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1968 AMA Masters Fellowship. AMA Board of Directors 1976-79, thence Member Emeritus. 1983 CMI Order of Magic Lamp. SAM Hall of Fame. 1988 Fred Kaps Award. In 1989 Mike Rogers predicted that "There will never be another to influence the art of magic as has Dai Vernon." Many would agree that this is a good bet.

Among his most famous inventions are Triumph (by 1946), Travellers (by 1950), Twisting the Aces (by 1960), Depth Illusion (by 1961) and Stripout Addition.

This is a gorgeous and careful digitization of a classic originally published by Harry Stanley in 1962. All drawings have not simply been scanned and included as images but have been converted to vectorized graphics. This means they are crisp and clear even under the largest magnification as well as when printed out.

This PDF ebook has very detailed bookmarks making it easy to browse to your section of choice.

Max Malini was one of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of the performance of magic.

In this ebook, Dai Vernon shows how successfully Malini acted the role of magician and...

This 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

1st edition 1955, 1st digital edition 2014, 14 pages.

Paul Fleming wrote:

This 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.

ダイ・バーノン著、「Malini and his magic」の日本語版です。

マックス・マリニについて：あのダイ・バーノンが師と仰いだマジシャンが二人います。一人はネイト・ライプチヒ、そしてもう一人がマックス・マリニです。

20世紀前半に活躍したマリニは、ミスディレクションの天才であり、王侯貴族に愛され、大いに成功したマジシャンとして知られています。

この本には、マリニの演目とトリックの説明、ミスディレクションの秘訣、そしてどのように仕事を得て、成功したか、その秘訣が事細かに記されています。 ...

A remarkable transition effect using unprepared objects and little sleight of hand.

Four Queens from any pack are placed on the four corners of a square cloth. Two of the Queens are covered with squares of paper. One at a time, the Queens are put beneath the cloth thru which they penetrate and come up under the square of paper. It is amazing to see the identical card make the passage and appear under the paper along with the others, until all four are assembled under one paper.

Vernon's original methods and several puzzling variations - different from anything ever offered, no extra...

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...

PLACEBO
A collection of routined demonstrations of sleight-of-hand and skill with a deck of playing cards...

The Poker Lesson. Perfect Aces. The Middle Deal: The Kennedy Tribute. The Centre Deal: The Vernon Tribute. Bad Aces. The Numbers. Click Palm. Centre Cop. Spread Flick. Blackout Shift. Blackout Shift Two. FSWE Shift. The Greek Shift. Rotation Palm. Back Deal. Holdout Deal.

the TYRANT
The full-deck playing-card-index that allows you to be secretly within possession of ANY needed playing...

PLACEBO
A collection of routined demonstrations of sleight-of-hand and skill with a deck of playing cards...

The Poker Lesson. Perfect Aces. The Middle Deal: The Kennedy Tribute. The Centre Deal: The Vernon Tribute. Bad Aces. The Numbers. Click Palm. Centre Cop. Spread Flick. Blackout Shift. Blackout Shift Two. FSWE Shift. The Greek Shift. Rotation Palm. Back Deal. Holdout Deal.

the TYRANT
The full-deck playing-card-index that allows you to be secretly within possession of ANY needed playing...

• ... 44).
• The greatest technique in all of magic (and its sisters and brothers)...magicians never take real advantage of this deep subterfuge (Episode 45).
• The five levels of presentation and why magicians can never seem to grasp this one idea (Episode 46)
• What everyone still gets wrong about Dai Vernon... and how even a mentor of mine reversed his position after listening to this podcast (Episode 47)
• The one thing I've long noticed about Vernon performing the Cups 'n Balls (which almost no magician understands) and can improve your performance by at least 62% (Episode 48).
• How I conspired...

Wrote ?Daryl? (1980), Daryl's Lecture Notes #2 (1982), Daryl's Psychological Assembly (1985), Daryl Does Den Haag (1988), The Vernon Chronicles (3 vols, 1987, 1988, 1989), Focus (1990, 140pp), etc. Contributed original tricks to Linking Ring, Richard's Almanac, Chaos, Arcane (France), and Revue de la Prestidigitation as well as to several books. Video (1985) and video Encyclopedia of Card Sleights (8 vols, 1996-97).

See For Your Entertainment Pleasure: Magic by Daryl (1982, 90pp); and Stephen Minch, Daryl's Ambitious...

Symphony

This effect was inspired by several people including Ed Marlo, Phil Goldstein (namely the trick, "Overture" from his wonderful book, Focus, and was originally published in the March 1981 issue of Genii), Dr. Daley, Dai Vernon, Tom McCarthy, and a few others.

What is amazing about this routine is that it is totally impromptu, and can be done with borrowed cards. There are no gimmicks, and no extra cards.

"This is great! It really is amazing how much mileage you can get with only four cards, and a small...

This is a collection of solutions to the famous 'open prediction' problem posed by Paul Curry.

From the introduction by Marc Paul:

• ... Benyon
• Dante
• Alexander Herrmann
• Louis Hoffmann
• Theodore Annemann
• Joseph Dunninger
• Max Malini
• Nate Leipzig
• Stewart James
• Robert Harbin
• Les Levante
• Cardini
• Fred Kaps
• Tommy Cooper
• Burlington Hull
• Al Koran
• Al Goshman
• Slydini
• Aldo Colombini
• Ali Bongo
• Paul Daniels
• Orson Welles
• Dai Vernon
• Will Alma
• Juliana Chen
• Haruo Shimada
• JB Bobo
• Doug Henning
• Mark Wilson
• Tony Clark
• Siegfried and Roy
• David Blaine
• Criss Angel
• Kreskin
• Uri Geller
• Dynamo
• Derren Brown
• Mat Franco
• Mac King
• Shin Lim
• Lance Burton
• David Copperfield
• Jon Tremaine
• James Randi
• Arthur Coghlan
• Penn...

This is a wonderful course in seven lessons to improve your memory. It covers all fundamentals and shows how to apply these mnemotechnic tools to remember for example names, faces, spelling and numbers. It also gives applications for magic tricks. You will learn how to memorize a shuffled deck of 52 cards or how to remember the knight tour on the chess board. It is likely that Roth was a magician himself, since he mentions his friend Henry Hatton from Magicians' Tricks fame. Dai Vernon learned from this course and mentions it on the Revelations video tapes.

Written in 1918 and as good as any book on 'how to improve your memory'...

Enjoy the great mental magic by contributors such as Al Koran, Bill Miesel, Peter Warlock, Dai Vernon, U.F. Grant, Eddie Clever and even T. A. Waters, and of course a good amount by Don Tanner and Jack Dean themselves.

You will receive issues 1 (October 1962) - 33 (September 1965) and the incomplete issue number 34. Includes a foreword by Paul Alberstat.

No. 1

• Central Time / North Bigbee
• Impromptu Clip Board / U. F. Grant
• Mindevelopmental / Howard A. Adams
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 2

• ESP Elimination / Joe White
• Long Wave Reception / T. A. Waters
• Shine / Jack Ketch
• Mental Memos / Don Tanner

No. 3

• Bold / Julies...

• Einleitung
• Apfel
  • Der springende Apfel
  • Ein magisches Teilen
  • Apfel und Geldschein
• Arm
  • Pulsfühlen am Arm
  • Die Geisterschrift auf dem Unterarm
• Banane
  • Das geheimnisvolle Zerteilen einer Banane
  • Die sich selbst schälende Banane
• Banknote
  • Scheinbares...

• ...
  • ...Another Rosini
  • Everywhere And Nowhere
  • Four Aces Again
  • The Ambitious Card
  • General Ace Trick
• Amazing, Isn't It?
  • Foreword
  • Card Counted To
  • Marlo's Think A Card
  • Simplex Ten To One
  • No Palm Aces To Pocket
  • Do As I Do - U Can't Unless I Want U 2
  • Streamlined Discernment
  • Surprising Transposition
  • Marlo - Vernon
  • Sensitive Fingers
• A Survey Of Marlo Accomplishment
• Marlo's Discoveries
  • The Riffle Pass
  • 1. The Slap Change
  • 2. Here I Is
  • 3. Pop Up
  • 4. Simple Reverse
  • 5. Strike It
  • 6. Card From Fan
  • 7. Ootchy Kootchy
  • 8. Hair Raising
  • 9. Card On Forehead
  • 10. I Nose Yours
  • 11. Out Of The Hat
  • 1. Nu...

• ... No. 5 - May 1981
  • Alternatives (For Purists)
  • WJ on Illogical Lie Detector
• Polygraph Deck - May 1969
  • Simplified Handling
  • The Moveable Card Pass
  • Improved Christ-Balducci Force
    • WJ on the Improved Christ-Balducci Force
    • One Cut Improved Christ-Balducci Force
    • Krenzel Square Reverse
  • Vernon/James Transfer
  • The Immediate Bottom Deal
• Direct Cannibal Surprise - Vol 21, No. 6 - June 1981
  • Kannibal Kings & Koins
    • Kannibal Kings
    • Kannibal Koin
    • Ascanio Spread
  • Zombies
    • Face the Zombies
      • Taf-1 Count
      • Turnantula
• Octuple - Vol 21, No. 7 - July 1981
  • Twice Thrice Octuple ...

• ...The Incomplete Faro - Vol 3, No 9, September 1963
  • The Incomplete Location
  • The Incomplete Stop
  • Incomplete Power Of Thought
  • Incomplete Double Disclosure
• WJ on the Incomplete Faro
• A Table Pass - Vol 3, No 10, October 1963
  • Variations
• WJ on the Table Pass
  • Table Pass Notes
    • Erdnase Shift, One Hand
    • The Erdnase Description
    • Christ/Vernon Shift
    • Curry Shift
    • The James Shift
    • The Diamond Shift Stratagem
• The Homing Card - Vol 3, No 11, November 1963
  • Alternative Endings - FIRST METHOD
  • Second Presentation
• WJ on Homing Card
• Gad-About Aces - Vol. 3, No. 12, December 1963
  • Marlo Flexible Count
• WJ on Gad-About Aces ...

Consistent with Ed's pattern in the New Tops, his most important contribution is last, in the Trick Annual. "The Cigar Bottom Deal" article is too often overlooked but contains gems of Marlo thinking on deals. Wesley is forever indebted to Ed for his "Pseudo Full Grip" technique,...

1. ... 2 - November 1904 - 8 pages
9. Modern Magicians - biography/review - Ernest Thorn, Illusionist
10. Phillippe - Rare Programme, 1846, selected from Mr. Margery's Portfolio - facsimile
10. Editorial
11. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • Levitation and the Aga Illusion
13. A Magic Kettle Act - Vernon Blythe
14. Advertisements & Personal Cards

17. Magic - Volume V, Number 3 - December 1904 - 8 pages
17. Modern Magicians - biography/review - Prof. Ahmad, Court Magician
18. Magic - announcements and offers
18. Original Lessons in Magic - Ellis Stanyon
    • Folding and Telescopic Servante
18. A Novel...