Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic

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

Table of Contents

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CONTENTS FOREWORD CHAPTER ONE: STARTING RIGHT CHAPTER TWO: MATCHED SPELLOUT CHAPTER THREE: THE PERFECT CIRCLE OF CARDS CHAPTER FOUR: "SECRETS" CHAPTER FIVE: "DO AS I DO" CHAPTER SIX: BLACK AND RED PUZZLE CHAPTER SEVEN: MENTAL SPELL CHAPTER EIGHT: TEN GIVES THREE CHAPTER NINE: THE MAGIC OF LARRY JENNINGS CHAPTER TEN: LARREVERSE CHAPTER ELEVEN: GAMBLER'S TRIUMPH CHAPTER TWELVE: THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD CHAPTER THIRTEEN: MONARCHS' QUARTETTE CHAPTER FOURTEEN: LES CARTES DIACONIS CHAPTER FIFTEEN: RUNNING THE SCALE CHAPTER SIXTEEN: PURE MATHEMATICS CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: SLOW MOTION CARD VANISH CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: VERNON ON THE PASS - The Black Pass - Location Pass - Sprong's Pass - Fan Pass Transformation CHAPTER NINETEEN: VERNON ON TABLE PASSES - Mexican Joe's Table Pass - Charlie Miller's Table Pass CHAPTER TWENTY: AFTER PEEKING - 1. Pressure Fan - 2. Spread Location - 3. To Shuffle The Card To The Top With The Riffle Shuffle - 4. Double Peek Control - 5. Three Break Control - 6. Multiple Peek Control - 7. Transferring the Break - 8. A Spectator Finds His Own Card - 9. Adaptation Of The Greek Break For Card Stabbing CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: ONE HANDED SHUFFLES - Benzon's Shuffle - Vernon One-Handed Shuffle CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: CARD PLACEMENT - Penetration - John McCormick CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: HANDLING A SHORT CARD CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR: MAGIC CASTLE MOVES - All Around Square Up - Jenning's Top Palm - Key Card Placement - Small Packet Glide - The Rooklyn Top Palm CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE: MORE USEFUL SLEIGHTS AND MOVES - Single Shuffle Control - Spreading Six Cards As Five - Key Card Location - Cold Deck Cut CHAPTER TWENTY SIX: TWO SLEIGHTS BY Dr. ELLIOTT - Bottom Deal - Dr. Elliott's Favourite Break Control CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN: MAGIC FROM BRITAIN - Slippery Aces - Jack Avis - Double Prediction - Alex Elmsley - Face Your Brothers - Alex Elmsley - Last Word Four Aces - Francis Haxton - The Innocent Cheat - Fred Lowe - Thought Of Card Across - Peter Warlock - Fellow Travellers - Roy Walton CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT: MAGIC FROM CANADA - Pivot Change - Ross Bertram - Bottom Steal And Recovery - Ross Bertram CHAPTER TWENTY NINE: MAGIC FROM HOLLAND - The Three Jokers - Fred Kaps - Ups And Downs - Rink - Find The Ace - Eddie Taytelbaum - Infallible Force - Eddie Taytelbaum CHAPTER THIRTY: MAGIC FROM IRELAND - Vernon's Variant - Dai Vernon - Emerald Isle Aces - Dai Vernon, Faucett Ross and Hubert Lambert - Swivelleroo - Hubert Lambert CHAPTER THIRTY ONE: MAGIC FROM U. S. A - Card Transpostion - Francis Carlyle - 'You Get It' - Gerald Kosky - 'Do As I Do' With One Pack - Jay Ose - Sleight of Mind - Bill Simon

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