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Excerpt from the Foreword:

In this publication, Impey describes how to wax together pairs of cards, a technique that Dai Vernon would later refine with rough-and-smooth to create his famous Brainwave deck. Judson Brown is generally credited with inventing the basic brainwave-type effect using Impey's waxed cards...

Some people believe that F. R. Ritter might be S. W. Erdnase, the unknown author of Expert at the Card Table, which was published three years earlier than this book in 1902. Another historically interesting fact is that this is likely the book Dai Vernon "mistook" for Expert at the Card Table when his father brought it home from work to show him as a young boy.

[This digital facsimile reproduction has been beautifully colorized. This significantly improves the many illustrations and photos included in this work.]

1st edition 1905, 117 pages; digital edition colorized.

Pro since around age 30 working fairs and carnivals. Ghosted the early Vernon booklets, including The Dai W. Vernon Super Card Subtleties (1932). Member of the "Secret Six". Voted into the New York "Inner Circle" by 1940. Actual author of Celestial Agent (1944, 44pp), which was stolen by Charles J. Maly and published by Laurie Ireland under Maly's name. See Lewis Ganson, Magic with Faucett Ross (1975, 227pp). Tricks in Genii.

Listen to one of the old timers talking about his friendship with Dai Vernon, T. Nelson Downs and many other big names. If you haven't read the Magic Of Faucett Ross by Lewis Ganson, then this recording will send you to your nearest magical dealer to buy it. If you have the book, then you will see how Lewis Ganson used the material of this recording to create the classic book. One of the funniest recordings in our collection.

This is a licensed reproduction of the famous Magicassette and MagiCD series created by Martin Breese - now owned by Lybrary.com.

Fred started magic at 19 seeing a friend doing a show and became semi-pro close-up magician at age 20. In 1932 when he saw Herbert Milton work with jumbo cards at Maskelyne's he decided to become a specialist with these large cards. He fooled Dai Vernon with 'Hand of Cleopatra' during Fred's USA tour in 1981.

Fred was also a renowned singer specializing in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

• ... Britain
• Letters, comments, variations, bits & bobs
• Filthy Lucre. The Tanpari touch for a trick once called Cointra-Deception
• All Rhodes. News around the country gleaned by John Rhodes
• The Psychic Secrets. Part one of a new series from Alex Le-Roy
• Basic Card Technique. This month we cover Dai Vernon's Pick off Pip
• Magic Journal round-up by Eddie Dawes

• News & Reviews around the studio with Geoff
• Tanpari Touch Who's Joking'
• All Rhodes lead to enlightenment. Magic news culled from the media
• Patrick Page makes a welcome return to our page with a new routine and presentation for a Classic effect
• Basic Card Technique, part 18 - The Pass
• Subscription information
• The Psychic Secrets of Alex Le-Roy part 2
• Simon Lovell with a presentation for 'Vernon's Twisting the Aces'
• Party Games. Steve Jones covers the area of entertaining the little sods, sans sorcery
• Henrique continues to drop the dew in a humorous fashion
• Donald Bostock...

• ... the solid ghost concept
• Al Smith exorcises the devil with a tale of Henrique like tragedy
• Dangerous tricks for children are discussed in this chapter of Walt Lees' children's series
• Silk Magic by Solyl Kunda in an effect called The Rainbow
• Basic card Sleights continues with palming in the Dai Vernon Manner
• John Rhodes with a very interesting collection of magical stories from the lay press
• Eddie Dawes' Collecting Thought including info about Lewis Carroll
• Phil Goldstein considers an Austrian Australian
• Alan Ward's curious puzzle of a mystery voice
• More silk magic, this time a nu-way...

• ... is in the devilish detail
• Stephen Tucker manipulates a magnetic mouse with a free plug for Roy Roth
• This year's competition. Your chance for fame and fortune?
• Magical event diary, make sure that your society is firmly on the magical map.
• Al Koran's Princess becomes a right royal old Queen
• Dai Vernon's Triumph over the Argentinian way
• Back to Basics with school master Walt
• Alan Ward with a kosher star
• Peter Duffie presents illusion Versus Reality
• Steve Jones chronicles travelling from Vernon to postscripts
• Jim Breedon's historical thoughts and a mutilated shirt
• Eddie Dawes curtain...

• Publishers' Preface
• Foreword
• The Authors
• After Dai Vernon
• An Arabian Legend
• The Sunken Key Again
• Not Without Trace
• Cardsharping Without Skill
• Another Automatic Speller
• Adolphus And His Gong
• The Blind Deuces
• Sunk....
• Sunk Too
• The Conjurer And The Stooge
• The Stabbing Trick
• Location Twenty-Six
• 500 Dollar Location
• The Milton Aces
• Match ...

• ...
  • ... Childrens' Ventriloquist The Age Groups
  • R.C. Ritson / Chats for Cognoscenti, The Literature of Conjuring
• No. 26
  • George Armstrong / Oswald Rae
  • Roy Green / The Omelette Pan
  • Hubert Lambert / In Lighter Vein
  • Milbourne Christopher / Stretching a Ribbon
  • Frederick Lowe / Obedient Magnet
  • Harry Vernon / Under Cover Stab
  • Peter McDonald / Which Way?
  • W.B. Wilson / Lost Week-End
  • Percy James / The Hungry Jack, Easy to remember Card Stack
  • George Armstrong / It's in the Bag
  • S.H. Sharpe / Ware Hypnotism
  • Jack Lamonte / Lenz at the Café Anglais, Show Review
  • Maurice Hurling / The Children's...

1. ... Sale
   • Pay Day - Bayard Grimshaw

49. Vol. 36, Number 214, June, 1947 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered advertising pages]
49. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • The Wizard
    • The Encyclopaedia (Metalica) of Magic
    • Magic is Fun
    • Originality in Magic
51. To Set You Thinking - article by Vernon Foster
    • III - You Are the Master
53. Congres Magique International - Paris 1947 - announcement
31. Mental Mendacity - Robert Fairthorne - continued from page 34
    • Clumsy Forces
57. The Appendix to Robert-Houdin's "Confidences" - translated by S. H. Sharpe - continued from page 15
    • The Fantastic Orange Tree
    • The Marvellous Fishing
59. Mental Magic Competition - winners announced
    • First Prize - Prediction...

1. ... Shuffle - Dr. H. J. Tattersall
93. A Simple Book Test - A. C. Actmann
94. Book Notes
    • John Ramsay's Cylinder and Coins - Victor Farelli
    • Stuthard's Trilby Deck - Joe Stuthard
    • Stuthard's Bi-Co Trilby Deck - Joe Stuthard
    • How to do Card Fanning - Anthony Norman
    • Select Secrets - Dai Vernon
    • Rough and Smooth Possibilities - Tan Hock Chuan
    • Modes for Mentalists, No. 4 - The Gap in the Curtain - Peter Warlock
    • Impossible - Raymond
    • A Catalogue of Books on Magic - Fleming Book Company
96. Henry Ridgeley Evans - obituary

97. Vol. 38, Number 223, October, 1949 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover & advertising pages]
97. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
    • The Piddingtons
    • An Editor's Dream
    • The Magic Circle
    • Contributions
    • Ancient Magic ...

Numbers 229-232

235 pages

1. Vol. 40, Number 229, March, 1951 [48 numbered & 12 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXXIX Index pages]
1. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
   • Thank You
   • So Here We Are
   • Looking Back
3. Apparatus Trick Competition
   3. Penetrating Pack - R. W. Edwards
   6. "Flash" Ribbon Restoration - Tom Sellers
   8. The Smoked Card - Johnny Geddes
10. Patter in Rhyme - A. C. Newitt
    • For the "All Backs" Effect - Dai Vernon
    • Routine to Accompany "All Backs" Patter in Rhyme
13. Hickory Clock - E. Subkleve (Transvaal)
17. Magically Yours - series by Verrall Wass
    17. Nofors Card in Cigarette
    21. The Spectator Predicts
    27. Purely Co-incidental ...

1. ... (Conner)
55. The Mystery of the Seventh Book - Arthur F. G. Carter
57. The Vanishing Box - Johnny Geddes
58. Spectacular Prediction - Tom Sellers
60. Two Thimble Tricks - A. C. Newitt
    • A Thimble Colour Change
    • A Thimble Penetration
61. Mathemagic - bar stunt
62. The Dark Mystery - Rolf Andra (Germany)
63. Vernon plus Curry - Dennis Barnes
65. A "Magic Wand" Routine - Part One - comprising eight tricks from The Magic Wand Vols. 6-8 - A. W. Churchill
    • Summary of First Four Effects
    • The Glove Trick - A. C. P. Medrington - Vol. 7, No. 10, June 1917
    • Vest Pocket Chinese Rings - Rupert H. Slater - Vol. 6, No. 11, July 1916
    • The Card and Boards - Anon. - Vol. 6, No. 2, October 1915
    • A Card Transposition - Charles Waller...

1. ...
   • ...
   • Little Stranger
   • Five for a Secret
   • Super Sucker
71. A Routine with Giant Cards - The Lady Vanishes - Gordon W. Prunty
72. The Showman - poem by Anon.
73. In the Steps of Merlini - series by Arthur F. G. Carter
    • Tricks with the Merlini Set-Up
      • A Quick Reverse
      • Super Transit
      • Vernon Plus Merlini
      • Koran Plus Merlini
76. Thoughts for the Children's Entertainer - series by Wilfred Tyler
    • No. 2. "Dressing" Rope Tricks fro Children
77. Salutations to Robert-Houdin: His Life, Magic, and Automata - series by S. H. Sharpe
    • Section One - Houdini versus Robert-Houdin (continued)
      • "The Unmasking", Chapter I
        • Significant Events in the Life of...

1. ... their Tricks - Henry Ridgely Evans - continued
400. The Elliott Watch Box - Elliott
400. London Notes - news - Neil Weaver
400. New Card Production
401. Notes and Queries - news

405. Mahatma - Volume IV, Number IV - October 1900 - 8 pages
405. Harry Helms - photo & cover story
406. North of England Notes - news - Prof. Vernon
406. One Horse Town - poem by William B. Maugle
407. Modern Magicians and their Tricks - Henry Ridgely Evans - continued
408. The Wand of Mephisto - John B. Green
408. Magnetized Rising Cards - John B. Green
408. Notes from England - news - F. Edward Cook
408. The Fairy Christmas Cracker - F.C. Jenkens
408. The Flying...

1. ...
   • ... and Magic
68. The Letter Box - letters to the editor
69. Sale and Exchange

73. Vol. 9, No. 5, July, 1920 [16 pages]
73. Monthly Chat - little bits of news and talk
    • "Pendy" Comes Back
    • A Conjurer Medium
    • Cash Materialization
    • Juvenile Mystics
    • Don't Bother
    • Heads or Tails
74. The "Vernon" Sleeve Servante - Harry Vernon
74. More Heat Waves - puns by Spitari
75. The "Thirty Card Trick" with variations - Roy Cowl
75. The Wizard's Washing Day - A New Use for Old Apparatus - Norman Hunter
76. Reviews
    • Magic - March 1920 magazine
    • The Magazine of Magic - May 1920 magazine
    • The Sphinx - May 1920 magazine
    • Felsman's Magical Review...

1. ...Flash Candle to Bouquet - Tom Sellers
143. "Inebriate" Routine - Stuart Good
145. Ottokar Fischer - obituary/article by S. H. Sharpe
148. Book Notes
     • Walk into My Parlour - Margaret Lane
     • Studies in Mystery - Eric C. Lewis
     • Our Mysteries (Collected Effects) - Sphinx Publishing
     • After the Dessert - Martin Gardner
     • Select Secrets - Dai Vernon
     • More Card Manipulations - Jean Hugard
     • Something Borrowed, Something New - Paul Curry
     • Old Tricks Made New - Bert Douglas
150. Chit Chat - article by Frederic Culpitt
153. Paderewski was a Manipulator - article by Frederick Barlow
153. Olla Podrida - miscellaneous comments

155. Vol. 30, Number 192 December, 1941 [54 numbered; 14 unnumbered cover, advertising pages & Vol. XXX Index pages]
155. Quarterly Notes - by the editor
     • 'All About It'
     • Stage Illusions
     • Tools of the Trade
     • A Writer and a Book
     • Finish with...

1. ... Notes - by the editor
   • To Our Well Wishers
   • Credit Where Due
   • A Welcome to Our New Readers
   • The Young Magician
   • A Magical Film
40. Mental Magic Competition - announcement
41. Laugh with Lamonte - No.1 - cartoon
41. Walking on Red-Hot Iron Plates - idea
42. To Set You Thinking - article by Vernon Foster
    • I - Magic Plus Entertainment
44. The Roundabout - article by Claude Chandler
48. Will Hershal - obituary
49. The Book and Wheel Mystery - J. F. Orrin
53. On the Carpet - R. W. EDmanson
54. Major L. H. Branson - obituary
55. Mainly Manipulative - E. Brian MacCarthy
    • A Routine for the Stack of Pence Trick
58. A Euclid Absurdity - Horace Gorvin
60. Melange - notes and comments from George Johnson ...

Angel Heart: This is a variation of Melvin LeHare's "Vernon, My Angel, Your Home" that appeared in Abacus. Melvin's trick was based on a Horowitz effect called "Look Homeward Angel."

Blending Bullets: Two Blendomatic cards are placed aside (two black Aces). A card is chosen (e.g. Ten of Hearts), returned to the pack and the pack shuffled. The magician...