dunninger Demonstrates and Karger Photographs THE INDIAN ROPE TRICK
  • OUT OF THE MAIL BAG: Fleming, Perry and Rullman Letters
  • STAGE MAGIC
  • MORE DE LAND CREATIONS - Gibson
  • WILL ROGERS - by Vernon Scobie
  • TOMORROW'S TRICKS
  • OUT OF THE PAST - by J. C. Walter
  • CARD MAGIC
  • TWO BOOK REVIEWS
  • Magic Without Apparatus - W. B. G. Miracles in Mentalism, etc. - J. J. Proskauer
  • NEW TRICKS . . . NEW BOOKS - Jones
  • WALKING AWAY FROM SHADOW - Blackstone
  • DR. DALEY'S 31 SYSTEM
  • ROBERT HOUDIN - Houdini ...

It is easy to sing the praises for Slydini. He was one of the most influential close-up magicians of recent history. Probably nobody sufficiently knowledgeable in magic will dispute this. The only other names which I would mention in the same breath are Dai Vernon, Edward Marlo and Arturo Ascanio. (I am excluding any living masters from this list or magicians far into the past.) Slydini had this incredible smooth style and lovable personality. He also created his very unique method of misdirection, which Karl Fulves has tried to capture in this volume....

Karrell Fox had a unique style and take on classics of magic and various of his own creations. This ebook covers a wide swath of his magic from stage to close-up, mentalism to silly bits. Also includes lots of photos from his life and performances. Illustrated by Sid Lorraine.

• Introduction
• Thank You's ...
• Chapter One: Meet The Maestro
  • Tucker On Fox
  • Karrell Fox
  • The Karrell I Know
  • From The Vernon Touch
  • Mr. Fox ... Mr. E ... Mr. Enthusiasm
  • The Man Behind The Magic
  • Karrell Fox ....
• Chapter Two: At The Table
  • Finger Flinger
  • Time Killer
  • A "Ringer"
  • Karrell's "Trick-Key" Case
  • Unglued
  • A Couple...

Welcome to issue 4 of Card Shark, the highly anticipated monthly card magazine that contains awesome tricks from magicians around the world. This issue contains six great tricks, that will feed your card magic needs. You will get six brilliant effects, from Paul Harris, Jeff Stone, J. Jack, Donato Capitella, David Gemmell and me.

1. Fingerprints of the Kings by Donato Capitella – This new trick from this new name in card magic is simply brilliant. It has a fantastic presentational hook thanks to Dai Vernon, and it oozes commerciality. A great card trick.
2. Signed Transpo by David Gemmell – A really clever and simple transposition between...

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  1. ... (The full Hands Hof Ebook) - We were feeling generous... so we included the whole of Kyle's Hands Hof Project - usually worth $5. It is a completely hands off approach to the Hofzinser Aces problem. Quick, buy this Ebook before we change our zany minds!
  2. "Wild Color Twist" by John Gelasi - Vernon's classic Twist taken to a whole new level: the aces twist, turn, and even duplicate, all concluding with the backs changing color. Best yet, you end completely clean! Originally appeared in Wild Color Twist by John Gelasi.
  3. "Cricket" (From Be) by Kyle MacNeill - The classic Grasshopper...

Born Alfred Lawrence Jennings, legally changed to Larry Jennings in early 1950s by US Navy to avoid payroll confusion with another sailor of same birth name. Plumber to contractor by trade. Learned magic from Ron Wilson. Then moved to Hollywood to study under Dai Vernon. Semi-pro magician. World-class cardman as both inventor and sleight-of-hand artist. Popularized Dick Washington's old LePaul Wallet as the Jennings Wallet. Co-publisher (with Louis Falanga) of "L&L Publishing" from 1986 to c1990 when succeeded by Bruce Cervon. Died from diabetes combined with heavy drinking.

His many inventions in card magic include the Larreverse (by 1967), Immediate...

This was the publication that taught me the Three Card Monte many years ago. It has all you ever need on this wonderful performance piece - and then some.

Erdnase writes in Expert at the Card Table:

"There is not a single card feat in the whole calendar that will give as good returns for the amount of practice required, or that will mystify as greatly, or cause as much amusement, or bear as much repetition as this little game!

Vernon performed it reciting:

"A little game from Hanky Poo, the black for me, the red for you - all you have to do is to keep your eyes on the little lady - ten gets you twenty - twenty...

When Lewis Ganson asked Dai Vernon what he considered to be the best card effect, he replied that in his opinion "Matching The Cards" would be difficult to beat, particularly when performed for lay audiences. His opinion is shared by many of the world's leading card experts, who have often featured one version or another in their acts.

The granddaddy of this effect can be found in Magician's Tricks by Hatton and Plate. The effect of Vernon's version is as follows:

A card is selected by a spectator and placed face down on the table without the face being shown, then the performer endeavors to cut to the three other...